Chapter 131

Hearing Tingyun's timid plea from behind the door, Bai Jun, who had already snapped out of his chaotic thoughts, got up from the sofa, grabbed the white shirt draped over the edge of the sofa, picked up the bag of clothes next to the sofa, and handed the clothes and bag to the hand that was sticking out from the crack in the door, which was wet with water droplets.

After taking the clothes from Bai Jun, Tingyun hesitated briefly before quickly withdrawing her arm and decisively slamming the bathroom door shut.

The soft rustling of clothes against skin echoed in the bathroom, but soon the faint sound disappeared completely.

As the bathroom door opened, a wave of fragrant steam wafted out, Tingyun walked out barefoot.

A drop of water fell from her damp brown hair onto her white shirt.

Bai Jun reflexively followed the direction of the falling water droplets, his gaze falling on her delicate collarbone, which exuded the pleasant scent of shower gel, and her fair, snow-white skin. The underwear peeking out from under her shirt immediately came into view. Her lower body was not wearing any clothes, and what emerged from under the hem of her shirt were her flawless thighs and slender, long calves.

Tingyun let her hair down.

Her long, brown hair, which was usually neatly tied up at the back of her head, was not tied up now, but fell naturally down her back. Only her fox tail, a symbol of her race, was dry and fluffy from the hairdryer, making one wonder if it had any special meaning.

Bai Jun stared at the hair, which was longer than he had imagined, and was somewhat distracted, his heart starting to pound.

The two maintained a distance that was neither too far nor too close, one with their head tilted up and the other with their head down, their gazes intertwining.

Tingyun looked up at the young man who was already so tall that she had to look up at him. She opened her mouth slightly, but couldn't utter a single syllable. This young lady, who had long since learned to calmly handle the praise from her classmates and elders, was now in a complete mess.

Just like her current hairstyle, it's messy and damp.

Perhaps, to some extent, hairstyle can actually reveal a person's characteristics. For example, Bai Jun in front of us, with his silver-white medium-length hair, looks like a handsome man who stepped out of a comic book. No wonder he is so popular.

In a state of extreme embarrassment and confusion, Tingyun's wild thoughts drifted to the strange realm of judging people by their hair.

The pendulum swung, and the pale blue moonlight streaming into the room from the window sill traced streaks of light on the floor, accompanied by the sound of time.

This can't go on.

The same thought occurred to both of them at the same time.

"My benefactor, why are you still standing there in a daze...?"

Tingyun's soft voice broke the deathly silence first, just as Bai Jun was about to speak—

Those feet, still wet with water droplets, stepped forward as if they were works of art.

Caught off guard, Bai Jun was pushed onto the sofa by Tingyun.

The moment his mind confirmed the situation, Bai Jun instinctively wanted to speak, but a hand gently rested on his shoulder. Then, Bai Jun suddenly felt an unprecedented weight pressing down on him.

It is said to be unprecedented, but it has nothing to do with weight at all; it can even be described as soft and light.

"My benefactor is so oblivious! Haven't you noticed that my clothes are a bit off?"

With her legs straddling Bai Jun, Tingyun gently placed one hand on his cheek, her tender, emerald-green eyes gazing at him with an air of superiority. She whispered in a soft voice, her delicate face, seemingly burning with flames, revealing that her heart was far from at peace.

"Silly benefactor, actually I bought two outfits! One is the set you picked out, and the other... is the one you were looking at behind the counter. Don't think I didn't notice your gaze; even if it was just for a second, I would have noticed immediately."

Bai Jun then realized that Tingyun wasn't wearing the clothes she'd bought that morning at all. Seeing through Bai Jun's confusion, Tingyun slowly unbuttoned two buttons on her shirt, revealing underwear beneath the white shirt that was so revealing and shameful that one wanted to look away. It was the very underwear that Bai Jun had accidentally glimpsed hanging behind the counter that morning.

"So, my benefactor, you must always keep your eyes on me when you're with me in the future, or I might suddenly turn on you and hurt you."

She slowly brought her face closer, so close that they could easily touch.

Slowly, slowly, the next second, Bai Jun, before Tingyun could move slowly due to shyness or other emotions, took the initiative to kiss her pale pink lips.

Tingyun's eyes widened instantly, her face showing a mixture of surprise and embarrassment. She offered no resistance, or rather, was unable to resist. Her hands rested limply on his strong chest as she breathed increasingly rapidly.

