Jiang You hurried to reply to Shen Lan.
If this guy didn’t get a reply, he’d come barging right over.
Jiang You: What’s up? I was about to go to sleep.
Shen Lan: I’m outside your dorm. Come out.
Jiang You’s eyelid twitched. She quickly got out of bed and went to open the door, still in her nightgown.
The moment the door opened,
Shen Lan grabbed the handle, and with a long stride, squeezed his whole body through the crack.
Jiang You instinctively stepped back. Shen Lan closed the door, and with a sweep of his long arm, pulled her into his embrace. His palm rested gently on the back of her head, his cheek pressing against hers. "Baby," he murmured, his voice soft, "I’m going to be busy again starting tomorrow. I won’t be able to come to campus to see you as often."
Hearing this, Jiang You actually felt a little happy. ’This guy is way too clingy,’ she thought. ’It’s a bit much for me.’
Besides, according to the plot, it was time for her, the vicious female supporting character, to go flirt with other men.
And those men were Shen Lan’s "brothers." It would be incredibly awkward if Shen Lan was stuck to her side, watching her hit on his friends.
Of course, if Shen Lan really insisted on tagging along, Jiang You would still go through with it to complete her mission.
"Okay," Jiang You replied casually.
"My tail and ears are out," Shen Lan murmured, his voice hoarse as he kissed her earlobe.
A Beastman’s tail and ears were extremely private parts.
That sentence was basically telling her that he was aroused by her again.
Jiang You’s cheeks flushed red.
Shen Lan pulled back slightly. He gently cupped her face with both hands, slowly lowering his head until their foreheads touched in a tender gesture. A smile played on his lips. "Baby, I want to see your cat ears and tail."
"I know, I know." Jiang You feigned reluctance, but still let her ears and tail pop out.
Jiang You’s beast form was a pink cat, so her beast ears and tail were both pink.
Shen Lan, on the other hand, was a blue snow leopard. The beast ears and tail that emerged were a translucent, beautiful blue.
Jiang You reached up and grabbed one of his translucent blue beast ears, huffing haughtily. "Have you ever shown your beast features to anyone else?"
Besides a full transformation, revealing one’s beast ears and tail was considered a form of flirting.
"Ngh... No." Shen Lan’s breath hitched and grew heavy.
Jiang You had just squeezed his beast ear a little too hard.
Cupping her face, Shen Lan could no longer hold back and kissed her.
The pink cat tail was entwined with the translucent blue leopard tail, refusing to separate.
Jiang You was once again lost in a long, lingering kiss.
"Why didn’t you reply to my message earlier?" Shen Lan pinched her cheek.
"I didn’t see it," Jiang You said, full of confidence.
"Then I guess I was just too impatient." Shen Lan let out a soft chuckle. "I was really worried you’d found another mutt on the side."
Jiang You felt a pang of guilt for some reason, but she was supposed to be a vicious young lady. She replied arrogantly, "So what if I did?"
Shen Lan lowered his gaze and stared at her for a moment. His palm pressed against her cheek as he spoke slowly, "Interstellar society may permit polyandry, but I’m not a fan. If you dare to try it, I won’t let the Jiang Family off the hook."
His tone was light, his words spoken right against her skin. It was a voice full of tenderness and affection, yet it carried an even greater, arrogant threat.
The arrogance on Jiang You’s face froze for a second. She had almost forgotten that this man was the one in charge of the top-tier Shen Family.
He’d been in power for ages. Just because he was wearing a school uniform and attending classes with her every day, had she forgotten what he looked like in a custom-tailored suit?
’Some people are already the head of their family while they’re still in uniform,’ she thought.
"Hmph," Jiang You snorted.
"Alright, baby. Having me as your dog is enough. Don’t go keeping any others." Shen Lan leaned in again and gently pecked her lips, his tone coaxing.
He also planned to have her break off the engagement with that fiancé of hers.
However, the political marriage between the two families involved too many interests.
Shen Lan could only take it slow.
’Perhaps she won’t have to be the one to propose canceling the engagement,’ he mused. ’It would also work if the man’s family proposed it.’
Shen Lan didn’t say this out loud.
The more time they spent together, the more his love grew, and his possessiveness spiraled.
No one could tell.
A moment later, he was kissing Jiang You again, holding her possessively as if he wanted to meld her into his very bones.
It’s unclear how long they kissed, but Shen Lan finally left.
Jiang You’s lips were swollen and numb.
The man was extremely self-controlled. He only kissed her. Even though he was clearly aroused, he still suppressed it.
It was mainly because Jiang You wasn’t willing, so Shen Lan had no choice but to endure.
Jiang You got back into bed and went to sleep.
Tomorrow was the weekend.
But she had another mission to do.
「The Weekend.」
Housekeeper Chi came to pick her up and take her back to the villa.
Jiang You sat in the car, her gaze fixed on the passing traffic and buildings outside the window.
Her terminal rang.
Seeing the call from her mother on the terminal, Jiang You answered it.
"Jiang You, you want to break your engagement with the Xie Family?" a woman’s cold voice came through, immediately launching into a tirade. "Do you have any idea how much is at stake for our two families? Who gave you permission to throw a tantrum and call off the engagement on your own!"
"I know. So if he doesn’t want to call it off, he can come find me," Jiang You said bluntly and coldly. "If I’m happy, I won’t call it off."
The woman seemed to understand something, and her voice grew even colder. "Jiang You, are you a child? Is marriage just a tool for your tantrums? Minor squabbles between a young couple shouldn’t be used to threaten a family alliance."
She suppressed her anger and added, "The Xie Family will have Xie Heng go and apologize to you. Don’t make them lose too much face. Make a little scene and be done with it. In the future, you are forbidden from making a public spectacle of our families’ alliance."
"I know," Jiang You replied, sounding impatient.
The call on her terminal ended.
It wasn’t that Jiang You wanted to act up, but the mission required her to.
As the vicious female supporting character, she had to constantly act up and cause trouble.
So, when Xie Heng refused to let her join his team, she threatened him with breaking the engagement.
In the future, if Xie Heng didn’t take her along to run Realms, she would threaten him with breaking the engagement.
Basically, she had to use the marriage to make a scene.
Jiang You returned to the villa and sat in the living room, watching an interstellar soap opera on the large screen.
After a short while, Housekeeper Chi walked over.
"Miss, Young Master Xie is here. Would you like to go out and see him?"
"No need. Let him stand outside for a while first," Jiang You ordered.
Housekeeper Chi replied, "Yes, Miss."
「Outside the villa.」
Xie Heng’s expression wasn’t good. Anyone would be annoyed if they were in the middle of clearing a Secret Realm only to be ordered by their family to go apologize and placate their fiancée.
That woman, Jiang You, had actually taken her complaints to his family’s elders.
Just because he took another Healer with him to clear a Secret Realm, she was causing a scene by threatening to break off the engagement.
Xie Heng rang the doorbell and stood outside for a long time, but there was no sign of Jiang You.
The young man’s cold, handsome face grew increasingly grim.
He just kept standing there, motionless.
Jiang You pulled up the security feed and saw Xie Heng standing motionlessly outside the gate.
’Let him stand there a bit longer,’ she thought. ’It’ll make for a better argument later.’
Jiang You turned off the monitor and went back to watching her interstellar soap opera.