Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 703 - 5 Is It Okay If Not Family Members_3

Having retrieved the Elixir Medicine, and finding it inconvenient to bend his elbow to put the bottle back, Yan Yu simply continued moving his hand up over her back and neck, bringing the bottle to the side of her face.

Zhou Hongyu turned her head, biting the small wooden stopper between her teeth, pulling it out, then spitting it out of her mouth, before opening her mouth again.

Yan Yu carefully tilted the bottle, pouring the Replenishing Qi Pill into her mouth.

Zhou Hongyu closed her mouth, swallowed the medicine, and began running her remaining True Yuan at full speed to refine the medicine’s power.

Just as Yan Yu was about to retract his right hand holding the bottle, he suddenly felt warmth on his cheek—it was Zhou Hongyu pressing her neck against his, cheeks touching, as she wrapped her arms through his armpits, fiercely hugging his shoulders, bringing their bodies even closer together.

“I’m out of strength, help me up,” she whispered by way of explanation.

“Alright,” Yan Yu replied, not concerned about whether she was making up an excuse or truly unable to stand, and simply embraced her again.

The two held each other closely in the tight, dark fissure of the ice cavern, each feeling the warmth of the other’s body, the heartbeat throbbing through the skin, and the faint, gentle breathing. Though Cultivators after fasting could withstand the cold and heat, who would prefer the cold, rigid ice and rock over a soft, warm touch?

“Yan Yu,” Zhou Hongyu said with her eyes closed, suddenly asking, “If no one finds us here and we can’t get out… what will you do?”

“It won’t happen,” Yan Yu reassured her, “By using the Crimson Feather Nine Phoenix Fire to cut slowly, although it’ll take time, we’ll eventually make a way out.”

“Heh,” Zhou Hongyu chuckled, “That’s not what you said before.”

“That’s because I have even more confidence in you now,” Yan Yu smiled.

The cave returned to silence for a moment, before Zhou Hongyu suddenly spoke,

“Actually… I once envisioned my own death.”

“If I could choose, I would want to die gloriously on the battlefield.”

“Why?” Yan Yu asked.

His breathing became somewhat hurried, feeling as though he had, by this sudden accident, luckily prised open the heart of this little hedgehog.

“Sigh,” Zhou Hongyu said in a low voice, “Because if I died in any other way, no one would really be sad for me.”

“Yan Yu, I’m not like you, I already…” her voice was as faint as that of a dying person, “… don’t have family that loves me anymore.”

Such a vulnerable and sad tone stirred a sudden urge in Yan Yu to comfort her. Yet his experience and wisdom from living two lifetimes told him it was best not to say any comforting words now—because you, with your complete family, could never truly understand her loneliness.

Any assistance from someone wealthy, regardless of what noble title it bore, seemed like condescension to those in poverty. And to say “I understand your hardship” would be insincere. Have you ever picked up discarded vegetables from the ground at the market? You understand nothing!

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“Hongyu,” Yan Yu said softly, “you may not have family who loves you, but you could broaden your criteria a little.”

“How about… someone who isn’t family, would that do?”

Zhou Hongyu paused.

Then she suddenly turned her head and fiercely captured Yan Yu’s lips with hers, her motion so violent it was as if a wild beast was tearing at him, carrying an extremely fervent, desperate, all-consuming passion.