Ch. 27: Fallen Into Corruption

Tang Hongyu glanced at Chen Fan in amusement. Then, she shook her head in fond exasperation before turning serious. She put the garment in her hands on the table and said, "So, when will you start going into seclusion?"

Chen Fan also became serious and put on a contemplative face. He soon answered, "Tonight, after dinner."

Conflicted emotions flashed in her eyes for a moment before Tang Hongyu managed to calm down. She simply replied, "I see…"

Inwardly, she pondered, 'Maybe, this will create some distance between us. I can also use the time to sort out my problem.'

Chen Fan knew what Tang Hongyu was thinking but didn't let it bother him. He knew that the seed had been planted and was rooted in her heart.

Tang Hongyu might not know it, but it was impossible for her to free herself from his grip.

After that, Chen Fan tidied the table and then cooked dinner. He and Tang Hongyu then had dinner together.

…

After dinner, Chen Fan parted away from Tang Hongyu and got out of his log house. He didn't forget to transmit some tricks with Qi to help her with daily activities.

Chen Fan went to his rock and sat cross-legged there. He then cut off himself from the outside world and focused inward.

He planned to develop his dantian to the absolute limit before merging them into one core.

And so, Chen Fan began his cultivation montage.

As Chen Fan was cut off from the outside world, Tang Hongyu stayed where she sat. She blankly stared at the wooden ceiling as she tried and failed to sort out her problem.

"This is useless," she muttered and sighed faintly.

Since she couldn't easily sort out her problem, she decided to focus on cultivating. She practiced for some time before stopping.

"It's late, huh?" She paused for a moment and remembered Chen Fan. Her conflicted feelings, which she'd pushed aside when practiced, finally resurfaced.

"Is he really going to stay outside?" She wondered loudly.

Despite her inner conflict, she still felt concerned. Therefore, she decided to check him and then got out of the log house.

She stopped at the door and watched Chen Fan meditating on a big rock.

Outside was dark, though not pitch black because of the soft light of the moons.

Glancing at the moons in the sky, Tang Hongyu couldn't help marveling at the strange sight. Since she'd grown up on Earth that only had one satellite, seeing more than one moon was odd.

She dismissed that thought and turned her head to Chen Fan. As she watched him from her place, she couldn't help falling into a daze.

An otherworldly handsome man meditating with a serene expression on top of the rock with soft light from three moons illuminating the magnificent scenery was like a picturesque painting. It moved her heart.

She couldn't help but immerse herself in this picturesque image and stood there dazedly for a while. When she woke up from her trance, she shook her head and sighed deeply.

"How could I sort out my problem if watching him makes my untoward feelings get stronger?" She lamented softly.

She felt like her future was bleak. She subconsciously thought that she couldn't sort out this mess.

She then turned around and entered the house, after which she calmly walked into her room. After entering her room, she decided to sleep.

…

The following day, Tang Hongyu woke up early.

After her lower dantian was unlocked and accommodating her unused refined Qi, her Qi was passively nourishing and strengthening her body. This made her more energetic from whence she was an ordinary person.

She began her day by washing her face in the bathroom. At this moment, she realized that she forgot to request a mirror towards Chen Fan.

'Forget it. It's not like I'm going to die without a mirror in my life,' she dismissed her concern and finished washing her face.

Her next activity was preparing breakfast for herself. However, she remembered that she didn't know how to start a fire with her Qi. She hadn't practiced conjuring flame yet.

"Should I skip breakfast?" She contemplated carefully.

Fortunately, her Qi passively enhanced her condition, so only eating a modest breakfast was enough for her. In fact, she didn't feel hungry at this moment.

In the end, she decided to skip breakfast, after which she started practicing how to conjure flame. She decided to practice outside because the house was made from wood.

She didn't want to accidentally burn the place where she lived. She also didn't want to make Chen Fan angry or disappointed towards her.

Remembering the source of her inner conflict, she felt a phantom ache in her chest, but she ignored it and then got out of the house.

But…

"Ah, how careless," she lamented with a bitter tone when she accidentally saw Chen Fan on top of the rock.

She forcefully turned away her attention and went to empty space in the front yard. She deliberately gave Chen Fan her back, so she wouldn't see him and lost her focus.

