After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Started Pursuing My Master-Chapter 86 - Im really sorry
Chapter 86: I’m really sorry
The light from the campfire was bright enough to see Bai Li’s figure soaking in the lake under the moonlight, which made the surface of the water shimmer. Her body was fair and white.
This scene was not new to them; sometimes it was Jiang Huai whose clothes got dirty, and he would bathe in the lake while Bai Li kept watch. Or they would bathe together, and occasionally Bai Li would casually scrub his back, or stand in the lake with her back to Jiang Huai, letting him wipe her down with a towel.
In the human race, such actions would typically indicate a very intimate relationship. But perhaps because Bai Li didn’t think there was anything wrong with bathing together, Jiang Huai didn’t have any strange thoughts either. He listened attentively to every sound around him while Bai Li submerged herself in the lake. When she emerged, she had caught two silverfish in her hands.
She ran happily to the shore, her eyes bright and her body still dripping with water droplets that flowed down her collarbone and fell to the ground with a patter. Jiang Huai quickly handed her a towel to dry off.
He then took the silverfish and started to clean them. After Bai Li dried off, she put on the white silk camisole nightgown Jiang Huai had prepared for her, and sat on a bluestone.
She watched as Jiang Huai skewered the cleaned silverfish on prepared sticks. The little snake couldn’t help but lick her lips; she wiped away her drool, full of anticipation.
When she and Jiang Huai first met, it was the scent of his grilled fish that attracted her. She had approached him with the mannerisms of the human race, asking if she could buy one. But Jiang Huai was generous and gave her the grilled fish.
Jiang Huai was an expert at grilling fish. After they were done, he handed both silverfish to Bai Li.
She looked up at him, “Aren’t you going to eat?”
“I prefer fish with fewer bones. You eat it.”
“I’ll catch another one for you.”
Bai Li tried to get up, but Jiang Huai quickly put a hand on her shoulder, “No need, I brought some snacks.”
He had brought a lot of snacks, including dried beef from spiritual cows and some spiritual rice. Now that his cultivation was gone, he needed to eat to fill his stomach, especially food with spiritual energy to sustain the consumption of his Immaculate Golden Body. Bai Li then sat down obediently and started to devour the grilled fish, her eating manner was quite unsightly, like a wild child.
After all, she was from the demon race, and Jiang Huai found her appetite quite endearing.
Soon, Bai Li had eaten the fish down to the bones, swallowing the small bones directly. Then she looked longingly at the beef jerky in Jiang Huai’s hand. He laughed and stuffed a piece into her mouth. Bai Li bit down happily, her cheeks puffing out.
After dinner, Jiang Huai took out his portable alchemy furnace and his universal formula array plate to refine a pill for Bai Li. The universal formula array plate only needed a spirit stone, and he could use his slight spiritual energy to control the alchemy flame. The Purple Extreme Pill he was refining for Bai Li wasn’t complicated, and in the time it took for an incense stick to burn, the pill was ready. Bai Li, without a second glance, confidently popped it into her mouth and chewed, then made a face at him.
“It tastes awful.”
Jiang Huai smiled helplessly and handed her some prepared sugar water. Bai Li drank a whole bottle in large gulps, her eyes curving into a smile again.
“Try it?” Jiang Huai looked at her cheeks.
A pill of perfect quality usually only took a very short time to assimilate. Bai Li quickly finished assimilating the pill’s power, and her cultivation increased by a tenth. Importantly, she curled her fingertips, and a wisp of purple spiritual energy wrapped around them. This energy contained a potent poison that would slow the victim’s movements and confuse their thoughts – a useful thing for fighting.
“Fun,” Bai Li said, tilting her face up slightly.
“Thank you.”
“You’ve learned to say thank you now?”
“I just learned it recently. I see that you humans like to say thanks.”
“Don’t you demons have this custom?”
“It’s not that we don’t, but we demons just keep it in our hearts and don’t like to say such polite words.” Bai Li stood up and stretched, the nightgown Jiang Huai had prepared for her seemed a bit small, or perhaps it was because her bust didn’t quite fit her figure.
At the moment, the fabric in front of her chest was stretched taut. Jiang Huai was momentarily stunned, and Bai Li blinked.
“Want to touch?”
This wasn’t a teasing flirtation but a very straightforward, innocent question.
“No, no touching.”
Jiang Huai shook his head sullenly, and Bai Li gently tugged the slipping straps back into place.
“You’re strange. In your Floating Clouds and Splendid Elegance, the male protagonist is always a lecherous dog, not sparing either the innocent-looking younger girls or the slender-legged older sisters. But you seem quite timid yourself.”
“That’s not being timid! Aren’t we good brothers? Who touches their brother’s chest for no reason?”
“That just shows you have a guilty conscience.”
Bai Li’s eyes twinkled mischievously. She reached out and touched Jiang Huai’s chest several times, then laughed even more joyfully.
“Look, I dare to touch you.”
Jiang Huai gave her a deep look and tried to reach out, his hand almost touching her chest. Bai Li didn’t dodge or avoid, even straightening her waist so that her chest was almost pressing against Jiang Huai’s hand. Jiang Huai withdrew his hand.
“No, this isn’t right.”
“You look so conflicted.” Bai Li commented thoughtfully.
