Song Qingshu chuckled, rubbing his hands together as his fingertips probed back and forth over the highest points on Mu Wanqing's body. "But I don't know how to unseal acupoints. Should I press here, or here?"
"Don't touch me!" Mu Wanqing cried out, hurriedly closing her eyes, her face drained of color.
"You're my wife anyway. What's wrong with me touching you?" Song Qingshu's fingers crept ever closer to Mu Wanqing's body.
"If you dare touch me, I'll bite my tongue and kill myself!" Mu Wanqing glared at him with beautiful eyes, her pearly teeth biting her red lip.
"But how am I supposed to unseal your acupoints without touching you?" Song Qingshu looked utterly innocent.
"Go find a branch nearby. Bring it back, and I'll teach you." Mu Wanqing was nearly crying from panic.
"Okay!" Song Qingshu ran off happily. A few breaths later, he returned. "Wifey, will this do?"
Before Mu Wanqing could get angry over him calling her wifey, she saw that Song Qingshu was holding a tree branch as thick as a thigh. She felt like she was going mad!
"Get another one!" Mu Wanqing wished she could shoot this hateful man dead with a sleeve arrow.
"Oh, you should've said so earlier." Song Qingshu muttered as he turned around.
Mu Wanqing was so angered by his words that she nearly broke through her sealed acupoint herself. She eyed him suspiciously a few times, but seeing that he still wore that foolish expression, she could only say fiercely, "Gou Dan'er, if I find out you're deliberately teasing me, I'll kill you."
"Wifey, what does teasing mean?" Song Qingshu turned back, looking at her in confusion.
"You..." Mu Wanqing choked, then said impatiently, "Nothing. Hurry up and find a branch."
"Oh~" Song Qingshu picked through the branches nearby and finally found a suitable one. "Wifey, what now?"
"My Yaoshu Acupoint has been sealed. Strike my Jixia Acupoint with the branch, and it will undo the seal." As Mu Wanqing spoke, the tips of her ears turned red.
"Where is this... acupoint?" Song Qingshu asked blankly with wide, harmless eyes. In truth, the Nine Yin Manual had an entire section dedicated to acupoint-sealing and release techniques. How could he not know? He was simply pretending not to know in order to tease the beauty.
Mu Wanqing hesitated for a moment before finally saying, "On my thigh..." Her voice grew softer and softer. Afterward, she turned her face away in embarrassment.
"Is that so~" Song Qingshu looked thoughtful.
"Wrong place!" Mu Wanqing's voice carried a sob. "It's three inches above the knee."
When Song Qingshu saw tears rolling from Mu Wanqing's eyes one by one like pearls from a broken string, falling onto the grass beside her, his heart tightened and his movements slowed.
No man could bear to keep teasing her when she looked like this, like a pear blossom drenched in rain. Song Qingshu was a man, so naturally he was no exception.
He properly used the branch to poke her Jixia Acupoint. The instant Mu Wanqing regained control of her body, she flipped to her feet and raised her sleeve arrow, wanting to shoot Song Qingshu dead.
She had long thought of how to punish this little bastard who made her grind her teeth in hatred. Yet when she saw him looking up at her with that innocent, foolish expression, she could not bring herself to strike.
A mist rose in her beautiful eyes again. Mu Wanqing crouched down, buried her head between her legs, and began to cry.
"Wifey, why are you crying?" Song Qingshu asked from beside her, courting disaster.
"Get lost! Sob..." Mu Wanqing cried harder and harder. At first, she was only grieving over the humiliation she had suffered today. Then she thought of how she and Duan Yu were fated but could never be together, and sorrow welled up within her. Heaven was simply too cruel.
At last, her crying gradually quieted. With red, swollen eyes, Mu Wanqing raised her head and found that Song Qingshu had not left. He was merely leaning against a nearby tree, snoring away.
"Pfft!" Seeing the drool at the corner of his mouth, Mu Wanqing could not help covering her mouth and laughing.
"Wifey, you're awake~" Song Qingshu opened his eyes and gave her another foolish grin.
For some reason, Mu Wanqing was not angry at all this time. She had always been solitary, and because of the environment in which she grew up, she had few friends. When she learned that Duan Yu was her biological brother, she had completely broken down. With no friends to confide in, she had felt especially alone in this world. This Gou Dan'er might look foolish, but he seemed to genuinely care about her...
"Gou Dan'er, what is your name?" Mu Wanqing asked, gently wiping the tear tracks from her cheeks with the back of her hand.
"You already know my name is Gou Dan'er, so why are you asking what my name is? You're so silly." Song Qingshu grinned.
"Your name really is Gou Dan'er?" Now Mu Wanqing was shocked. What parents would give their child such a name?
"Yes. My mother gave it to me, but sadly, she's already gone." Song Qingshu thought of his mother from his previous life, and his heart darkened.
Mu Wanqing wanted to comfort him, but she was not good with words and realized she did not know how. Her tsundere nature flared up, and she simply fell silent.
"By the way, where is your home?" After a while, Mu Wanqing noticed that night was falling. She probably would not be able to descend the mountain today, and she was worried about running into Yun Zhonghe. She wanted to stay with this Gou Dan'er, so she could have a free bodyguard. As for the fact that he was also a man, Mu Wanqing looked him over and automatically excluded him from that category.
"Home... After Mother died, I no longer had a home." Song Qingshu's nose stung. "After that, the whole world became my home. Wherever there was a cave, that was my home."
Mu Wanqing looked at him sympathetically. No wonder this Gou Dan'er was so foolish and dull. Living like a wild man, of course his intelligence would not be normal.
"Then where have you been staying these past two days?" A cold wind had begun to blow. Mu Wanqing looked at the sky and guessed that a torrential rain would fall soon. She only wanted to find shelter quickly. Otherwise, getting soaked would be troublesome.
Song Qingshu's eyes lit up, and he pointed beneath the nearby cliff. "I've been living down there these past few days."
Mu Wanqing suspiciously approached the cliff edge. Holding onto a large tree beside her, she leaned out and looked down. Clouds and mist swirled below; where could she possibly see any place to stand? She said angrily, "You're lying to me!"
"No, no." Song Qingshu hurriedly waved his hands. "If you don't believe me, I'll take you down there so you can see for yourself."
"How?" Mu Wanqing stared at him blankly.
"Hold me, and jump down with me." Song Qingshu grinned.
Anger rose in Mu Wanqing's heart, but she quickly calmed down. She and Brother Duan could never be together in this life, and she had long lost all desire to live. If she jumped down with him and died, it would settle everything once and for all. But if they died together and someone found them afterward, they would think they were lovers who had died for love. Ugh... The very thought gave her chills.
Song Qingshu saw Mu Wanqing's face turn pale, then green, and then she shuddered all over. He could not help muttering, "Wifey, are you going or not?"
Mu Wanqing gave a mournful smile. Once I'm dead, what will any of that matter? She nodded decisively.
Song Qingshu laughed loudly and came to her side. With a sweep of his left arm, he wrapped it around her soft waist and pulled Mu Wanqing tightly into his embrace.
Mu Wanqing came to her senses and was about to struggle when Song Qingshu had already leaped with her off the cliff.
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