Chapter 87.1

Su Lingyu dominantly sealed her breath, not giving her a chance to say a word. Slowly, she fed Qu Panyan with the water, and then lingeringly held those rosy lips, gently nibbling them twice.

The long-lost soft touch carried indescribable desire and chaotic emotions.

Su Lingyu hooked her hand around the back of Qu Panyan’s neck and held her waist tightly, pulling her into her embrace. She unscrupulously plundered everything from her—her breath between her lips and teeth, as well as that rich and gentle scent of alcohol.

The words in the book, the images on the pages, surged in like waves, completely occupying her mind.

Su Lingyu slowly opened her eyes and saw the misty and half-closed enchanting eyes of Qu Panyan, which were filled with desire for her, and the spring water that was stirred up by her teasing.

No one could resist such a gaze, and no one could refuse such a yearning.

Qu Panyan’s appearance softened Su Lingyu’s heart. The cool composure in her eyes rippled with tenderness, and her proud self-control was on the verge of surrendering. A fervent and crazy fire seemed to ignite in her eyes, irresistible, as if she wanted to envelop her beloved in her arms and give her more and more of what she desired, what she wanted to give.

She loved the enchanting look in Qu Panyan’s eyes, loved her rosy lips, loved her pointed chin—she loved everything about her.

A droplet of water quietly escaped from the corner of Qu Panyan’s lip, gliding down her soft and fair skin, meandering all the way down, unmercifully brushing against the pure white snow, finally sinking silently into the darkness that remained unseen.

Countless emotions.

Su Lingyu lowered her eyelids, hiding the desire that threatened to burst forth from her gaze. Then she gently wiped away the trace left by the water droplet, as gentle as a breeze.

Qu Panyan seemed like a person adrift in a vast ocean. Her two bewildered hands finally found purchase on Su Lingyu’s shoulders as if seeking support. She gulped in fresh air, her vision blurred by the moisture in her eyes, and the lingering intoxication made her lose her rationality.

The familiar and enchanting fragrance wafted at her nose, and warm affection spread endlessly from below, like vines tightly wrapping around her.

The peculiar comfort made her body tremble involuntarily. Her hands tightened around the smooth silk in her palms, and her rationality grew hazier, unable to distinguish if this was a dream or reality.

“Am I dreaming?” She held the person in front of her and asked with a hint of doubt.

“I still have a punishment, why would Sister Lingyu kiss me? Is it a dream?”

Su Lingyu, barely audible, smiled gently and embraced her tenderly, whispering in her ear, “Yes, it’s a dream.”

Only in dreams could they be unrestrained, disregarding propriety, rules, and punishments, casting aside everything, leaving only each other.

She had temporarily set aside her self-restraint for her, breaking free from the constraints and punishments that bound them.

On this night, in this moment, let it be a dream—only for tonight.

Qu Panyan, half-baring her snow-white shoulder, somewhat intoxicated, actually believed, “Indeed, it’s a dream…”

When could the real-life Sect Master Su be as proactive as in her dreams?

But she hadn’t kissed Sect Master Su in five days… Was she dreaming to console herself?

To prevent herself from going crazy before the five days were up?

Qu Panyan curled up in Su Lingyu’s embrace and as she pondered, she inexplicably started feeling drowsy, her eyelids stubbornly wanting to stick together.

Seeing her getting sleepy again, Su Lingyu immediately stopped her actions and didn’t continue to tease her.

She helped her put on her clothes, then lay down together with her, pulling the warm blanket over her, gently patting her waist, and softly coaxing her, “Be good, Yan’er, go to sleep.”

Although Qu Panyan’s eyelids had already closed uncontrollably, she still grumbled dissatisfiedly, “But I haven’t kissed enough yet…”

And damn it, why was she getting sleepy if she was dreaming? Could this be a dream within a dream?! But this Sect Master Su was way too proactive, touching both her lips and chest, really resembling a dream.

So… it’s a dream within a dream, right?

No one answered her, and Su Lingyu, who knew everything, certainly wouldn’t tell her the truth because Su Lingyu wanted her in a state of ignorance and indulgence.

Once she realized this was reality, punishment would follow, and not even Su Lingyu, the one who imposes the punishment, could save her.

