Chapter 96 - Woman, You Have Piqued This One's Interest

On the bed, Long Yue huddled under the quilt, her heart already filled with regret.

*Having missed the chance to face the Demon Sovereign tonight, how will she be able to face him in the future?*

*But she just said she was going to sleep. Wouldn't it be strange to get up now...*

Just as she was hesitating about whether to get up again, a firm and warm body suddenly pressed against her from behind.

Long Yue shuddered involuntarily, her heart suddenly accelerating. She glanced back and saw that it was Lin Fan, who was hugging her from behind.

“D-Demon Sovereign, w-what are you doing?”

“I should be the one asking you that, Empress. What exactly have you been up to today?”

Lin Fan said languidly, his arms around her soft waist, a hint of dissatisfaction in his voice:

“This morning you avoided This One all day, then you found an excuse to run out, and after you came back, you deliberately tried to seduce me. What exactly are you trying to do?”

“D-Deliberately seduce you, Demon Sovereign?! O-Of course not! Something like that…!”

Long Yue vehemently refuted, her cheeks blushing furiously.

However, her flustered and shy appearance was more telling than any argument…

Lin Fan had already seen through everything, a teasing smile playing on his lips.

“Tell me, why were you avoiding This One?”

“Th-This Empress wasn't avoiding you, it's just... it's just…”

Long Yue stammered, which made Lin Fan even more curious.

“Just what?”

After a moment of silence, Long Yue slowly turned around, faced him with a red face, then shyly averted her gaze and quietly spoke what was troubling her:

“It's just that This Empress doesn't know how to face you, Demon Sovereign…”

“Don't know how to face me? Why?”

“B-Because last night, d-didn't This Empress agree to become your, your woman, Demon Sovereign…”

Towards the end, Long Yue's voice became smaller and smaller, until it was as faint as the buzz of a mosquito.

“And because of that, you avoided me all day?”

Hearing this, Lin Fan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

He had been wondering why her personality had changed so drastically overnight and why she was deliberately avoiding him, making him think that something had happened that she didn't want to tell him about.

But it turns out it was just the Empress feeling shy…

“Mmm...”

Long Yue nodded lightly in embarrassment.

She felt that avoiding the Demon Sovereign for a whole day was perhaps a bit much, but it wasn't her fault either. To suddenly become a couple with the Demon Sovereign... she really didn't know how to face it.

Every time she saw his face or heard his voice, her heart would start to race uncontrollably...

“Then what was tonight all about?” Lin Fan asked curiously.

“Tonight... someone taught This Empress to do this...”

Long Yue told Lin Fan about her meeting with Chen Yijing and everything she had been taught.

After listening, Lin Fan again didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

“Empress, it's best to just let these things happen naturally.”

“I like you very much, so I will give you time to slowly adapt. You just need to be yourself, just like always.”

As he spoke, Lin Fan cupped Long Yue's cheeks in his hands, his eyes gazing at her calmly and tenderly.

Gazing into his eyes, Long Yue, who had been agitated and confused, gradually calmed down and stared back at him blankly.

“Just like always…”

Long Yue softly repeated Lin Fan's words to herself, then asked with confusion:

“Then, should This Empress still call you Demon Sovereign from now on?”

“Hmm… if you like, it's up to you.”

Lin Fan nodded lightly, then moved a little closer to her face and added:

“If you'd like, Empress, you can also call This One by my name.”

“Of course, if you could call me 'hubby,' This One would probably be even happier~”

“H-Hubby…?!”

Long Yue's pretty face showed her shock, and she flushed red to the tips of her ears.

She knew the term 'hubby.' In this world, it was what a woman called her husband, equivalent to the terms 'fūjūn' or 'xiànggong' on the Immortal-Demon Continent.

Long Yue's red lips moved slightly, but she stopped herself. In the end, she found it too difficult to say and changed the subject:

“Th-Then This Empress will just call you Lin Fan from now on…”

*To suddenly switch from calling him 'Demon Sovereign' to a term of endearment like 'hubby'... she really couldn't bring herself to say it…*

“Then I'll call you Yue'er from now on,” Lin Fan said after a moment's thought.

“Y-Yue'er…?!”

Hearing this intimate form of address, Long Yue's already crimson cheeks grew a few shades redder.

“Y-Why are you being so cheesy? It's so gross…”

“You don't like me calling you that?”

“Then This One will change it.”

Lin Fan gave a teasing smile and changed it again:

“Wifey~”

“Ewww…!”

Long Yue got goosebumps all over and shot Lin Fan a coquettish glare.

“Isn't that even more cheesy and gross?!”

“You wouldn't let This One call you Yue'er, so This One has no choice but to call you Wifey.”

“Wh-What are you talking about! There are obviously many other names you could use!”

“For example?”

“L-Like, calling This Empress by my name, Long Yue, would be fine…”

“'Long Yue' doesn't sound intimate enough. I still prefer 'Wifey.' It's intimate and pleasant to the ear~”

With that, Lin Fan leaned in close to Long Yue's ear, blew a puff of warm air, and called out softly:

“Don't you think so, wifey~”

“Aah! Stop calling me that…!”

Listening to Lin Fan's gentle words in her ear, Long Yue was both shy and angry, but she could do nothing about him. She could only concede and compromise in a small voice:

“This Empress admits defeat. You can just call me Yue'er…”

“Yue'er~”

A sly, triumphant smile appeared on Lin Fan's lips as he called out softly.

Long Yue's pretty face flushed red, and she silently lowered her head.

For some reason, every time the Demon Sovereign called her by that intimate name, it was as if a string in her heart had been plucked, setting off a wave of inexplicable fluttering.

This was the first time since becoming the Empress that she had ever been addressed so intimately by someone…

*If she were to call the Demon Sovereign by an intimate name too, would he be happy...*

After hesitating for a moment, Long Yue mustered her courage and, in a voice so quiet she could barely hear it herself, softly called out:

“Hubby…”

It was less a call to Lin Fan and more like her secretly practicing it to herself, but as it happened, the sound still reached Lin Fan's ears.

Lin Fan's eyes widened slightly. He stared at Long Yue in disbelief, his heart in turmoil, a mixture of joy and shock.

He had never imagined that the Empress would actually say it out loud…

“This Empress didn't say anything just now, and you didn't hear anything!”

Realizing that her quiet mumble had been heard, Long Yue's face flushed in a panic, and she quickly tried to deny it.

“That won't do. I can't just pretend I didn't hear anything.”

Lin Fan moved his face close to hers, a teasing yet gentle smile on his lips.

“You were the one who tempted me first~”

“Woman, you have piqued This One's interest~”

“Eh…?”

Long Yue blinked, dazed and confused, a sudden uneasy premonition in her heart.

The next second, before she could react, his lips firmly sealed hers. Just like last time, he gave her no time to react at all…

Long Yue's eyes flew wide open. She subconsciously placed her hands on Lin Fan's chest, but she didn't resist forcefully; she just rested them there nervously.

Lin Fan kissed her deeply, his hands slipping beneath her clothes to roam freely over her delicate body.

With his kisses and caresses, Long Yue's tense body gradually relaxed. Her eyes glazed over with intoxication, and her hands moved from pressing against his chest to wrapping around his back.

In the darkness, clothes were tossed, piece by piece, to the floor beside the bed…

In the quiet of the deep night, a lone boat entered a gentle, flowing mountain stream. The cries of the phoenix and the songs of the warbler echoed endlessly through the mountain forest…

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