Chapter 192: Left Early Due to Some Urgent Business

Ye Lin's exclamation startled Duan Ling awake; she realized at that moment that the texture in her mouth was not quite right, as the thing inside had sharp edges and corners.

She spat out the magic crystal and then opened her eyes.

When she saw that what was before her was not the thing she had imagined, but a magic crystal, Duan Ling's expression darkened instantly.

"Ptooey! Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!"

"Why are you stuffing a magic crystal into my mouth?"

"I should be the one asking you! Why are you eating a magic crystal?" The corner of Ye Lin's mouth twitched uncontrollably; he knew Duan Ling lusted after his body, but he hadn't expected her to be so desperate.

"I was dreaming, dreaming that I was eating." Duan Ling immediately turned her head away; she certainly wasn't going to admit what she had been thinking about just now.

"Alright, since you're awake, you can enchant the remaining magic crystals yourself." Ye Lin clapped his hands.

"Enchant?" Duan Ling was stunned upon hearing this.

"It just means licking all the magic crystals; once they're covered in your saliva, no one will dare to snatch them," Ye Lin explained.

"Are you an idiot?" Duan Ling gritted her teeth. "I'm a Venom Warlock; do I need to lick things myself if I want them to be poisonous? My tongue isn't for that!"

Duan Ling raised a hand, and a layer of dust-like poison powder fell onto the magic crystals.

"Done! Don't even talk about touching this pile of magic crystals now; you'll get poisoned just by getting close enough to inhale the powder. Hurry up and praise me, am I great or what?"

As she spoke, Duan Ling pounced and hung onto Ye Lin like an octopus.

Ye Lin wished very much at that moment that he could gain the superpower of a hedgehog man; in fact, that superpower could be quite useful at times, such as when Duan Ling wanted to hang onto him.

"Get down!"

"I won't!"

"If you don't get down, I'm going to hit you!"

"If you've got the guts, then beat me to death!"

"Forget it then, I won't hit you; I'm afraid you'll secretly enjoy it."

"Nonsense! I wouldn't! If you don't believe me, hit me and see!"

Duan Ling's little face was full of anticipation.

"Why do you keep pestering me?"

"Because I love you!" Duan Ling said with righteous indignation.

Ye Lin was silent for a moment, then patiently tried to persuade her.

"Duan Ling, I think true love is wishing for the other person's happiness; if their happiness is freedom, is leaving you, you should be willing to let them go. That is true love, do you understand?"

"I don't understand! I don't care what you think, I only care about what I think! I think loving someone means getting them regardless of the consequences and by any means necessary!" Duan Ling shook her head and hugged him even tighter.

"Hey, no, if the other person doesn't love you, what's the point of having their body but not their heart?" Ye Lin countered.

"There is a point!" Duan Ling nodded. "Imagine this scene: an 18-year-old Liu Yifei is forced by circumstances to live with you every day; that beautiful face is full of disgust for you, yet she can't leave you and has to spend every day and night with you. Don't you think that's interesting?"

"It does seem quite interesting, huh~"

Ye Lin chuckled foolishly.

"Exactly! To love someone, you should lock them in a basement with iron chains and feed them through a small hole in the door until they love you back!"

As Duan Ling spoke, she took several deep breaths against Ye Lin.

"You really smell so good; if I weren't unable to beat you, you would have been locked up by me long ago."

Ye Lin: "..."

He finally understood that there was no reasoning with Duan Ling; he had even been successfully led astray by her.

If one could obtain the person, whether or not one obtained the heart didn't seem that important anymore. Whether a forced melon is sweet or not, he didn't know, but it would definitely quench one's thirst.

"Fine, then come with me; I'll show you something good."

He didn't have the heart to push Duan Ling away anymore; after all, he was a kind-hearted person. Duan Ling was just lusting after his body—how bad could a lustful person really be?

"Really?" Duan Ling's eyes lit up. "Yay, yay!!"

Seeing the two of them walk behind a large rock as if no one else were around, Ji Lingyu and the others were left completely dumbfounded.

"Let me take off my makeup first." Now that it had come to this, Duan Ling felt a bit shy.

"Don't! No! I want the goth look!"

Ye Lin spoke with deep affection and a gentle tone, slowly moving toward Duan Ling. Duan Ling was so excited that her whole body stiffened, and then she slowly closed her eyes, her long eyelashes trembling uncontrollably.

She began to anticipate what Ye Lin would do to her first—would he pinch her neck... or would he touch the head of her grandfather's lover?

But after waiting for a long time, she didn't wait for Ye Lin's next move.

Duan Ling cautiously opened her eyes a crack to peek, but where was there any sign of Ye Lin before her?

"Ye Lin?"

Duan Ling opened her eyes wide and looked left and right, but she only saw a line of handwriting left by Ye Lin on the ground.

After reading the words on the ground, Duan Ling gritted her teeth in anger; how could she not understand now? Ye Lin had tricked her and then run off, leaving her behind.

"Ye Lin! You're great, you forced me to do this! Then don't blame me for poisoning you directly next time!"

A pink pill appeared in Duan Ling's hand, her eyes unfocused.

Then, Duan Ling also turned and disappeared into the darkness; she was going to go grind monsters to improve her strength too!

She had to prepare for both possibilities. If drugging him didn't work, then she would raise her strength to the point where she could crush Ye Lin. By then, it would be impossible for Ye Lin to resist her!

At the thought of Ye Lin being unable to escape her grasp no matter how he struggled, Duan Ling felt so excited that her face flushed red.

"Ye Lin... you are mine... you can only be mine!"

While the two parties involved had already left, Ji Lingyu and the others were still waiting bitterly.

"Ji Lingyu, why haven't they come back yet? It's been two hours; what could they be doing?" Xu Yu asked, swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

"You know the answer, why ask? What else can a man and a woman do when they hide in a deserted corner? They must be doing things that can't pass censorship," Ji Lingyu replied.

"But it's been two hours; is two hours really possible? Could something have happened?" Xu Yu, who had never been in a relationship, couldn't help but ask.

"Once for two hours is definitely impossible, but doing it multiple times is definitely possible; though it is indeed a bit long, huh." Ji Lingyu was also a bit unsure. "How about this: let's wait another hour, and if there's still no movement, we'll go call them."

Time ticked away, and soon an hour had passed.

Ji Lingyu and the others couldn't help but start to worry.

They first approached the large rock, and then called out from behind it.

"Boss, are you guys okay?"

"Boss?"

After calling a few times with no response, Ji Lingyu steeled himself and went directly behind the rock.

However, there was no one behind the rock at all. Ji Lingyu felt a shock in his heart; could something have really happened?

At this moment, Ji Lingyu saw the line of handwriting left by Ye Lin. Unlike Duan Ling's anger, when Ji Lingyu saw this line, the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

"I have some urgent business, so I'm leaving first. My mom is giving birth to my dad, I'm going back to see if it's a boy or a girl."