As long as she didn’t know, the punishment wouldn’t count.

Her honest and fair Sect Master Su would never take advantage of her vulnerability, nor would she hold her accountable for having a “dream.”

Her honest and fair Sect Master Su comforted her with a smile, “There will be another chance to kiss.”

Forever and always, they had plenty of time for tender love and affection.

Qu Panyan muttered, “But it’s still five days…”

Su Lingyu corrected her, “Silly girl, it’s four days.”

Qu Panyan whined, “Four days are still too many.”

She couldn’t handle one day, let alone four.

Su Lingyu patted her waist, “Then, Yan’er, go to sleep quickly. Sleeping will make the time pass faster.”

After a moment of silence, Qu Panyan thought the Sect Master Su in her dream made a valid point. Sleeping was indeed the best way to pass the time, but she couldn’t bear to part with this proactive Sect Master Su.

She tilted her chin and leaned close to Su Lingyu, urging in a sweet voice, “Sister Lingyu, please kiss me again quickly. After you kiss me, I’ll go to sleep, and when I wake up tomorrow, I won’t be able to kiss you again.”

Su Lingyu smiled, without a word, she kissed her lips once more, entwining with her “in the dream” for a while. Then, satisfied, Qu Panyan obediently fell asleep.

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When Qu Panyan woke up, Su Lingyu was not in the room. She heard from Wu Yi that Su Lingyu had gone to return the books to the Chief and then went to find A Nasha for wine. At present, they should be selecting and tasting wine with A Nasha.

Wu Yi stood by the bed and reported everything in great detail, while Qu Panyan lay on the bed, rubbing her temples as she listened. After hearing the report, she finally recovered her senses. Qu Panyan then sat up in bed, adjusted her clothes, and sat at the edge of the bed, recalling what happened last night.

She struggled to remember for quite a while but couldn’t recall what happened after she got drunk. She only vaguely remembered saying that she would go to the roof and tear off all the tiles.

She said it with firm determination and in a loud voice.

And Su Lingyu was there to witness it all.

Qu Panyan: Can’t even laugh, I want to die.

Qu Panyan supported her forehead and asked with great embarrassment, “Um… How’s the roof?”

Wu Yi asked, “You mean?”

Qu Panyan pointed upwards and added, “And the roofs around here, are they all fine?”

“Did I… go to the roof after getting drunk last night?”

As a respected saintess, if she had gone to the roof in the middle of the night, it would surely cause a commotion, and everyone would know. Moreover, she even arrogantly claimed that she would take charge of all the roofs in the area…

Qu Panyan couldn’t find anything funny about the situation; she felt utterly embarrassed.

Wu Yi was momentarily speechless, “…”

She never expected that the esteemed saintess would become so wild after getting drunk.

Quickly regaining her composure, Wu Yi replied calmly, “No.”

The esteemed saintess indeed became wild when drunk, but last night was surprisingly calm, and nothing happened in the entire Skyfire Tribe.

Wu Yi couldn’t help but guess that perhaps the wild esteemed saintess was subdued by an even more powerful saintess.

So she said, “Please rest assured, the Saintess’s wife has been with you all along.”

Qu Panyan was even more speechless.

It was even more embarrassing with her around!

To say in front of her beloved that she would go to the roof and tear off the tiles, and even act like a wild contractor… her remaining dignity was completely wiped out!!!

Qu Panyan shed tears in her heart: Alcohol misleads people, it really f*cking misleads people!

She sat there in remorse for a while, then suddenly heard Wu Yi ask, “Did the esteemed saintess sleep poorly last night?”

Last night?

Although she couldn’t remember much of what happened after she got drunk, she did remember that she slept quite well under the influence of alcohol. In particular, during the latter half of the night, she even dreamed of feeling thirsty and Su Lingyu personally went to fetch water and fed her with her mouth!

The esteemed Saintess not only fed her water mouth to mouth but was also very proactive!

It was truly a good dream!

Qu Panyan replied, “I slept well.”

Wu Yi asked inexplicably, “Were you bitten by mosquitoes?”

Qu Panyan: “…?”

Wu Yi turned to fetch a mirror for her and directed her to look at her neck, collarbone, and other areas—there were some faint red marks that did look like mosquito bites at first glance.

