Helan Ying felt that after ordering Helan Zhao to leave, he had still been too merciful by leaving him a guiding mark.
He should have made sure the fellow couldn’t find them—or Yuan Shu.
Then let’s see how he could still act spoiled in front of Yuan Shu.
A grown man, a full eight feet tall, wearing such a pitiful expression on his face—wasn’t he embarrassed?
And yet Yuan Shu fell for it every time.
The moment Helan Zhao looked aggrieved, all of Yuan Shu’s attention was drawn to him.
Yuan Shu found it amusing. Her assessment of Helan Zhao was still fairly objective.
No matter how sincerely he acted, his expressions always looked fake.
Yuan Shu didn’t feel sorry for him. She just wanted to laugh.
Still, Helan Zhao had gone this far. If she remained completely unmoved, wouldn’t that dampen his enthusiasm?
So Yuan Shu reached out and caressed his handsome, refined face, knitting her brows as she gave it a tender stroke.
“Don’t fight with him next time. It makes me worry.”
Helan Zhao’s eyes lit up. He immediately grasped Yuan Shu’s hand and pressed it against his cheek, rubbing against it.
“I knew it, Shushu cares about me.”
“Shushu, he’s been hugging you for so long. Can I have a hug too?”
Helan Zhao blinked his clear, ink-dark eyes and looked at Yuan Shu pleadingly.
He looked just like Big Yellow, the large yellow dog Yuan Shu used to raise, whenever it was hungry and begged her for food.
“Do you have no idea what you look like right now? You’re filthy, as if you’ve rolled around in a mud pit several times, and you still have the nerve to get close to Sister?”
Before Yuan Shu could say anything, Helan Ying’s disdainful and disgusted voice came from nearby.
Helan Zhao froze for a moment and looked down at himself.
Helan Ying had pinned him down and beaten him earlier. In order to preserve evidence so he could complain to Yuan Shu, he had deliberately not changed his clothes.
Now he looked exactly like a dirty puppy.
In this state, he really couldn’t get close to Yuan Shu.
“Then I’ll go change. Shushu, wait for me to change!”
Helan Zhao offered that explanation, shot Helan Ying a furious glare, and turned to walk behind the rocks nearby.
Yuan Shu’s gaze followed Helan Zhao’s departing figure. She had just been about to say something when a grape was offered to her lips.
The grape’s skin had already been peeled away, leaving only its crystal-clear flesh.
Helan Ying’s fingers were long and slender, and the round grape pinched between his fingertips made his hand look even more beautiful.
Yuan Shu swallowed the reprimand on the tip of her tongue, opened her mouth, and lightly took the grape in. Only after swallowing it did she speak again.
“About Helan Zhao…”
“Would you like another?”
Yuan Shu had barely begun speaking when Helan Ying interrupted her in his warm, gentle voice. She paused, then said, “Yes.”
Another crystal-clear grape was offered to her. Yuan Shu opened her mouth and ate it.
The grape was very sweet and full of juice. Her eyes narrowed slightly as she savored it.
“I was just about to say that Helan Zhao…”
“These grapes were taken from the Earth Demon Sha Clan after they captured us. I happened to snatch them from those people. They seem to have been cultivated using spirit-plant cultivation methods, so I thought they would be sweet.”
As he spoke, Helan Ying peeled another grape and offered it to her.
“Oh, they are very sweet.” Yuan Shu blinked and opened her mouth to eat it.
The interruption caused her to completely forget what she had wanted to say.
“By the way, how is the forbidden curse from the Earth Demon Sha Clan inside your body? Is it all right?”
Yuan Shu suddenly remembered the way he had looked earlier, suffering and crying out in pain after collapsing to the ground.
At the time, she had thought he was only putting on an act. Later, she discovered that the fellow had truly been in pain.
Helan Ying shook his head. “The forbidden curse can’t be removed, but I’ve temporarily suppressed it. As long as I don’t use too much spiritual power, nothing will happen for the time being.”
“Only…”
He explained a few things before suddenly changing the subject.
Yuan Shu frowned and pressed him, “Only what?”
Helan Ying lowered his eyes, his deep-green gaze fixed intently on Yuan Shu. His eyes were dark and profound.
