Volume Two, Chapter Thirty-Five

"...You think I won't scream for help?" Sure enough, rivers and mountains were easier to change than a person's nature. Second Young Master Long probably knew only two ways to comfort someone: put his clothes on and make snide remarks, or take them off and let loose... She'd already seen the first. Now he wanted to show her the second, but... enough was enough! She didn't want his comfort at all!

"Go ahead," he said, unconcerned. "As long as you don't mind everyone finding out you're a woman."

"You! Do you have to be so despicable?"

"It's not as if I've ever had a glorious, shining image in your eyes."

"That doesn't mean you have to smash the cracked pot! I'd even started to think a tiny bit better of you!"

"What the hell is a tiny bit of a better opinion worth? Come back when you've fallen for me!"

"..." Could he please stop saying such misleading things without so much as blushing or catching his breath?

"Are you taking them off, or should I help you?"

How had they circled back to this again? If he couldn't comfort anyone without taking off their clothes, he should go ask His Majesty to teach him how normal people did it! Second Young Master Long!

Author's note:

Hahahahaha, I was going to add a little angst for everyone's health, but then Longyang showed up and the

comedy

buff shot straight up <(￣oo,￣)/

Chapter 77: Volume Two, Chapter Thirty-Five

Li Chenjing was lost in thought.

Books lay open on the desk in his study, and incense smoke drifted from the burner. His gaze remained fixed on the white bandage around his palm, where blood had seeped through.

The wound had split open and dried again. He had no one to blame but