"Chang Ping, you bastard!" Shen Xiu finally mustered the courage to stand up to Chang Ping. She glared at him with furious phoenix eyes and said, "Before you bullied me, I, Shen Xiu, was still a virgin! Besides, don't you know whether I was still a virgin?"
Chang Ping was too much. He actually suspected her. What did he take her for? A prostitute whose lips had been kissed by countless men?
Outrageous! Absolutely outrageous!
"You didn't sleep with Ghost Fiend, so why did he give you a cultivation technique? There must be something going on between you!" Chang Ping knew he was in the wrong. He released Shen Xiu's smooth, snowy neck and snorted.
He sat on the creaking, ramshackle bed and watched Shen Xiu cough delicately, waiting for her to explain herself.
Shen Xiu rubbed her neck and pouted her rose-red lips, her eyes brimming with tears as she glared at Chang Ping.
What a savage, boorish man! He had no idea how to treat a woman gently. She would never speak to him again!
Once her throat felt better, Shen Xiu took the initiative to explain. "I don't know what happened, either. The first time Ghost Fiend saw me, we hit it off right away, and he even asked about my mother. When he learned she had died of grief, a look of sorrow crossed his face."
"Then he gave me the Bloodthirsty Demonic Art. He said that as long as I practiced it, I would definitely become a Black Gold Demon Spirit Master. He also wanted to take me as his disciple and invited me to train at the Dark Guild's headquarters. But I turned him down. The Dark Guild's people are all bad!"
Since Chang Ping already knew about her connection with Ghost Fiend, he must also know that the Sacred Family had ties to the Dark Guild. So she stopped holding back and told him everything at once.
If she kept anything from him and Chang Ping found out, she would definitely get a beating with a stick.
"You knew that, and you still accepted his demonic art?" Chang Ping shot her a sidelong glance, his expression softening a little.
If his guess was right, Shen Xiu probably wasn't the daughter of the Sacred Family's former Family Head. She was Ghost Fiend's child.
He just didn't know whether Shen Xiu's mother had been unfaithful, or whether she and Ghost Fiend had been lovers whom the old Family Head of the Sacred Family had torn apart.
But those were only his own wild guesses. To find out the truth, he would have to face Ghost Fiend and get him to tell the story himself.
"If I'm not mistaken, Ghost Fiend should be a peak Black Gold Demon Spirit Master. He has a magical treasure bestowed by the Demon Lord that can unleash Legendary-level power. I'm still no match for him." Chang Ping thought to himself.
Although he had wronged Shen Xiu, he had no intention of apologizing.
Apologizing to a vicious woman who ate people's hearts would be a betrayal of all those innocent people who had died.
"You're not allowed to practice the demonic art Ghost Fiend gave you from now on! Understand?" Chang Ping ordered sternly.
As if it were any of your business! You're not my husband!
Shen Xiu retorted silently. She only dared to contradict him in her thoughts. If she said it out loud, Chang Ping would surely give her a harsh lesson.
But honestly, her relationship with Chang Ping was just one of mutual exploitation. Once the poison in her body was cured, she would leave him without hesitation.
Shen Xiu shrugged helplessly. "Even if I wanted to practice it, I can't anymore. The Bloodthirsty Demonic Art is a very strange cultivation technique. If a woman practices it, she has to remain a virgin and can only drink the heart's blood of a virgin boy. For men, it's the opposite."
"You mean a man has to remain a virgin and drink the heart's blood of a non-virgin woman to practice this?" Chang Ping raised his brows. After sharing such an intimate encounter with Shen Xiu, he could no longer practice it.
"Not at all." Shen Xiu shook her head. "For a man to practice the Bloodthirsty Demonic Art, he must not be a virgin. And the blood he drinks has to come from a non-virgin woman—it can't be heart's blood."
"Holy crap?! The difference is that big? That's sexist!" Chang Ping didn't know what to say.
Although he met the requirements for practicing it, Chang Ping had no intention of cultivating such an evil technique.
It felt just like being a vampire. It gave him the creeps.
Wait, he didn't have a heart anymore.
"Enough. Let's not waste any more time. We should leave right away before anything unexpected happens!" Chang Ping took the Universal Mask out of his little Space Ring and transformed himself into Yu'er.
As Shen Xiu handed him the maid's dress she had prepared, she muttered, "If you hadn't kept wasting time, we'd be at the Sacred Family already."
"What are you muttering about?" Chang Ping glared at her.
"Nothing!" Shen Xiu quickly shut her mouth.
Chang Ping took some strips of cloth he'd gotten from somewhere, wrapped them around his chest again and again, tied them in place, and changed into the maid's dress.
Just as Shen Xiu thought they were about to leave, Chang Ping suddenly spoke.
"Bend over the table!"
Shen Xiu's delicate body trembled. "What for?"
"Do it!"
After getting in a quick, smooth shot, the two rode in a carriage to the Sacred Family.
Inside the carriage, Shen Xiu sat stiffly opposite Chang Ping, her cheeks red and her lovely legs pressed together. She was afraid he might do something to her in the carriage.
To her surprise, Chang Ping didn't make a single inappropriate move before the carriage stopped in front of the Sacred Family's gates.
Shen Xiu even felt a little disappointed.
The two got out of the carriage soon after.
With Shen Xiu leading the way, their progress went smoothly.
After one more turn at a three-way junction, they would reach Shen Xiu's little courtyard. Both of them breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as they were about to turn the corner, someone suddenly approached from the other side.
The two quickened their pace.
"Stop! Who are you?" the person shouted, covering the distance in just a few strides.
Maybe it was just his imagination, but Chang Ping thought the voice sounded familiar.
Shen Xiu turned around and shielded Chang Ping, who was a head taller than her.
Chang Ping stuck out a carrot-thick index finger and mischievously poked her soft waist.
"Behave yourself!" Shen Xiu's body shuddered. She shot him a glare over her shoulder and scolded him irritably.
Chang Ping shrugged.
What was the big deal? If they were discovered, he could just kill the person.
After all, he was now strong enough to take down a Black Gold One-star Demon Spirit Master.
"Shen Xiu? Why are you wandering around in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?" The mysterious person held a lantern and looked at the two of them in confusion.
He actually dared to call the Eldest Young Lady of the Sacred Family by her name. Who was this guy?
Chang Ping pulled his gaze away from Shen Xiu's enticing backside and turned to look.
"Holy crap?!" The moment he saw the man's face, Chang Ping was stunned.
It was that bastard Shen Fei!
"What I do is none of your business." Shen Xiu folded her arms across her chest, her expression colder than the moonlight above.
Shen Fei snorted. How dare a lowborn concubine's child speak to him that way? What insolence!
But considering Shen Xiu was a generation above him, Shen Fei held his tongue.
"Ooh, is this Auntie's personal maid? She sure is pretty. Heh heh heh." Shen Fei's eyes lit up when he saw "Yu'er" hiding behind Shen Xiu.
There was still a maid in the household he hadn't touched.
Shen Fei was a perfectionist. He absolutely wouldn't allow any maid in the household to remain untouched.
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