Edited by Rinrin
The first part of this chapter is probably a bit of an uncomfortable read so brace yourself.
Shan Ziwei closed his eyes, not just to activate his invisibility skill, but also to reduce his own stress and anxiety.
The other’s form was blurred in the darkness, but it created a different sort of tension. His somewhat quickened breath brushed across the other’s face, rebounding off gently with a soft, milky aroma and filled his nose.
Shan Ziwei clenched his jaw, quickly lowering his head and intending to finish this fast.
Yet, reality was cruel.
Since he couldn’t see anything with his eyes closed and had lowered his head so quickly, he didn’t manage to hit his target all. The tip of his nose collided with something soft and his lips pressed against the area just under the child’s lips, against the other’s delicate, small chin.
For a second, Shan Ziwei could hear the sound of his brain leaking out of his ears.
The unexpected result messed up his rhythm. Shan Ziwei was struck dumb, his mind in chaos: kiss the little princess then leave, immediately —— he had already kissed so he should leave now —— but he had only kissed the chin that probably didn’t meet the requirements —— so should he leave or not ——
What a disaster.
During this deadlock, Shan Ziwei’s mouth remained pressed against the little princess’ chin, completely immersing himself in this experience. Soon enough, their area of contact was stained with the taste of their body heat. A certain hypersexual’s shameless body was unsurprisingly lit up by the contact. Now, Shan Ziwei no longer felt like his brain was leaking out his ears, but boiling instead.
The little princess’ skin was as smooth and soft as it had looked to be, and felt like smooth milk pudding against his lips. Shan Ziwei suppressed the urge to lick that skin. His mind stood on a morally high ground yelling STOP, but his body desired more of this wonderful experience. As a result of this conflict, Shan Ziwei opened his mouth slightly, his tongue against his lips, hesitating to come out.
… Fuck!
Shan Ziwei bit down on the tip of his disobedient tongue, doing his best to think amidst the pain and pleasure: even after being molested by him like this, the little princess didn’t react at all. It seemed like this AoE sleep skill still hadn’t been deactivated. “Kiss” had to be a proper, complete “kiss”, that meant that he should immediately, instantly, move his lips upwards and swiftly put an end to this mistake!
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Their lips, having missed each other, now pressed together before separating.
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Invisibility made him no longer visible, but it didn’t mean he had actually disappeared. Though he couldn’t be seen, he could still be touched. When Shan Ziwei was about to straighten up and silently catch his breath, he felt his clothes tighten with the force of a touch, gripped and pulled. There were only two living beings in the room, so it was clear who was the culprit. Half of Shan Ziwei’s soul left his body from the fright and his breath lodged in his throat for a moment, tainted with noise. No matter how hard he attempted to suppress it, it still came out as a raspy cough.
“Cough…”
There was a moment of silence and not only did Shan Ziwei freeze, the little princess also stopped in her exploration of the dress she had grasped. Shan Ziwei forcibly suppressed the urge to open his eyes and look towards the child. He was still currently invisible though his cough had completely exposed his existence.
It wasn’t Shan Ziwei who broke the silence first.
“Ghost…”
Shan Ziwei’s heart jumped. He heard the little princess use that sweet, soft and childlike voice to ask, “Are you a Ghost?”
In reality, the entire sentence was spoken by the little princess in English, then translated into a language Shan Ziwei could understand by the system. However, the word “Ghost” was very special to Shan Ziwei, so when he heard it, his first reaction wasn’t the given translation, but the name he used online in the past. With this connection made, the little princess’ words had Shan Ziwei feeling seeped in a confused vortex of anachronism.
——Why are you called Ghost?
——Because I live like a ghost in real life…
The little princess asked, are you a Ghost?
“… I am.”
Shan Ziwei lowered his voice, replying raspily. The confusion caused by the familiar term was quickly suppressed. The reason he replied this way was because being a “ghost” was currently the best explanation, and it was useful for his plans.
To put it simply, this hypersexual was going to pretend to be a wolf to scare this kid.
“I’ll eat the person who catches me.”
His purposefully raspy voice spread eerily throughout the room. Shan Ziwei immediately felt the little princess let go of his dress in fear. Though this was nothing to be proud of, Shan Ziwei couldn’t help the smile that touched his lips. He was about to continue convincing (read: tricking) the kid when he heard the little princess’ soft voice ask yet another question.
“Mr. Ghost, did you kiss me just now?”
Shan Ziwei was struck dumb by this question. Had he not retreated fast enough just now? He couldn’t believe he was found out!
Panic and embarrassment welled up inside as if he had been caught sneaking into the girl’s bathroom. He quickly converted that embarrassment into energy, using a forceful tone to cover up the panic inside as he said to the kid, “I was sucking out your soul!”
The little princess gave a soft gasp. Shan Ziwei heard surprise in her tone as well as revelation, but the key factor of fear was missing.
“Mr. Ghost…”
The child’s soft, sweet voice melted into the air like sugar. Shan Ziwei’s eyelid spasmed for a moment and he almost opened his eyes, but quickly slammed them fully shut again before anything could happen.
What made Shan Ziwei almost lose it in surprise was what the little princess said afterwards. “You can kiss me again.”
