Daji, Toyed With Until She Broke

"My king, you're so naughty..."

Daji had to admit that Di Xin had riddled her old, world-weary heart with wounds. She was practically burning with anger, yet she still pushed open the door and gazed at him with a coquettish pout, speaking in a sugary voice.

As she spoke, she brushed back her dark hair, lightly bit her crimson lip with pearly teeth, and thrust her chest forward a little, stirring endless fantasies and sending shivers straight down the tailbone.

Di Xin's gaze grew dazed, and a strange, floating sensation came over him.

"The heart's fire burns, the heart's fire burns, the heart's fire burns. The heart's door, the heart's door, the heart's door-it won't stay shut, won't stay shut, won't stay shut..."

Just then, that all-too-familiar, maddeningly repetitive melody rang out, and his floating dizziness vanished in an instant.

So this was how the Suiren Tranquil Heart Method worked?!

With this, wouldn't he be immune to Daji's charms?!

Hearing it, Di Xin immediately rejoiced. He had truly stumbled upon a treasure this time-exactly what he urgently needed.

But then he began to worry. Would this thing launch into that routine every time he felt tempted?

If so, he was very worried he would turn into Mr. Limp.

After all, this world had no little blue pills!

"I'm not naughty. I've heard there's a pack of fox spirits in the Xuanyuan Tomb who enjoy tearing people's hearts and livers out alive to eat with their wine. Now that's truly wicked!"

Di Xin shook off his tangled thoughts and slowly spoke, smiling at Daji.

"???" Daji.

[Negative emotion points from Daji: +500...]

"Thump, thump..."

At that moment, Daji's heart raced with panic. For some reason, she kept feeling that Di Xin had seen through to her true form.

But how could a debauched, lawless fool of a king, a mere mortal of flesh and blood, know such things?!

Perhaps he was just bluffing. I have to bring him under my control! Otherwise, once Her Majesty lays the blame on us, not just me, but all three hundred souls in the Xuanyuan Tomb will suffer!

"My king, you really know how to frighten a girl. You've scared my poor little heart into pounding so hard I can barely breathe. Hurry and rub my chest for me, so I can catch my breath..."

At that thought, Daji gave a soft whimper and slumped limply into Di Xin's arms. She wrapped her arms and legs around him like an octopus, then freed one hand, seized his hand, and placed it on her body.

Shouldn't I be the one saying that? Why do I feel like I'm the one being forced into this...

Oh, I really am being forced into this!

With Daji's soft, voluptuous body pressed against him, a peculiar look flickered in Di Xin's eyes.

Still, he genuinely felt nothing now. With that maddening musical racket filling his head, he simply could not muster any amorous thoughts.

But then again, Daji's skin is really big-no, wait, these clothes are really soft...

"My king, you're so naughty..."

Suddenly, Daji pressed her lips close to Di Xin's ear and breathed a warm stream of air over it. Upon touching his skin, it became an invisible, scorching current that flowed into his body.

Daji hoped to control Di Xin with her power of seduction and fulfill Empress Nuwa's instructions.

"I'm not just naughty. I'm actually even better at toying with people until they break."

Di Xin spoke with a cheerful smile at Daji.

"My king... ah..."

Daji rejoiced at his words and was just about to nestle her head into his chest coquettishly. But the next instant, her eyes flew wide, and she kept sucking in sharp breaths. The seductive allure in her eyes vanished completely, and two trails of clear tears even trickled from their corners.

It hurt!

It really hurt!

Daji cried. Especially when she looked down and saw five purplish-red finger marks, her tears began tumbling down in clusters.

When Her Majesty sent me here, she never mentioned that this depraved fool of a king was into this sort of thing!

So when he said he would toy with someone until they broke, he really meant breaking them!

[Negative emotion points from Daji: +1000...]

Watching the log in the background, Di Xin tightened his grip further, his smile growing even brighter. Then he asked, "Daji, can't you handle a little fun?"

"My king, ravage me to your heart's content..."

Daji trembled as she spoke, her eyes swimming with tears.

She feared pain, but she feared Empress Nuwa's punishment even more. There were three hundred souls, young and old, in the Xuanyuan Tomb!

"If you can handle it, why are you crying?" Di Xin chuckled.

"I'm crying from happiness, from being so deeply moved..." Daji's nose twitched. She looked like a pear blossom drenched in rain, and the pain nearly had snot bubbles coming out of her nose.

"Daji, you really are a vixen!"

Di Xin chuckled and tightened his five fingers further. As he reached the final word, he also gave it a pointed emphasis.

