They stood another moment awestruck before snapping out of it. I thought for a moment to just leave at the time, but after pulling that little prank I would feel bad if I didn't even answer their questions.
"Ah! This is my good sister, her name is Ren Mei and my name is Zhao Ya. Um, Big Brother, do you mind telling us your name?"
The girl stepped up and spoke with a few exaggerated hand gestures.
'I'll humor them, it's the least I could do. I think I even saw this girl even start to tear up earlier at my disappearance.'
"My surname is Ip. So you two have been tailing me the entire night?"
"U-um, y-yes that's right."
I gazed into the girl's eyes for a second only for her to turn away in embarrassment, her cheeks flush with a light red.
Perhaps seeing how her Sister turned away the woman thought it was her chance to act. She straightened herself up before directly looking into my eyes. When I gazed back I saw hints of lust, ambition, and confidence. From her look alone I felt like it had something to do with that little conversation she had with her Sister about wanting to "join" me.
"I'm so sorry about my Sister here. She's just really excited about meeting you, that's all! Isn't that right?"
She lightly elbowed her Sister to which she nodded her head to.
"Y-yes, that's it. Please just give me a minute to calm down."
"Go ahead! Take as much time as you need, in the meanwhile Brother Ip and I will have a little chat together."
She turned her eyes to me and a sultry look appeared on her face.
"H-huh!? W-wait!" The girl's arm reached out and grabbed a hold of the woman's clothing.
"What's wrong dear Sister?"
"I um… n-nothing" She lightly let go of the hem she grabbed onto as it fluttered back into place.
The woman turned back to me and started to slowly move with an air of seduction.
She took slow and long strides which exposed her legs. Her hips swayed slightly from side to side. Her shoulders drooped a bit showing off her vulnerable side like she would be easy prey.
"Brother Ip, we've heard a few things about you. I in particular have heard you quite like to have wives. If you find me worthy could I possibly be one of yours as well?"
As she came closer I could see she was preparing to lean herself against me. She had already had a slight turn to it and her hands were already being raised up a bit.
Seeing how close she was becoming I finally dodged away with a swift two steps to the left. I wasn't going to let this woman get any kind of her own scent on me. If that happened I could only imagine the consequences that it would bring when I returned home. Do women always have such sensitive noses as Ying'er? Either way it's not a good idea for her to lean on my chest like she wanted. In fact it's probably best if I didn't even touch her.
She on the other hand was left frozen in place, for what the third time in a span of less than an hour? At least this time that moment only lasted for but half a second. She looked at me with an anxious expression as she began tugging at her own shirt. Her cleavage was gradually being shown as she kept pulling down and her shoulders were laid bare.
"Brother Ip, is something wrong? I could help with anything you need."
Her shirt seemed to teeter on the very edge of revealing her areola or even nipples. At this point she walked over once again, to which I once again sidestepped.
"You should know that I have a wife, right? I'm a loyal man, not someone who is so easily seduced by these methods."
'Besides if she knew I was in contact with women like you I'm sure she would scold me.'
"I know! But don't you have two? That must mean you aren't as loyal as you say you are, aren't you? Why won't you have me as well then?"
"Well I just met you, I've known her for some time."
I didn't lie but that time was quite short. In fact, we got married in just around a month didn't we? Just a month? It kind of reminds me of those stories of gold diggers marrying people in under a month to take their fortune. Hmm, that wouldn't look good for me, but there's no way she would know that.
She looked at me once more before tightly gripping onto the shirt she held and charged at me. With the speed she was going I could easily dodge once more, but then I noticed something.
Under her foot there was an inconveniently placed rock, but with her current focus on me she didn't notice a thing. Her foot caught onto that rock and she tripped toward me.
Seeing that she would fall onto my chest if I stood still I once again stepped to the side, but that didn't mean I did nothing to prevent her fall. I extended my arm out the direction she was falling and made sure I caught onto her shoulder, not a certain other location.
'*Sigh* It seems she managed to attain her goal in the end anyway. Now I have to figure out how to deal with Ying'er back home! Perhaps I could just somehow manage to keep this arm away from her gaze, then it'll be fine. She normally sniffs while hugging me anyway so she would only smell my torso.'
Once the woman fell into my arm she once again blanked out for a second before she raised her arms to clasp onto mine. Her head drooped onto my arm and began using it as a pillow.
"Brother Ip, thank you for catching me." Although her head was turned away from me I could feel there seemed to be genuine gratitude in her voice for some reason.
