Hearing words that were almost a confession, Chu Feng had thought that once he said them, Su Tiantian would react like she did in his dreams. Her face flushed with shy embarrassment.
Su Tiantian held the young man’s hand and applied slight force, tugging at his cheek.
“Hiss—”
A burning pain spread, and Su Tiantian narrowed her eyes slightly.
She said flatly, “Hmph! You’re nothing more than a mere toy, just something to amuse this Empress.”
Chu Feng’s expression stiffened slightly. He never expected the Demon Empress to respond like this.
So… had he simply been lost too deeply in his dream…?
Thinking this, the young man lowered his head.
But his head was forcibly lifted by Su Tiantian. Her fingers began to gently stroke Chu Feng’s cheek as she said, “What? Feeling hurt?”
“No.”
Chu Feng replied stubbornly, but his eyes betrayed him.
Watching the little rascal’s gaze, Su Tiantian felt pleased inside. It seemed she had already succeeded.
She pressed her pretty face against the young man’s cheek, gently rubbing against it as she whispered, “Little rascal, there are countless who wish to become this Empress’s toy. Yet for me, there is only you. Besides, some toys are discarded once they grow boring… while others can reach deep into one’s heart.”
She lifted her chin, looking at Chu Feng with a faint, teasing smile. “What you said just now… don’t tell me you were thinking of marrying this Empress?”
His little thoughts laid bare, Chu Feng’s face flushed red, his gaze turning evasive.
Wait!
How did the roles get reversed!? Shouldn’t it be Su Tiantian who’s blushing and avoiding eye contact right now? How did it become him instead?!
“N-No…”
Chu Feng had only managed to say a single word. It was clearly not what Su Tiantian wanted to hear. So she immediately pinched his cheek, cutting him off before he could continue.
Playing with Chu Feng’s cheek, Su Tiantian sneered,
“The first word is already wrong. This Empress will give you one more chance. If you answer incorrectly again, I’ll make sure you’ll never be able to speak another word.”
Cold sweat instantly drenched Chu Feng. The Demon Empress before him was nothing like the one in his dreams where she had been a gentle, caring, understanding fox-eared elder sister.
The current her… was completely unreadable.
Or was it that he still hadn’t fully woken from that dream?
Su Tiantian stopped what she was doing and signaled, “Alright, little rascal. This Empress will give you a chance to reorganize your words. Do you want to marry me in the future?”
Having learned his lesson, Chu Feng yielded under the Demon Empress’s overwhelming pressure and said, “Yes.”
Su Tiantian lowered her gaze and softly replied, “This Empress refuses.”
Chu Feng’s expression froze, and in an instant, his face filled with hurt.
The next moment, he was pushed down onto the fur-covered ground, and Su Tiantian followed, pressing herself on top of him.
Even through their clothes, he could feel the softness of her body.
“Little rascal, are you angry?”
Su Tiantian whispered softly.
Chu Feng said nothing, merely turning his head away, refusing to look at her.
That reaction only made Su Tiantian find him even more adorable.
“Alright, this Empress admits her mistake to you, little rascal.”
Su Tiantian spoke gently as she slowly leaned down.
At the same time, Chu Feng felt a soft sensation press against his chest.
“!!!”
The moment he turned his head back, his lips were sealed by a warm, soft, and moist touch.
His eyes widened, completely unable to understand what the Demon Empress was trying to do.
After a long while, their lips finally parted.
Su Tiantian licked her red lips and smiled brightly. “It’s not that you will marry this Empress; this Empress will marry you. Understood?”
Chu Feng was left completely at a loss by the Demon Empress, unsure whether she had agreed or refused.
In the end, he could only nod stiffly.
***
Xiao Qing watched the human youth pinned beneath her own Empress and let out a sigh. “It seems the Empress of our demon race will marry a human… truly something unheard of.”
Throughout history, whether male or female, no Demon Emperor had ever formed a marriage alliance with a human.
Xiao Qing saw the rabbit-eared girl covering her eyes with both hands, her fingers spread wide, covering them yet not really. She wasn’t witnessing this for the first time. Whenever the Empress kissed that human, the rabbit-eared girl would react in the same way.
“Rabbit, what are you doing?”
“My grandpa said you shouldn’t just watch people kissing, or you’ll get pregnant and give birth to a whole litter of baby rabbits.”
The rabbit-eared girl said this earnestly.
“Huh?”
Xiao Qing had no idea what she was talking about.
When she noticed Xiao Qing wasn’t covering her eyes, the rabbit-eared girl added, “Green Snake Demon King, be careful or you’ll end up laying a clutch of snake eggs. As far as I know, human men are very enthusiastic about mating.”
Xiao Qing rolled her eyes, not wanting to waste words on this clueless rabbit.
At that moment, her communication token lit up.
“Is there something else that needs handling?”
Xiao Qing picked up the communication token.
During this period, Xiao Qing and the rabbit-eared girl recorded everything with a recording stone while handling documents sent from the Demon Capital.
Within the demon race, most affairs were managed independently by each tribe. The Demon Emperor mainly oversaw external matters, particularly various dealings with the human race.
As usual, Xiao Qing began processing the documents, but suddenly she noticed an envelope addressed personally to the Demon Empress. She recognized the seal. It was the imperial jade seal of the Great Yan Empire’s Empress.
This…
Xiao Qing hesitated because the Empress had said that during this time she would not handle any affairs and had entrusted everything to her and the rabbit-eared girl.
However, according to protocol, an envelope bearing the Great Yan Empress’s seal could only be opened by the Empress herself, and it was clearly marked “To be opened by the Demon Empress.”
After hesitating for a while, Xiao Qing decided to set the letter aside for now and present it to the Empress once she was finished.
***
Demon Capital.
“Human, I’ve said it many times already. The Empress is in seclusion and will not come out to see you right now.”
Protector Hu looked at the white-robed woman before him helplessly.
Before entering seclusion, the Empress had specifically ordered that no humans were to be allowed in for seven days, except for women from the Great Yan Empire and the Heaven’s Pinnacle Sect.
And by sheer coincidence, the human woman before him was from Great Yan and also a disciple of the Heaven’s Pinnacle Sect.
The moment she entered, she had been loudly demanding to see the Empress, saying something about handing over her junior brother.
Bai Yuyan looked coldly at the demon before her and said bluntly, “Seclusion? I’d say she’s sneaking off to indulge herself instead!”
“Where is your Empress? The one I want to see is her, not you.”
Although Bai Yuyan was only at the sixth rank, she made Protector Hu feel a trace of fear, as if this human woman was even more powerful than he was.
“If you truly wish to see the Empress, then wait a little longer. She said she would be in seclusion for seven days….it’s almost over.”
Protector Hu didn’t dare act forcefully against her. She carried a personal letter from the Great Yan Empress and was also a direct disciple of the Moonlight Sword Fairy. Either identity alone made her untouchable. At most, he could only keep her under soft detention.
He had already handed the Great Yan Empress’s letter to the rabbit-eared girl.
“Fine then, I’ll wait here for your Empress.”
Bai Yuyan knew that if that fox spirit truly chose to avoid her, there was nothing she could do.
Protector Hu let out a sigh of relief. “Then I’ll arrange a room for you.”
“No need. I’ll find one myself.”
Bai Yuyan made her way familiarly to Su Tiantian’s bedchamber. In her previous life, she had come here many times to take her junior brother back to the sect.
Pushing open the door and seeing the large bed, she lay down on it.
Aside from the annoying scent of that fox spirit, there was also a trace of a scent that brought her peace.
“Little junior brother…”
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