Chapter 449: Ch 449- Hard to Imagine
"What a stubborn little thing..."
Deep within the palace atop Jinglan Peak, the graceful woman with elegantly crossed legs murmured with slight surprise.
She stared at the white-robed young man kneeling but still gritting his teeth in persistence. After observing for a long time, she finally sighed helplessly.
After all, she was already a Grand Elder of the Liuli Sect.
Now older and in this position, Ye Chaerin was no longer the competitive young girl from years past. There was no need to bully the weak and compete with a junior like Yino.
"Good, get up."
Thinking this, Ye Chaerin spoke softly.
As she spoke, she snapped her fingers. At the same time, the exquisite tower floating before her chest dissipated.
With the tower withdrawn into her body, the pressure pinning Yino to the ground also vanished.
However, when Yino tried to stand up, he exerted force but felt his vision go black. Like a final string snapping, his whole body went limp and powerless. He collapsed face-first onto the ground.
This scene immediately terrified Ye Chaerin.
"Yino!"
Inside the tower-like palace building, Ruoning who had been watching rushed out.
She stepped forward to help Yino up, but he was clearly exhausted. His entire weight pressed down on Ruoning’s shoulder...
"Don’t... don’t support me like this... your shoulder is making me uncomfortable..."
Yino frowned, his expression seemingly pained as he moaned weakly.
His words, spoken in such a weak tone, immediately made the already worried Ruoning turn pale with greater anxiety.
For some reason... Ruoning felt like listening to Yino speak now gave her a sense of life-and-death parting.
Though she could sense that Yino’s aura wasn’t actually near death.
"Sit on the ground, then bend your thighs and kneel..."
Yino continued weakly.
Ruoning obediently nodded, following Yino’s instructions to sit duck-style on the ground.
"Then... put my head on your thighs..."
"Like... like this?"
"Yes, this is comfortable..."
Finally resting on the noble young lady’s fragrant, soft, white-stockinged thighs, Yino was finally satisfied enough to close his eyes.
On the other side, Ruoning had been scared silly. Seeing Yino’s pained expression and hearing his weak voice, she thought he was really going to die.
But now, with his face resting sideways on her thighs, Ruoning finally realized something was wrong.
"But... for a knee pillow, isn’t this direction wrong..."
After a long blush, Ruoning finally spoke up in a low, strained voice.
After all, this was Jinglan Peak, not the forest from two nights ago. Ruoning felt shy due to her master’s presence, but also didn’t dare speak loudly for fear of being misunderstood.
"No choice... I’m internally injured. I can’t move carelessly right now, can’t turn over..."
Yino lay sideways with his head pillowed on her thighs, his face toward Ruoning’s small abdomen. He brazenly nestled in the girl’s embrace, enjoying that unique body fragrance custom-made for the Liu family’s young lady.
At some point, Chaerin finally couldn’t sit still.
"How long are you going to keep the act?"
Chaerin raised her eyebrow, slapping the table as she stood up.
Though her tone was cold and harsh, when she spoke these words, her hands hidden behind her back were secretly clutching her clothes nervously.
After all, by common sense, Ye Chaerin’s pressure wasn’t meant to crush someone to death, but to press on Yino’s shoulders with gradually increasing weight.
So, when Yino couldn’t hold on and knelt, Chaerin could immediately pull back, preventing the pressure from exceeding Yino’s physical limits and causing internal injury.
This was the foundation of Ye Chaerin’s confidence in scolding Yino.
But from another angle, how could a normal human cultivator withstand Great Vehicle stage pressure with a Nascent Soul stage body?
An ordinary person would have been crushed to pulp instantly.
And Yino?
He was indeed exceptionally talented with innate pride, but Ye Chaerin couldn’t guarantee that Yino wasn’t enduring with broken bones!
If she really broke one of Yino’s bones under pressure...
Though this possibility was low, seeing Yino lying motionless for so long did make Ye Chaerin somewhat uneasy.
So as a compromise, Ye Chaerin decided to pretend anger and test whether Yino was really injured or faking.
"I didn’t expect... you’d see through it, elder Ye..."