'Why is she speaking like that? All I did was prevent her from hitting the floor. Is that such a big deal? Don't tell me that her backstory is one where I'm the first to ever help her out.'
I didn't have to physically touch her to stop her from falling, but perhaps it was instinctive that I did. Qi manipulation would have worked well too, but seeing how close she got to me my hand moved on it's own.
"Would you please let go of me?"I spoke and waited only for a silence to be returned. I was starting to really notice the body heat radiating from her.
"Sister Mei! Let go of him!" The girl from before finally acted once more as she walked over to try and help me pry her off. When she tried I could only feel the woman's grip tighten.
The girl looked like she tried her best to pull off her Sister, she wouldn't budge.
"Alright, back off for a moment. I'll just do it myself."
She did as told then I grabbed onto the woman's shoulder and pulled her off with ease. It looked like I barely used any strength at all, yet the woman looked like she was struggling to hold on.
"Wow Brother Ip, you're so strong! You don't even look like you tried at all!"
She praised me, but all I could think about was the fact that now my other hand even had a hint of her on it. I could tell the scent I had on my forearm off, but now I had some directly in my palm. I'm sure she would only interpret it as me taking an active role in this encounter.
While I stared at my hand for a moment the girl came over and separated her Sister from me.
"Sorry about that Brother Ip, I'll be sure to try and handle her."
"Hey! Don't talk about me like I'm some sort of deranged dog! I'm right here!"
"Well aren't you kind of acting like one? At this rate you'll drive him away from us!"
"No… I was merely trying to show my sincerity for him." She blushed while muttering.
"Ahem! Brother Ip please excuse my Sister here, but we're really here to help you out. Do you know what we could do to help you out?"
"Really there's no need, I'm sure it'll fade away with some time. You two don't need to worry about a thing, just go on about your lives and forget about this poster ever existing. This would be of great help to me."
"But! No, Brother Ip we're going to help you prove your innocence! Isn't that right Sister Mei?"
"Yes… of course."
"See! You hear that! Brother Ip we're going to help you, whether you want to or not! We'll just keep pestering you until we finish."
'Huh? I don't understand, didn't I say that there's no problem?'
I looked up into the sky to realize how far the moon had already traversed.
"Well I'm sorry Ladies, but it's getting quite late and I have to go home. My dear wife must be missing me at this point. As you've pointed out the other must be missing me as well, she's a little childish at times.
I also don't think you'll be able to pester me much if neither of you can even find me can you? Besides you're both mortals, there isn't much you could help with when entering the world of cultivators."
"So you're saying that as long as we become cultivators we can help?"
"What? No I-"
"Sister Mei, you're a genius! So we just have to become cultivators? How are we going to do that?"
"You two, listen to me I-"
"Don't worry Sister Ya, I'm sure we'll find some way to go on."
'Well, if they want to become cultivators, who am I to stop them? It'll probably take their focus away from me when they find out how cultivating works.'
"Alright you two, I'm going to leave now."
"Oh! Bye bye Brother Ip, when we meet again I'll be a cultivator."
"Goodbye Brother Ip, I hope to see you again soon, hehe~"
'You shouldn't count on it.'
With that I walked out of the alley through the only exit and went home.
..
The moment I opened the door my dear wife stood elegantly awaiting my arrival. Standing to her side was a shorter woman in a slightly clumsy stance, but she had her own charm.
"Darling! You're back!"
"Welcome home Big Brother!"
Ying'er immediately took action and stepped up to hug me and soon after Jinzi came forward as well. A shame that she was a step too late as Ying'er had already monopolized my chest. She took a second to think before coming to hug mer on my side, the side which happened to belong to the arm that woman hugged before.
Ying'er's arms went under my armpits to reach my back as she rested her head on my left shoulder. Jinzi hugged both me and Ying'er, but in between us was my arm. If it was a normal hug I wouldn't have to worry too much, but she decided to rest her head on my arm. Her cheek rubbed up and down against my forearm.
'Is she going to notice anything?! It's just Ying'er that's like that right?! Surely she can't have as sensitive a nose as her right? She's not even a high level cultivator, at least not yet.'
She stayed in that position for a while and after some time passed I thought she knew nothing. Then she moved her head and turned toward me. I had a gentle smile on the outside, but internally I was a little panicked.
"Big Brother? I have a question."
"Yes? What is Jinzi?"
"Why does your forearm smell weird? That's not how you normally smell!"
