An ordinary person’s strength posed no danger to Chen Yanyu at all.

But—

Chen Yanyu wouldn’t hurt them.

People’s hearts were dangerous. That was why Luo Qingchuan chose to come back and keep an eye on this future empress who’d just stepped into society, so she wouldn’t get fooled or deceived.

Sometimes... kindness was weakness. And that was honestly tragic.

Otherwise,

the Chen Yanyu in the book wouldn’t have been bullied so miserably by Luo Qingchuan.

“Come with me.”

Without giving her any room to argue, Luo Qingchuan grabbed Chen Yanyu’s soft, fair arm with his right hand.

Chen Yanyu had never had skin contact with the opposite sex before. Her pupils trembled. Before she could even react, Luo Qingchuan had already pulled her forward with him.

“Who are you trying to scare, huh? You scumbag, you dumped her and now you’re pretending to be a good guy?!”

Huzi swung up his fist.

Luo Qingchuan stopped and glanced back.

After cultivating demonic arts, and with his already sinister looks, the blond boy carried a terrifying aura that warned strangers to stay away.

Huzi felt a chill crawl down his spine for no reason.

The leader showed an honest, simple smile. He held Huzi back as he said,

“Misunderstanding, misunderstanding!”

Luo Qingchuan said nothing. He simply pulled Chen Yanyu away.

From far off, the two of them could still hear the conversation behind them.

“Bro, why didn’t we beat him up?!”

“Yeah, seriously.”

“Beat my ass. When he grabbed that girl, I saw his watch.”

“So what?”

“Yeah, so what?”

“I saw it in short videos before... that thing costs hundreds of thousands! And his girlfriend’s that pretty too. It’s probably just a little lovers’ quarrel. Let’s not stir up trouble.”

“Th-then so what? He’s just rich... If I had money, women would throw themselves at me too!”

“Yeah, exactly.”

“...He’s also really handsome.”

“Then wha— mmph mmph mmph...”

“J-just— mmph mmph...”

Warm sunlight spilled down.

The shadows of Luo Qingchuan and Chen Yanyu stretched long across the ground.

Feeling the gentle way the boy held her hand, and that ambiguous warmth, Chen Yanyu suddenly smiled a little.

Actually, they got one thing wrong.

This guy should still be a pretty decent good person.

And besides—

his vibe really was just like a domineering CEO from a romance drama!

Chen Yanyu had watched countless shows. This was exactly her type.

She’d been hit right in the heart.

The silver-haired girl was so dizzy she even forgot to tell Luo Qingchuan that “important thing” she’d meant to say.

She just let him pull her along, face flushed red.

By the time Chen Yanyu came back to herself, she realized they’d already reached a secluded corner of the park, far from the crowd.

Eh? Eh eh eh? What was he going to do?

To be honest,

Luo Qingchuan wasn’t very happy.

He’d been followed, spied on, had the secret of his demonic arts exposed, and someone had even seen that dark bit of history where he snatched a little girl’s lollipop.

No one would be happy about that.

Even if the peeping pervert was a silver-haired beauty.

Even if she was super cute.

Even if she was a white-haired dragon girl.

Even if she was innocent to a ridiculous degree.

Even if...

Fine.

Chen Yanyu probably didn’t mean it. I’m just plain unlucky.

Luo Qingchuan caught her slender wrist and pinned her by the wall, his phoenix eyes dark with displeasure.

Chen Yanyu trembled as she leaned against the wall. Under his gaze, she shyly turned her eyes away.

Too... too close...

And the more she looked, the better he looked...

“Tell me why.”

As he spoke, Luo Qingchuan deliberately put on a fierce expression and braced his right hand beside Chen Yanyu’s face.

He lowered his head and looked down at her from above.

His shadow blocked out the sunlight, as if it covered the whole girl.

Like some villain threatening a young girl.

And then Luo Qingchuan regretted it.

He’d forgotten something.

Something very stupid.

The instant his hand slapped against the wall,

it was like he’d pressed some forbidden switch.

It was as if a bell of fate rang by his ear.

He saw Chen Yanyu’s delicate body shiver lightly. Her hands clenched the hem of her skirt as she stared at him in disbelief.

Behind her sunglasses, her holy dragon eyes secretly darted toward the hand Luo Qingchuan had planted on the wall.

She looked...

shocked, but also...

excited?

Sunlight slanted into the corner, where shadow covered half the wall.

The wind rose with the heat between them. It stirred her skirt, her hair tips, and the fallen leaves.

Chen Yanyu’s mind drifted. Her heart pounded wildly like a startled deer. Her pupils trembled with her shy, quivering body. She didn’t dare look into Luo Qingchuan’s eyes at all.

