Oh no! They all seem a bit off!

Chapter 214 Bathing Together in the Hot Spring

"...Xue, are you trying to seduce me?"

Akizuki Makoto swallowed hard, only to realize that his throat was already dry and his mouth was parched.

"Haha, trying to seduce you?"

Ji Yexue chuckled lightly, her tone slightly sarcastic, "You're as prone to daydreaming as ever. I've never even considered you a man, so how could I possibly seduce you?"

"But you're leaning against me like this, and you want me to massage you. Isn't that an implication?"

Qiu Yuecheng lowered his head, bringing his face close to Ji Yexue's ear, whispering sweet nothings to her, while his hands became bolder in their movements.

Originally, he was giving Ji Yexue a proper massage, but since Ji Yexue teased him first, he no longer needed to suppress himself.

It would be impossible for him not to have expected something to happen between him and Ji Yexue before he came.

After all, they traveled together for a week and even stayed together.

"You're overthinking it. Let go of my hand."

Ji Yexue was still smiling. She glanced at Qiu Yuecheng's hands, which had moved from her shoulder to her waist and were now wrapped around her, and snorted.

"Don't act like a dog in heat. Didn't Shiina satisfy you?"

"That's going too far."

Qiu Yuecheng gave a wry smile, but did not let go of Ji Yexue's arms. Instead, he went even further, stroking her abdomen upwards.

"Did I say something wrong? If she could satisfy you, you wouldn't be in heat right now."

"You say I'm in heat... isn't that just because you're too attractive?"

Akizuki Makoto couldn't deny Ji Yexue's words, because he was indeed a little tipsy and felt a surge of heat.

Before dating Maki Shiina, he was quite abstinent and had never even been with a deer, let alone had sex.

But after dating Maki Shiina, it was as if he had opened the door to a new world and became addicted to it.

"Isn't that enough? Let me go."

Ji Yexue felt Qiuyue Cheng's hot, heavy hands gently caressing her skin through a bathrobe, and her breathing became slightly rapid, like the panting after exercise.

These soft, panting breaths were like the most potent aphrodisiac, gradually eroding Akizuki Makoto's rationality.

He increased the pressure in his hands, reaching into the now disheveled collar of her clothes, while lowering his head and burying his face in Ji Yexue's neck.

"what are you doing?!"

At that moment, Ji Yexue shouted, forcefully shoved Qiu Yuecheng away, glared at him, and growled, "I've told you so many times to let me go, can't you understand human language?"

"……sorry."

Pushed away, Akizuki Makoto was at a loss. After a brief moment of stunned silence and confusion, he lowered his head and apologized to Ji Yexue with deep remorse.

It seems he misunderstood. Ji Yexue didn't mean to flirt with him; he was just being presumptuous.

"Humph."

Ji Yexue snorted coldly, retied the sash around her waist, straightened the hem of her yukata, and then got up and left the Japanese-style room.

"You are not worthy to touch me. If you want to do this kind of thing, go to your Shiina and let her satisfy you."

Before leaving, she left behind a sentence that left Akizuki Makoto with mixed feelings.

He really couldn't understand why Ji Yexue was acting this way, sometimes hot and sometimes cold towards him, playing hard to get.

Admittedly, he was delusional and went too far, wanting to have something happen between himself and Ji Yexue, but there were reasons for it.

If Ji Yexue didn't do anything that would cause him to misunderstand, how could he possibly get carried away?

"...Is this my punishment?"

After calming down alone in the Japanese-style room, Akizuki Makoto thought to himself,
No matter how you look at it, this was all Ji Yexue's doing, just to punish him and make him suffer.

Rather than calling it a trip, it would be more accurate to describe it as Ji Yexue's interrogation of him.

Ji Yexue knew exactly what he was thinking, and it was precisely because she knew that she was able to control him perfectly.

Just like before, as long as you use a little trick to tease him and make him misunderstand, and then suddenly turn on him, it will make him very uncomfortable.

……

It wasn't until dinner time that Ji Yexue came out of another Japanese-style room, sat down in the living room, and enjoyed dinner with Qiuyue Cheng.

During the meal, the two did not speak to each other—mainly because Akizuki Makoto felt a little awkward and didn't know what to say.

If Ji Yexue intentionally wanted to hurt him, then she succeeded.

