Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 280 - 185: Brewing Wine + You Don’t Trust Me
An Jin shifted into a more comfortable position, leaning against Gu Yin as she knitted a scarf.
Her shoulder suddenly felt heavy. She tilted her head and found a snake’s head resting on it. A cool, forked tongue flicked against her face affectionately.
"Do you have any idea how heavy you are?" An Jin pushed his head off and rubbed her aching shoulder.
"HISS~"
The snake looked at her, hurt. He had advanced in rank and grown stronger, so his body had naturally grown much larger.
’A larger, more slender body should give a female a greater sense of security,’ he thought. ’I didn’t expect to be rejected for it.’
The red snake drooped his head, looking wounded, and rested it on her pale, soft thigh. A mischievous desire for revenge sparked within him, and he slowly slid the slenderest tip of his tail between her legs.
"..." Her hands trembled. She looked down and met the little red snake’s gaze as he lifted his head, his crimson eyes gleaming.
He stared at her with an innocent expression, but his tail coiled tighter around her leg, his body rubbing all over hers... intimate, lingering, and utterly seductive.
An Jin instantly lost all interest in knitting her scarf. After several years together, she knew exactly what this behavior meant.
Gu Yin’s upper body transformed into his human form. He lifted her into his arms, carried her back to his room, and shut the door.
His hands settled on her waist. He lowered his head, his long, cool, ink-black hair brushing against An Jin’s face, making her frown uneasily. His lips then covered her alluringly crimson ones, sucking gently. Just as he was about to deepen the kiss, he stopped.
She knew what he was afraid of.
She caressed his face. "It’s okay."
"I’m scared..." The memory of what happened that year was seared into his mind, haunting him, becoming his deepest fear.
He loved being intimate with her, but he didn’t want children.
But mating carried a high probability of producing offspring.
"I have a way. It’s fine, I have other methods." That accident happened because he had lasted too long. She had been so exhausted afterward that she fell asleep immediately, so she took it too late.
Light returned to Gu Yin’s eyes. He no longer suppressed his desire, locking her tightly in his arms and lowering his head to kiss her.
...
Ling Hong had been completely quiet for some time now, just like when Gu Yin had shed his skin years ago, only he was even quieter and it was taking longer.
Every day, An Jin would place a meal in front of his door right on time, but every evening, she would retrieve it, completely untouched.
’Is it really okay for him to not eat or drink like this?’
A sliver of worry grew in An Jin, but she didn’t dare open the door and disturb him. Mirror Mirror had said that bothering him now could instantly disrupt Ling Hong’s progress, or even trigger the side effects of the Crystal Stone.
On a day when the snow had lightened, Gu Yin cleared away the thick layer of snow that had nearly buried the wooden door. An Jin got ready, pulling on a thick fleece coat to leave.
"Where are you going?" Gu Yin asked.
"I’m going to see Chi Li. It’s been a while. A Beastman just came by and said he was looking for me, apparently for something important."
"Come back soon. I’ll be waiting for you at home."
"Okay." An Jin nodded and left. Before she even reached his house, she saw a fiery red figure in the vast white snow, as dazzling as a blazing fire.
"It’s been half a year since I first carved the spiritual power imprint on you. Today, I’ll help you with the second reinforcement." Chi Li led her into the house and took out a wooden box.
Inside the wooden box were three Blood Crystals.
These were the ones he had asked Ze Sheng for back then.
"What level has your spiritual power cultivation reached? You haven’t been slacking off in your training, have you?" Chi Li asked with a smile.
An Jin rubbed her nose. "A while ago, my spiritual power’s progress seemed to stagnate. I couldn’t advance no matter what I did, so I haven’t really been training much recently..."
"That’s perfectly normal. We only had one Blood Crystal back then, so the spiritual power imprint I drew on you was only a single layer."
Chi Li gestured for her to take off her clothes like last time. "Today, I’ll add another layer to reinforce your spiritual power. I was worried your body was too weak back then, and reinforcing it again so soon might cause a backlash. That’s why we’ve delayed it until now."
"...Right now?" 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
"What’s wrong? Is it inconvenient?" Chi Li noticed her hesitation.
"It’s nothing, it’s just..." She trailed off, then shook her head and took off her top. "Never mind. Let’s do it."
Chi Li’s gaze swept over her delicate shoulders and back. He then calmly began to paint the imprint, just as he had last time. But halfway through, his expression changed.
"What’s going on with your body?"
"What?"
"I’m talking about the beastification on your body."
"..."
"What is it?" Seeing her sudden silence, Chi Li’s expression darkened. He quirked a humorless smile. "Your partner must know about this, right? Why didn’t you tell me? Don’t you trust me?"
