Volume 1 Chapter 40: First Kiss
In her hazy state, Bai Muxue’s eyelids suddenly twitched. It was like she had finally escaped the deep darkness of drowning and surfaced again, greedily breathing in fresh air.
Ah, wait... didn’t I really drown just now?
When the water swept her away and her whole body lost strength, she thought she saw that silver-haired girl in the black dress appear before her again...
But did that girl do something to her? Bai Muxue had no memory of it at all.
Right now, she only felt extremely tired. She did not even have the strength to open her eyes.
Through the blur of consciousness, she vaguely noticed that a tall girl with black shoulder-length hair seemed to be leaning over her, softly saying something.
...Then, Bai Muxue suddenly felt warmth on her lips.
After that, soft, smooth, hot touches spread inside her mouth. They felt delicate, and there was also a familiar sweet smell entering her nose. The suffocating feeling in her lungs slowly disappeared.
Faintly, she also heard some sounds...
It was that girl’s voice, sounding like she was about to cry.
“Strange... she’s breathing again already. Why hasn’t she woken up yet?”
“I... I should have done it right just now... Isn’t this supposed to be the correct order...? Though I did get a little carried away... Tch! It’s all your fault!”
“You did something like this to me and now want to run away!? Hurry up and wake up!”
Did something... like this to her? What did I do?
Bai Muxue had no idea what the girl was talking about.
But she could feel that the girl was staring directly at her face.
Not only staring, but very, very close.
Because the warm breath from the girl’s mouth kept brushing across her cheeks, making her feel an indescribable ticklish sensation.
“You... stop sleeping! Wake up already!”
“If you still won’t wake up... then I’m going to keep taking advantage of you! Hear me!?”
Feeling the girl’s fingertips gently rubbing her cheek again and again, Bai Muxue slowly opened her eyes and weakly said,
“Um... do you think it’s possible… I’m already awake?”
Their eyes met.
It was incredibly awkward.
“Eh... Eh!? Ah, don’t look!”
Along with the girl’s panicked scream, Bai Muxue suddenly saw a burst of bright golden light cover her vision.
Then, the person before her was still the familiar blonde girl wearing a cowboy hat.
Amber, now so close that she was almost touching her, had regained the dazzling beauty she had when they first met. But around her eyes there was a faint trace of wet redness. Looking at Bai Muxue in her arms, her cheeks were also lightly red.
“Um... you’re awake now...”
For some reason, her eyes kept moving away. She did not dare meet the girl in her arms face to face.
“Yeah. Because heaven doesn’t have news to watch, so I came ba—cough cough!”
Bai Muxue gave Amber a weak smile and casually made a joke, but before she could finish, she started coughing violently.
She coughed out a lot of cold water still left in her stomach. After a while, she weakly muttered in confusion:
“Why does it feel... so cold? Am I still in heaven?”
“Alright, alright, enough about heaven. A girl as full of bad thoughts as you wouldn’t be accepted there, so relax.”
Amber spoke with words that sounded annoyed, but she held Bai Muxue tighter in her arms, trying to use her own warmth to make the girl feel a little warmer.
“Seriously... with that tiny body of yours, after running in the water for so long, of course you’d feel cold.”
Amber clicked her tongue lightly. The golden light around her body grew a little brighter. Even though she did not know any fire magic, the magic power around her could at least give Bai Muxue some warmth.
After quite a while, Bai Muxue slowly became clear-headed again. Her confused mind gradually started working.
Only then did she realize that Amber was holding her tightly in her arms.
That strange sweet smell from before surrounded her completely. The soft fullness against her chest was pressed tightly to her body, making her face instantly turn red. She struggled a little by instinct, trying to leave Amber’s embrace.
“Um, I don’t need you to hold me like th—”
But she had only just recovered from nearly drowning. Her body was already weak, so how could she have any strength to resist?
Besides... after the first two close moments between them, this third one strangely felt natural now.
After failing to get free twice, Bai Muxue simply gave up struggling.
Anyway, no one around was watching.
Though sadly, her “villainess young lady” image had completely fallen apart...
Ah, no, wait. She had never really built that image in front of Amber in the first place.
“Honestly, you’re impossible. Stop moving around. You’ll warm up soon. Be good.”
Seeing Bai Muxue refusing to cooperate, Amber puffed out her cheeks unhappily and spoke softly, like she was comforting a child.
Looking at Bai Muxue’s delicate but pale face, smelling the faint scent that belonged only to her, and feeling how soft and boneless the girl in her arms was...
Amber unexpectedly felt calm.
After all... they had already done something even more private and intimate without saying a word.
Compared to that, this little bit of closeness was nothing.
“I...”
Bai Muxue’s small body trembled slightly. She could not even finish one sentence.
After being apart from Amber’s body for only a short moment, she already felt freezing cold to the bone. She quickly wrapped her arms tightly around the blonde girl in front of her again.
She asked softly in confusion.
“Where... are we now?”
Amber saw that Bai Muxue’s originally fair little face was now covered with a bluish-purple color from the freezing water.
A faint feeling of pity rose in her heart.
She pulled Bai Muxue’s clothes tighter, drew her closer against her full chest, and said gently:
“It’s okay. We already got out. We’re safe now.”
While comforting her, hesitation appeared on Amber’s face.
After pausing for a moment, she softly asked:
“Um... about what happened just now, do you remember it? I mean, what I did to you...”
“What?” Bai Muxue asked without thinking.
“Ugh, nothing! Nothing at all!”
Amber seemed startled and shook her head quickly.
“Just rest a little more. I’m right here, so don’t worry.”
Bai Muxue weakly nodded.
Then she really closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Seeing that Bai Muxue had fallen deeply asleep on her lap, Amber covered her rosy lips with one hand and nervously looked around like a guilty thief.
Her face was red beyond belief. Even the deep night could not hide the pink color of her fair skin.
Although it was wonderful that Bai Muxue had woken up...
Amber never expected that her first kiss...
Would be lost in a place like this!
Damn it! That was this lady’s first kiss! First kiss!
The almost romantic scene from before appeared in her mind again without control.
Amber unconsciously looked at Bai Muxue’s soft lips resting in her arms. The sound of her own pounding heartbeat became clearer and clearer.
She unconsciously licked the moisture still left on her lips.
That cold feeling from Bai Muxue’s lips had slowly become soft and warm under her efforts, carrying a sweetness and quiet charm unique to her.
Even now, it still seemed to remain on Amber’s lips.
“Seriously... if you had at least struggled a little, I wouldn’t have... It’s all your fault!”
But soon, the blonde girl’s lips curved upward into a small smile.
Though it felt a little strange at first...
Now that she thought about it...
It actually felt pretty good.
Hmph. My first kiss was with a girl as unbelievably pretty as Xiao Xue.
No matter how I think about it, I definitely didn’t lose out.