Chapter 47 | First Wife at Dawn
The tent flap moved with a dry whisper.
Xu Tianlong opened his eyes.
Cold air slipped through the gap. Then Lin Yueyao stepped inside, her hand still on the flap, white silk showing beneath the loose outer robe she had thrown on for the walk between tents. Most of her hair hung free. The pale streak at her temple caught what little moonlight made it through the canvas.
She stopped.
Ruoxue jerked awake beside him.
Silence held inside the tent.
Xu didn’t need to guess what Lin saw. Ruoxue was naked under the same blanket as him, silver hair spread across his chest and shoulder. The bedding below them was still damp and stained from the night. When Ruoxue tried to sit up, her face tightened before she could hide it.
Lin’s eyes flicked down, then returned to Xu.
Xu knew that stillness. Lin got quieter when something truly bothered her.
Xu pushed himself upright. "Ruoxue."
She looked at him.
"Get dressed. Go see Qing’er. Have her check you, then rest."
Ruoxue hesitated only long enough to glance at Lin. Then nodded.
She gathered her clothes from beside the bedding. Pulling on her inner robe went easily enough. When she shifted her hips to draw the rest into place, she stopped and caught her breath through her nose.
Xu watched until she straightened again.
"I can walk," she said, catching his look.
"I can see that."
A faint trace of stubbornness crossed her tired face. Better than the hollow look she’d carried days ago.
Lin stepped aside before Ruoxue reached the entrance and gave her room to pass without a word.
Ruoxue paused at the flap. "Tianlong."
"Go."
She left.
The flap fell shut.
Lin remained standing.
Xu leaned back against the rolled bedding behind him and looked at her. "Come here."
Her gaze sharpened slightly. She still came.
When she reached him, he caught her hand and pulled.
"Tianlong-"
Lin landed on his lap with her back against his chest, her robe rustling around them. His arm settled around her waist before she could recover the last of her dignity.
He brushed her loose hair away from her neck.
"Jealous?"
Her shoulders went still.
"Mm... Tianlong."
That was almost an admission.
Xu smiled against her hair. "Ruoxue told me she loved me more than 5 times last night."
Lin turned her head a fraction. "Did she?"
"She did."
Silence.
Then, very precisely, "I love you."
Xu’s brow lifted.
"I love you," she repeated.
The words came faster. "I love you."
Color had reached her ears now. "I love you..."
She shifted on his lap. His cock pressed harder beneath her.
Her breath caught.
"I love you."
Xu waited.
Lin’s fingers tightened over his forearm. The last words came quieter, almost into the dark space between them.
"I love you, husband."
"Yeah, yeah. My wife."
"You’re insufferable."
"Still jealous?"
She didn’t answer.
Xu caught her chin, turned her face far enough, and kissed her.
The stiffness in her shoulders lasted perhaps a heartbeat. Then she leaned back into him and opened her mouth. His tongue met hers. Her hand rose to the back of his neck and kept him there.
When the kiss broke, he let his mouth brush the corner of hers.
"Can you feel it?"
Lin shifted deliberately now. His cock pressed hard beneath the cloth at her ass.
Her lashes lowered. "Yes, husband."
"My wife knows what to do."
A tiny pause.
Then Lin slipped from his lap.
She knelt between his knees and pulled the blanket away from his hips.
His cock was already hard. Her gaze lingered on it before she wrapped her hand around the base and leaned in.
Her tongue moved slowly over the head.
Xu rested a hand in her hair.
Lin looked up, then took the head between her lips.
slurp.
"Mmm..."
Her mouth slid lower. Her hand followed the movement at the base, twisting on the upward stroke before her lips covered him again.
"Mmh..."
Xu’s fingers closed a little tighter in her hair.
"Deeper."
She obeyed.
gulk.
"Ngh..."
Her throat tightened around him. She pulled back for air, saliva shining on her lower lip, then went down again before he told her to.
slurp. gulk.
"Mmhn..."
