Chapter 17

Su Lingshu buried her head in Lin Yi's chest. This was not something she wanted to do; after all, she wanted to hold the initiative in front of Lin Yi, but her body was simply not up to the task, and this disheveled appearance was inevitable.

Lin Yi gently stroked the Fairy's smooth back, which was already damp with sweat. Lin Yi gathered her slightly damp long hair, then reached out into the moonlight, and a clear, bright hairpin was fished out from the moonlight by him.

Lin Yi hugged Su Lingshu slightly, using the hairpin to gather her long hair.

Su Lingshu had a hint of fatigue between her brows. She quietly enjoyed this moment of tranquility, as if everything she cared about had dissipated. She breathed somewhat lazily, inhaling the air that carried Lin Yi's scent.

Lin Yi glanced at his Favorability System.

[Su Lingshu: 25/100 (Lover) → 15/100 (Lover) → 20/100 (Lover) → 35/100 (Lover) → 30/100 (Lover)]

Lin Yi curled his lips. When it dropped to 15, it was shortly after he asked 'Is that all?', and when it was 35, Su Lingshu was holding him tightly. As for the 30 where it stopped now…

Perhaps she was currently experiencing the relief of crawling out of the abyss…

"How much do you know about Xia Qianzhen's affairs?"

Su Lingshu frowned.

"Apart from those past memories, there is nothing else." She was extremely exhausted at this moment. Although she wondered why Lin Yi was asking about these things, she still shook her head.

"So, you really don't know why Xia Qianzhen created you as a Clone?"

Lin Yi looked at Su Lingshu somewhat strangely. He could feel that Su Lingshu was not lying to him. Recalling Su Lingshu's performance over the past few days, was she really just simply abandoned by Xia Qianzhen?

"I don't know, didn't I just say so? Also, when will you honor your promise?"

"As for why I know those things, you should be very clear. My Master, Pei Yuhan, told me."

Lin Yi's words made Su Lingshu snap back to reality. She did not move, still lying on Lin Yi's chest.

"Of course, that was just a joke."

Su Lingshu opened her eyes. What joke?

"Master doesn't know these things either, such as the relationship between Xia Qianzhen and Yin Yang. Ye Linyuan has gone into deep seclusion, and Yin Yang is sitting in the God King Palace; Xia Qianzhen should be in danger soon."

"Why would she be in danger?" Su Lingshu suddenly raised her head. She didn't have time to ask about the many questions that arose between them; she asked the question she cared about most. A faint, ominous premonition stirred in her heart!

"Not enough, your chips are not enough." Lin Yi shook his head at her cold gaze.

Su Lingshu closed her eyes. She felt a chill on her body.

Lin Yi rolled over, pinning Su Lingshu beneath him, the heavy quilt wrapping the two of them together.

"Don't worry. The reason I told you these things is to make you believe in me. I can save Pei Yuhan, and I can save Xia Qianzhen…"

"Pei Yuhan was pulled out of Yin Yang's schemes by me."

At this moment, Su Lingshu's mind was in total Chaos. Everything was wrong, she had guessed everything wrong. Lin Yi was not a chess piece; he was the chess player. She had self-righteously offered herself up!

She was still feeling triumphant, still thinking about turning the tables, jumping off the chessboard to become one of the chess players.

But even so, she still dared to ask this question, "And you think you can do that with your current status as a mere Golden Core?"

"Yes, just with me, a mere Golden Core." Lin Yi smiled slightly.

"Didn't I save you once before?"

[Su Lingshu: 30/100 (Lover) → 10/100 (Lover) → 50/100 (Lover)]

Chapter 29: Just Short of Giving a Peace Sign

"Saved me once?" Su Lingshu closed her eyes again. "Is this how you save me?! ! !"

Her voice was no longer cold, but filled with anger, and even her body began to tremble slightly.

The tenderness between the two was gone; the intimacy from just a moment ago seemed like a dream.

However… it was originally just a self-righteous transaction.

"Hmm, Su Lingshu, guess why Xia Qianzhen cut you out? Or rather, what kind of role do you think Yin Yang plays in this?" Lin Yi smiled as he looked at Su Lingshu, who was lying in his arms.

He was preparing to use his great trickery technique: mixing 50% facts with 30% speculation and 20% lies to create 100% truth.

"I don't know." Su Lingshu's emotions stabilized. She opened her eyes, staring closely at the young face inches away. "But don't think you can deceive me. You asked me earlier why Xia Qianzhen cut me out, which shows that you don't know the details either!"

