Sunlight streamed through the hotel's windowpanes and spilled into the room.
On the enormous round double bed, Tang Ya and Qian Ran held each other tightly, with nothing between them.
Small flowers of blood had bloomed across the sheets.
Qian Ran tightly embraced her delicate body, as white as mutton-fat jade, his palm gently stroking the bruised marks.
"Ding! Congratulations, host, on starting a harem and gaining your first harem member, Tang Ya." "Ding! Congratulations, host, on obtaining several Evil Soul Crystals. [Note: these contain powerful evil, dark forces. They are supreme treasures for Evil Soul Masters, capable of raising the grade of their Martial Souls and increasing their cultivation. Ordinary people who consume them will turn directly into Evil Soul Masters, so the host must store them safely.]"
Even after receiving such generous system rewards, Qian Ran paid them no mind. With a beauty beside him, he could not afford the slightest neglect. He lived to pick up girls, and that was why he needed to become stronger. The meaning of his life was not simply to make himself a little stronger. Growing stronger was the process, not the ultimate goal.
If he put the cart before the horse, he might never enjoy himself for the rest of his life!
"You're awake? Why don't you sleep a little longer?" Qian Ran asked gently when he saw Tang Ya open her hazy eyes in his arms.
He had thoroughly exhausted Tang Ya yesterday.
After all, it had been Qian Ran's first time since coming to this world, and he had so many teachers' instructional videos in his head. With both stamina and technique, he could only be described as a beast.
"How could I keep sleeping? Do you think I'm like you? I still have classes." Tang Ya shifted her body slightly and felt as though her whole body was about to fall apart. It hurt so much!
She ached all over and could barely muster any strength.
"How about I ask for leave for you?" Seeing the pained look on Tang Ya's face, Qian Ran's heart ached for her. It was all his fault for being such a beast. It had been Tang Ya's first time.
"Better not. After the huge commotion you caused last night, you're probably already famous in the Outer Court. If you go ask for leave for me too, everyone in the Outer Court will probably know that you..." Tang Ya blushed.
If Qian Ran asked for leave for her, someone would definitely guess what she and Qian Ran had gone off to do.
Besides, her close girlfriends would surely tease her to death.
News of Qian Ran defeating Bei Bei yesterday had probably already spread throughout the Outer Court.
"Then what are you going to do now?"
"I'll be fine once I get used to it," Tang Ya said quietly.
It was all because Qian Ran was too formidable.
He had heard others talk about it before, too. They had all said it was over before they felt much of anything. They only pretended to be suffering to spare their boyfriends' pride. What was that about? Were they lying to me?
She had not been pretending.
She really had been begging for mercy. Otherwise, she feared Qian Ran would have been the death of her.
She was already beginning to consider Qian Ran's suggestions. At least going along with those things he had mentioned, embarrassing though they were, would give her a long preparation period to recover a little. Otherwise, if they kept doing the same thing, she feared she really would not be able to take it.
Rubbing sticks together made fire. Although she was not wood, the pain still burned.
"Let me help you get dressed." Qian Ran spoke when he saw the clothes Tang Ya took out of Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night.
"All right." Tang Ya nodded lightly. Her body was so sore right now that she would need at least an hour to regain her strength.
Looking at the stockings Tang Ya had taken out, Qian Ran slipped them straight over her little arched foot.
Watching the black stockings tightly hug Tang Ya's long legs as he kept drawing them upward, covering more of her snow-white skin, Qian Ran could not resist kissing her thigh again. His Tang Ya really was beautiful.
"Focus on what you're doing. No thinking about anything else." Tang Ya's face was flushed.
Only then did she realize how intimate Qian Ran's posture was as he dressed her.
She was beginning to regret it. Seeing his reaction, would Qian Ran make the plum blossoms bloom a second time in a moment?
At last, Qian Ran finished dressing Tang Ya, and he let out a long breath too.
Getting a girl dressed really was troublesome. He could finish dressing himself in less than a minute. Still, his Yaya really did look beautiful in black stockings.
Tang Ya never seemed to have worn black stockings in the original work.
She had probably bought them especially for him.
Tang Ya really understood him.
There was no man who did not like stockings. Some simply liked black stockings, others white stockings, and still others nude stockings. A mature beauty in black stockings, a little girl in white socks, a young married woman in nude stockings-those combinations were absolutely top-tier.
The two left the hotel, clinging affectionately to each other, and had breakfast before parting.
Back at the dorm, Qian Ran told Wang Dong'er about Tang Ya's past. Only then did Wang Dong'er let him off.
"Senior Tang Ya is so pitiful."
Wang Dong'er's eyes were red. A girl whose sect had been wiped out, whose parents and siblings had all died tragically, had come to Shrek Academy to study all alone. She worked hard at cultivation to avenge them, yet her Martial Soul was only the weak Blue Silver Grass.
And Qian Ran had gone to help Senior Tang Ya become stronger? Was that how the two had met?
That did make sense!
But this fellow definitely was not that kindhearted! Even if he had wanted to help Tang Ya, he must have had other improper intentions too!
"Even if Senior Tang Ya is pitiful, you bastard don't deserve any sympathy! You went out with Senior Tang Ya for the whole night yesterday. What did you two do? I'll bite you to death!" Wang Dong'er opened her little mouth and bit down hard on Qian Ran's shoulder.
This big scoundrel!
I said yesterday that I wouldn't forgive him, but I'm just that hopeless.
"Go ahead and bite me to death. It's all my fault for being too fickle." Qian Ran let Wang Dong'er bite him. In her view, Wang Dong'er's willingness to vent her emotions meant everything was fine. If Wang Dong'er refused to say a single word to him, that would be a real disaster.
"I won't give you what you want! Biting you to death like this would be letting you off too easily." Wang Dong'er released Qian Ran's arm. Worried about him, she wanted to check his injury, but she did not want to give in so soon.
"Tell me! Who's prettier, Tang Ya or me?" Wang Dong'er's large pinkish-blue eyes stared at Qian Ran. It was clear that if he did not give her a satisfactory answer, she would turn extremely fierce.
"You, without a doubt!" Qian Ran did not hesitate at all.
"You big liar. Tang Ya has a better figure than me! You're lying!" Wang Dong'er huffed, not feeling very confident.
"Who said so? You don't understand. What I like is..." Qian Ran leaned close to Wang Dong'er's ear and spoke until her face turned red.
Hehe, looking at it that way, I still have an advantage.
That big scoundrel Qian Ran really knows so much!
"Hmph."
"I'll spare you this time. If you dare make me this angry again, I'll beat you hard with my fists." Wang Dong'er raised her little fist and shook it, putting on a very serious expression.
"Fine, fine, fine. When the time comes, you can punish me however you want, Dong'er." Qian Ran kissed Wang Dong'er on the cheek.
"I bit you just now, so I can let you bite me too. Then we'll be even," Wang Dong'er said softly, tenderly rubbing the spot where she had bitten Qian Ran.
"I couldn't bear to."
"But I'm going to punish you!"
Qian Ran pressed his lips toward Wang Dong'er's red lips.
Wang Dong'er really was wonderful as she was now. The later Tang Wutong was practically a jar of vinegar. This also strengthened Qian Ran's resolve not to let Tang San ruin Wang Dong'er. Originally, he had flirted with Wang Dong'er largely because she was Tang San's daughter, but little by little, Qian Ran had truly fallen for the girl herself.
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