Douluo Continent: Twin Golden and Silver Dragons Shock Bibi Dong

Liu Erlong was completely dumbfounded, frozen on the bed.

Flip...flip it over?! Press it on the front?!

Are all young people these days...do they have to be this freaking wild?!

Seeing Liu Erlong's frightened expression, as if her worldview had been severely shaken, Xuan Hao couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"What are you thinking? Don't think of me in such a dirty way, okay?"

Xuan Hao grabbed a towel from the side and slowly wiped the remaining essential oil from his hands, explaining frankly, "We've always had that kind of intimate relationship. Doing this kind of thing behind closed doors isn't anything shameful or taboo. Besides, this is legitimate physical relaxation. Those girls are exhausted from cultivating every day, so as their family member, shouldn't I help them relax?"

He emphasized his words and solemnly clarified: "This is absolutely a pure massage, not the kind of 'physical work' that has a pungent taste and will only make you more tired afterward."

Liu Erlong turned his head with suspicion, his eyes filled with distrust: "Really? You'd be that honest?"

"It's frustrating," Xuan Hao sighed, spreading his hands. "How old are these girls? Although I'm a complete womanizer, I still have principles when it comes to boundaries. They're young and don't know any better. I can't just do whatever I want for my own pleasure, can I?"

"So, this is the only thing I can do with them most of the time. It allows us to connect through physical contact and also helps them relieve their physical and mental fatigue, which is the best of both worlds."

At this point, Xuan Hao seemed to recall something that gave him a headache, and rubbed his temples: "Of course, although I massage in a proper way, Ning Rongrong and the others are a bit less proper. Among those girls, only Na'er and Lingling are well-behaved and will lie quietly, and occasionally they will even massage me in the opposite direction properly."

“As for Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and those three aunties, Dugu Yan…” Xuan Hao rolled his eyes. “They take advantage of the fact that I don’t dare to do anything to them, and try every possible way to seduce me in bed. So, every time I face these three, I can only put in more effort and use all my skills to get them to sleep as quickly as possible, so that they don’t have the energy to keep thinking about causing trouble.”

Listening to Xuan Hao's down-to-earth complaints about "taking care of a child," Liu Erlong's eye muscles twitched a couple of times, and the tension in his heart dissipated without him even realizing it.

After wiping the essential oil off his hands, Xuan Hao stood up, went around to the head of the bed, squatted down in front of Liu Erlong, and stretched out his hands to press the acupoints on her head.

Seeing Xuan Hao suddenly become serious and ready to work, having abandoned his usual carefree attitude, Liu Erlong felt a little uncomfortable.

“Lying like that, your neck is twisted and uncomfortable, and I can’t exert any strength.” Xuan Hao patted the bed. “Turn over and lie flat.”

After that complete relaxation, and with Xuan Hao indeed behaving himself, Liu Erlong didn't think much of it this time. She reached out and tightly gripped the black silk nightgown that had been torn in two, covering her chest, and obediently turned over, lying flat on her back. The black silk clung to her curves like ripples of water, still firmly covering her body, revealing only a section of her slender, fair neck.

Xuan Hao didn't look at her much. He gently pressed his hands on her temples and several acupoints on the top of her head, kneading them with moderate force.

His technique was indeed astonishingly skillful. After massaging her head, he followed the meridians and gently helped Liu Erlong relax her arms. Finally, he even moved a small round stool to the foot of the bed, placed her feet on his lap, and began to perform an extremely meticulous foot massage.

The whole process was carried out smoothly and effortlessly, and before we knew it, an hour had quietly passed.

As every muscle in her body completely relaxed, the fatigue that had accumulated over the past few days surged in like a tide. Liu Erlong had been barely maintaining a sliver of consciousness, but under Xuan Hao's hypnotic and soothing massage, her breathing gradually became even and long, and she finally let down her guard and drifted off to sleep.

After confirming that she was fast asleep, Xuanhao stopped what he was doing. Instead of taking the opportunity to lift the thin silk nightgown like a lecherous fiend, he pulled over the silk quilt and gently covered her up, tucking the edges in tightly.