“…”
Jiang Huai gave her another deep look and walked towards the cave. The cave wasn’t very big; he spread out a small blanket he carried with him and laid out a quilt, took off his outer clothes, and lay down. Bai Li quickly followed, slipping into the blanket. She had used the bath essence Jiang Huai gave her, and now there was a faint fragrance on her body.
“Promise me, I don’t want to wake up in the morning to find myself holding a snake again.” Jiang Huai earnestly cautioned.
Bai Li nodded vigorously, “I know, I know.”
While saying this, she draped her leg over his body. It seemed that serpent demons were all like this. Jiang Huai’s hand found itself on her thigh, and it was indeed quite squishy to the touch.
Why did he know? He had squeezed it inadvertently, and Bai Li didn’t show any anger or shyness, merely saying.
“Keep squeezing, it’s quite comfortable.”
So Jiang Huai lifted her skirt a bit and squeezed some more, but after a while, Bai Li suddenly wriggled out of his arms, lifted the quilt, and looked up at him.
“Oh no.”
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“What’s wrong?”
“Squeezing… made me feel lecherous.”
Bai Li got up and sat on a bluestone. The cave was lit by the glowstones Jiang Huai had placed. Jiang Huai hastily blew out the glowstones, and the cave quickly darkened, with faint moans echoing in his ears.
After a while, when the light from the glowstones was lit again, Jiang Huai was completely wrapped in the quilt. When Bai Li had cleaned herself and returned to the quilt, the quilt was warm. She snuggled up to Jiang Huai and hooked her leg over him.
“Alright, you can squeeze if you want.”
“…No more squeezing.” Jiang Huai spoke faintly.
“Are you not feeling well?” Bai Li asked innocently.
“Not really.”
“If you’re not feeling well, just say it. I won’t laugh at you. Look, I never hide anything.”
“…demons and humans think differently about many things.”
“Oh, right. If you’re uncomfortable, do you want me to relieve you?”
Bai Li tilted her head, “I’ve read a lot on your Floating Clouds and Splendid Elegance. Using hands, feet, breasts, even butt, which do you prefer?”
Jiang Huai covered his ears and started rolling on the bed, “Don’t say it, I don’t want to hear, I don’t want to hear!”
The cave was filled with Bai Li’s cheerful laughter; she seemed to especially enjoy seeing Jiang Huai in such a frenzy. It took a while for Jiang Huai to calm down and look at her face.
“Shouldn’t you sleep too? You need to heal the injuries on your body.”
“I just felt good and I’m too excited to sleep. Actually, I’m quite interested in what you wrote in Floating Clouds and Splendid Elegance. Do humans really get excited over a woman’s feet? That’s scary. If it were our serpent clan, it would be like someone being especially fond of my tail. It’s so strange.”
“Shut up.”
“Why are you getting angry again? Let your sister touch your face.”
Bai Li’s hand touched Jiang Huai’s face, and feeling the heat, she couldn’t help but burst into laughter. Jiang Huai silently snatched the quilt from her and wrapped himself tightly, sulking.
“Alright, alright, I was just teasing you. It’s so cold, share some of the quilt with me.”
Jiang Huai still shared the quilt with her, and she snuggled up to him, wrapping her arms around him.
“By the way, what are you mainly looking for in Burial Dragon Valley this time?”
“Dragon Blood Spirit Flower, near the dragon corpse. I need that spiritual flower to heal my master’s injuries. What about you?”
“I want to see that dragon corpse. If the dragon crystal inside hasn’t been taken by someone… I want that dragon crystal. With it, I’ll have some of the dragon race’s bloodline. Thousands of years ago, our serpent clan could transform into a flood dragon after a thousand years of cultivation and into a true dragon after ten thousand years. But our ancestor offended the heavens, and since then, no serpent could transform into a dragon. That’s why our entire serpent clan has such a deep obsession. If I get the dragon crystal, I won’t have to worry about my race trying to bind me and offer me to the dragon race anymore.”
“Speaking of which, since you ran away, isn’t your serpent clan looking for you?”
“Of course, they’re trying to catch me everywhere and then bind me to the East Sea to be the third Crown Prince of the dragon race’s concubine. So, Jiang Huai Jr., if you’re uncomfortable, I can help you in other ways, but you can’t enter me. Otherwise, if my Yuan Yin is gone and you take away a strand of my origin bloodline through dual cultivation, the clan leader will want to kill you to take it back when he finds out later.”
“Don’t steer the conversation to weird places.”
“I’m just being cautious. Hmph, just in case if some guy with lustful thoughts but no courage suddenly changes his mind and presses me down when I want it, and I don’t resist, then my origin bloodline will be taken away by you, and we’d really have to be a pair of desperate mandarin ducks.”
(TLN: Desperate mandarin ducks, often used to describe a couple facing adversities together, sometimes even eloping or fleeing from danger together.)
“You even learned this idiom?”
“I’ve learned a lot about humans from your script.”
“Actually, my scripts are quite nonsensical, and many things shouldn’t be learned…”
“I think so too.” Bai Li nodded.
“After all, who would be interested in someone else’s feet? Those people are too scary. It’s one thing to want to touch someone else’s feet, but there are even those who want to be stepped on.”
Jiang Huai’s mouth twitched slightly.
I’m really sorry…
