After Ashi Liren left, Suo Lun could not help but stretch out his right hand to look at it carefully, to savour it carefully.
It was this hand that had just struck Ashi Liren’s buttocks.
At that moment, when Liren’s snowy buttocks were exposed, Suo Lun was somewhat stunned.
So what it felt like to strike down, he completely could not recall. He even felt as if this hand was not his own.
It was all because Ashi Liren was simply too enchanting!
Not merely a fairy, but even more a demoness, her whole body filled with an icy yet intense allure.
This was just like Zhu Bajie eating the ginseng fruit, the first bite was completely in a daze, no taste was savoured at all.
Even in his mind, it was still occupied by those two snowy full moons.
…
In the afternoon, Suo Lun continued to give lessons to Ashi Yuanba and A’nan. Liren did not appear at all.
It was as if that slap from Suo Lun had exhausted all her courage, stirring some emotion within her heart.
Not only did she not appear that day, but in the following days, she still did not appear.
If it were before, he would certainly have pestered her shamelessly every day.
But now, Suo Lun did not request to see her even once. He clearly knew that Ashi Liren was in the City Lord’s mansion, yet he never went to see her.
Although, his task was not yet complete, and Ashi Liren had not yet publicly supported Princess Zhiyan on behalf of Rouran City.
But Suo Lun had also said that he wanted Ashi Liren to voluntarily and actively express her stance, and he absolutely would not force or demand it.
Moreover, he faintly already knew the result.
During the following period, Ashi Liren still did not show herself before Suo Lun.
In order not to create a sense of pressure for Liren, Princess Zhiyan had already left Rouran City in advance and returned to Zhi Du.
He waited four days, but Liren still did not appear.
So during the following period, Suo Lun began to briefly wrap up the lessons for Yuanba and Ashi A’nan.
Because, he was preparing to take his leave.
This time, he was truly going to leave.
…
On this morning.
The wounds on Suo Lun’s buttocks and legs had healed. He formally bid farewell to Ashi Yuanba, Ashi A’nan, and Tao Su.
Ashi Yuanba was alright, but Tao Su’s eyes were completely red.
“These are pastries I made, they do not spoil easily. Please eat them on the road, Sir.” Tao Su handed Suo Lun a delicate box.
“Many thanks,” Suo Lun said.
Although there had been an ill-fated entanglement between him and Tao Su, neither side had any ambiguity.
Especially Tao Su, because of Yuanba, she regarded Suo Lun as a very close person, yet without any romantic interest.
In this lifetime, she had first enjoyed sweet love, having been in love with Ashi Luo for several years. Then she was occupied by Ashi Mo for several years, and finally had her dignity trampled upon by Ashi Luo.
Now, Ashi Mo was gone, and Ashi Luo was already dead.
Although she was still only in her twenties, as far as romance was concerned, she was completely one who had seen the vast ocean and found other waters hard to accept.
In this lifetime, her own son Ashi Yuanba was already all her attachment and support.
Especially since this son was so lovely, so clever.
“Take good care of your mother and your birth mother, understand?” Suo Lun rubbed Yuanba’s little face.
“Understood, teacher,” Ashi Yuanba said, then he hesitated to speak.
“Is there something else you want to say to teacher?” Suo Lun asked.
Ashi Yuanba said, “If Qinqin does not like to speak, then… do not force her.”
“You are so young, and already you ache for your wife?” Suo Lun laughed.
Instantly, Ashi Yuanba’s face turned red. He was indeed still young and did not understand anything, but in his heart he felt that Qinqin was very special.
In Ashi Liren’s mansion, because Qinqin did not speak, Suo Lun thought of many methods. But without exception they all failed, and instead made Qinqin full of pressure. During that period, Qinqin was most afraid of seeing Suo Lun’s disappointed gaze.
As for why Qinqin did not speak, Suo Lun had not yet asked Fu Yan’er, because Suo Lun needed to counsel Qinqin in a better environment.
