Shuchun (4)
I opened my mouth, gazing into the eyes of Cao Cao, who had leaned her face in until it was mere inches from mine.
"Cao Cao."
"What is it?"
"Before I answer, there's something I've been curious about."
It was a question that had flashed through my mind once before—one I had worked hard to bury in the deepest recesses of my head. Meeting my gaze, Cao Cao murmured softly in a voice as pleasant as a melody.
"Something you're curious about, you say..."
She mulled it over for a moment, then gave a small nod.
"Very well. What has you so curious?"
I asked, dead serious.
"You... don't happen to have that kind of taste, do you?"
"That kind of taste?"
"The kind who burns even hotter for a man who already has a lover."
"..."
Cao Cao held her silence.
Even in the world I'd come from, there had been people like that. A maiden untouched by a man's hands was all well and good, but there was a breed for whom nothing hit the spot quite like another man's woman—ripe and complete in every sense of the word. They say once you fall for that mellowed charm only married women and widows possess, there's no pulling yourself free.
And I was beginning to suspect the Cao Cao before me might be one of them. What sort of man was Cao Cao in the original history? Wasn't he the one who, blinded by a widow called Lady Zou, got his own eldest son and nephew killed? The one who ignored the request of Guan Yu—a man with the very same taste for married women—and took Qin Yilu's wife as his own? The one who, after crushing Yuan Shao, watched Lady Zhen—once Yuan Xi's wife—be claimed by his son Cao Pi, and grumbled that only his boy had gotten the good end of the bargain?
I had no intention of passing judgment on anyone's tastes... but with things having come to this pass, I couldn't help but wonder. It was all too convenient a coincidence that she would show up like this the very moment I took two women into my arms.
"..."
"..."
Cao Cao and I simply stared at each other, neither of us saying a word.
After a stretch of silence like that—
"...Pfft!"
Cao Cao, who had kept her silence, suddenly burst out laughing.
"I expected the question, but you certainly have a sharp eye for reading people."
"Then that means..."
"Yes."
Cao Cao continued in a voice so seductive it could set any man's heart smoldering.
"I have been waiting only for the day you would take a woman and become a beast."
"...So provoking Seo Yeo and Lü Bu that night was deliberate, too?"
Hearing my words, Cao Cao laughed playfully.
"What if it was?"
"..."
She said it in a deliberately provocative tone.
"Do you mean to punish me for it?"
...Wow.
So that's how you're playing it, huh?
"I was trying to keep my composure, but I see that won't do."
Feeling something snap inside my head, I reached out and pulled Cao Cao firmly into my arms. She offered no resistance, settling into my embrace as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
"Fine. I'll give you exactly what you want."
Breathing in the fresh scent of a woman's skin, I smiled back at her, every bit as boldly as she was smiling at me.
"But the one who'll need to brace herself... is you."
"...Hehe. Then do as you please."
Having confirmed Cao Cao's reaction, I turned my gaze to Seo Yeo standing at my side. She gave me a slight bow.
"I shall wait before your door."
"All right."
When I nodded, Seo Yeo shot Cao Cao a single sidelong glance and slipped out of the room. Watching her go, Cao Cao murmured, still wrapped in my embrace.
"...Hm, how unexpected. Not even a whisper of jealousy."
I leaned in and whispered softly against her ear.
"Curious why that is?"
"..."
"Because after that night, I worked them over something fierce."
They had been climaxing once every three seconds, near enough. They say a rabbit's mating takes all of three seconds—by that measure, Seo Yeo was practically a rabbit herself. If she hadn't possessed stamina surpassing even Lü Bu's, she would have fainted dozens of times before I'd finished even once.
"...The stars kept flashing before my eyes without a moment's rest."
That was Seo Yeo's verdict on that night.
"...My lord."
"What?"
"N-next time, could you be a little... gentler..."
Never in my life had I expected to hear Seo Yeo beg me to go easy on her. Of course, I was hardly the man to hear something that lewd and just let it pass.
"Can't be helped, then. One more round."
"M-my lord...?!"
Unable to refuse me, Seo Yeo climbed to her peak again within three seconds. Lü Bu's case was little different—she had lasted roughly ten seconds each time she went over. Three seconds or ten, by any ordinary person's measure, wasn't that just pitiful?
Lü Bu, belatedly coming back to her senses, spoke from where she lay sprawled on the bed.
"Unbelievable. To think I would go down this easily..."
"..."
"Ugh... there's no strength left in my legs..."
I asked Lü Bu, who couldn't even manage to sit up properly.
"Care for a rematch?"
"Y-you already did all that, and now you want more?! Not now! Get away from me!"
"Nope."
"Kyah?!"
...Anyway, one thing was certain: I had been utterly merciless that night.
"Honestly, ever since that day, my lust keeps flaring up at the drop of a hat. It's been a real problem."
Was it the rebound from all those years of holding my desires in check? Or was it the medicine Hua Tuo had brewed for me, its effects lingering on some semi-permanent basis? Don't they say the thief who learns his trade late is the most fearsome of all? My situation right now was exactly that.
"So I pounced on them at every opportunity I got, and..."
"..."
"After a few days of that, I gather the two of them reached the same conclusion."
