Chapter 277 - 144: Happiness and Crisis

Chapter 277: Chapter 144: Happiness and Crisis

For example, if a man has to carry a 100-pound bag of rice versus a 100-pound beauty, which activity won’t feel tiring?

Same principle...

If you get a hundred yuan for reaching the top of a 75-degree rock wall, versus having a charming, buxom girl with a cherubic face waiting for you at the top, which would a man climb faster for?

The money didn’t matter. Su Ran liked exercise, he liked rock climbing, and he liked climbing through the Saintess’s window. Going through the front door was no fun. Using the back entrance offered more of a thrill, right?

Xie Yiren was lying in bed when she thought she heard a noise outside her window.

’Oh my god, no way. Is he really climbing the window?’

She quickly rolled out of bed, pushed open the window, propped it with a wooden stick, and leaned on the sill. She giggled, half-annoyed and half-amused, as she watched ’Spider-Man’ Su Ran rapidly scale the wall.

"Hey, Young Master Su, is this really a good idea?"

"I’m just curious. Young Master Su, you’re so unathletic. A little exercise and you’re dead tired and need a massage. So how come when it comes to an extreme sport like rock climbing, you’re..."

Just as she said that, Su Ran scrambled up and vaulted onto the windowsill. He reached in, wrapped an arm around Xie Yiren’s soft, slender waist, and pulled. She let out a light "Ah!" as the force drew her against the window frame. "Ow~" she complained, glaring at him.

HUFF...

"’So how come’ what?"

Su Ran took a few ragged breaths, his alcohol-tinged breath washing over Xie Yiren’s pretty face. A faint blush crept onto her cheeks. She bit her lip, her eyelashes fluttering like a butterfly’s wings in the night sky. Her tender eyes held a hint of shyness, and her teasing tone softened to a whisper.

"You really climbed all the way up?"

She wrapped her own hands around Su Ran’s waist to keep him from falling to his death during his amorous escapade. Her voice was delicate and sweet.

"I called you so many times to come back just now, but you were mean to me. You’re always mean to me when you visit."

"Have I?"

"Mmm... yes."

Xie Yiren nodded, putting on a ’weak and helpless’ act as she pitifully recounted Su Ran’s "horrible crimes."

"Last time, you were playing on your handheld, and I climbed over you. Pikachu’s ears blocked your view for a second, and you got so impatient and snapped at me. You even made me cry and didn’t even comfort me."

"This time, too. You said you were cold, so I came back to warm up the bed for you. Once it was warm, I called you to come to sleep, and you snapped at me again. You almost yelled at me until I cried just now."

Su Ran freed one hand to gently caress Xie Yiren’s cherubic face. Perhaps it was the alcohol, but Su Ran found her exceptionally cute—the kind of cute that made him want to ’discipline’ her and make her cry. ℯ

The added bonus of her noble status as the Saintess only intensified the urge. A man’s weird kink?

However...

A sweet girl was already complaining so pitifully. He couldn’t make her cry again. He had to comfort her properly.

"Alright, I promise. I won’t be mean to you anymore."

"I don’t believe you. You said the same thing last time."

Her voice grew softer and softer, like the buzzing of a mosquito.

SLAP~

Su Ran smacked her perky bottom. She yelped, "Why’d you hit me~? I wasn’t wrong. You really did—Ow! You hit me again!"

"I already said I won’t be mean to you anymore, and you’re still whining. Believe it or not, I’ll pull your pants down tonight and give your butt a good spanking to teach you a lesson."

"You..."

"Me what?"

Xie Yiren looked at Su Ran’s still-macho expression with her big, sparkling eyes and didn’t dare say another word. She was overwhelmed by his masculine aura, left with no choice but to be obedient. Otherwise, she’d really get spanked.

Er... it seems women quite like being kept in line by their man.

"I’m asking you a question."

Su Ran raised his hand to slap her again.

"Don’t hit me."

She hugged Su Ran, who was still halfway out the window, and burrowed into his chest. Like a little kitten needing protection, she peeked her head out, looked at her ’master,’ and said in a soft, sweet voice, "Don’t spank my butt anymore. It hurts."

Oh... Xie Yiren remembered the most important item she’d forgotten to write in her mental list of [Su Ran’s Weird Kinks]. Item #4: Likes to spank.

That’s right. It wasn’t just Xie Yiren; the other three had been spanked as well.

The first one to get spanked was Aina. She had fallen into Liu Jinyu’s arms, crying and complaining, "Su Ran spanked my butt, waaaah~"

So, they all felt that Su Ran, with his persona as a gentle and refined man, was actually a bit of a refined scoundrel.

But... deep down, the women didn’t mind. Too proper was boring, too pervy was disgusting. Su Ran was just right.

Of course, Su Ran would never dare spank Shan Weizi’s bottom. If he wasn’t careful, she’d draw her sword and chase him all over creation.

"Su Ran, you climbed through my window. Aren’t you afraid the villagers will find out and burn us both at the stake?"

"If I were afraid, I never would have come here. They’re just a bunch of old-fashioned traditionalists. What’s there to fear?"

"Oh... Mwah~"

She stood on her tiptoes, gave him a quick peck on the lips, and said with a beaming smile, "That’s your reward."

Su Ran pressed his lips together. There was a faint, milky scent. It was very familiar.

A villager passing below heard a few loud THUMPS from the window closing. He shone his flashlight up at it but saw no one—just the shutter flapping from the momentum of being closed.

"Yiren, was that a thief?"

The man called out.

Inside the room, the lights were off. Only the dappled moonlight allowed them to faintly make out each other’s figures.

Against the wall, Xie Yiren broke her kiss with Su Ran and called out the window, "No thief, just a stray cat that passed by." After that, she paid no more mind to the voice outside. She wrapped her arms around Su Ran’s neck and said softly, "Su Ran, I’ve missed you so much lately." Then, she closed her eyes, her soft body leaning limply against his as she savored the tender kiss after their long separation.

Su Ran didn’t really understand girls, nor had he ever tried to. But he understood Xie Yiren. The reason was simple: he only needed to check if the Phoenix had appeared on her neck to know if he’d gotten her there.