Leaving the boundless springtime warmth and tender intimacy of the "Red Dust Veil," he returned to the chilly night wind.
Only then did Ren Tao realize that his face was burning hot.
A certain part of his body seemed to have betrayed his will as well, refusing to settle down for a long while.
Ren Tao hurried along with his head lowered, even going in the wrong direction. By the time he noticed, he had already flown to the outskirts of Spirit City.
He turned around and headed back, but finally could not hold back a sigh.
What he thought was one thing; how his body reacted was another.
Qian Renxue was indeed a beauty. By an ordinary man's reckoning, withdrawing without doing anything really did count as a "loss."
But reason told him he could not do that.
In the end, reason had defeated impulse, yet not thoroughly enough. That was what truly frustrated him.
"Hmph!"
Out of nowhere, he heard someone give a little laugh.
"Who's there?"
Every hair on his body stood on end, and the distracting thoughts in his mind instantly subsided.
It was like walking home through a pitch-black alley after working overtime in his previous life, only for someone to suddenly shout behind him.
Since coming to the Douluo World, no one had ever gotten this close without alerting Ren Tao.
Unless it was... a god?
"You should be grateful you acted like a gentleman just now and kept your hands to yourself. Otherwise, I would definitely have killed you!"
Qian Renxue's voice rang clearly in his mind, yet there was no one anywhere around him. Only then did Ren Tao realize the voice was coming from within him-from his heart, to be precise.
"What did you do to me?"
Ren Tao plunged into