Chapter 222 - Hickeys!

"Do you think this will do?" Li Ming asked as she swayed the pink floral dress in front of the banshee.

Kara gave the dress a distasteful look and with a scoff returned her focus painting her nails.

A sigh left Li Ming's lips as she suppressed the groan that was about to leave her lips.

She dropped the dress back in the closet and looked through the collection of the dresses that were hanging in there.

She herself barely got the chance to read any of them as most of them were too revealing. Her mates would always become a bunch of flustered teenagers whenever they saw her bare skin and would always try to cover her up.

Therefore, she barely touched the beautiful sexy gowns that were resting in her closet.

She picked up a black sleeveless gown with a sweetheart neckline and showed it to the banshee.

"How about this one? I'm sure you will look fabulous in this. Come on, have a try." She said with a beaming smile as she pushed the dress towards the banshee.

"Can you just stop it? I have already told you, no matter what, I'm not helping you. So, stop pursuing me." Kara said with a huff as she pushed back the gown towards Li Ming.

The latter gritted her teeth but displayed a very fake smile on her lips.

"I know I was wrong that day. But it has been more than a week since then and you are still angry at me. Come on, we have been friends for such a long time, we should ignore such little matters, right?" Li Ming looked at the banshee with hopeful eyes.

Kara was silent for the next few minutes as she kept looking at the girl who was giving her puppy eyes.

"NO!" 

The banshee suddenly said ss she stood up from the table and disappeared from the private room of the Black Jade Inn.

"Hey...!" 

Li Ming shouted at the banshee but by that time the woman had already disappeared into thin air.

"Why is she being so dramatic? She's taking too much advantage of my helplessness!" Li Ming huffed as she slapped her palm on the table.

It was not intentional but the force behind her slap was too much for the poor table as a crack appeared exactly where the slap landed and the teacups rolled down on the floor, most of them shattering into pieces.

"What the..." 

Li Ming was so shocked that her mind just froze, not wanting to believe that she caused such destruction with barely a half-hearted slap.

"You should keep in mind that you are no longer the same Miss Li as before." 

A soft and musical voice interrupted her. As Li Ming turned her eyes towards the source of the voice, her gaze landed on the Supreme Immortal.

Li Ming felt her entire body stiffening as she immediately went on alert mode.

For the past three days, she had been trying her best to avoid coming across the Supreme Immortal as best as she could.

However, this was the fourth time in three days when she failed poorly in her mission. 

No matter how hard she tried, it was like there was no way of avoiding him. As if while she was avoiding him, he was trying to find her.

"Hehe. You are here." She said with a nervous chuckle as she watched her mate calling out a little bit of his spiritual qi to fix the table and the teacups.

The Supreme Immortal did not reply, rather he just gave her a side smile, more like a smile that was saying 'I know you are up to something, but you can't hide from me'.

She had still to tell her mates about her decision of joining the Guixian Academy. There was no idea how long she would need to stay there before she could be able to pass.

Moreover, according to the rules of the Academy, the disciples were prohibited from stepping out of the Academy for the first three years.

In short, once she passed the entrance exams and became a disciple of the Guixian Academy she won't be able to meet her mates for the next three years.

The Supreme Immortal could be counted as an exception since he was the Master of the Academy.

She knew that her mates won't try to stop her even though they would probably not like her decision, but seeing them sad was the reason behind her hesitation of telling them.

"Oh, well...What do you mean by that I'm no longer the same Miss Li?" Li Ming asked in order to dissipate the awkwardness of the situation.

"Well, before you were a young cultivator. However, now you are a second rank Great Master Cultivator with a spiritual weapon under your command. Not only that but you now have ice, thunder, and wood essence inside you. It's normal that even a mere slap of yours can create huge cracks in this table." The Supreme Immortal replied as he settled down on the seat beside her.

"Oh!"

Li Ming nodded her head at his words that actually made sense. Looked like she needed to control her force while using it.

"Well..., umm...is there something I can help you with?" She asked the Immortal.

Her instincts were telling her to disappear from the sight of the Supreme Immortal as soon as possible.

"No." Wen Guiying replied as he looked at her with the same expression covering his face as before.

It was completely impossible for her to read him. She could not decide if he was angry, sad, hurt, happy, or just neutral at that moment.

"Oh! Well..., Why don't you rest here? I'll ask the servants to bring some snacks and tea for you. I still have some things to take off. See you later." She hurriedly said and jumped up from the seat.

Her destination was the door that appeared as if it intentionally moved to the farthest corner of the room to not let her escape from the clutches of the Supreme Immortal.

She had barely taken a few steps towards the door when she was suddenly pulled against a hard chest as two strong arms closed her in their embrace.

A sigh left her lips as she cursed herself for carrying such bad luck around. She already knew that something like this was going to happen.

"Are you avoiding me?" Wen Guiying asked in a soft whisper as he rested his chin on her right shoulder.

His silky hair and warm breath teasing her sensitive nape which made her bit down on her lower lip to stop herself from shuddering.

"I don't know what you are talking about. Why would I be avoiding you? That's ridiculous." She somehow found her voice and replied hurriedly.

"Is that so? Then why I'm feeling like ever since I caught you asking around about the entrance exams of the Guixian Academy a few days ago, you have set a goal of avoiding me at all cost?" Wen Guiying asked her as he faked a curious and confused tone.

Li Ming cursed inside her mind as she controlled herself from knocking her head on a wall.

She was trying to avoid him so that he could not get the chance of asking her about this matter.

However, here they were. The Supreme Immortal was indeed very clever. No doubt that he was chosen by the Celestial Council for the position of the Head of the Guixian Island.

"Hehe! You are overthinking. There's nothing like that. I was asking about the entrance exams because I recently learned about the upcoming exams and it picked my attention. That's it. There's no other reason." Li Ming hurriedly explained.

The arms that were wrapped around her belly tightened as Li Ming felt the lightest touch of something very soft on her nape.

This time she was not able to control the shiver that shook her body. 

She did not even realize that her breathing was becoming heavier by the minute.

"Should I believe you? What if you are lying? You know that lying is not a good character trait, right?" Wen Guiying asked her and this time he did not play around.

His warm soft lips directly landed on the crook of her nape making a gasp left her lips.

It was a body instinct as her head already rolled on the other side to give more access to the warm lips that were trailing all over the right side of her slender neck.

"I asked you some questions. Are you not going to answer them, Sweet One?" Wen Guiying asked as he stopped trailing kisses on her neck.

It took a lot of her energy to control her heavy breathing ss she replied, "I....I-I am not...AAAAH! Mmm...!" 

She never got the chance of completing her sentence as Wen Guiying's lips returned on her nape and this time rather than a soft kiss, she felt him biting the tender skin of her neck.

She sure was going to get some hickeys!