Guarding Her Food?

"Who touched my ass?"

"Fuck, don't put your hands inside my clothes!"

"Why is someone taking my pants off too?" Su Yuan's face turned green.

At that moment, he felt as though he had wandered into the Spider Cave. All around him were voluptuous young married women, each more enchanting than the last, with over a dozen pairs of hands groping him every which way.

When one pair of hands tried to pull his pants down, Su Yuan finally snapped.

"Fucking hell, Profound Ice Dragon..."

Vast amounts of cold energy gathered from heaven and earth. Even the spray from the waterfalls outside the villa quietly froze into flowers of ice, and the surrounding temperature began to plummet.

The cold energy slowly gathered in Su Yuan's right hand, which he held in a loose claw. Three Light Wheels resembling Magic Arrays began to take shape around his forearm.

But before he could finish charging his ultimate move, a terrifying aura erupted, descending upon him from afar and blasting away every beautiful woman around him.

Boom!!

Five pairs of enormous emerald wings of light unfurled outside the villa. A Healing Angel manifestation hundreds of meters tall stood in the valley. Its gentle eyes, once filled with compassion and kindness, now held nothing but anger and icy coldness.

The villa built into the cliff barely reached the manifestation's shoulders, and Wang Xian'er's Martial Soul Avatar gazed down upon it.

At the sight of her, Su Yuan, finally freed, let out a tremendous sigh of relief. Then he hurriedly straightened his disheveled clothes, vigorously wiping the lipstick marks from his face and body.

Damn it, the system never said the [Rich Lady, I Don't Want to Work Hard Anymore] trait was this powerful!

As he wiped off the lipstick, Su Yuan couldn't help grumbling inwardly.

After rescuing Su Yuan, Wang Xian'er dismissed her Martial Soul Avatar and returned to her normal form. She walked through the air, step by step, and entered the villa. Standing in front of Su Yuan and shielding him behind her, she stared coldly at the noblewomen with her emerald eyes.

"I was only gone for a little while, and I returned to quite the spectacle. You've certainly got some nerve!"

Wang Xian'er's ethereal voice echoed through the villa, barely containing her anger. Everyone could feel her fury and killing intent.

The banquet was being held for Wang Xian'er herself. Naturally, she couldn't simply sit and wait for it to begin like the other guests.

So after entering the villa, she had told Su Yuan to look around on his own while she went to discuss something with Xu Jiawei. That was why she had left Su Yuan's side for a short while.

Yet before she had even finished speaking with Xu Jiawei, her precious darling had been surrounded by a pack of female demons.

Had she not hurried back, they might well have devoured Su Yuan without leaving so much as a scrap.

They had better not think she hadn't seen the female hooligan trying to take Su Yuan's pants off!

At that thought, Wang Xian'er's icy gaze locked directly onto the culprit. The woman was now every bit as frightened as she had been frenzied earlier, her forehead covered in sweat.

"My apologies, Elder Wang. We lost our composure." A beautiful woman stepped out of the crowd and bowed to Wang Xian'er. She appeared to hold a higher rank, wore more elaborate adornments than the others, and carried herself with regal elegance.

Wang Xian'er glanced at her, some of the anger fading from her face. She nodded indifferently. "For the Nether Consort's sake, I won't pursue this matter. However, you would all do well to watch your words and actions in the future."

The title Nether Consort alone made it clear that she belonged to Xu Jiawei's harem.

And that was indeed the case.

The Nether Consort came from the Zhu Family and was the youngest sister of the previous Zhu Family Head. Her Martial Soul had not resonated with anyone from the Dai Family at the time, but she was exceptionally beautiful, so she had joined Xu Jiawei's harem and become the foremost of the Four Great Consorts.

With the Nether Duke behind her birth family, the reigning emperor as her husband, and her own position as the highest-ranking consort, second only to the Empress in the harem, she had the most money and the greatest wealth.

She was also the one most heavily influenced by the trait...

The hand Su Yuan had noticed slipping inside his clothes had belonged to this very Nether Consort...

Had she possessed any less self-control, she would have been the one pulling down Su Yuan's pants.

Now that she had stepped forward on behalf of these beautiful women from the Spider Cave, Wang Xian'er could only give her some face and let the matter rest. After all, strictly speaking, they hadn't meant Su Yuan any harm. Harassment of this degree wasn't something she could truly turn into a confrontation that left everyone unable to back down gracefully.

In fact, Wang Xian'er shouldn't even have been this angry. With her experience and standing, she ought to have watched Su Yuan's predicament with a smile.

But she had become a little protective of her food.

[Ding-]

[Keyword detected...]

"I'll look later!" Hiding behind Wang Xian'er, Su Yuan scrubbed hard at his face while taking in the bizarre scene before him.

Her current attitude was already the greatest restraint Wang Xian'er could muster.

Seeing that Wang Xian'er wasn't going to hold their misconduct against them, the beautiful women led by the Nether Consort breathed sighs of relief. After one last lingering look at Su Yuan, sheltered behind Wang Xian'er, they each slunk away.

Of course, that was partly because Su Yuan had unequipped the trait.

Once the trait was removed, their fondness for Su Yuan had yet to fade, but they were no longer as impulsive and frenzied as they had been while it was continuously exerting its influence.

After the Spider Spirits left, Su Yuan finally finished putting himself back in order, though a trace of embarrassment and helplessness remained on his face.

"Little Yuan, are you all right?" Wang Xian'er turned around and looked at him with concern.

"Nothing serious. That was just a bit more than I could handle." Su Yuan pressed a hand to his forehead, his slightly contorted face tinged with green.

Honestly, if Wang Xian'er had returned even a second later, he would already have unleashed the Profound Ice Dragon Soars charged in his hand.

That was terrifying!

Wang Xian'er looked helpless too. "You hardly ever went out before, and you'd never encountered anything like this. I had no idea you were so popular. Isn't that right, little Jiujiu?"

"Huh?" Xu Jiujiu froze, then pursed her lips and nodded. "Little Brother Yuan really is very attractive. Even I can't help wanting to get close to him..."

She didn't try to dodge Wang Xian'er's question, instead honestly saying what was in her heart.

Xu Jiujiu didn't believe she could hide anything from Wang Xian'er anyway. She might as well confess outright.

Am I really the attractive one? It's obviously the trait doing its work! Su Yuan badly wanted to say something, but in the end, he obediently kept his mouth shut.

This experience also reminded him of something: not every trait produced wholly positive effects. Perhaps the effect described by a trait was positive, but once it acted upon him, the outcome wasn't necessarily what he wanted.

When using traits in the future, he would have to consider whether equipping a particular trait and using its effects might bring side effects he couldn't accept.

Use with caution!

Too much power could turn something into a double-edged sword.

There was one more thing...

"System, you old jailbird, revise the settings: the flashing pop-ups triggered by a trait can appear a maximum of three times. If more than three pop-ups would appear at once, don't display the excess!"

Su Yuan hadn't forgotten that.

The instant the trait activated earlier, those pop-ups had nearly blinded him. If that happened during a fight, wouldn't he be done for on the spot?

The system didn't respond to Su Yuan's words, but as its bound host, he could feel that the corresponding setting had indeed been added.

From now on, a single trait activation would produce no more than three pop-ups.

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P.S. Looks like Old Ye has caught a bit of a cold these past two days. With typhoons constantly hitting Fujian, I might have caught a chill. I'll post one chapter first and make up the rest after I wake up.

I'll add an extra chapter to make up for it. Today's updates will total 6,000 characters.