Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle
Chapter 444: Future Empress Takes Over the Substitute Body! (Please Follow)

Chapter 444: Chapter 444: Future Empress Takes Over the Substitute Body! (Please Follow)

Gu Qingcheng hesitated, thinking it over, and said, "No way, Xiao Ye was supposed to be my future husband, not my current one. Touching his eight-pack abs would be crossing the line."

"He’s Ziran’s husband right now! If Ziran saw this, how would I even explain it?"

"Old Gu, you’re way too thirsty, like a starving wolf."

The Divine Soul Gu Qingcheng snorted, "What’s wrong with being a starving wolf, what’s wrong with being thirsty? I’ve kept an empty bed for almost a hundred years, no satisfaction, no release!"

"Now that I have a chance to get close to my husband, of course I’m going to take it!"

Gu Qingcheng said helplessly, "Old Gu, can’t you hold out a bit longer?"

The Divine Soul Gu Qingcheng blurted out, "Can’t do it, not even for a second!"

"Don’t worry, I’ll come up with an accidental situation, find a legit excuse, and guarantee that Ziran, that horny little vixen, won’t blame you for any of this."

"Hey, do you still want to advance your realm or not?"

Gu Qingcheng looked a little hesitant. After a moment, she made up her mind and said, "Fine!"

"But don’t pull any over-the-line moves. Otherwise, I’ll stop this immediately, and take back control of my body at any moment."

The body belonged to her. She could give up control, but she could take it back anytime.

The future Gu Qingcheng’s Divine Soul might’ve fit her body, but there was only a wisp of that soul. In a fight over control, the original owner would win.

The Divine Soul Gu Qingcheng jumped up excitedly, rubbing her hands together like a pervert. She couldn’t have been happier.

"Hurry up, I can’t wait anymore! I want to touch my husband!"

She urged impatiently.

Gu Qingcheng immediately let go of bodily control, letting her take over.

Xiao Ye, standing nearby, saw Gu Qingcheng gazing off somewhere else. He figured she was contacting her people back at Hang City Base City, so he didn’t bother her.

But honestly, Gu Qingcheng looked way too amazing. Xiao Ye kept sneaking glances out of the corner of his eye.

*To have scenery like this, even in the pitch-black depths of the deep sea... he felt so damn lucky inside.*

Off in the distance, Ziran received the second wave of Venerable Realm Deep Sea Giant Beast corpses and was now facing a third wave of Venerable Realm sea beasts.

The third wave of sea beasts was Venerable Realm as well, about twenty of them.

Some Great Venerable sea beasts, hearing the commotion, hurried over, only to see the Venerable Realm sea beasts slaughtered, then quickly slipped away—wishing they had two extra legs just to run faster.

Those Venerable Realm sea beasts, relying on their realm and numbers, all charged at Ziran—or more accurately, aiming for the Venerable Realm Deep Sea Fruit behind her.

Ziran, a Saint Realm powerhouse, hovered gracefully in the water, watching the approaching Deep Sea Giant Beasts with total confidence—there was an unbridgeable gap between Saint Realm and Venerable Realm, after all. She didn’t fear them at all.

"They’re coming!"

Her armor of laws was invisible, detectable only with spiritual sense.

From Xiao Ye’s perspective, he could only see a curvy figure in nothing but two pieces of lingerie, all pale and tempting.

"Whoosh!" Ziran shot out like a missile, her speed too fast to track.

Xiao Ye looked away, but when he noticed the "Hang City Empress" staring at him openly, he was instantly startled.

He covered his chest with both hands, stepped back a few paces, and said in shock, "Sister Qingcheng, what are you trying to do?"

Wasn’t the Hang City Empress supposed to be handling affairs back at Hang City Base City? Why were her eyes glued to his body, and those hands reaching out to touch him?

*Was this really the domineering, powerful Hang City Empress?*

*She looked like some thirsty widow dying for a man to satisfy her.*

"Ahem, ahem!" Now controlled by the future Gu Qingcheng, she awkwardly pulled her hands back and hid them behind her back, greed vanishing from her beautiful eyes, her face returning to normal.

"I just wanted to test the water pressure around you, to see if it might hurt you."

Xiao Ye froze for a second, then realized, "It’s fine, Sister Qingcheng, with your power wrapped around me, the water pressure here doesn’t bother me at all."

"Even if I was here alone, I’d be just fine!"

