“Wait, wait a moment! I want to go this way!”
A few minutes later, Su Mu started acting shamelessly again, trying to take back her move.
But this time, Chen Qing wasn’t going to let Su Mu get away with it so easily.
She pressed down on Su Mu’s finger that was on the chess piece, looking at her with a face full of smiling intent.
“No take-backs once a piece is placed. How can Shizun casually take back her move like that?”
As she spoke, Chen Qing’s gaze fell on Su Mu’s slender and delicate figure. She glanced at the coat lying on the ground, the meaning in her eyes self-evident.
“I-I just made the wrong move!”
Su Mu bit her plump, moist red lips, saying it somewhat reluctantly.
Su Mu looked at Chen Qing with a pitiful expression, trying to use her superb acting skills to soften Chen Qing’s heart and let her off once.
“No take-backs. If Shizun doesn’t show some sincerity, I’m going to make my next move.”
Of course, Chen Qing wasn’t fooled by Su Mu’s amateurish acting. She continued smiling, tempting her while laced with a threat.
“Forget it. I don’t have the touch today. No more Chinese chess—let’s compete at something else.”
After exchanging just a few moves with Chen Qing, Su Mu knew that even she, who had beaten all the old men in the neighborhood, couldn’t defeat this detestable Villain.
Even if she got a chance to take back her moves, she still might not win.
She should quickly find some other weakness of hers instead.
However, Su Mu, who wanted to act shamelessly, had clearly overlooked who exactly she was playing Chinese chess against.
The reason Chen Qing had sat down so calmly to play chess with her today was entirely because she was very interested in the condition Su Mu had promised earlier.
Now that she was playing dirty with her, Chen Qing had no intention of holding back any longer.
She stood up directly, her gaze unmasked as she stared at Su Mu’s bare, white, and soft little feet stepping on the floor.
“Y-You, what are you doing? I was just joking earlier. Let’s keep playing chess.”
Chen Qing’s brazen stare made Su Mu panic a little.
But now that she realized how arrogant she had been earlier, it was already too late.
Chen Qing kicked away the Chinese chess board with one foot and scooped Su Mu up into a princess carry, holding her in her arms.
Her smooth and soft little feet were completely exposed in the air without reservation. Looking at those small, jade-like toes, Chen Qing directly tossed Su Mu onto the bed.
“Wait, I-I was wrong! I won’t take back my moves anymore! Mmph~”
Su Mu looked fearfully at the approaching Chen Qing, begging nonstop from her mouth.
But her powerless pleas had no effect. Her cries laced with sobs, calling out “Sister Chen,” added other flavors to the orange-scented room.
In the afternoon, Chen Qing sat in front of the vanity, sorting through the Bamboo Slips she had brought back from the Wild Wolf Gang.
In truth, she hadn’t had any other intentions in subduing the Wild Wolf Gang. She had done it solely to cause trouble for that woman who would arrive in Cloud City a few months later.
Her original plans for Cloud City were, one, to befriend Mu Qiuzi, and two, to rest and recuperate a bit.
She hadn’t expected that by tracking this Traitorous Shizun last night, she would gain such an unexpected harvest.
Those masked Tomb Raiders had been that woman’s subordinates in her previous life and had contributed to the siege against her.
She never imagined they would fall into her hands in this life.
However, Chen Qing had already figured out how to deal with them.
She was currently short on manpower under her command, and they had some skills. For now, she would intimidate and subdue them.
Once she accomplished her goal, she could use their hands to insert herself into the forces of the Jianghu.
As for these Bamboo Slips, Chen Qing planned to give them to Mu Qiuzi and have the Departing Cloud Merchant Association keep an eye on the Wild Wolf Gang through them. It would serve as her first meeting gift to that woman.
It would also earn her a favor from Mu Qiuzi.
Once she had it all planned out, Chen Qing turned her head to glance at the soundly sleeping Su Mu and set down the Bamboo Slips in her hand.
The troublesome task of sorting the Bamboo Slips could be left to Mu Qiuzi.
She would be leaving Cloud City tomorrow, so she needed to rest properly as well.
Chen Qing stepped onto the floor and stood up. The warm glow of the setting sun sprinkled over her body as she slowly walked to the sleeping Su Mu.
After Chen Qing’s merciless punishment earlier, Su Mu no longer even had the strength to cry and was sleeping very deeply.
Chen Qing lifted one corner of the quilt, intending to slip inside.
But as soon as she lifted it, Su Mu tugged it back.
Su Mu hugged the quilt tightly to her chest, mumbling hazy sleep-talk from her mouth.
Looking at Su Mu’s obedient sleeping face, Chen Qing placed her cold fingers on her soft cheek.
This foolish Shizun, who carried a hint of silliness, really didn’t make her think of that cold-eyed person who had thrust a sword into her heart.
“Are you deceiving me again, or have you always been like this?”
Gazing at the person before her, Chen Qing’s eyes grew complex as she zoned out slightly.
However, Chen Qing’s fingers on Su Mu’s face made her feel a bit uncomfortable, and she unconsciously swatted them away.
Her mumbled sleep-talk grew a bit louder.
“You just wait—a gentleman takes revenge, but only after ten years!”
The “you” in Su Mu’s sleep-talk was naturally the Chen Qing standing right in front of her.
Seeing the Traitorous Shizun dreaming of revenge against her, Chen Qing suppressed the complexity in her heart.
Regardless of whether this Traitorous Shizun was acting or not, she would first make her repay part of the debt from her previous life with her body.
With that thought, Chen Qing violently yanked away the quilt covering Su Mu and slipped inside.
However, Su Mu was sleeping very deeply and merely shrank her body uncomfortably before continuing to sleep.
After lying down, Chen Qing pulled Su Mu into her embrace.
The sleeping Su Mu, without her usual mischief, showed a rare obedience and docility.
Chen Qing felt that she was quite cheap. This person had ruthlessly betrayed her in her previous life.
Yet whenever she provoked her or lied to her, she always subconsciously forgave and tolerated it.
Now, holding her, her heart felt unusually calm for once.
If Su Mu’s actions had been done by anyone else, they would have been chopped to death by her a hundred times over.
“So cold.”
While Chen Qing was lost in thought gazing at Su Mu’s pretty face, Su Mu, who had part of the quilt taken away, felt a bit cold and mumbled as she instinctively snuggled closer into Chen Qing’s warm embrace.
“If she were this obedient all the time, things would be so much easier.”
With Su Mu in her arms, the warm and steady feeling made Chen Qing gradually grow drowsy as well.
In her sleep, Su Mu felt herself entwined by a terrifying giant python.
The python wrapped tightly around her waist, squeezing so hard that her breathing became labored.
The suffocating pressure of difficult breathing jolted Su Mu awake from her dream.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw the sleeping Chen Qing.
To be fair, Chen Qing was extremely beautiful, with long, curved eyebrows and crimson lips bearing an alluring sheen of moisture.
Her jet-black hair draped over the pillow, her eyes closed, her stunning face carrying an innate coldness that kept people at bay from a thousand miles away.
If the great beauty sleeping beside her weren’t the detestable Villain Chen Qing, but someone else…
With this perfect level of looks, Su Mu might have been moved without needing any persuasion.
But there were no ifs—this was the bad woman who bullied her every day. No matter how good-looking she was, she was still a bad egg.
Moreover, Chen Qing had now wrapped her long, white legs tightly around her body. Su Mu felt like she was about to go meet the Lord up above.
