Volume 3, Chapter 311 – Bound, Sight Stripped Away

“The engagement banquet failed to proceed as planned. After tonight, everyone will know that something went wrong at the Chi and Song family engagement banquet.”

“Lingxiao Sword Sect has been overbearing and aggressive. Now that the marriage contract has fallen through, they won’t let the Chi family off easily…”

“The Chi family will become a laughingstock to everyone.”

“And I…” Chi Xiyan pressed a hand to her own chest, laughing at herself. “In this transaction, the least valuable piece of goods…”

“In the end, I’ll amount to nothing more than a pitiful wretch who can’t even be married off.”

Chi Xiyan murmured softly.

“Xiao Xue’er, what do you think I should do?”

Lu Zhuxin lay face-down on the bed and couldn’t help rolling her eyes.

If you can’t figure it out, then stop thinking about it, sis!

If you don’t know what to do, just follow your desires!

Right now, Lu Zhuxin very much wanted to follow her own desires.

Though the heat brought on by the Bliss Demon Drug was nowhere near as intense as the heat of an eighth-realm fox demon’s estrus period, the two kinds of heat were fundamentally different in nature.

The heat of estrus could be perfectly suppressed and soothed by Qu Qingtang’s mark, but the heat brought on by the drug was different. It could not be suppressed by the mark. Instead, it clashed violently against it.

Ice and fire were intertwining inside her body.

This sensation was even more agonizing than simple heat alone.

Like an iron rod scorched red-hot by raging flames, only to have a bucket of cold water suddenly poured over it, dropping the heat down to freezing.

This could no longer be described as being edged to the brink over and over again.

If Lu Zhuxin hadn’t used her eighth-realm demon energy to suppress part of the mark’s effect and keep that wave of cold from spreading through her entire body, Chi Xiyan might have noticed the abnormal state of heat and cold cycling through her.

As long as one of the two forces was withdrawn, this state of intertwining cold and heat would resolve on its own.

But right now, for the sake of keeping up the act, Lu Zhuxin couldn’t use her demon energy to suppress the Bliss Demon Drug’s effect.

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So for now, Lu Zhuxin could only endure through sheer willpower.

All she asked was that tonight’s torment would end sooner rather than later.

My dear sister! Things have already come this far. Surely you don’t want your adorable little sister to be tormented to death by an aphrodisiac!

Please, just consider it a good deed!

Lu Zhuxin was crying out incessantly in her heart.

She didn’t even need to bother putting on a performance right now. The two forces twisting inside her had already left her in a sorry enough state on their own.

Lu Zhuxin was restless. Ordinarily, Chi Xiyan was always calm and composed, swift and decisive in everything she did.

So why was it that at a moment like this, she was suddenly hesitating? Couldn’t she just make up her mind?

Chi Xiyan had no idea what was going on inside Lu Zhuxin’s head. All she could see was Chi Muxue lying face-down on the bed, small hands clutching the bedsheets in a death grip, expression twisted in distress.

Chi Xiyan bit down lightly on her lower lip.

If the effects of the aphrodisiac were left unsatisfied, the intense heat could potentially burn away the afflicted person’s senses.

Your own little sister is suffering under the torment of the drug’s heat, and you’re just going to stand here and watch, Xiyan?

Chi Xiyan suddenly broke into a resigned smile. She felt as if she had lost her head a little.

Why was she placing so much importance on something others considered worthless?

She was a merchant.

As a merchant, assessing the value of goods and exchanging them for profit was the most ordinary thing in the world.

Her prospects for marriage, her chastity. These, too, were things she could use as bargaining chips in a transaction.

It was just that after tonight, these things would no longer hold much value.

“Trading something worthless for your safety. That’s a deal that leaves me nothing but profit.”

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She murmured to herself as she stepped forward and sat down beside Lu Zhuxin.

She leaned over, and both hands gently cupped Chi Muxue’s face.

Her fingertips lightly grazed Lu Zhuxin’s eyelids.

She saw that those beautiful eyes had lost their usual brightness.

The heat brought on by the aphrodisiac had completely clouded them over.

Even under Chi Xiyan’s touch, it seemed as though the flames only burned hotter.

Chi Xiyan cradled Lu Zhuxin’s face in her hands and said softly, “There. You can’t hear what I’m saying anymore.”

“Your senses have been burned away by the heat. Only your wild instincts remain.”

“But perhaps that’s for the best.”

“You can’t hear, you can’t see, and you won’t remember any of this afterward.”

“Tonight, for the both of us, will be nothing more than a dream that will surely be forgotten once we wake.”

Lu Zhuxin was mildly surprised in her heart.

This girl Chi Xiyan. She had finally made up her mind!

If she’d held out any longer, I don’t think I could have kept enduring it.

This whole ice-and-fire situation is not something a person can withstand!

Just as she was musing on that in her heart, she suddenly felt the world go dark before her eyes.

Chi Xiyan had actually produced a white veil and draped it over Lu Zhuxin’s face.

She reached her arms around Lu Zhuxin’s head and tied the veil securely.

Hold on. What kind of game is this?

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Sight stripped away?

Lu Zhuxin could no longer see. The white veil completely blocked her vision, plunging everything before her into darkness.

All she could do was listen to Chi Xiyan’s low whisper through her ears.

“I’m sorry, Zhizhi.”

“I don’t want you to see me. In a moment of weakness.”

“Even if you won’t remember any of this.”

Lu Zhuxin’s brow furrowed.

She found this girl infuriatingly complicated. They were about to do that kind of thing, yet she was still fretting over such trivial details.

Fine. If she wants to play things this way, let her.

Let me think. How should I play along with her?

I’ll keep up the act!

Heh. Little Xiyan, I’m coming for you.

While silently complaining in her heart, Lu Zhuxin raised her arms, ready to reach blindly forward.

But the moment she lifted her arms, her upper body went stiff.

A faint coolness seeped into her skin.

Wait! What on earth is this girl trying to do?!

Lu Zhuxin sensed that something was off.

She recognized that coolness. Chi Xiyan was using the Medical Immortal Valley’s silver needles on her!

Why would physical methods to resolve an aphrodisiac require silver needles?

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Before Lu Zhuxin could work it out, she suddenly felt both her hands seized.

A faint chill on her wrists. Those were Chi Xiyan’s hands.

She gripped Lu Zhuxin’s hands and gently pushed her back.

With her sight stripped away, Lu Zhuxin couldn’t see at all what Chi Xiyan was doing.

In that pitch-dark world, the only sensations she could perceive were Chi Xiyan’s touch, and the only sounds she could hear were Chi Xiyan’s breathing, gradually growing more hurried, and the soft rustle of fabric against fabric.

Then, Lu Zhuxin felt her wrists tighten. Chi Xiyan had wrapped something around each of her arms separately, then gave a light pull, forcing Lu Zhuxin to raise both hands up.

Lu Zhuxin’s whole body went rigid. She suddenly realized that she had been bound to the bed by Chi Xiyan.

Sight stripped away. Bound. Silver needles pierced into the skin.

All these elements coming together led Lu Zhuxin’s mind to a great many deeply unsettling conclusions.

Wait. Hold on!

Chi Xiyan is still a novice at this, isn’t she?!

Where did she even learn all this twisted stuff?!

Something is very wrong here!

Just as the unease in Lu Zhuxin’s heart was steadily mounting, she heard Chi Xiyan’s voice again.

“I’m sorry… Zhizhi…”

“I’ve never done anything like this before either…”

“Even though you can’t hear me anymore, I still hope you can forgive me…”