Huang Shi felt his heart thump in his chest, as his heart started beating faster and faster, his thoughts going haywire.
Ah shit... that was definitely a human underneath my covers, and that silver hair—I've never even seen that hair color in this world before, and that is despite all the different types of hair colors I've seen here since I was damn transmigrated.
His body stiffened as he stopped in place, staring at his bed in complete and utter silence, before long opening his mouth with a voice that feigned calm.
"Alright, Xinyue, what are you doing in my room?"
The person underneath the covers suddenly turned stiff, and yet, for some reason, she still chose to keep herself hidden as she remained silent.
Seeing that she was unwilling to speak, Huang Shi started to furrow his brows as he stared at her female figure from under the covers.
"If you aren't coming out to speak, then it is I who will be leaving this room; I'd rather sleep in the living room than risk anything happening between us tonight!"
After a few moments of tense silence, Bai Xinyue, who was still choosing to hide under his covers, suddenly spoke with a strangely annoyed tone.
"A beautiful woman has just entered your room at night, wearing enticing clothing, and has subtly given you her consent, allowing you to make a move on her, and yet you refuse her with such decisiveness..."
"Huang Shi, I am suddenly starting to rethink my decision of choosing you as my potential partner... could it be that your thing isn't working down there, or are you actually more interested in a sword fight in the bedsheets with your fellow daoists?"
The moment Huang Shi heard those words, his expression twitched as an expression of subtle anger appeared on his features.
What the fuck is this woman talking about, me being impotent?! My thing isn't working? It's working very well, thank you very much!!
And what the hell do you mean by sword fights with your fellow daoists?
Is that some sort of metaphor for same-sex relations between men?! What the hell is this woman going on about!!
Trying his best to calm his emotions, his face suddenly turned ice-cold as he spoke with a chill in his voice.
"Alright Xinyue, let's get this straight. Number one: I am not, in any way, shape, or form IMPOTENT. In fact, I am very, VERY capable in those kinds of matters."
"Second, as you know, I am a transmigrator. I don't know where the hell you came from, but from where I come from, we have law and order."
"We are a civilized society, and one of those rules states that we are not allowed to have those kinds of relations with people under the age of 18! You have clearly just recently reached that age, so there is no way in hell I am touching you!"
"I would literally rather run away from this entire log cabin and go off into the woods to sleep in some empty tree trunk than try those things out with you!"
Once again, Bai Xinyue turned silent as she shifted within the covers; however, for some reason, he could feel that she was slightly different from before. '
He could feel a subtle aura of pain and hurt radiating from the person under the covers.
Ah shit... did I go too far?
Despite feeling bad about the fact that his words had inadvertently hurt Bai Xinyue's pride as a woman, he still stood by his words.
Screw it, as a man from Earth, I obviously have my own principles to uphold!
All of a sudden, a voice that seemed cold, even a bit indifferent, suddenly sounded from underneath the covers. It was a voice that seemed very reminiscent of the tone she first used when they met each other for the very first time.
"If you don't want to, just say so. Don't make up all those ridiculous reasons just to justify your decision. If you think I'm not up to your standards, just say it straight to my face and be done with it."
The coldness in her voice was biting now; literally, it felt as if the very house they were staying in felt its master's rejection of him and started to emit an aura that aimed to expel him from the premises.
"And for your information, I am no longer a child. I can even be wed off to some guy if I so desire and let him have me instead. Do you want that to happen, Huang Shi?"
His rationality started to waver under her continuous assault; he understood her reasoning, and he even found a justification for it in his mind. Obviously, in this world, women were married off earlier compared to his own because life and death here were literally worth less than grass.
You could be alive today and dead the next based solely on the whims of a random cultivator; that was why women were encouraged to marry at an earlier age, so they could bear children while at their most fertile. Despite this, his instinctive rejection still overcame his rational mind; in his head, it was a crime to commit those kinds of acts with a person who had still not come of age.
Seeing that Huang Shi still remained silent, the cold feeling in the room intensified as the feelings of rejection exerted pressure on him to leave—to exit from the room and from the house that they had been living in for the past few weeks.
Fine, let's compromise.
With this thought, he started to walk towards her, slowly yet decisively. He saw the person under the covers shift; he saw her tremble.
She was nervous. Despite this, he still walked straight towards her, grabbing hold of one end of the covers before resolutely ripping them off her, exposing her true appearance to him for the very first time.
And what he saw made him so shocked his jaw dropped open as his eyes turned glazed. The sight in front of him was so mesmerizing it went beyond what humans would call beautiful.