The transition from the public hall to the private chambers had stripped away the last of Linne's professional veneer. The moment the heavy ivory doors clicked shut, her hand tightened around Kaelen's throat. A thin layer of frost began to creep across his skin, numbing his jaw.
"You arrogant, wretched worm," she hissed, her face inches from his. Her breath was like a winter gale. "You think because you possess a peculiar spark of heat that you can look at me with those eyes? I am an Elder of the Jade Lotus. I have crushed men twice your size into soul-dust for less than a whisper of your insolence."
She slammed him back against the polar-drake furs, her knee pinning his chest down. She was strong—terrifyingly so. The sheer weight of her Yin-cultivation felt like a mountain of ice pressing into his lungs.
"I didn't bring you here to be 'inspected,' Number 47," she sneered, her fingers tracing a cold, sharp line down his sternum. "I brought you here to break you. I will strip that heat from your blood until you are nothing but a shivering, hollow husk. That is your purpose."
Kaelen gasped for air, his heart hammering—not from fear, but from the sudden surge of the System.
[Warning: Critical Suppression detected.] [Initiating 'The Devourer's Breath'...] [Condition Met: Physical Contact with High-Rank Yin Source.]
"Then do it," Kaelen managed to rasp, a bloody smirk pulling at his lips. "Take it. If you're strong enough to hold it."
With a snarl of fury, Linne leaned down, her lips pressing against his in a mocking, predatory kiss. She intended to forcibly draw his essence out through his breath, a technique designed to leave the victim a mindless slave.
But the moment their lips met, her eyes flew wide.
Instead of a cooling flow of essence, she felt a hook sink into her soul. Kaelen's [Solar Marrow] ignited. It wasn't just heat; it was a gravitational pull. Her Frost Qi, usually so obedient, suddenly betrayed her, rushing toward him like a river breaking a dam.
"What—! Stop!" she choked out, trying to pull away.
Kaelen's hands, no longer soft and compliant, shot up. He grabbed her by the silver hair, anchoring her to him. He wasn't a slave anymore; he was a predator who had finally caught his prey in a trap of her own making.
"Too late, Linne," he growled into her mouth.
She struggled violently, her fists pounding against his chest, each strike releasing bursts of ice that shattered against the room's walls. She was a Peak-Stage cultivator, a tiger fighting a dragon, but every time she struck him, the
The frost in the room began to melt. Steam rose from the bed as the temperature skyrocketed. Linne's struggles grew frantic, then sluggish. The "Domination Virus" was riding the back of her own Qi as it flowed back and forth between them, rewriting her nervous system with every pulse of his heart.
Her strikes turned into grasps. Her snarls turned into jagged, broken breaths.
"I'll... kill you..." she whimpered, but her body was betraying her. The stagnant ice in her core was finally liquefying, sending a rush of long-dormant sensation through her limbs. It was a pleasure so sharp it felt like pain, a heat she had been starved of for four centuries.
Kaelen flipped her, pinning her wrists into the furs. He looked down at the "Ice Queen" of the Pavilion. Her moon-white silks were torn, her silver hair a chaotic mess, and her eyes—once cold as the void—were now drowning in a hazy, golden heat.
"You're not breaking me, Linne," Kaelen whispered, his voice the only sound in the steaming room. "You're feeding me."
[Target's Will: 42% and dropping...] [Divine Seed: Ready for Deposit.]
The struggle wasn't over, but the victor had already been decided.
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