Within the Flame Barrier, an alluring entanglement:
Gentle yet scorching light filled this space.
Medusa slowly woke and gradually opened her pair of enchanting red-crystal-like eyes.
She first froze, then suddenly realized something.
She was lightly floating above the flame-heart stone platform in midair:
She instinctively lowered her head, and her expression immediately changed drastically.
The red gauze that had originally draped her body had vanished without a trace.
Her delicate skin was completely exposed to the air.
And the burning touch coming from her waist—
made her instantly realize that those were Xiao Yan's hands:
In an instant, Medusa's face turned crimson as blood.
As though ignited by flames, shame and anger surged through her heart like raging tides.
They nearly drowned her.
Startled and furious, she hurriedly took out a new piece of red gauze from her Storage Ring.
She hastily draped it over herself, trying to conceal those alluring, graceful curves:
"Xiao Yan!"
Medusa gritted her teeth and forced those two words through them.
Her low voice brimmed with fury.
Her hand shot out like lightning toward Xiao Yan's throat.
Her eyes blazed with raging flames of humiliation and anger.
However:
Just as her slender fingers were about to touch Xiao Yan's throat!
Her movement abruptly stopped.
An extremely complicated expression flashed through her eyes.
There was anger, embarrassment, and a trace of hesitation that even she was unwilling to admit.
After an intense inner struggle, she slowly withdrew her hand in the end:
"What, can you really bear to lay a hand on me?"
Xiao Yan's teasing, suggestive voice suddenly rang out.
It was like a melody softly playing beside her ear.
Medusa's heart jolted, but before she could react at all—
a warm, powerful hand had already gripped her wrist firmly like iron pincers.
Then,