After a long while, Bai Jun slowly released Tingyun, whose breathing was completely disordered and who had melted as if she had collapsed into his arms. It took her a while to come back to her senses. Then, Tingyun took a deep breath, her vision blurred and she saw stars. The happiness of touching her beloved's lips and teeth, combined with an unknown feeling, almost made her faint.

Their heavy breathing overlapped in the air, and both of them felt a ringing in their ears. They could barely hear anything else, only the intense breathing between them, as if shattering their bubble-like, blissful consciousness.

"Ha~ha~ha~ Aha ~~~ I originally thought my benefactor was already quite skilled, but I never expected that he would be even more skilled in this kind of thing, so skilled that this humble woman simply couldn't resist. However, the feeling is exceptionally good..."

Finally able to breathe a little more freely, Tingyun closed her eyes and giggled as she panted, her hands still unconsciously clutching Bai Jun's clothes. Her face flushed, she hugged Bai Jun and kissed his neck.

"The time is almost up..."

"What?"

Panting, Tingyun struggled to lift her head from Bai Jun's embrace and looked at the clock on the wall. The hour hand seemed to be pointing to the time she was expecting. Just as a look of confusion appeared on Bai Jun's face, he heard a clear sound of a wine bottle hitting the ground behind him.

"Tingyun, Bai Jun, what are you doing?"

The sofa in the living room was right behind the corridor facing the main gate of the mansion. The familiar voice made Bai Jun, who turned around, almost lose control of his expression. His lips twitched violently. His attention had been diverted, and Bai Jun had not realized that the door behind him had been pushed open.

Looking across the entire Xianzhou, the only person who could walk into the Tingyun family's residence without even knocking is probably, no, only the one who can Yukong.

"Uh, good evening, Yukong..."

Looking at Tingyun, who was straddling Bai Jun, disheveled, breathing heavily, and with her fair skin flushed with an alluring blush, Yukong stared blankly at the two of them, completely unaware that the wine bottle had fallen from her arms. She opened her mouth slightly, her hands trembling uncontrollably as she tried to cover her lips, and her beautiful eyes, which had lost focus due to the huge shock, also glistened with tears.

"Lady Yukong, are you free tomorrow evening? Please make sure to come to my house; I have a surprise for Lady Yukong!"

Yukong, who received Tingyun's invitation on Jade Omen yesterday evening, finished work early this morning, bought a bottle of high-end red wine from a nearby store, and rushed to Tingyun's home.

Using the key that Tingyun had given her long ago, Yukong skillfully opened her front door. However, the moment she opened the door, she heard rapid breathing coming from the living room. Her body stiffened, Yukong told her that she should turn around and leave immediately, but...

Unable to overcome her curiosity, she entered the living room and was so startled by the scene before her that she dropped the wine bottle she was holding to the floor.

It really was Bai Jun! -- This was the first feeling of resentment that flashed through Yukong's mind.

Tingyun and Bai Jun had always admired and loved each other. It was something that Yukong Kong, as an elder, should be happy and gratified that they could be together. But for some reason, her dark purple eyes were already filled with tears, which seemed ready to burst into tears at any moment.

She was so unwilling, so unwilling to accept it, so eager to confide in Bai Jun... No, that's not right. But she was just an old fox with one foot in the grave; what right did she have to interfere with or fight for this relationship?

Yukong felt as if his usually calm and self-controlled emotions were about to spiral out of control at any moment, like a boulder falling from a mountaintop.

Then, tormented by her churning emotions, Yukong finally cleared her mind and understood what the feelings that had been troubling her ever since she witnessed Bai Jun and Feixiao's intimate relationship were—she also deeply loved Bai Jun.

However, Yukong didn't want to admit it; at least not at this moment, he couldn't say anything.

This feeling, which was both sweet and tender yet also caused a hidden ache in her heart, now felt to Yukong like a block of ice frozen deep in the ocean. She really didn't know how to face Bai Jun and Tingyun, so she could only clench her stiff arms and turn away in a trembling voice:

"I'm sorry, perhaps I came at the wrong time..."

"No, Lady Yukong has arrived just in time—"

As she finished speaking, Yukong as if she had been frozen in place. She didn't know why her movements had stopped. Perhaps it was the struggle of her emotions, or perhaps it was the unwillingness from the depths of her heart. In any case, her movements had indeed stopped.

