He directly lowered his head and bit her neck, biting hard enough to leave a bloody mark, as if venting his rage.
“Ah—” Xin Yi hissed in pain, hugging the youth’s neck and going soft in his arms. She panted delicately, her watery eyes full of coquettish resentment, yet it only made one want to bully her more.
Pouting her red lips, she warned, “Tonight I must sleep with Xiao Cheng Ce. Don’t ruin my plans.”
Unfortunately, he was dead set on ruining her plans. He directly clamped her waist and forcibly carried her back to his own courtyard.
Xin Yi’s true intentions weren’t the wine to begin with, so she only struggled symbolically twice in his arms. She didn’t even call for help.
She figured since he was this angry, he would at least pin her to the bed and have his way with her.
Then she could half-heartedly resist with a couple moans before taking the initiative to wrap around him.
Who would have thought Xie Shuo would just throw her into the room with a cold face, then keep his distance, showing no intention of continuing to pay her any mind.
Forget forced love— not even a kiss.
He didn’t come close at all, just guarded her at the door, watching her. The moment she tried to go out, he blocked her or threatened with his Gu insects.
Xin Yi was furious. Biting her red lips, she glared at him. “Don’t go too far! You’re not willing to help me, but you won’t even let me seduce him myself?”
Xie Shuo’s reaction made it clear: no.
If she wanted to leave this courtyard tonight to seduce Xiao Cheng Ce, it would be over his dead body.
The two stalemated until deep into the night.
Finally, the youth at the door stirred. Xin Yi narrowed her eyes, munching on pastries, and watched openly as everything below his waist transformed into a snake tail.
He was in heat again.
The scales on the snake tail flowed sinuously, especially the mottled patterns of ink-green and black blending together. They could only evoke thoughts of a terrifying giant python in a tropical rainforest strangling its prey.
It was not a pretty snake at all.
Xin Yi suddenly lost her appetite, especially thinking about how she would have to force herself on that tail later. It made her even more queasy.
She hated why Xie Shuo’s snake tail wasn’t born prettier.
No helping it— at this point, no other choice.
She could only look more at Xie Shuo’s face to adjust her mood: such a handsome, pretty boyish face— even paired with an ugly, crude snake tail, it could be forgiven, right?
Xie Shuo also sensed her gaze, but he was in great pain right now.
He desperately wanted to slither over and kiss her.
He wanted to feed, wanted to find water to drink inside her body.
Yet he could only endure it rigidly, using his last shred of reason.
Staring at her, he panted heavily.
Xin Yi watched his disheveled, lust-soaked appearance and couldn’t help retreating two steps. Her resolve wavered a bit.
He was already like this without any drugs. If they really did it later, would there be any problems?
The Melodramatic Transmigration System understood her concerns but had no intention of helping her cheat. “The drugging plot is an important storyline. It cannot be skipped or altered.”
Meaning no room for discussion— she had to grit her teeth and go through with it.
Xin Yi: “…”
She spent a long time psyching herself up, then walked toward the youth with the surging snake tail at the door. Unfortunately, before she reached him, his tail swept over and forced her back.
Xin Yi nearly stumbled and fell. Calming her startled heart, she gritted her teeth. “Do you have a problem? If you’re not letting me go, fine— but why swing your tail at me too!”
“Ruin my plans and torture yourself— is that fun?”
Naturally, he didn’t answer her.
Because he couldn’t utter a single word normally, let alone at a time like this.
Xin Yi had originally planned to go over first and feed him some blood to cool him down, then have him drink the aphrodisiac.
Now there was no way. She could only skip the first step.
She turned back to the table, poured the powder from the medicine bottle into the teacup, then carried it over and placed it on the ground in front of him.
Basking in the moonlight, she watched the young man’s snake tail constantly rubbing against itself and said against her conscience, “Drink it… This will quench your thirst and clear your heat. You’ll feel better after drinking it.”
In the original plotline, the original host Bai Xinyi had also given him this kind of drug before.
Hadn’t he endured it forcefully back then?
Xin Yi held a sliver of hope that Xie Shuo could also tough it out tonight.
Xie Shuo seemed to understand her words.
He was indeed very thirsty. In his muddled state of mind, he raised his pale golden vertical pupils, panted rapidly for a moment, then slithered his snake tail toward the teacup on the ground.
Xin Yi watched him drink all the tea in the cup.
At the same time, her entire body tensed up. She backed away from him further while vigilantly observing his reaction.
In the end, she saw that Xie Shuo stopped moving after drinking. His upper body lay prostrate on the ground, and even the snake tail that had been restlessly rubbing stopped swishing.
He didn’t look like he’d drunk an aphrodisiac; instead, he looked like he’d taken a knockout drug.
But Xin Yi’s heart drummed even harder. Something was wrong.
When something was abnormal, there must be something strange about it. Even if the dose she’d given wasn’t much, it shouldn’t have actually quenched his thirst and cleared his heat so effectively.
