177: Chapter 177 What? You don't dare?

"Mm..."

A soft sensation pressed against him without any warning.

Clatter...

The high-grade potion and medical bandages in Lu Yuan's hands slipped instantly, falling onto the thick carpet.

The golden liquid splashed everywhere.

But at this moment, he had no time to worry about those expensive potions.

Xia Li's eyes were tightly shut, her long eyelashes trembling slightly from nervousness.

Her heart was racing wildly, like a frantic deer crashing about.

Feeling the scorching temperature from her lips and hearing the echoes of this man's money-grubbing, duplicitous, and punchable remarks from moments ago...

A sense of security and a flutter of excitement, unlike anything she had ever felt before, surged in the depths of Xia Li's heart.

Yes.

This man was the real Lu Yuan.

He definitely wasn't that fake phantom from the illusion who only spoke sweet words and had eyes full of lust.

He was obsessed with money, he had a poisonous tongue, and he usually acted like a dense guy who didn't understand romance.

But this 'stinky block of wood' was also the man who had pulled her out of the abyss of despair time and time again.

He was the only man on this cruel wasteland who could give her an absolute sense of security.

A man who was powerful, domineering, and protective, yet still held onto his principles.

She, Xia Li, was going to have him!

Faced with this sudden forced kiss, Lu Yuan's brain rarely stalled for a second.

After coming to his senses, his instincts as someone single since birth made him subconsciously want to lean back.

Sensing Lu Yuan's retreat, how could Xia Li let him go?

She suddenly reached out her slender, fair arms and hooked them around Lu Yuan's neck, pulling his head down forcefully with irresistible strength.

Their warm, soft lips pressed even tighter together.

Lu Yuan shouted 'holy crap' in his mind.

This woman!

She's breaking the rules!

She's usually as cold as a ten-thousand-year-old ice mountain, but she's actually so lethal when she takes the initiative!

Even a clay man has three points of temper, let alone Lu Yuan, who was a normal man full of vigor.

How could he stand such a provocation?

Lu Yuan no longer retreated; he reached back and wrapped his arm around Xia Li's slender waist, pulling her forcefully into his embrace.

He lowered his head, taking the initiative to deepen the kiss.

A man's scorching aura instantly enveloped Xia Li.

Xia Li let out a soft moan, her hands that were around Lu Yuan's neck involuntarily tightening as her body pressed softly against him.

However.

At this moment of dry tinder and raging fire, when the ambiguous atmosphere had reached its peak.

The white bath towel that had barely been wrapped around her body completely lost its restraint.

It slid quietly down her jade-smooth skin.

With a soft thud, it fell to her feet.

A breathtaking mass of softness and warmth pressed tightly against Lu Yuan's chest without any barrier.

Boom!

Lu Yuan felt a string of rationality in his mind snap completely.

The blood in his entire body seemed to boil instantly, rushing to his head like a runaway horse.

His blood surged wildly!

He suddenly raised his head, ending the suffocatingly deep kiss.

Gasping for breath, Lu Yuan's gaze stared fixedly at the woman before him.

At this moment, Xia Li was no longer that high-and-mighty Ice Mountain Queen.

Her pretty face was flushed crimson, so red it seemed as if water could drip from it.

Those eyes that were usually clear, cold, and proud were now misty with water, carrying a fatal attraction and temptation.

Looking at her beautiful eyes and her currently defenseless appearance...

Lu Yuan surrendered helplessly in his heart.

He admitted it.

At this moment, he had completely fallen.

Seeing Lu Yuan's dangerous gaze that looked as if he wanted to devour her, Xia Li didn't hide; instead, she boldly pressed against him again.

She rested her burning cheek against the crook of Lu Yuan's neck.

Her gorgeous red lips slowly approached his ear.

Her breath was like orchids, her voice as faint as a mosquito's hum, yet it possessed a fatal lethality.

"I... It's my first time..."

The warm, moist breath, mixed with an intoxicating fragrance, brushed lightly against Lu Yuan's ear.

Lu Yuan's heart suddenly felt an itch, as if it had been scratched hard by a kitten's claws, an itch that reached deep into his marrow.

"Damn it!"

Lu Yuan cursed inwardly, no longer able to suppress the wicked fire in his heart.

He reached out a hand, gently pinching Xia Li's fair chin and tilting it upward slightly.

Lu Yuan looked at her with dark, brooding eyes; his gaze was dangerous to the extreme, and his voice was terrifyingly raspy.

"Little woman, you're playing with fire, you know that!"

Xia Li raised her head to meet his gaze; instead of backing down, she bit her succulent lower lip.

"What? You don't dare?"

"You're not chickening out, are you?!"

She blinked her watery eyes playfully and actually gave a charming smile full of provocation.

"Chicken out?!"

Lu Yuan's arms suddenly exerted force, and he scooped the peerless beauty in his arms up by the waist.

"You can say I'm bad at this, but you can never say I'm a chicken!!"

Carrying Xia Li, he strode to the large, soft bed.

He threw the woman in his arms onto the soft mattress.

The next moment.

Like a hungry wolf, Lu Yuan pounced without hesitation.

Their lips pressed tightly together again, as if they wanted to rub each other into their own flesh and blood.

Dry tinder and raging fire were ignited instantly.

Lu Yuan's large hands, which were usually only used to control the main cannon of a battle vehicle, became anything but well-behaved at this moment.

They wandered wantonly over Xia Li's flawless, beautiful body.

"Mm..."

Xia Li's face was flushed, and she couldn't help but let out an alluring soft moan.

Just as their breathing grew heavier and they were about to break through the final line of defense and take the last step...

"Hiss—!"

A sudden, intense tearing sensation from the depths of her soul violently pulled at Xia Li's heart.

It was as if an invisible sharp blade had ruthlessly pierced through her chest.

Xia Li, who had been immersed in passion just a second ago, turned deathly pale instantly.

She trembled violently from the pain and clutched her chest tightly!