Lu Xiaoxiao had no idea why there was a hole here. All she knew was that the fall lasted longer than she had expected.
Fortunately, though the shaft was deep, it wasn't completely vertical. Rocks and clumps of earth jutted out all around it, and she kept hitting these obstacles as she tumbled down, slowing her descent somewhat.
Lu Xiaoxiao felt like a ball being knocked every which way, the pain making her grit her teeth. Yet the final impact when she actually hit the bottom didn't hurt all that much.
Lu Xiaoxiao took a couple of seconds to recover, then propped herself up into a sitting position and muttered in pleasant surprise, "Well, look at that! The ground's pretty soft! That didn't even hurt!"
No sooner had she spoken than a familiar man's cold laugh came from the darkness. "Heh. Is that so? Take another look at what you're sitting on."
Lu Xiaoxiao froze for a moment, then realized something was wrong.
She cautiously felt around on the "soft ground." It didn't feel like anything natural. Instead, it felt like... fabric?
Lu Xiaoxiao swallowed and moved her hand a little farther down. This time, her fingertips encountered something rather firm. It seemed to be... abs.
Lu Xiaoxiao's hand went completely rigid. Now... she thought she knew what this was.
Holy shit! She'd used Ji Yunhuai as a human cushion!!!
And this position... this position... wasn't she straddling him!?
The weather had turned cooler lately, and everyone was wearing fairly thick clothes. No wonder the fall hadn't hurt!
Once she realized what had happened, Lu Xiaoxiao sprang off Ji Yunhuai as if she'd been scalded and scrambled over to the other side. In her panic, she even hit her head on a rock jutting out from the cave wall, making