After being bought by seven rough men and taken to the deep mountains, I was pampered.

The temperature inside was so high it felt like you could melt.

Outside, it was the dead of winter with heavy snow, but inside the newly expanded blacksmith's workshop, it was like Lao Tzu's alchemy furnace. The furnace fire was burning red-hot, occasionally bursting out a golden-red spark with a crackling sound.

"Sister-in-law... Sister-in-law?"

Qin Yun, the sixth brother, was still holding the red-hot iron tongs in his hand, frozen in place.

Sweat rolled down his angular jawline, dripping onto the scorching ground and instantly evaporating into a wisp of white smoke.

Su Wan took two steps inside, holding the blueprint for the steel repeating crossbow. She wore a moon-white cotton dress with a light pink half-sleeved garment over it, making her look like a freshly cooked glutinous rice ball—white, soft, and exuding a sweet, clean scent of soapberry.

It was a completely different world from the room filled with black coal ash, rough ironware, and two shirtless, sweaty men.

"No...don't come any closer!"

Seeing Su Wan approach, Qin Feng, the fifth brother who was always wild and unruly, suddenly took a big step back as if he had seen a ghost. With a "bang", his back hit a corner full of scrap metal.

When his sister-in-law actually taught him, Qin Feng became a little flustered!

He admitted that he was just saying it casually before, and that the two of them were just envious of their third brother who was being taught.

"What's wrong?" Su Wan stopped, looking bewildered. "I came to explain the blueprints to you. The mechanism is very complex, and I was afraid you wouldn't understand it."

"No, no..." The fifth brother glanced at his grimy hands, then at Su Wan's gleaming white skirt, his Adam's apple bobbing with difficulty: "Dirty." "It's all ash and sweat... Don't let the smell bother your sister-in-law."

Though they were stray dogs left unattended, they knew their bodies were rough and lowly. My sister-in-law was so clean, like a cloud in the sky. How could a cloud be stained with mud?

"Stop being so coy." Su Wan ignored their attempts to dodge her gaze and walked directly to the only forging table, spreading out the blueprints: "Business is business. If we can build this repeating crossbow, no one in Qin Family Fortress will dare to mess with us. Come and take a look!"

She beckoned. The twins exchanged a glance, then, like two obedient wolfhounds, tucked their tails between their legs and moved over.

But the forging table was located in a corner, in a cramped space. Su Wan stood in the middle. The twins approached from the left and right, initially wanting to keep their distance, but in order to see the fine lines on the blueprints clearly, they had to get closer and closer.

Hot. Scalding hot.

Su Wan felt as if she were surrounded by two erupting volcanoes.

On the left is the fifth brother, and on the right is the sixth brother. Although they are only twenty years old, their physiques, honed by years of blacksmithing, have long since shed the frailty of their youth.

Broad shoulders, bulging pectoral muscles, and taut abdominal muscles that rose and fell with his breath... Even without looking, the overwhelming, almost tangible aura of male hormones was enough to make Su Wan's legs go weak.

"Look here," Su Wan said, forcing herself to remain calm, pointing her slender finger to a hook on the blueprint: "The structure of this suspended blade needs to be made of the hardest black iron here, and it needs to be polished as smooth as a mirror..."

To point more clearly, she leaned forward slightly. This movement instantly turned the already cramped space into a **dead end**.

Qin Yun, the sixth brother, was leaning on the edge of the table when his arm inevitably brushed against Su Wan's waist.

His skin, covered in sweat, was hot, slippery, and hard. Even through the thin fabric, Su Wan could feel the muscles twitch!

"Hiss—" Old Liu gasped, as if he had been burned, and instinctively tried to pull his hand back. But there was a wall behind him, and he had nowhere to retreat.

He could only stand there frozen, his muscles tense like an iron plate, and he even held his breath.

His gaze drifted downwards uncontrollably. His sister-in-law was right under his nose. As she looked down to explain the blueprints, a section of her slender, fair neck was revealed, along with a small, bright red mole behind her ear.

Sweat trickled down the tip of Lao Liu's nose, hanging precariously in mid-air. Just a little lower... and that drop of sweat, belonging to him and filled with possessiveness, would fall onto her fair neck.

A gulp. The sound of swallowing saliva was particularly jarring in the room where only the crackling of the stove fire could be heard.

"Sixth Brother, did you understand?" Su Wan asked, turning her head to look at him after finishing a sentence.

The two were no more than half a foot apart.

As he turned his head, his nose almost collided with Lao Liu's sturdy chest.

"Huh? I understand... I understand." Qin Yun's mind was a complete mess, with that red mole swirling around in his head. He had no idea what she was talking about and could only nod haphazardly, his voice hoarse.