The frustration and confusion he felt when he was pushed away and yelled at deeply hurt Akizuki Makoto, to the point that he developed PTSD.

From then on, he would recall this experience and the lessons he learned before meeting Ji Yexue.

After quietly finishing lunch and drinking tea in the Japanese-style room, I rested for about half an hour before it was time for my bath.

Unfortunately, there was only one hot spring, so they had to take turns bathing in it.

Ji Yexue said calmly, "You go first. I don't want you to go after me, lest you do something strange."

"what are you talking about?!"

Qiu Yuecheng's eyes widened, and he said in disbelief, "What strange things could I possibly do that you look down on me so much? If that's the case, then I'm more afraid of you doing something strange!"

"Ha, don't forget, you have a criminal record."

Ji Yexue curled her lip and sneered, "Not long ago, who was it that tried to assault me ​​like a dog in heat?"

"Then, how can that be considered an invasion of rights?"

Akizuki Makoto became even more embarrassed and angry, his breathing became rapid, and his face turned red at a visible speed.

Clearly, he was provoked by what Ji Yexue said.

Being belittled and looked down upon in this way is not only a disgrace, but also a humiliation.

"Alright, just go when I tell you to. What are you dawdling about?"

Ji Yexue frowned and urged impatiently, "You're so indecisive, it's not like you're a man at all. That's what I hate most about you."

"……call."

After a moment of silence, Qiuyue Chengxin took a deep breath, nodded, and said, "Okay, then I'll go first. Thinking about it, it makes sense. There's no need to argue about such a trivial matter."

As he spoke, he stood up, returned to his tatami room, took out towels and other bath supplies, and entered the hot spring at the deepest part of the room.

This hot spring is quite large, about 3m x 3m. It can comfortably accommodate two people, and even more people could soak in it.

This uses real hot spring water. The pool is milky white and steaming. Just standing by the hot spring pool, you can feel a warm sensation.

Akizuki Makoto untied the sash of his yukata, took off his clothes, first used his feet to wade in the hot spring water to get used to the temperature, then slowly stepped his feet into it, and finally sank his body down.

As soon as he entered the hot spring, he felt it was too hot and couldn't help but want to escape.

He suppressed the urge to escape, slowly adjusting and relaxing his body. "Honestly, why did they have to say such hurtful things, calling me a dog in heat, assaulting me..."

At this moment, Akizuki Makoto thought of the conversation he had just had in the living room, and a feeling of dissatisfaction and resentment rose in his heart.

He went a little too far, but there was no need to insult him like that.
Even someone as good-natured as him can have his moments of dissatisfaction.

Moreover, since the start of this trip, his relationship with Ji Yexue has been quite delicate, and their distance has fluctuated.

This made him extremely itchy and uncomfortable, as if he had a pent-up feeling in his chest, making him feel uneasy all over.

He thought that Ji Yexue should either express all her grievances and have a big fight with him, or simply give him a clear answer: whether to reconcile or break up completely.

This ambiguous relationship, where he's given a little treat now and then immediately slapped in the face, really frustrated him.

At first, he was able to hold back, but now he's on the verge of exploding.

"Squeak..."

Just as Akizuki Makoto was secretly grumbling to himself, the tightly closed wooden door behind him was suddenly pushed open.

Upon hearing the sound, he instinctively turned around and his eyes widened immediately.

The person who appeared in his line of sight was Ji Yexue, but unlike when he saw her in the living room, she was now wearing a scarf that covered her three important points.

But it only covered the three most important points; the rest, such as the area above the chest and below the buttocks, was completely exposed!
As Ji Yexue approached step by step, Qiuyue Cheng asked in shock, "Xue, you... how did you get here?!"

"I've thought about it, and I think it's best if we soak together, so you don't do anything strange in the hot spring."

Halfway through her sentence, Ji Yexue suddenly stopped. She glanced at the murky white hot spring water and said with a playful smile, "After all, the color of this hot spring water is such that even if some strange liquid is mixed in, you can't tell at all."

"You—"

Qiu Yuecheng's expression suddenly changed; he had, of course, heard the deeper meaning in Ji Yexue's words.

He never expected that Ji Yexue would say such absurd things.

Whether it was a joke or the truth, it all struck him as utterly unbelievable.

"If you have to blame someone, blame yourself for being an incurable scumbag and a pervert."