"... Lady Yukong is such a stubborn person, he hasn't changed even after all these years."

In that long, seemingly eternal moment, Tingyun had already come to Yukong's side from the living room. She gently reached out and wiped away the tears from the corners of Yukong's eyes. Whether she had seen through Yukong's thoughts or not, Tingyun said this in a helpless tone.

"W-what...!?"

Do you remember what I told you back then?

Tingyun gently embraced Yukong's tense body, burying her face in her soft chest, silently feeling the tenderness of this adult. No matter what, her tenderness towards her had never changed. Thinking of this, Tingyun took a deep breath, suppressing her shyness, raised her head, leaned close to Yukong's ear, and softly but firmly revealed her true feelings:

"Lady Yukong has never been an outsider, so I hope that Lady Yukong can also find happiness..."

In Yukong's beautiful purple eyes, the pupil still trembled and churned, as if stubbornly trying to draw a last bit of pity from the eyes that met hers. But undeniably, her heart was trembling violently.

"So Lady Yukong, you're staying tonight too? Let's all go together, the three of us?"

Beneath her brown hair, Tingyun, who had already seen through Yukong's thoughts, licked her lips. Her Jade eyes were unexpectedly charming and captivating. She was like an evil witch leading an innocent girl into a quagmire of chaos, step by step leading Yu Yukong an abyss from which she could not escape.

"Tingyun, what... what are you saying? Even so, Bai Jun definitely wouldn't agree..."

Yukong's sorrowful expression gradually disappeared. She did not struggle against Tingyun's small hands that were constantly causing trouble on her body. Instead, her face grew redder and redder, revealing a girlish shyness and a faint sense of confusion. Finally, her beautiful dark purple eyes timidly turned to Bai Jun.

"My benefactor, it's your turn to answer, isn't it?"

Bai Jun didn't respond. He silently took off his coat and threw it aside. The coat, which was covered with water droplets that Tingyun had just wiped off, would dry again tomorrow. Tingyun's clothes were also weighed down by Bai Jun's coat, as if hinting at something.

Watching Bai Jun walk towards him step by step with an expressionless face, Yu Kong, who was being held tightly by Tingyun and unable to move, swallowed Yukong and closed his eyes shyly.

She had already anticipated what would happen next.

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Chapter 163 The SSR Who Came to My Door

The rising sun illuminated the vast Dongtian Street.

As dawn gradually broke, the Divination Bureau, Starskiff Haven, was bathed in the cool air of early summer, enveloping the entire grotto.

"Lady Fu Xuan, you seem rather listless today..."

"Mingyue of the Divination Bureau, leaned against the low wall and said softly."

The current environment is located in the Matrix of Prescience of the Luofu Divination Bureau headquarters. Passing through the sky corridor that runs through the Divination Bureau, you will reach the large array that Xianzhou Luofu uses to divine the future - the Matrix of Prescience. From the corridor connecting the two arrays, you can overlook the central courtyard of the Divination Bureau.

In Mingyue's line of sight, near the divination records piled up like a crooked mountain range and the brightly shining Jade Omen array eyes, a pink-haired girl stood alone. Her smooth pink hair and golden eyes, her petite but slender figure clearly gave a graceful impression, revealing the delicate curves unique to a young girl, and her fair skin even appeared crystal clear.

However, a hint of loneliness seemed to be faintly revealed on her delicate profile, which appeared worried and hesitant.

"She's been like that ever since she came back yesterday. It wouldn't be surprising if anyone in the Divination Bureau's Office looked like that, but for Master Diviner Fu to show such an expression is not just unusual, it's unbelievable. Could it be that Lady Fu Xuan was bullied when he went to the Jade Palace meeting?"

"Who in this world dares to bully Lady Fu Xuan...?"

Besides the Mingyue in the hall, there was another short diviner quietly watching Fu Xuan's figure in the corridor, holding the documents in his arms, and talking to Mingyue, who was leaning on the low wall with his elbows.

"But how do you explain the current situation? The Lady Fu Xuan I remember would never show such a confused expression. Normally, even if she had just returned from the Jade Palace, she would have plunged headfirst into the mountain of work and wouldn't listen to anyone's advice... Well, I'm more at ease knowing that Lady Fu Xuan can take a break like this once in a while."

"I agree with that, but..."