After doing all this, he walked to the table, poured himself a glass of water, and drank it all in one gulp.

"You...you really didn't do anything?"

Just then, Ah Yin's mental transmission, filled with astonishment and confusion, suddenly rang in my mind.

Through the shared vision of the vines, Ah Yin silently observed the entire process from inside the Qiankun Ring. Several times during the process, when Xuan Hao's hand slid across Liu Erlong's thigh, she thought that this beast was finally about to tear off his disguise and cause trouble.

To my surprise, this guy actually did a proper massage from beginning to end, even more honest than the most dutiful maid!

Ah Yin simply couldn't understand: "You came all this way just to do this? You actually take this kind of lowly, servant-like work so seriously? What are you after?"

Hearing Ah Yin's question in his mind, Xuan Hao silently replied, "What do you know? This is called professional competence."

"This is only the first half of the strategy, the 'physiological therapy.' For a timid and wary mother like her, we must first use the most legitimate and comfortable methods to completely relax her body and let go of her instinctive resistance to me. Only then can we proceed with the next step, the 'psychological strategy,' in a logical and natural way."

Xuan Hao put down his water glass and leaned against the edge of the table. "Once I've completely won her over, won't I have plenty of opportunities to be indecent in the future?"

"To catch a big fish, you need to cast a long line and use good bait. If you don't even have this much patience at such a crucial moment and just think about rushing in and using force, how could I, Xuanhao, have this courtyard full of beautiful women today?"

Xuan Hao snorted in his mind, "You don't really think that I can keep so many outstanding girls by my side purely because of my invincible violence, without any regard for skills or emotional value, do you?"

Chapter 273 Is it possible to guard against feelings once you see through them?

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"What a joke, my main focus is on technical skill."

Xuan Hao lazily replied in his mind, "The violence that I possess to suppress the continent is, in the end, just a tiny, insignificant addition to my entire being."

“Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu followed me willingly, not because I have big fists or can fight, but because I am Xuan Hao. If they threw themselves at me just because of my strength and talent, what if someone stronger and more talented than me appeared one day? Wouldn’t they immediately switch their targets and abandon me?”

Xuan Hao looked at Liu Erlong, who was breathing evenly on the bed, and said, "My taste isn't that bad. The girl I've chosen is definitely not the kind of shallow, snobbish girl."

Hearing his words, Ah Yin thought he was shameless, but she had to admit he had a knack for judging people. She paused, then asked doubtfully, "So what are you planning to do next? Just sit here?"

"Of course I'll stay by her side and wait for her to wake up."

Xuan Hao sat down on the wooden chair next to him and adjusted himself into a comfortable position: "I've spent most of the day taking care of her. If I just leave like this, it would be a real waste of all my efforts. When she wakes up and opens her eyes, the first person she sees is me. Then, all the rare comfort and relaxation in her body will be subconsciously concentrated and projected onto me."

"It's the same principle as when you're dating, you deliberately take the girl to do some exciting games. The excitement and impulse during the process, as well as the great sense of relaxation after the excitement subsides, can create a psychological illusion that transforms into dependence on the person next to you, which becomes a boost to the relationship."

"There's a lot of profound knowledge involved in all of this. Take that mess you made back then, for example. Why did you fall so deeply in love with Tang Hao? Wasn't it because his Clear Sky Hammer was violent and domineering enough to give you a strong visual impact and a sense of excitement?"

"In contrast to his background of overwhelming power, the clumsy tenderness he shows you becomes all the more precious. This extreme 'contrast' is often the easiest way to touch a woman's heartstrings."

Xuan Hao ruthlessly tore away that romantic veil: "What you think of as love at first sight or destined love can actually be precisely broken down and even perfectly reproduced step by step in the eyes of those who know their stuff."

Listening to Xuan Hao's cold and infuriatingly rational analysis, Ah Yin, who was inside the Qiankun Ring, not only did not refute it, but fell into a long silence.

