Ruan Jiaojiao slept until the sun rose and lazily got up from bed.
She was in so much pain yesterday, excruciating pain. Even if she endured it and let Ye Hanzhou stick it all the way in, the two people’s first intercourse hadn’t gone smoothly at all. Every time he moved, a piercing pain would envelop her. And if he didn’t move, the feeling of being stuck at a deadlock would only vex her.
After such a torturous ordeal, neither party gained any pleasure out of it.
After Ye Hanzhou put the ointment on her, she weakly turned over and drifted off to sleep. Ye Hanzhou was also completely spent, not physically but mentally.
Fortunately, even though Ye Hanzhou’s bed skills weren’t much to speak of, he was still considerate. He fed Ruan Jiaojiao a hearty meal and hired a carriage, allowing the two to continue their journey.
In the next few days, Ye Hanzhou only booked a single room and the two would share the same bed but without any hanky panky ensuing, neither party making a move.
On one hand, Ye Hanzhou had done this out of safety, worried that Ruan Jiaojiao would be kidnapped away by another pervert in the middle of the night. As such, staying beside her was the safest option. Besides, he wasn’t the type to abide scrupulously and rigidly abide by etiquette like those from upright sects.
On the other hand, he wanted to cultivate feelings with Ruan Jiaojiao and take her in as his wife.
To take a girl from the Demonic Sect as his wife, people from the martial arts circles may perhaps may find it incomprehensible but Ye Hanzhou had always done things his way and never cared about how anyone looked at him.
“Did you just say you wanted to take me in as your wife?”
Ruan Jiaojiao had just drunk a sip of tea and nearly choked upon hearing his words.
Ye Hanzhou saw her put on a look of disbelief and had wanted to say something but Ruan Jiaojiao quickly waved her hands and interrupted him, saying.
“No. I don’t want to marry. If you’re trying to take responsibility for what happened yesterday, there’s really no need to! You already know how we from the Demonic Sect are. In any case, in your eyes, men are thieves and women are prostitutes, we can only think of evil and do evil, plus we simply have no moral integrity. Besides, Jianghu people never concerned themselves with such trifles. What happened that night was merely an accident, let’s just pretend nothing ever happened between us.”
Ruan Jiaojiao’s flurry of words completely made Ye Hanzhou stunned.
“Brother Ye. Truthfully, I didn’t have parents when I was young so I’m really grateful for your care during this period. I think of you like a brother so can you think of me as a sister too?”
Ruan Jiaojiao blinked her pure and innocent eyes, looking expectantly at Ye Hanzhou.
System, “….”
To call the other party as brother after sleeping with him, its host sure is amazing(ly shameless)!
Ye Hanzhou fell into silence.
He had imagined her reaction several times but had never expected she would respond like this.
Seeing Ye Hanzhou remain silent, Ruan Jiaojiao pursed her lips and called out sweetly.
“Brother Ye, tomorrow we’ll reach Xie Jia Town. I’ll be looking for my parents so you should attend to your matters. The road to Jianghu is far, if fate allows it, we may meet again.”
Ye Hanzhou mulled over the last sentence she spoke. Did she imply that she didn’t want be together with him?
Did she not like him at all?
The male lead was deeply hurt.
In the dead of the night, Ye Hanzhou sat alone in the tavern downstairs drinking alcohol. The more he drank the more he became gloomy, an impatient knot forming in the pit of his stomach, difficult to dispel.
Ye Hanzhou travelled around the country and came across many pretty daughters and several beauties. Many fell in love with him at first sight, hinting or indicating their intentions clearly. Some even audaciously and boldly cast aside their timidness and confessed their feelings to him yet his heart remained unmoved like still water from beginning to end.
He assumed that he had an inherently cold character, in all likelihood, used to being alone, but he never thought that he would fall so easily putty in another Demonic Sect girl’s hand.
Her scowls, her smile, her pouts and her mutterings, all pulled at his heartstrings.
However, he never expected to have his love unrequited.
Ye Hanzhou bitterly drank alcohol alone. Since the situation was like this, why did she agree to sleep with him?
Did he take advantage of her?
But as a girl, did she really not care for her chastity? She had already cooked rice with him <sup>1</sup> Cooking rice is a chinese euphemism for having already done the deed , how was she going to marry in the future?
Ye Hanzhou sank into endless conflicting thoughts whereas Ruan Jiaojiao at this moment, did not fare any better.
She was occupying the whole bed alone and was originally having an exceptionally sweet slumber.
However, she never expected that the quilt covering her would suddenly disappear, a cold chill assaulting her slender petite body, waking her from her sleep.
Ruan Jiaojiao opened her eyes and saw a man standing at the side of the bed, watching her, and her head turned blank for a moment.
“Envoy Bai?”
F*ck! How did Bai Jingyan find her?! And why hasn’t Ye Hanzhou sensed him at all?!
Ruan Jiaojiao’s drowsiness disappeared in an instant and she immediately sat up, staring blankly at Bai Jingyan as her brain started working quickly.
“I…I’ve been kidnapped!! I didn’t flee out of my own volition!!”
After settling on an idea, she immediately put it into action, leaping over to hug Bai Jingyan’s waist and crying aggrievedly.
However, contrary to her expectations, Bai Jingyan didn’t move a single jot, turning Ruan Jiaojiao’s scalp numb. She had spent a lot of effort currying favor with this fellow in the past and even though he did treat her well, he had deep thoughts and the care he had towards her didn’t reach Qi Shen’s level.
Recalling that the sect people mentioned that Bai Jingyan was cold and ruthless, dealing with people without any mercy, Ruan Jiaojiao earnestly tried to squeeze out a few sad tears from her eyes.
“Brother Bai…”
She softly called out but didn’t expect to receive a cold snort from Bai Jingyan in response.
“Brother Qi, Brother Ye…exactly how many brothers do you have?”
Ruan Jiaojiao was rendered stunned upon hearing Bai Jingyan’s slightly mocking words.
“Don’t assume that I didn’t know you crept into Qi Shen’s bed every night. Even if you were young and ignorant back then, clueless about the distance between man and woman, what of the current situation? Jiaojiao sure is skilled, with just one hand, you were able to hook in the almighty Ye Hanzhou whose 'sharp sword could sweep across 19 states”!
Following this, Bai Jingyan’s cold hand pinched her chin, making her look straight into his dark abyss-like eyes and as though her acupoint was pressed, her body turned stiff, unable to move a single muscle.
“Say, if that brat Qi Shen knew that his Jiaojiao had slept with a barbarian, what do you think he’ll do?”