"Yes, that is true, but I understand Yin Yang, and knowing what he will do to Xia Qianzhen is enough." Lin Yi lowered his head and gently bit the corner of Su Lingshu's lips. The taste of the Fairy… soft and juicy.

"What will he do to Xia Qianzhen?"

"Heh, Fairy Su, you have to show me something, right?" Lin Yi rolled over, letting Su Lingshu's upper body lie on his chest.

"You haven't already…" Su Lingshu was about to speak when she suddenly felt that familiar sensation again. She bit her lip, glaring at Lin Yi with hatred.

But under Lin Yi's smiling gaze, she finally deflated.

The thick quilt wrapped around them, driving out the cold air of the frigid moon, and warmth grew between the two.

Su Lingshu frowned slightly, then smoothed it out. She bit her lip, glanced at Lin Yi's detestable face, and with a hardened heart, she bent down and bit onto Lin Yi's shoulder!

"Hiss…"

Lin Yi was fine, after all, he was a Golden Core Cultivator; how could Su Lingshu, a "normal person" with her spiritual power sealed, hurt his Physical Body? Instead, Su Lingshu gasped in pain, her cheeks visibly swelling up.

Lin Yi looked at her with amusement, then reached out to stroke her pink-tinged cheeks. As spiritual power was released, the pain on her face gradually dissipated.

"Fairy Su, if you want to bite… I suggest you change places…"

Little thief!

Wicked thief!

Su Lingshu didn't slap Lin Yi's hand away, just glared at him.

"What exactly will Yin Yang do to Xia Qianzhen?! ! !"

Su Lingshu suppressed her breathing and managed to ask this question.

"Don't you not care about Xia Qianzhen?"

Su Lingshu's breath hitched. She had indeed said things like hoping Xia Qianzhen would die a horrible death after she was caught escaping, but… those were just angry words.

As a Clone created by Xia Qianzhen, she was born seeing Xia Qianzhen as her family and elder sister. So, when she first told Lin Yi that she was Xia Qianzhen's younger sister, she wasn't lying.

She couldn't possibly not care about Xia Qianzhen, her original body; after all… that was herself.

"Hehe, just joking." Lin Yi rubbed Su Lingshu's small face, making her not-so-cold expression become even less cold.

"Regarding Yin Yang, how much do you know about the story between him and Ye Linyuan?" Lin Yi hugged Su Lingshu's slender waist, and then… Su Lingshu's pupils dilated sharply. Her body was forced to press completely against Lin Yi. She breathed in the cold air, but it was not enough…

Su Lingshu panted heavily, her hands gripping Lin Yi's arms, her nails almost sinking into Lin Yi's flesh.

After a while, the focus in her eyes finally gathered. Her mind was chaotic. "You, what did you just say?"

"I said, do you know about the feud between Yin Yang and Ye Linyuan?"

At this moment, neither Lin Yi nor Su Lingshu cared about the so-called insufficient chips.

Su Lingshu was continuously paying chips, and Lin Yi was continuously consuming her chips.

Lin Yi looked at the favorability panel in front of him.

[Su Lingshu: 50/100 (Lover) → 35/100 (Lover) → 42/100 (Lover)]

"I only know that Ye Linyuan took Yin Yang's three-foot sword, and then went into seclusion."

"That's enough. Yin Yang set a trap, and Ye Linyuan walked into it willingly. So, the chess pieces for both of them… are you people related to Ye Linyuan." Lin Yi said indifferently.

"We… are chess pieces?" Su Lingshu pondered. When she understood Lin Yi's words from her daze, she felt again that a part of her chips had been taken away.

"You… can't you stop for a moment?! ! !" Su Lingshu was somewhat exhausted and annoyed. After all, she was not a Golden Core Stage Cultivator like Lin Yi.

"Because I quite like you, Fairy Su, so… when saving you from the sea of misery, taking a little reward for myself is fine, right?" Lin Yi looked at the dazed Fairy in front of him by the moonlight.

Just short of giving a peace sign.

Unfortunately…

Lin Yi suppressed these thoughts.

"That doesn't mean you can use me as a reward!" Su Lingshu gently bit Lin Yi's shoulder. This time she learned from her mistake and didn't use any force.

It was a bit ticklish, and it felt pretty good, like a little kitten.

Lin Yi felt the Fairy's warmth.

"I said it already, I like Fairy Su, so naturally I think of Fairy Su."

"Stop saying these unreliable things! Lin Yi!" Su Lingshu glared at Lin Yi, unaware that this gentle glare made her look so charming.

"Then let's get back to business. Lingshu, in Yin Yang's hands, what do you think you and Palace Master Xia will become?" Lin Yi smiled and changed his way of addressing her. Su Lingshu pondered Lin Yi's words, not paying attention to his overly intimate address.