Xu watched her find the rhythm. Lin never did anything carelessly, not even this. Her mouth worked the upper half while her hand kept the base slick, then she changed the angle and took him deeper.
"Ahn..."
The sound vibrated around his cock.
"That’s better."
Her eyes narrowed at the praise. Color warmed her cheeks.
He guided her down.
"Nghn..."
Her nose nearly touched his abdomen. Her throat worked.
gulk.
"Nnnh..."
He held her there for a moment, then let her rise.
Lin dragged in a wet breath. "You enjoy making that difficult."
"I enjoy watching you do it anyway."
A faint glare. Then her tongue ran along the underside of his cock.
"Mmm..."
Xu laughed under his breath.
She answered by taking him down hard enough to cut the laugh short.
"Damn."
Lin’s eyes warmed.
slurp. slurp.
"Mmh... ngh..."
His grip shifted from her hair to the back of her head. He started slowly, then guided her deeper. Her fingers squeezed at the base in time with his movement.
"Ahm..."
Her breathing came through her nose until he pressed her down again.
"Ghnn..."
Her throat opened around the head.
The pressure at the base of his spine tightened fast.
Her eyes lifted as the pressure changed. Her hand quickened.
"Mmm... mhn..."
"Keep going."
She did.
Wet suction, her hand, the tight pull of her throat. Xu’s control thinned to a narrow edge.
"Yueyao."
She looked up.
He came in her mouth.
His cock pulsed across her tongue and deeper when he held her close. Lin made a muffled sound around him.
"Nghmm..."
She swallowed.
gulp.
Another pulse. Another swallow.
"Mmh..."
When he released her, she pulled back slowly, breathing through parted lips. A trace of semen remained at the corner of her mouth. She wiped it with her tongue before he could say anything.
Xu let her catch her breath, then stroked her hair. "Good girl."
Lin’s cheeks darkened.
He caught her under the arms and pulled her back up.
She had barely settled over him before he kissed her again.
This time she was facing him, knees planted on either side of his hips. Her robe loosened between them. Xu opened it farther, exposing her breasts, then bent his head and drew a nipple into his mouth.
"Ahn..."
Lin’s hands caught his shoulders.
He sucked harder.
"Ngh... Tianlong..."
His hand slid around her waist and down over her ass. She lifted just enough for him to guide his cock beneath her.
The wet head pressed against her pussy.
Lin looked down between them, then back at him.
"Take it," he said.
She lowered herself.
"Ahh..."
Her pussy opened around him, hot and slick. She took him in the familiar way, breathing through the stretch and pausing where she needed before lowering again.
"Nghn..."
Then she sank the rest of the way until she sat full on his lap.
"Mm... husband."
Xu gripped her waist. "Move."
She rolled her hips.
clap.
"Ahn..."
"Again, harder."
clap. clap.
"Ngh... mmh..."
Her breasts moved between them. Xu caught her nipple in his mouth again while she rode him with short, controlled drops.
"A-ah..."
His palm struck her ass.
slap!
Lin jolted.
"Ahhn!"
Her pussy clenched around him.
Xu caught the same cheek and pulled her down harder on the next stroke.
clap!
"Nghnn... Tianlong..."
"Again."
She rose and dropped.
"Ahn... ah..."
The pace changed. Her control stopped looking polished. Her hair fell forward around her face. Her breath warmed his cheek between kisses.
"Mmh... ngh..."
Xu’s breathing stayed even. His cock had never softened after her mouth.
Lin’s thighs were already beginning to shake.
He tightened his hold at her waist instead of asking more from her legs.
Then he turned his attention inward.
Qi moved from his lower dantian and fed directly into the bond between them.
The current reached Lin while she was still moving on him.
Her eyes opened.
"Tianlong...?"
"Circulate."
Lin’s qi answered immediately.
Coolness spread through the contact between them, clean and sharp, the familiar Frosted Moon Essence threading into the circuit. Xu guided his qi through it, then felt hers return along the bond rather than vanish into him.