After a long while, filled with deep doubt and a hint of confusion, she asked in the mental link: "You see everything so clearly, breaking down human emotions like a business transaction, into meticulously calculated little tasks to be executed... Don't you feel tired? Do you really enjoy the emotions you calculate like this?"

Upon hearing this question, Xuan Hao paused slightly in his hand holding the water glass.

“There’s nothing I can do.” He gave a helpless twitch of his lips, a rare genuine emotion flashing in his eyes. “That’s why I’ve said it before: deep down I’m an extremely empty person who lacks these things, which is why I’m willing to pay and scheme without considering the cost.”

"Actually, deep down I'm terrified of losing the warmth I've managed to hold onto. So, in every relationship, I always take the initiative to be the one who keeps giving. There are even times when I know in my heart that my shameless way of trying to please them is somewhat pathetic."

At this point, Xuan Hao's eyes softened, and a genuine smile appeared on his lips.

"Fortunately, I've always been very lucky. None of these girls take my efforts for granted. Every time I take the initiative to humble myself or go out of my way to please them, they always try to make up for it by doing more than they can afterward. If I give them a piece of candy, they'll be so eager to buy me a whole string of candied hawthorns and stuff them into my mouth."

“I am really lucky and grateful that they are in my life.”

Xuan Hao leaned back in his chair, looking at the dappled sunlight streaming in through the window: "I'm happy every day. Even though I put in a lot of effort to maintain these relationships, I've never felt tired. Because this isn't a one-man show. As long as I take a step, they always rush towards me in an even more enthusiastic and unreserved way."

Xuan Hao chuckled lightly, summarizing with a hint of relief, "If I were really unlucky and encountered one of those cold stones that wouldn't react no matter how long I tried to warm it up, I would be in real trouble. But thankfully, at least so far, I haven't encountered anyone who has given me that kind of trouble."

"Even someone as cold and arrogant as Bibi Dong, who is far away in Wuhun City, has been softened quite a bit by me over the past few years, hasn't she?"

“She’s not an unyielding stone; she also experiences emotional fluctuations. It’s just that past traumas make her instinctively afraid. So I know how to be tactful and give her enough space to relax.”

After hearing these blunt, almost analytical remarks, A-Yin's doubts deepened. She coldly asked in the mental link, "Since you've explained your schemes so clearly, what do you mean by laying all these traps bare for me now? Aren't you afraid that knowing your hand will make me wary of you in everything I do?"

"Are you guarding against me?"

Xuan Hao chuckled softly, as if he had heard a funny joke. "Ah Yin, you don't actually think that you can guard against feelings just by seeing through the tricks, do you?"

"Stop joking. I'm not one of those young guys who only know how to use sweet talk and give cheap little gifts. I know what kind of way to truly touch people's hearts." Xuan Hao looked at the sunlight outside the window, his eyes deep. "Even if you know I'm trying to trick you and win you over, when it actually happens, your emotions and feelings will still waver involuntarily."

"If someone sees through the routine and has no reaction, it only means that the other person's acting is too fake and superficial."

"But I know how to put myself in someone else's shoes. You absolutely can't defend against an attack that mixes sincerity with calculation."

Seeing that Ah Yin's spirit still showed a hint of stubbornness and disbelief, Xuan Hao shrugged: "What, you don't believe me? If you don't believe me, you can ask Sister Ah Rou directly."

As he spoke, Xuan Hao had a thought and sent a wisp of his spiritual power into the 100,000-year-old soul bone of the Soft Bone Rabbit in his left leg, pulling A Rou's consciousness, who had been silently watching the show inside, into this spiritual chat as well.

A glimmer of light appeared, and Arou's gentle voice echoed in their minds, tinged with a helpless smile: "Ayin, although I don't want to admit it, Xuanhao's skills in this area are indeed so formidable that they are hard to resist. Even if you see through his thoughts perfectly, you will still willingly fall into the trap he has dug."

After Ah-rou's personal account, Ah-yin fell completely silent.

Xuan Hao picked up his water glass to moisten his throat and continued unhurriedly, "I can manipulate so many old foxes and clever people across the entire continent, and I can navigate between the two great empires and the Spirit Hall with ease. How could I not know how to handle this kind of emotional issue between men and women?"