All intimacy seemed to have become a matter of course.

Lin Yi lowered his head and kissed Su Lingshu's forehead lightly, then kissed the tip of her nose, and immediately after…

Under Su Lingshu's disdainful gaze, Lin Yi gently captured the Fairy's soft, sweet lips…

Su Lingshu was somewhat concerned about Lin Yi's actions, but it was only because her thinking had been interrupted. As for the rest… she didn't care anymore.

Even her body was becoming accustomed to the other person's existence, instinctively stretching out a pair of jade arms to wrap around Lin Yi's shoulders, pressing her fullness against Lin Yi's body.

Chapter 30: Lin Yi! Little Thief!

"Imprisoned?" Su Lingshu thought this was the most likely scenario: imprisoning her and Xia Qianzhen to use them as hostages to threaten Ye Linyuan.

But… Ye Linyuan practiced the Heartless Sword; would Yin Yang really think Ye Linyuan would care about Xia Qianzhen, his fiancée?

Even Su Lingshu, Xia Qianzhen's Clone, thought Ye Linyuan wouldn't care about them.

"Not really. He will let thousands… tens of thousands of people… to disturb your Dao Heart, to break your sword heart." Lin Yi answered with a smile.

His words made Su Lingshu's body turn cold. Even held in Lin Yi's arms, she couldn't feel a shred of warmth. Her brows furrowed, and a pair of clear, limpid eyes, only slightly watery, were instantly flooded with anger.

"How dare he… Why would he do this…" Even if he imprisoned Xia Qianzhen, she could understand, but to let her be trampled by thousands of people… Didn't he like Xia Qianzhen? Yet why…

Hateful! Even more hateful than this little thief!

"He is a great Cultivator of the Void Return Stage. Do you think there is anything he wouldn't dare to do? He cultivates the Yin-Yang Path, and these filthy things are what he is best at." Lin Yi's calm words made Su Lingshu's reason quickly return to her body.

"How will you deal with him?" Su Lingshu asked the question she cared about most.

"Heh… Heaven's secrets cannot be revealed." Lin Yi smiled and tugged at Su Lingshu's tender, smooth cheek, then shook his head.

"So that's why you want to take my… my red pill?" Su Lingshu immediately asked the second question.

"Part of the reason." Lin Yi looked into Su Lingshu's eyes, which reflected his own face.

"Part of the reason?" Su Lingshu turned her head away, seemingly unwilling to make eye contact with Lin Yi.

"Hmm, to deal with Yin Yang I need your red pill, and secondly… I like you, isn't that enough?" Lin Yi used his hand to clamp Su Lingshu's pretty face, forcing her to turn her head back, and the two looked at each other again.

"At that time, wasn't it Pei Yuhan who let you… I understand now." Su Lingshu recalled the scene at the time; it was nothing more than Lin Yi telling Pei Yuhan to say it. She slowly closed her eyes, but immediately after…

"Lin Yi! Are you ever going to stop!" Su Lingshu gritted her teeth, suppressing the extraordinary words that had already reached her throat…

"This is a chip, Lingshu, you understand." Lin Yi just continued to smile.

Su Lingshu fell silent, and then… unexpectedly to Lin Yi, Su Lingshu leaned in and kissed him. Their breaths mingled, and Lin Yi could even see a hint of triumph in Su Lingshu's eyes.

Perhaps she was triumphant that Lin Yi, who always seemed to have everything under control, would be surprised by her.

[Su Lingshu: 42/100 (Lover) → 55/100 (Lover)]

In Lin Yi's previous life, he had heard a story about women in the pleasure quarters; although they didn't cherish their bodies much, they absolutely would not allow customers to kiss their lips.

There was a subtle sense of absurdity.

During the days when Lin Yi and Su Lingshu played the game of 'you run, I chase', he would at most bite the Fairy's lips lightly, never having been this intimate…

The two were like a pair of true lovers, wantonly sharing everything with each other.

At this moment, besides their bodies, their Souls and emotions were also merging.

Or rather, compared to Su Lingshu's previous role as a rebel, this time Su Lingshu was a participant, and not in the way of just completing a task.

Just like the transaction Su Lingshu called 'I'll take the initiative' earlier.

The Fairy perhaps hadn't even realized it herself… her attitude had undergone a earth-shattering change.

Lin Yi looked at Su Lingshu sleeping on his pillow. She was tilting her head, eyes slightly closed. Under the moonlight, a few crystal-clear beads of sweat gathered at her temples, and the tip of Su Lingshu's nose shimmered with a moist luster.