*Of course, the Hang City Empress couldn’t be some thirsty pervert, pawing at a guy because she’d never touched a man before. She just wanted to check the water pressure around him.*

Meanwhile, Gu Qingcheng in the Sea of Spirit looked like scorched charcoal, her face dark with fury as her chest rose and fell, bouncing like a swing.

"Old Gu, please watch your expression!"

"You’re representing me, Hang City Empress, so curb your wildness and thirst, OK?"

"I, the Hang City Empress, would never get that piggy look on my face. Way too pervy!"

The future Gu Qingcheng, controlling the body, answered, "Okay, okay."

The future Gu Qingcheng looked at Xiao Ye, her face complicated, her beautiful eyes filled with longing and resentment.

*Hmph, this was the man who made her lose her mind and dream about him day and night.*

*For a hundred years, she had given all kinds of obvious and subtle hints for him to come to her room and ’exercise’ with her, but the guy never gave her the time of day.*

After a moment, the future Gu Qingcheng withdrew her power from Xiao Ye and reflexively said,

"Husband, you should be able to handle the water at this depth easily, right?"

Xiao Ye replied, "Never tried, but I think I could."

Then, he sensed something off and said in confusion, "Sister Qingcheng, what did you just call me? Husband? Sister Qingcheng, I’m Sister Ziran’s husband, not yours."

"Uh!" The future Gu Qingcheng froze, "Oh, you misheard! Xiao Ye, I called you Xiao Ye just now!"

Xiao Ye rubbed his head, puzzled, "Did I mishear?"

The future Gu Qingcheng couldn’t take her eyes off him as he scratched his head.

*So cute. Didn’t realize my husband could be this adorable.*

"Yeah, Xu—Xiao Ye, you misheard!"

She waved her hand, withdrawing the power she had wrapped around Xiao Ye, and said, "Xiao Ye, try it out. See if you can move freely at this water pressure."

Gu Qingcheng, in the Sea of Spirit, went dark again.

*This Old Gu, way too careless.*

*No wonder after a hundred years as a lonely woman, her brain’s fried.*

"Old Gu, Xiao Ye’s only at Great Venerable Realm! The water pressure here is way higher than on Blue Star—ten-thousand-meter deep sea pressure would crush him!" she reminded urgently.

*If Sister Ziran’s husband got hurt in front of her, she wouldn’t be able to live with herself.*

The future Gu Qingcheng laughed in her mind, "Relax, I know my husband."

As soon as Xiao Ye’s protective power was withdrawn, he immediately felt an unprecedented pressure. His whole Great Venerable Realm, second-tier aura burst out, releasing the pressure of ten thousand tons of water—finally, relief.

[Water Element Mastery, as the name suggests, you’re the king of water—every Water Element in the world is under your command.]

His Talent Skill activated, and the surrounding seawater became gentle and lively, like a child finally finding its long-lost father.

Xiao Ye restrained his Great Venerable Realm power. Breathing freely in the sea, he felt at home, as if a fish returning to the ocean—feeling a growing intimacy with the water all around.

He merely lifted a hand, and the seawater parted by itself.

The future Gu Qingcheng watched with a smile, clearly familiar with the scene—she wasn’t the least bit surprised.

But Gu Qingcheng, within her Sea of Spirit, was stunned. She cried out in shock,

"He—he actually has this level of Water Element control!"

"It’s even stronger than those Water Element Venerable experts!"

The future Gu Qingcheng said with a laugh, "My husband controls all Five Elements. Quit that country-bumpkin expression, OK?"

Gu Qingcheng twitched at the mouth, "You’re the country bumpkin! Your whole family is country bumpkins!"

The future Gu Qingcheng chuckled, "Nice job, you sure you want to call my entire family country bumpkins?"

Gu Qingcheng hesitated, embarrassed. *Cursing Old Gu’s whole family would mean cursing her own family, wouldn’t it?*

"Hmph! Not gonna argue with you. No wonder your husband ignores you; you’re insufferable."

The future Gu Qingcheng frowned.

Suddenly, a battle between Ziran and the Venerable Realm sea beasts moved closer, the shockwaves surging, sending seawater tumbling their way.

The future Gu Qingcheng’s beautiful eyes sparkled, and with the raging sea, it looked like she was swept forward by the waves.

"Ah! Xiao Ye, watch out!"

With the sea "pushing" her, she pressed herself against Xiao Ye, hugging his head to her chest, and the two were carried off by the pressure of tens of thousands of tons of seawater.

Xiao Ye’s vision went dark—his face buried in soft warmth, stuck between what felt like two mountains, unable to get free.