In fact, Qiu Wuji had shown her true colors the moment she entered the room and shut the door.
They had agreed they were stealing time inside to catch up on writing and drawing, yet as soon as the door shut, Chu Ge was pinned against the wall by his collar. "Having so much fun you forgot to come back, huh? Can't get enough of that little vixen, huh?"
Chu Ge didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "How is she a little vixen? You just merged her back into yourself..."
"To keep you from coming in to find me, she was even willing to ride you herself! All that bouncing made me sick! Disgracing me like that!"
"But wasn't that your own-"
"No, it wasn't!"
"All right, all right, it wasn't." Chu Ge stroked the hand clutching his collar and smiled. "Well, I've come in to find you now, Master. What would you teach me?"
"Wash that vixen's stink off you first!" Qiu Wuji dragged him toward the back courtyard, all the way to the pool on the Back Mountain, and threw him in.
That felt so good.
She had buried all the mortifying shame she had felt upon waking that morning under self-deception. Separating her main account from her alt to shift the blame really was a good idea. You think I'm jealous? I'm shifting the blame! Qiu Qiu is so clever!
Qiu Wuji clapped her hands clean, gave a cold snort, and turned to leave.
Only to discover she couldn't move.
That damned Heavenly Dao had taken control of her body.
Chu Ge's head emerged from the pool, and once again he asked the most profound words of love between them: "Will you let me take control?"
Qiu Wuji stood there rigidly, her lips moving for a