Chapter 2: Undercurrents

The full moon hung bright, cold light pouring down.

The bustling Di'an City was under strict curfew tonight. The city lay silent, its streets and market quarters completely empty, with only the occasional watchman's call echoing now and then.

A chill wind swept through the night. A figure in a black robe flickered across the street like a wandering ghost, and in just a moment he appeared before a tall, old-fashioned building. Hanging above it was a plaque carved with gilt characters: Tianyi Chamber of Commerce. He passed a jade token through the crack in the door. In no time at all, the gate creaked open just enough for one person to slip through. He darted inside, and the door closed again as if no one had ever come.

The man seemed to have planned this long ago. He made his way with practiced ease through the elaborate and luxurious corridor, then arrived at a delicate, secluded courtyard in the inner residence. Only then did he stop and pull back the hood from his head, revealing that it was none other than the fat man beside Xu Ping'an during the day!!

He had just raised a hand to knock when the door opened by itself. A soft, seductive voice came mixed with laughter: “What is it? Why aren’t you coming in?”

Gu Jingzhou swallowed and stepped inside.

On the right side of the room, a small incense burner with cloud patterns was still smoking sandalwood. On the vermilion desk lay half a sheet of paper, the ink still wet. A half tree of peach blossoms leaned in through the window, its pink buds trembling in the wind with a faint, sweet fragrance. A jade-white snake with silver scales was lazily coiled on a peach branch, its dark green eyes watching this uninvited guest with a cold, lingering stare. Curtains embroidered with peony motifs draped over the bed completely, but through the moonlight one could vaguely make out a graceful figure lying on her side inside, a cigarette holder between her fingers. Wisps of smoke drifted out from between the curtains.

Gu Jingzhou did not hesitate in the slightest. He dropped straight to one knee and said respectfully, “Miss, I have not failed you.”

His fat body trembled faintly with excitement, his gaze flickering nonstop as he stole glances at the scenery behind the curtains, then at the white snake staring at him. He shrank back a little, as if afraid.

“Mm, well done. The Xu family didn’t suspect you, did they?”

The lazy voice from behind the curtains was drenched in a charm that could steal a person’s soul.

“Don’t worry, Miss. Absolutely not.” Gu Jingzhou hurried to assure her, lowering his head further before continuing, “Congratulations, Miss. That woman surnamed Qin can never threaten you again inside the alliance.”

“Heh.” The bead curtain shifted as the woman let out a soft laugh. “How do you know those old fossils at the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower won’t ransom her back?”

“I...” Gu Jingzhou was momentarily at a loss for words. He was not part of the merchant alliance, so of course he had no way of knowing what kind of standing that woman surnamed Qin had in the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower.

“Forget it. It was only worth a try in the first place. That woman would be best off crippled. Even if she doesn’t die, that’s fine too.” The woman behind the curtain did not make things difficult for him. Her tone was relaxed, and she took another drag from the cigarette holder as though she did not care at all.

“Yes, yes, yes. Miss is wise.” Gu Jingzhou hurried to echo her.

Only after he said that did he finally fail to hold back any longer. He lifted his head slightly and glanced once before his throat bobbed. Carefully, he tested the waters: “Then, Miss... the thing you promised me?”

“Heh heh, you fat dog, what’s the hurry? You’re that impatient?”

The woman gave a coquettish laugh. Her figure shifted, and the room’s atmosphere of desire grew thicker. Her voluptuous curves could be seen swaying faintly, full of seductive allure.

Gu Jingzhou swallowed hard. His cock stirred slightly below his robes as he nodded again and again. “Miss’s beauty is unmatched under heaven. That woman surnamed Qin may be called one of the merchant alliance’s two peerless beauties together with you, but in my eyes she can’t even compare to you by a fraction.”

That line clearly amused the woman. She laughed until her whole body shook, then said coyly, “You fat bastard really do know how to flatter people. But...”

Her tone changed abruptly, turning ice-cold. “If I find out you’ve had any contact with that woman surnamed Qin...”

Gu Jingzhou felt his consciousness locked onto by her divine sense. The white snake also let out a chilling hiss, and the threat of death made all the hair on his body stand up and his back go cold. He hurriedly lowered his head and slammed it heavily to the floor. “This one wouldn’t dare!”

The woman changed the subject again, her voice turning light and alluring once more. “Hehe, I’m only teasing you, little fat one. This young mistress values her reputation above all else. Come to the bedside.”