Even in the darkness behind his closed eyelids, Shan Ziwei could imagine the little princess with her head raised, revealing her small, cute face. Tidal waves of shock struck his heart. It took him a moment to find his voice, mindlessly repeating, “I was sucking out your soul…”
“I know,” The little princess chirped, like a faithful martyr loyal to her god.
Shan Ziwei tried to suppress it, but the question blurted out. “Why?”
This time, it was the child who was confused. “But don’t you need souls?”
Now Shan Ziwei understood. The princess here was a self-sacrificing, pure hearted, kind and helpless little white lotus. Completely unsarcastically and unironically. So there was no need to be so shocked. He just had to follow the little princess’ simple logic of “kiss = saving people with her soul”.
“And plus, I like your kisses.”
Shan Ziwei had just mentally fortified himself when he received another critical blow from the little princess. Just as Shan Ziwei’s mind blanked, the little princess’ soft and sorrowful voice came from behind. “After mother left, no one kisses me anymore.”
There was an oil painting hanging on the wall of the little princess’ bedroom with a family of three painted: a strict king, a beautiful queen and a cute little princess. It was this painting that allowed Shan Ziwei to confirm the little princess’ identity and, at the same time, find out about his rather interesting position —— the king getting married was the king in the painting, but the queen getting married wasn’t the one in the painting. A beautiful woman with the same elegant black hair as the little princess sat demurely upon the seat, her delicate features tainted with a frail, sickly aura. She wasn’t the proud white-haired queen on the marriage oil painting at all.
Considering the beginning of the storybook, it was clear that Shan Ziwei’s character was an outsider who intruded upon this family of three, the legendary “step-mom”. The original queen was no longer here for some reason —— probably died of illness, considering her oil painting. In any case, the king had taken him, this “new queen”, as a wife. This new queen hadn’t even taken her position for a day yet. The reason Shan Ziwei didn’t want to reveal himself to the princess wasn’t just because of his ungentlemanly behaviour, but also because he still hadn’t figured out the relationship he had with the princess yet. If he just suddenly appeared in front of the princess all willy-nilly, he felt the plot would collapse…
But really, the plot had already basically collapsed, hadn’t it? _(:з」∠)_
Shan·Queen·Stepmom·Wei felt his stress mounting like never before. Even though he couldn’t see it, Shan Ziwei could feel the little princess’ hopeful, teary gaze, clearly expressing “do with me what you may”. Shan Ziwei swallowed thickly. He didn’t even need to pretend his throat was raspy anymore.
“… The sunlight is too strong.” Shan Ziwei said in a low tone, “Go and close the curtains, then I’ll have the strength to kiss, the-the strength to suck out your soul.”
“Okay~”
The little princess’ voice was filled with delight, dragging out that last syllable with a soft sweetness like fluffy candy floss. Shan Ziwei heard her little leather shoes hit the ground, clicking against the floor as she ran to the other side of the room.
Ready? Go!
Shan Ziwei opened his eyes and glanced at the child’s retreating form. Quickly locating the door in relation to his current position. He turned without hesitation, lifted his skirts, and began walking towards the door in big steps while keeping an eye on the little princess. If the child ever showed the sign of turning around, he would immediately close his eyes and halt his steps. An so the elderly queen (two-hundred and thirty-three years old) indulged the young princess in this game of What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf?
As soon as he was out of the room, Shan Ziwei ran as fast as he could, going up several floors in one go. It was only when he was absolutely certain that there was no chance the little princess could catch up to him that Shan Ziwei stopped. He held the wall for support, barely getting the chance to catch his breath when he heard a shocked cry of “Your highness!”
Shan Ziwei turned his head to see a guard staring at him wide eyed. It took a him a good while before he connected what the guard had said to his current identity, and by then, a huge swathe of people had already surrounded him noisily.
“We’ve found her highness!”
“Your highness, are you alright——”
Aaahhh sorry this chap was late by like half an hour orz, I got distracted and mistakenly thought I had alr scheduled this chapter orz
AKWARD! This arc is gonna be a wild ride…
Especially for Shanzi, our poor MC is stressed already lol
Thanks for the chapter! (о´∀`о)
thank you for the chapter!
oof I don’t think that’s the kind of kisses you want from your mother dear ML (at least I think (s)he is?)
Thanks for the chapter! 💕
Everyone appreciates kisses from our protagonist♡
Thanks for the chapter!
hahaha poor Sheni being a hypersexual sure is hard 😂😂😂 I’m exited to see how will our dear certain hypersexual deal with the princesses~
Thank you for the chapter!!!~~
Am I the only one uncomfortable? The author just sexualized a little girl🙁🤢
I mean, yeah, it’s uncomfortable to read tbh, never mind to translate. I personally don’t think the author sexualised her, but I did put the warning there because SZW’s condition can definitely make it discomforting even if he doesn’t hold that kind of mentality. You should probably skip this arc if you get really weirded out by it.
It’s almost like I can hear Gaia in the background demanding more kisses. Doesn’t matter what avatar he’s using, Shanzi must kiss and keep kissing, damn it! Poor guy, his hyper sexuality is truly a scourge.
Uh, yea.. this was an awkward chapter…