Autumn leaves rustled in the breeze as the setting sun sank toward the horizon.
Ye Shu knelt on one knee, both hands still wrapped around Ao Xue’s petite, exquisitely flawless foot. He kneaded it absentmindedly, staring at her with a blank expression.
“A-a dragon heir?”
He stammered the words, then asked again to make sure he had heard correctly.
“You mean you want me to give you a dragon heir? I didn’t hear you wrong, did I?”
“A dragon heir means... the child of a dragon.”
“In other words...”
“That’s right!”
Ao Xue straightened her back and nodded with utmost seriousness. “Exactly what you’re thinking, you rascal!”
Oh, for crying out loud...
The moment she said it, Ye Shu nearly lost his composure.
As everyone knew, in Ao Xue’s eyes, she intended to raise Ye Shu as a pet. Whether he acknowledged it or not, that was clearly how she saw things.
In other words...
Wasn’t this, by extension, basically saying that he was supposed to sleep with a cat?!
Was she even human?!
Ye Shu shuddered, suddenly feeling cold all over.
He should have realized it sooner. She had claimed she was capturing him to keep as a human pet, but then she had arranged this courtyard for him, fed him well, provided for him, and restricted his movements. How was that raising a human pet? This was clearly keeping him as some kind of star slave!
“I thought our relationship was nothing more than that of a pure and innocent pet and its owner.”
At that thought, Ye Shu shook his head in disappointment.
“But in the end, you’re still after my body.”
Ao Xue’s eyes widened, and her brows shot up. “Even pets and their owners need a dragon heir! Otherwise, who will shoulder the future of the beast clans?”
“Got it!”
Ye Shu’s eyes spun as he flashed a sly grin.
“It’s only a dragon heir, right? Easy. I have a way. I can get one for you right now.”
“R-really?”
Ao Xue looked at him suspiciously.
“But I heard that the birth of a dragon heir requires... and that it’s extremely difficult to conceive one. Otherwise, my father wouldn’t have lived all these years and ended up with only one dragon child—me.”
“Don’t worry. I’ll produce one for you right now!”
Ye Shu waved his hand with tremendous confidence.
Seeing how certain he was, Ao Xue began to waver. She gave a coquettish huff and folded her arms.
“You’re always making grand claims. Fine, then. I order you to produce a dragon heir right now.”
“If you can’t... if you can’t...”
She hesitated several times, then suddenly licked her lips. Staring at Ye Shu’s mouth, she revealed a lecherous smile.
“If you can’t, I’ll punish you by making you give me artificial respiration a hundred times!”
“Oh, come on—a hundred rounds of artificial respiration...”
Ye Shu wiped the sweat from his forehead, then revealed a confident smile.
“But I absolutely refuse to lose!”
“Watch closely!”
“Hmph. Let’s see what you’ve got.”
Ao Xue folded her arms and waited expectantly. No matter what Ye Shu did, it could only benefit her. Besides, although she didn’t really understand how dragon heirs were born, it was obviously impossible for him to produce one without her involvement!
“How should I kiss her? Heh heh...”
She had already begun fantasizing about the kisses to come.
No wonder all those people liked circling around the Big Bad. So kisses were something to look forward to this much? The tremendous sense of satisfaction that came from receiving affection from someone else truly made one feel happy from the inside out.
No, she was getting ahead of herself.
The important thing right now was the dragon heir! The dragon heir!
Realizing that her thoughts had wandered, Ao Xue immediately pulled herself back to reality. She cleared her throat and said solemnly, “Are you ready? Do you need a few days?”
“Let me make this clear first: if it takes too long, it doesn’t count...”
“There’s no need for that!”
Ye Shu waved his hand grandly, revealing a confident smile.
“What?” Ao Xue was stunned.
In the next moment, Ye Shu slowly rose to his feet and suddenly pressed down toward Ao Xue, who was seated in the bamboo chair. One hand passed through her hair while the other gently lifted her chin. With his deep eyes, he gazed at her as though she were something sacred.
Ye Shu’s handsome face was reflected in Ao Xue’s dragon eyes.
With him suddenly so close, she was at a complete loss. Frozen in place, her heart pounding wildly, she asked in a panic, “W-what are you trying to do?”
Could it be... could it be that...?
At that moment, Ao Xue suddenly remembered the picture books she had read before. In those books, the male and female leads would lie together on a chair or a bed, and after a few pages, they would have a chubby baby.
Could this be his method?
“What should I do?”
“Why is my heart beating so fast...?”
Pure by nature, Ao Xue had no idea what was supposed to happen next. She only felt hot all over, her body going limp and completely devoid of strength.
“N-next comes the kiss, right?”
