Chapter 3
Gu Jiuge was struggling against the flames of desire that continued rising inside her, completely unaware that her voice carried a hint of seductive allure.
Inside the room, Lian Yunjin got up and opened the door. Seeing Gu Jiuge’s desire-flushed face, she frowned slightly.
The fire in Gu Jiuge’s heart burned away more and more of her senses. She wanted to ask for help while she was still lucid, but the moment she opened her mouth, a soft moan broke the brief silence.
The sound that involuntarily escaped her lips made Gu Jiuge wish she could crawl into a hole and hide.
Could this damned side effect really be called an arousal period?
This was clearly a heat!
Entering heat in front of a woman who was nominally her brother’s fiancée was such an embarrassing experience that she would never forget it for the rest of her life.
“Does it feel unbearable?” Fortunately, Lian Yunjin spoke and broke the awkward silence.
“Mm-hmm.” She nodded rapidly, feeling her cheeks flush bright red. “Sister Lian, how exactly do I resolve this condition?”
Droplets of water clung to Gu Jiuge’s soaking-wet hair and slowly trickled down onto the rounded shoulders exposed above her bath towel. Her shoulders were tinged a faint pink, resembling translucent jade that inspired longing in anyone who saw it.
Her bright, watery eyes remained fixed on Lian Yunjin. She was completely unaware that they had been rendered seductive and enchanting by lust, their shifting gaze captivating enough to unsettle anyone’s heart.
As expected of someone with a supreme-grade cultivation-cauldron constitution!
Although Lian Yunjin was secretly alarmed, she calmly circulated the spiritual energy inside her body and skillfully concealed the brief moment when her composure faltered.
“Where’s your brother?” Lian Yunjin asked. “I specifically called and urged him to come back. He still hasn’t returned?”
“Does this… have to be resolved by my brother?” Gu Jiuge’s thoughts galloped wildly like a horse without reins.
It was normal for an older brother who doted on his younger sister to help her in everyday life, but this was a heat…
Could the author have deliberately omitted the method for resolving this plot hole because the process was too incestuous to describe?
“He has more experience.”
Hearing this, Gu Jiuge wanted to bash her head against the door.
“Sister Lian, you and my brother are engaged, after all. Don’t you have any thoughts about him doing something so depraved?” Gu Jiuge asked cautiously, her emotions complicated.
“Depraved?” Lian Yunjin repeated in surprise, then raised her eyes and carefully examined Gu Jiuge’s flushed face.
“You’ve already started speaking nonsense. It seems we can’t wait for Gu Chengze to return.”
“Forget it. I’ll help you.”
Huh?
As Gu Jiuge stared blankly, Lian Yunjin glanced at her, reached out to take her wrist, and led her over to the sofa in the living room.
Because Lian Yunjin was holding her hand, Gu Jiuge once again caught the refreshing, cool fragrance she had smelled more than half an hour earlier.
She involuntarily wanted to move closer again.
Gu Jiuge now understood that this involuntary attraction was merely an illusion created by her garbage constitution. She therefore bit the tip of her tongue and used the sharp pain to desperately restrain her longing for that cool fragrance.
“Close your eyes and lie down on the sofa,” Lian Yunjin said indifferently.
Gu Jiuge was a little poplar tree, straight as could be. No matter how fiercely the flames of desire burned inside her, she could not shatter her moral principles and do that kind of thing with Lian Yunjin.
She shook her head repeatedly.
The beautifully patterned coffee table beside the sofa appeared quite sturdy. There was a high chance she would immediately lose consciousness if she struck her head against it.
Falling unconscious and remaining oblivious until the arousal period passed seemed feasible.
This was the only solution Gu Jiuge could think of at the moment. Summoning all her strength, she threw herself toward the coffee table.
Unexpectedly, she instead crashed into a place where the cool fragrance was even stronger.
“I know you hate your arousal periods, and I know you don’t want to trouble me.” Lian Yunjin’s usually cool voice softened slightly. Holding Gu Jiuge in her arms, she used spiritual energy to strike several acupoints.
“But this is an exceptional situation. If your spiritual energy isn’t regulated soon, your body will suffer severe aftereffects. I can’t allow you to behave willfully and keep waiting for Gu Chengze.”
“Let’s begin.”
Mmph, mmph, mmph…
Gu Jiuge’s eyes widened. She could not move, nor could she speak.
She could only watch helplessly as she was carried onto the sofa.
Lian Yunjin’s fingers slowly settled against her wrist. The light touch of her fingertips brought a shiver of pleasure, causing the unbearable sensation inside Gu Jiuge to gradually dissipate.
Gu Jiuge never imagined that after transmigrating into a book and escaping being raped by that wretched man, she would end up doing that kind of thing with the woman engaged to her brother…
Such an awful transmigration experience probably made her a disgrace to the entire transmigration community.
[Host, your imagination has gone much too far. Even this system can’t bear to watch anymore.]
[Lian Yunjin is merely helping you regulate your spiritual energy. What exactly were you imagining?]
Huh?
Only then did Gu Jiuge realize that those cool fingers had not done anything inappropriate. They were merely resting lightly around her wrist.
Lian Yunjin sat quietly cross-legged beside her on the sofa, her other hand forming seals in gestures Gu Jiuge could not understand.