'W-what? Does that mean she knows exactly what I smell like? No, no, Noooo. It'll only get worse from here!'
The hands which wrapped from my chest tightened as its strength spiked up. Even her feeling felt off; at first Ying'er had a homely warm feeling as I entered and now it was a cold serious tone, there was even a hint of a murderous aura.
"Jinzi, could you say that once more?" Ying'er spoke with a slight indifference.
"U-um, Big Brother, your forearm smells weird."
Jinzi even seemed to tremble a bit as she backed off a little.
"Darling?"
"Y-yes?"
"Would you mind letting me test this arm of yours?"
"I-"
"Darling…"
"No, go ahead…" I raised my arm for her to 'test' out.
"Why thank you Darling."
She gently grabbed a hold of my forearm and brought it toward her nose.
*Sniff* *Sniff*
Her brows immediately furrowed as she looked me right in the eye.
"Darling, what have you been doing tonight?"
"I was only trying to find more people who would come after me! It just happened to be two women tonight who found me about the poster!"
"Oh? And what did you do with these two women?"
"Nothing! I didn't do anything with them! In fact they didn't even want to turn me in! One wanted to help prove my innocence and the other wanted to actually join me as one of my wives! O-of course I rejected her though!"
"Oh? Then how do you explain this? In fact, do you have any other spots with her scent on you?!"
I thought for a moment to hide it, but eventually I decided to come clean. In the end it wasn't like I was the one for fault anyway. In the past one of her ways of dealing with me was purposely cooking food she knew I didn't really like too much for a while.
I held up my left hand and she took another light sniff. Her mouth contorted into a frown at the result.
"Darling, you must explain. Why is the scent on your hand? You weren't doing something with her, now were you?"
"My dear wife, the only reason I even came in such close contact with her is because she tripped and I had to help make sure she wouldn't fall onto the ground. I swear that was all!"
Her brows relaxed as she proceeded to hug my arm.
"Okay, I believe you. But I can't let the scent of this woman persist, therefore you may have mine."
"Big Brother! Don't forget me! Take my scent too! Come on, how long have you two been together? Maybe you've had enough of her already!"
Jinzi appeared on my otherside and took hold of my hand as she made it dive deep into her valley. A cheeky smile I've seen a few times before showed itself once more.
All her actions were amateurish, but she herself seemed to ooze confidence, it gave me the sense like if I did anything with her I'd be like disciplining a child. It gave me a slight thrill at the thought, the premise which I've seen in a number of other stories where a protagonist subdues a brat.
Her knowledge couldn't be much considering what she's gone through those 4 years, but she acts like she knows everything. Her experience should be slim to none though from how she handles herself. She's all bark and no bite, even if she's seen how it's done I don't believe she could so easily replicate it at a glance.
But isn't it a little immoral? Maybe, maybe I'm going crazy in wanting to do this. I'll just… keep it in the back of my mind for now as dark thoughts, but there might be a chance in the future or perhaps I'll just completely forget about this and never think about it again.
Looking at the way Ying'er tried to rid my arm of another woman's scent reminded me of how she was in the past. Her way of handling the scent before was to take me straight to a bath and scrub me for at least half an hour before renting and letting me sleep.
It seems a little overkill to me, but for her back then it seemed like nothing.
One time I woke up a little restless and realized that she had actually disappeared from our bed. I looked around the whole house to find out she had snuck out at some point. By the time I finished was when she had returned. I was actually right by the door at the time when she opened it.
She had a slight exclamation as she saw me standing there. Quickly she hid her right hand behind her, but with the speed of the movement I knew she was hiding something.
When I asked she hesitantly tong some time before showing me a bar of soap. She fumbled a few words and I took it as her simply being embarrassed that I caught her buying more soap to wash me with.
But oddly enough ever since then she stopped buying more, well at least when I was asleep. It didn't stop her going out at night every once in a while though. She even changed her overkill method of washing me for half an hour to something a little more sensible.
At that point she even started coming out with me more and from there I felt we became even closer. Her methods became softer and she herself seemed to become more sensual. Her new way to block my attention towards other women was to increase her own appeal.
It was good, although it didn't completely negate her jealousy towards other women it most certainly brought my attention toward her.
Back to our current situation it's like Ying'er has become even better at handling her jealousy and how other women approach me. She barely even yelled at me this time!
'Is this all because Jinzi's here now? Maybe she learned how to get along with other women better or something.
Now that I think about it, adding Jinzi into our household was a great idea! She's done so much in such a short amount of time!'
