Chapter 79

Chapter 79: Memory Blackout!

Not long after, Li Mengyue realized her earlier assumptions were way off the mark.

Outside, the temperature was below freezing, but inside, the air conditioning kept the room warm and cozy. The comfortable warmth, combined with the peculiar tingling sensation coursing through Ye Xiao’s body, caused her to break out in a fine layer of sweat, her already flushed skin taking on a pinkish hue.

Suddenly, Jiang Qingyue spoke up, “Yueyue, do you smell something nice?”

Jiang Qingyue sniffed the air deeply. A faint citrus fragrance wafted through the room, subtly growing stronger as Ye Xiao’s body temperature rose.

The scene was precarious, had an outsider witnessed it, they might have called the police immediately.

Jiang Qingyue, taking in the citrusy scent, began to blush. The sight of Ye Xiao—her smooth, alabaster skin and delicate, radiant face—suddenly seemed even more appealing to her. A strange, enthralling desire surged within her.

Meanwhile, Li Mengyue was stuck in an emotional whirlwind of guilt and moral struggle, completely oblivious to her friend’s unusual behavior.

Jiang Qingyue’s eyes grew hazy, a glimmer of infatuation forming.

Li Mengyue was mentally reviewing Ye Xiao’s string of mischiefs from earlier, forcing herself to suppress a budding sense of sympathy. Just as she hardened her resolve, she turned to see Jiang Qingyue, her best friend, playing with Ye Xiao’s tongue, which had slipped out from her mouth gag due to her heightened state.

This… This was perverse! But maybe Ye Xiao secretly liked this kind of treatment?

Then, in an unexpected turn, Jiang Qingyue seemed to throw caution to the wind—or perhaps she was simply surrendering to her growing fondness for beautiful girls—and lowered her head to kiss Ye Xiao.

In that moment, Li Mengyue felt utterly at a loss.

She had invited Jiang Qingyue to help her, fearing she might not be able to handle the cunning Ye Xiao on her own. But she never anticipated her best friend would have… that kind of interest in girls, or that she’d go so far as to kiss Ye Xiao!

A surge of jealousy flared within her, but she couldn’t just intervene. After all, she was the one who had asked Jiang Qingyue to join in. Showing too much concern now might reveal her own ambiguous feelings toward Ye Xiao.

Li Mengyue had told Jiang Qingyue about Ye Xiao’s mischief earlier that day but left out the incident in the bathroom.

Watching Jiang Qingyue indulge herself, Li Mengyue’s jealousy turned into a simmering frustration. Gripping her whip tightly, she brought it down again.

“Snap! ~”

With the crack of the whip, another red mark appeared on Ye Xiao’s body. If it weren’t for Sister Tongzi’s pain-transformation mechanism, Ye Xiao might have passed out by now.

Yet even with the protection, she wasn’t much better off. Her body convulsed, teetering on the brink of losing all control.

Meanwhile, Jiang Qingyue, unabashedly enamored, continued her advances. Li Mengyue’s jealousy grew unbearable.

If anyone was going to kiss Ye Xiao, it should’ve been her!

Yet Jiang Qingyue, as if spellbound, remained fixated on Ye Xiao, her expression flushed, her eyes gleaming with affection.

Desperate, Li Mengyue shoved Jiang Qingyue away, only to see her friend sprawled on the ground with a love-struck gaze. Jiang Qingyue immediately scrambled back up, eyes glued to Ye Xiao as if her life depended on it.

Li Mengyue, unable to hold her back, was practically dragged along as Jiang Qingyue approached Ye Xiao again.

At this point, Li Mengyue herself caught a whiff of the familiar fragrance.

Within moments, her eyes grew misty, and both girls locked their gazes on the bound Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao: ???

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The Next Morning.

A sliver of morning sunlight slipped through the not-quite-closed blackout curtains, falling on Ye Xiao’s face.

She furrowed her brows. Pain. Excruciating pain. Her head throbbed, her arms ached, her waist was sore—her entire body felt utterly drained.

As she rubbed her temples and tried to sit up, her arm brushed against something warm and smooth.

Turning her head, she saw… Jiang Qingyue?!

From the exposed shoulders and the snowy white cleavage peeking from beneath the blanket, it was clear she wasn’t wearing anything under the covers.

“What… happened last night?”

Ye Xiao rubbed her head, trying to piece together her fragmented memories. She could vaguely recall being tied up and whipped by Li Mengyue. Sister Tongzi’s pain-transformation system had worn off, leaving her backside stinging and sore even now.

Turning to her other side, she saw another figure under the blanket—Li Mengyue.

Frustrated, Ye Xiao smacked Li Mengyue’s butt hard. The girl stirred slightly, mumbling incoherently before drifting back to sleep.

Surveying the room, Ye Xiao noticed the empty wine bottles scattered across the floor.

Finally, fragments of memory began to return.

After a tense and awkward moment of mutual embarrassment, Li Mengyue and Jiang Qingyue had untied her, offering apologies and applying some cooling ointment to her wounds. Despite the soothing balm, the sensation was strangely electrifying, sending shivers through her body.

Then, under the dim, romantic lighting, the three of them sat facing each other on the heart-shaped bed, silence stretching between them.

If it had been just her and one of the older sisters, Ye Xiao would’ve had no reservations about taking charge. But with all three of them together, the situation became unbearably awkward.

Jiang Qingyue eventually suggested they play some games and have a few drinks to ease the tension.

With unanimous approval, they ordered a box of beer and a few bottles of red wine through room service.

That was where Ye Xiao’s memory ended.

“Damn it!”

Ye Xiao smacked her cheeks in frustration.

“How could I black out at such a historic moment? I actually snuggled with two gorgeous older sisters—and I don’t remember a thing!”