"I'm a vixen for you alone, my king..."

Daji pretended not to hear the deeper meaning in his words. Her body shuddered, then she continued channeling her power, sending that scorching current of seduction through her chest toward Di Xin's hands.

But the problem was... Daji discovered that, somehow, once her heated current of seduction entered Di Xin's body, it was like a trickle flowing into the sea-not a single ripple stirred.

The atmosphere suddenly turned strange. Di Xin gazed at Daji with a smiling face, while Daji stared at his hands in utter bewilderment...

Unwilling to give up, Daji activated her seductive power again, sending a blazing current into Di Xin's body.

At that moment, the page bearing a golden flame shook wildly inside Di Xin's mind. The maddening refrain poured into his ears, and the page even drew that heated current directly into itself.

Moreover, though he did not know whether he was imagining it, Di Xin felt that the flame on the page seemed to burn a little more vigorously.

Could old Suiren have made his fortune through this ability?

But wasn't the one who did that with three thousand women in a single night supposed to be the Yellow Emperor of the Xuanyuan Clan?!

[Negative emotion points from Daji: +1000...]

Daji refused to believe it and tried again and again.

Sent out... vanished...

[Negative emotion points from Daji: +1000...]

Sent out... vanished.

[Negative emotion points from Daji: +1000...]

"Hiss..."

The pain became more than Daji could bear. After sucking in a breath, she looked at Di Xin with tearful eyes and said, "My king, if I said I couldn't handle this anymore, would you believe me?"

"Of course not! You want my tender loving care so badly, naturally I have to love you hard..." Looking at the negative emotion points in the background, Di Xin was delighted. Since Daji could not hurt him, why wouldn't he take the chance to earn more negative emotion points? When harvesting chives, cut them down to the roots! When fleecing a sheep, strip its hide bald!

In just this brief span, Di Xin's negative emotion points had reached an astonishing total of 16,350, with Daji alone contributing a staggering 5,200. That was nearly enough to buy a stalk of Dao-Merging Grass. He wanted to know what it felt like to eat a stalk of grass and obtain some fragments of the Great Dao's laws!

[Negative emotion points from Daji: +1000. Accumulated total: 16250...]

Hearing Di Xin's words and seeing his delighted grin, as though he had found money lying on the ground, Daji immediately shed tears like pearls slipping off a broken string. They rolled down a face that had lost all desire to live.

She truly regretted it now. Whatever spiritual fruition she had been promised was all an illusion!

If she had not lived in the Xuanyuan Tomb, she would not have met Empress Nuwa. If she had not met Empress Nuwa, she would not have taken over Daji's body. If she had not taken over Daji's body, she would not have come to Chaoge City. If she had not come to Chaoge City, she would not now be...

As the pain dragged on, Daji grew numb, then vacant...

Her negative emotion points diminished along with it, holding steady at [+10... +10... +10...]. That half-dead trickle left Di Xin utterly bored. Besides, after squeezing flesh for so long, with that maddening refrain still circling his ears, being able to squeeze but do nothing else also drained his other kind of interest.

"All right, you can go..."

Di Xin gave her another couple of squeezes, released her, and waved a hand casually as he spoke.

"Oh..."

Daji responded numbly. Then, when she realized Di Xin was actually letting her leave, the tears she had only just stopped burst their banks again.

This time, however, they were tears of joy, tears of excitement, tears of overwhelming relief at surviving a calamity!

"Thank you, my king."

Daji choked out her thanks to Di Xin, sincerely and from the bottom of her heart.

"Would you like to sit a little longer? Shall I find a palace maid to help you back?" Di Xin offered kindly. He still felt somewhat unsatisfied, but he also knew Daji had gone numb. Her threshold had risen, making negative emotion points harder to earn.

"No... no... I can walk by myself..."

The words "sit a little longer" sent waves of panic through Daji's heart. She shook her head repeatedly, covered her chest with both hands, and staggered out, drifting weakly like a ghost.

"How useless. I hadn't even put any effort in, and you already couldn't take it."

Di Xin sighed deeply and shook his head. Fox spirits amounted to no more than this, and neither did Daji. Apart from being fair, big, and soft, she had nothing going for her!

[Negative emotion points from Daji: +1000. Accumulated total: 17280...]

Hearing that, Daji's legs went weak, and she nearly pitched headfirst onto the floor. She gazed tearfully at the blue sky. What bloody rotten luck, getting saddled with a mission like this and coming here to suffer this fool of a king's torment! He had already toyed with her until she broke, yet he claimed he had not even put any effort in. What would become of her if he really indulged himself?!