She felt that if their eyes met, she’d drown in them.

How could this be...

It was actually a kabedon!

My first time... getting kabedon’d... I-I gave it away!

And it was by a really beautiful boy... and a domineering CEO type too.

Chen Yanyu felt like she might actually die.

Leaning against the wall, the silver-haired girl’s head spun and her body went weak. Beneath her skirt, her long, fair-flushed legs unconsciously pressed and rubbed together.

Her pounding heartbeat knocked on the rose-colored door called first love.

Kabedon was something you only did to someone you liked... at least, that was what Chen Yanyu believed.

Steam.

Luo Qingchuan thought he could almost see steam rising from the girl’s head.

Dragons being lustful was an old saying for a reason.

Chen Yanyu knew nothing of such matters. The romance dramas she watched had all that stuff censored out. They were all sweet, pure, mutual love stories.

Having grown up in the Mystic Realm, Chen Yanyu was like a flower protected in a greenhouse.

She couldn’t understand why this heat was rising inside her. She couldn’t understand what kind of instinct was surfacing.

Love and impulse mixed together, pushing Chen Yanyu to the edge of losing reason.

Luo Qingchuan frowned slightly.

He raised his left hand and slowly, little by little, moved it toward Chen Yanyu’s face.

The girl didn’t dare move.

Luo Qingchuan slowly removed the sunglasses from the bridge of Chen Yanyu’s small nose.

For some reason, it was unexpectedly sensual.

Like he was taking off her clothes.

She didn’t resist. She didn’t even move. She just didn’t dare look at his face.

The pretty face that had been hidden beneath those sunglasses was finally, completely exposed before Luo Qingchuan’s eyes.

A few fine, glistening beads of sweat had formed on Chen Yanyu’s forehead. Her silver-white hair, beautiful as a work of art, clung to her skin in damp strands.

Her features were exquisitely beautiful, almost like an elf, as if they surpassed the limits of what a human could possess.

Her pink-white skin was flawless and jade-like. Her long eyelashes trembled lightly, almost fairy-like. And those shy, nervous... golden dragon eyes.

Her breathing was so light it was almost nonexistent. Or rather, she was so nervous she’d forgotten to breathe. Her mind had gone completely blank.

Holy, youthful, and tinged with sensuality, she carried a pure aura of youth that made people want to thoroughly defile her.

Luo Qingchuan froze for a second.

He suppressed the urge to take her right here, right now, to claim her and bully her, then asked in a low voice,

“Why were you following me?”

But Chen Yanyu acted as if she hadn’t heard him at all. She just stared blankly, dazed.

Luo Qingchuan frowned a little and deliberately made his voice colder, speaking word by word.

“You said you wanted to talk. So are you going to talk or not?”

Chen Yanyu’s eyes trembled, like an autumn wind rippling across a lake. Like a startled little deer, she suddenly looked at Luo Qingchuan. Her timid, pitiful expression made the heart ache. In a soft, weak voice, she said,

“Talk... I-I’ll talk with you... I didn’t reject you either...”

She looked deeply aggrieved.

The corner of Luo Qingchuan’s eye twitched. He stared at her face, utterly speechless.

She can’t possibly think I meant dating, right?

Can you be serious for once? I want to know why you were following me, and what you planned to do with my information!

But with Luo Qingchuan’s face so close, Chen Yanyu couldn’t quite hold back.

After a domineering CEO does a kabedon... what comes next again?

Her thoughts ran wild.

Mm... it’s... it’s kissing...

The instant that answer appeared,

the very moment the thought surfaced,

before she had any time to think, Chen Yanyu’s body had already moved first.

She didn’t want to miss the romantic love story from her dreams.

He already took the initiative to kabedon me. He already showed his feelings. How could I... back down at the last second?

Wuu, hesitation means defeat. I’d definitely lose my sweet romance!

The girl lightly leaned in. Like a sparrow skimming water on a sunny day, brushing past a leaf, she pecked him once on the lips.

That should... be enough, right? she thought.

Little did she know she had already stepped into dangerous territory.

Like a little white rabbit stuffing itself straight into a hungry wolf’s mouth.

Luo Qingchuan was stunned. His scalp tingled. He barely even processed it.

It had only been a light touch, cool and soft.

Luo Qingchuan stared fixedly at Chen Yanyu’s little face and lifted her chin with his finger.

Forcing the flustered Chen Yanyu to meet his eyes.

You’ve teased me again and again. I’ve got a temper too.

Luo Qingchuan spoke in a low, steady voice. “Do you know? You’re playing with fire.”