"And what about you, Fifth Brother?" Su Wan turned to the left again.

The fifth brother, Qin Feng, was in an even worse state. He had been staring blankly at Su Wan's profile, his mind replaying the taste of the double-skin milk pudding he had that morning, and the feel of his sister-in-law's fingertips. Now, when Su Wan looked over, his flushed face was reflected in her large, watery eyes.

"Sister-in-law... Sister-in-law..." The fifth brother felt a rush of heat to his head, and his nose felt hot, as if something was about to spill out. This wasn't a blacksmith's workshop; it was practically a spider's web!

Unable to bear this torment of **seeing but not being able to have** any longer, he abruptly took a step back, pressed his back against the wall, and raised his hands above his head in a gesture of surrender: "Sister-in-law! Please leave!"

"Huh?" Su Wan was taken aback. "I haven't finished speaking yet."

"Stop talking! I understand! Really!" The fifth brother's voice trembled with tears, his chest heaving, sweat pouring down his chest like a stream: "It's so hot here...it's unbearably hot!"

"If my sister-in-law doesn't leave soon... I'm going to explode!"

He was really about to explode, in every sense of the word.

Su Wan looked at the two "pure-hearted wolves" who usually climbed up and down the roof but were now cowering in the corner, trembling with fear, and finally realized that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

She glanced down at her position, almost completely surrounded by the two of them, and her face flushed slightly.

"Alright... then you can keep the blueprints." Su Wan quickly put the blueprints down. "Remember, make sure they're made to the exact dimensions, not even a fraction off."

After saying that, she turned and ran out of the blacksmith's shop as if fleeing. Her retreating figure looked like she was running away in a panic.

The curtain was lifted, and a cold wind rushed in. The sweet, enchanting fragrance in the room finally dissipated somewhat.

"Hoo—" Only when Su Wan's figure disappeared from sight did the twins, who had been pressed against the wall, seem to have all their strength drained away and slide down the wall to sit on the ground.

"Brother." Qin Yun, the sixth brother, took off his glasses, wiping the fog off as he gasped for breath: "Just now... I wanted to pin my sister-in-law down on the forging table."

"Get lost." Qin Feng, the fifth brother, wiped his nose, and sure enough, it was bleeding.

He looked at the bloodstains on his fingertips, cursed, but a grin stretched from ear to ear: "Dream on. If anyone's going to press, it'll be me."

"However..." He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, as if the scent of Su Wan still lingered in the air: "This repeating crossbow, I'll risk my life to get it for my sister-in-law. The best! The most powerful!"

[Beep! Strong "suppressed burst" of attraction detected!]

[Target: Qin Feng and Qin Yun (twins). Status: Hormonal explosion + Desire to prove themselves!]

[Heartbeat Value: Double the damage! 190...200!]

[Congratulations, host! The blacksmith shop has received the blessing of the "God of Crafts"!]

[Unlock Hidden Material: 1 piece of Meteorite Iron (Max Hardness, essential for forging divine weapons)!] [Unlock New Skill: Sympathetic Connection (Twins gain 100% better teamwork and a 100% success rate when forging items)!]

……

Two days later, at the martial arts training ground.

A new type of repeating crossbow, entirely black and gleaming with a cold, eerie light, lay quietly on the weapon rack.

It is smaller than a regular crossbow, but its streamlined body and precise springs exude a chilling aura of killing intent.

"It's done!" The fifth and sixth brothers, sporting huge dark circles under their eyes, excitedly dragged Su Wan to the training ground: "Sister-in-law! Try it out! This is the first divine weapon of our Qin family!"

Su Wan looked at the repeating crossbow, which represented the hard work of her entire family (and the blood from her twins' noses), and took a deep breath.

She reached out and grasped the crossbow.

It's heavy and feels great in the hand.

"I want to test fire," Su Wan said firmly.

In this chaotic world, relying solely on men for protection is not enough; she must have a knife in her own hand.

"Alright!" Qin Lie walked over. As the Qin family's top martial arts expert and former general, he was the best instructor. He frowned slightly as he looked at Su Wan's crossbow-holding posture, which was standard but slightly frail.

"Your posture is wrong." Qin Lie's voice was deep and carried an undeniable authority: "The recoil of the repeating crossbow is great. If you hold it like that, your wrist will break after firing an arrow."

"Then... how do I take it?" Su Wan asked humbly.

Qin Lie didn't speak. He strode over to Su Wan.

His broad chest, like a thick wall, pressed directly against her back.

Perfectly fitted.

"I'll teach you."