"Ah..." A sigh drifted through the humid air, so high-pitched and exaggerated that it sounded more like a lewd moan. "Did you really need to be so violent? I was just teasing you..."
The body beside Qingyi broke apart into fine specks of light, dissolving into the warm air of the cave until nothing at all remained.
When he turned in search of that voice, he found the same woman as before.
Perhaps even more dazzling than the first time, she sat elegantly on the wooden deck across from the fountain, her delicate toes lazily playing with the surface of the water, sending soft ripples spreading outward.
"Better now?" she asked, her slender fingers closing around a fruit that resembled a strawberry, though of a deeper, more vivid scarlet hue.
Pearl-white teeth sank into the juicy flesh, and she closed her eyes, a soft, satisfied sound escaping from between her parted lips as she savored it.
