"A promise is a promise. From now on, I’ll come every day to pet A Yuan and help him get used to his beast form." Jiang Zheyu raised her hand as if taking an oath, blinking her eyes at Su Yan.

Su Yan’s red eyes swirled gently, like magnificent red wine, shimmering with a uniquely brilliant luster.

"Okay, it’s a deal." Su Yan’s lips curved into a faint smile.

Jiang Zheyu put the gift box back in the bag, then reached out and took Su Yan’s hand. She smiled faintly. "Let’s start with some Spiritual Comfort for Mr. Su tonight."

"Okay." Looking at the young woman’s smile, Su Yan couldn’t help but let his own lips curve up slightly.

Jiang Zheyu held Su Yan’s hands with both of hers and slowly closed her eyes. Once again, she was in that pure white space. The stick-figure version of Jiang Zheyu had just arrived when she sensed a blur streak past her.

By the time she came to her senses, the body of a giant black snake was already coiled around her. Its body was stacked layer upon layer, reaching her height.

The black snake had trapped her within its territory. Then, its massive head slowly lowered, and it began to flick out its bright red, forked tongue, slowly and meticulously licking the stick-figure Jiang Zheyu.

Jiang Zheyu’s body stiffened. She closed her eyes and took a slow, deep breath before gradually opening them again. Slowly, she reached out a stick-figure arm to stroke the Spiritual Body Snake coiling around her.

She stroked it gently, feeling the cool, fine scales on its body. They were smooth and had a dark, muted luster.

The great snake coiled around her paused its licking as her spiritual body touched it.

Because the great snake had paused, Jiang Zheyu mustered her courage to look up. She was met with a pair of red, slitted pupils, burning with excitement and intense aggression, staring fixedly at her.

Jiang Zheyu promptly froze up again and quickly averted her gaze. Perhaps it was because the great snake’s slitted pupils resembled Su Yan’s, but she wasn’t as frightened as she had imagined she would be.

She collected herself, deciding to focus on capturing the black wisps.

The great snake seemed to realize she was trying to help, so it remained still.

Jiang Zheyu easily caught ten wisps. Feeling she could still handle more, she diligently grabbed another three.

Thirteen wisps in total.

When she stopped, feeling a bit tired, she felt one of her stick-figure arms being held in the great snake’s mouth. She could tell it was only holding her arm gently, not intending to bite.

At first, she had been a little stiff seeing the snake holding her arm in its mouth, but when her gaze met those red, slitted pupils, her fear began to subside.

For a moment, she didn’t pull her arm away. She could feel its forked tongue meticulously licking her stick-figure arm, not missing a single spot.

Each lick sent a sticky and pervasive damp sensation over her.

Jiang Zheyu reached out her other stick-figure hand and slowly stroked the area around the great snake’s red, slitted pupils, brushing over them gently.

A moment later, Jiang Zheyu felt the snake’s body around her begin to coil tighter. Before, there had been some space between them, as the snake hadn’t fully enveloped her. Now, however, the circle was shrinking, until finally its entire body was pressed against hers, still coiling slowly.

The fine scales brushed slowly against her spiritual body, sending a slight chill through her. And the sensation from one particular spot was different from the rest.

Jiang Zheyu’s heart began to pound, and her eyelashes trembled violently. ’This great Spiritual Body Snake is actually aroused by me.’

She hastily withdrew her spiritual power, pulling out of Su Yan’s Spiritual Domain.

Jiang Zheyu opened her eyes to find that Su Yan, who had been crouching before, had now pinned her onto the bed. Her neck felt wet.

"Yu Yu, touch me." Su Yan’s voice was a low, desperate plea.

Jiang Zheyu could feel that Su Yan was reacting the same way as the great snake in his Spiritual Domain.

Her cheeks flushed instantly.

A flurry of kisses rained down on Jiang Zheyu before she could even process what was happening.

"Yu Yu, don’t be afraid of me." Su Yan’s voice was damp and husky.

His hand came to rest on her waist but stopped there. He asked with restraint, "Is this okay?"

Jiang Zheyu’s long lashes trembled, and her tea-colored eyes seemed to be veiled in a damp mist. "Then... you can’t turn into a snake..."

"Okay." His voice was tinged with a smile.

......

The sky began to lighten. Outside, birds on the tree branches started to sing their beautiful songs. Sunlight filtered through the wind-swayed branches, casting what looked like a layer of fine, beautiful light onto the room’s floor.

After yesterday’s purification, her status panel had also changed:

Name: Jiang Zheyu

Gender: Female

Current Spiritual Power Value: S (83/3000)

Points: 39

The next day, Su Yan went to work. Jiang Zheyu woke up in Su Yan’s bed, rubbing her sore lower back.

"Host, you slept with him that quickly?" the system, having watched a mosaic all night, immediately realized what had happened. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

"Yes. So next time, he can just hold back." Jiang Zheyu gritted her teeth. ’Men really are all the same—completely different people in bed versus out of it.’

She thought back to last night.

’He was so prepared!’

Jiang Zheyu blushed, suspecting he must have planned it all along.

She silently went to take another bath.

While soaking in the bath, Jiang Zheyu opened the System Mall. She currently only had 39 points.

As for Star Coins, everything she’d earned before had gone to paying off her debts. Now, she was left with only one million Star Coins, which came from her sixty percent cut of Su Yan’s salary.

Jiang Zheyu first used her 39 points to buy three novels. Considering that in this interstellar era females were far outnumbered by males, she bought male-oriented stories.

An OP protagonist story, a zero-to-hero story, and an underestimated-son-in-law story.

There were no novel websites here. All they had were some columns with research papers about interstellar space and the Zerg Race, as well as weekly news reports on expeditions and discoveries.

So, Jiang Zheyu had no choice but to livestream herself writing.

This was mainly to earn money from donations.

’She wondered how well it would work.’

’But she definitely couldn’t use her current livestreaming account to write novels.’

’So she really did need to buy a Beastman to be her stand-in.’

Coincidentally, she also needed to apologize to the Beastmen the original owner of her body had harmed today, so she could buy one on the same trip.

’She only had one million Star Coins. That should be enough to buy a Beastman, right?’

Jiang Zheyu wasn’t sure. ’I’ll have to go and see.’

After she finished her bath and got dressed, the soreness in her thighs had eased considerably.

She collapsed lazily onto the soft bed.

Only then did she leisurely check her Light Brain.

A lot of people had sent her messages.

Jiang Zheyu first checked the messages from Su Yan, who she had marked as a favorite contact.

He had sent them this morning before he left:

Su Yan: Last night was tough on you, Yu Yu. Make sure you eat a good lunch and get plenty of rest.

Su Yan: Yu Yu, I’ve left for the military headquarters.

Su Yan: If you’re going to apologize to those families today, let me know. I’ll go with you.