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Nestled in his warm embrace, inhaling his cool fragrance, Ye Zhenzhen tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.

"I... I want to eat Osmanthus Cake." She suddenly said. Since arriving in the Demon Realm, Ye Zhenzhen hadn't eaten anything. Although she had long since Grain Avoidance from grains with her cultivation level, she missed the outside world and its food.

"That's easy, I'll take you to the Human Realm to eat there." Ye Qingchuan looked at her with doting eyes, just like when he took her to see the snow and the Lantern Festival in the Mortal World when they were children.

They piloted the Demon Dragon Flying Boat, first passing through the Abyss of Darkness, and then soon arrived in the Human Realm.

It turns out that the Demon Realm and the Human Realm are not that far apart.

In Mortal World second month of spring, the osmanthus flowers had long since faded, and there was no Osmanthus Cake for sale. The two searched many pastry shops, but all were empty. Finally, they found a shop that offered to make it on the spot because a late-blooming osmanthus tree nearby had recently blossomed. However, the price was outrageous: ten taels of silver.

"So much money! Why don't you just rob someone in the street?" Ye Zhenzhen almost slapped the man across the face, but Ye Qingchuan stopped her and took out a gleaming gold ingot.

"Is this enough?" Ever since the two of them almost got separated during the Lantern Festival because they didn't have enough money to buy Rabbit Lantern, he started collecting Mortal World currencies, such as gold ingots. Over the years, he has saved up several thousand gold ingots.

"Enough! Enough!" The shop owner's eyes lit up as he took the gold, even taking a bite to confirm it was real. He and his wife were overjoyed; one picked osmanthus blossoms while the other stirred glutinous rice flour, sugar, and other ingredients, quickly making a large pot of fragrant Osmanthus Cake.

Smelling the rich fragrance of osmanthus, Ye Zhenzhen couldn't wait to pick up a piece of Osmanthus Cake and stuff it into her mouth.

"Is it good?" Ye Qingchuan asked with a smile.

"Mmm," she mumbled, nodding between bites.

"Then I want to try some too." Suddenly, Ye Qingchuan leaned closer to her and bit the Osmanthus Cake she was holding in her mouth. Their four lips pressed together abruptly, their hearts raced, and they both trembled.

A large piece of Osmanthus Cake was instantly split in two.

The shopkeepers, witnessing the couple's shameless behavior in broad daylight, immediately turned away. They couldn't bear to look! These young men and women these days, so stunningly Celestial Person, how could they be so audacious?

This is truly indecent!

"What are you doing? Why did you snatch the Osmanthus Cake from my mouth?" Ye Zhenzhen chewed the remaining Osmanthus Cake speechlessly, giving Ye Qingchuan a reproachful look.

It's all his fault. He ruined her reputation, making people think she didn't follow proper etiquette and was dissolute.

He deliberately chewed the Osmanthus Cake in his mouth loudly, remaining silent for a long time. After finishing, he smiled wryly and concluded, "Because the Osmanthus Cake in your mouth is sweeter."

What kind of fallacy is this?

Recalling their lips touching, Ye Zhenzhen's heart still raced. That was her first kiss! In her original world, she had lived for over 20 years, plus the 15 years she had spent in the book—nearly 40 years—and this was the first time she had ever been kissed.

It seems a little soft, warm, and sweet.

Ye Zhenzhen couldn't help but lick her lips, but when she noticed Ye Qingchuan's Auspicious Phoenix Eyes were fixed intently on her red lips, an inscrutable impulse welled up in her eyes, and she couldn't help but cover her mouth again.

Hmph! Don't even think about taking advantage of me again. I won't even let you see it.

So she kept her mouth covered until she went back to the Demon Realm to sleep that night.

So tired. Covering her mouth was really too much strain on her arms. Ye Zhenzhen finally couldn't hold on any longer, gave up, let go of her hand, collapsed on the bed, and closed her eyes.

Get a good night's sleep, and you'll forget everything tomorrow.

However, the night amplifies one's senses and makes one's mind wander. The pastry kiss from earlier that day kept replaying in her mind, making her feel hot all over, and she tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. When she opened her eyes, she saw that the person next to her was not asleep at all, staring intently at her, their gaze seemingly focused on her lips.

His lips, under the night sky, not only turned an alluring crimson but also glistened with moisture.

This...

It's like sleeping next to a tiger, feeling like you could be devoured at any moment, or like the temptation of a cherry right next to your lips, always wanting to taste it—how can anyone sleep like that?

Forget it, the sooner I die, the sooner I'll be reborn.

Ye Zhenzhen did the boldest thing in nearly 40 years. She stepped forward, hooked her arms around Ye Qingchuan's neck, and pressed her lips to his. Ye Qingchuan was a little stunned at first, but when he felt her soft, moist lips approaching, like the light touch of butterfly wings, it sent a tingling electric current through him, and the hidden fire in his heart was instantly ignited.

The lingering fragrance of osmanthus filled his mouth, and he couldn't resist capturing her warm lips in his mouth, licking them passionately, as if savoring a delicious pastry.

He extended his tongue again, kissing her deeper and deeper, and couldn't resist pushing her down onto the bed, pressing his body against hers in a passionate kiss.

The fire raged.

An overwhelming surge of male hormones swept in.

Ye Zhenzhen felt a little breathless and tried her best to push him away for a while. But he, having tasted the sweetness, quickly became even more frantic and sealed her lips with his, wanting to steal her breath, her thoughts, and to meld her completely into his body.

Wait, I'm still young, I don't want to drive yet.

After their passionate kiss, Ye Zhenzhen pushed Ye Qingchuan away desperately, not wanting to take things any further. Although he wanted to continue his advances, he never forgot his promise to her and would never force her to do anything she didn't want to do.

The desire that ignited within them was irrepressible, and even Ye Zhenzhen, who usually fell asleep the moment she hit the bed, tossed and turned until the latter half of the night before finally drifting off.

She had another nightmare, dreaming that Ye Qingchuan had tied her hands and feet with heavy shackles and then shoved her against the wall, gnawing on her repeatedly.

In the original book, it was clearly Ye Qingyao who was imprisoned by Ye Qingchuan and shackled. How come now she's the one who's been kidnapped to the Demon Realm and is under house arrest, and in the dream, she's the one whose hands and feet are tightly bound? How did everything change?

She woke up from a nightmare, her back soaked with sweat, drenched in a cold sweat.