I Should Never Have Come

Qiu Wuji had no reaction to those words. If Chu Ge hadn't written his book, of course she wouldn't exist. What was there to react to?

But once they walked inside, Qiu Wuji gradually began to understand why Chu Ge had said that.

It was a very old-fashioned dance hall, and on the surface, it looked perfectly normal-old-fashioned by Chu Ge's standards, meaning the sort of ballroom-dancing establishment that had been popular in the nineties. You rarely heard of them these days.

Men and women danced in each other's arms as soft, elegant music drifted through the hall. The lights swayed, their flickering beams sweeping over the dancers, and Qiu Wuji could clearly see some couples kissing as they danced.

Some people's hands were wandering all over their partners' backsides.

Everyone else ignored it, as though it were perfectly normal.

Small drinking tables surrounded the dance floor, with men and women sitting in twos and threes, drinking and chatting. That much was fairly normal. But at the tables farther into the corners, couples were still wrapped around each other, making out, their hands sneaking up under the hems of their clothes...

The music was soothing and the decor elegant, giving the place a seemingly tasteful atmosphere, yet everywhere she looked, she saw nothing but debauchery.

"So that's what kind of place this is." Chu Ge rubbed his chin. "Pretty normal. Somewhere people can indulge in a little fun of their own."

Qiu Wuji was dumbfounded. "You call this normal?"

"Of course it's normal. A routine inspection wouldn't find anything wrong with it. If there really were something going on, we couldn't have walked straight in without so much as being questioned. This is just somewhere ordinary people come to have fun."

Qiu Wuji: "..."

What exactly do you think ordinary people are like?

"How many in your party, sir?" Only then did a waiter approach to greet them.

"Two," Chu Ge said. "It's our first time here. Anything fun you'd recommend?"

The waiter's gaze roamed over Qiu Wuji, and an odd smile appeared on his face.

You've already brought your own date. That rules out the fun stuff, doesn't it? Unless you're exceptionally gifted and can play around with someone else right in front of her?

"Aside from a special performance later tonight, there aren't really any other activities. With such a beautiful lady accompanying you, sir, wouldn't she be the best entertainment you could ask for?"

Whew... He really knows how to talk. Much smoother than us keyboard-pounders.

Chu Ge asked no more questions. He requested a table in a corner and squeezed into the seat with Qiu Wuji.

Yes, squeezed... The farther into the corners the tables were, the more the seating catered to couples. Dim lighting, no interruptions-exactly what a man and woman together would like...

Qiu Wuji squeezed in against the wall, with Chu Ge on the outside. Having just tried acting independently and been brutally slapped down by reality, she behaved herself this time. Even though her face was twitching from the effort, she kept silent and let Chu Ge do the talking.

Chu Ge sat pressed against her soft, warm, fragrant body, their arms touching, letting him feel the smoothness of her skin. Suppressing the flutter in his heart, he studied the menu with a perfectly serious expression.

Then his face turned green.

Every wandering thought was shattered by the strings of numbers on the menu.

A cheap bottle of liquor cost over a thousand, a good one over ten thousand. He didn't dare look at anything better.

Ninety-nine for a plate of peanuts? Are you fucking robbing people?

Facing the waiter's increasingly stiff smile as he waited beside them, Chu Ge forced himself to remain composed. "One bottle of beer and a plate of peanuts."

The waiter's smile became faintly knowing. "Certainly."

At least he was professional...

But Chu Ge felt it would have been better if the man had mocked him a little, giving his Qiuqiu an excuse to beat someone up so they could storm out.

The waiter soon brought their beer and peanuts, then stopped paying attention to their table. Only then did Qiu Wuji finally speak. "Move over a little. Why are you sticking so close?"

"The seat's only this long," Chu Ge said helplessly.

Qiu Wuji pursed her lips but didn't argue with him. "What, you can't stand people looking at you like that?" she asked mildly.

"Yeah. It's embarrassing," Chu Ge admitted.

"If you want to cultivate, you need to make peace with these things. Otherwise, you'll struggle to progress."

"...Didn't you want to hit me when you couldn't flag down a cab and people looked at you like an idiot? Ow, ow, ow!" Never mind hitting-she'd evolved to pinching his flesh. Even immortal cultivators do this?

"I'm trying to be serious!" Qiu Wuji said through gritted teeth.

