Is Love Finally in the Air?

In her sleep, Liu Erlong felt only a heavy tightness in her chest and a searing pain in her abdomen.

Slowly opening her eyes, Liu Erlong discovered that she was still alive. She had not simply died like that.

But at that moment, she felt as though something heavy was pressing down on her chest, making it difficult to sit up.

Only after a little while did she come back to her senses.

Once she did, Liu Erlong immediately noticed Li Ye lying against her chest.

At that moment, she felt violated. A burst of strength came from somewhere, supporting her as she sat up and shoved Li Ye off her.

"You bastard, I'll..." The moment she pushed Li Ye away, Liu Erlong intended to kill the person beside her who had sullied her innocence.

But once she got a clear look at Li Ye's face, she immediately abandoned that thought. After all, at his age, there was no possibility that he had done anything like that.

To think this little fellow actually rescued me from the claws of the Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast. His way of treating wounds was a little rough, though, Liu Erlong marveled inwardly.

"Don't, don't leave me. Don't leave me here alone. It's so cold."

"What's wrong with him? Why does he look so pale?" At that point, Liu Erlong also noticed that something was wrong with Li Ye.

After examining him carefully, she found no wounds on Li Ye's body, yet something was clearly very wrong with his condition. She was at a loss.

"This little fellow is only a Soul Elder, yet he fought a fifty-thousand-year-old Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast to a standstill. He must have used some forbidden technique."

"Could he be suffering a backlash from that forbidden technique now?" At the thought, a pang of sorrow rose in Liu Erlong's heart.

Since awakening her Martial Soul, she had spent thirty years cultivating diligently, finally reaching level 70 with great difficulty. She had thought her own strength would be enough to obtain a suitable Seventh Soul Ring.

Who could have imagined that she would encounter that fifty-thousand-year-old Poison Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast along the way and be chased by it the whole time?

In that situation, when death had seemed certain, how desperately she had wished that the person who filled her thoughts would come to save her. Yet the one who had ultimately braved the danger to rescue her was a child who had not even grown all his hair yet.

Had love come knocking?

Heh, how could that be?

Had this happened twenty years earlier, she might still have believed it. She might have thrown everything aside to be with this person.

She was about to grow old, yet the person who had saved her had not even grown up.

But after an agonizing struggle over her choice, Liu Erlong still decided not to let this chance slip away. After all, she had already waited over a decade for Yu Xiaogang without receiving an answer from him.

How many stretches of ten-odd years did a person have to spend waiting?

With that thought, Liu Erlong made the boldest decision of her life: she, too, would be an old cow grazing on tender grass for once.

Hadn't Li Ye just said he was cold? Then she would warm him up.

Once that thought took hold, Liu Erlong found it increasingly difficult to control her actions.

After quickly stripping Li Ye bare, Liu Erlong gathered him into her arms, then used her mouth to breathe warm air from her body into him.

It was precisely these actions of Liu Erlong's that allowed Li Ye, whose soul was shrouded in Death Desolate Qi, to feel a trace of warmth.

"Who? Has someone come to save me?" Li Ye had thought he would simply keep hovering between life and death in agony, but the sudden current of warmth rekindled his hope.

After a desperate struggle, Li Ye finally saw a glimmer of hope.

Following the direction of the light, Li Ye burst out of that desolate wasteland that had nearly plunged him into despair.

The moment Li Ye opened his eyes, he discovered that he seemed to be held in a woman's arms.

At that realization, Li Ye immediately broke free of Liu Erlong's embrace.

"You wicked woman! I saved you out of kindness, and you actually... I promised... Ah! I'm no longer pure..." Thinking of Xiao Wu, who was still waiting for him to return, Li Ye felt increasingly wronged.

He truly had not expected her to be able to bring herself to do it when he was so young. Most importantly, she had not even let him experience any of it.

"Hey, what nonsense are you imagining, brat? I only thought this would warm you up because you looked so cold. Besides, with that little thing of yours, I couldn't use it even if I wanted to," Liu Erlong said disdainfully.

"Who are you looking down on? If you've got the guts-if you've got the guts, wait another two years! I'll leave you unable to get out of bed every single day!" Seeing Liu Erlong mock his masculine dignity, Li Ye immediately flew into a towering rage.

But with both of them completely bare before each other, the atmosphere inevitably grew charged.

"All right, hurry up and put your clothes on, then bring mine over." If Liu Erlong had not held herself back at the crucial moment, Li Ye would have been the one unable to get out of bed.

"Uh, things were pretty urgent at the time, so I tore your clothes apart," Li Ye said awkwardly as he picked up his own clothes.

"What?!" Liu Erlong was just about to lose her temper when she spotted the belt in Li Ye's hands.

"How could... How could this happen? That belt... Xiaogang, how could he be your... your disciple?"

Recalling the disciple Yu Xiaogang had taken on, whom Flender had mentioned in a letter, and seeing that familiar belt before her, how could Liu Erlong fail to recognize Li Ye's identity?

"Why are you staring at me?" With Liu Erlong watching him get dressed, even Li Ye felt a little embarrassed.

"You... what's your name?" Liu Erlong still could not quite give up.

"You haven't even told me your name. Why should I tell you mine?"

"I... my name is Long'er. Now you can tell me, right?" In case Yu Xiaogang or Flender had told Li Ye about her, Liu Erlong could only make up a name on the spot.

"Long'er? Then I'm Yang Guo," Li Ye could not help muttering when he heard Liu Erlong's name.

"All right, if you're going to tell me, hurry up!"

"My name is Feng Yeli. Happy now?" Li Ye tossed out a perfunctory answer.

Feng Yeli. Thank goodness it isn't him. That belt must... must just look very much like Yu Xiaogang's. Seeing that Li Ye did not appear to be lying, Liu Erlong immediately felt relieved.

"Hey, uh, Long'er, didn't you bring any other clothes? You can't stay like that." After getting dressed, Li Ye could not help pointing at Liu Erlong's body.

"I... I didn't expect anything like this to happen, so... so I didn't bring any clothes," Liu Erlong said casually. She certainly would not tell Li Ye that she wanted him to dress her.

Hearing that, Li Ye could only helplessly take out the handsome trench coat he had previously spent a fortune having custom-made, intending to wear it when he went to Shrek Academy, and wrap Liu Erlong in it.

Since Liu Erlong was injured and had difficulty moving, Li Ye could only carry her in his arms as they went.

He had originally intended to sling her over his shoulder, but considering that her wound was on her abdomen, he could only switch to carrying her bridal-style.

"Ye Li, if... if only you could keep holding me like this forever."

"Hey, lady, are you trying to make me develop a qilin arm? Keep holding you forever? Why don't you just suggest tying the two of us together with a rope?"

"Hmph, you unromantic fool. I'm not talking to you anymore."

"Hey, if you're not talking to me, don't bury your head in my chest. Someone might get the wrong idea."

"You bastard, I'll bite you to death!"

"Holy shit, there's a dog!"