Chapter 14

Just when I thought tears were the most delicious thing, Mo Jinghong surprised me again.

Her face was pink as peach blossoms as she slowly pressed me beneath her.

At first, I didn’t understand.

Then I tasted it.

After that, everything spiraled beyond control.

Her gasps made her even more enticing. She seized my robe and kissed me with passionate longing, slipping her tongue into my mouth.

I tasted the sweetness there.

That was delicious too.

Why did every part of her taste so good?

What would happen if I swallowed her whole?

The thought had barely formed before I drove it away.

There was only one Mo Jinghong in the world.

I mustn’t kill the goose that laid the golden eggs, or drain the pond to catch the fish.

I kept reminding myself.

Then I kissed her more deeply.

* * *

After we returned, she swiftly transformed the sect.

Her master was busy every day putting things in order.

She wanted to go help.

I wouldn’t allow it.

I had cleared so many obstacles for her. How dared she leave me aside again?

How could the Beast-Taming Sect matter more than me?

At first, she refused, insisting she needed to help her master.

But when she heard what I said, she thought for a while and decided it made sense.

“You’ve contributed most. I really should reward you.”

She cradled my face, her eyes full of tenderness.

I nearly drowned in that gaze.

Without meaning to, I began breathing hard.

I didn’t understand. I hadn’t eaten yet, so why was I already so deeply satisfied?

I pressed her onto the soft bedding.

We kissed wildly. I kissed and nipped her lips again and again, never getting enough.

I wanted to eat her.

I wanted every bit of her.

She wrapped her arms around my neck, breathing quickly.

“Yin Hai… gently…”

I didn’t listen.

Gently? How could I?

Not swallowing her whole already took every scrap of my restraint.

I feasted on her from head to foot, leaving no part untouched.

At first, she cried out loudly. Later, she was utterly exhausted, her voice hoarse.

She gripped the sheets as tears spilled from her eyes.

Naturally, I licked them all away.

So delicious.

“Even better than your tears when you took that aphrodisiac. Why?”

I couldn’t understand.

Hearing me, she laughed through her tears.

“Idiot…”

She held my shoulders and gently kissed my lips.

Satisfaction filled my heart again.

How?

She had only called me an idiot.

Why was I so happy?

* * *

Mo Jinghong was always trying to train me like a dog.

I disliked that coaxing tone.

Yet I couldn’t resist when she said, “However you want to eat.”

Nor when she said, “Behave, and I’ll reward you when we’re home.”

This was bad.

Was I really becoming her dog?

Impossible! I was a Taotie!

Oh, right. I still hadn’t told her my true form.

Never mind. There was no need. I might frighten her to death.

She didn’t care what I was anyway.

Yin Hai or Taotie—what difference did it make?

As long as she was Mo Jinghong, I trusted she would willingly feed me for the rest of her life.

* * *

Every night, I craved her.

Fortunately, she was a cultivator.

Otherwise, I would have exhausted her to death long ago.

She never refused me.

However often I wanted her, she indulged me.

Sometimes, she was so tired she fell asleep.

Even then, she couldn’t bear to tell me no.

Idiot.

How could anyone be so foolish?

I held her sleeping body close and kissed her forehead firmly.

Mo Jinghong, you great idiot.

I liked you so much.

So much. So very much.

I would never let you go.

You might as well accept it.

* * *

That night, I dreamed of her three previous lives.

I saw her “fate.”

In the first, she spent decades enduring countless hardships to cure the Black Dragon’s hidden injury. The moment he recovered, he joined Wen Zhiyue.

In the second, the Azure Phoenix despised her appearance and lack of finery, spent every coin she had, then discarded her like an old shoe.

My fists had already clenched.

Her third life was more absurd still.

Her own spirit beast had called her too weak.

And even then, she hadn’t killed the brute.

I knew she was foolish.

I hadn’t known she was this foolish.

Fortunately, in her fourth life, she had finally learned.

She chose me.

Hmph.

At least she had good taste.

Slowly, I opened my eyes and woke.

I turned toward Mo Jinghong, sound asleep beside me.

Great idiot.

Let me collect that debt for you.

After all, I was your contract beast.

That was what a contract beast should do.