The more she thought about it, the stranger it seemed. She no longer hesitated and wanted to slip out while Xie Shuo was frozen in place.
The drug had already been administered anyway. According to the plotline, she’d completed her task. Continuing to stay with him would be too dangerous.
She was just a vicious supporting female character.
She could stir up trouble everywhere she went, but she wasn’t stupid enough to throw her life away here.
So she schooled her expression and walked lightly toward the door, where a snake clan youth in his mating period lay.
Be careful, don’t startle him. Just go around him and it’d be fine.
Her embroidered shoe stepped over the threshold, the bright moonlight shining on the double lotus embroidered on her skirt hem.
She was out!
Both feet were out!
Xin Yi barely suppressed the joyful smile tugging at her lips and silently exhaled.
Then, just as she slipped out the door and was about to step down the first bluestone step, she suddenly heard a whistling wind by her ear. Her waist tightened, and she was dragged back by a long, thick snake tail mottled with patterns.
The door slammed shut.
She was coiled by the snake tail and brought onto the bed. Her whole body sank helplessly into the bedding, and then she met those scorching hot, pale golden vertical pupils filled with desire.
“A-A Shuo…”
Her heart chilled by half. She timidly reached out to touch his face, trying to awaken his senses. “You don’t want to do this to me, right? You can still recognize me, right?”
She wanted to crawl backward, but it was already too late.
The bed curtains swayed and dropped around them. She only managed to grab the tassel silk hanging from the edge of the bed.
Her entire body was in his mouth and teeth. Moments later, a dull pain of torment assaulted her, and Xin Yi cried out with a sob.
No, it wouldn’t work.
If it went in, she’d die.
Her cries and struggles briefly awakened a shred of his awareness. The youth lowered his sweat-dampened brows and eyes, pressing into the hollow of her neck with rapid pants. He seemed pained and bewildered too, but he couldn’t figure out the method, couldn’t get in no matter what.
Xin Yi endured her trembling and bit her fingertip, feeding it to his lips.
She coaxed him softly, “Good little snake, drink more. Retract your snake tail, and I’ll teach you.”
After a long, long time, the youth’s snake tail finally receded bit by bit.
Xin Yi arduously avoided his entwining tongue tip. Her lips were red and swollen. Just as she was about to praise him, drenched in fragrant sweat, he bit the side of her neck and forced his way in with brute strength.
“Mmm!”
Xin Yi didn’t know how many times she fainted and groggily woke. Each time she woke, he hadn’t finished, or he’d finished and started again.
The bedding beneath her was already a muddy mess. She sobbed in fury and hatred, scratching several bloody marks on the youth’s cheek and back.
Then she was lifted by the waist and flipped over.
This cycle repeated until she couldn’t muster even a shred of strength to struggle.
Time seemed to turn into endless torment.
She woke at dusk the next day. Her face immediately paled upon waking because her whole body ached, and he still hadn’t separated from her.
Xin Yi’s face flushed red one moment and turned ashen the next.
She directly raised her hand and slapped Xie Shuo, who didn’t know how long he’d been awake beside her, gritting her teeth as she said, “Get out!”
Then she frowned and hissed in pain again.
Her tears were provoked into falling, yet she sensed the youth behind her breathing change rhythm, filled with deep, irrepressible thirst.
Xin Yi trembled even more in anger.
She pushed him away and looked at the fresh red handprint and thin bloody scratches emerging on his clear, fair side profile. Furiously, she said, “Why won’t you stop!”
Xie Shuo turned that delicately beautiful face toward her, his ink-black eyes seeming a little aggrieved.
But he also knew he’d gone too far last night and obediently didn’t approach.
In the end, Xin Yi refused his help to bathe and haphazardly gathered her ruined, unwearable dress.
Under the cover of night, she tremblingly made her way back to the neighboring courtyard on unsteady legs.
Xie Shuo followed behind her like an inescapable shadow.
His scorching, thick gaze seemed intent on staring a hole through her.
Xin Yi ignored him and asked the system in a depressed tone, “Do snake clan members have reproductive isolation? After something like today, do I need to drink contraceptive decoction?”
The Melodramatic Transmigration System: “No.”
Xin Yi was utterly disheartened.
With a taut face, she limped into the courtyard, then slammed the door shut, pretending not to see that smoky purple shadow.
Xiang Lan saw the glamorous marks of vigorous lovemaking all over her and couldn’t help swallowing.
She knew her young miss had gone to find Xiao Cheng Ce last night, but she hadn’t expected the general to be so intense.
While she was still stunned in shock, she heard her young miss say, “Do you have any contraceptive decoction? I need it right now.”
Xiang Lan was surprised and puzzled. “Why drink contraceptive decoction? This is a good thing. Young Miss should drink some tonic to regulate your body.”
After finally gaining the general’s favor, if she could get pregnant, she wouldn’t have to worry about being chased out anymore.
“Because it wasn’t Xiao Cheng Ce who did this.”
“It was Xie Shuo. Your young miss cheated.”