Chapter 99: Bastard Bai Ye! Pervert
"Let me go! I want out!"
Yun Sheng struggled fiercely, trying to break free from Bai Ye’s embrace. Her spiritual power recoiled like a startled hedgehog’s quills, desperately trying to sever her connection to this damned dream.
Bai Ye’s eyes darkened abruptly, his gaze so intense it felt tangible.
He had clearly seen her lips part and heard the faint, breathy sound. She had been on the verge of speaking her name when something had abruptly cut her off.
’I can’t let her escape just like that!’
Bai Ye unleashed an even greater surge of spiritual power. No more gentle infusions; now, it was like invisible chains, coiling around Yun Sheng’s spiritual power and binding it tight!
At the same time, he lowered his head and crushed his lips against hers once more.
"Mmph!"
Yun Sheng only managed a short, muffled whimper before all her unspoken cries and questions were devoured by his domineering kiss.
Her lips, already slightly swollen, stung as he ground his against them.
Shock and anger warred within Yun Sheng, and fury burned through the haze in her mind.
She opened her mouth, intending to bite him in retaliation.
However, a warm, strong hand clamped around her jaw. A slight increase in pressure forced her to submit, leaving her able to do nothing but endure his plundering kiss.
She cursed him internally as her eyes, rimmed with red from agitation and lack of oxygen, glared at the handsome, utterly detestable face just inches away.
Bai Ye pulled back slightly, giving her a sliver of space, but their lips remained scant inches apart.
He looked at the red-tinged corners of her eyes, at their furious, tear-brimmed depths, and a low chuckle rumbled in his throat.
"Tell me who you are. Say it... and I’ll let you go."
Yun Sheng shot him a venomous glare.
’Tell him?’
’Tell him? So he can not only keep harassing me in my dreams, but also have a perfectly good reason to hunt me down in the real world and demand an explanation?’
’She wasn’t an idiot!’
She had to break free. She had to escape this godforsaken dream right now.
’But I’m sure I heard knocking a moment ago!’
Yun Sheng gathered what little spiritual power she had left and tried to forcibly sever her connection to the dream, ramming it against the invisible barrier.
Bai Ye’s brow furrowed slightly. The hand on her jaw and the arm around her waist tightened their grip as his spiritual power surged like a tide, trying to reinforce the crumbling dream connection and keep her there.
"Trying to leave?"
His voice dropped low, laced with a dangerous warning.
Just as their spiritual powers and wills were locked in a fierce tug-of-war, causing the edges of the dream to violently ripple and destabilize, a voice called out.
"Shengsheng?"
Yun Sheng thought she heard Su Wan’s voice. A moment later, she felt a hand gently shaking her shoulder.
’Now’s my chance!’
She focused her entire will on that flicker of sensation from the real world and wrenched herself free.
"Urk!"
A brief, dizzying, tearing sensation washed over her, as if her very soul was being forcibly ripped away.
Bai Ye’s figure began to blur, and the hands on her jaw and waist began to lose their strength...
The next second, her eyes flew open!
Blinding sunlight streamed through a gap in the curtains. Yun Sheng was lying on a soft sofa, and Su Wan was standing over her, a worried look on her face.
"Shengsheng?"
Seeing her awake, Su Wan let out a visible sigh of relief, though her brow remained slightly furrowed.
"How did you end up falling asleep on the sofa? And you’re sweating so much... I knocked several times, but you didn’t answer. I was worried something had happened, so I came in. Did you... have a nightmare?"
Yun Sheng’s heart was still hammering against her ribs like a drum. Her breathing came in short, rapid gasps, her chest heaving.
She raised a hand to wipe her forehead and felt a cold dampness. Her cheeks were alarmingly hot; she didn’t need a mirror to know they must be bright red.
"No... I’m fine."
The moment she spoke, she was startled by her own voice—it was as hoarse as if it had been scraped with sandpaper. She quickly cleared her throat, managing to steady her tone a little.
"Madam, is... is something the matter?"
She knew Su Wan. If it wasn’t for something important, her nominal mother would respect her privacy and wouldn’t have come in while she was resting.
Su Wan nodded. "Someone from the Tower is here. They’re waiting in the living room downstairs. They said they have an urgent notice for you."
’The Tower? An urgent notice?’
A chill shot through Yun Sheng. She immediately got up from the sofa. Her legs were still a bit shaky, but she managed to stand firm.
"Okay, I understand. Madam, could you please see to them first? I’ll just wash my face and change, and I’ll be right down."
"Okay, no rush, take your time."
Su Wan gave her another look, as if she wanted to say something more, but in the end, she just turned and left.
Once Su Wan’s footsteps faded, Yun Sheng practically stumbled into the bathroom.
She twisted the faucet and repeatedly splashed cold water on her face, trying to banish the maddening heat and clear her muddled head.
When she looked up, her reflection showed cheeks flushed crimson, the corners of her eyes still glistening with unshed tears and moisture.
"Bastard... Bai Ye! You filthy pervert!"
Yun Sheng cursed under her breath at her reflection, her voice filled with humiliation and fury.
Although... although she herself had made some overly intimate moves on him in a previous dream, all to steal some of Bai Ye’s power.
But it was nothing like what he did today... His kiss was so deep, so aggressive, as if he wanted to tear her apart and devour her whole!
Remembering the suffocating entanglement of the dream—the domineering plunder of his mouth, the crushing force of his arm that nearly snapped her in two, the hoarse demands he’d whispered against her ear...
Instead of cooling, the heat in Yun Sheng’s cheeks flared up again, burning so hot that even the tips of her ears turned crimson.
She shook her head hard, forcing herself to stop thinking about it.
’This wasn’t the time to get hung up on that.’
She quickly splashed more cold water on her face, neatened her slightly messy hair, took a few deep breaths, changed into a simple set of casual clothes, and hurried downstairs.
In the living room, in addition to Su Wan, stood a middle-aged woman wearing the uniform of a Tower administrator. Her expression was stern, and the moment she saw Yun Sheng come downstairs, she took a step forward.
"Cadet Yun Sheng, I am Wang Lin, an assistant instructor from the Preparatory Guide Training Department."
She spoke quickly, clearly pressed for time.
"I am here to issue an urgent notice. The field combat training, originally scheduled to begin in half a month, has been moved up to tomorrow morning due to special circumstances. All preparatory cadets are required to report to the assembly point at the Tower’s Seventh Training Base within one hour to check in and receive their gear. Please prepare at once to return to the Tower with me."
’The field combat training has been moved up?’
Yun Sheng’s heart plummeted.
This sudden turn of events threw all her plans into disarray.
She had barely scratched the surface of the tutorials Si Jin had left her, she was still fumbling through even the most basic guidance techniques, and that "gift" from Lin Yueyao was still in her bag, completely untouched...
She had thought she had at least half a month to catch her breath, to explore and learn, to accumulate as many resources as she could for self-preservation.
But now, she didn’t even have a single night’s buffer!