Chapter 51
Chapter 51
“Of course.”
Di Xiulan rubbed his lips and smiled, praising her. “You did very well in the dream.”
Ye Piaoling: “…”
This was fucking awkward!!
Ye Piaoling hurriedly tried to salvage her dignity. “Ahem. Back then, I pestered you day and night only so I could come back. In truth, I’m a person with very firm boundaries. It’s just that the Soul-Departing Dream was special. One wrong move and my soul would have scattered into nothing, so I was forced to distort my values a little…”
“You did nothing wrong.”
Di Xiulan said mildly, “Had it been anyone else, they might have died in the dream long ago.”
Ye Piaoling froze for a moment at that. Then, all at once, she understood something…
“You knew from the beginning that breaking the curse this time would drag me into a dream, didn’t you?!”
Ye Piaoling snapped, “No wonder you said before that I would have to pay with my life. So that’s what you meant!”
Di Xiulan still wore that gentle yet perverse expression, but beneath his tone lurked an absolute, chilling cruelty.
“Only by shattering the dream can the Soul-Departing Curse be fully lifted. It will never relapse again.”
Ye Piaoling glared at him furiously.
She suddenly realized that the man before her was even more heartless than the Big Demon King in the dream!
At least the Big Demon King had known to treat her well in the end. But Di Xiulan was the real thing-cold and indifferent, treating her like a tool from start to finish!
This man was simply…
A divine face with the heart of a beast!!!
“What? You came back alive, and you’re not happy?”
Ye Piaoling was so angry she could explode. Who would be happy after taking a trip through the gates of hell?!
She ground her teeth and thought to herself, It’s fine. You used me, but I want to use you too!
Just you wait!
Ye Piaoling huffed, looking at the man with an expression that said, Come on, let’s use each other, then. She said, “I helped you out big time this time. You have to give me some compensation, right?”
“What do you want?”
“That bathrobe you’re wearing.”
“…”
Ye Piaoling’s face darkened. “I risked my life for you. Don’t tell me you can’t even bear to part with a single bathrobe?”
“You stole this prince’s mask, asked for this prince’s belt, and now you want the bathrobe,” Di Xiulan said slowly. “After that, what else will you want?”
Ye Piaoling snorted.
That would depend on what the System wanted…
Ye Piaoling said, “Your Highness, I have given my body, heart, and life for you. Now I ask for nothing else. I only want one bathrobe of yours. That’s not too much, is it?”
Hearing this, Di Xiulan gave a low chuckle and did not press further.
He rose and walked elegantly into the room.
Ye Piaoling asked, “What are you doing?”
“Changing clothes.”
Ye Piaoling waited outside the door. Before long, the man came out after changing.
A black wide-sleeved robe-at first glance, it looked just like something the Big Demon King would wear.
“What you wanted.”
With a flick of his hand, Di Xiulan tossed the dripping-wet bathrobe to Ye Piaoling.
Ye Piaoling instantly pounced like a tiger and hugged the bathrobe to her chest as though she had obtained a priceless treasure.
“Your Highness, a pleasure doing business with you!”
Ye Piaoling said this in satisfaction, then turned to leave.
But then she seemed to remember something. She turned back and said seriously, “Your Highness, do you know that after spending so much time with the Big Demon King, whenever I look at you now, I always feel…”
“Feel what?”
“That you look so lewd!”
“…”
“Hahahahaha!”
After saying that, Ye Piaoling used her qinggong and shot up into the night sky, leaving with a long, ringing laugh.
Her silver-bell laughter lingered in the moonlight…
And did not fade for a long time.
Di Xiulan stood beneath the moon with his hands clasped behind his back.
Her wicked laughter still rippled by his ears, but what surfaced in his mind were those soft, sweet words.
“Big Demon King, I think I might have fallen for you…”
“Big Demon King, did you miss me?”
“Big Demon King, you’re getting nicer and nicer to me.”
“Big Demon King, how about letting me be on top tonight?”
In the Soul-Departing Dream, she had clung to him every day, calling him Big Demon King over and over.
Di Xiulan slowly closed his eyes.
She had said that later on, that Big Demon King had fallen in love with the young girl he imprisoned.
After a long while, the man let out a low laugh, as if mocking himself, the sound carrying a deep, unreadable meaning.
…
Ye Piaoling rushed back to the Prime Minister’s Mansion in high spirits.
The bathrobe was in hand, the Regent King’s Three-piece Set was complete, and she could not wait to claim her reward!
Twelve nights of Soul-Departing erotic dreams had passed, but only two hours had gone by in reality.
In the dead of night, the entire Prime Minister’s Mansion was asleep.
Fox Shadow was not in Luoying Garden either. She had probably gone to make a coffin for her.
Ye Piaoling ran all the way back to her room in one breath.
In the fish tank, the Koi was still floating belly-up as usual. Sensing her return, its eyeballs moved.
This damn woman was clearly wrapped in that man’s aura!
That aura made it both fearful and hateful.
From the looks of it, she must have gone to Chonghua Palace this time and done something shameful with Di Xiulan…
The Koi spat out a bubble resentfully and silently cursed: Di Xiulan, that demon! Such perfectly good food, and he had ruined it like this!
Ye Piaoling ignored the Koi and went straight into her inner bedroom, shutting the door tightly.
Then she called out anxiously: [System, Sand Sculpture, is your microphone fixed?]
[Ding! Your Sand Sculpture microphone has been fixed! Host, can you hear me? Hello? Hello, hello… Hello, hello, hello?]
Ye Piaoling: [Stop hello-ing. I can hear you. The bathrobe is here. Hurry up and give me my reward.]
Sand Sculpture System: [Wow! Host, you’re amazing! How did you get it?]
Ye Piaoling did not want to bring up that dark chapter of her history at all. She said irritably, [You were with me the whole time. Don’t you know how I got it?]
Sand Sculpture System: [This System went back to the System Realm to repair the microphone. I only just got back, so I didn’t see anything.]
[You didn’t see anything?] Ye Piaoling breathed a sigh of relief. [Even better that you didn’t. Some scenes are worth missing.]
The System asked nosily: [Did you strip the bathrobe off him yourself, or did he take it off on his own?]
Ye Piaoling: [He took it off on his own.]
[What? He actually took off his clothes for you voluntarily?!]
The Sand Sculpture System was extremely excited and could not help letting out pig-like squeals. [Awooo, awooo! Host, you really didn’t disappoint me!]
[Cut the crap…]
Ye Piaoling said speechlessly, [Where’s my mystery grand prize? Hurry up and give me my mystery grand prize!]