Sob... sob!
Muffled, aggrieved sobs came from beneath the covers. Chu He looked like a little wife who'd suffered the greatest injustice imaginable.
He had wrapped himself from head to ankles in the velvet quilt. From the outside, all you could see was the blanket trembling nonstop, while underneath it, Chu He kept rubbing at the corners of his eyes with one hand, wiping away tears that weren't there.
His world had collapsed.
He'd never imagined that one day he'd end up in this state.
If he reported this to the police, they'd think he was crazy. But the truth was just that absurd!
"Hey, hey! You're a grown man, six feet tall. What are you crying for? This is ridiculous."
"Besides, you seemed to be enjoying yourself just now!"
Kachi's voice came from beside him, lazy with satisfaction.
At that moment, Kachi was lying on her side, propping her head up with one hand. Her starry eyes openly admired Chu He, as if he were some kind of beauty.
Chu He abruptly sat up. The quilt slipped down to his waist, revealing his well-defined chest and abs. His voice trembled, and he put on an exaggeratedly tearful whine.
"That's different! My body's just betraying me—that's a natural physical reaction!"
"But my heart, my mind—they've suffered tremendous anguish and trauma!"
He accused her indignantly. "You... You were so rough! How could you... How could you treat an innocent young man so violently?"
"Oh, come on. It's already happened. What's done is done, so don't dwell on it." Kachi waved her tender, lotus-root-white hand and said breezily, like someone speaking from experience.
Chu He took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down, then voiced his biggest worry. "So what do we do? It's been three hours. Yao Yao must be worried sick by now. I'm seriously starting to think she's right outside!"
At that, Kachi smiled slyly and raised a delicate white finger, gently wagging it beside her lips.
"You don't need to worry about that. This is my room, so naturally I decide how time flows in here!"
"Three hours have passed in here, but only three seconds have gone by outside!"
Chu He froze.
Three seconds?
But his stunned expression only lasted about ten seconds. After all, he'd already been through a dream instance, so he accepted it quickly. At the same time, he felt a chill at the thought of the harmless-looking little girl before him.
She didn't seem dangerous at all—in fact, she was ridiculously cute. But he had no doubt that her petite body contained enough Power of Rules to turn reality upside down.
In this room, Kachi could do whatever she wanted with him. Even his Eye of Nirvana was useless!
"You're Yao Yao's best friend. Do you think what you did was fair to her?" Chu He asked quietly.
At the mention of Xia Yao, the smile on Kachi's face did indeed fade.
She lowered her head and pinched the hem of her white nightgown. Her starry eyes quickly grew misty, and her voice turned plaintive and pitiful, as if she were truly consumed by remorse.
"I think... I've wronged Yao Yao! I stole the man she loves most..."
Seeing her like that, Chu He felt his heart soften despite himself.
He was just about to comfort her, to say something like "Don't let it happen again," or "Even ghosts get carried away sometimes," or "It's all because of my cursed Kiss of the Bewitching Ghost."
But Kachi's next words made him swallow every line he'd prepared. They lodged in his throat so badly that he almost choked.
She suddenly lifted her head. The hurt and guilt vanished from her face in a tenth of a second, replaced by an indescribable gleam of unbridled excitement and righteous conviction!
"But!"
Kachi puffed out her little chest and declared, "I'd feel worse letting Yao Yao down than I would letting myself suffer!"
"I can let anyone down, but I can't let myself down. Before you love someone else, love yourself."
"Don't you agree?"
Chu He: "...?"
What the hell! Her expression changed faster than a Sichuan opera performer's! Even a ghost would have to hand her a cigarette for that kind of reasoning!
Kachi was absolutely an award-winning actress and a master of sophistry.
He'd been outplayed by her fair and square.
She was powerful, a brilliant actress, and quick-witted. Worse still, she had one fallacious argument after another, leaving him no opening to refute her.
A profound sense of helplessness welled up inside him.
If only he'd known... If only he'd kept his desires in check in the dream!
But he was twenty, in the prime of his youth...
He'd never imagined that the dream master could watch the whole thing with a god's-eye view!
But if he tried looking at it from Kachi's perspective...
She'd been forced to watch thirty years of uncensored, adults-only movies, with her best friend as the star, and hadn't even gotten to lay a finger on him.
Now she'd finally had the chance, and on top of that, the domineering Power of Rules from the [Kiss of the Bewitching Ghost] had spurred things on...
Well, it wasn't completely impossible to understand.
Chu He was silent for a long time before finally letting out a long breath.
"Fine. I'll admit defeat today."
"But don't let it happen again. Between us... this ends here!"
The moment he said that, Kachi's righteous expression changed, revealing a hint of panic.
"No!" she blurted. "I decide when it ends!"
"You... How can you be so unreasonable?" The little bit of backbone Chu He had just found disappeared again.
"You're not going to let Yao Yao find out about this, are you?"
"You wouldn't want such a cute girl to get mercilessly beaten up by Yao Yao, would you?"
"I'd love to see it!" Chu He gritted his teeth, wishing he could watch it happen right then.
Deep down, though, he truly didn't want that to happen.
Kachi seemed to see through his bluster. She didn't get angry at all; instead, she floated in front of him and poked his chest with her little hand. "Then tell Yao Yao. At worst, we'll fight until the sky darkens and the sun and moon lose their light. We're both SSS-Class, so neither of us can do anything to the other. We'll just end up both badly hurt!"
"Besides, this is Yao Yao's instance. If two people with powerful abilities based on the Power of Rules start fighting, what do you think will happen to this instance space?"
"If you want that to happen, go ahead!"
Chu He's lips twitched furiously, but he couldn't get a word out.
He'd been utterly and completely played.
Seeing that he'd run out of fight, Kachi snapped her fingers. Her tone turned breezy. "All right, enough talk. Go wash up, then hurry back and see your Yao Yao."
As soon as she finished speaking, a bathroom appeared out of thin air.
Calling it a bathroom was generous. It was really just a shower stall made of shimmering crystal, all misty and dreamlike—but... open on all four sides, without even a shower curtain.
Chu He's mouth twitched. "Your bathroom... doesn't have a door? Or even a curtain?"
Kachi tilted her head and thought for a moment, then replied as if it were obvious. "I usually shower by myself, so I don't have to worry about anyone watching. Why would I need a door? That'd be pointless."
Chu He felt like he was about to have a stroke. Whenever he tried reasoning with her, he was the one who lost.
"Then how am I supposed to wash?"
"Like this." Kachi floated lightly up from the bed and circled him like a curious butterfly. She looked him up and down as if he were a rare prehistoric animal. "You're embarrassed now? Don't pretend. I watched you for thirty whole years. I know exactly how many hairs you have and where every mole is."
Chu He's face instantly turned liver-red. He was mortified.
"Ha ha ha ha! You really are embarrassed, my Little He He!" Kachi's laughter rang like silver bells, full of the glee of a successful prank.
She suddenly leaned close, her warm breath brushing Chu He's ear as she whispered seductively:
"What, do you want me to... wash you myself?"
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