193: Chapter 192 Playing with fire

The beautiful receptionist personally led them, crossing a thick, soft carpet and taking a levitating elevator, finally arriving in front of the Tianlong No. 1 suite on the top floor of the hotel.

The suite was extremely spacious, featuring a design style that perfectly blended minimalism and luxury.

The floor was made of warm energy stones that felt like jade and could automatically regulate temperature; stepping on them barefoot was incredibly comfortable.

On the ceiling, a realistic starry sky was simulated, with soft starlight flowing gently.

An entire wall consisted of one-way transparent Floor-to-ceiling Energy Windows, offering a view over most of the brilliantly lit city nightscape.

There was also a large bed covered with bedding as soft as clouds.

The beautiful receptionist—a girl with excellent looks and temperament wearing a black uniform pencil skirt—led the two into the suite and then stood respectfully to the side.

With an impeccable sweet smile on her face, she bowed slightly:

“This is the Tianlong No. 1 suite prepared for the two of you. I am your twenty-four-hour exclusive butler. If you have any needs, please contact me at any time.”

“Within the capabilities of our hotel, I will do my best to provide everything for you and satisfy any of your needs.”

Her voice was gentle and professional, her eyes clear, demonstrating the 'customer is God' service philosophy to the extreme.

Qi Yun looked around the room, which was so luxurious it felt somewhat unreal. Hearing the receptionist's promise of 'guaranteed satisfaction,' he suddenly felt a bit mischievous.

He turned his head, looked at the high-quality, respectful receptionist, and asked in a half-joking tone:

“Oh? Any need?”

“Then what if I want you to stay and accompany me now? Is that also within your service range and capabilities?”

He purely wanted to see where the hotel's service bottom line was and if it was truly without taboos.

After he finished speaking, the room fell silent for a moment.

The professional sweet smile on the receptionist's face stiffened imperceptibly, and a very faint trace of hesitation flashed quickly through her clear eyes.

She took a deep breath, looked at Qi Yun, and the smile on her face seemed to become a bit more feminine and charming:

“Of course. I would be happy to serve you.”

As she spoke, she actually raised her hand and reached for the first button of her pencil skirt!

Looking at her posture, she actually intended to fulfill the duty of accompaniment on the spot!

Qi Yun: “!!!”

“Stop! Stop! Hold it! I was joking!”

Qi Yun hurriedly raised his hand to stop her.

The receptionist breathed a sigh of relief, re-fastened the button she had undone, and her face regained its standard professional smile.

She bowed deeply again:

“Yes. If you have any other needs, please contact me at any time.”

“I wish you and Xia Ran a pleasant rest tonight.”

Having said that, she stayed no longer and exited the suite with elegant steps.

Qi Yun stroked his chin, looked at the closed door, and marveled in his heart:

“Good grief... this Longquan Hotel's service philosophy is really ingrained in their bones. They really treat the guest as God; if God wants you to warm the bed, you have to do it? How is this training done?”

Qi Yun turned his head and met a faint gaze filled with obvious dissatisfaction and accusation.

Xia Ran had sat down on the edge of the large bed at some point, her pink hair loose, staring at him without blinking, her face written all over with 'I am unhappy.'

“What? Am I not even as good as that receptionist just now?”

Qi Yun: “...”

You want to compare even this?

Qi Yun turned his head and looked leisurely at Xia Ran's exquisite profile close at hand, his gaze deliberately sweeping over her gracefully curved body, and then slowly asked back:

“Then can you?”

“What?” Xia Ran didn't react for a moment.

“Unbutton as obediently as she did.” Qi Yun shrugged.

Xia Ran snorted:

“It's not like we haven't slept together before.”

Qi Yun said:

“That was because you didn't want to sleep in the same room as Li, and I didn't do a thing.”

It would have been better if he hadn't mentioned it, but as soon as he did, that inexplicable fire in Xia Ran's heart flared up again.

She suddenly turned her head back, her tone indignant:

“Yeah! You really didn't do a thing!”

She remembered those few times when she had clearly made some kind of psychological preparation, even imagining various possible scenarios and her own 'countermeasures,' but this guy next to her just fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

He made her nervous for nothing for a long time.

Thinking about it now, she still felt so angry!

Qi Yun looked at Xia Ran, who had suddenly become angry, and was even more puzzled.

Clearly, before we left, you were the one who reminded me to 'be able to hold back,' so why are you angry again now?

Women are so much trouble.

He felt that this topic couldn't continue, otherwise he wouldn't get any peace tonight.

So he said:

“Alright, alright, let's sleep. We still have to go to your Tribe tomorrow.”

Xia Ran lay down on the bed as if in a huff, facing away from him with the back of her head:

“Sleep! Sleep! Sleep!”

Thus, on that large bed, Qi Yun and Xia Ran each occupied a side, lying down back-to-back.