"Think about it, if someone who can calculate the general trend of the world and the complexities of human nature clearly appears flustered and helpless when it comes to emotional issues... then he is probably just pretending to be innocent to make you happy."

"As for the remaining 20% ​​possibility, it's that he never truly understood how to manipulate people's hearts, and all his previous successes were purely due to luck."

He leaned back in his chair, his gaze falling on the peaceful face of the sleeping Liu Erlong.

“I’ve always been a very clear-headed person. I’ve carefully considered everything that happens around me, including the problems caused by each person and each relationship.”

"As for the carefree, thoughtless, and even somewhat reckless Xuan Hao that you usually see... that's just a mask I put on to make it easier for everyone to get along."

"If I were really that reckless, how could I possibly maintain such a complicated relationship?"

Chapter 274 An Untimely Reunion: Yu Xiaogang, why are you only coming now?

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Time slipped away quietly in the stillness.

As the sunlight outside the window gradually turned orange-red and the sun was about to set, Liu Erlong finally woke up from her deep sleep.

The moment she regained consciousness, something suddenly occurred to her, and a surge of intense panic welled up inside her. After all, she clearly remembered falling asleep with her back completely exposed and utterly defenseless!

A man and a woman alone in a room, plus Xuan Hao's notorious womanizing ways... Could this bastard have taken advantage of her while she was asleep?!

Liu Erlong suddenly opened his eyes and instinctively gripped the silk quilt covering him.

However, the horrific scene she had anticipated did not unfold. When she opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was Xuan Hao, who had somehow moved closer to the bedside and was now smiling at her with one hand on his cheek.

Liu Erlong checked herself and found that, apart from the blanket that had been covering her, the torn silk nightgown was still tightly covering her front, indicating that Xuan Hao had obviously not done anything out of line.

Her eyes immediately became somewhat evasive, and for some reason, besides feeling fortunate, a faint sense of loss flashed through her mind that she herself did not even realize.

"Awake?" Xuan Hao looked at her relieved yet somewhat flustered appearance and asked softly, "How do you feel? Do you feel completely relaxed, as if all the fatigue accumulated over the past few decades has vanished into thin air?"

Liu Erlong turned her head away somewhat awkwardly, avoiding his aggressive gaze, and muttered stubbornly, "It's...it's alright."

"Just okay?"

Xuan Hao raised an eyebrow and sighed, feigning dissatisfaction: "I went to great lengths to provide you with such a high-end, exquisite, and unique massage service. After you've enjoyed it, don't you have any thoughts? Like... giving me some kind of benefit as compensation?"

Liu Erlong felt a little guilty from his self-righteous demand, but she still stubbornly retorted, "This...wasn't it you who dragged me and forced me to do it? I didn't beg you to do it!"

"Wow, from what you're saying..." Xuan Hao's eyes widened. "Is the dignified Dean Liu Erlong of Blue Tyrant Academy planning to turn his back on us and just take it all for free?"

"What nonsense are you spouting!" Liu Erlong glared at him angrily. "Then tell me, what benefits do you want? As long as I can provide them..."

"I have no shortage of mundane things."

Xuan Hao's joking expression vanished, his gaze turning serious as he looked directly into Liu Erlong's eyes: "I don't really want anything substantial. I just want to take this opportunity to ask you seriously... do you really hate me that much?"

Liu Erlong was stunned. His lips moved, but he couldn't say anything.

“I know I do have a lot of flaws.” Xuan Hao chuckled self-deprecatingly. “I’m a womanizer, a lecher, and I’m ruthless. These reputations are well-known in Tian Dou City. You’re someone who can’t tolerate any flaws, so it’s understandable that you dislike and reject me because of these shortcomings.”

“However…” Xuan Hao’s tone shifted, “Although I’m a scoundrel, my intuition is usually pretty accurate. I can sense that you’re not as resistant to me as you seem on the surface. In fact… you do like me a little bit. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have dared to be so shameless today.”

"I asked you these questions today to confirm whether I'm just being delusional."