Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School
Chapter 384: Watching a Movie, Zi Ran Gets Jealous! (Please Follow)

Chapter 384: Chapter 384: Watching a Movie, Zi Ran Gets Jealous! (Please Follow)

Ziran giggled playfully, "How about you skip the leg-touching, and I give you two hundred and forty crystal cores instead?"

Xiao Ye put on a look of righteous indignation, all serious, and said, "No way, giving you crystal cores would be a financial loss for you, and I, Xiao Ye, am not the kind of guy who’d sell his body for money."

Ziran said speechlessly, "Can you at least take your big hand off my thigh when you say that?"

Xiao Ye shook his head with determination, "Nope!"

Ziran rolled her eyes.

After Xiao Ye touched her for two hundred and forty seconds, he let Ziran move her hand off his thigh, then rushed off to the bathroom in a hurry.

He didn’t come out for twenty minutes.

Ziran’s beautiful eyes looked him up and down in surprise, "Done so soon? Didn’t Xiaobing say you take at least an hour each time?"

Xiao Ye looked confused, and said, "I just went to the bathroom, what are you talking about?"

*Looking at her face, giving him that don’t-bullshit-me look, Xiao Ye finally got it, his face darkened.* "Sister Ziran, you’re the most beautiful woman in the Imperial Capital, the Alliance Hierarch commanding dozens of Venerable Great Powers, with so much authority and prestige, *how can you be so dirty inside?*"

"I just went to the bathroom, and you still manage to think of that."

Ziran looked all puzzled and mumbled, "I learned it from artsy action movies, that shouldn’t be wrong, right?"

Xiao Ye: "..."

He gave her a thumbs up, at a loss for words, "Impressive!"

"To actually learn things from artsy action movies, Sister Ziran, you’re something else."

Ziran shook her little head, unconcerned, "No worries, I’ll have my chance to see for myself someday. I’ll know your stamina and your time for real."

*Xiao Ye’s eyes went wide, what kind of wild talk was this? That was way too fierce!*

He clutched his chest with both hands, took a step back, fully on guard, "Sister Ziran, I can’t believe this is the real you! My wife Yun Bing thinks you’re her bestie, and you’re here lusting after her man’s body!"

Ziran huffed cutely, "I’m still a pure maiden, you know? I’m giving you a deal here, you should be grateful! Hmph."

"All right, with Xiaobing gone, shouldn’t we do something?"

Xiao Ye took two more steps back, "No way, absolutely not, I have principles!"

Ziran got what he was implying, her pretty face going dark, "Don’t be gross, that kind of thing would only happen after a contract. You think I’m that easy? I’m actually a very traditional woman."

*Traditional woman? Xiao Ye looked at her lips, still swollen from kissing, and totally didn’t buy it.*

*But to make a contract with Ziran, he’d have to get Yun Bing’s okay first.*

Ziran stretched lazily, smiled with a face that could topple cities, "Okay, I’ll stop teasing you. Since Xiaobing’s not here, let’s go watch a little movie together."

*Her notebook even kept track of mutual hobbies and tiny flirtations, perfect for bringing two people closer, fast.*

*Both she and Xiao Ye liked watching artsy action flicks. She hoped watching them together would make Xiao Ye fall for her even more.*

Xiao Ye was stunned, "Watch, watch a little movie, just the two of us?"

Ziran walked lightly over, took his hand, and said with a faint smile, "Yep, just us, quit stalling—come on."

*Xiao Ye looked down, deep in thought. Was it really okay to watch a little movie with Sister Ziran?*

*What if he lost control and went full beast mode?*

Ziran pulled Xiao Ye along to the third floor of the Alliance Master’s Hall, to the private lounge area.

In the living room, she pulled all the curtains shut, so nobody outside could see a thing. The light inside went all dim and moody.

Then, Ziran pulled out a projector, and shot a beam of light right onto the curtains.

In an instant, images appeared on the curtains.

Xiao Ye and Ziran sat shoulder-to-shoulder on the couch, both pairs of eyes glued to the screen.

[AGE WARNING!]

[Under 18, please watch with an adult so as not to harm your health...]

[91 Studios]

At the top of the screen were four big characters, with lines and lines of warnings underneath.

Finally, the production studio was listed.

*Xiao Ye’s eyes got huge, thinking, It really was a little movie.*

*He’d always watched these alone, but today, he was watching with a stunner—and not just any stunner, but Ziran, the most beautiful woman in the Imperial Capital!*

*If he was being honest, he felt a bit of a thrill.*

*No, not a bit. It was super thrilling.*

Ziran’s eyes were fixed on the screen, her pretty face all excited. "Xiao Ye, this is one of my favorites. I’ve got a ton more like this. We can watch them together every single day."

*Xiao Ye was dumbstruck. Watch every day? With Ziran?*

The screen on the curtains changed, the story started, and the characters showed up.

The title was [Budding in Early Spring].

Obviously, Ziran had handpicked this flick herself.

*It totally matched her mood right now.*

Ziran laughed, "Xiao Ye, don’t you think the heroine here isn’t as hot as I used to be?"

Xiao Ye nodded, "Yeah."

Ziran wasn’t satisfied, "Okay, maybe my body isn’t as good as hers now, but that won’t always be true."

Xiao Ye nodded again, "Yeah."

She turned and saw Xiao Ye staring straight at the screen, clearly not listening to a word she said.

"Hmph!" she snorted, jealous.

Meanwhile—

In the Venerable Alliance area, a wild rumor was spreading.

"Did you hear? The Alliance Hierarch’s in love."

"Of course I heard, she’s keeping a boy toy."

"Nonsense, that’s obviously her secret lover."

"Is it? Where’d you hear that?"

"Chef Jin said it himself, so it’s got to be true!"

The patrol team stopped, gathered together all excited, chatting away.

A few Venerables walked over, heard the talk, and their faces turned all gloomy.

"If Golden Venerable said it, it’s probably legit. Ah, my goddess, my heart is broken."

"So the beauty’s finally taken, huh? The Imperial Capital’s queen has found her match."

"Heh, never thought the Alliance Hierarch would go for a pretty boy. Maybe I should look into plastic surgery?"

"Get real. You’re six and a half feet of walking muscle, with a face that scares kids. Nobody’d get close even if you did get a makeover. Guys shaped like me could actually pull off the pretty boy look!"

As time went by, the rumor kept spreading, getting crazier by the minute.

Yun Bing, holding the Alliance Leader’s Token, walked up to the towering entrance of the cultivation hall. The doors were wide open, but a crowd blocked the entry, talking animatedly about something.

*She caught bits of Alliance Hierarch and pretty boy from their chatter, making her curious.*

The Alliance Hierarch in the Venerable Alliance—wasn’t that Ziran?

She crept closer, ears straining, and what she heard next floored her!

She saw the crowd gossiping,

"Alliance Hierarch’s been taken for ages, even made a contract."

"Tell you what, I know something even hotter, they’ve already got a kid who’s a year old."

"That’s crap, it’s three kids, I swear."

*Yun Bing’s face darkened—what the hell was this?*

*Hearing the rumors get more and more ridiculous, she snapped. Venerable pressure blasting, she grabbed the Venerable who’d said the three-kid thing by the collar and demanded,*

"Who started all these rumors?"

The new junior Venerable, just joined the Alliance, gulped and panicked, "Jin Peng the Venerable said it himself! We didn’t just make it up."

"Jin—Peng?" Yun Bing gritted her teeth, forcing every word out, anger radiating.

"Huh? Who’s calling me?" A plump, squinty-eyed, middle-aged man walking down the avenue outside heard his name and stopped in his tracks.