Qu Panyan touched each of the weird red marks in the mirror but found no itchy mosquito bites. Instead, they were more like…

Suddenly, she thought of that dream and looked at her reflection in the mirror with astonishment.

Weren’t these the places where the Su Lingyu from the dream had lingered?!

And…

Her hand stopped at her chest, then she waved away Wu Yi and closed the doors and windows. She immediately investigated and when she was about to pull down her collar, her fingers couldn’t help trembling, but she finally mustered the courage to do it!

—Red.

This was also red!!!

The faint red marks that had been spreading upwards were undoubtedly caused by… you-know-what! Otherwise, what kind of mosquito would dare to bite her like this? Could it be some special mosquitoes from the Skyfire Tribe?!

She couldn’t believe her eyes as she looked at those red marks, and her thoughts returned to that dream from yesterday. In the dream, Su Lingyu had personally fed her water and told her it was just a dream.

Could it be… Su Lingyu was lying to her?

But why would Su Lingyu lie to her?

What benefits would she gain from deceiving her about doing such things? It would be better to be straightforward; she wasn’t unwilling!

And… how did Su Lingyu suddenly become so intimate with her? How did she become so affectionate all of a sudden?

She realized that too many things didn’t make sense anymore, and she couldn’t remember what wild things she had done after getting drunk yesterday, leaving her standing there with a pounding headache.

While lost in her thoughts, a pair of slender and delicate hands reached out from behind her, gently grabbing her collar, and in one smooth motion, the person fastened her clothes tightly.

“Put on your clothes,” Su Lingyu said calmly, her voice next to her ear.

Qu Panyan: “…”

This didn’t seem like the actions of someone who had done something wrong to her!

After some contemplation, Qu Panyan became more convinced that her wild guesses were useless. Over the past thousands of years, how many unnecessary misunderstandings had arisen from such wild and random speculation?

She steeled herself, turned around to face Su Lingyu, casually pushed aside her dark hair, raised her chin, making the red marks imprinted on her fair neck even more prominent. Then, with a flushed face, she pointed at those red dots and asked, “Uh, Sister Lingyu, can you tell me what’s going on with these?”

Facing her own actions, Su Lingyu remained composed and calm. She reached out and lightly touched the marks with her fingertips, saying, “Mosquito bites.”

Qu Panyan was taken aback, “???”

She simply pulled down her own clothes and pointed at her chest, saying in disbelief, “Can mosquitoes bite here?”

Su Lingyu nodded calmly, “Yes, they can.”

As long as that mosquito was surnamed Su and named Lingyu, it could.

Su Lingyu even reached back and took out a small white ointment box, saying nonchalantly, “Yes, the Chief gave me this box of ointment and asked me to come back and apply it for you, Yan’er.”

Su Lingyu lowered her eyes to look at her and asked, “Or is it that Yan’er thinks I bit you?”

Qu Panyan was stunned.

Su Lingyu slowly unscrewed the ointment box, dipped her finger into it, and then gently applied it to Qu Panyan’s neck. She reminded her in a soft voice, “If it were me, Yan’er’s punishment would last more than four days.”

The ointment was something she had borrowed from the chief, but when he heard it was for the Saintess, he simply gave it to her. It was a simple anti-itch ointment, and its snowy white color matched Qu Panyan’s skin, perfectly covering up these joyous marks on her body.

Su Lingyu felt that she had indeed been too outrageous yesterday. Her rationality was unusually suppressed by evil thoughts, causing her to act recklessly and leave these traces on Qu Panyan, making her aware of it now.

… She was afraid that the punishments would accumulate.

Qu Panyan: “…”

Damn it, yeah!

She had been so harmoniously overwhelmed by the great life that she had even forgotten about this!

Without any hesitation, Qu Panyan immediately changed her tune, “Uh, mosquito bites.”

Moreover, with this celestial sister so composed and serious, even preparing ointment for her, she could only resign herself to believing it was indeed mosquito bites.

She helplessly comforted herself: Let it go, let it go. The world is full of wonders, and this is a cultivation world where spells are all over the place. It’s not that unusual to have such a mosquito that needs a beating.

