Xiao Tian scrutinized Hu Jia playfully, deliberately drawing out his words: "Do not worry. I am not interested in little girls."
"You!" Hu Jia's cheeks flushed slightly with anger. She looked down at her figure—curvaceous, with all the right proportions—definitely not something that could be associated with a little girl.
Hu Jia was about to retort, but then she thought about Xiao Tian touching her later, and how uncomfortable the stickiness from her sweat was. She ultimately decided to swallow her words; a bath was more important.
"Hmph!" Hu Jia snorted coldly and turned to quickly walk into the bathroom.
"Bang!!" The door was slammed shut by Hu Jia, as if she were venting her frustration.
Inside, Hu Jia curiously surveyed everything. The surroundings seemed quite simple. In the center was a bath made of special jade stone, over fifty meters in diameter, which was currently empty.
Around the bath were several racks for clothes and various bottles and jars.
Hu Jia went to the area with the bottles and jars, opening each one. She found them all filled with different flower petals. She casually grabbed a handful of red petals, whose type she did not know, and sprinkled them into the bath.
She squatted down and gently rippled the water with her finger. The water temperature was just right, neither cold nor hot.
Hu Jia untied her belt, removed her dress, and neatly folded her clothes. As she folded her dress, she could not help but blush slightly and set it aside.
"Big bad guy, big scoundrel, big jerk, always bullying people. You are the little girl!" Hu Jia grumbled with a pout, then extended a hand to weigh herself.
She thought to herself: He cannot even get a grip. When you actually see and feel it later, let us see what you will say about me being a little girl.
She withdrew her hand and grumblingly walked into the bath.
Upon stepping into the bath, the warm water immediately enveloped her. Her muscles gradually relaxed, as if every cell in her body was cheering.
She first simply cleaned her body, then she submerged her entire body in the water, only her head exposed. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the refreshing sensation of bathing:
"So comfortable. This bad guy really knows how to enjoy himself. But he would not suddenly do anything beastly, would he?"
Just then, the bathroom door suddenly opened, and Xiao Tian walked in from outside.
Hu Jia's eyes snapped open. She quickly covered her crucial areas with both hands and shrunk further into the water, only her wide-open eyes visible. "You, why did you come in! Are you being a pervert? I will scream. You better not try anything!"
Xiao Tian stood by the bath with a calm expression, glancing briefly at Hu Jia without speaking. In his hand appeared a dozen or so herbs glowing with a lustrous sheen. He directly crushed them using Dou Qi, letting them fall into the water from his hand.
Hu Jia watched Xiao Tian's actions and fell into deep thought. "Are you making a stew here?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? These are all good things. They can nourish your meridians. You were a bit too hasty in your breakthrough during this closed-door cultivation," Xiao Tian explained slowly. After finishing everything, he gave Hu Jia a teasing look and walked out.
Hu Jia immediately understood the unspoken words in Xiao Tian's eyes, as if he was looking down on her figure. She was truly beyond endurance and said in shame and anger, "If you have the guts, stop right there! Let us see if I do not show you a thing or two!"
"Show me a thing or two? White or jade-colored? Or…" Xiao Tian stopped, turned, and tilted his head, looking at Hu Jia.
When Hu Jia saw Xiao Tian turn around, she secretly thought she had truly lost her mind just now. She shrunk further into the bath, saying awkwardly, "Please, get out quickly."
Xiao Tian gave Hu Jia a disdainful look and laughed. "See? You told me to stop, and I stopped, but now you are unhappy."
After teasing Hu Jia, Xiao Tian walked out of the bathroom door, closing it behind him.
Hu Jia looked at the herb fragments floating on the water, then at her current appearance. Her face flushed with embarrassment, unsure if she had been seen completely naked.
However, thinking about her own thoughts, she felt relieved. Still, today was truly awkward; her weakness had been discovered, and she still did not know if she had been seen completely naked.
As she thought about it, her face grew redder and redder, but a sudden thought popped into her mind: The feeling before was indeed very stimulating. I really want to again…
As soon as this thought appeared, Hu Jia quickly cut it off. "Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey! How could I have such masochistic thoughts? I actually wanted him to spank me again…"
Hu Jia found a comfortable position and lay back in the bath. She rested the back of her head on the edge of the tub, letting the warm bathwater envelop her entire body, relaxing completely.
She distinctly felt a medicinal energy nourishing her meridians, making her so comfortable that she could not help but let out a soft purr like a kitten.
Sitting in the room, Xiao Tian looked at the large, rather obvious watermark left on his clothes after it dried. "Quite a lot. Next time, I will have to make her wash my clothes."
Half an hour later, Hu Jia felt the medicinal power disappear and slowly opened her eyes. She felt completely relaxed, and even her Dou Qi circulation was smoother. "As expected of an Alchemist. This guy's herbs are quite effective."
Hu Jia stood up from the bath, water droplets rolling down her smooth skin. After drying her hair and changing into a new dress, she happily walked out of the bathroom.
Stepping out the door, she looked left and right but did not see Xiao Tian. She muttered softly, "Hmph, that scoundrel. Am I really that unattractive?"
Meanwhile, Xiao Tian, who was in the training room arranging items to increase the world's energy for Medusa, inexplicably felt a tingling in his nose.
"Could Tiger Girl be secretly cursing me?" Xiao Tian rubbed his nose.
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Hu Jia took a deep breath, composed herself, then spread her soul perception and found Xiao Tian's room.
Pushing open the room door, Hu Jia peeked inside, but did not find Xiao Tian.
"Where did that guy go? He must have been afraid he could not resist peeking at me, a great beauty, bathing, so he chose to sneak away, right? Hmph hmph."
Hu Jia wrinkled her nose and snorted. After a round of self-comfort, Hu Jia instantly regained her previous confidence. "Stubborn man. If you had just asked nicely, perhaps this young lady might have even let you scrub her back."
Hu Jia suddenly thought, if he helped her scrub her back, would that not be like bathing together? What if he went wild? Should she just comply directly or struggle a bit before complying? So hard to choose…
As she thought about it, she felt her face burning hot. "No, how can I have such thoughts? How could I ever let him get away with that?!"