After a bit they clung to me even while we went to bed, as if I would simply disappear the moment they let go of me.
There we slept together and I was the middle spoon. Jinzi was in front of me. I don't even know when she started sneaking her way into our bedroom to join us, originally she had her own room. But with how I kept waking up with her around I gave up the thoughts of keeping her in her own room at night, I mean I suppose a wife would sleep with their husband after all.
She used my left arm as a pillow, which gave me memories about waking up with a numb arm, and used my right as a hugging pillow. That arm was clasped tightly using her own, but the way she positioned it was pulling it through her breasts so that my palm could cup her soft and squishy cheeks.
"Ah! Big Brother, stop it! N-not here…"
I couldn't resist, she placed my hand there of her own volition and she should know the consequences.
'Whoa, why are you talking like that? Ying'er will easily mis-'
"Argh!" Just as I thought about it Ying'er acted.
She was the big spoon behind me currently squeezing my stomach with both of her arms. Her legs were nuzzling against mine and just moments ago her warm breath blew against my neck. Now the only thing I felt was the slight increase in pressure to my lower organs.
Only a moment later it was released and my focus was back onto the mounds pressing against my back.
Like that I drifted into a soft slumber.
…
Today was the day of the banquet that Brother Hao invited me to. I opened my eyes to the chestnut colored hair of Jinzi. She was still asleep indicated by the slow and gradual inhales and exhales as her chest gently moved my arm back and forth.
Taking this chance while she can't resist I pinched her cheeks. The soft sensation really felt nice as I took my little revenge for last night.
"Mmmm…Ah? Ah! N-no! B-but what about Big Sister? Oh, she's not here."
She sat up and began rubbing her eyes.
"Jinzi stop saying stuff like that! You're only making others misunderstand!"
"Hehe~ Please keep going Big Brother! You can pinch me as much as you want… anywhere you want~"
A cheeky smile once again appeared as she looked at me like I wouldn't do anything.
'Damn you, I might just take you up on that offer. Hmm, now's as good a time as any, attack!'
I aimed directly at a spot I knew she would react at. I would pinch her using my thumb and index finger knuckle,the place I picked? The tip of her mountain where a slight protrusion extended out.
"Eiiek! A-ah, y-you! I…" A deep blush flushed her face as she proceeded to turn away from me. Her cheeky smile and eyes of confidence were nowhere to be found.
"Jinzi?"
"Y-yes? W-what is it Big Brother? Do y-you need something?"
"You said any time… anywhere, right? I think I want to do it again right now on the other side too. You have to make it even right?"
"I-I, Big Brother I don't think you should be doing this to someone who calls you "Big Brother," should you?"
'What! You're trying to flip it on me when you still have that bright red blush?!'
"Aren't you supposed to be my wife? It was your choice to continue calling me that name."
"Humph!"
"You know today is the banquet, are you ready?"
"That's today?! Don't worry I'll be on my best behavior and look like a good wife for you! Hmm or we could continue with how we are normally, I'll just call you Big Brother like normal!"
"I suppose it's up to you, but are you going to be wearing that dress you brought before?"
"Of course! Why?"
"No reason…"
"Oh? Is it that you want to put a nice hot rod between a valley? Hehe~ Big Brother, how naughty of you!"
"What! I've thought nothing like that! Besides you would worry a little more about yourself, this is supposed to be a social banquet to have fun at. You should make a few friends while you're there. Alright, go get ready, I'll have to go and find Ying'er. She might be out or she might be making us breakfast right now."
At that moment the door to the room opened and the person who came in was, of course, Ying'er. She had a light smile as she looked at us.
"Are you two ready? The banquet may not too start soon, but we should take out time to look our best! Sister Jinzi, you haven't had a banquet in years right? Do you think you'll be fine on your own?
"Mmmhmm! Don't Worry Big Sister, It might have been a long time for me, but I'm sure I'll remember quickly."
Together we first ate breakfast before we started to change into our attires. Since We still had a good amount of time before it actually started Ying'er started playing dress up with Jinzi which she was all for.
It was a shame that none of the clothes Ying'er had fit her, but she did still have all those clothes which I bought for her when we met. She tried on several combinations and those two forced me to watch.
I thought those clothes from before were all random ones she had stole when she decided to just take them, but I suppose they actually had purpose to them and most if not all of them fit her nicely.
Finally as time neared we finally left to arrive at Brother Hao's banquet around noon, the time it would start.