You're Embarrassed Now?

The originally tiny area kept shrinking and swelling, growing larger with each contraction, making the Azure Dragon scream and struggle in agony.

Before long, however, the Azure Dragon's screams gradually died down under the vines' gentle soothing. The ever-changing area finally stabilized, completely occupying the Azure Dragon's brain.

Noticing nothing of the scales on the Azure Dragon's body slowly growing thinner and more translucent, Xin Lan released her mental power and plunged it straight into his Mental Landscape the moment it stabilized.

Once again, she found herself in a place of utter darkness.

But unlike Mo Yilai's darkness, where chaos and nothingness surrounded her, Xin Lan could feel solid ground beneath her feet.

Although the ground was completely covered in sticky black filth, that was easy enough to deal with.

She deftly wrapped a small area in her mental power and purified the filth away, revealing a glimpse of splendor within the pitch-black Mental Landscape.

The area she had purified was part of an arched bridge floating in midair.

Several soft, white clouds drifted around the milky-white bridge. She couldn't see the sky or what lay below, but she could already imagine how beautiful this place had been before it was polluted.

Without hesitation, Xin Lan intensified her efforts and began purifying it.

Finally, an hour later, the mental world that had been utterly forgotten by the world revealed itself in full before her eyes.

Green mountains and clear waters stretched out amid the gentle murmur of streams. A gigantic circular skybridge floated in midair, wrapped in clouds and enclosing a brilliant, multicolored starry sky, magnificent and solemn.

Beneath that dazzling sky, a complex of crystal-clear diamond buildings soared into the clouds. Starlight and moonlight poured through the clouds, adorning the already gorgeous diamond towers with even greater brilliance and splendor, so dazzling she could scarcely look away.

It was breathtaking.

Was this really a fucking sight a person could imagine?

She couldn't even imagine how amazing it must feel for the Azure Dragon to soar through a world like this!

After reluctantly leaving the Mental Landscape, Xin Lan was unsurprised to see that the Azure Dragon had completely transformed back into a human.

The Azure Dragon had been so enormous that he had burst out of his clothes during his mutation, so he didn't have a stitch on after turning human again.

But she didn't look away in the slightest.

She had to admit, he was pretty handsome too.

He had medium-length black hair with a natural gradient of cyan at the ends, well-defined features and excellent bone structure. His lips in particular were full and rosy. Clearly, she had purified him so thoroughly that his complexion was ridiculously good.

It was a little boring that he still wouldn't wake up, though.

Xin Lan didn't like sleeping beauties.

Smack-

A slap landed hard across his face, and the man's eyelids finally twitched, as if he were about to wake.

She didn't want to wait, so she gave him another slap.

This time, whether Yu Yuan wanted to wake up or not, he had to.

He opened his eyes groggily, his thoughts still immersed in the pleasant dream he had just had while unconscious.

It had been such a fantastical, blissful dream, because he had dreamed that a goddess had come to his Mental Landscape!

Not only had the goddess thoroughly purified his Mental Landscape, which had completely descended into a rampage, but she had also formed deep links with his Spirit Body many times, making him feel as if he were in heaven, his whole body freer and lighter than ever before...

"Gone stupid?"

Xin Lan waved a hand in front of his face.

Seeing that his eyes still wouldn't focus and that calling to him wouldn't bring him around, she slapped him again.

"Hiss-"

Yu Yuan gasped in pain on instinct, and his senses finally returned in full.

His cyan eyes widened at the sight of the Eastern girl crouching before him.

"...There really is a goddess?"

"So he has gone stupid." Xin Lan sighed and got up to leave.

Only then did Yu Yuan finally realize something was happening. He hurriedly scrambled up and called after her.

"Wait! What... what's your name? Did you save me?"

At that, he seemed unable to believe it himself and murmured, "Wasn't I... supposed to have turned into a mutant and been executed?"

After he lost control of his mutation, he had used the last of his reason to enter the prison of his own accord.

But how was he now...

He instinctively looked down at his body to check on his mutation, and his face instantly burned red, as if licked by flames.

Heavens!

How could he speak to the goddess like this!

