The Cold, Aloof Dominatrix After Parasitically Entering a Rich Family - Chapter 37

Chapter 37: Alone on the Island: “Jie-jie, did you remember?”…

“Jie-jie, you seem to really like this bracelet,” Tu Si finally showed some awareness, and her wild thoughts finally returned to Gong Shayu.

Gong Shayu slowly raised her eyes. Her gaze was exactly like the empty eye sockets of the snake-bone chain she had been repeatedly tracing—equally profound, equally elusive.

Tu Si swallowed. She found Gong Shayu’s personality as volatile as the weather here: one moment clear skies, the next overcast, and then a downpour. Of course, the latter two situations were more frequent.

The Cuscuta secretly stuck out her tongue and muttered under her breath: “Why so fierce? I won’t take your things.”

In the past, Tu Si would never have dared to voice her internal monologue so directly. But today, perhaps the strength of the arm wrapped around her waist on the motorboat had betrayed the fragility beneath her usual icy facade.

“Your friend probably isn’t coming,” Gong Shayu didn’t scold her but simply gave an instruction. “We’ll go back when the rain stops.”

Tu Si looked at the curtain of rain. “The rain probably won’t stop.”

Gong Shayu took off her waterproof gear and sat leaning against a rock near the cave entrance, closing her eyes to listen to the rain.

In fact, Miss Gong had anticipated this before they set off, which was why she decided to come herself.

As for why she chose to brave this desolate island with Tu Si and suffer, knowing the chef wouldn’t be there, Gong Shayu felt Tu Si must have bewitched her.

Tu Si pulled her waterproof jacket tighter, dropped the phrase, “I’m going to find something to eat,” and vanished into the heavy raindrops.

Gong Shayu: “…”

Twenty minutes later, Gong Shayu was woken up by the cold. Tu Si hadn’t returned.

The endless darkness behind her seemed to sense her unease, writhing as if alive. It wasn’t just a lack of light but a certain kind of substantial liquid.

It began to expand toward Gong Shayu, giving the terrifying impression that the semi-enclosed space itself was being devoured by this dense blackness.

Gong Shayu shuffled toward the cave entrance. The inexplicable fear sent her adrenaline soaring, but her body, nearly numb from the cold, reacted a little slower than usual.

Until a sharp sting suddenly hit her neck. She abruptly raised her hand, her fingertips touching a cold, slick snake body. The little creature had wrapped around her neck at some point, and its fangs were already deeply embedded in her skin.

The small snake was squeezed by brute force, twisting frantically in Gong Shayu’s grip. Frighteningly, the numbness in Gong Shayu’s neck began to spread, followed by a pounding headache and dizziness.

The highly venomous Silver-banded Krait struggled and writhed in her weakening fingers, close to breaking free.

“Little snake! That’s going too far!” Tu Si’s voice suddenly rang out at the entrance. The one who had been missing for half an hour had finally appeared.

Tu Si stood still. She was somehow carrying the tent bag that had fallen into the sea on her back? In her hands, she held a pile of wood and a sea eel larger than the venomous snake!

She just stared silently at Gong Shayu’s hand. Gong Shayu recognized that look; it was the same fierce yet compassionate look she had in her eyes that night when facing the thugs. The only difference was that this time, she didn’t bow and apologize.

Whether due to the paralysis or a delusion, the venomous snake in Gong Shayu’s grasp seemed to freeze, stiffening its body obediently and no longer twisting.

Tu Si dropped the things she was carrying onto the ground and slowly approached, looking at the snake.

Gong Shayu could no longer withstand the dizziness and collapsed into a coma.

Tu Si quickly caught her, supporting her lower back with one hand and taking the small snake with the other. Her eyes flickered repeatedly between dark-brown and azure-green.

Seeing Tu Si, the Silver Krait closed its eyes and played dead. Tu Si originally wanted to scold it and then execute it on the spot.

But Gong Shayu’s poisoning was too rapid. She didn’t have time to deal with the little Krait, allowing it to take the opportunity to escape.

“Jie-jie?” Tu Si called out to the person in her arms, who remained unconscious.

She knew Gong Shayu had been bitten but didn’t know the exact location. In her panic, she nearly stripped off Miss Gong’s entire top.

“Neck, neck, side of the neck.” A creamy yellow furry ball landed on the tent bag. “Hehehe, I saw it just now. It bit her back of the neck.”

Tu Si’s heart tightened. She immediately cradled Gong Shayu’s pale face, pulling the person’s entire upper body into her embrace so that the back of her neck was fully exposed to her view.

She saw two dark-red fang marks, like two drops of solidified bl00d, deeply embedded in the snow-white skin. The surrounding skin had already begun to turn purplish-blue.

Tu Si didn’t hesitate to lean down, her lips covering the dark-red fang marks.

She sucked hard, immediately filling her mouth with a metallic sweetness. With every bit of poisonous bl00d she drew out, she passed a wisp of pure spiritual energy through her lips.

Gong Shayu’s artery pulsed less than a finger-width below the wound. Tu Si’s ear was pressed against that skin, allowing her to clearly hear the sound of bl00d rushing through the vessel.

It was urgent like a war drum, yet continuous like a stream. Her tongue tasted the bitterness of spiritual energy mixed with venom.

