"Get out, get out, get out! Get out of here!"
Gu Yue chased Tang Wulin and Xie Miao away like a fiercely protective dog guarding its food.
Pouting, she said, "How could you do that? When I wasn't here, you were hugging and cuddling with other boys."
"Did you even consider how I'd feel?"
Li Luo: "..."
I didn't hug or cuddle with anyone. This woman's being unreasonable.
Li Luo said, "Tang Wulin and the others were the ones clinging to my leg. I didn't do anything."
"That's still not allowed!" Gu Yue said domineeringly.
"To make it up to me, you can hold my hand on the way back. Then I'll forgive you."
Li Luo thought Gu Yue seemed relatively normal and hadn't been infected by the spores, so he decided to indulge her a little.
However, Li Luo worried that Gu Yue might force herself on him again, like last time.
He made sure to ask,
"I can hold your hand on the way back, but you can't try anything."
Gu Yue's expression was solemn. "I swear I absolutely won't try anything."
"Then let's go."
"Okay."
Li Luo took Gu Yue's hand.
Her hand was soft.
A little cool.
Li Luo said, "If you're cold, drink more hot water."
"Mm." Gu Yue nodded.
She looked calm on the outside, but inside, she was over the moon.
She even found herself slowing her steps.
Gu Yue didn't want the walk to end so soon.
Li Luo held Gu Yue's hand as the evening glow of the setting sun stretched their shadows long.
Gu Yue behaved herself.
She didn't try anything.
Gu Yue felt that everything was wonderful. She just wanted to be led along like this in silence until the end of time.
Unfortunately, the road was short.
Before long, the two of them entered the dormitory building and reached the stairwell landing.
The boys' dormitories were to the left.
The girls' dormitories were to the right.
Li Luo said, "We should part ways here."
"What did you say?" Gu Yue's tone was domineering. "We'll never part."
"Wall pin!"
Once again, Gu Yue pinned Li Luo against the wall, her eyes full of flirtation.
Li Luo shuddered. "Didn't you just promise me you wouldn't try anything?"
"Gu Yue, you're breaking your word."
"I won't believe you again."
The corner of Gu Yue's mouth seemed to curl into a smile. She said, word by word, "I'm a noble dragon, and an evil Soul Master. Everyone knows that I'm... someone who doesn't keep her promises."
"Holy crap!"
Li Luo's eyes widened in shock. He stared blankly at Gu Yue, realizing that it wasn't just Xie Xie and Tang Wulin who'd fallen under the spores' influence. Gu Yue had, too.
Otherwise, how could she have said that everyone knew she didn't keep her promises?
Li Luo was now certain that Xie Xie's and Tang Wulin's Blue Silver Pole Vault, along with Gu Yue's broken promise, all came from thoughts that had once existed in his mind.
In some corner, a voice muttered to itself, "The mushroom my wife absorbed, the one seeded by the Goddess of Life, has a problem."
"It's not the mushroom that's the problem."
"It's the ability that came with absorbing it. My wife can't control it yet."
"Only after the Seven-Colored Mushroom's toxins have completely dissipated will that ability fully manifest."
"When my wife finds out someday, if she learns her current state is because I didn't study it carefully, will she stop letting me into her bed forever?"
"My dear wife, I didn't do it on purpose."
"In this situation, as long as I hide, my wife won't know I did anything wrong."
"Then she won't punish me later, either."
Gu Yue dragged Li Luo into her dorm with brute force and threw him onto her bed.
A pink bedroom.
A pink bed.
Gu Yue pressed Li Luo beneath her.
Her silver hair fell down,
brushing across his face.
It tickled!
So much!
"Hey, Gu Yue, don't do anything crazy!" Li Luo shouted.
Gu Yue's fingertips traced across Li Luo's skin. "If I do, what can you do about it?"
"Gu Yue, calm down. One wrong step, and you'll regret it for the rest of your life."
"Didn't we just agree to hold hands and nothing more?"
Just rubbing, without going in.
Might as well believe a sow could climb a tree.
Gu Yue leaned closer, her warm breath falling on Li Luo's face, moist and faintly fragrant.
Her voice was full of danger. "I told you, I don't keep my promises!"
Li Luo was silently beside himself with worry. His spores were way too powerful.
Gu Yue was the Silver Dragon King, one of the very strongest in Douluo III. Even she had fallen under their influence, and now she'd turned into a domineering, lovesick CEO.
Damn, would Leng Yaozhu, the Spirit Pagoda's vice-tower master, be able to escape it?
Li Luo really couldn't imagine what Leng Yaozhu might become.
"Once the mushrooms on Xie Xie and Tang Wulin are plucked out, they'll return to normal."
"Then where is Gu Yue's mushroom growing?"
Li Luo had watched her for a while, but he still couldn't find it.
His gaze swept past Gu Yue's snowy-white chin, then her swanlike neck, arms, and limbs. It wasn't on any of them.
"Where could it be?"
Li Luo's mind raced as he calculated. He speculated, thinking to himself, Could it be that the stronger someone is, the more secretive the place their mushroom grows?
At this stage, Xie Xie and Tang Wulin are nowhere near as powerful as Gu Yue.
So their mushrooms grew in obvious places.
Gu Yue is very powerful, so her mushroom must be hidden somewhere secret.
If it was hidden, what could be more secret than that deep valley?
Li Luo's heart thumped wildly.
His gaze moved from Gu Yue's chin to her neck, then down to her chest...
At last, it came to rest on that mysterious place.
"What are you looking at?"
Gu Yue chuckled. "Do you think the answer you're looking for is there?"
"Want to see?"
Gu Yue's hand rested there.
A button came undone...
Gu Yue's voice was full of temptation. "If you want to see, call me hubby!"
"Whoosh!"
Her white dress slid to the floor in an instant.
Gu Yue said softly, "Li Luo, I was teasing you earlier. You can look wherever you want."
Li Luo froze.
Snow-white skin filled his vision.
He couldn't bear to look away for even a moment.
He'd found the answer.
Between the peaks, a small Seven-Colored Mushroom grew quietly.
"Did that turn Gu Yue into the lovesick woman she is now?"
Li Luo didn't hesitate. His hand shot out like lightning,
but he hadn't expected
Gu Yue to be even faster,
and he missed.
Actually, "missed" wasn't the right word. He'd grabbed hold of her instead.
Endless softness surged toward him.
Li Luo felt electricity coursing through his whole body, leaving him weak all over.
"Holy crap, my Dragon Claw Hand..."
Li Luo didn't know how to explain it.
He could clearly feel Gu Yue's warmth,
Gu Yue's softness,
Gu Yue's loveliness,
and he didn't want to let go.
Li Luo was so delighted with his new surroundings that he'd forgotten home!
But he couldn't.
A terrifying, frenzied thought stirred within him. Li Luo, quick, get away.
You've only paid attention to one of them. The other one is jealous now, and you're going to be in for it.
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