Yuanba opened his eyes wide looking at Suo Lun, filled with absolute reluctance, but did not speak to ask him to stay.
Suo Lun stroked his little head and said, “After this period of time passes, shall teacher take you to Tianshui City to play?”
Instantly, this naughty child’s eyes brightened greatly, filled with anticipation.
“Teacher, aren’t you going to say goodbye to mother?” Ashi Yuanba said.
Suo Lun said, “No need. This time there is no need to say goodbye.”
Suddenly, A’nan beside him said, “Teacher, mother is a girl, so she cannot be proactive. It is you men who must proactively go to find her.”
Suo Lun squatted down and pinched her little face. “How do you know so much at such a young age?”
A’nan said, “Anyway, I just know.”
She was not so attached to Suo Lun, because she was not as clever as Yuanba, nor was she so curious about this world.
So she felt that Suo Lun’s lessons were merely somewhat interesting, not irreplaceable.
But in Yuanba’s heart, Suo Lun was a completely irreplaceable spiritual mentor.
People truly need fate. A child as clever and as likeable as Ashi Yuanba, Suo Lun was also meeting for the first time.
Just as Qinqin was such a uniquely lovely girl, Ashi Yuanba was also meeting her for the first time.
“Goodbye…” Suo Lun mounted his horse and galloped away at full speed.
Very quickly, experts from the Shadow Pavilion converged upon Suo Lun from all directions.
Finally, more than ten experts surrounded Suo Lun in the middle, galloping towards the east.
…
Half an hour later, Suo Lun left the main city of Rouran.
Ashi Liren did not appear.
Three days later, Suo Lun left Rouran Province. Ashi Liren still did not appear.
Five days later, Suo Lun led the Shadow Pavilion experts into the royal capital, Zhi Du!
“Prince Consort, Her Highness the Princess is waiting for you.” Just as he entered the royal capital, a female warrior stepped forward to greet him.
It seemed she had been waiting at the city gate these past few days.
…
“Greetings to the Prince Consort!”
When Suo Lun entered the Princess’s mansion, all the eunuchs and maids he passed knelt down in salute.
He could not help but rub his nose. In the Princess’s mansion, he was already in the position of master.
“Her Highness the Princess asks you to go to Ning Courtyard!” a female warrior said.
Suo Lun was startled. This Princess’s mansion was formerly the Tianshui Count’s mansion of the Suo clan in the royal capital. The so-called Ning Courtyard was the courtyard where Suo Ningbing lived.
Princess Zhiyan, out of respect for her fiancee’s elder sister, had kept this courtyard empty all along. After Suo Lun moved in, Suo Ningbing would become the master of this courtyard.
Ever since Zhiyan had accidentally discovered the illicit affair between Suo Lun and Suo Ningbing, she had even more so intended this.
One had to say, she really was open-minded, actually planning to let her husband and elder sister continue this incestuous relationship even after marriage.
Suo Lun came to Ning Courtyard, pushed open the door and walked in.
Instantly, there stood a figure in the courtyard, a back view of incomparable beauty, a devil’s figure, a fairy’s bearing.
Blue enchantress, icy and faintly fragrant!
Ashi Liren?
She, she was actually here?
“I arrived half an hour earlier than you,” Ashi Liren said.
Suo Lun’s gaze instinctively fell upon her perfectly rounded, upturned, incomparably sexy buttocks.
“If you look again, I guarantee I will dig out your eyes,” Ashi Liren said coldly.
Suo Lun hurriedly withdrew his gaze.
But it was already too late. His eye sockets went cold as Ashi Liren’s fingers jabbed over.
But it was merely a slight pain, very gentle. She lightly touched and then withdrew.
“How did you come?” Suo Lun asked in surprise.
Ashi Liren shook her head and said, “You did not proactively come to find me, and instead left without saying goodbye. Of course I could only cast aside my pride and proactively come to find you.”
Suo Lun said, “I just did not want to force you.”
Before he could finish speaking, his lips went icy cold, pressed by Liren’s finger, smooth and faintly fragrant.
