It's Just a Little Overheated...

"I haven't bathed in several days. I want to wash up..."

Luo Ruying nodded lightly in embarrassment, then asked impatiently, "What do you mean by a good place?"

"Wife, if you walk about two or three li southwest from the back mountain, there's a hot spring on a cliff."

Ning Yechen said with a smile as he held Luo Hongye.

"A h-hot spring...?!"

The moment she heard the words "hot spring," Luo Ruying's eyes lit up, and a look of anticipation slipped onto her face before she realized it.

She had originally thought she would be satisfied just being able to heat some water for a bath. After all, this place couldn't compare to the Immortal Divine Palace.

But she hadn't expected there to actually be a hot spring to soak in amid these mountains and forests!

Ning Yechen nodded affirmatively.

That hot spring was also something he had specially opened up.

He had hidden himself away here precisely to enjoy life, so naturally, everything that ought to be here had to be here.

As the dignified former Demon Lord, he could hardly wrong himself.

"Yeye, come on. Mother will take you to bathe."

Luo Ruying happily took Luo Hongye from Ning Yechen's arms.

"Wife, can your husband bathe with you?"

Ning Yechen asked with a solemn and serious expression.

He had never hoped for anything this much before!

Unfortunately, Luo Ruying rejected him decisively without the slightest hesitation...

"No!"

Luo Ruying held Luo Hongye with a flushed face and walked out of the house, then vanished from the spot in a flash.

Only Ning Yechen was left alone inside the house...

Ning Yechen shook his head in disappointment, hesitating over whether he should follow them...?

If he followed them and peeped, wouldn't that be perverted behavior?!

But on second thought, a husband peeking at his own wife while she bathed shouldn't count as perverted, right...?

Among the trees, Luo Ruying held Luo Hongye and sped along excitedly.

Luo Hongye, lying in her arms, lifted her big eyes to look at Luo Ruying and asked in confusion, "Mother, why won't you let Father bathe with us?"

"Father's all alone at home. He's so pitiful..."

"Uh... well..."

Luo Ruying was rendered speechless by Luo Hongye's question and, for a moment, had no idea how to explain.

Although she had already accepted Ning Yechen as her husband, that did not mean she had reached the point where she could meet him frankly and bare...

The moment she imagined the two of them soaking naked in the bath together, Luo Ruying's face flushed scarlet, and she hurriedly shook her head.

Even back when she had been the female emperor of the Immortal Realm, she had never allowed any maidservants to attend her while she bathed in the pool, let alone bathe together with a man...!

Under Luo Hongye's puzzled gaze, Luo Ruying could only brace herself and squeeze out a smile as she explained, "Because your Father hurt his foot. It's inconvenient for him..."

"Then Mother can carry Father over too, just like you're carrying Yeye."

Luo Hongye pressed on innocently.

Luo Ruying: "..."

Luo Ruying had no way to refute her, so she could only switch to another explanation.

"Tonight, Mother has to focus on bathing Yeye alone, so I can't bring Father along too~"

"So that's how it is...?"

Luo Hongye said regretfully.

Seeing that Luo Hongye seemed to accept this reason, Luo Ruying hurriedly nodded.

"Mm-hmm!"

"Mother has to wash Yeye nice and clean. It'll take a very long time!"

Luo Hongye's little face turned thoughtful. After a moment of silence, she lifted her head and looked at Luo Ruying with a firm gaze, then said in her soft, childish voice, "Mother, then Yeye won't wash!"

"Let Mother and Father wash together!"

"Cough, cough, cough...!"

When Luo Ruying heard that, she nearly stumbled and fell out of midair.

This child...

"Next time!"

"Next time, Mother will bathe together with your father... all right...?"

"Tonight, Mother will wash Yeye nice and clean first~"

Unable to persuade Luo Hongye, Luo Ruying could only helplessly agree for now.

"Mm... all right..."

"Then next time, can Yeye bathe together with Mother and Father?"

Luo Hongye looked at Luo Hongye with anticipation and asked.

"All right..."

What else could Luo Ruying do? She could only agree with a wry smile.

It would be fine once the child forgot about it in a few days...

As they spoke, Luo Ruying leaped up onto a cliff.

The cliff was thick with trees, and a small path remained.

Following the path into the depths of the woods, before long, a steaming hot spring several zhang wide appeared before their eyes!

There really was a hot spring!

Surprise lit Luo Ruying's face. She first helped Luo Hongye take off her clothes, then placed her into the hot spring.

"Mother, the water is so warm~ Hurry and come down."

Luo Hongye happily splashed back and forth in the hot spring, waving at Luo Ruying on the shore.

Luo Ruying smiled faintly. With a light sweep of her hand, she slipped out of her immortal dress and undergarments...

An exquisite, graceful, breathtakingly beautiful body, black hair draped over it, bathed beneath the bright moonlight, standing amid the waves of rising mist, hazily visible...

Someone hiding in the tree could not help staring, utterly entranced...

After careful deliberation, Ning Yechen had still decided to secretly follow them.

But do not misunderstand. He had not come to peep!

He had come to protect Luo Ruying and her daughter from the shadows!

If anything happened, he could intervene from the dark in time, right?

Just as Luo Ruying was about to step into the hot spring on her lotus feet, she suddenly whipped her head around and looked behind her, her beautiful eyes sweeping back and forth intently.

She did not know whether it was her imagination, but she kept feeling as though some gaze was fixed on her...

She had already set up a barrier within a fifty-li radius. Whether demon beasts or other people, none should have been able to enter.

Could it be that fellow...?

Luo Ruying's first reaction was to think of Ning Yechen, but very quickly, she shook her head and denied it herself.

She had carried Luo Hongye and flown at full speed the whole way, and they had only just arrived not long ago. How could Ning Yechen, with his injured feet, possibly have kept up...

It could not be him!

It should only have been her imagination...

Luo Ruying stopped thinking about it. She soaked her entire body into the warm hot spring, and a comfortable, contented expression could not help appearing on her face.

It was as though she had come back to life all at once...

Luo Hongye obediently swam into Luo Ruying's arms and sat in front of her, letting her wipe her body and hair, her face full of happiness.

Ning Yechen sat on a tree branch, propping up his face as he silently watched the mother and daughter bathing in the hot spring, a pleased smile on his face.

In his heart, there were not actually any unnecessary distracting thoughts.

Only, when Luo Ruying stood up from the hot spring, Ning Yechen's nose bled uncontrollably...

After several hundred years, no one had made him bleed, yet in this way, he was once again "injured"...

After nearly half an hour, the thoroughly satisfied Luo Ruying brought Luo Hongye back to the wooden house after finishing their bath.

Luo Ruying, who had just finished bathing, wore her hair loose over her shoulders. Her wet black hair shimmered as it fell to her waist, and her delicate face carried a rosy complexion.

Seeing this, Ning Yechen inadvertently recalled the fragrant, alluring scene he had accidentally seen just now, and blood could not help flowing from his nose again...

"Y-you're having a nosebleed?"

Concern appeared on Luo Ruying's face as she walked up to Ning Yechen and asked.

She was afraid he might have some other injury he was hiding from her.

For the first time, Ning Yechen turned his head away in embarrassment and explained, "Your husband is fine. Don't worry..."

"I'm just a little overheated, that's all..."