Celestial Pivot Peak, Mirror Lake behind Celestial Mystery Pavilion.
Wisps of thin mist coiled beyond the windows of Lake Heart Tower, carrying a crisp, cool air.
Bai Bing and Bai Xue each leaned beneath a window, staring blankly out at the lake.
The tranquil water reflected a sky full of starlight. The scene was wondrously beautiful, like a painted scroll, so dreamlike that one could not tell whether the heavens lay in the water or the water hung in the heavens.
Just like their hearts at that moment—unsettled and impossible to calm.
"Sis~" After a long silence, Bai Xue suddenly spoke. "Was everything just now real? Did we... really give ourselves to Brother Feng?"
Bai Bing's cheeks were flushed as she nodded faintly. "It was real—"
She too felt as though it had all been a dream, but the pain and dampness below her belly, along with the crimson stain on the gauze beside her, could not lie.
"It feels like a dream~" Bai Xue giggled foolishly.
Bai Bing shot her a charming glare. "You certainly didn't look like you were dreaming. Have you forgotten how many bloody scratches you left on Brother Feng's arm just now?"
Bai Xue's face instantly reddened. Lowering her head in embarrassment, she said, "I couldn't control it. It was unconscious behavior."
After a pause, she added with a puffed-cheeked huff, "Brother Feng was really something. If he wanted our bodies, he could have just said so. He had to wait until we were unconscious—I was so frightened, I thought some villain had taken advantage of me."
Bai Bing let out a soft laugh, recalling what had happened earlier. "That slap you gave him when you woke up nearly scared me to death."
Bai Xue flushed even deeper. "I was nervous and didn't see clearly,