Chapter 113

When it came to his woman's tears, he basically had no resistance.

Bai Feifei suddenly tilted her body, resting her pretty head sideways on his lap, saying nothing, only silently weeping.

This made Jiang Sishui extremely anxious.

Just as he had no idea what to do, the girl's ethereal voice drifted over: "Brother Jiang, you must treat Feifei well from now on."

Jiang Sishui was stunned for a moment, then overjoyed: "Feifei, you agree... you're willing to stay by my side?"

Bai Feifei sighed: "Having met a domineering man like you, what difference does it make whether I'm willing or not?"

"Besides, I also know that perhaps... perhaps I'm the one who came later, and since that's the case, how could I dare to ask for anything more?"

Light after darkness—the joy in his heart was beyond words. Jiang Sishui let out a cheer and, unable to contain himself, picked up Bai Feifei and spun her around in circles.

Bai Feifei hurriedly held on tight to him.

Watching Jiang Sishui reveal such a childish side and feeling his excitement and emotion, the corners of the girl's lips curved up slightly, and a flash of smugness flickered in her eyes.

After a while, the two sat back down in their chairs, gazing at each other.

Jiang Sishui said solemnly: "Feifei, I, Jiang Sishui, swear that I will treat you well in this life! If I ever betray you, let me die a terrible death on the spot, and after death fall into the Avici Hell, never to be reborn for all eternity!"

Every word rang out, forceful and resonant.

Bai Feifei was stunned all at once.

If others heard their lover make such a vicious oath, they'd just take it as an ordinary promise—one speaks, the other listens, and afterward it's forgotten.

After all, hell and all that is too far away.

Whether it truly exists is itself a question.

But Jiang Sishui is different—he has a divine object like a diary, and according to what he's revealed, there may be even higher Tiered Worlds beyond the heavens.

The ignorant are fearless; conversely, the more one knows, the more one fears the unknown.

Under such circumstances, Jiang Sishui still dared to make this vicious oath, which proved that his words truly came from the bottom of his heart.

At this moment, Bai Feifei suddenly felt that her decision to offer herself back then was the most correct thing she had ever done in her life.

"This man may indeed be fickle, but toward me he is sincere and true..."

After understanding her position in Jiang Sishui's heart, Bai Feifei couldn't help but feel a wave of daze.

She suddenly felt—was there really any need for her to spend all day thinking about how to compete with Huang Rong for his favor?

Bai Feifei was bewildered.

Suddenly, she felt her vision go black, then a warm sensation on her fragrant lips—her cherry lips had been captured.

Bai Feifei blinked, then wrapped her jade arms around Jiang Sishui's neck and passionately responded.

A beauty who has reached me still wants to run?

Having settled things with Bai Feifei, it was time to take her to meet Huang Rong and the other women.

Hearing that they were going to Mantuo Shanzhuang next, Bai Feifei asked Jiang Sishui to wait a moment, then took him to find Jin Jin Lingzhi together.

Jin Jin Lingzhi had been spanked on the bottom, had her hand touched, her waist embraced, and skin pressed against skin by the man, and was sulking alone. Suddenly seeing that "culprit" appear before her again, she was instantly furious, nearly exploding.

But she also knew she wasn't his match; being persistent would only make her suffer more losses. So she gave a cold snort, turned her face away, and left Jiang Sishui with a view of the back of her head.

That tsundere appearance almost made Jiang Sishui laugh out loud, while adding several more measures of fondness in his heart.

Such a woman, once conquered, should feel quite satisfying, right?

Just as Jiang Sishui was letting his imagination run wild, Bai Feifei walked to Jin Jin Lingzhi's side, took her slender hand, and said: "Good sister, I'm going to follow Brother Jiang to Mantuo Shanzhuang—will you accompany me?"

Jin Jin Lingzhi was stunned by the words, her face full of bewilderment, then pointed at herself as if doubting her own ears: "Me? Go with you?"

Bai Feifei smiled and nodded: "Yes, I'm a stranger there with no acquaintances. If I have you, sister, accompanying me, I'll feel much more at ease~"

Jin Jin Lingzhi: "..."

She looked at Bai Feifei with a baffled gaze, the meaning of which was—

Big sister, you've got the wrong script, haven't you? There wasn't such a scene before! It's fine if you go, but me going with you? Didn't you see the way that guy's eyes gleamed with thieving light when he looked at me? If I go, won't I just end up losing myself?!

Bai Feifei acted as if she hadn't understood her gaze; since Jin Jin Lingzhi didn't speak, she took it as acquiescence.

"Good sister, I just knew you wouldn't refuse your elder sister."

