The spring breeze is just right, and flowers are blooming everywhere.
Qiu Su sat by the river, a gentle smile on her face as she watched the flowing water. Hmm, this setting didn't seem to suit her elegant image. Thinking this, Qiu Su stood up, her smile fading, and stood with her hands behind her back.
She heard footsteps behind her, and even without turning around, she knew who it was. The man took her hand and smiled, then used his other hand to turn her shoulder so that she was facing him.
She couldn't make out his face, but those bright, phoenix-shaped eyes warmed Qiu Su's heart. The man gazed intently at her, one hand gently stroking her cheek, a ticklish, tingling sensation. When Qiu Su looked up again, she saw a handsome face close to hers, a smile playing on his lips, making her blush and her heart race.
She drew closer, closer still, so close she couldn't see his features clearly. Qiu Su slowly closed her eyes, tilting her head slightly to receive the tender kiss.
Soft, like the steamed egg custard made by Aunt Zhou, warm and bouncy. His lips, after several tender moments, slowly climbed up to her earlobe. Qiu Su closed her eyes and tensed up, waiting for him to suckle her earlobe. The next moment, however, he slowly blew a breath of hot air into her ear.
"Wife?"
He called her "wife".
Qiu Su curled her toes from the heat, biting her lip but still couldn't help letting out a soft moan.
"Uh, what's wrong with Susu?"
In the wilderness at night, four people sat around a campfire, with another person nestled in Pei Yuan's arms, their face flushed. Beside them stood the listless mountain lord, and not far away stood two people driving a carriage. He Zhuo was startled by Qiu Su's soft, seductive moan, and quickly withdrew his head that had been leaning forward.
Pei Yuan looked at Qi Xiu expressionlessly. Qi Xiu coughed and said, "Peach Blossom Intoxication, Drunken Peach Blossom. It can hypnotize, and at the same time, it can make people recall some beautiful things. The way the young lady is acting, it's like, it's like..."
"Dreaming of porn!" Three gazes simultaneously shot over, and Huang Tao quickly covered her mouth. "I didn't say anything."
He Zhuo glared fiercely at Huang Tao, grabbed a piece of roasted rabbit meat, and took a bite. His anger flared, and he chewed the meat with a bitter, resentful glint in his eyes.
Pei Yuan looked at the charming smile on the woman in his arms and pinched her arm hard.
Qiu Su was surrounded by flowers, enjoying the gentle caress of a spring breeze, when suddenly the scene changed, and she found herself in a forest at night. She was pulled forward by an inexplicable force, and before she could dodge, a branch suddenly appeared in front of her, causing her to crash into it and her shoulder to ache and go numb.
"Wife?"
Someone called her again, and Qiu Su opened her mouth to answer, but no sound came out. For some reason, the branch that had just hit her flew up and crashed straight into her shoulder. Qiu Su was so frightened that sweat beaded on her forehead, but she couldn't move her feet. She strained to open her mouth, and felt a force break through the thick darkness. As the light came in, her throat let out a scream.
Qiu Su regained her strength in her legs and, without thinking twice, took off running.
Pei Yuan's ears rang from the scream. He pressed down on her kicking legs with one hand and held her tightly with the other to prevent her from jumping up.
Qiu Su stopped running when her legs gave out. Suddenly, she realized it was summer, so why were flowers blooming everywhere and a spring breeze blowing? Could it be...?
Qiu Su jolted awake, startled by the sight of a magnified face before her. She jumped back in surprise. Only after recognizing Pei Yuan did she secretly breathe a sigh of relief. But, wait, why does this person look so pale?
Qiu Su turned her head and saw He Zhuo with a piece of meat in his mouth that he forgot to chew, Qi Xiu with his eyes darting around, Huang Tao peeking through her fingers while covering her eyes, and the Mountain Lord tilting his head and shaking his ears as he looked at her.
"It's already evening?" Qiu Su subconsciously touched the corner of her mouth and asked with a frown.
Pei Yuan pulled Qiu Su to sit up. "Did you sleep well?"
Qiu Su recalled that passionate dream and blushed slightly with embarrassment. She moved to sit down to the side and took the roasted rabbit from Pei Yuan, asking, "Why aren't you staying at the inn?"
There are no inns in this mountainous area.
Qiu Su glanced at the strange expressions on the faces of the three people and the dog opposite her, moved closer to Pei Yuan, and whispered, "Am I having a fit?"
"No."
Qiu Su recalled the light that pierced through the night in her dream, and that shout, and said with a flushed face, "Are you talking nonsense?"
Pei Yuan smiled, "I told you."
"What did you say?"
Pei Yuan leaned in and touched her earlobe, whispering, "My wife says she wants to have a baby for me."
Teasing, blatant harassment.
Qiu Su coughed lightly, sat up straight with remarkable composure, and began earnestly gnawing on the rabbit meat in her hand. He Zhuo had been watching the two of them the whole time. Seeing Qiu Su sit up straight with a flushed face, he didn't say anything to mock Pei Yuan, who was smiling with narrowed eyes to the side. However, his eyes darkened, and he lowered his eyelids, his chewing movements becoming weak.
The atmosphere grew somewhat strange as everyone fell silent. The mountain lord sidled up to Qiu Su, took half a slice of roasted rabbit, and chewed it with a loud crunch. Qiu Su carefully reviewed her dream in her mind, and then looked at Pei Yuan with a strange expression.
Everyone says only repressed perverts would express their desires so openly. Could it be that she also has desires for Pei Yuan? And is so frustrated that she has to resort to dreams to fulfill them? Is she also a repressed pervert? Wow~~ How lewd and shocking! The person in the dream is definitely not her. Who? Who on earth dares to wear her clothes, impersonate her, and do such shameful things?
While Qiu Su was struggling with a mental battle, the mountain lord threw down the rabbit meat, pricked up his ears to listen to his surroundings, and let out a low whimper. Pei Yuan, alert, gave a sharp signal to the two on the outer perimeter, while quickly taking a few more bites of his own food.
He Zhuo and Pei Yuan rarely cooperated so well. At Pei Yuan's signal, He Zhuo pulled Qi Xiu and Huang Tao up and kicked out the already small fire. Qiu Su and Huang Tao immediately realized something was about to happen and followed the others, crouching low and hiding in the bushes. The Mountain Lord ran ahead and roared imposingly.
Qiu Su was worried, so she quietly called the mountain master over and pulled it into the bushes.
"Susu and He Zhuo, go first."
"And you?"
“I’ll be there soon.” Pei Yuan pushed Qiu Su to He Zhuo. “Go up the mountain, it’ll be easier to hide there. We’ll be fine once we’re in the city at dawn.”
He Zhu gritted his teeth, "Just who did you offend?"
"Hehe, who knew that a righteous person like me would always be hated by petty people."
"You're joking!" Qiu Su frowned and turned to He Zhuo, saying, "Take Qi Xiu and Huang Tao up the mountain first."
“Susu…”
"You dare disobey me, the chieftain?"
He Zhuo's face turned red with anger, and Qiu Su frowned even more as she watched the people fighting not far away.
This wasn't her leading the mountain lord to rob someone; even if she held a knife, she was just gesturing wildly. It was real; she could see the black-clad man fall with the shouts, see the sparks from the iron blades clashing, and hear the crisp sound that followed.