Tower. First Floor.
When Bubai rounded the corner of the spiral stairs leading down to the entrance corridor, his eyes immediately caught sight of the striking beauty with crimson hair like molten silk that contrasted greatly with the bck qipao hugging her fierce curves.
Who else could it be besides Xiao Hong?
Encountering an unexpected welcome, Xiao Hong paused near the midpoint of the corridor, surprise briefly contorting the embodiment of arrogance and superiority worn on her face.
"Why are you back—"
Her words caught in her throat. Xiao Hong frowned, looking around furtively as if trying to find someone.
Seeing this, Bubai’s eyes gleamed with a dangerous light.
Some things are inevitable. The key now is to get the most out of the situation to come up with the best pn.
With that in mind, Bubai walked up to the alert bunny with the predatory grace of a hunter ready to pounce on its prey.
"Miss Hong, what brings a beauty like you to my humble abode?"
Xiao Hong looked at the servant giving her a strange smile that made his ugly face all the more disturbing.
The thinly veiled disdain grew on her face, and she spat out, “None of your business!”
With that, she attempted to brush past him, but Bubai stepped right up to block her path.
Her eyes fshed with irritation as she tried to move to the other side, only to be blocked again!
Getting blocked twice, anger fred in the thorny rose’s narrowed eyes.
Gring at him with contempt written all over her face, her voice rose into a furious shriek, "Preposterous! How dare a lowly furnace like you get in my way!"
With simmering fury, Qi gathered toward her palm that wanted to strike out!
As if fate conspired to block her path…
Just barely after Xiao Hong’s intention to attack became evident, her wrist was locked by an iron grip!
Simultaneously, a pipe jutted out from the other’s mouth, blowing a whiff of smoke right into her face while a palm smmed into her belly, spping something right onto her navel!
Xiao Hong’s eyes widened in shock when she felt a force sealing her dantian!
Just when she wanted to escape, she was pressed against the wall by the strong body of a man! Both her hands were pinned, preventing her from tearing away the origin of the sealing force!
“Let go! Get your stinking body off me!” Xiao Hong tried to break free, but the tough body of Bubai didn’t even flinch under her thrashing!
Her struggles ultimately came down to nothing and her Qi fell into oppressive stagnancy.
When her wrists were finally released, Xiao Hong weakly sagged against the wall for support.
Catching sight of the ashes of a talisman scattering in the air, Xiao Hong’s eyes shot up to gre at Bubai, demanding an expnation, "What did you do to me?! How did you get your hands on a sealing talisman of this level- no-"
She seemed to have connected some dots and panic dawned on her face. “You—What did you do to him?!”
Bubai gave her a casual, disarming smile. “Sa… who knows?”
Xiao Hong stared at the man that grew increasingly dangerous in her eyes, and an incredulous fear was etched on her face when the suspicion crystallized into terrible certainty.
“Impossible! You—You killed him?!"
Bubai clicked his tongue softly, shaking his head.
"Oh, please choose your words wisely, Miss Hong. Don't go spraying blood indiscriminately. After all, how can a mere Qi-refiner like little me kill an official foundation realm cultivator, am I right?"
His logical retort brought a flicker of sense back into the panicking Xiao Hong's eyes, but a fraction of a second ter, she brushed aside his attempt to lead her thoughts astray.
Fixing him with a gre as if she were looking at a dead man, she venomously spat out her verdict.
"I don’t know what nasty tricks you used, but you won’t get away with this! Murdering the disciple of the Mo Cn? Just wait for death!"
Bubai chuckled at her accusation, “Haha, thank you Miss Hong for divining the myriad secrets of heaven, but instead of worrying about me, I think you should worry more about yourself."
His words hit home, reminding Xiao Hong of her current vulnerability.
Xiao Hong quickly edged away from him, hugging her own bosom defensively and stammered, "W-what do you want to do?"
"Oh, oh, nothing much. I only want to tell you an interesting story..."
Showing undisguised lust, Bubai's eyes raked over her figure tightly hugged by the bck qipao while casually telling his little story.
"There once was a man greedy for the foundation of a servant and threatens to force himself on her. The servant, unwilling to sacrifice her own cultivation, deceives the man, lures him out to a tower of a weakling, then murders him in cold blood, conveniently pinning the bme on the powerless captive-"
“Despicable!” Xiao Hong’s face twisted in outrage, and she spat defiantly, “No one will believe your nonsense!”
"Oh, they will." Bubai calmly countered and id out his “truth”.
"How many do you think saw you bring him here? Now, between a Qi-refiner and a foundation realm cultivator like you, who will the elders deem more likely to be the murderer?"
"No, Master won’t—" Xiao Hong desperately tried to refute, but Bubai cut her off sharply.
"Are you still hoping Elder Ma will protect you? Between giving up a servant who has lost favor and risking a rift in his retionship with Elder Mo, what do you suppose he will choose?"
“…” Xiao Hong gawked, the color draining from her face as she struggled to find words, but none came.
Sensing her vulnerability, Bubai struck while the iron was hot.
"So, Xiao Hong... do you now understand your situation?"
Feeling a hand touch the rose tattoo on her exposed thigh, Xiao Hong snapped back to reality and spped his hand away, furiously hissing, "Get your filthy hands off me!"
Bubai ughed darkly. "Haha... Feisty. But I wonder if you can still be so haughty once you get sent to the Public Commons."
Public Commons – the worse nightmare for women in the Sun Furnace Sect.
Xiao Hong tried but failed to hide the panic that was written on her face. It was only a brief moment, but that was all it took for Bubai to crack her defenses and close in on his prey.
Bubai breathed up her neck, “Do you want to live?”
Xiao Hong shivered at having her personal space invaded, but she still mustered some of her innate arrogance, gring at him with eyes abze with suppressed rage and contempt, “You have a way?! Tell me quickly, and I’ll spare your dog life!”
Her disgusting tone pushed him back, and Bubai’s eyes darkened ominously when they met her defiant stare.
“Oh, is that the attitude of someone asking for help? Heh.”
Bubai turned away as if he was ready to break off all negotiations.
"Wait!" A jade hand urgently grabbed his sleeve.
The owner of the fair hand itched her teeth with fury, yet she still reeled herself back from the brink of blind rage and squeezed out her most pleasant smile.
"My lord, what do you desire? Just tell Hong’er and Hong’er will satisfy you~"
Hearing the coquettish voice honeyed with false sweetness, Bubai slowly turned back, his gaze rudely appraising the thorny rose now wearing a face to please. “Hmm… that’s more like it.”
Pstering a lecherous grin on his face, Bubai went up to admire the rose.
“Yes, you’re not as untouchable as you think, woman.”
In response to his antics, the woman gunning to please went to bribe his little brother, “Yes… Anything for my lord…”
The handsy, rub-a-dub session was very wholesome.
Throughout, Xiao Hong did her best to keep her pleasing expression in check, even when his fingers ventured into the forbidden zone.
Happy with his exploration, Bubai pulled away. “Not bad. Very… cooperative.”
Xiao Hong lowered her head demurely to hide the revulsion burning in her eyes, squeezing out through clenched teeth, "My lord, may you tell Hong’er now?"
She was answered with his hand lifting her chin, forcing her to look right into his heated eyes. "Want to know?"
His thumb grazed over the mole on her chin and moved to rub her cherry-red lips while a sinister whisper set the tone for the deal, "How about you show some sincerity first?"