Time passed minute by minute.

Qi Yun closed his eyes, trying to make himself fall asleep.

Just as he felt sleepiness gradually coming over him—

Suddenly, he felt his leg being gently kicked and rubbed by something soft, slightly cool, and with a bit of playful force, over and over.

It was a foot.

Xia Ran's little foot.

Qi Yun: “...”

The frequency and force of the foot's rubbing and kicking increased, carrying obvious dissatisfaction and intent to harass.

Qi Yun finally couldn't help but ask in a muffled voice: “What's wrong?”

Xia Ran's voice came from behind him with a hint of dissatisfaction:

“You just plan to sleep like this?”

Qi Yun was speechless: “Then what else? What else can I do?”

In the middle of the night, if I don't sleep, am I supposed to get up and do calisthenics?

Xia Ran's voice sounded again.

“I am one of the three great goddesses of the Land of Beginning.”

Qi Yun: “I know, I know.”

“Back then, the people chasing me were countless.” Xia Ran continued, her tone somewhat distant, as if recalling past glory.

“Yes, yes, yes.” Qi Yun was perfunctory.

“Did you see the gazes of those people on the road today, and in the hotel? How much those men envied you for being with someone like me.”

“I saw, I saw.”

Qi Yun felt like a broken record.

“So! Can't you... be a bit more passionate toward me?”

Xia Ran's voice suddenly rose a bit.

Qi Yun asked weakly:

“We are already in the same bed, how much more passionate do you want me to be?”

“Grovel to me.”

Qi Yun: “??? What did you say? Grovel to you?”

“Yes! Seeing the person Li likes groveling to me, I will be very happy! Especially happy!”

Xia Ran's voice was righteous, even carrying a bit of a little devil-like smile.

Qi Yun: “...”

He sighed, feeling unable to communicate with this woman who had fallen into a strange competitive mindset, and simply gave up:

“Fine, fine, fine.”

“Whatever makes you happy.”

“Goodnight.”

Having said that, he closed his eyes again, adjusted his breathing, and tried to force himself to sleep.

He complained wildly in his heart: Women are so much trouble. Especially beautiful women who love to compare—they are the trouble of troubles.

Behind him, Xia Ran heard his extremely perfunctory “Fine, fine, fine” and the subsequent sound of breathing that gradually became long and steady.

A surge of anger suddenly rushed into Xia Ran's heart.

I've hinted so much!

I even dropped my goddess facade and said something like 'grovel to me'!

And you're actually about to fall asleep again?!

I am Xia Ran! One of the three great goddesses of the Land of Beginning! And now I'm lying in the same bed as you!

“You're not allowed to sleep! You are right beside me, Xia Ran! In the same bed as me!”

“How can you fall asleep?!”

She was so angry her chest heaved, and her pink hair trembled slightly under the simulated starlight.

Qi Yun gave a couple of vague “Mm-hm”s.

Xia Ran: “!!!”

Could it be... I really have no attraction for him at all?

Impossible! He clearly had a reaction on the road! He even said I was... better than Li there!

Xia Ran bit her lower lip, a stubborn and 'refusing to believe it' light flashing in her eyes, and the corners of her mouth hooked into a sly, prank-like arc.

Let's see how you sleep now!

She lay back down and carefully, bit by bit, moved her body toward Qi Yun.

Soon, her back gently but solidly pressed against Qi Yun's back.

At the same time, she bent one leg and used her smooth calf and ankle to intentionally or unintentionally rub against Qi Yun's leg, gently and provocatively, again and again.

At first, it was just testing the waters, but seeing that Qi Yun didn't react, her movements gradually became bolder, and the range and frequency of the rubbing increased.

Qi Yun: “...”

He was already pretending to be asleep, but with the soft body possessing surprising elasticity and heat suddenly pressed against his back, and that mischievous little foot on his leg...

Who the hell could still sleep?!

The pleasant fragrance from Xia Ran's body, mixed with the warm air of her breathing, constantly drifted from behind him, challenging his line of reason.

Just as Xia Ran's calf rubbed over again and her toes even playfully hooked his ankle—

Qi Yun stopped enduring, his body suddenly exerting force as he made a clean and sharp turn!

“Ah!”

Xia Ran only had time to let out a short cry of surprise before she felt the world spinning; her side-lying body was irresistibly straightened and pressed flat by a pair of strong, powerful arms!

In the next second, Qi Yun's handsome face was suspended right above hers, close at hand!

Their noses almost touched, and their breaths instantly intertwined.

Her brain went blank with a 'boom.'

Her heart pounded like a drum, her breathing was disordered, and she stared blankly at Qi Yun above her, her cheeks rapidly turning a drunken crimson that spread all the way to her ears and neck.

Qi Yun said slowly:

“Xia Ran...”

“If you keep playing with fire like this...”

“Be careful not to get burned.”