Gu Baizhi's mind went blank; she was completely unaware that her seductive charms were working again. Qin Muxue buried her head in Gu Baizhi's chest, inhaling her body's fragrance. Her hands began to wander restlessly over Gu Baizhi's body. Gu Baizhi tried to push Qin Muxue away, but as soon as her hand touched Qin Muxue's shoulder, Qin Muxue pressed it back down with one hand. Gu Baizhi tried to struggle, but Qin Muxue was a general of the Western Qin Kingdom, and her strength was no less than that of a man; Gu Baizhi couldn't break free at all.
"Don't do this..." Gu Baizhi said, blushing. But Qin Muxue didn't react at all. Gu Baizhi suddenly realized that Qin Muxue pinning her down wasn't intentional, but because her alluring fragrance had made Qin Muxue lose consciousness and thus do such an inappropriate thing.
Gu Baizhi immediately circulated her spiritual power to suppress the alluring bone, but she realized something else: suppressing the alluring bone would only dilute the fragrance it emitted, but the fragrance that had already been emitted would simply dissipate on its own. Therefore, until Qin Muxue regained consciousness, she could only be pinned down by Qin Muxue and bullied at her will.
In the twenty minutes that Qin Muxue regained consciousness, Gu Baizhi endured her most humiliating twenty minutes, completely passive and powerless to resist. Qin Muxue had groped her entire body, forcibly ripping off her outer dress and tearing her undergarments to shreds. Gu Baizhi was left only with a bodice to maintain her last shred of dignity. Her collarbone and neck were covered in hickeys left by Qin Muxue, but Qin Muxue hadn't kissed Gu Baizhi's lips. This was different from Liu Yin's earlier act of forcing herself on Gu Baizhi.
At this moment, Qin Muxue had already untied the knot on Gu Baizhi's bodice and kept pulling it down. Gu Baizhi held on tightly to her bodice, and just as it was about to slip from her grasp, Qin Muxue regained consciousness.
She stopped what she was doing, staring motionlessly at Gu Baizhi, whom she had pinned beneath her. The lustful look on Gu Baizhi's face fascinated and excited her. But then she saw Gu Baizhi biting her lip, tears welling in her eyes, and a look of humiliation on her face. She realized she had almost forced herself on Gu Baizhi. Gu Baizhi, seeing Qin Muxue's bewildered expression, knew she had regained consciousness.
"Get away from here!" Gu Baizhi shouted.
"Hmm..." For the first time, Qin Muxue was in a lower position. However, Qin Muxue was only wearing a bodice, but it was better than Gu Baizhi's, at least the rope was tight.
On Gu Baizhi's side, although she only had a bellyband left, it was no different from a piece of cloth because it had been loosened and only covered some key parts, just like a short piece of cloth covering her body.
Gu Baizhi gripped her bodice tightly with one hand to cover her chest, and with the other hand pulled it down to cover her lower body, her thighs pressed tightly together. Qin Muxue was immediately captivated by her gaze.
"Still looking! Turn around!" Gu Baizhi said in a sweet but slightly fierce voice.
Upon hearing Gu Baizhi's voice, Qin Muxue knew she couldn't look any longer, or her little canary would throw a tantrum. She immediately turned around.
"You can change it, I won't peek."
Only then did Gu Baizhi dare to start tidying her clothes. Her once neat dress had almost been completely stripped off by Qin Muxue. Gu Baizhi put her bodice back on and took an undergarment from Qin Muxue's wardrobe to put on. Finally, she put the dress that Qin Muxue had taken off back on.
"You should put your dress on too, I won't... I won't let you wear it." With that, Gu Baizhi left the room.
At this moment, Qin Muxue felt both guilty towards Gu Baizhi for almost forcing herself on her, and regretful that she hadn't woken up sooner and missed the opportunity to force herself on Gu Baizhi.
For Qin Muxue, it was a bit of a regret. She regretted not being able to pretend to lose consciousness for a while, because maybe she could have taken advantage of Gu Baizhi.
She changed out of her undergarment and put on new undergarments, dresses, and jewelry. She then hurriedly left her small palace and headed towards the grand palace of the Western Qin Kingdom. She had originally intended to go earlier, but the morning's little incident had taken up too much of her time, forcing her to rush to the palace. Why the rush? Because she needed to announce something to her mother, the Empress.
Gu Baizhi returned to her room and collapsed onto her bed, taking a deep breath. She dared not close her eyes, because if she did, her mind would be filled with images of Liu Yin and Qin Muxue forcing themselves on her.
"Why is it that I always end up being raped and taken advantage of whenever I'm not careful?" Gu Baizhi sighed.
At this moment, Qin Muxue had arrived at the council hall of the Western Qin Kingdom and stepped into the magnificent building.
"Mu Xue greets the Empress Mother," Qin Mu Xue said. Indeed, the ruler of the Western Qin Kingdom was Qin Mu Xue's mother. Originally, it was her father's position, but he had passed away during a military campaign a few years prior, and the throne of the Western Qin Kingdom had been assumed by Qin Mu Xue's mother. Before her were her eldest brother, second sister, and fourth brother.
"Mu Xue, get up. I heard you rescued a woman from the Southern Barbarian King?"
"Yes, and Mu Xue's request is also related to that woman."
"What is it?" the Queen Mother asked.
"I want to marry that woman," Qin Muxue said firmly.
The court officials were all taken aback. Although they had long known that Qin Muxue preferred women to men, they initially thought she was joking. While Qin Muxue acted like a man on the battlefield, her clothing, makeup, and tone of voice were no different from a normal woman's. Moreover, she was widely recognized as the most beautiful woman in Western Qin. However, in terms of personality and everything else, she was undeniably a woman. Yet, surprisingly, her sexual orientation was also female.
At first, everyone thought Qin Muxue was just trying to avoid these tedious marriage arrangements, which was why she pretended to like women. But when the Empress sent various wealthy young men, princes from other countries, or refined scholars, Qin Muxue showed no interest whatsoever. However, she became interested only when beautiful women were mentioned. Initially, everyone assumed she was only interested because she was among the beauties, but later they realized she genuinely had an interest in beautiful women.
Everyone knew that Qin Muxue liked women, but it was truly unexpected that he would ask the emperor to bestow a marriage upon him in public at the palace.
"Xue'er, are you sure you've thought this through? The prince from the Southern Kingdom will be coming to the Western Qin Kingdom in a few days. Are you sure you don't even want to look at him before marrying the woman you rescued from the Southern Barbarian Kingdom? But you are a woman and she is a woman too. There's no future for the two of you." The Empress asked, somewhat uneasy.
"Mother, you once said you wouldn't interfere in the love affairs of us brothers and sisters. Besides, it's not certain that there's no future for me and that woman."