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"Jinyue, do you really not know why I hate you?"

"At the Grand Tutor's Mansion you tried to get me killed, and later at the Wuji Sect, you've been deceiving and tricking me from start to finish, never speaking a true word..."

Speaking to this point, Yino couldn't help but sneer: "Jinyue, do you think I can't tell whether you're clinging to me for benefits or true feelings?"

"Yes! I cling to you for benefits, thinking about seducing you every day, I'm just a cheap bad woman who lets you take advantage of her! I'm just a fox temptress! I'm nothing compared to that silly Yunjin who's so easy for you to trick!"

The more Jinyue listened, the worse she felt. She simply shook off Yino's hand and turned around to sulk.

But Yino remained calm and unhurried, instead continuing with a smile:

"So you see, it's only right that I hate you."

"But..."

"Just because I hate you doesn't mean others can bully you as they please."

At these words, the foxgirl who had been sulking suddenly froze.

Though she didn't understand immediately, she could feel Yino's tone becoming gentle, and couldn't help curiously turning back to look.

Yino shrugged, then said:

"I hate you, so I should be the one to get revenge on you. What's the point of others beating you up for me? If they ruin your face, I won't even have the interest to take revenge anymore."

"What... what kind of weird fetish is that!"

Jinyue's enchanting pupils were resentful, but even though she was being hated by Yino, somehow she didn't feel bad at all, instead feeling a bit warm.

Yino continued seriously: "

'Me hating you'

and

'Not allowing others to bully you'

aren't actually contradictory."

"Like how I just said I wanted to hang you from a tree and whip your butt hard with vines, but if I haven't caught you yet and you get ruined by others, where's my pleasure in training you? What's the point of hanging you from a tree when you're already half-dead? You need to resist to give me the desire to conquer!"

By the end, Yino's eyes were shining, showing genuine protective feelings toward the foxgirl.

Instantly, Jinyue's pretty face turned red. She felt strange in her heart - she should be angry and call him a pervert, but somehow given the current atmosphere and emotions, Jinyue felt a bit secretly pleased.

At least...

Or maybe Jinyue was actually hoping for something?

"So, what the hell did I do to make you get your ass kicked?"

Yino brought the conversation back to where it began.

At the same time, Jinyue bit her lip, her thoughts drifting back to a month ago. That day, she'd been going on and on about Yino breaking fate, finally pissing off the usually stoic Celestial Master so much that she grabbed her by the tail with her terrifying force. She was flung around like a rag doll, then tossed out of the Heavenly Apparition Hall, landing face-first in the dirt outside.

Thinking about it made Jinyue shiver in fear.

"I... I can't tell you..."

The foxgirl stepped back, clearly thinking of something terrifying, shaking her head with a pale face.

Yino watched her expression shift, thinking it over with the original plot's context. He figured someone from behind the scenes must have given her a beating.

But he was stumped because he had no clue which secret society she belonged to. It's not like there are ranks in the Witch Tea Party, right?

Was it another witch who kicked her? Ruan Liuli maybe?

"It seems I was just reading too much into it..."

Despite his thoughts, Yino shook his head, trying to look disappointed.

As his eyes lost their gentleness, the foxgirl's thoughts came back from her memories, her eyes widening.

She noticed Yino wasn't worried about her, so she instinctively reached out--

"I didn't say that because I don't care about you!"

"Then why treat me like an outsider?"

"Because I really can't say—"

Jinyue was getting frustrated by Yino's misunderstanding.

It was rare for Yino to be gentle with her, and she was enjoying being sweet-talked, but he just kept getting her wrong.

But she was in a bind, too. That "organization" held the world's fate, was the most secretive, and the most powerful. If she mentioned it, even in writing, fate would know of her betrayal. She could get struck by lightning just for saying it, or worse, captured and thrown into eternal imprisonment.

What could she say?

Those so-called "Celestial Masters" could predict everything!

Then, a lightbulb went off.

"I actually didn't talk because I was thinking of you!"

"For me?"

Yino almost laughed. After all this time, this Pleasure Demon was worried about him?

"Yeah! Yino, you're only at the Core Formation stage. Some things shouldn't be known too early!"

"When you reach the Nascent Soul stage, the Divine Transformation stage, the Emptiness Refining stage..."

"Then these hidden truths of the world will naturally come to light!"

Jinyue started talking like an elder from their sect, drawing him in with promises.

Yino saw through it but played along.

"Alright, I'll consider you worried about me then."

Though he thought it, he gave her the benefit of the doubt.

With that, the tension was defused.

"Hmph!"

"As long as you understand I have good intentions!"

The foxgirl smiled sweetly and naturally wrapped her arms around Yino's arm.

After their heart-to-heart, she was even more clingy.

Just then, a small gray tuft of hair poked out from the nearby bushes.

"Ah!"

"Jinyue, how can you do this in broad daylight!"

Yunjin had just popped out of the bushes, her face red at the sight of Jinyue's clinginess.

She rushed out of the bushes and pounced on Yino, hanging onto him like a sloth.

"I want this too!"

Seeing Jinyue being so shameless, Yunjin knew she had to join in since she couldn't beat her.

Jinyue was pushed aside, her thoughts drifting as she glared at Yunjin.

"Wait, you're the one to talk?"

"I should get hugs from young master! Remember, I kissed him back in the Town!"

"What...?"

Jinyue stared blankly at Yino.

But just as Yunjin thought she had the upper hand, the foxgirl stepped closer, planting a kiss on Yino, directly in front of Yunjin's smug gaze.

"I've kissed young master now too!"

After holding her breath for a while, Jinyue finally left Yino's side.

She stepped back, a line of drool connecting them, but she didn't wipe it with her hand. Instead, she licked her lips clean, expelling a triumphant breath, as if to show Yunjin who was boss.

"Uh... uh..."

Yunjin's face was frozen, almost petrified.

She had just been bluffing, their kiss in Western Province City was nothing more than a peck on the cheek. But Jinyue went all in, kissing Yino for real!

Yino found himself stuck between the two girls, still processing it.

After sixteen years of dreaming about beautiful girls, he never would've guessed his first kiss would go to a pleasure demon like Jinyue!