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"How was it? My technique was perfectly legitimate, wasn't it?"
Xuan Hao teased as he finished, "Don't always think of me as so filthy."
Liu Erlong blushed, took a breath, and couldn't help but grit his teeth and ask, "When you massaged Tang Yuehua, did you massage all the way down to her feet like this?"
"What on earth are you thinking?"
Xuan Hao patted her shoulder speechlessly.
"I was only ten years old at the time!
And Tang Yuehua was such an arrogant woman.
At most, I would just massage her back, legs, and feet.
How could I possibly have had the chance to touch her there?"
Upon hearing this, Liu Erlong felt even more ashamed and indignant:
"Then why... why did you press that spot on me too?!"
"Didn't I just say that?" Xuan Hao spread his hands confidently, with a shameless and self-righteous look on his face.
"I'm upgrading your service so you can fully experience Ning Rongrong and the others' 'full-service' massage package."
Xuan Hao looked at Liu Erlong's profile, which was almost dripping with blood, and leaned close to her ear with a wicked smile, adding in a low voice, "Besides, this is only the first half.
However... if we go to the second half, with your thin skin right now, I guess you'll definitely refuse to agree no matter what."
Liu Erlong was stunned for a moment, his mind still reeling, and blurted out, "What do you mean?
What's this 'second half'?"
"It's very simple."
Xuan Hao pointed to the bed and uttered two words very naturally: "It's just... turning over."
"..."
Liu Erlong was completely dumbfounded, frozen on the bed.
Flip...flip it over?! Press it on the front?!
Are all young people these days...do they have to be this freaking wild?!
Seeing Liu Erlong's frightened expression, as if her worldview had been severely shaken, Xuan Hao couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"What are you thinking? Don't think of me in such a dirty way, okay?"
Xuan Hao grabbed a towel from the side and slowly wiped the remaining essential oil from his hands, explaining frankly, "We've always had that kind of intimate relationship.
Doing this kind of thing behind closed doors isn't anything shameful or taboo.
Besides, this is legitimate physical relaxation.
Those girls are exhausted from cultivating every day, so as their family member, shouldn't I help them relax?"
He emphasized his words and solemnly clarified:
"This is absolutely a pure massage, not the kind of 'physical work' that has a pungent taste and will only make you more tired afterward."
Liu Erlong turned his head with suspicion, his eyes filled with distrust:
"Really? You'd be that honest?"
"It's frustrating," Xuan Hao sighed, spreading his hands.
"How old are these girls?
Although I'm a complete womanizer, I still have principles when it comes to boundaries.
They're young and don't know any better.
I can't just do whatever I want for my own pleasure, can I?"
"So, this is the only thing I can do with them most of the time.
It allows us to connect through physical contact and also helps them relieve their physical and mental fatigue, which is the best of both worlds."
At this point, Xuan Hao seemed to recall something that gave him a headache, and rubbed his temples:
"Of course, although I massage in a proper way, Ning Rongrong and the others are a bit less proper.
Among those girls, only Na'er and Lingling are well-behaved and will lie quietly, and occasionally they will even massage me in the opposite direction properly."
"As for Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and those three aunties, Dugu Yan…" Xuan Hao rolled his eyes.
"They take advantage of the fact that I don't dare to do anything to them, and try every possible way to seduce me in bed.
So, every time I face these three, I can only put in more effort and use all my skills to get them to sleep as quickly as possible, so that they don't have the energy to keep thinking about causing trouble."
Listening to Xuan Hao's down-to-earth complaints about "taking care of a child," Liu Erlong's eye muscles twitched a couple of times, and the tension in his heart dissipated without him even realizing it.
After wiping the essential oil off his hands, Xuan Hao stood up, went around to the head of the bed, squatted down in front of Liu Erlong, and stretched out his hands to press the acupoints on her head.
Seeing Xuan Hao suddenly become serious and ready to work, having abandoned his usual carefree attitude, Liu Erlong felt a little uncomfortable.
"Lying like that, your neck is twisted and uncomfortable, and I can't exert any strength." Xuan Hao patted the bed.
"Turn over and lie flat."
After that complete relaxation, and with Xuan Hao indeed behaving himself, Liu Erlong didn't think much of it this time.
She reached out and tightly gripped the black silk nightgown that had been torn in two, covering her chest, and obediently turned over, lying flat on her back.
The black silk clung to her curves like ripples of water, still firmly covering her body, revealing only a section of her slender, fair neck.
Xuan Hao didn't look at her much. He gently pressed his hands on her temples and several acupoints on the top of her head, kneading them with moderate force.
His technique was indeed astonishingly skillful. After massaging her head, he followed the meridians and gently helped Liu Erlong relax her arms.
Finally, he even moved a small round stool to the foot of the bed, placed her feet on his lap, and began to perform an extremely meticulous foot massage.
The whole process was carried out smoothly and effortlessly, and before we knew it, an hour had quietly passed.
As every muscle in her body completely relaxed, the fatigue that had accumulated over the past few days surged in like a tide. Liu Erlong had been barely maintaining a sliver of consciousness, but under Xuan Hao's hypnotic and soothing massage, her breathing gradually became even and long, and she finally let down her guard and drifted off to sleep.
After confirming that she was fast asleep, Xuanhao stopped what he was doing.
Instead of taking the opportunity to lift the thin silk nightgown like a lecherous fiend, he pulled over the silk quilt and gently covered her up, tucking the edges in tightly.
After doing all this, he walked to the table, poured himself a glass of water, and drank it all in one gulp.
"You...you really didn't do anything?"
Just then, Ah Yin's mental transmission, filled with astonishment and confusion, suddenly rang in my mind.
Through the shared view of the vines, Ah Yin silently observed the entire process from inside her Qiankun Ring. Several times during the process, when Xuan Hao's hand slid across Liu Erlong's thigh, she thought that this beast was finally about to tear off his disguise and cause trouble.
To my surprise, this guy actually did a proper massage from beginning to end, even more honest than the most dutiful maid!
Ah Yin simply couldn't understand: "You came all this way just to do this?
You actually take this kind of lowly, servant-like work so seriously? What are you after?"
Hearing Ah Yin's question in his mind, Xuan Hao silently replied, "What do you know? This is called professional competence."
"This is only the first half of the strategy, the 'physiological therapy.'
For a timid and wary mother like her, we must first use the most legitimate and comfortable methods to completely relax her body and let go of her instinctive resistance to me.
Only then can we proceed with the next step, the 'psychological strategy,' in a logical and natural way."
Xuan Hao put down his water glass and leaned against the edge of the table.
"Once I've completely won her over, won't I have plenty of opportunities to be indecent in the future?"
"To catch a big fish, you need to cast a long line and use good bait. If you don't even have this much patience at such a crucial moment and just think about rushing in and using force, how could I, Xuanhao, have this courtyard full of beautiful women today?"
Xuan Hao snorted in his mind, "You don't really think that I can keep so many outstanding girls by my side purely because of my invincible violence, without any regard for skills or emotional value, do you?"
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