Firefly made the call. "All right, get to sleep."
--
Night.
--Liu Bai did not dare sleep.
He felt as if wolves surrounded him on all sides.
So Liu Bai turned to look around the room. There were no glowing green eyes staring at him.
But... he still felt as though invisible eyes were watching him.
The next moment, a hand covered Liu Bai's mouth.
--Who?
Guinaifen? No, this hand felt stronger and broader than Guinaifen's.
It was not Firefly's or Guinaifen's hand either.
--This is the hand of a mature woman.
Then... Yueyu?
No, apparently not.
Although Liu Bai had only done it with Yueyu once, he remembered the calluses on her hands from drawing a bow in life. When she had helped him with those hands, it had given him quite a novel experience.
Could it be Yukong or Cyrene?
No... neither of them had any reason to do this, right?
Then it was...
"Shh..."
"--Stop right there!"
Ningguang's gentle shushing had barely faded when someone suddenly turned on the lights.
Yukong stood there, looking at Ningguang, who sat beside the bed completely naked and gently stroked Liu Bai with her hand. Yukong wore an expression of utter heartbreak.
"Ningguang, I never thought that, as Tianquan, you would make such a fundamental mistake."
"...Huh?"
Ningguang was dumbfounded, apparently never having expected this to happen.
"I knew someone would take desperate risks and harbor improper intentions, but of all people! Of all people, I never expected that person to be you, Ningguang!"
Yukong looked deeply pained.
Ningguang instinctively lowered her head.
The others sleeping on the floor were all still slumbering peacefully.
"...Do you believe that?"
Ningguang kicked Firefly, who was not far from the bed.
"Still, I admit that I miscalculated..."
--From Ningguang's perspective, she had thought her