Ji Yexue chuckled and walked to the other side of the hot spring, stretching out her fair feet to stir the hot spring water.

As Akizuki Makoto watched this scene, he couldn't help but swallow hard, gazing at Himeyasu's hazy, dreamlike beauty in the misty hot spring.

Ji Yexue's feet were incredibly beautiful and alluring, and her playful movements, which stirred the hot spring water, were incredibly seductive.

As if on purpose, she kept twitching her toes, but hesitated to enter the hot spring water.

Beside the steaming hot spring, Ji Yexue's body was quickly enveloped in a layer of mist, and water droplets condensed on her exposed fair skin.

Her hair became damp, and the stray black hairs at her temples clung tightly to her cheeks.

For some reason, Akizuki Makoto felt that Ji Yexue at this moment was incredibly charming and sexy, stimulating people's desires more than ever before.

He longed to hold Ji Yexue tightly right now, bury his face in the crook of her neck, greedily lick the beads of sweat that had formed on her skin, and wantonly grope her body.

"Ah……"

Ji Yexue seemed to have seen through Qiuyue Cheng's lewd thoughts, chuckled, and finally stopped using her fair feet to stir the hot spring water, instead stepping into it.

She slowly lowered her body, submerging her entire body in the hot spring, leaving only her head above water, and then untied the towel draped over her body.

Then, as if afraid that Akizuki Makoto hadn't noticed that she had taken off her bath towel, she put the bath towel aside.

"Why did you take off your bath towel?"

Akizuki Makoto felt incredulous. Bathing with Hime Yuki was already exciting enough, but now that she was completely naked, his head was filled with heat.

Ji Yexue raised an eyebrow and said matter-of-factly, "If it's uncomfortable to wear, who would wear a bath towel when soaking in a hot spring?"

"But like this..."

Akizuki opened his mouth as if to say something, but then suddenly fell silent.

If he says that this is inappropriate and might cause some problems, he will definitely be met with a barrage of sarcastic remarks from Ji Yexue.

So he simply kept quiet, lowered his head, and avoided looking at Ji Yexue.

But is this really the case?

Can he really resist looking at Ji Yexue?
the answer is……

No.

After lowering his head, Qiu Yuecheng couldn't help but raise it again to look at Ji Yexue, as if he were spying on her, scrutinizing her beautiful and ethereal figure in the hazy white mist.

Ji Yexue paid no attention to his prying eyes, and instead scooped up some murky hot spring water and poured it over herself, letting out a satisfied sigh.

Her nonchalant attitude made Akizuki Makoto feel embarrassed.

"Xue, what are you really thinking?"

So, Akizuki Makoto couldn't help but ask, his voice filled with resentment, "You keep teasing me, and then you keep rejecting me. Are you just playing with me?"

"So what if I'm just toying with you?"

Ji Yexue raised an eyebrow and chuckled, "If you're not satisfied, you can go back anytime. I won't stop you. You can buy a ticket back to Tokyo tomorrow."

"..."

Akizuki Makoto was speechless.

He was indeed dissatisfied, but he could only endure it because he wanted to stay by Ji Yexue's side, no matter how much he was teased.

"What a cowardly man. That's why I look down on you and hate you."

Ji Yexue sneered and belittled you mercilessly: "Look at you now, you have no arrogance left, it's like you've lost yourself."

Just as she said, the Qiuyue Cheng who was outwardly humble but inwardly proud had long since disappeared.

The current Akizuki Makoto has become someone he doesn't even recognize.

In the past, if Ji Yexue had teased him like this, he would have gotten angry and retaliated long ago.

But now he's been very hesitant and cautious, carefully considering her thoughts, afraid of upsetting her.

Ji Yexue once wanted to be as humble as Qiuyue Cheng, but now she only felt disgust and annoyance.

The Akizuki Makoto she likes is not that kind of person.

"...Snow, people always change."

Qiu Yuecheng gave a bitter smile and sighed softly, "It's not just me who has changed, haven't you changed too? But no matter how you've changed, that feeling will never change."

"Heh, the reason I changed is all thanks to you, isn't it? And you're quite smug about it?"

Ji Yexue's expression suddenly turned cold. She had to admit that Qiu Yuecheng's words had successfully angered her.

(End of this chapter)