What One Husband, One Wife Means

What One Husband, One Wife Means

He had been pinned down. That was obvious.

The purple-eyed girl locked down both his hands. Her immense strength left him unable to move an inch, forcing him to watch as she leaned over and pressed him beneath her.

"Sister Nana?"

"Do you really have to go?" The girl held him down, lowering her head as her purple eyes fixed tightly on him, a hint of displeasure in her expression.

Huo Yuhao blinked, then nodded.

"My second Martial Soul is very important to me. I have to go."

The girl lowered her eyes slightly and said nothing more.

She did not know why she had lost control like this. Was it because, after taking human form, she had unconsciously developed those insignificant human emotions? Or was it something else?

She did not know.

She only knew that she already seemed somewhat reluctant to let the person before her leave her side.

Why not just tie him up and take him back to the Star Dou Great Forest? He can't beat me anyway.

The rules of Soul Beasts were simple: the strong were supreme.

She was stronger than Huo Yuhao, so she could do whatever she wanted with him!

But—

He'd definitely get angry, wouldn't he?

After a long while, the girl lowered her eyes and released his hands. "I'll take good care of Auntie."

Huo Yuhao froze, silently swallowing the words of comfort he had been about to say.

Sister Nana seemed surprisingly easy to talk to today!

"Thank you."

Huo Yuhao thanked her, then noticed something was off.

Wasn't she supposed to be staying behind?!

"I want to hold you while I sleep."

Gu Yuena spoke expressionlessly, as though it were the most natural thing in the world.

Not this again.

Huo Yuhao wanted to refuse, but remembering how angry Gu Yuena had looked earlier, he silently swallowed his refusal.

Huo Yuhao suddenly realized that he had unknowingly set foot on a path where he could be stabbed at any time.

Hopefully, he'd survive.

Morning.

When he opened his eyes, the girl's exquisite face was right before him. Her usually icy features had softened somewhat in sleep.

The girl had no guard up around him at all. Her loose pajamas seemed almost deliberate, showing Huo Yuhao exactly what bare shoulders and generous curves looked like.

Lower down were two soft white mounds pressed out of shape, and an even deeper abyss.

Unfortunately, faced with such a sight, Huo Yuhao did not dare move at all.

She had used him as a body pillow all night!!!

He had not slept at all! He had gone straight into insomnia!

Looking at the stunningly beautiful face so close to his, Huo Yuhao's feelings were complicated.

After a long while, he sighed softly. The Silver Radiance Soul Ring appeared soundlessly, and in the next instant, his body switched places with the pillow beside him.

After hesitating briefly, Huo Yuhao placed a Storage Ring on the bedside table and attached a wisp of Spiritual Power to it so the Gluttonous Dragon King would not fail to notice it.

Then Huo Yuhao turned and vanished from the room.

A moment later, the girl's eyelashes trembled slightly before she slowly opened her eyes.

She had awakened the moment someone's Soul Ring appeared. She had only pretended to sleep because she did not know how to face him.

Raising a hand, the girl unconsciously covered her slightly burning cheeks. Feeling the warmth on her face and the violent beating of her heart, she pulled the blanket into her arms and buried her head deeply within it.

It carried the boy's scent.

The boy was special, and so was his scent. It gave her a sense of peace, a feeling that allowed her to relax for a short while.

She was infatuated with that feeling, infatuated with the boy's scent, yet her reason kept denying it.

A Soul Beast and a human. No matter how she thought about it, it sounded unreliable.

Besides, he was still so young. (In age!)

The Dragon King, unable to understand her own emotions, had completely forgotten that when she had first encountered this suddenly appearing boy, she had always treated him as an old monster.

The girl hugged the blanket and tossed and turned across the bed again and again. Only after a long while did she sit up and look at the ring someone had left for her.

The girl blinked, reached out, and sent her consciousness inside. Then she saw the neatly packaged Grilled Fish!

Her purple eyes brightened unconsciously. At the same time, she noticed a conspicuous note amid the pile of Grilled Fish.

With a thought, the note appeared in her hand, revealing its contents.

"Eat sparingly. I'll make more for you when I get back."

The girl lowered her eyes slightly, staring at the note without knowing what she was thinking. After quite a while, she gave a soft snort.

"Hmph."

It was quiet, less like anger and more like a pout.

Hugging the blanket, the girl lay back down and closed her eyes.

Dragons love to sleep, so it's perfectly reasonable for me to sleep a little longer. It definitely has nothing to do with any other reason.

Mm. Definitely not.

While a certain Gluttonous Dragon King was catching up on sleep, outside Shrek City, Tian Meng was clinging to Huo Yuhao and crying her heart out.

"Why?! That Bad Woman actually forced you to be her body pillow! That's too much! It's seriously too much!!!"

Tian Meng gritted her teeth, feeling utterly displeased.

That's treatment I've never even gotten!

But there was nothing she could do. She could not beat that woman, and the terrifying aura around her—one that made Tian Meng tremble—was even more frightening than when she had once faced her natural enemy, Bingbing!

Damn it!

Even if you came first, I'm obviously Huo Yuhao's Soul Spirit!!! What right do you have to steal him? Who do you think you are?!

Tian Meng was unconvinced, extremely unconvinced.

But that was all she could do.

After all, she truly could not beat that Bad Woman!!!

"Alright, alright, Sister Tianmeng, don't be angry." Huo Yuhao tried to comfort her, gently patting her head before speaking softly. "Let's hurry on our way. We should try to reach the Extreme North as soon as possible. Also—"

Huo Yuhao was explaining the matters needing attention, but the instant Tian Meng heard the words Extreme North, something occurred to her.

I can't beat that Bad Woman alone, but couldn't I just call in another person?!

A light called wisdom shone in Tian Meng's eyes! A smile unconsciously appeared at the corners of her lips.

"Sister Tianmeng?"

Huo Yuhao blinked, somewhat puzzled as he looked at Tian Meng's silly grin.

No, I just briefly explained the plan. Is that enough to make her this happy?

Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes. Remembering the relationship between Sister Tianmeng and the Ice Empress in his previous life, he suddenly understood.

Sister Tianmeng was so happy because she was thinking about seeing the Ice Empress?

Mm. That made sense!

Thinking this, Huo Yuhao did not disturb Tian Meng's wild thoughts. He took out a Level Nine Flying Soul Guide that he had made in his spare time, held Tian Meng, and flew directly toward the Extreme North.

Huo Yuhao did not know that Tian Meng really was thinking about the Ice Empress, but not in quite the way he imagined.

At that moment, Tian Meng was thinking about how to carry out her "One Husband, One Wife" plan—bringing the Ice Empress into her camp to fight that evil Bad Woman!