Before anyone knew it, the eastern sky had turned the pale white of a fish's belly.
In the courtyard at the end of the alley, Coal Ball had watched Big Ice Lump act crazy all night before curling up inside the veiled hat and falling asleep.
Faint splashing echoed through the west wing.
Splash~ splash...
Inside the room, Nangong Ye soaked in the bathing tub, his entire body submerged in bone-chilling water. His mind was filled with guilt and regret, like a child who had been caught masturbating too much by his elders and sworn never to do it again, only to be unable to resist making the same mistake. But Nangong Ye could do nothing about it. After a few words from his master yesterday, he had been so frightened that he had wanted to sever this ill-fated relationship with Yellow Hair. Yet he had no idea how to undo the Thousand Threads Soul-Tethering Curse. He had tried to calm himself and regain the composure and restraint befitting Purple Emblem Mountain's normally icy sect leader, only for the Demoness to grow more unbridled. The more he suppressed it, the more excited she became.
Against that little Yellow Hair rogue's methods, how could the Demoness hold out? All that positive feedback then passed to him, successfully hammering his Dao Heart to pieces...
Only now, with daylight spreading and the antics on the other side finally stopping, did Nangong Ye recover and quietly consider what he should do from now on.
With his master's heaven-reaching Daoist cultivation, she must have noticed his ambiguous relationship with a junior. His master had told him to face his true heart-did that mean she approved of this marriage?
Then what about Qingmo-
*Master told me to face my true heart, and I'll tell my disciple