“Only… I often need Sister’s Hehuan energy to help stabilize the suppression. Sister, you won’t hate me for being too clingy, will you?”
The arm Helan Ying had wrapped around Yuan Shu tightened slightly, and he lowered his head, drawing a little closer.
For a moment, the two of them were extremely close, their eyes meeting and the tips of their noses touching.
A familiar emotion surfaced in Helan Ying’s deep-green eyes.
His breath brushed against Yuan Shu’s cheek, and once again she caught the distant, sweet scent of osmanthus clinging to him.
Seeing that Helan Ying was about to kiss her, Yuan Shu hurriedly grabbed him by the shoulder.
“Helan Zhao will be back any moment. Your body is fine for now…”
“Then I’ll feed Sister more grapes.”
Helan Ying paused, then smiled with curved eyes. He did not insist and simply picked up another grape to peel.
Yuan Shu let out a quiet sigh of relief. A natural succubus physique could not withstand teasing, and Helan Ying was far too powerful.
She was afraid that once she got carried away, her constitution would influence her and she would end up delaying important matters.
Just as she was thinking this, a shadow suddenly fell over her head. Yuan Shu instinctively looked up—and met Helan Ying’s enlarged, handsome face.
His lips captured hers.
?
Wasn’t he going to feed her a grape? He…
The thought had barely formed when Yuan Shu felt a sweet, fragrant grape being pushed between her parted lips.
!
Wait, this was how he planned to feed her a grape?
Yuan Shu’s eyes widened slightly. A hand settled against her back and pressed her toward him.
Helan Ying narrowed his long, beautiful green eyes. His emotions stirred, and he immediately deepened the kiss.
The sweet grape rolled and shifted between their lips, crushed into pulp and juice before slowly sliding down her throat.
Yuan Shu instinctively reached out and grabbed the loose lapel of his robe, but he caught her hand and guided it through the opening, pressing it inside.
“Sister, I’m telling the truth. This really can help me suppress the forbidden curse…”
He released Yuan Shu’s lips and spoke in a hoarse voice. Before she could respond, he kissed her again.
Yuan Shu pushed at him twice, but he caught her hand and guided it deeper, toward the firm muscles of his abdomen.
Yuan Shu: “…”
Beauty truly was a menace.
…
After changing his clothes, Helan Zhao approached the cave in high spirits.
“Bang!”
He failed to notice a transparent barrier and walked straight into it, wincing from the pain.
Wait—a barrier?
Why was there suddenly a barrier here?
There hadn’t been one before!
Frowning, he reached out and slapped it several times.
The barrier was extremely sturdy, possessing at least the strength of the Void Refinement Realm. It was not something he could break through in his current state.
Wait, why did this scene look so familiar?
The last time Yuan Shu had been bullied by Helan Ying, this same kind of barrier had blocked his path.
Back then, however, he had been able to clearly see what was happening inside and hear the sounds coming from within.
But now, there was neither sight nor sound.
Still, apart from Yuan Shu, Helan Ying was the only person inside the cave.
Why had he set up this barrier?
Could it be…
The moment he thought of that possibility, Helan Zhao became so furious that his nose practically twisted. He gritted his teeth and slammed his palm hard against the barrier.
Yet the barrier remained firm, without the slightest ripple.
He opened his mouth to shout, but then remembered the dozens of demonic spirit hounds they had slain during the day and forcibly held himself back.
Helan Zhao scratched at his head in agitation, pacing back and forth at the mouth of the cave.
Damn it! Damn, damn, damn!
That Helan Ying was only daring to behave so outrageously—to bully her like this—because Yuan Shu wouldn’t touch him while he still possessed pure yang dragon energy!
Aaaah!
He was going crazy.
How could Helan Ying bully her like this?
Helan Zhao’s face turned livid with rage, but he had nowhere to vent his fury.
Then he remembered those detestable demonic spirit hounds from earlier that day.
If those spirit dogs hadn’t suddenly come near, how could he have been ordered away, giving Helan Ying the opportunity to take advantage?
Helan Zhao gritted his teeth, his expression twisting into a grimace. Then he darted deep into the woods.