Seeing that Ye Chaerin seemed genuinely angry, Yino immediately propped up his exhausted body and sat up properly from Ruoning’s embrace.
This was indeed beyond Yino’s expectations. He thought that given the original story’s portrayal of Ye Chaerin as soft-hearted, if he suddenly played dead, she would panic and quickly have Ruoning carry him inside to care for him...
But unexpectedly, as a Great Vehicle stage Grand Elder of the Liuli Sect, Ye Chaerin still had some discernment.
"Hmph..."
"Such petty tricks, and you dare use them before me?"
Ye Chaerin looked at Yino, who recovered in one second. Though she smiled coldly as expected, her hands clutched behind her back were sweating.
This damn kid!
He had her senior sister’s pride but was far more cunning!
If I hadn’t spoken up to test him, I might really have been fooled
Thinking carefully, Chaerin felt a chill down her back.
Last night when listening to Ruoning talk about Yino’s deeds, Chaerin had been considering how to present herself when Yino came to the Liuli Sect.
Later, Chaerin concluded she should maintain a cold image to first establish authority in Yino’s heart, subduing this fearless brat.
For this reason, Ye Chaerin immediately used pressure suppression upon meeting.
Now that the pressure had successfully subdued Yino, the cold image Ye Chaerin had worked hard to establish would be completely ruined if she got scared and went soft over Yino’s little act!
Thinking this, Chaerin sighed, rising from the chair and taking out a folding fan to wave lightly:
"Alright, the tantrum phase for little brats should end now."
"If you’ve rested enough, come inside with me to discuss your relationship with my disciple."
She gazed at Yino outside, her beautiful eyes cold yet containing some worry.
At these words, Yino was indeed intimidated by Chaerin. He quickly got up to follow the long-dressed fairy’s steps inside.
However...
Being too eager to keep up with Ye Chaerin’s pace, when Yino stepped over the threshold, his thigh suddenly cramped up and lost strength again.
"—!"
This time, Yino wasn’t faking.
His leg went numb, his vision blurred again, and he tripped on the threshold, falling straight toward Ye Chaerin’s back.
But the expected sound of his head hitting the ground didn’t come.
With a soft thud, the moment Yino’s consciousness faded, he felt a strange orchid-scented aura wash over him.
Time seemed frozen in this moment.
"Yino!"
"Master...?"
Behind them, both of Ye Chaerin’s disciples cried out.
Yino tried to open his eyes again, but like suffering from insufficient blood supply to the brain, he truly couldn’t muster strength. He could only obediently rest in that gentle, orchid-scented embrace, placing all his weight on her.
Dimly, Yino could vaguely feel a pair of cool hands. While supporting him, they also seemed to be secretly traveling up and down his chest with spirit-infused fingertips.
Those hands pressed together, moving from top to bottom skillfully and rhythmically, clearly searching for Yino’s meridians and pressure points.
For a moment, as the hands repeatedly pressed his pressure points, Yino felt a refreshingly cool spiritual energy flowing through all his meridians like frost.
He tried to struggle and stand on his own strength but was firmly held and embraced by the woman supporting him.
"What’s this? Weren’t you quite fond of pretending to be injured before?"
"Now that this lady is truly taking your pulse for treatment, why are you getting anxious and trying to escape?"
Perhaps having truly discovered some secret, Chaerin’s tone now carried unmistakable playfulness and revenge.
Since Yino was lying in her embrace, he couldn’t see her expression, but he could roughly imagine her cold, smug, upturned red lips.
"Alright, stop struggling."
"Those little schemes between your He family and the National Advisor aren’t exactly news to someone at my level. It’s just that now I have personally felt this rumored existence and can finally confirm it."
"So..."
"Yino, since you’ve fallen into my hand, I advise you to behave and lie still without resistance. Let me properly study the secrets hidden in your body."
"Otherwise, if you refuse to cooperate..."
Speaking the last sentence, Ye Chaerin paused.
She swallowed audibly, then leaned down to bring her lips to Yino’s ear, laughing coldly with deep meaning:
"I might tie up Ruoning tonight and send her to the Lin mansion."
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