Chu Ge poured her a drink with an apologetic smile. "Yes, yes, Master."

Qiu Wuji really couldn't be bothered with him. She casually picked up the glass and took a sip, then immediately spat it all out. "What is this horse piss?"

"Even if this is the cheapest beer here..." Chu Ge said, "you just spat out ten yuan in one mouthful."

"How strange." Qiu Wuji surveyed their surroundings. "If all they provide is a place for dancing and debauchery, it shouldn't be this expensive, should it? Is there still something wrong with my common sense?"

The poor thing had already begun doubting herself. Chu Ge didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Your common sense is fine this time. This place is the problem. Let's observe first... Oh, right. Can you use your divine sense to look elsewhere?"

"Yes."

In fact, Qiu Wuji had already extended her divine sense to investigate... She wasn't merely the Qi Refining Stage cultivator she appeared to be. Strictly speaking, she was a body formed from a soul fragment, possessing Tribulation Transcendence Stage divine sense and knowledge of mystic arts. What she could do went far beyond anything an ordinary Qi Refining Stage cultivator could comprehend.

But her investigation ran into trouble right from the start.

Having overly powerful divine sense wasn't necessarily a good thing... For instance, once it passed through the wall she was leaning against, she could "see" the couple next door embracing and kissing. The woman's clothes had slipped from her shoulders almost to her elbows, exposing a broad expanse of pale skin, and then the man buried his face there...

The worst part was that she could hear it as well as see it.

Those lewd sounds really did make her blush and her heart race.

Surrounded by that atmosphere, the two of them sitting pressed together inevitably felt as though the temperature were rising. Their touching arms grew hotter and hotter, as if they both had fevers.

Chu Ge couldn't suppress his wandering thoughts either. He had lustful intentions but lacked the courage to act on them. Not daring to do anything else, he merely rubbed gently against the arm already touching his, as though that could offer him a tiny bit of solace.

With him rubbing against her in that atmosphere, Qiu Wuji felt it too... Something seemed to stir inside her, something yearning. It was a sensation she had never experienced in her life.

It was all this shameless "creator god's" fault. Someone written as having spent ten thousand years in pure, solitary cultivation should never have had feelings like these. Yet his writing gave her those feelings. Insisted on them!

After holding it in for a long while, Qiu Wuji gritted her teeth. "Chu Ge, are you ever going to stop? Do you really want to make me hit you?"

Chu Ge shifted a little away as though shocked by electricity, feeling rather ashamed himself.

This does seem a bit sleazy. We're not at that stage...

Qiu Wuji let out a breath. For some reason, she instead felt a little empty, and even the debauchery beside her no longer seemed quite so offensive...

At last, her divine sense reached farther, probing in greater detail.

She sensed something over there... But before she could get a clear look, the music on the dance floor ended and the dancers began leaving it. A host jumped onto the stage and shouted, "Now for the special performance you've all been waiting for! Music!"

The music changed from its earlier gentle elegance to something wild and exuberant. Even the lights began flashing faster.

A woman slowly rose from beneath the floor, holding a metal pole. As the platform reached floor level, she unfastened her jacket and casually flung it aside.

Cheers erupted throughout the hall.

Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge stared, dumbfounded, at the bunny-girl outfit revealed beneath it, their minds momentarily going blank.

W-wait... Is this pole dancing, or... something a little more explicit?

Qiu Wuji finally managed to mutter, still dazed, "It seems I should never have come."

Thanks to Yu Lingqiu, Hydropod, LT Sanquanxiaban, Shi Dankaa, pobodoqs, Yifei o, and Charlie Doesn't Eat Vegetarian for becoming alliance leaders.

Thanks to Lulu for the 40,000 tip, Xinxing for the 40,000 tip, Gaiming Huanxing for the 20,000 tip, and Chenxizi for the 20,000 tip,

Xingluo stardown for the 15,000 tip, Xiao Rong for the 11,000 tip, and zJiuri Lingtian for the 10,000 tip...

By the way, this is all I can see on my PC. I don't know how many I've missed, so my apologies in advance to anyone I've left out... Also, my mother-in-law has been ill these past two days, and I've been going to the hospital a lot, so things haven't been as consistent as they were before. I'm very sorry... It should be fine once these few days are over. I'll try to build up a backlog this month...

(End of chapter)

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