The following day was a horrible one for Tang Hongyu.
Filled with intense guilt and self-loathing, she decided to lock herself in her room.
She knew that it wasn't how she should deal with her problem, but she couldn't help it. She was mentally drained.
Instead of feeling relaxed after relieving herself, she felt the opposite.
The kicker was that her menstruation cycle started on the same day, so she was so cranky and stressed out.
She stayed in her room for the next couple of days. She only got out when she was hungry.
She needed her peace, security, and comfort to sort out through everything. It wasn't something that she couldn't put aside anymore.
On the fifth day after what she dubbed as 'the night of the accident,' Tang Hongyu finally accepted that she'd gone too far. She couldn't return back anymore, so she accepted her feelings for Chen Fan after a long and careful consideration.
Although Jiang Haishan was her legitimate husband, her heart yearned for Chen Fan and only him. If she previously could tolerate Jiang Haishan's existence because of his status as her husband, right now she could only think of him as her daughter's father and no more.
She couldn't think of Jiang Haishan like before she accepted her feelings for Chen Fan. Just imagining Jiang Haishan touch her intimately made her feel unwilling.
Right, she had accepted it. There was no turning back from this.
However…
"What would Fan think about this?"
In her room, Tang Hongyu mumbled absently.
She was lying in her bed while hugging a silk-covered pillow. She let her hair loose and unkempt, which made it look like perpetual messy bed hair.
She only wore a simple white babydoll made from silk that hugged her mature charming body sensually. This sexy underwear was something that she'd made in her free time.
With her melancholic face, her appearance could make a man lose his mind and be filled with lust. This was the destructive charm of a mature woman, something that female teenagers lack.
Back to her problem, although she'd accepted her feelings for Chen Fan, she was unsure of how Chen Fan would react. Her thoughts were split in two on this matter.
A part of her wished for Chen Fan to reject her feelings. If he rejects her feelings, she may experience heartbreak, but she can recover and move on with life.
However, another part of her wanted his acceptance. In fact, this desire was stronger than her other desire for rejection.
She came to this conclusion because of many things — her dissatisfaction with Jiang Haishan, Chen Fan's charm, and crossing the line several nights ago — compounded into one. If it weren't for those things, she might still be denying her feelings and agonizing inside silently.
She sighed faintly and then muttered to herself, "I will wait until Fan is done. Then, we will talk."
Her mind made up, she stayed like that for a while. She then thought of another matter and asked herself, "How should I face Sister Xiaoyun? What will I tell Ranran? How about Haishan?"
She contemplated for a while before getting her answer. "I will think about my problem with Sister Xiaoyun and Ranran after hearing Chen Fan's answer. About Haishan, there's nothing to consider, isn't there? I don't have feelings for him anymore. I even have a plan to divorce him after Ranran is old enough to live without parental support."
She nodded to herself and then left her bed.
"I have been in a slump. I need to get fresh air," she muttered under her breath as she walked to the bathroom.
A while later, she exited the bathroom. She moved her naked body towards the wooden wardrobe in the room. She then took a look at her garments before choosing one with light blue and dark blue color combinations. After that, she picked fresh underwear and then put on her clothes.
When she exited her room, she looked like a new person. It was as if her previous slump was only an illusion.
She went to the kitchenette to prepare a light meal, after which she ate silently. She then went out to see the source of her problem in the past few days.
When she glanced at Chen Fan, he was still meditating on a rock. He looked like a statue because he hadn't moved since he started days ago.
After short consideration, she decided to watch Chen Fan's otherworldly handsome face. She got a stool from the house and put it under a shade of a tree in the yard, after which she sat on it, rested her elbows on her lap, put her chin on her palms, and then watched the meditating Chen Fan.
A moment later, she fell into a daze. She was missing him so much, but she forced herself not to stare at him.
When she finally looked at Chen Fan without holding back, her mind immersed into his extremely charming appearance. She stopped staring at him when the day slowly turned to dusk.
She entered the house and prepared dinner for herself. After dinner, she continued her cultivation which was halted due to her previous unstable mental state.
Surprisingly, she found that her cultivation was smoother compared to before she accepted her feelings for Chen Fan. She cultivated a few hours before going to sleep.
…
Days had come and gone. Tang Hongyu returned to her normal schedule after sorting out her problem.
Three weeks had passed since she accepted her feelings for Chen Fan. In these weeks, she'd successfully opened her middle dantian and was in the process of increasing her Cultivation Base to open her upper dantian.
On one night, when Tang Hongyu was…busy comforting herself in her room…
Chen Fan finally finished cultivating. He'd successfully combined his three dantian into one core after developing them to the absolute limit.
Sure enough, this core manifested in his body as a golden orb with the size of a thumb. It was located between his lungs.
This golden core acted as a self perpetual engine that produced Qi. Of course, the output was limited, but this disadvantage wasn't applied to Chen Fan because of the Cosmic Brick.
He was now at the True Completion of the Dao Body, which meant that he was equal to the Peak Golden Core Cultivators and Celestial Immortal Martial Artists. However, his nameless masterpiece had reached its limit, so he had to upgrade it to help him reach the peak of the Dao Spirit.
That wasn't a problem for him. He'd time to upgrade his nameless cultivation method.
"Around a month, huh?" Chen Fan remarked softly.
He'd been cultivating for around a month. This time was mostly spent developing his three dantian.
Before combining them, Chen Fan developed them until they became extremely vast. Calling the vastness like an ocean was an insult. However, it wasn't as vast as the universe of the Cosmic Brick.
Although he couldn't develop his dantian to be as vast as the universe of the Cosmic Brick, this didn't bother him. He knew that when he entered the Transcendent Stage, he could expand his inner world until it reached the size of the universe.
That aside, after forming his core, the time dilation effect had expanded to ten thousand hours. He'd one year to spend with Tang Hongyu in this universe.
Chen Fan stopped thinking about his cultivation and gain. He'd been overworking himself and it was time to relax.
'Now, I can focus on conquering Hongyu,' he mused in his head and then spread out his Divine Sense to check that lovely MILF.
However, he was speechless when he found out what Tang Hongyu was doing in her room.
…
"Fan~♡! Oh, ahh, ah~♡!"
In her room, Tang Hongyu was comforting herself. She seductively called out to Chen Fan as she imagined his otherworldly handsome face.
"Fan, that's it~♡! Oh~♡! Fan, I'm going to cum~♡! Fan, Fan~♡!"
Finally, Tang Hongyu climaxed. Her body shook violently as she reached her climax.
She lied there absentmindedly as she savored the afterglow of her orgasm. Even so, a part of her was dissatisfied. She wanted the real thing!
Suddenly, the door was knocked.
"Auntie Tang, I'm going in."
She heard Chen Fan's voice, returned to her senses, and lost her composure. She didn't expect that Chen Fan was done with his cultivation.
"Wait! S-Stop! D-Don't go in!" She shouted and spluttered.
Although she had accepted her feelings for Chen Fan and planned to talk with him, this was too sudden. She wasn't ready!
However, Chen Fan ignored her and entered the room. Tang Hongyu immediately hid her disheveled state with the blanket, but from Chen Fan's teasing grin and knowing look, she knew that she was busted.