Without waiting for Jin Jin Lingzhi to retort, she said to Jiang Sishui again: "Brother Jiang, let's go."

Jiang Sishui nodded, decisive and swift. With one arm around Bai Feifei's slender waist and the other pulling Jin Jin Lingzhi's fragrant shoulder, he leaped down from the painted pleasure boat.

Jin Jin Lingzhi, who had been dumbfounded by the two of them working in concert with such outrageous moves, only came to her senses now. Seeing that she had been "kidnapped," she immediately struggled and shouted—

"No! I didn't say I wanted to go to Mantuo Shanzhuang! I don't want to go! Let go of me! You perverted scoundrel, you lecher!"

The guards on the painted pleasure boat heard their Young Lady's cries for help and all shouted rebukes, demanding Jiang Sishui release her, while ordering the boatmen to steer the boat over.

Carrying two living people—one of whom was still struggling vigorously—even though Jiang Sishui was a Grandmaster, he couldn't maintain "water-running."

So he simply let go of Jin Jin Lingzhi.

Jin Jin Lingzhi's body suddenly dropped, and she instinctively screamed, her hands flailing.

But the next moment, she found she hadn't fallen into the lake.

Beneath her feet, a spray of waves curled up, catching her body.

Solid and steady, perfectly balanced.

The moment Jin Jin Lingzhi landed on it, it felt like stepping on a ball of cotton, while the supremely soft water flow had been twisted into a mass by a mysterious force, gathering without dispersing.

Such a scene that defied common sense left Jin Jin Lingzhi stunned on the spot.

Before she could figure out what was going on, she saw an even more astonishing sight.

She saw Jiang Sishui holding Bai Feifei in his left hand, his right palm facing upward, making a lifting motion toward the painted pleasure boat from afar.

"Rise!"

With a great shout, the lake water surged wildly. The bottom of Taihu seemed to have a giant beast that had slept for countless years awaken, beginning to lift its head and turn over, churning up thousands of waves.

After gathering sufficient water momentum, a water column over ten zhang thick suddenly shot up into the sky!

Like an inverted Tianhe, the waterfall surged upward, lifting the entire painted pleasure boat dozens of zhang into the air!

The empty expanse of Taihu's surface echoed with the roar of rushing water, mingled with a chorus of panicked screams.

Bai Feifei and Jin Lingzhi were both dumbfounded.

Watching the pleasure boat fly into the sky, their minds went blank, every last thought driven from their heads.

What kind of immortal's trick was this?

Jiang Sishui cast a sidelong glance and saw that the willful, bratty Jin Lingzhi had been completely stunned, which pleased him greatly.

This little chili pepper—beautiful and full of desire—had bumped into him, and still thought she could run? How could that be possible?

Of course he could tell Jin Lingzhi didn't like him, but so what?

Keep her by his side, and sooner or later both her person and her heart would be his.

In the drama, Jin Lingzhi was at odds with Hu Tiehua at first too, but didn't she end up slowly falling for him in the end?

So Jiang Sishui planned to force the issue once.

Asking for flowers, please give me flowers

Besides, this feisty girl Jin Lingzhi seemed to have a bit of a masochistic streak—if you were only ever nice to her, she'd probably peg you as a simp and look down on you forever.

But if you fought and bickered with her, bullied her now and then, opposed her, made her so angry smoke nearly came out of her seven orifices, and then showed her some care afterward, she'd actually be unable to leave you.

To sum it up in one sentence: she's used to being a pampered young lady, wants a taste of being defied and crossed—but not too far, not enough to make her feel she's being trampled.

It was precisely because Jiang Sishui had read her temperament that he had carried her off.

"So this is what it feels like to steal a woman—it's that good."

Jiang Sishui suddenly felt a thrill he'd never known before.

Thinking of this, on an impulse he stepped forward, swept out his right arm, and pulled the still-dazed Jin Lingzhi into his embrace in one motion, as if declaring his claim.

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And Jin Lingzhi, still not having come back to herself, actually didn't resist.

After the water pillar launched the pleasure boat into the sky, it spun it around several times, scaring the souls nearly out of everyone aboard, before slowly descending.

Even after the pleasure boat settled back onto the lake's surface, the hearts of the guards and maids were still pounding wildly.

Then, every last one of them, their limbs went limp and weak, and they collapsed to the ground.

A feeling of "having survived a calamity" welled up in every heart.

Suddenly a voice came—

"Give my regards to Old Lady Jin, and tell her to set her mind at ease—Young Lady Lingzhi will be fine."

Hearing this, the crowd looked up one after another, only to see a wave carrying one man and two women swiftly into the distance.

For a moment, they exchanged glances at a loss.

Young Lady Lingzhi will be fine?