After finally managing to soothe Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei, Xu Ran hurried off to find Xun'er.
Xun'er was not as easy to fool as Xiao Mei and Xiao Yu. She had always been as clever as ice and snow, and she had long known something of Xu Ran's affairs.
Sure enough, the moment Xu Ran saw Xun'er, she looked at him with a peculiar gaze that made his scalp prickle and left him feeling rather embarrassed.
In Xun'er's boudoir, Xu Ran played with her delicate waist.
Xun'er lay sprawled on Xu Ran, thoroughly enjoying his caresses. She increasingly had the bearing of a principal wife. Before, she had been clever as ice and snow, with a temperament as pure as a lotus. Now, she had acquired a mature charm, and that sickly, aloof air had changed as well.
Among those who had first gotten together with Xu Ran, Nalan Yanran stayed at the Mist Cloud Sect and had little contact with the other women, while Xiao Mei was naturally unsuited to being a principal wife. Thus, those who got together with Xu Ran later consciously gravitated toward Xun'er.
Although Xu Ran did not treat them differently, he could do nothing about the women taking the initiative to draw close to Xun'er.
She came from the Gu Clan to begin with, and her figure, looks, and family background all stood a notch above the others, so everyone readily acknowledged her. Even Ya Fei cultivated a friendship with Xun'er, sometimes subtly, sometimes openly.
Xun'er was practically becoming the leader of this group of women.
Of course, this referred to those on the Dou Qi Continent. As for Xiao Wu and the others who had come from the Divine Realm, although they got along amicably with them, they were ultimately from different