The moment those words fell, not only did Gu Jingzhou breathe a sigh of relief, but the lust that had never died within him surged out even more violently. His breathing turned rough at once, and he practically crawled to the bedside on hands and knees, staring tightly at the edge of the white curtain.

The woman laughed softly a few times and lifted one corner of the curtain. Then a pair of fair, soft, breathtakingly beautiful legs extended out. The knees were gentle in their curve, the lines full and lush, like a pair of exquisite ornaments carved from fine sheep-fat jade. But what was most enough to set the blood boiling was the delicate jade foot beneath the red thread tied around her slender ankle. The instep rose high, the skin was smooth and fine as ice jade, faint blue veins showing through here and there. Her ten toes were long and neat, even the nails trimmed clear and round, coated in a purple-red polish. They curled faintly in shy fashion, the arch of the foot elongated and gathered, the sole blushing pink with a hint of red, so tender it seemed water could be squeezed from it. Under the moonlight it shone with an alluring luster. Looking deeper, one could even see the blurred dark shadow leaking through the lace cutout panties at the root of her thighs, and Gu Jingzhou’s eyes went wide at once, his cock growing even hotter below.

“Good little dog, lick it~”

Her two white, bare legs parted slightly and nudged forward, as though deliberately teasing him. One foot touched lightly against his lips, while the other jade foot rubbed circles against his chest. As she lifted that jade foot slightly, the two petals of pale, supple ass flesh beneath it became faintly visible.

The tingling pleasure was almost driving him insane. With her permission, he immediately opened his mouth and eagerly took the exquisite little foot in front of him, flower-bud delicate as it was, greedily savoring the long-awaited delicacy.

His thick tongue scraped over every inch of the white jade toes, through every gap between them, licking up that dizzyingly sweet fragrance as though he wanted to swallow the whole foot down.

“You really like this young mistress’s feet that much? Mm?” The woman seemed amused by his starving expression, and with his hot breaths blowing more and more urgently over the sensitive instep, the wet heat of his tongue bringing a prickly tickle that made her breathe softly again and again.

The mouthful of sucking sounds he made were wet and loud, his fat tongue seeming to target the most sensitive spots on purpose. One moment he was curling around and sucking on her toes, the next he was massaging the soft, sticky-white sole, pressing and prodding the sensitive spot in the middle of her foot.

“Fat bastard, gentler... mm... it itches...”

At that moment, Gu Jingzhou’s world held only those slender lotus feet. The tip of his nose was filled with the rich fragrance unique to the woman in front of him, and the greed in his eyes did not fade in the slightest. He reached out and grabbed the other teasing beauty’s foot, pressing the wet, glistening foot in his mouth together with it against his face and rubbing madly, reveling in the overwhelming satisfaction, while broken moans spilled from his mouth: “Ah... Miss’s feet... so soft... so tender... ah...”

“Mm... mm...”

The woman let out a string of sweet moans, allowing him to kiss and lick as he pleased. Every lick of that thick tongue over the sensitive center of her foot sent a shudder through her, like a cat clawing at her heart, until she could not help but gasp in pure, soul-stealing pleasure.

Gu Jingzhou did not spare a single inch of skin on those beautiful feet. He slowly licked from the long forefoot to the smooth heel, as flawless as a peeled egg. There was not a trace of dead skin on those perfect jade feet; they were smooth as silk and brocade. When his tongue curled around them, the tender flesh sank and sprang back, shimmering with wet light.

The white snake stayed quietly on the branch, its green eyes flashing with a cold gleam as it watched this obscene scene in silence.

The woman seemed to have had enough play. She withdrew one jade foot from his mouth, making him freeze, his brow knitting almost imperceptibly. But that beautiful foot did not withdraw. It slid downward across his clothes and finally came to rest against the bulge of the little tent below his waist. She smiled seductively. “What? You only want to lick feet? Aren’t you going to play with anything else?”

Gu Jingzhou’s mind went buzzing. The fire of lust felt like it was about to blow the top of his head off, his heart nearly leaping out of his chest. He felt as if that vixen was driving him insane. He hurriedly begged, “Yes, I want to. I want to play, Miss... uh...”

The tender foot resting against his groin had already trapped the rigid thing between two toes, rubbing and sliding it lightly through the fabric. It felt wonderfully comfortable at once.

“Hehe, little fat one, that thing really is hard.”

