Chu Xuan guiltily rubbed the tip of his nose. His Adam's apple bobbed twice before he finally steeled himself.
"Master's wife, your disciple has lived here with you on Mount Zhongnan for years, with only each other to depend on."
"Yet I have never seen your true face. It is one of the great regrets of my life."
"Once I leave today, I do not know when I will be able to return and attend to you again."
"Before I go, might I have the honor of... beholding your peerless beauty?"
As he spoke those words,
a feverish, burning anticipation blazed in Chu Xuan's lowered eyes!
Over the past seven years, he had never seen what his master's wife truly looked like.
But her ethereal voice alone, heavenly enough to make his bones melt every time he heard it,
had made Chu Xuan almost completely certain that she was an unparalleled beauty, lovely enough to topple kingdoms and bring nations to ruin!
On countless restless nights,
he had used that voice to feverishly conjure up her flawless face and the graceful figure of a mature woman...
Just thinking of those exquisite curves hidden behind the screen
left Chu Xuan's mouth dry. His blood surged, and an irrepressible heat rose in his lower abdomen.
The moment Chu Xuan finished speaking,
the hall fell into a long, deathly silence.
Not a sound came from behind the screen embroidered with a landscape.
It was so quiet that Chu Xuan could hear his own heart beating faster and faster.
Faced with that suffocating silence,
Chu Xuan felt his scalp prickle. A bone-deep chill instantly extinguished the heat in his heart.
He abruptly came to his senses. To his aloof, reserved master's wife, the outrageously lustful request he had just made was nothing short of