I kept whispering into Cao Cao's ear.
"That on their own, they simply couldn't handle me."
"..."
Nowadays, be it Seo Yeo or Lü Bu, the moment I moved to touch them, they would flinch and shudder. Even when I meant nothing by it, if the two of them chose to take it the lewd way, their sensitive switches would flip regardless of time or place. Was this what they called a conditioned reflex? It had become genuinely difficult to show affection—a kiss, say—anywhere in public. In the past, such a thing would surely have ended with nothing more than a blush...
"You're ready, aren't you?"
I said, wearing a cheerful expression. Just how would Cao Cao react?
"...How very much I look forward to finding out."
"...?"
Cao Cao whispered into my ear, her voice heated in exactly the way mine had been moments before.
"My eye for talent is never wrong."
"What?"
"Shall we put it to the test?"
With that, Cao Cao took my hand and slowly guided it toward her secret place.
"..."
The instant my fingers touched that secret place, I could only stare in disbelief.
"I have done nothing but listen to your words, and yet I have ended up like this."
What on earth had she been imagining? Cao Cao was already thoroughly soaked before we had even begun. Seeing her like that, I found myself recalling Cao Cao's original record: a man who kept no fewer than fifteen wives, and sired twenty-five sons and six daughters. ...Since he was that much of a lecher even in the original history, it was hardly surprising that this Cao Cao would be like this now.
Her jade-white skin flushed deep red, Cao Cao went on with a look of rising fever.
"And how about you?"
Cao Cao stroked my important place through my clothes.
"If only you are ready, we need not bother with tedious foreplay—I could take you straight inside."
"..."
Ready, she says. Having already been subjected to every manner of stimulation, I was more than amply aroused. She could surely feel it prodding insistently against her, and yet she deliberately pretended not to notice. It was the bewitching play of a temptress who knew precisely how to ensnare a man.
Somewhere along the way her hand had slipped beneath my clothes, and feeling it stroke my pillar with shameless skill, I gave my answer.
"At this point, I honestly don't know anymore."
What I did once I committed to action was simple. I laid the woman before me down, stripped away only her undergarments in rough haste, and without a moment's hesitation, thrust inside.
Squelch!
"Hnngh?!"
Cao Cao, legs spread the moment I pressed her down, let out a moan drenched in pleasure. Hearing something give way, I stole a glance downward. ...Good heavens. She really was a virgin? Her conduct was simply too seductive by nature for me to have noticed.
Murmuring as though the sensation she was feeling for the first time in her life were somehow foreign, Cao Cao said:
"Y-you are certainly entitled to your confidence. We have only just joined, and already it is this..."
"..."
"Worried it might hurt me?"
Propping herself up on her arms, Cao Cao looked at me with the very same gaze as before.
"The pain departed long ago, so think nothing of it—simply unleash your lust upon me."
"...Ha."
She truly knew exactly how to drive a man mad with wanting. With those words in my ears, I began moving my hips in swift earnest.
"Hnn, ah, yes—there, just like that."
At the sensation of my cock carving through her inner walls, Cao Cao let her moans flow without end. Her jade-like skin burned scarlet, and that ever-playful smile of hers had melted into a boneless, drunken haze. Her lewdness made it impossible to believe she had been a virgin mere moments ago, and I drove into her all the harder.
"Haah—you mean it. You truly intend, to get me, with child...! Hah!"
"That's what you wanted, isn't it?"
"Hehe. It is. It seems your hesitation has well and truly vanished—?!"
Cao Cao broke off mid-sentence, her eyes flying wide as her body jolted and shuddered.
...Aha. So that's her weak spot?
Having caught on to Cao Cao's most sensitive place, I made it the center of every thrust.
"Haahnn?!"
Cao Cao, who had been holding out respectably until then, crumbled the moment her weak spot was teased, tumbling over the edge in short order. Catching her waist as she went limp and threatened to collapse, I pressed my lips to hers.
"Mmh..."
After the sound of our tongues entwining rang out once, Cao Cao drew her lips away and spoke.
"In bed, you are, truly, a beast...!"
"Thank you for the compliment!"
"Now I understand why those two were left trembling...!"
Listening to Cao Cao's ragged panting, I felt something surging up from my loins. Quickening my hips, I said:
"I'm about to lose it too!"
"Yes—spend yourself, as much as you desire...!"
Feeling Cao Cao's legs coil around my waist, I drove my hips in to the very deepest point.
"Nnghah?!"
With a pleasure that whited out my vision, I spilled my seed. It was something I felt every time I finished inside her—that sensation of my release being warmly cradled within her carried a satisfaction that filled the mind as much as the body.
"...Indeed. With this much, you are surely with child."
"You think? I don't think so."
"...Hm?"
I said with a grin.
"Once is too ambiguous. Let's make it certain."
"...Hehe. Very well. Go on, then—move as much as you please."
Cao Cao and I smiled at each other, face to face.
And so the string of battles began; by around the fifth round, Cao Cao had collapsed utterly onto the bedding. She really did hold out better than I expected.
Still feeling something unquenched, I brought in Seo Yeo, who had been waiting outside the room, and passed a very long night indeed.
Of course, Seo Yeo didn't even make it to round two.