Volume 3, Chapter 271 – If That’s How It Is, Then Come to My Bed

“Huh?” Bu Lianshuang blinked, the cheerful little tune she’d been humming dying on her lips.

“Ha! Surely you didn’t think a personal maid’s duties amounted to nothing more than delivering food?” Lu Zhuxin scoffed.

“No, I never thought that.” Bu Lianshuang shook her head. “I’ll go fetch water right away.”

With that, she picked up the food box and headed outside.

The courtyard was completely quiet. Chi Xiyan knew that Lu Zhuxin disliked strangers getting close, so she hadn’t assigned any maids or servants to her courtyard.

Bu Lianshuang returned the food box and came back with hot water.

By the time she returned to the room, Lu Zhuxin had already settled onto the edge of the bed.

The young woman idly twirled the ends of her hair between her fingers, only turning her head when she heard movement.

“What took you so long? I nearly fell asleep waiting.”

Bu Lianshuang paused for a moment before carrying the basin over and setting it down at the bedside.

“Miss, allow me to wash your feet.”

After saying this, she reached out and lifted Lu Zhuxin’s foot, slipping off her shoes and socks to reveal fair, soft jade-like feet.

The little fox’s feet had spent years tucked away in shoes and socks, never touched by sunlight. They were fair and smooth, delicate and soft, flushed with a faint rosy pink.

Bu Lianshuang cradled the top of her foot and couldn’t help giving it a gentle squeeze.

Not only were they small and delicate, but they were soft to the touch too, boneless and yielding.

Were all foxes this tender and soft? So completely different from the wolf clan.

Bu Lianshuang marveled quietly to herself.

She cradled those delicate, pale feet and slowly lowered them into the warm water.

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Her slender, bony fingers drifted gently across the top of Lu Zhuxin’s foot beneath the surface.

She lowered her head and washed Lu Zhuxin’s feet with care.

She seemed to have completely set aside her own identity. In this moment, she was nothing more than an ordinary maid, not a princess of the wolf clan.

Lu Zhuxin tilted her head slightly downward, watching Bu Lianshuang’s movements, her eyes narrowing into a dangerous curve.

Once upon a time, a certain Immortal Venerable with the surname Qu had also crouched before her like this, tenderly kneading her feet.

Ha. That hypocritical, shameless woman.

Just thinking about her made Lu Zhuxin restless.

She kicked her foot up, sending a splash of water across Bu Lianshuang’s face.

Bu Lianshuang froze. She stopped what she was doing and raised her sleeve to wipe the water from her face, looking at Lu Zhuxin in confusion. “Miss? What’s wrong?”

Lu Zhuxin stared at her in silence.

This face was nothing like Qu Qingtang’s.

Her personality was nothing like Qu Qingtang’s either.

Even though this little wolf was doing the same things Qu Qingtang had once done, the feeling it gave off was entirely different.

This little wolf looked far more genuine than Qu Qingtang.

All her emotions showed plainly on her face, easy to read.

And yet, why did she still keep thinking of Qu Qingtang whenever she looked at her?

Something burning and restless smoldered inside Lu Zhuxin’s chest.

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Irritated. She wanted to pick a fight.

Lu Zhuxin let out a cold laugh. “The esteemed Princess of the Wolf Clan, the Divine Maiden of the Ice Plains, why is it that when doing something like this, you look so pleased with yourself?”

“Or is this simply the nature of the wolf clan?”

“No matter how wild the wolf, it can always be tamed into a dog?”

Bu Lianshuang’s expression went blank.

Pleased with herself? Was she?

Maybe… a little.

The little fox’s feet were soft, just the right size to cup in her palms.

Cultivators could cleanse their bodies through the circulation of spiritual energy, and fox demons were no different.

So these little feet carried neither dirt nor any unpleasant smell. Only a faint, unusual fragrance lingered.

It must have been a fox demon’s pheromone scent.

Besides, was washing the feet of a girl she liked really such a strange thing to do?

Bu Lianshuang had come to the Chi residence precisely because she wanted to stay by the little fox’s side, to protect her, care for her, and shield her from every danger. How could she possibly find any of this disagreeable?

But still… those words had gone too far.

“Miss.” Bu Lianshuang pressed her lips together. She didn’t want to lose her temper, but those words still stung sharply in her chest. “My current role is that of a maid sold into the Chi residence. If we’re playing a part, we play it properly, and a maid should act like a maid. Isn’t that what you said? Miss…”

Lu Zhuxin clicked her tongue softly.

“I’m curious.”

She lifted her foot and used her damp toes to gently tip up Bu Lianshuang’s chin.

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“Princess of the Wolf Clan, why is it that you’re able to go this far?”

“All because of this so-called wolf clan tradition?”

At those words, Bu Lianshuang’s fists clenched instinctively.

Wolf clan tradition?

In the little fox’s eyes, had Bu Lianshuang only followed her here because of wolf clan tradition?

Was that all the little fox thought of her? Someone so rigid and old-fashioned?

No. Not anymore.

If it were only tradition driving her, she never could have come this far.

Bu Lianshuang gently pressed a hand to her own chest.

Her heart was pounding.

But amid those frantic beats, a bitter ache welled up.

The little fox had never believed in her, not from the very beginning.

Bu Lianshuang’s fists clenched tight.

“Miss, why won’t you ever believe in my feelings?” Bu Lianshuang raised her head, her burning gaze meeting Lu Zhuxin’s eyes without a shred of hesitation. “The reason I’m here has nothing to do with wolf clan tradition.”

Bu Lianshuang pressed her hand firmly against her chest.

“It is simply because I want to be here. Because I want to be with you.”

“I don’t know if what I feel is the kind of ‘love’ you’re looking for. But the wolf clan has never been ones to hide their feelings or intentions. It’s because I chose to follow you, and it’s because I chose to sign that Dao Contract with you!”

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Lu Zhuxin was silent.

Bu Lianshuang wasn’t lying. Both those blazing eyes and the Dao Contract seal pulsing with heat in her consciousness sea made the answer plain and clear.

The wolf clan had never hidden their feelings.

Like was like, and dislike was dislike.

Whatever they liked, they would fight for with everything they had.

The Bu Lianshuang of the original story was exactly like this. Her feelings were direct and fierce.

Just like the wolf princess standing before Lu Zhuxin right now.

Lu Zhuxin felt even more irritated, because she could not find a single flaw in the girl standing before her.

She was not Qu Qingtang.

Even if she looked like she was doing the same things Qu Qingtang had done, a fabricated devotion could never become real devotion.

Bu Lianshuang was not Qu Qingtang. Her feelings, her love, had no cracks in them.

“Ha.”

“Ha, ha.”

Lu Zhuxin ran a hand through her own hair, a soft laugh escaping her. “Do you really like me that much, Your Highness?”

She lifted her foot, her toes trailing slowly downward along Bu Lianshuang’s neck.

Then, she used her toes to gently tug at Bu Lianshuang’s collar.

“Then take off your clothes and come to my bed.”