Chapter 326: Yu Feng, You Kid Really Are a Tomboy in Disguise!
Chapter 326: Yu Feng, You Kid Really Are a Tomboy in Disguise!
"Buzz—"
A series of vibrations echoed through the quiet room.
In this pin-drop silence, the faint buzzing sounded exceptionally piercing, shattering the tranquility of the room.
Lin Qingmo snapped his eyes open.
The first thing he saw was the dazzling sunlight.
Immediately followed by a patch of dazzling, snowy-white skin.
A slender arm, yet possessing the strength of a long-term Cultivating Spirit Master, was firmly draped across his waist.
The fingertips were even unconsciously clutching the hem of his undershirt.
A well-proportioned and taut calf was even more unceremoniously wrapped around his leg.
A delicate and warm sensation was transmitted through the thin fabric of their clothes.
The faint, sweet scent of fruit wine lingered at the tip of his nose, tendrils of it drifting into his nostrils.
Lin Qingmo’s head buzzed as he realized exactly where he was.
Taking a deep breath, he forced himself to swallow the gasp that had nearly escaped his lips.
He moved very gently, carefully prying that arm off his waist finger by finger.
Just as he was halfway through, the person in his arms suddenly nuzzled his shoulder and mumbled unclearly, "A-Qing... don’t run... let’s drink more..."
Lin Qingmo froze instantly, even holding his breath as a drop of cold sweat slid silently down his temple.
He waited for a full three breaths.
Seeing that the person in his arms only smacked their lips and remained sound asleep, he finally let out a long sigh of relief.
With great effort, he managed to safely move the limbs wrapped around him.
Only then did he lift the quilt and step barefoot onto the soft cashmere carpet, his feet making no sound at all.
He tiptoed to the door, walked out, and closed it—the entire process was as smooth as flowing water, without making the slightest noise.
The moment the door clicked shut.
On the bed, Yu Feng, who had been closing her eyes, suddenly trembled her eyelashes and snapped them open.
A pair of lively almond eyes stared wide.
Her cheeks turned red from her ears down to her neck, so red they almost seemed to bleed.
She felt as if she were nailed to the bed, her whole body stiff.
Her mind uncontrollably and frantically replayed the scenes from last night.
"It’s fine, it’s fine. It’s just fruit wine, what kind of kick could it have!"
She remembered herself thumping her chest and shouting with heroic abandon at the time.
As it turned out, once the kick hit, she had completely blacked out.
She raised her hands to cover her burning face; her fingertips felt as hot as if they had just been fished out of boiling water, and she kept muttering to herself.
"I’m doomed, I’m doomed, I’m doomed... What on earth did I do last night?"
"I remember... it was A-Qing who sent me back to the dormitory... and then? What did I do after that?!"
Her voice even carried a hint of a sob.
"Was your brain caught in a door! Why did you drink so much!"
Scattered fragments of memory surged up frantically.
She remembered pouncing forward and death-gripping Lin Qingmo’s arm, refusing to let go of his shirt collar.
She had hung onto him like a koala, arms around his neck, refusing to let go for dear life.
In her memory, Lin Qingmo’s voice was helpless to the extreme: "Yu Feng, let go, you’re drunk!"
"I’m not drunk! I’m not drunk! Let’s drink! Let’s drink more!"
"You can’t even stand straight, what more are you drinking? Lie down—"
"I won’t! A-Qing, let me tell you... let me tell you a secret..."
"Stop talking and just go to sleep."
"I’m not sleeping! Did you know... I’m actually—"
The memory came to an abrupt halt there.
Yu Feng was completely petrified.
"What did I say? What exactly did I say?"
"I didn’t let my biggest secret slip, did I?!"
She slammed her face into the pillow and let out a suppressed wail, her voice trembling with tears.
"This is so embarrassing! How can I ever look A-Qing in the eye again!"
She wished she could dig a hole and crawl into it right then and there, never to see anyone again for the rest of her life.
But in the next instant, her movements suddenly froze, and her whole body went numb as if struck by the Nine Heavens divine lightning; even her blood seemed to freeze.
She instinctively looked down at her chest.
The Breast Binding Cloth that had been tightly wrapped was now completely undone at some point, lying loosely and crumpled on the white bedsheet.
The delicate skin of her chest was thus exposed to the cool air without any protection.
Yu Feng’s heartbeat instantly spiked to an inconceivable level.
Her vision even darkened in waves.
Only one thought remained in her mind.
"A-Qing... he didn’t notice, right? He definitely didn’t notice, right? He surely didn’t see anything, right?"
"No! He stayed with me all night, how could he not have noticed?!"
"It’s over... it’s all over... no matter which case it is, I’m finished..."
She gripped the bedding beneath her tightly, her cheeks so hot she could have fried a sunny-side-up egg on them.
Having been in the Royal Fighting Team in disguise for so many years, she had fooled everyone in the team; even Dugu Yan hadn’t seen through her female identity.
If Lin Qingmo found out, how could she face him in the future?
...
Outside, in the cold corridor.
Lin Qingmo leaned against the cold stone wall and let out a long breath of turbid air.
The tension that had been coiled in his chest all night finally dissipated.
He raised a hand to rub his brow, a helpless smile tugging at the corners of his mouth as he muttered softly, "Good grief, this one night was more exhausting than a battle."
He was now 100% certain that this Yu Feng was a girl in disguise.
He paused, looked down at his hand, then at the closed door, his voice so low it sounded like a self-reflection.
"Lin Qingmo, oh Lin Qingmo, with this self-control of yours, you really could go straight for the Titled Douluo rank. Anyone else would’ve probably lost it long ago."
Lin Qingmo shook his head vigorously, tossing all those messy, flirtatious thoughts out of his mind.
He patted his face: "Wake up, business first."
He then pulled out that still-slightly-warm ink-black Communication Token from his robe.
He slowly injected a wisp of spirit power into it, and the intricate patterns on the token immediately lit up with a faint blue glow.
A line of clear characters slowly emerged.
The moment Lin Qingmo’s eyes met that line of text, his whole body jolted.
"What?"
As if unable to believe his eyes, he read it again from beginning to end.
"The Four Single-Attribute Clans—Strength, Defense, Agility, and Breaking—have all been taken down by Master?!"
His hand holding the token trembled slightly.
The shock on his face gradually transformed into an irrepressible ecstasy.
His grin almost reached his ears, and even his eyes sparkled with an astonishing light of joy.
"Master—"
He took a deep breath, but his lowered voice couldn’t suppress that burning excitement.
"You don’t act often, but when you do, it’s a total game-changer!"
He looked down and carefully read that line of text three more times, confirming he hadn’t misread a single bit.
The more he looked, the more he wanted to laugh; the more he laughed, the more he couldn’t stop, his shoulders even shaking slightly.
If he weren’t afraid of disturbing Yu Feng, who was still acting like a koala in the room, he would have loved to burst into laughter right then and there.
With the Four Single-Attribute Clans removed, Tang San would lose a major source of support.
This was naturally something worth being happy about.
But Lin Qingmo also noticed that Master had captured the Four Single-Attribute Clans alive.
"How exactly did Sister Donghuang do it?"
Lin Qingmo couldn’t help but feel puzzled.
It had only been a few days since he and Sister Donghuang had parted ways. How did she manage to take down four factions located in different places without any word getting out?
"Could it be... Sister Donghuang has her own power base as well?"
He couldn’t help but overthink it.
After all, his Master, Sister Donghuang, was extremely mysterious; it seemed perfectly reasonable for her to have a mysterious power backing her.
(End of Chapter)
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