“Qingxue?”
Ao Xue suddenly opened her eyes and fixed Ye Shu with a frigid stare. Her icy voice filled the entire courtyard with a deep chill, like a frost in the third month of spring.
“Whose name did you just call?”
Ye Shu shuddered, his mind snapping back to reality.
When he saw the cold look in Ao Xue’s eyes, he was immediately startled and inwardly groaned.
Oh no, oh no. He’d committed a major taboo!
The worst thing a man could do in front of a woman was mention another woman’s name—especially in front of a woman who had just been demanding a proper status from him. Ye Shu’s thoughts raced, and he forced out an awkward smile.
“You—you heard wrong. I said Ao Xue. Ao Xue.”
“Ao Xue?”
Ao Xue stared coldly at him. “Do you take me for a fool? You clearly called out Qingxue just now!”
What a heartless bastard. He had one woman in his arms while thinking about another.
No wonder the bastard had suddenly become so cooperative. He had been treating her as someone else’s replacement!
Scumbag! Pervert! Bastard!
“Uh…”
Ye Shu’s eyes darted about as he struggled to come up with an explanation.
As the saying went, seeing something could stir up old feelings. On top of that, Ao Xue’s behavior just now had been remarkably similar to Lin Qingxue’s, causing him to lose himself in the moment.
He scratched his head. In the end, he decided to face the matter head-on.
“That’s right. I was calling Qingxue!”
Ye Shu puffed out his chest and spoke with righteous conviction. “So what if I called Qingxue? She’s the person I’ve missed with all my heart, the one who haunts my dreams, the person I owe the most in this life. What’s wrong with calling her a couple of times?”
Since he’d been found out, Ye Shu simply stopped pretending.
He was coming clean!
Straightening his back, he showed no fear despite the steadily dropping temperature. He met Ao Xue’s gaze head-on.
Ao Xue was so furious that her whole body trembled, yet she had no idea what to do about him.
“Fine!”
“You’re very impressive, aren’t you?”
She pointed a trembling finger at Ye Shu’s nose. “Listen carefully. You will never leave this place! Not unless you give me a dragon heir!”
It was an order, not a request.
Ao Xue was genuinely angry now. She had never met someone so shamelessly pleased with himself after taking advantage of another person.
“You?”
Ye Shu glanced at her, his face full of disdain.
“Are you even capable of that? Do you know how children are made?”
He wasn’t entirely to blame for saying such a thing. In his experience, a dragon like her probably didn’t even know the difference between male and female anatomy, much less how to produce a dragon heir.
“I’m not capable?”
Provoked by his words, Ao Xue immediately pointed at herself and shouted furiously, “Who are you saying isn’t capable? Who are you saying isn’t capable? It’s only having a dragon heir!”
“I can give you one in minutes!”
With that, golden light blazed in her dragon pupils. Her entire body shot forward like a cannonball, knocking Ye Shu to the ground. She pinned him down and sat astride him, looking down from above.
“A Zhen, you’re really doing this?”
Seeing the golden flames burning in her eyes, Ye Shu swallowed nervously.
No way. Did she actually know what she was doing?
Just as he was thinking this, Ao Xue grabbed his collar with her right claw and gave it a violent yank.
Riiip—
The sound of tearing fabric rang out.
The night breeze from outside brushed against them. Ye Shu, now bare-chested, shivered violently, and his expression instantly fell.
Oh no. It seemed he had taken things too far.
He was about to be forced again. This was going to be humiliating.
“I-I’m sorry, Qingxue.”
Ye Shu closed his eyes as two streams of tears slowly rolled down the corners.
However…
Ao Xue didn’t make a move for a long time.
When he noticed this, Ye Shu cautiously lifted his eyelids. Ao Xue was staring at his upper body with a completely baffled expression, her eyes as blank and confused as those of a newborn fish.
Well, so she really had no idea what to do after all.
“If you don’t know what to do next, could you let me go first?”
Ye Shu spoke weakly.
“My back is getting cold against the floor.”
Ao Xue’s brows knitted together. She glared at him and shouted, “Shut up! What do you know? Have you ever had a child with anyone else? I’m just taking a moment to get into the mood!”
“Oh. All right, then. Keep taking your time.”
Ye Shu lay on the ground with an utterly lifeless expression and peacefully closed his eyes.
Things had already come to this. He might as well get some sleep.
Meanwhile, Ao Xue bit down on her silver teeth, her mind a complete mess.
How could she possibly know how to produce a dragon heir?
But if she gave up now, wouldn’t that make her look useless and let this fellow laugh at her?
Damn it, Ao Xue. You can’t let anyone look down on you.
Brain, start thinking!
After thinking for a full thirty seconds, Master Ao Xue finally decided to let instinct take the place of reason.
A little wildness was probably necessary at a time like this.
Ao Xue stared at Ye Shu’s bare upper body and swallowed. She could clearly feel a certain longing rising within her, as though she wanted to devour him whole.
But she had absolutely no idea what to do next.
“Should I… start with a kiss?”
Ao Xue remembered giving him artificial respiration. She had felt something similar back then—and had experienced immense satisfaction.
It must have been because of the kissing!
Once the thought occurred to her, she acted on it. Ao Xue immediately bent down and began kissing Ye Shu’s mouth with wild enthusiasm, nearly sucking the poor man into hypoxia.
As she kissed him, she felt that longing gradually being satisfied.
But soon, as the kiss deepened, an even stronger desire rose within her. Ao Xue’s body shifted restlessly atop Ye Shu’s, as if trying to dispel the sensation.
All she knew was that pressing herself against Ye Shu felt wonderful.
This had to be right.
But what came next? She had no idea!
With her eyes closed, she surrendered herself completely to instinct. She clumsily tugged at their clothes while refusing to break the kiss. By the time the two of them were pressed together bare-skinned, Ye Shu’s lips were nearly swollen from her kisses, and he wore an utterly resigned expression.
“It’s not enough. It’s nowhere near enough!”
Ao Xue frowned. It was as if she had already reached the doorway but couldn’t find the threshold, leaving her to awkwardly wander outside while following her instincts.
Under normal circumstances, the instincts of two natural creatures would be enough to complete the act without any instruction. The problem was that one of them wasn’t cooperating, leaving Ao Xue unable to find the way forward.
As a result, all she could do was lick and fumble around uselessly.
By the middle of the night, with the bright moon hanging high overhead, she still hadn’t figured it out. Nearly exhausted, she was drenched in sweat and lay sprawled across Ye Shu, panting heavily.
Ye Shu lifted his head and gave her a disdainful glance.
“Look at you. Besides getting drool all over me, what else can you do? You’re completely useless!”

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