Ah Wu couldn't sleep.
The reason? Ah Yin's words.
Earlier that evening, her sister had returned from Yuan Longxuan's chambers, limp and flushed, collapsing onto the bed beside Ah Wu with a sigh of exhausted satisfaction.
"He ruined me," Ah Yin had whispered, a mischievous smirk on her lips.
"I couldn't even stand afterward."
The way she spoke the roughness of his hands, the possessive grip, the hunger in his touch-had awakened a strange heat deep within Ah Wu, coiling low in her. belly.
She had scoffed, pretending indifference, but now, in the darkness of her room, her body betrayed her curiosity.
What would it feel like to be the one beneath him? To feel that same reckless desire directed at her? She clenched her thighs, trying to suppress the ache.
Then the door creaked.
The villa was silent under the night sky.
Only the rustling of leaves and distant calls of nocturnal soul beasts broke the stillness.
Yuan Longxuan, exhausted from cultivation and still foggy with sleep, stumbled toward Ah Yin's room.
He pushed the door open lazily, seeing a
familiar figure curled beneath the sheets. Without thinking, he slid into bed behind her, arms winding possessively around her waist.
"Yin" he murmured, nuzzling into her neck. His lips brushed her shoulder, leaving a trail of warm, slow kisses.
But then she tensed.
Ah Yin never tensed like this.
The drowsiness fled from him instantly. Something was wrong.
The scent-Ah Yin's crisp winter fragrance-was gone.
This was softer, warmer, almost intoxicating, like moonlight and wildflowers.
His breath caught.
"Ah Wu?"
The realization hit him like lightning. He froze. Fuck.
He had just kissed Ah Wu. Not Ah Yin.
Not by mistake of sight-he had drawn her against him, hands roaming with the same boldness he reserved for Ah Yin.. His heart slammed. His face burned.
He should pull away. Apologize.
Pretend none of this had happened.
But Ah Wu didn't recoil.
Her crimson eyes, wide in shock, stared into his, lips slightly parted.
Her fingers rested trembling against his chest.
"Yuan..." she whispered. One single word, but it shattered every ounce of restraint he had left.
Guilt surged through him. He wanted her -he had wanted her from the moment he
first saw her-but this wasn't right. She hadn't consented. He had crossed a line. His hands froze mid-motion, his voice rough and hoarse.
"I-I'm sorry, Ah Wu..." he stammered, guilt weighing him down like iron chains. "I... I shouldn't have touched you. You didn't-"
But Ah Wu shook her head, a small,
daring smirk forming despite the flush in her cheeks. "I know what you think," she murmured, her voice low and tremulous. "And I... I've thought about you too. Since I first saw you, I've wanted this."
Yuan's chest tightened. Her honesty, the vulnerability behind it, it both ignited. desire and deepened his shame.
He could still step back. He should. But as her hands slid slowly to his shoulders, drawing him closer, every instinct in him rebelled against reason.
"I want to feel you, Yuan,"
she confessed, voice shaking. I lie awake imagining you.... the way you claimed Ah Yin, the way you dominated her... and I can't stop thinking about it. I want... I want you to claim me too."
Her words, bold yet hesitant, made his blood run hot. And yet guilt still knotted. his stomach.
"I shouldn't... I can't-" he murmured, pulling back slightly.
But her hands held him fast, her eyes pleading and bright in the moonlight.
"I know," she whispered. "But I want this. I want you. Not just tonight, but... every night. I want my body to memorize yours, my soul to be entwined with yours.
I want you to cherish me, worship me, the way you do... the way you will."
Her nails dug lightly into his shoulders, her voice dropping to a fevered whisper. "Ever since I heard about Ah Yin... about your nights with her... I haven't been able to think of anything else. I want it. I need it. I want to be yours completely."
Yuan Longxuan's dark eyes locked on hers, burning with desire and guilt in equal measure.
Every fiber of him screamed to yield, yet the knowledge of what had just happened weighed on him like a stone.
" I wanted you from the first moment I saw you," he admitted, his voice thick with conflict.
"But I shouldn't have... I shouldn't have touched you without your consent. That was wrong, Ah Wu. I-
She silenced him with a trembling hand, pressing her lips to his chest. "Yuan, I know what I want.
I'm not afraid. And I want you. I want to feel you, to let you ruin me the way you ruined Ah Yin."
The possessive growl that rose from his chest was raw, unfiltered.
His fingers tangled in her hair, tilting her head up to meet his gaze. "Starting tonight..." he murmured, voice low, laden with heat. you belong only to me."
Ah Wu's lips curved into a satisfied, daring smile, and for the first time,
Yuan Longxuan let himself believe that desire and consent could coexist-even in the tangled, dangerous heat of this night.
The villa remained silent under the moonlight, yet inside, a fire had been ignited-one that neither regret nor restraint could quench.
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