“Don’t say it…” Ashi Liren said.
Then, her eyes fixed upon Suo Lun and she said, “You, this person, are too hypocritical!”
Suo Lun had no words.
Ashi Liren said, “You went to Rouran City to destroy Ashi Luo and help me to power, in order to make me pledge loyalty to Zhiyan. When I vented my anger on you, you were shamelessly persistent, seducing me, teasing me, in order to make me pledge loyalty to Zhiyan. When Rouran City encountered a devastating disaster, you single-handedly turned the tide and saved Rouran. In the final analysis, it was also to make me pledge loyalty to Zhiyan. Yet when you clearly knew I had no choice but to obey, you instead left without saying goodbye. Truly hypocritical!”
He very much wanted to say that he saved Rouran City more to protect her and Ashi Yuanba, but in the end he did not say it.
“You used your seduction tactics to provoke me, used your shameless tactics to entice me, used your cleverness and wisdom to attract me,” Ashi Liren said. “In the end, you even shamelessly used my strong personality to strike my buttocks, completely piercing through the bottom line of my defences. You conquered me, was it not in order to make me pledge loyalty to Zhiyan and stand on your side? Yet when you succeeded, you instead became reserved, and still wanted me to cast aside my dignity and deliver myself to your door.”
Ashi Liren’s words were too blunt, leaving Suo Lun unable to answer.
Ashi Liren continued, “You said that Fu Yan’er pestered you shamelessly, entangled with you, completely without dignity, and instead annoyed you beyond endurance. Yet you similarly pestered me shamelessly, fawned upon me, letting me hit and scold you, similarly without dignity. Tell me, what is the difference between you and Fu Yan’er? It is completely the pot calling the kettle black, equally pathetic.”
Ashi Liren lightly stood on tiptoe, placing her jade nose before a pear blossom, lightly sniffing.
“Cunning, shameless…” Ashi Liren said. “You clearly knew that people and people are different. A stupid, hollow person pestering shamelessly will only make people loathe them. But a clever, cunning, profoundly wise person pestering shamelessly will only make people unable to resist…”
Then, Liren walked before Suo Lun again, staring into his eyes. “Suo Lun, you are truly shameless. You are a bad person.”
Suo Lun was speechless.
“Suo Lun, you have succeeded,” Ashi Liren said. “You have provoked me until I cannot sleep at night, tossing and turning. You have hooked me. I clearly know you harbour ill intentions, are sinister and cunning, yet I still fell for you. Once I married Yan Ping, but I completely refused any intimacy or contact with him. As soon as I was touched, the hair on my body would stand on end coldly, my whole body would freeze over. I thought this was a problem with my body, something that could never change in my lifetime.”
Liren paused, then self-mockingly said, “Yet the moment you struck my buttocks, my whole body was scorching hot, flushed red. My entire body was like it had been electrocuted, and even deep inside there was a hot, itchy sensation. Tell me, is this not what they call desire in legends?”
Facing such sharp words from Liren, how could Suo Lun have the face to speak now.
Ashi Liren said, “You were right. The vast majority of love in this world begins from the desire to reproduce offspring. I am not so otherworldly. Zhiyan and Ji Xiuning are the ones who are otherworldly.”
Suo Lun did not say it out loud, but it was precisely because of this that although Zhiyan was at the same pyramid peak of beauty in this world as Ashi Liren.
In comparison, Liren was so much more enticing.
“Suo Lun, everything you did for me was to make me pledge loyalty to Zhiyan, correct?” Ashi Liren said.
Suo Lun did not answer. He even did not want to answer yes.
Ashi Liren said, “Then let me tell you, the one I want to pledge loyalty to is not Zhiyan, but you!”
Suo Lun’s body could not help but tremble.
Ashi Liren said, “Shameless Suo Lun, you have once again successfully conquered a woman. Now how do you plan to dispose of me?”
Her incomparably beautiful face was again filled with sarcasm and iciness.
But the gaze with which she looked at Suo Lun was again filled with affection.