Ao Xue subconsciously closed her eyes, preparing to receive the kiss she had been longing for. But then, a barely audible voice suddenly sounded beside her ear.
“Mommy.”
Though the voice was soft, it was perfectly clear.
Ao Xue: ?!!!!
She abruptly opened her eyes and saw Ye Shu looking at her as though she were his mother. His expression was filled with trust and childish adoration, as if he truly were the offspring she had just given birth to.
“You bastard, what are you saying?!”
The atmosphere she had worked so hard to create was ruined. Ao Xue shoved him away in exasperation and cursed furiously, “Who’s your mother?! Who’s your mother?!”
“You are my mother.”
Ye Shu looked at her with complete seriousness.
“Didn’t you want a dragon heir? You’re a dragon, and now you’re my mother. Doesn’t that make me your child? Since you’re a dragon, I’m naturally a dragon heir!”
“See? The dragon heir is right here!”
“Scallions and fish chunks!”
“Damn you! Haji-Shu, you rascal!”
Ao Xue was so angry that her teeth ached. She had thought he was going to kiss her, only to discover that he had been setting her up all along!
He was clearly making fun of her!
“Are you joking with me?” Ao Xue asked through clenched teeth, forcibly suppressing her anger.
“You were the one who started joking first.”
Ye Shu shrugged innocently. “You came right out and asked me to give you a dragon heir. Do I look like the kind of man who’s so loose that any good-looking woman can hop aboard without even paying, like some kind of free bus?”
“Are you saying you’re not?”
Ao Xue thought about it, but in the end, she swallowed the words.
Because, judging by appearances, he really did seem like that sort of person.
Perhaps feeling that she had lost face after being toyed with, Ao Xue stood up and folded her arms. With a cold huff, she explained, “You don’t think I particularly want to have a dragon heir with you, do you?”
“Then why bring it up?”
Ye Shu looked at her in confusion.
Ao Xue raised her chin and spoke as though it were only natural.
“Aren’t you supposedly... well, I forgot what came before, what came in the middle, and what came after. In short, you’re the dream lover of countless young women, the object of admiration of countless fairy maidens, the person countless young prodigies look up to, and the Unparalleled Greatest Prodigy Under Heaven in the entire history of the Profound Sky Continent?”
“If your bloodline were to merge with mine...”
A sharp glint flashed through her eyes.
“Wouldn’t the dragon heir born from our union possess the strongest bloodline in the entire world?”
As she said this, she made it sound as though she were doing it entirely for the future of the beast clans.
“An excellent reason.”
Ye Shu nodded. “But I refuse.”
He turned to Ao Xue, his expression utterly serious. “I don’t want my bloodline to be some tool bearing the hopes of an entire clan. It should be nothing more than the crystallization of my parents’ love.”
At that, Ao Xue could no longer hold herself together.
She stomped her foot in exasperation and pointed at Ye Shu’s nose as she scolded him, “You really don’t know how to appreciate my kindness!”
“Do I really have to spell it out for you?”
“It’s because I had to give you mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to save your life! My first kiss, which I’d treasured for so many years, was sacrificed for you! You can’t just let that go to waste, can you?!”
Hearing this, Ye Shu’s mouth twitched.
“The problem is, I never forced you to give me mouth-to-mouth. It wasn’t something I asked for.”
The moment he said that, Ao Xue grew even angrier.
“Oh! So it’s fine as long as you didn’t ask for it?”
She pointed at Ye Shu’s nose, her fury soaring to the heavens. “What about my chastity, then? Are you saying that if one day you were afflicted with some kind of aphrodisiac poison and would drop dead on the spot without a woman to help you, and I saved you by sleeping with you, then it still wouldn’t count as something you wanted?”
“So you wouldn’t have to take responsibility either?”
“This…”
Ye Shu stared blankly at Ao Xue’s furious expression, but his mind conjured up the image of another girl dressed in pink. Her cheeks were round and chubby as she sat on the bed, glaring at him angrily.
“If you were poisoned by some kind of aphrodisiac and had your way with me, would that mean it wasn’t something you wanted? Would that mean you didn’t ruin my chastity? Would that mean you wouldn’t have to take responsibility?”
Meanwhile, Ao Xue watched Ye Shu’s dazed expression and let out a soft snort.
It seemed her words had touched the depths of his soul.
Once he figured things out, wouldn’t he obediently give in?
Just then, Ye Shu suddenly reached out and gently caressed her cheek. His voice was hoarse.
“I’m sorry…”
“Huh?”
Ao Xue froze for a moment, then said somewhat bashfully, “A-Actually, it’s nothing. I was also…”
She had yet to finish speaking when Ye Shu’s next words slipped out.
“I’m sorry, Qingxue…”
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