Her left foot did not stop either. She stepped on his face, pushing her toes into his mouth and matching the teasing of his tongue, while her right foot exerted a little more force, pinning the hard shaft into a dent as it rubbed over the fabric with a faint rustling sound. Like a fox spirit, she deliberately ground hard over the rounded glans, then suddenly clamped down and fiercely crushed the sensitive ridge below it, making his fat body tremble nonstop. The slit at the tip was stimulated until it kept oozing fluid, even soaking a small patch of his trousers.

“Why haven’t you taken your pants off yet?”

The woman seemed unsatisfied. With his trousers still on, it was nothing but scratching an itch through the boot, and it simply could not bring the man beneath her to climax.

Gu Jingzhou had already been stirred to a beastly pitch, his eyes bloodshot and nearly rabid. Clenching his teeth, he grabbed his waistband and in just a couple of motions tore off his trousers along with his underwear. A fishy, musky odor instantly filled the air. The short, fat little worm with its foreskin popped out at once. Set atop a messy patch of dark pubic hair was a thick, short, fully rigid hooded cock, trembling faintly from his extreme excitement and standing out with a few thin blue veins. Judging by eye, it was only about twelve or thirteen centimeters long, and the open slit at the tip was already wet and slick.

“Hehe, little fat one, how is your thing as fat as you are?”

While teasing him, the young mistress lightly touched the hot short cock with her foot. The slightly cool sensation made Gu Jingzhou shiver, even as he sucked and licked the beautiful foot in his mouth while his little eyes locked desperately on that soft pink-orange lotus foot.

Then that beautiful foot moved like a spirit snake. First it stepped lightly, then deftly peeled back the sticky foreskin, revealing the pink glans that had been protected all these years. The young mistress gave a soft laugh, as if she had found something fun, and deliberately used the soft forefoot to step on that extremely sensitive glans, pressing it down onto his fat lower belly and applying a little force.

“Ah... Miss...”

Gu Jingzhou was so worked up that his face kept twitching. His tender glans, exposed beneath the foreskin, was like his own gate, and that fatal beautiful foot stomped and kneaded it, sending wave after wave of sour, numbing pleasure straight to the top of his head. He was almost about to spill.

He clenched his teeth and forcibly suppressed the urge to cum. He did not want to make a fool of himself in front of his Miss. But that beautiful foot had already begun working along the ridge of his glans. The tiny, slender toes seemed to know exactly where to drive him mad, and with practiced familiarity they prodded into the fragile seam of flesh, stirring and rubbing nonstop.

“Ah...” He trembled all over as though struck by thousands upon thousands of electric currents, his entire body twitching uncontrollably. The gate inside him flew wide open, and streams of hot, thick semen shot out from the slit, splashing over her beautiful foot and calf.

He collapsed to the floor, panting hard, his gaze unfocused, and the cock between his legs was visibly going limp.

“Fat bastard, you’re no good. Have you been playing with women too much?”

The young mistress seemed not to have had her fill yet. She pulled the little foot from his mouth and spoke with a hint of sighing reproach, though it was clearly just to provoke him. Her voice turned even more wanton. “Can you still get it up? If not, don’t force yourself~”

“Of course I can, Miss. For a beauty like you, I could cum as many times as you want.” Gu Jingzhou gritted his teeth and immediately seized the two beautiful feet that were about to withdraw. Secretly circulating his inner power, he forced the dick that had nearly shriveled into a ball to swell and harden again, slowly standing up straight.

He lifted his upper body and, gripping both beautiful feet, used the soles to clamp his thick, hard cock. Starting from the glans, he slowly slid downward. He did not dare make any large movements, afraid he would shoot again in an instant, so he could only rub and squeeze as gently as possible.

The crystal-clear, pink tender feet, the translucent nails, and the soft pink, supple soles formed a stark contrast against the black, thick shaft.

Wave after wave of soft, delicious pleasure jolted his whole body into violent trembling. His eyes rolled faintly white. The two tender jade feet he held had become slightly swollen and red, and the half-dried semen clinging to them was rubbed against the shaft as they ground softly, making obscene wet sounds.

“Mm... ah...”

But the young mistress would not indulge him. Every time she passed over the ridge of the glans, she deliberately rubbed it from front to back with her little feet, the delicate skin scraping over the sensitive seam in repeated strokes. She even used her nails to dig in and scratch it, pressing and grinding harder whenever she met the raised veins!

“Ah... Miss... don’t...”