Yes, she managed to avoid trouble. Su Lingyu sighed with relief, smiled faintly, lifted her eyelids to glance at her, and then lowered her gaze to continue applying the ointment for her. She calmly covered the red marks on her collarbone, secretly glad that her sleepiness came in time yesterday; otherwise… it might have been more than just these marks.

After all, what those books described wasn’t limited to just this, there were deeper and more intense things.

But when she applied the ointment to Qu Panyan’s chest, the composure on her face finally revealed a tiny crack, and the memories from yesterday flooded back in an instant.

She still remembered the feeling of staying here yesterday.

Filled with a pleasant fragrance, soft and comfortable, making people not want to leave at all.

Using her three fingers, she gently lifted the pure white cover and applied the white ointment on the conspicuous red marks. She patiently spread it slowly, concealing those abrupt traces. Her heartbeat suddenly quickened, carrying an indescribable thrill.

As the anti-itch ointment was applied to her skin, the slightly chilly sensation spread across her chest, and the sensitive Qu Panyan couldn’t help but tremble slightly. She then heard Su Lingyu let out a low sigh, followed by an added strength on her back.

Su Lingyu hugged her tightly, feeling deeply guilty in her heart.

She felt she shouldn’t have read those books yesterday.

That was a forbidden territory, an endless abyss of desire that always made her unable to restrain herself from wanting to make mistakes, to be absurd, to… bully her.

Qu Panyan hugged her back, puzzled, “What’s wrong, Sister Lingyu?”

“I’m sorry, Yan’er,” Su Lingyu said, “It’s Sister Lingyu’s fault for not taking good care of you and letting you… get bitten by so many mosquitoes.”

Qu Panyan didn’t expect her to apologize for something like this, and she smiled back to console her, “It’s the mosquitoes’ bites, not Sister Lingyu’s. There’s no need for you to apologize.”

The true culprit, the mosquito, remained silent: “…”

Su Lingyu held her even closer, “I promise you, Yan’er, there won’t be a next time.”

At least for these few days, she wouldn’t take advantage of her while she was drunk.

Qu Panyan frowned, responding positively, but still feeling a hollow sense of having missed something exciting.

She wondered in confusion, “What’s going on? Why am I looking forward to something? Am I looking forward to being bitten by mosquitoes?”

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After getting up and grooming herself properly, during the mealtime, Ba Tu returned with a few guards of the Skyfire Tribe.

He fulfilled his mission and had already successfully delivered the flowers to Qu Muqiu’s hands last night. Since they couldn’t receive any messages from the Skyfire Tribe, he was also responsible for relaying Qu Muqiu’s message.

“Qu Family’s Master instructed me to convey this to you: The Kang family and the Qu family have formed an alliance, and the Kang family will always remember this kindness. The Saintess has worked hard and tired herself for the Kang family, and from now on, she won’t let you go through such hardships again.” Ba Tu relayed the message with no emotions, and then respectfully waited for Qu Panyan’s orders.

Qu Panyan took a sip of clear tea.

Was it hard?

No, compared to what Qu Muqiu did for her and the Qu family, she didn’t find it hard at all. Besides, as long as she could help Qu Muqiu, she wouldn’t feel any hardship; she would feel it was only natural.

Just a little bloodletting, a nap, and some rest, and she’d be as good as new!

Now, she had already secured the Kang family as a powerful ally for Qu Muqiu, and one could even say she had secured an eternal loyalist. Because the Kang family valued relationships, kept promises, and cherished kindness, Qu Panyan had cured the Kang family’s century-old chronic ailment as an act of gratitude. Naturally, the Kang family would repay her with even more.

In this way, it would benefit the Qu family even more.

Qu Panyan smiled contentedly. She was happy to be able to assist Qu Muqiu.

She raised her eyes and said to Ba Tu, “You all must be tired. I’m fine now. You can all go and rest.” Her tone was firm and unquestionable.

As the protector, Ba Tu should have stayed by her side at all times, but seeing her insistence, he wouldn’t dare to defy the Saintess’s orders. He bowed and replied, “Yes,” before taking his people and leaving, temporarily leaving the task of guarding the Saintess to Wu Yi, who was guarding outside the door.

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