Lin shivered.
"Ngh... ahn..."
"Keep it steady."
"I’m..." Her next breath broke when he thrust up into her. "Ahh... I’m steady."
The current thickened.
Cold slid through his meridians without becoming pain. Warmth returned through hers. Each time Lin dropped onto him, the physical impact and the qi circuit struck together.
clap.
"Mmhn..."
clap.
"Ahn... husband..."
The qi circuit tightened through the bond.
Xu felt the difference immediately. The circulation was no longer merely qi moving between them. Frost resonance gathered around it until the pressure of a forming Burst rose through the bond. Xu held the circulation steady instead of letting it resolve.
He didn’t stop.
Neither did Lin.
Outside, the forest remained dark.
Then the hidden boundary of the night passed.
The Frost resonance swelled instead of breaking.
At the same instant, other familiar currents touched the edge of Xu’s awareness and settled into the reserve in his lower dantian. Life. Shadow. Then a cool silver trace he had never felt at Dawn before.
Lin gasped against his mouth.
"Ahn... ngh... it’s stronger..."
"I know."
Xu pulled her closer and drove up into her.
clap. clap.
"Ahh... Tianlong..."
Her thighs shook harder. He took more of her weight with his arms and kept the pace where he wanted it.
"Nghn... mmh... ah..."
He kissed her, swallowed the next moan, then bit lightly at her lower lip before moving to her breast again.
"Ahn!"
Her pussy tightened in quick pulses.
"Don’t stop circulating."
"I won’t..."
clap.
"Ngh... ahh..."
The circuit climbed with them. A new frost current joined the pressure already building between them instead of peeling away on its own.
Lin’s nails dug into his shoulders.
"Tianlong... I-I’m..."
"Come with me."
Her control broke.
"Ahhn...! Husband... nghnn...!"
Xu buried himself inside her.
He came again as the Burst broke.
Hot semen flooded her pussy as Lin came with him, her walls clenching around his cock in hard, rhythmic spasms. She cried out against his neck, body locking around him as the qi circuit peaked and finally resolved.
"A-ahh... ngh... Tianlong!"
The cool current filled his meridians so completely that every other sensation sharpened around it.
Then the system spoke.
[Ding!]
[Daily Output + Burst Generation Bonus Received]
[Lin Yueyao — Frost Essence +6 (Burst)]
[Xu Qing’er — Life Sap +2]
[Feng Lianzhu — Shadow Venom +2]
[Xiao Ruoxue — Lunar Veil +2]
Xu let the panel fade.
Lin stayed against him, breathing quickly. Her thighs trembled on either side of his hips.
"Mmh..."
He ran his hand through her hair.
Neither of them spoke for a while.
When her breathing finally eased, Lin lifted her head. "Still planning to tease me about Ruoxue?"
"Probably."
Her eyes narrowed.
Xu kissed her forehead.
That ruined the glare.
She lifted herself from his lap with a small wince of oversensitivity. Semen followed, warm against the inside of her thigh.
Lin cleaned herself without ceremony, then retied her robe. Xu pulled on his trousers and outer robe.
Then a voice came from outside.
"Young Master."
Xu’s hand stopped at his sash.
"Xu Shun."
The tone wasn’t urgent enough for an attack. It was too clipped for anything trivial.
Xu crossed to the entrance and opened the flap only far enough to look out.
Xu Shun stood beyond it, already dressed for watch, his expression hard.
"What is it?"
"Tracks outside the camp radius."
Xu’s attention sharpened. "Ours?"
"No. Not fresh. They circle part of the camp before breaking away."
Lin had gone quiet behind him.
Xu looked past Shun toward the dark trees. Nothing moved between the trunks.
Good. The tracks mattered more untouched.
"Don’t step through them," Xu said. "Keep Cheng inside the perimeter. Wake Feng."
Xu Shun nodded. "Understood."
Xu let the flap fall closed.