Qin Chuan: My Wife Is Too Good to Me

It was a picture of a beauty emerging from the bath. Shen Qingyuan had just stepped out of the bathing pool.

Qin Chuan stood there in a daze. Before he could do anything else, he could no longer see or feel anything. Shen Qingyuan had cast a spell to block his five senses.

Shen Qingyuan got dressed, her cheeks slightly flushed. As her gaze swept over Qin Chuan's lower body, a flash of excitement flickered in her eyes. When she had seen him staring fixedly at her just now, a secret thrill had also risen in her heart.

"Master... I didn't mean to. I didn't know you were bathing in there, and there wasn't a bathing pool here before... I, I, I... I'll leave right now." Qin Chuan hurriedly turned around. Unable to see the path ahead, he stumbled his way out, and his senses returned only when he left the peach grove.

"Master... was actually bathing in there just now." Qin Chuan swallowed. Should I go take responsibility for Master right away?

No, my plan was to boil Master in warm water. Was today's shock too great? Could it have the opposite effect? As he thought this, he closed his eyes and silently recited the Heart-Clearing Mantra, trying to banish the distracting thoughts from his mind.

But it had no effect at all. Whenever he closed his eyes, he saw Shen Qingyuan's body, white as jade. He could not banish her from his mind.

While Qin Chuan struggled to steady his mind by silently reciting the Heart-Clearing Mantra, Shen Qingyuan felt a secret joy. She had not deliberately let Qin Chuan see her emerge from the bath.

She had slowly risen when she heard Qin Chuan's voice. Who would have thought he would barge straight in? She had never been on guard against him and did not reject his aura. Moreover, she had spent days refining a life-saving trump card for him, and the expenditure of her essence had left her mentally and physically exhausted.

So she had not reacted when Qin Chuan approached, and by that chance coincidence, he had seen her naked.

After getting dressed, she stayed in the peach grove for quite some time, giving Qin Chuan plenty of time to prepare before slowly walking out.

By then, Qin Chuan had composed himself as well, and the heat in his body had subsided. When he saw Shen Qingyuan emerge, he hurried forward to explain. "Master, I didn't know you were bathing in the peach grove. There wasn't a bathing pool in there before... How could I have known you'd be bathing in there?"

"Master, I... I didn't see anything, really..." Halfway through, he remembered that he had already admitted seeing her in his previous sentence. Now that he was saying he had seen nothing, it was even harder to explain.

Shen Qingyuan simply watched Qin Chuan. Under her gaze, he lowered his head and fell to his knees with a thud, admitting his mistake. "Master... I... It was my fault."

"It's all right. You don't need to kneel." Shen Qingyuan helped Qin Chuan up as soon as he knelt, then brushed the peach blossom petals off his shoulders.

Qin Chuan's nostrils were filled with Shen Qingyuan's scent. It was not a fragrance, but a faint scent like the one a sudden cool breeze brought on a hot summer day, and it had the effect of calming the restlessness in his heart.

"Come with me." With that, Shen Qingyuan turned and left, heading in the direction of her cave abode.

Qin Chuan could not make heads or tails of it. Unsure what Shen Qingyuan meant, he could only hurry after her. By the time he reached her cave abode, she was already sitting there waiting for him.

His heart was full of unease, and he did not dare sit down. Unable to tell what Shen Qingyuan was thinking, he simply stood to one side.

Seeing how uneasy he was, Shen Qingyuan soothed him in a gentle voice. "Sit down. What did you need me for? Have you run into difficulties in your cultivation? Or are you short of resources?"

Qin Chuan sat down carefully and shook his head. "Master, I haven't had any difficulties cultivating, and I have enough resources. I'm going out, so I came especially to tell you."

He always informed Shen Qingyuan before going out to gain experience. Shen Qingyuan raised her eyes to look at Qin Chuan, reluctance to part with him in her gaze. She quickly concealed her emotions and asked, "When are you leaving? Where are you going?"

"I'm planning to attend the Cloud Province auction, then go to Gale Valley to gain experience." Qin Chuan had long since arranged his upcoming itinerary.

Shen Qingyuan did not press him for details. She simply and silently put all her spirit stones into a storage bag and gave it to Qin Chuan. "You need to take enough spirit stones to the auction. Buy whatever you want."

"Master, I have spirit stones..." Qin Chuan was deeply moved. His wife was so good to him, ready to give him everything she had.

"Take them." Shen Qingyuan's tone brooked no refusal.

Qin Chuan took out only half the spirit stones and pushed the other half back to Shen Qingyuan. "Master, I only need half."

Shen Qingyuan thought it over and accepted that half. She had given Qin Chuan ten thousand spirit stones, all of them top-grade. Half should indeed be enough.

It was not that she did not want to give him more, but at her level of cultivation, spirit stones were of little use. To cultivate, she had to rely on meditation and insight, or on those ten-thousand-year-old spiritual herbs.

For a Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator, drawing in spiritual energy was far more efficient than absorbing spirit stones. And while spiritual herbs had a price, none were available for sale; no one was willing to sell ten-thousand-year-old spiritual herbs. Spirit stones were therefore of extremely limited use to Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators, so she did not have many.

Next, Shen Qingyuan took out a jade token and gave it to Qin Chuan. Under his puzzled gaze, she explained softly, "Your soul is too fragile to bear too much of my power."

"The jade token contains a tenth of my power. It can't deal with Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators, but it can slay any cultivator below that stage. It can only be used once, so use it carefully."

"Master..." Qin Chuan accepted the jade token with a trembling hand, too choked up to speak, and gazed tenderly at Shen Qingyuan.

The jade token felt warm in his hand. He recognized it as ten-thousand-year-old profound jade, an extremely rare material, and he also knew that Shen Qingyuan had to expend her essence to store a tenth of her power in it.

Shen Qingyuan reached out and patted Qin Chuan's head. Since they were both sitting, she could reach him without difficulty.

"Chuan'er, take care of yourself out there. If you're in danger, ask me for help. There's also a wisp of my soul in the jade token. If you encounter danger, you can crush it, and I'll sense it."

"Master, are you all right?" Qin Chuan asked hurriedly, grabbing Shen Qingyuan's hand as he did so. He finally understood why her complexion was paler than usual, and he felt immeasurably guilty.

His desire to grow stronger grew ever more intense. He wanted to become stronger, protect Shen Qingyuan, and kill the Heavenly Dao.

"I'm fine. I just need to recuperate for a while." Shen Qingyuan did not pull her hand away, letting Qin Chuan hold it tightly.

"Master..." Qin Chuan did not know how to express the gratitude in his heart. He simply gazed tenderly at Shen Qingyuan, unwilling to look away.

After a while, Shen Qingyuan's face grew hot and her heart raced under Qin Chuan's stare. She hurriedly withdrew her hand and turned slightly to avoid his gaze. Then she said, "Chuan'er, there's something else I need to tell you."