Chapter 12: Master, please support your waist

[Group Member A: That’s what I’m saying. Who would’ve thought the Salty Alchemist had such skills!]

[Group Member B: Hahaha, we underestimated you. Didn’t expect you to get so close to the Saintess—amazing!]

At this moment, the group leader, who had been lurking for a while, started sending messages again.

[X (Group Leader): Alright, calm down, all of you. You three, shut up. If anyone keeps yapping, I’ll throw them into the Jailer’s Room!]

[X (Group Leader): Salty Alchemist, as long as you’re okay.]

At this, except for Ye Kui, the other lurking group members saw the scene and their lips twitched.

Double standards.

Such double standards![X (Group Leader): The Golden-haired King and the Venomous Woman have been captured. They’re still our group members, so tomorrow, let’s form a team and go break them out of the Law Enforcement Bureau.]

[X (Group Leader): Salty Alchemist, you go too. Got it?]

Ye Kui frowned at the message.

Break into the Law Enforcement Bureau? That’s too risky.

Naturally, he wouldn’t go.

This was the benefit of infiltrating a villain organization—you could sense danger early and avoid it, or hide behind the villains.

If he hadn’t known this information, and happened to walk past the Law Enforcement Bureau tomorrow, he might have been caught up in it.

Wouldn’t that be terrible?

Ye Kui went back to lurking, organized the group messages, and then opened Luo Qiongyin’s chat window.

[Righteous and Innocent Alchemist: Tomorrow, someone’s planning a prison break at the Law Enforcement Bureau.]

[One Sword One Scumbag (Heroine): Hm? How do you know?]

[One Sword One Scumbag (Heroine): Never mind, not important. You always provide such accurate info—if I didn’t know you, I’d think you were a member of some villain organization.]

[Righteous and Innocent Alchemist: Haha, how could that be.]

[Righteous and Innocent Alchemist: My girlfriend is the Saintess. If I were in a villain organization, wouldn’t that be too dramatic?]

[One Sword One Scumbag (Heroine): True, that would be way too dog-blooded. Alright, it’s late. Goodnight, my boyfriend. Bi.jpg]

[Righteous and Innocent Alchemist: Goodnight, my girlfriend. Heart.jpg]

Ye Kui wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and let out a long breath.

Then, he put his phone on the table, planning to take a shower.

Ye Kui entered the bathroom.

In the living room, by the table, a damp tentacle suddenly reached out and slapped onto the surface, its suction cups sticking firmly.

The little octopus crawled up inch by inch, looked at the bathroom door—it was still closed, with the sound of running water inside.

Zina hesitated for a moment, then unlocked Ye Kui’s phone and started scrolling through his chat logs.

No matter how she looked at it, she found it unpleasant.

Heroine … does that mean ‘female master’?

Zina stared at their chat history, noticing how they addressed each other as boyfriend and girlfriend, becoming more certain of her suspicion.

Damn it!

Mistress and all that, no way!

The little octopus flailed its tentacles in jealousy, a fierce light burning in her eyes.

She wouldn’t let any so-called mistress enter!

Afterward, the little octopus furtively continued browsing, sweeping over Ye Kui’s chat with the villain organization, her heart tightening.

Master actually has connections with a villain organization?

Unbelievable.

And tomorrow, there’s going to be a prison break at the Law Enforcement Bureau?

Zina thought about it and felt a sense of dread.

If something went wrong, they’d be on the run again, fleeing the world, back on the path of Opposing the World… No, she didn’t want that!

She didn’t want her master to suffer so much anymore.

So… she had to stop him.

But how?

Ye Kui finished showering and, as soon as he came out, saw the little octopus sprawled limply on the table, flattened like an octopus cookie.

“Zina, why did you come out?”

Zina waved her tentacles.

Ye Kui scooped her up and placed her in the ornate fish tank beside him.

Eight tiny tentacles swayed gently, carrying her pink body as she swam like a little night sprite.

Her watery eyes stared at Ye Kui through the glass.

“Alright, stay there and behave. I’m going to rest too.”

Ye Kui yawned.

There was still some time before dawn—he could get some sleep and wake up naturally, probably by noon.

If he missed the prison break at the Law Enforcement Bureau, he’d just say he overslept.

If the villains in the chat group didn’t believe him, he could sell out Luo Qiongyin and leak some of her private info.

For example, that Luo Qiongyin still wet the bed at seven years old.

Perfect.

Ye Kui grinned contentedly, went back to his bedroom, and lay down.

Good night.

Time ticked by.

It was the middle of the night.

Thick clouds crept slowly past, revealing a shy moon.

Moonlight spilled into the ordinary little apartment, illuminating the shimmering trails of water on the floor.

Inside the tank, the pink little octopus had vanished.

On the table, Ye Kui’s phone glowed faintly, casting light over slender, fair fingers—like exquisite jade—as they slid across the screen.

The browsing history was displayed.

[How to make a vigorous man unable to get out of bed the next day?]

[Top reply: Make him hold his waist!]

Over a thousand likes in a short time.

A damp strand of purple hair fell onto the phone screen, leaving a trail of moisture.

Full, red lips curved into a smile.

Slender fingers cleared the browsing history, then set Ye Kui’s phone down.

On the table, everything looked untouched, as if no one had ever been there.

On the floor, neat little wet footprints stretched away, leading into a certain room.

A pale hand softly and silently closed the bedroom door.

A slender leg lifted, skin tinged with a faint pink.

Pink tentacles slowly turned purple, writhing gently as they crawled onto the bed.

“Master, breaking into the Law Enforcement Bureau for a prison break is too risky… It’s not allowed… You’ll end up being hunted.”

Master, Zina doesn’t want this.

She doesn’t want to see you fleeing the world in misery again… And she doesn’t want you opposing the world anymore.

It’s too exhausting, too painful…

“Master, promise Zina, okay?”

The purple-haired lady crouched at the bedside, head tilted against the pillow, gazing at Ye Kui’s peaceful sleeping face.

Her voice was ethereal and aggrieved, as if recalling how Ye Kui once bathed in blood and fire for her sake, struggling against the world.

No one stood by his side.

And they… No, she was already dead.

So, how could she stop him?

Ah, if Master couldn’t move tomorrow, that would do!

Zina began to hum a lilting tune, like a deep-sea lullaby.

Thick tentacles, strong enough to crush a hundred-meter great white shark, now writhed gently, crawling onto Ye Kui’s body.

She released a paralyzing toxin, spreading it softly across his skin.

Ye Kui would sleep like a baby, undisturbed no matter how much she moved.

As his breathing deepened, the suppressed desire in Zina’s eyes began to surge, eroding her reason.

The suction cups, strong enough to compress steel, slid across his cheek, leaving only a faint blush.

Zina’s face flushed with embarrassment—a sense of guilty pleasure from doing something bad.

No… this wasn’t something bad.

It was something good.

Zina lowered her head, gently pecked Ye Kui’s lips, the motion reverent and tender.

Master…

Her voice was so soft, as if addressing a fragile dream.

… Hold your waist.

The little ears among her hair glowed red, ready to drip.

Her smooth purple hair draped like fine silk, or a veil of shyness.

The tentacles trembled with excitement, carefully wrapping around his ankles and arms, as if they too began to breathe.

The curtains were accidentally flung open by a tentacle.

Moonlight poured in, illuminating the writhing purple tentacles and the shining secretions they left behind.

On the wall, the shadow cast was inhuman—twisted, strange, full of desire and madness.

Master shouldn’t be scorned and condemned by the world.

He should bask in sunshine and love.

If no one loves Master? Don’t worry.

Master, Zina will love you forever.