Do You Even Hear What the Fuck You're Saying?!

The golden wheel in the east leaped up, finally breaking free of the horizon after much effort.

In an instant, sunlight streamed into the hotel room, spilling across the large bed.

Le Ling's sweet dream was disturbed by the blinding morning light, and her mind slowly woke.

Though she had not yet opened her eyes, she felt something pressing against her. She reached over instinctively, but the moment she touched it, she heard a man's muffled groan beside her ear.

"Ling'er..."

The soft panting by her ear instantly woke Le Ling completely.

Opening her eyes, she saw the man braced on either side of her, gazing deeply at her.

"Qian Daoliu! You... what are you doing?"

Le Ling immediately raised her hands to push against him. At the same time, her eyes swept around the room. Seeing the hotel furnishings, she guessed that they had arrived at the hotel last night and booked a room.

"Didn't I say that if you dared get on the bed, I'd kick you off? Was getting kicked last time not enough for you?!"

Qian Daoliu defended himself. "The temperature was low last night. It was a little cold, and there was only one blanket, so I got on the bed to sleep."

Hearing that obvious excuse, Le Ling snapped back without believing a word of it. "Then why didn't you book another room?!"

"It was already very late when we reached the town last night. The hotel only had two rooms left. I couldn't exactly go sleep with Steward Yao, could I?"

The man continued to defend himself.

The moment she heard him say, "I couldn't exactly go sleep with Steward Yao, could I?" Le Ling's eyes widened.

Do you even hear what the fuck you're saying?!

"Two men and one woman, with only two rooms left. You sharing one with Steward Yao is the reasonable arrangement, okay?!"

Le Ling glared at him, bristling.

Qian Daoliu said calmly, "That makes sense, but it's not like this is the first time we've slept together."

How could he possibly share a room with Steward Yao, another grown man?

Holding his Ling'er while he slept was obviously far better.

Besides, not long after they had confirmed their relationship, they had already slept together.

Back then, though, he had always restrained himself around her, wanting to save the best for their wedding day!

He simply had not expected those things to happen later, preventing the two of them from entering the halls of marriage.

Now that he had reunited with Ling'er.

If she were not still unable to forgive him, Qian Daoliu would have stopped restraining himself long ago!

"The past is the past, and now is now!"

Hearing the man bring up the past again, Le Ling recalled his marriage once more. Unhappy, she tried to shove him away with all her strength.

Without effort, Qian Daoliu seized her hands from where they pressed against his chest, buried his head in the hollow of her neck, and murmured, "Ling'er, don't be angry anymore, all right?"

Le Ling became tense at the sudden way he buried his head against her neck!

Because whenever he did this in the past, then spoke to her in that low voice, her heart would immediately soften and she would forgive him.

So now, she was terrified that her heart would soften again and hurriedly tried to push his head away.

Yet without even realizing it herself, Le Ling instinctively said, "A Liu, get up. You're so heavy!"

A Liu!!!

Those two words instantly filled Qian Daoliu with joy.

"You're not angry with me anymore?"

He immediately lifted his head to look at her, light sparkling in his eyes.

The moment the words "A Liu" left her mouth, Le Ling wanted nothing more than to bite off her own tongue!

"How could that be? You heard wrong!"

She immediately turned her face away, too guilty to look at him.

Qian Daoliu said in an ambiguous tone, "Ling'er, last night, from the carriage compartment until after I finished bathing and got into bed to hold you, and all the way until before dawn today, do you know you kept clinging to me? What exactly did you dream about?"

"Impossible!"

Le Ling denied it even as she tried to recall last night's dream.

It would have been better if she had not remembered. Once she did, it was a disaster!

In an instant, scenes from the dream appeared in her mind—scenes of her and Qian Daoliu—and her face flushed scarlet.

Seeing her little face, red as if she had put on blush, Qian Daoliu had already roughly guessed what her dream had been about.

He chuckled. "Ling'er, if you want it, you can just tell me directly. There's no need to imagine it in your dreams. You know I'd be more than willing!"

"Who... who wants it?!"

"What nonsense!!!"

Red-faced and humiliated into anger, Le Ling raised her little foot and kicked at him without hesitation.

The man decisively rose and dodged.

Taking advantage of the opening, Le Ling quickly got out of bed and fled into the bathing room as though escaping for her life.

Qian Daoliu remained lying on the bed. Thinking of her reaction just now, a smile spread across his face as his mood soared.

At that moment, there was a knock on the door.

Qian Daoliu got out of bed, threw on an outer robe, and went to open it.

The door opened.

Steward Yao stood outside, holding two iron boxes containing food. "My lord, this hotel does not provide breakfast, so I went out and bought breakfast for you and Miss Le Ling."

Qian Daoliu gave a hum, accepted the two iron boxes, closed the door, then returned to the room and sat down to wait for Le Ling to finish washing up.

Half an hour later.

Le Ling emerged after bathing, wiping her still-damp hair. She saw Qian Daoliu sitting cross-legged on the sofa, cultivating.

Hmph!

He had just been teasing her, and now he was sitting there looking all proper!

Stupid man!!!

Hearing the movement, Qian Daoliu stopped cultivating and opened his eyes. Looking at her, he said, "Steward Yao brought breakfast. Come eat."

With that, he rose and walked toward the bathing room.

As he passed Le Ling, his large hand settled on top of her head and rubbed it affectionately.

Le Ling glared at him unhappily.

Afterward, the two finished breakfast, left their room together, exited the hotel, and headed toward Sunset Forest, three hundred kilometers away.

Sunset Forest lay in the center of the Heaven Dou Empire. Its area was far smaller than that of Star Dou Great Forest.

Its climate and temperature were also somewhat lower than Star Dou Great Forest's, so most of the vegetation there consisted of temperate plants.

Walking through a forest full of temperate vegetation gave people a refreshing feeling!

Moreover, temperate plants were not as dense as the tropical vegetation in Star Dou Great Forest, so moving through Sunset Forest was much easier than moving through Star Dou Great Forest.

But its concealment was correspondingly worse!

Powerful soul beasts generally preferred tropical rainforests like Star Dou Great Forest. Thus, while Sunset Forest also had quite a few soul beasts, not many had cultivation levels exceeding ten thousand years.

Therefore, if a ten-thousand-year soul beast appeared in Sunset Forest, it was definitely no weak creature!

By this point, Le Ling and Qian Daoliu had already been in Sunset Forest for three days.

They had encountered quite a few soul beasts, but almost all of them had thousand-year cultivation. So far, they had not encountered a single ten-thousand-year soul beast.

"We should've stayed in Star Dou Great Forest. Maybe we would've already found a suitable ten-thousand-year soul beast. Why waste three days here?"

Le Ling turned her head and shot a resentful sidelong glance at the man behind her.

Qian Daoliu glanced at her somewhat guiltily, because he knew perfectly well why he had suggested leaving Star Dou Great Forest back then.

So he was also a little worried now. If they could not find a suitable soul beast in Sunset Forest, how badly would Ling'er scold him to death?