And so, Tang Hongyu practiced flame conjuration. She stopped when it was lunchtime and then entered the house without glancing at Chen Fan.

She didn't dare look at him. She was afraid that her emotions would get the better of her and make her problem worse.

At lunch, she grilled some meat with herbs and spices as condiments for her lunch. After lunch, she went back to training. This time, she only ironed the kinks in her skills.

When the sky got dark, she stopped training and entered the house, not even once glancing in Chen Fan's direction. She then took a bath.

After taking a bath, she decided to wear a pink-purple robe and then prepared a modest dinner for herself. After dinner was over, she returned to her room and began cultivating for a couple of hours before going to sleep.

The next several days were repetitive for Tang Hongyu.

Woke up early, had a modest breakfast, polished her skill until lunchtime, had a modest lunch, made underwear and other garments until dinner, had dinner, cultivated after dinner, and finally slept after cultivating.

Making clothes, practicing her skills, and cultivating had become her go-to activities. There were no recreational activities like reading magazines or watching TV shows in this place.

It sucked!

But, she had to suck it and continue living on…

Actually, she could tend the gardens. However, she didn't do it because she would be in the vicinity of Chen Fan.

Chen Fan was something that drove her mad. She knew that it was wrong for her to have feelings for him, but she was helpless against her growing feelings.

The harder she tried to crush her feelings, the stronger it came back. She'd given up crushing her feelings and decided to ignore them.

Indeed, she drowned herself in her activities to forget her growing feelings for Chen Fan.

And so, a week passed since Chen Fan started cultivating.

For a week he didn't move even slightly. He was like a statue.

But, this wasn't about Chen Fan. This was about Tang Hongyu who spent a week alone.

Being an experienced woman who was also lonely and stressed, she needed relief.

Even though she was aware of her husband's flaws, they still had a healthy marriage, meaning that they were quite active at night. Mostly, Tang Hongyu was the one who took initiative.

However, it has been more than a week since she could scratch her itch. Now that she was overly stressed and lonely, she couldn't endure the urge to relieve herself any longer.

And so, on the eighth night since Chen Fan had gone to cultivate, she decided to get some relief.

She didn't cultivate after dinner. Instead, she laid her body on the bed and began pleasuring herself…

"Oh, ahh, mhm, yes~♡!"

Sweet, seductive moans resounded in the small room as Tang Hongyu pleasured herself. She looked disheveled, and her robe was loose and showing parts of her sexy body.

Her left hand was furiously massaging her breast and tweaking her stiff nipple while her other hand was moving between her thighs, her middle and ring fingers digging out her feminine hole that oozes fragrant juice.

Her face was sweaty and so red. Her misty eyes blinked hard. Her white teeth were sensually chewing her glossy pink lower lip.

If a straight and healthy man saw her at her current state, their self-control would be tested. She was too sexy and ravishing.

"Haishan, there, ahh~♡! Yes! Oh, ahh~♡!"

Tang Hongyu was imagining her husband as she pleasured herself. As a married woman, it was only right if she used her husband for something like this.

However, as lust turned her mind hazy, the image of her husband got replaced by the otherworldly handsome man that had been torturing her conscience in the past week.

"Fan! Oh, ahh, ah~♡! Fan, that's it~♡!"

Immersed in ecstasy, she wasn't in a sound mind. If she wasn't in this state, she wouldn't allow herself to use Chen Fan as her masturbation material.

Her morals wouldn't allow it!

And yet, she felt her climax was approaching quickly as she imagined Chen Fan. Her feelings for him had taken root in her heart and subconscious mind that using Chen Fan's image got her turned on more than her own husband's.

"Oh~♡! Fan! I'm going to cum! Fan, make me cum! Fan, Fan, Fan~♡! I'm cumming~♡!"

Finally, Tang Hongyu climaxed. Her body shook violently as she reached her climax.

She lay there absentmindedly as she savored the afterglow of her orgasm. But soon enough, she regained her clarity and remembered what had happened.

Her lips quivered, and her eyes became red and wet. She bit her lower lips and covered her eyes with one hand.

She felt so horrible because she'd crossed the line and used her Sworn Sister's son, a boy she swore to take care of as her own son, as the object of her masturbation.