Chapter 31 - ALRIGHT, MASTER

"Be your servant? As if!! Who do you think you are?" she spats back in an argumentative tone, precisely how it should be. It was such a disgrace to let someone treat someone else this way. He was being all too high mighty suggesting such a preposterous command according to Yue.

He stares widely at her in bewilderment, but Yue stares right back at him, reluctant to break her stance. She watches him lightly push himself off the polished wall that he leaned against.

She swallows almost in a submissive manner as he scoffs in return and walks towards her. There's something so formidable about the way he walked. 'His entire existence is compelling, I won't deny that at all.' Yue struggles to any longer maintain her gaze at him.

He narrows his eyes seeming nearly offended before he proceeds in his words, "First off, do not talk to me in that bratty tone of yours and it's better you don't know who I am," An abrupt fear ferments in her heart. Could he be fluking his assertions about his identity in sheer confidence instead of them being actually true? Or for all one knows, he could be conceivably a chief character within this novel....

Yue never did read it till the absolute end anyways.

"And secondly, you are the one who pioneered this absurd conversation and ended up saying, 'Anything you want'" she watches plainly as he puts forth both his hands in front of my face, allowing the two fore fingers of his palms formulate a V sign and imitate a gesture of paraphrasing or quoting her own requested words.

The humiliated girl tsked in annoyance. 'Why does he always end up victorious in any dissension that we indulge in?' She nods in reluctance and acceptance to his words, yet once more as he turned out to be right, she did agree to that and he was the one to negotiate the terms as it was Yue who had begged him to take her along.

"Fine." she sighs as she agrees to his absurd first condition. How bad can pretending to be one's servant get? It is not like she would have to do much for him besides roaming around him and bringing materials he would ask for or such.

She rolled her eyes as she waited for him to proceed to his next equally ludicrous set of condition.

"Fine what?" A glint of humor wavers in his glistening dark orbs as he deliberately wants her to agree to his ridiculous desires.

"Fine, I will accompany you as your..... servant." Yue uttered the last word in an almost inaudible tone, intentionally lowering her word at the end of the sentence.

"Sorry come again? Couldn't hear that last thing." He bit on his lower lip to hold back his muffled laughter and all of his amused actions accumulate to only boost Yue's vexation.

"I will go with you as your SERVANT!" she rolls glimmering iris again and turns her head sideways, breaking off the unsettled eye contact with him. While Yue was agitated at the compromising situation, Xuan Wu was entirely finding this to be entertaining.

"Right..." he lets out a held back chuckle in miniature and she holds back her scornful scoff not wanting for him to take back his words and leave her abandoned here.

"Second...." Yue turns her face in his direction to hear what he comes up with next and her heart skips a beat in its natural course as she suddenly finds him standing only inches away from her. He bents down in his straight posture to meet her eyes. Their faces were barely a few inches apart. Her heart raced involuntarily at an incredulous speed.

"You will obey my each and every word." His tone was imperatively grave and pressing in all aspects. Yue nibbled on her bottom lip in return and his gaze lingered upon her moving mouth.

She dare not deny any of his demands now, lest perchance he might as well end up going back on his words and not take her along, what did he have to lose nevertheless. So she nodded her head simply, given the negligible distance between their faces, she didn't want to risk accidentally pecking him.

"Third and last...." she squints her eyes and flinches as he slams his right hand beside her small round head. Not in a harsh way, but since it was sudden her body flinched instinctively.

"You will call me Master." She parts her lips in astonishment to his last demand. 'Call him Master? That's absolutely nonsensical. That's so cringe. Why would he want that? Wasn't being his servant good enough for him? Does he hold some sort of grudge against me? Does he enjoy seeing me flustered?' Her mind was drowned with trying to come up with a valid reason for his absurd desire.

But in the moment, she decided on conceding to all his demands, ignoring the intensity of their outrageousness.

"A-Alright." she mutters in a subdued voice and he smirks prepotently in response.

"Alright what?" he stares down at her, anticipating her response. He was enjoying the entire process of teasing Yue heartily.

"Alright, Master."