Afterward, the fingers resting around her wrist moved slowly, touching vital points such as the center of her chest and the area above her navel. The heat inside her surged toward those locations.
As the seconds and minutes passed, Gu Jiuge truly felt the restlessness inside her disappear.
Lian Yunjin exhaled a long breath of turbid air, opened her eyes, and released Gu Jiuge’s acupoints. “It’s done. Go back to your room and rest.”
Hearing this, Gu Jiuge got up and tentatively moved her body. Sure enough, she could move normally again.
Remembering the misunderstanding caused by her wild imagination, Gu Jiuge coughed awkwardly and thanked her. “Sister Lian, thank you.”
“There’s no need to thank me.” A peculiar flush appeared on Lian Yunjin’s cool, beautiful face. “Just don’t try to kill yourself again.”
“Kill herself?” Before Gu Jiuge could explain the misunderstanding, a man’s voice suddenly rang out. In the next instant, he appeared between them and stared at her in alarm and uncertainty.
Gu Chengze softened his voice and comforted her gently. “Jiuge, having this constitution isn’t your fault. From now on, I’ll try to stay by your side whenever your arousal period comes, all right?”
These deeply sincere words, filled with affection and concern, left Gu Jiuge, a complete stranger, at a loss.
She could only awkwardly agree.
“It’s getting late. Go to sleep first. You still have to intern at Sister Lian’s company tomorrow.” Gu Chengze smiled and gently urged her to leave.
Gu Jiuge had just finished taking the college entrance examination that year. During the summer before university began, she followed her brother’s suggestion and started an internship at Sister Lian’s company.
The reasons were that the job involved little work and paid well, and she could also put in a few good words for Gu Chengze in front of Lian Yunjin.
Tomorrow happened to be the first day of her internship.
The system had only just finished explaining this part of the plot when Gu Jiuge, who had returned to her room, heard an intense argument erupt outside.
Confused, Gu Jiuge opened her bedroom door and saw Lian Yunjin shove Gu Chengze out of her room with a livid expression, then hurl a soft blanket at him.
“Gu Chengze, living under the same roof as you is already the limit of what I’ll tolerate! Don’t push your luck and think you can grope me whenever you please!”
Gu Chengze casually picked up the blanket and said nonchalantly, “We’re officially engaged. Isn’t it perfectly normal for an engaged couple to share a bed and hold hands?”
Lian Yunjin replied coldly, “If your master hadn’t coerced and tempted my father, why would I ever have become engaged to you?”
Gu Chengze’s master was the elderly man with the bearing of an immortal.
“Who else do you want to marry, then? CEO Lian, you’re already engaged to me, so you should remain faithful and stop entertaining foolish ideas.” Spouting those male-chauvinistic remarks, Gu Chengze carried the blanket toward the sofa. “All right, I’m not in the mood anymore tonight anyway. I’ll sleep on the sofa if that’s what you want.”
He put down the blanket, turned around, and spoke suggestively to Lian Yunjin. “CEO Lian, if your qi and blood start surging tonight and become too much for you to bear, you’re welcome to come find me at any time. After all, it’s only natural for a fiancé to serve his fiancée.”
“I’ll never need you in this lifetime!” Lian Yunjin snorted coldly and slammed the door shut.
At that moment, the flush covering Lian Yunjin’s cheeks transformed into traces of frost.
A handsome smile played across Gu Chengze’s lips. Placing both hands behind his head, he turned around leisurely, preparing to lie down on the sofa.
The next moment, he saw Gu Jiuge peeking out through her doorway.
“Jiuge, children shouldn’t eavesdrop when adults are talking.” Gu Chengze smiled at her.
Gu Jiuge did not reply. She turned around, closed the door, and lay down on her bed.
Recalling her newly acquired brother’s frivolous remarks toward Lian Yunjin, Gu Jiuge inexplicably thought of her own greasy fiancé.
Even her fiancé’s occasional greasy behavior had made her extremely uncomfortable. Gu Chengze’s remarks were now even more frivolous and excessive than her fiancé’s. How had CEO Lian endured him?
The comments section had even said that Lian Yunjin would eventually love him enough to sacrifice her life for him…
If Gu Chengze did not change, just how badly would Lian Yunjin’s characterization have to collapse before she could fall in love with him?
As Gu Jiuge clicked her tongue, the system’s voice appeared in her mind again.
[Host, the side mission to preserve Lian Yunjin’s characterization has been activated. Her current character deviation is thirty percent.]
[The mission will be considered complete when her character deviation reaches zero.]
“Her deviation is already thirty percent, even like this?” Gu Jiuge asked in confusion.
Judging by the way Lian Yunjin had argued with Gu Chengze just now, Gu Jiuge thought her characterization was still perfectly intact, at least for the moment.
[That’s right. Lian Yunjin represents the modern independent woman who possesses autonomy over her life, career, individuality, and everything else.]
Hearing this, Gu Jiuge said thoughtfully, “If she represents independent women, then being unable to pursue what she wants and being forced into an engagement with Gu Chengze…”
“Could the engagement itself be what caused her characterization to collapse and deviate?” Gu Jiuge’s speculative tone rose several degrees. “If that’s true, wouldn’t I have to help her break off the engagement to reduce her character deviation to zero?”
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