Chapter 9 Venom At The River
Seven days later, Qin Ruoyi still had not come back.
Woof, woof, woof!
I really did owe her! Later they would think I was the one who got her killed!
I was furious. I grabbed every life-saving thing I owned and went to that secret realm.
Sure enough, the golden subtitles had been telling the truth.
I found Qin Ruoyi by a river, barely breathing. I did not know what she was clutching. Even passed out, she would not let go.
"Wake up, you stinking woman! Where are you hurt?" I snapped, and patted her pale cheek, trying to wake her.
She did not move. I could only look up at the golden subtitles for a clue.
【我就知道她是装的，师姐都不叫了，居然喊女主臭女人，还拍她脸。】
【被妖蛇咬了啊！我恨不得钻进去告诉这个狗师妹。】
【这个蠢货就不能翻一下女主衣服？女主要是能醒，还搁那儿躺着干吗？】
I gritted my teeth. They were cursing me like I was a soft target.
I held it in.
I sat Qin Ruoyi up and reached to pull off her cyan robes.
I had just opened her outer robe.
"Who?!"
A sharp pain bit my neck.
I lifted my eyes.
A sword flashing with cold light was at my throat.
Qin Ruoyi's gaze was hazy, but that did not stop the killing intent covering her stunning face.
"Are you blind?" I snapped, furious. "Who else could I be!"
"Jiang Ling?" Qin Ruoyi murmured, weak and low.
I was about to curse her for overreaching.
A demon core glowing faint blue was stuffed into my mouth. It melted the moment it touched my tongue.
"Ugh, cough, cough... what did you shove in me!"
"The inner core of the demon snake. It can reshape meridians and the spirit root."
After Qin Ruoyi said that, her body went slack. She collapsed against my shoulder again.
"..."
Her body was soft, and a faint camellia scent came off her.
My heart was a mess, but I still muttered, ungrateful.
"Was that necessary? If my meridians snap, I asked for it."
I carefully loosened her snow-white inner clothes a little and ran my hands over her, looking for the wound.
When I touched places I should not have touched, my face burned and my heart kicked. I kept searching and comforted myself. We were both women. What was there I could not touch.
After a while of searching, I found the two wounds on the back of her shoulder, leaking black qi.
I took the antidotes from my Qiankun Ring and tried them one by one.
Still useless. I looked up at the subtitles, anxious.
【正常来说用嘴吸，可以蛇毒引出来，希望绿茶能帮一下。】
【楼上的！别以为我不知道你想看什么。】
【别说哦。】
【emm，这个蛇吧……算了不说了，我也想看，嘻嘻。】
【剧情偏就偏吧，这种类型我也能看。】
I could not make sense of what they were hinting at.
But at least I knew the way to detoxify.
But Golden Core snake venom was not something I could take. One slip, the venom would enter me, and no one would be able to save me.
But...
Forget it. I really did owe her!
I clenched my teeth and finally lowered my head.
I pressed my lips to the wound on her shoulder and sucked hard.
I could not tell if Qin Ruoyi was cold, or if I had hurt her.
Her body trembled a little. Her hands looped around my neck, like she did not know she was doing it.
Her lips brushed my neck now and then. Her breathing grew heavier. Her breath swept my ear.
It gave me a strange itch. I turned my head away without thinking.
"Even if it hurts, do not hold me! I will not fall for that."
I huffed. I was not going to ache for her.
But my eyes would not stop running over her.
Her shoulder was so white... and a little fragrant too.
My gaze went hazy. My nose drifted closer without me meaning it. I sniffed her twice, and even licked once.
When I came back to myself, it was a bit awkward.
I pretended nothing had happened, smacked my lips, and kept sucking the venom blood for her, as if nothing had happened.
Mouthful by mouthful, I slowly drew the black blood out and spat it aside.
In the end, the blood turned red.
I figured a few more mouthfuls and it should be enough.
Qin Ruoyi was already clear-headed. Her breathing was steady.
And yet... it was my body that started to tremble. Heat rolled up through me in waves.
Wait. It could not be what I was thinking, right?
I twitched my mouth and looked at the subtitles.
【小绿茶抬头在看什么呢，这会儿不热吗？】
【嘻嘻，女鹅喜欢，那就给女鹅搞点福利吃吃吧。】
【她还真吸了，猜猜看，筑基期能不能顶得住金丹期愉蛇的影响。】
Motherfucker.
The subtitles had blacked me!
I looked at Qin Ruoyi beside me, shaking.
A woman...
Qin Ruoyi was a woman. How was she supposed to save me!
Could these damn subtitles grow a brain!
Qin Ruoyi looked at my lips in silence. I did not know what she was thinking.
She reached out and rubbed the leftover blood from the corner of my mouth.
"Golden Core stage..."
"Do not say it! One sentence. You are a woman! Can you save me or not."
I grabbed her collar, shaking, and asked.
"Jiang Ling, Dual Cultivation," she said, calm.
My head was fogged. I nodded before I thought.
"Fine, Dual Cultivation..."
By the time I remembered what Dual Cultivation was, I wanted to shake my head and refuse.
Qin Ruoyi had already covered my mouth. There was a kind of softness in her eyes I could not read.
"I will teach you, all right?"
Qin Ruoyi's eyes were on me, but her hand slipped into my collar, testing.
It brushed the thin sweat on my back, and went down.
I shuddered from the cold. My body tightened.
"Your hand is a bit cold..."
I stared at her face coming closer, already not knowing how to refuse.
"In a moment it will not be cold," she coaxed.
Qin Ruoyi set down a barrier and gathered the river water into curtains of water.
Inside the water curtains, silhouettes moved.
"Does Dual Cultivation need clothes off..."
"Mm."
"Does Dual Cultivation need kissing too?"
"Mm."
"Does Dual Cultivation also have to... wait! Do not touch, your hand, your hand is a bit cold..."
Tears stung my eyes. I hung on Qin Ruoyi's neck, unable to think.
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【卧槽！怎么会有马赛克！】
【我可是尊贵的 VIP 会员，有什么是我不能看的！】
【啊？！炒个饭不给看。】
【有种孩子结婚了，但不肯让爹妈上桌吃饭的无力感。】
【连声音也没了……房管房管！】