Zhou Yu’s slightly reddened lips slowly pressed against Jiang You’s full, healthy pink ones. A mere light touch sent a shiver through his entire body.
Like a starving beast, he couldn’t stop himself from devouring her lips more fiercely.
In a dim corner.
The moon pushed aside a layer of dark clouds, and cool moonlight poured down.
It slanted in through a small window, illuminating one of the young man’s eyes. It was a deep, inky black, rimmed with crimson. The corner of his eye was damp, heavy with lust.
His lips ground against the girl’s soft ones.
Like a terrifying, starving beast gnawing on something in the shadows of the corner.
The only sound in the air was a low growl, like that of a starving beast—a series of low moans escaping his throat as if he could no longer hold back.
The girl’s lips became swollen, red, and glistening.
Black snake scales slowly spread across Zhou Yu’s long neck, one by one, giving off a faint, scorching glow.
Zhou Yu grabbed the girl’s hand, pressing it to the beast-like features on his neck. The cool snake scales brushed against her skin as he, with lingering obsession, pressed his cheek to her hand. As her hand touched his face, the side of his cheek also began to be covered, one by one, by hot black scales.
The scales seemed to sprout in a hurry, as if every single one of them yearned to be touched by the girl’s hand, to press against her soft palm.
One side of his beautiful face, now completely covered in scales, pressed tightly against her palm.
"Baby..."
"Baby..."
...
He whispered it again and again, obsessed and twisted.
Jiang You was woken by a CLICK from the equipment room door. The sunlight streaming in was a bit harsh, making her eyes water reflexively.
The door opened, and the student on duty seemed to freeze at the sight.
Jiang You quickly got up. Without a glance at Zhou Yu or the student on duty, she walked straight out.
Zhou Yu also rose slowly.
As he passed the Beastman at the door, the person spoke up. "When are you sending the money?"
Zhou Yu didn’t look at him, his voice devoid of emotion. "Later."
The Beastman said no more.
Jiang You walked down the path.
A night had passed.
’Why do my back and waist ache?’ Well, that was understandable. She had slept sitting up and leaning against something, which was definitely not comfortable.
’But my lips hurt, and my neck is red and sore, too.’
’Were there mosquitoes last night?’
Jiang You found it very strange. ’Did I sleep too soundly last night?’
’It usually takes me several days to get used to a new bed, but last night I just fell asleep in an equipment room? Just like that?’
’And I slept that well? I didn’t wake up once the entire night.’
Jiang You looked down at the redness on her palm. ’It couldn’t be a mosquito bite. It looks more like it was rubbed by something.’
She suddenly remembered the milk that had tasted a bit strange. Her eyelid twitched. ’He didn’t add something to it, did he?’
Jiang You lowered her hand, curling it into a light fist. She was sure of it. ’Zhou Yu definitely drugged me.’
She pursed her sore lips.
’Damn it. If I’d known, I wouldn’t have drunk the milk. Or I would have just pretended to drink it and fall asleep to see what that yandere male lead would do to me.’
’It probably would have been pretty exciting.’
’Ahem, I wonder if there will be a next time.’
The tips of Jiang You’s ears turned red.
She quickly banished the lewd thoughts from her mind.
After leaving the equipment room, Jiang You’s terminal regained its signal.
She saw messages from her three minions and her simp, all asking if she wanted to go out and have fun.
Sometimes Jiang You didn’t reply to their messages, so they hadn’t thought much of it. They hadn’t come looking for her last night and naturally didn’t know she had been locked in.
Jiang You didn’t mention that she had locked someone in the equipment room only to get locked in herself. Instead, she just told her three minions to check yesterday’s surveillance footage of the equipment room.
She returned to her dorm, washed up, drank a nutrient solution, and then flopped onto her bed like a corpse.
Her terminal vibrated.
Jiang You saw a lot of messages, some from her class group chat and some from a group for the wealthy elite.
The messages in the class group chat.
Jiang You scanned them. It turned out the second-years were beginning their training in the Secret Realms. First-year students from the Healing System who wanted some early experience could sign up to team up with the second-year upperclassmen and enter the Secret Realms with them.
After all, whether one was raising a Healing Beast Soul or a Combat Beast Soul, you needed cultivation materials from the Secret Realms to nurture and advance the Beast Soul.
And Rose Liss College controlled tens of thousands of Secret Realm entrances, which were open only to the school’s students.
Of course, if you were short on cultivation materials, you could also go to places like the Exotic Beast and Insect Forest to obtain them.
However, the Secret Realms with the most precious materials were mostly controlled by the powerful nobles of the Empire.
Healing Soul Masters possessed no offensive capabilities, so students of the Healing System who wanted to cultivate their Beast Souls were best off finding a Combat Soul Master partner in advance.
Jiang You wasn’t worried. She was getting a real taste of what it felt like to be one of the Sky Dragon People.
The cultivation materials that others had to fight tooth and nail for in the Secret Realms, materials they couldn’t get even if they begged, Jiang You was feeding them to her Beast Soul like daily snacks.
After all, the Jiang Family was a major family, and her parents were from its most successful branch. She had no need to worry about cultivation materials and resources.
She summoned her two little pink cats. The automatic Beast Soul feeder was in the corner.
The two kittens went over to eat on their own.
The automatic feeder was filled with expensive nutrient solutions and processed, precious cultivation materials.
So, what came next in the story was the heroine fighting desperately through the Secret Realms.
Meanwhile, she, the villainess, spent all her time chasing guys and dating, only entering the Secret Realms for the end-of-month assessments.
This led to the villainess having a very strong healing ability but very little practical experience, and she often ended up dragging her team down.
Jiang You: ...
’In the future, I’m definitely supposed to court death again, but for my own peace of mind...’
’I need to level up in secret.’
As the villainess, she had several hundred low, medium, and high-level Secret Realms at her disposal, all given to her by her family, but she had never used them.
The original character felt that all she needed was to find a powerful Combat Soul Master.
Right now, she had already learned the equivalent of a middle school curriculum from Teacher Zhou. In another week, she would finish the high school curriculum and have a complete understanding of this world, since it was all theoretical knowledge anyway.
As for the college-level courses, the system wouldn’t let her listen in, so she had been studying them on her own in her dorm.
’Next week, the online classes will end, and I can start grinding in my private dungeons and leveling up in secret.’
’I have to play the part of a useless good-for-nothing, but I can’t actually be one, right?’
Jiang You had her plans all laid out perfectly.
Someone tagged her in the "Noble Ten" group chat again.
She glanced down and saw that it wasn’t just her being tagged, but everyone in the group.
Bai Sisi: @everyone, there’s a new plaything! [Pic of Handsome Guy][Pic of Handsome Guy][Pic of Handsome Guy]
The corner of Jiang You’s mouth twitched. ’These ignorant, idle women.’
But they were all Healing Soul Masters from noble, wealthy families. They didn’t need combat experience themselves when countless powerful Combat Soul Masters were there to protect them.
Their families also provided them with countless precious cultivation materials.
They simply didn’t need to struggle as desperately as the heroine.
Only Combat Soul Masters needed to constantly grind dungeons.