Caught off guard, Gu Jingzhou was stimulated again until his whole body shook. It was as if a bowstring that had been slowly drawn tight was now being forced all the way back by brute strength, faintly close to snapping. His waist and hips locked tight, muscles contracting as he tried with all his strength to recover control and keep himself from cumming, but with her nimble kneading and rubbing, those two jade feet were like butterflies in flight, drawing out strands of silver threads, dancing and then pressing and grinding hard again. The irregular rhythm kept yanking his heart up and dropping it down again and again. Every strike landed squarely on his sensitive spots. Before the bone-deep numbness could even fade, it swelled up higher and came flooding back once more. His resistance was like a mantis trying to stop a cart. Under her exquisite footwork, he had no power to fight back at all.

Those delicate onion-white feet were like precision instruments, deliberately ravaging the most vulnerable, sensitive places on his body, paying no heed to his pleas. Instead, they moved faster and faster back and forth, not giving him even the slightest chance to catch his breath.

She pressed down the cock that had swollen red to the point of purple, slipped her left foot over the wet glans and between her toes, clamped down on his foreskin and pulled it back, fully exposing the tender flesh preserved inside it. With her right foot, she calmly found the most sensitive lump of flesh just beneath the slit at the tip and stepped on it mercilessly with the point of her toes.

“Ah! Miss——!!”

Terrified, Gu Jingzhou’s voice almost choked off. The stimulation felt as if the tube of his urethra had been touched, and a sour, urgent need to pee mixed with stabbing pain surged through his entire body at once!

The young mistress smiled seductively and set down the cigarette holder in her right hand. Her eyes lit up with mischief. The foot teasing his shaft did not stop, and she gradually straightened her toes, pressing the rounded nail against that fleshly bump and stroking down along it. Her jade toes followed the contour of the cock, rubbing over the uneven folds and massaging the untouched walls of flesh inch by inch.

That one nearly cost Gu Jingzhou his life. He could even feel his soul being peeled away slowly, the monstrous pleasure swallowing him whole. His glans went numb, both legs jerked violently, and those jade feet seemed to foresee everything. Right before he exploded, they suddenly clamped his glans between their two tender soles. The next instant, like an eruption of pulp, creamy yellow semen poured in torrents over her soft, smooth foot soles. Hot seed seeped out between her toes and pooled on the yellow flowerwood floor in a milky-white puddle. He shot for several full seconds before the little worm finally collapsed back down.

Gu Jingzhou was panting wildly. He could even feel a faint ache in his heart. The aftershocks of that climax were too intense, and his body was still shaking, leaving him unable to recover for a long time.

The woman drew her feet back. The two tender soles were sticky and slick, filled with the rich smell of semen, but she did not care. She picked up the cigarette holder and took a satisfied drag, her divine sense sweeping over Gu Jingzhou sprawled on the floor outside the curtain and the dick below him that was basically no longer fit for use. She deliberately teased him, “What? Didn’t you say you could cum as many times as I wanted? Can you still get hard now?”

Gu Jingzhou’s face was flushed red, but he could not even manage a word of rebuttal. That last shot had been too violent, and the semen sacs below him were almost emptied out. Even if he wanted to get hard now, he was powerless.

Seeing his muffled expression, the woman laughed even harder, her huge, high breasts quivering wildly. “Then if I told you to fuck me right now, could you still get hard?”

The moment Gu Jingzhou heard that, he perked right up and said without hesitation, “Of course. Even if I had to risk my life, I would fuck you until you couldn’t get out of bed, Miss.”

Having heard the answer she wanted, the woman was obviously in a good mood, her words turning even lighter. “Hehe, you fat bastard, dream on!”

“But...”

She changed the subject. “As long as you satisfy my demands, letting you taste a little of me is not impossible.”

A burst of surprise hit Gu Jingzhou so hard he nearly went dizzy. He did not even have time to pull up his pants before hurriedly promising, “Please tell me, Miss. As long as it’s something this one can do, this one will do it for sure!”

“Well... you just need to make that woman surnamed Qin disappear...” When Gu Jingzhou heard that, the little flame in his heart died down by half, but then he heard her continue, “Or... you can make Xu Ping'an submit to me too.”

At that, he was delighted. The first option, even if he managed it, would probably cost him half his life. As for the second, although his relationship with Xu Ping'an was not especially good, it was at least far less dangerous, and even if he failed, nothing much would happen to him. So he immediately agreed, “This one will do everything in my power!”