"Why are you only arriving now?" Snake Ling'er said coldly.
The man behind her chuckled twice and said affectionately, "Madam trusts me the most, knowing I would come tonight."
So it wasn't pre-arranged, but rather they snuck away?
Snake Ling'er said indifferently, "I know your character all too well. Alright, don't tell me you came here tonight just to hug me. What do you want to say?"
She left his embrace, straightened her clothes, and subtly removed the bell from her wrist—She Lan was aloof and disliked adornment.
"It's the middle of the night, and we're all alone. What could I possibly want?" Li Changzhou grinned and leaned closer, pulling Yang Qinglan into his arms again.
She Ling'er did not resist, but gently placed her hands on the other person's chest and frowned slightly: "What time is it now? Don't be silly, important matters need to be addressed."
"I'm just doing serious business." Li Changzhou's hands caressed her long, beautiful legs, not missing an inch.
Under his unrestrained hand, the white palace dress clung tightly to her legs, revealing her curves, which were exquisite and alluring.
His lips gently touched her snow-white cheek.
Snake Ling'er felt a surge of smugness and disdain. Snake Lan usually pretended to be dignified and abstinent, but it turned out that she had been keeping a man in secret for a long time.
Then she became angry again. She hadn't kept a man, and had never been touched by anyone. How dare this man lay a hand on her...
She raised her head, about to lash out like She Lan, when her eyes met the man's, and her mind went blank.
She looked very young, almost like a teenager, with handsome features. The way her eyes opened and closed resembled the fireworks she saw for the first time at the Zhu Rong clan when she was twelve years old.
Her demeanor was understated yet composed, as if she possessed everything.
His soft lips left her cheek and pressed against her earlobe. His warm breath, carrying the scent of her hair, swept over her entire body, sending shivers down her spine.
Snake Ling'er's heart pounded wildly, and she actually felt... that being held like this was quite comfortable.
She regained consciousness the next moment.
Snake Ling'er, you are a holy maiden of Nuwa, you cannot be like Snake Lan, obsessed with love between men and women and be seduced by male beauty!
Snake Ling'er pushed Li Changzhou away, stood up straight, and said with a hint of anger, "Enough, speak properly!"
"Okay, okay, I'm easy to talk to."
"Ah!" Snake Ling'er instinctively let out a soft cry; the other party had actually pinched her...
Li Changzhou laughed heartily, and even brought his hand to his nose to smell it, saying infatuatedly, "Now I feel itchy if I don't smell it for a day. It smells so good, so good."
Seeing that Yang Qinglan was really about to get angry, he put away his licentious attitude and said with a smile, "The matter is almost done, and those who deserve to die are already dead."
Snake Ling'er's heart skipped a beat, and she even temporarily put aside the matter of being pinched...
What's wrong?
Who died?
She couldn't guess.
She Lan usually doesn't interact with people. Even when she attends grand ceremonies, she sits there alone, fulfilling her duties as a saintess. What could she possibly do? And who would she kill?
She secretly came to Shelan's room while Shelan was being summoned by Nuwa, hoping to find some secret, but even she herself didn't believe that Shelan would have any unspeakable secrets.
As a result, two secrets were unexpectedly discovered.
First, she had an affair with a man from outside her clan without permission;
Second, what was the reason for killing whom?
The only major event that She Ling'er could think of was the recent Heaven-Mending Assembly. Could it be for the position of the True God of the North Sea?
"What are you thinking about?"
Snake Ling'er snapped out of her thoughts and saw Li Changzhou approaching again, looking like he was blinded by lust. With a whoosh, she flicked her sleeve at his face.
As if all the wine he had drunk that night had suddenly hit him, Li Changzhou staggered a few steps and fell into Yang Qinglan's arms.
Snake Ling'er was caught off guard and was pinned to the ground by him.
"It's so heavy!"
"She Ling'er felt as if a mountain was pressing down on her."
This is not a difference between men and women. Even if it were a difference between men and women, in the Nuwa clan, women were stronger than men.
This is a difference in physical appearance!
Even with her strength, she felt a sense of heaviness; this man's physical body was probably already at the level of a god.
In order not to make too much noise, She Ling'er dared not use her true energy. She could only exert all her strength to simply turn over, which was as difficult as an ordinary weak woman carrying a drunk adult man onto the bed.
She gasped for breath, looking at Li Changzhou, who was lying unconscious on the ground.
"You dead pig!" she cursed.
Suddenly, he sensed a familiar fluctuation of true energy in the distance, realizing that She Lan had returned from the Nuwa Palace.
Snake Ling'er quickly bent down, her long tongue hissing, and whispered in Li Changzhou's ear in snake language: "Forget me. You're drunk, you don't remember anything."
After saying that, she took out the bell and shook it a few times.
The bell jingled but made no sound. Waves of spatial fluctuations wiped away Snake Ling'er's form like an eraser.
The moment the door was pushed open, Snake Ling'er became completely transparent.
Seeing Li Changzhou lying on the ground, Yang Qinglan was stunned for a moment. Taking advantage of this moment, She Ling'er quickly slipped out through the still open door.
It wasn't that she didn't want to stay and eavesdrop, but the bell's invisibility time was limited. If she were exposed, She Lan and the man on the ground would definitely not leave her alive.
As soon as she left, Yang Qinglan closed the door.
Her swift movements made it seem as if this wasn't her own room, as if she were a thief herself.
There really was something going on!
She could leave at any time outside, and the bell would remain invisible for a while. Snake Ling'er gathered her true energy and pressed her ear against it.
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