"You're embarrassed now?"

Xin Lan came back over and looked down at him, her tone teasing.

"Weren't you pretty uninhibited just now?"

"I... I'm sorry. I don't know why I'm like this."

Blushing, Yu Yuan covered himself like a bashful little husband, unsure how to explain his situation. Apart from that dream, he had no memories of this place.

Everything here was unfamiliar, including the Eastern girl before him, who might have saved him.

"Why else? Obviously, it's because of me."

Xin Lan crouched in front of him and patted his cheek, the gesture a little roguish.

But Yu Yuan only stared blankly into her eyes, looking a little shy.

"Can you... tell me what happened? I lost my reason after I mutated, and I don't remember anything."

"No."

Xin Lan gave his hair, which looked satisfyingly soft, a vigorous ruffle and spoke bluntly.

"Because I don't know how you made your way from District K1 to K9 District and ended up as an auction item either. Anyway, the result is that I bought you and turned you back into a human. So no matter who you were before, from now on you can only belong to me, and you can only listen to me. Understand?"

"...I understand."

Yu Yuan pondered for a moment, then quickly accepted reality.

His former status had indeed been glorious and exalted, but what good was a lofty position? After being blacklisted by guides and finding that high-grade Guide Pheromones no longer worked, all he could do was watch helplessly as he mutated.

Rather than return to those days when he was revered but tormented daily by rampaging mental power, he would rather she kept him hidden away as her possession alone.

At least, never in his life had he felt as relaxed and at ease as he did now.

And she had given him all of it.

So she really didn't need to ask. He ought to follow her for the rest of his life and obey her in everything, even if she told him to die...

"Good boy~"

Pleased to see how obedient and sensible he was, Xin Lan pinched his cheek, then immediately withdrew the vines from the fox and prepared to leave.

But Yu Yuan called out to her again.

"Wait, can you tell me your name? And could you bring me some clothes next time you come?"

By the time he finished those last few words, his face was so red it looked ready to drip blood.

They had been talking for so long, yet he was still so innocent.

Xin Lan found him a little cute and, unusually, softened her tone.

"Okay, I'll bring you some tomorrow afternoon. Be good and stay here."

After stepping through the doorway, she seemed to remember something. She stepped back and said with a smile,

"Oh, right. My name is Xin Lan."

Xin Lan left, and the dilapidated old house instantly fell into boundless darkness and silence.

Yu Yuan touched the cheek she had just pinched, and a sweet, blissful smile immediately spread across his face.

"Xin Lan... Xin Xin..."

It was such a straightforward and charming name.

It suited her perfectly.

He was imagining what their meeting the next day would be like and whether she would get angry if he called her Xin Xin, when the nine-tailed demon fox beside him, which had been grinning like a lovestruck fool the whole time, suddenly let out a cry.

Yu Yuan instinctively turned to look and was instantly entranced for a moment by its seductive orange-red fox eyes.

In the past, when he had to forcibly suppress his rampage level every day, his Mental Landscape would have been shaken by that, and he might even have gone straight into a rampage and begun mutating.

But now Xin Lan had thoroughly purified his Mental Landscape, and the nine-tailed demon fox's mental power was about the same level as his, so its meager powers of bewitchment were nothing before him.

"You slutty fox, you'd better get lost. I don't want to kill you."

Yu Yuan snorted coldly, his eyes clear and filled with killing intent.

But no matter how much he hated it, he didn't dare actually kill it. He only dared release his mental power to drive it away.

He knew Xin Xin must have had her reasons for buying them.

But Xin Xin was all he had now, and this slutty fox hadn't yet had time to turn human again.

So as long as he could make it run out on its own before Xin Xin came back, there would be one fewer person competing with him in the future.

Unfortunately, ideals were plentiful, but reality was lean.

Because their mental power was evenly matched, the slutty fox was a little nervous and bristled, but it refused to budge an inch, let alone leave.

The man and the fox glared at each other for a long while. Then, when he wasn't paying attention, the nine-tailed fox darted into the bedroom and refused to take a single step out again.

Yu Yuan: !

Fuck! That goddamn slutty fox!