With her back to Mingyue by the low wall, Mingyue, Huixing was even shorter than Fu Xuan, sighed, a faint bitter smile appearing on her youthful face, "Perhaps Lady Fu Xuan has encountered a problem more troublesome than we can imagine, but Lady Fu Xuan's ability to cope is certainly far superior to ours. Instead of worrying about Lady Fu Xuan, we should focus on doing our work well."

"You're right. I was just worrying unnecessarily. How could Lady Fu Xuan be caught up in mundane troubles like love, like an ordinary person? She must be working tirelessly for the development of the Divination Bureau and even Luofu, because she is Lady Fu Xuan!"

Faced with such a ridiculous question, Mingyue sighed and walked to her work station.

Huixing tilted her head, glanced one last time at the dazed Fu Xuan, and then lowered her head to deal with other tasks.

"What exactly happened with that ring...?"

Standing idly beside the Matrix of Prescience, Fu Xuan stared intently at the ever-changing and intertwining points of light in the projection array, his brows slightly lowered. However, his mind was completely off course, heading towards the unspeakable abyss of love.

Ever since she returned to the Divination Bureau in a daze, her thoughts have been constantly preoccupied with the ring on Bai Jun's left ring finger. Fu Xuan couldn't explain why she was paying attention to such things, but her body honestly couldn't spare the mind to attend to the work she should be dealing with.

Endless reference materials to read, countless reports to approve, and countless tedious tasks...

These matters required his attention, so Fu Xuan had to keep telling himself, "This won't do, you should pull yourself together," while suppressing his inner turmoil and feather-light curiosity to ask Bai Jun for clarification and focus on dealing with the work that had piled up in the Divination Bureau in the past few days.

However, the heavy workload that required suppressing his emotions also caused Fu Xuan great inner torment.

"Lady Fu Xuan, the results of this routine divination are in—"

"... This is known to me."

The voices of the diviners reminded him, Fu Xuan quickly composed himself. He then slightly raised his face to look at the appearance presented by the Matrix of Prescience. Compared to the various possibilities that required the combined efforts of several diviners to calculate and interpret, Fu Xuan only needed to glance at it to understand the result of the array's routine calculation.

"Following past precedents for interpreting divination, the interpretations have varied wildly, bordering on bizarre... Record the results of this divination and send them to my office later. The recent situation is somewhat unusual; I need to consult some classical texts."

The auspicious date for the journey, jointly decided by the Tianbo Division, had been determined by the Matrix of Prescience. However, the ship's divination, which had been delayed for many days, encountered an unexpected problem: the usually accurate Matrix of Prescience failed to produce any results for the first time ever.

The situation before her was truly bizarre. Even Fu Xuan frowned. She briefly gave orders to the surrounding diviners, and after receiving a "Understood!" response, she nodded and returned heavily to the diviner's office.

"Lady Fu Xuan actually went back to his office..."

"It seems Lady Fu Xuan's troubles have exceeded our expectations."

Looking in the direction Fu Xuan had left, Huixing and Mingyue huddled together, both with worried expressions on their faces. After all, Fu Xuan usually worked in the council hall of the Divination Bureau, around the divination center, routinely conducting daily divination and reporting, and working with many divination officials.

It's extremely rare for someone to voluntarily return to the office like they did today.

The spacious room was as messy as ever. There was a water stain on the floor in front of the half-open window, and the sandalwood desk was piled with documents. The papers were scattered like fallen leaves in the wind, each occupying its own territory.

"I'm such an idiot..."

As soon as Fu Xuan stepped into the office, he was like a little rabbit returning to its territory. He squatted down, hugging his knees tightly with both hands, and curled up into a small ball.

Ultimately, she had no idea why she was so concerned about Bai Jun's marriage. Faced with her own immaturity, Fu Xuan couldn't help but sigh.

She picked up a book from the ground and squatted down to quickly flip through it, but she couldn't read a single word. Fu Xuan realized that if she wanted to calm her mind, she would have to resolve the confusion in her heart first, and maintaining her current state was not a good idea.

So Fu Xuan took out her divination compass, even if it was just once, she really wanted to see if her Path would intersect with Bai Jun's.

Since she couldn't directly observe the direction of fate through Bai Jun, she decided to take a different approach: observe the point where her own fate intersected with his. Perhaps that way she could find a sliver of a loophole...