Simultaneously, a crazy thought surged into her mind: If I were to bite into that endlessly throbbing artery right now and drink this gushing hot bl00d…

Would my spiritual meridian be completely unblocked?

This thought made her tremble all over, and the skin beneath her lips grew hotter.

Tu Si’s throat unconsciously bobbed. Her canine teeth instinctively grazed the vulnerable side of the neck. She could feel something long dormant within her awakening.

Rationality and desire tore at her mind. Every pulse of Gong Shayu made that thought clearer—it only required a slight exertion to taste the legendary Spiritual Meridian Awakening…

Gong Shayu woke up to find herself lying on a pile of vines. The scene she saw before passing out wasn’t a hallucination; Tu Si really had found the tent again.

Not only that, but a fire was burning brightly a few meters outside the tent. A sea eel was suspended over it, though Miss Gong now felt nauseous just seeing legless, long creatures.

The heat from this fire is too intense. Is it going to roast me too from this distance?

The scent of roasted eel filled the air. Gong Shayu then realized the heat was coming from behind her, and what was worse, something was pressing against her waist.

She carefully turned her neck. The anticipated pain didn’t come. The venomous snake from last night felt like a delusion until she saw Tu Si behind her… and her plump, red lips. Only then did she remember something.

Tu Si was deeply asleep, but her alertness was extremely high. The instant the person in her arms opened her eyes, Tu Si was awake. Realizing Gong Shayu was stirring, the Cuscuta feigned sleep, keeping her eyes tightly closed.

Summer fabrics were thin. The two people’s body heat transferred through the light material. Gong Shayu had seen Tu Si’s sleeping habit—she had to hug and curl around something.

Is she using me as a blanket?

Normally, Miss Gong would have absolutely slapped her away, but since the person had saved her life last night, a slap would be somewhat ungrateful.

Blushing, she pinched Tu Si’s forearm, preparing to push it off.

Tu Si had never seen President Gong like this and was instantly filled with mischief. She increased her strength, directly clamping Gong Shayu’s waist. Her legs also wrapped around and hooked onto Gong Shayu’s thigh.

“!” Gong Shayu forcefully uttered two syllables: “Tu Si!”

Tu Si slowly opened her eyes, pretending to yawn. “Good morning, Jie-jie.”

Gong Shayu: “Last night…”

Tu Si: “Last night, Jie-jie was bitten by a snake. Do you remember?”

Gong Shayu was about to thank her, but judging by Tu Si’s expression, if that ‘thank you’ left her lips, this person might cling to her like this all day.

“I don’t remember,” Gong Shayu said calmly.

Tu Si nodded and simply said, “Oh.”

Following that, Gong Shayu felt a soft attack on her neck, followed by a shiver-inducing sucking. A tingling numbness instantly threatened to explode her skull.

“Jie-jie, did you remember?” Tu Si asked vaguely.

Gong Shayu probably felt the snake venom hadn’t been fully cleared, otherwise, why was she feeling dizzy again?

Most importantly, President Gong felt she was being teased. She rolled over, pinning Tu Si beneath her, thinking: The word ‘loss’ is not in Gong Shayu’s dictionary.

As their eyes locked, what she didn’t notice was the rampant growth of vines beneath Tu Si, and the small yellow flower buds quietly blossoming.

The sunlight outside slanted onto the tent’s viewing top, forcing Tu Si to slightly close her eyes. Her long lashes cast fragmented shadows on her face.

Gong Shayu had never scrutinized Tu Si this closely. Before, she was disdainful. Now, she felt shy even looking at her openly.

At this moment, with Tu Si’s eyes closed, she could finally gaze at the face without restraint.

When she was silent, a nearly divine purity enveloped her. It was like the unadulterated clear blue, like the first clear spring in the morning forest, like the smell of green grass in the countryside at dusk, and like the resonance produced by the gentle vibration of a brass bowl.

“Jie…”

“Be quiet!”

Gong Shayu scolded her in a low voice, then her thin lips pressed down gently. Tu Si was nearly overwhelmed.

She suddenly opened her eyes.

“Close your eyes!” Gong Shayu’s lips left her mouth, tracing along her chin, neck, and all the way…

…………

“Don’t move!” Gong Shayu rasped.

All the beautiful ambiguity was ruined by her laughter.

“I really wasn’t laughing on purpose. It’s just too ticklish,” Tu Si explained through her giggles.

The nerves in Gong Shayu’s temple were close to jumping out of her skin. She got up and used her lips to seal Tu Si’s mouth.

…………

Tu Si couldn’t withstand this offensive. Her main body’s vines uncontrollably went into a frenzy of growth, quickly covering the entire tent.

Gong Shayu, probably lost in the heat of passion, still hadn’t noticed the anomaly.

Until Tu Si could no longer suppress it and raised her neck, letting out a long sigh that was almost a whimper. Immense pleasure acted like a key unlocking her spiritual meridian, completely releasing it at the peak of the moment.

The mist that had condensed on her eyelashes instantly evaporated. When those tear-filled eyes snapped open, Gong Shayu once again witnessed the illusion turned real—the color swirling in her pupils was the azure-green from that night. This time, she wouldn’t let herself forget it again.