160: Rose's provocation, be my man!

Fifteen minutes later.

The training ground was a mess.

Rose finally broke free from Su Mo's "clutches." She leaned against the wall, panting heavily.

His fiery red, tight-fitting leather outfit was disheveled, and a few strands of sweat-soaked red hair clung to his beautiful face, adding a touch of wild sexiness.

His narrow, phoenix-like eyes were now glaring fixedly at the man not far away, who was licking his lips with a look of lingering satisfaction.

"Su Mo! Are you a dog?!" Rose's voice carried an uncontrollable mix of shame and anger,

"Kiss when you want, gnaw when you want? What do you take me for?!"

That kiss just now wasn't a kiss at all! That scoundrel didn't treat him like a woman, but rather like a piece of fat meat eagerly awaiting his consumption!

"I take you as my woman." Su Mo's reply was self-assured, a triumphant smile on his face.

He walked up to Rose, extended his hand, and tried to repeat his trick.

"Get lost! Don't touch me!" Rose, however, slapped his hand away and, supporting himself against the wall, shakily stood up.

He glared fiercely at Su Mo, then walked towards the stairwell.

"I'm going upstairs for a bit; wait for me here."

That retreating figure, no matter how one looked at it, carried a hint of desperate escape.

Su Mo watched his feigned composure. This woman was truly a thorny rose—prickly, but flavorful. He liked it.

Two minutes later, Rose came down from upstairs. He was still wearing the same fiery red, tight-fitting leather outfit, which looked no different from before.

But with Su Mo's abnormal observational skills, he could tell at a glance that he had changed into a new one.

It seemed the "battle" just now was even more intense than he had imagined. Su Mo chuckled mischievously to himself.

"Sit down." Rose walked to the sofa, sat down on his own, and took out a new bottle of red wine from the wine cabinet.

He personally poured a glass for Su Mo, then picked up his own. His beautiful face still carried a hint of unnatural blush and a lingering shock.

He still couldn't shake off the shadow of being utterly crushed by absolute power from earlier.

Too strong. This man was so strong he seemed inhuman. Especially when he summoned that overlord-level "pet" radiating an aura of death.

He really couldn't understand why a summoner who could summon an overlord-level pet would also have such abnormal close-combat abilities.

This simply didn't conform to the game's class balance!

Rose felt that he wasn't facing a teenager his own age, but rather a true demon king who had crawled out of the depths of hell.

"What... what class are you, exactly?" Rose took a sip of the red wine in his glass, trying to numb his still violently pounding heart with alcohol.

"Want to know?" Su Mo put down his wine glass, walked to Rose's side, and sat down.

Then, under Rose's wary gaze, he extended that restless hand that had just "teased" him, subtly wrapping it around his slender, soft waist that was almost too delicate to grasp.

Rose's body stiffened.

He was about to resist, but thinking of his utter defeat from earlier, the reprimand on his lips was swallowed back down.

Forget it. Anyway, he couldn't beat him. Just pretend he was bitten by a dog.

Rose thought to himself, giving up.

He simply let Su Mo's "wandering hand" do as it pleased, allowing him to freely wrap it around his waist.

"Su Mo, if you truly want to have me, and want me to willingly be your woman."

Rose turned his head, his narrow, phoenix-like eyes looking directly into Su Mo's, and said, word by word, "Then you must help me with a big favor."

"Oh?" Su Mo raised an eyebrow,

"What favor? Tell me about it. If it's too much trouble, I might refuse."

"It's not troublesome."

Rose shook his head, then said something that even Su Mo found a bit surprising, "I want you to be my legitimate man."

"What do you mean?" Su Mo was a bit confused,

"Is there a difference? Do you want me to openly give myself to you for free?"

Rose: "..."

"Su Mo! Can't you be serious?!"

"I am very serious," Su Mo said with an innocent expression, "I just think your request is a bit strange."

"Strange?"

"Yes." Su Mo nodded, "You could just say, 'help me solve some trouble,' couldn't you? Why do you insist on using the words 'legitimate' and 'proper'?"

"Do you want me to take responsibility for you?"

Rose: "..."

He felt that he simply couldn't communicate normally with this man.

"Su Mo, listen carefully." Rose decided not to beat around the bush with him anymore.

"My father, and several elders of our Red Star Society, have arranged a marriage for me."

"The other party is the younger brother of the patriarch of the Zhao family, a first-class aristocratic family in the capital."

"I've met that person once. He looks decent enough, but he's almost forty."

"I don't like 'old men' who are older than me."

As Rose said this, a deep look of disgust flashed in his narrow, phoenix-like eyes.

"So you want me to be your shield?" Su Mo understood instantly.

"Exactly." Rose nodded, "I need a man who, in terms of both strength and background, is enough to leave the Zhao family and my elders speechless."

"And you, Su Mo."

Rose looked at Su Mo, his narrow, phoenix-like eyes sparkling with an unusual light.

"You are the top player on both the Level Ranking and Combat Power Ranking for Season S11."

"Your true combat power is even stronger than those players who are level thirty or forty."

"Most importantly, you are only eighteen years old."

"You are the most suitable candidate."

Rose's words gave Su Mo an indescribably strange feeling.

How did he feel like he had been "schemed" against by this woman?

"Rose, you're not trying to make me your live-in son-in-law, are you?" Su Mo's face showed a wary expression,

"I'm telling you, even though I, Su Mo, am lustful, I would never do such a foolish thing!"

"You wish!" Rose rolled his eyes at him, "How could my man, Rose's man, be a live-in son-in-law?"

"Then what do you mean?"

"It's very simple." Rose's face showed a seductive smile.

"Tonight, you and I will go to see my father and those old fuddy-duddies in our family."

"You will announce in front of them that you are my man."

"As long as you can keep them in check."

"Then tonight, I will be yours."

As Rose spoke, he deliberately extended his delicate pink tongue and lightly licked his moist red lips. That suggestive and provocative action made Su Mo's mouth dry and his lower abdomen burn again.

This vixen! He was openly seducing him!

"How about it?" Rose looked at Su Mo's already somewhat heated gaze, the smile at the corner of his lips growing wider.

"My good man, do you dare to accept this wager of mine?"