In broad daylight

Chen Yang's hand brushed across her forehead, sweeping aside a stray lock of hair.

He stared dazedly at her red lips as they opened and closed. Desire suddenly stirred in his heart, and he could not help leaning down to leave a kiss as light as a dragonfly skimming the water.

Her lips were soft, tantalizing, and sweet—an intoxicating sensation he could not forget.

Yun Yun was utterly stunned, her head buzzing.

She stared blankly at Chen Yang, whose face was so close to hers.

Instinctively, she raised a hand and gently touched the thin lips he had kissed.

A strange sensation seemed about to burst through her heart.

She seemed to really like this!

His kiss had stolen her breath, yet it had felt so good. She enjoyed that wondrous sensation.

Yun Yun was immediately startled by her own thoughts.

She hardly dared look him in the eye, her heart pounding wildly.

Surely I don't have a taste for being mistreated?

Otherwise, why would I enjoy being held in someone's arms and kissed?

Then, belatedly, she realized that Chen Yang seemed to be deliberately avoiding her question.

At that thought, Yun Yun tried to remove the lecherous hand wrapped around her waist, restricting her freedom.

But before she could act, Chen Yang leaned down slightly and murmured into her ear with a teasing smile, "What, savoring that kiss?!"

His voice was so pleasant it could make someone's ears pregnant.

Savoring my ass!

Yun Yun gritted her teeth. Her fists were itching again.

Her pretty face filled with irritation. This damn dog could go into heat anywhere.

Chen Yang had Yun Yun firmly in the palm of his hand. Seeing that she was about to lose her temper, he immediately explained gently, "I have my reasons for asking you to step down as sect master and having Nalan Yanran take your place."

"Being a sect master is exhausting. There's an endless stream of matters to handle every day, and it seriously eats into your cultivation time."

"You're quite talented. I don't want you wasting all your time on these useless matters.

"That time should be spent cultivating. Besides, with your talent, you shouldn't stop at Dou Emperor."

Yun Yun wavered, showing signs of being persuaded.

It was just as Chen Yang had said. After becoming the Misty Cloud Sect Master, even though she rarely handled its affairs, her cultivation time had indeed been greatly reduced.

Before becoming the Misty Cloud Sect Master, she had been a Four-Star Dou Emperor.

Two and a half years after becoming the Misty Cloud Sect Master, she was still a Four-Star Dou Emperor.

She had already married Chen Yang and consummated their marriage. If she wanted to stand beside him, her cultivation as a Four-Star Dou Emperor was nowhere near enough.

Seeing that Yun Yun seemed swayed, Chen Yang struck while the iron was hot and continued.

"Nalan Yanran is still young, lacks experience, and has weak cultivation. She isn't suited to becoming sect master right away, and she can't manage such a vast sect as the Misty Cloud Sect just yet.

"But there are always more solutions than difficulties. If she lacks experience, she can gain it through more trials and practice.

"If her cultivation is weak, she should hurry up and cultivate. Pressure breeds motivation, and that's how her cultivation will advance by leaps and bounds."

Everything Chen Yang said was the plain truth.

Although Xiao Yan had the protagonist's halo on his side, his ability to break through to Dou Di at thirty-seven owed more to external pressure than to his exceptional talent.

After all, throughout the entire story, he was either being hunted or on his way to being hunted.

Every brush with the edge of life and death brought another tremendous leap in his cultivation.

Clinging to the old ways would bring only destruction.

Yun Yun understood this principle well, so she said nothing more.

With her, her teacher, and the grand elder and the others around, nothing would happen to the Misty Cloud Sect.

"Ah! What are you doing?"

While Yun Yun was thinking, the world suddenly spun. Chen Yang swept her into his arms and carried her toward the exit.

As a sense of weightlessness struck, Yun Yun instinctively wrapped both arms around Chen Yang's neck to steady herself.

"What else could I do? My wife is a beauty who could topple a nation, and I'm a perfectly normal grown man. What else would I do but go back and indulge in broad daylight?"

Reaching the hall's entrance, Chen Yang signaled for everyone to disperse and get on with their business.

Then he lowered his gaze and posed that question to Yun Yun, who looked enchantingly alluring.

Yun Yun: "...!"

Stud!

Seriously, could he just say something like that out loud?!

In her heart, Yun Yun gave Chen Yang a savage beating.

Ah!

Being beautiful is a sin, too. It keeps my married life overflowing with bliss.

Back in their bridal chamber, Chen Yang brought out his collection of lingerie and assorted uniforms.

He closed the door and eagerly dressed Yun Yun in them.

Looking at the things Chen Yang took from his Storage Ring, Yun Yun felt ten thousand grass-mud horses stampeding through her heart.

Her instinct was to refuse. This did not fit her image at all.

But in the end, Chen Yang still dressed her in them.

By the time they finished, it was already the middle of the night.

Yun Yun lay limp as though she had no bones, her breathing rising and falling, her eyes brimming with allure.

Her lower back had run away from home again.

But the most infuriating thing was that the man beside her was watching her with his head propped on one hand, as though mocking her inability to keep up.

Yun Yun did not even want to acknowledge him. She turned her head away.

"Grrr!" Suddenly, an incongruous sound rang out.

Yun Yun was so embarrassed she could have dug out a three-bedroom apartment with her toes.

Hearing the sound, Chen Yang glanced at the beauty's stomach, and his smile widened.

"Hungry?!"

Yun Yun: "...!"

Asking when he already knew.

Wasn't it obvious?!

The night was so quiet, and that rumble had been so clear. Anyone who wasn't deaf could hear it!

What annoyed Yun Yun even more was that, despite hearing her stomach growling with hunger, this fellow still did not have the sense to get her something to eat.

He really didn't know how to cherish his wife at all.

Hah!

Scumbag!

If she had any strength left, she would definitely have kicked him off the bed.

"I'll get you something to eat!" Chen Yang said.

"Mmm! Hurry up." Yun Yun waved a hand with the last scrap of strength she had.

At least he had a little conscience.

He wasn't quite so much of a scumbag anymore.

"Sleep here for a while. I'll go make you something to eat." With that, Chen Yang quickly got up and went to prepare food for Yun Yun.

Yun Yun had never intended to move in the first place.

After Chen Yang left, she thought back to their earlier frenzy.

Her little face twisted into an awkward grimace again.

It had truly felt wonderful, but she had paid a price for it.

Oh, my poor lower back, couldn't you stay home and be good?

Why did you have to run away from home?!

How could you do this to me, after all the tender care I've given you for over twenty years?

I'm a mighty Four-Star Dou Emperor, after all.

Yun Yun rubbed her lower back while taking a scroll from her Storage Ring with her other hand.

This was what Chen Yang had just given her to coax her into continuing. He had spent ten thousand modification points to unlock intermediate permission and helped transform her High Xuan Tier wind-attribute cultivation method—Extreme Wind—into a Heaven Tier wind-attribute cultivation method—the Wind-Control Art.

Of course, that was not all Chen Yang had modified. He had also altered her cultivation talent.

However, to avoid arousing Yun Yun's suspicions and exposing his cheat, Chen Yang had left her cultivation level unchanged.