“Shh!”
Lin Nuo suddenly leaned in, covering Amidina’s cherry lips with his hand, meeting her eyes that flashed with panic.
“You take off your clothes, I’ll wear yours to distract them, and you sneak across the Bridge to call for help.”
Lin Nuo swore that if Amidina failed to get anyone to come back and save him, even if he became a ghost, he would sneak into her bed every night to steal her socks!
“I’m giving you my life—three minutes. I can only hold on for three minutes at most!”
Amidina, who had thought Lin Nuo wanted to ambush her and then hand her over to the others to save himself, stared at him steadily, her eyes trembling for a moment.
Hearing the footsteps closing in, Lin Nuo grew more anxious and frantically mouthed the words—hurry, take it off!
Amidina bit her lip, showing obvious hesitation, and with her eyes indicated him to look at the unconscious Xiafuya.
The meaning was clear—”You take her clothes off!”
‘Damn it… ‘
Lin Nuo steeled himself, grabbed Amidina’s shoulders, ignoring her resistance, and aimed for her collar.
“Not there… don’t—”
“Ah~!”
Lin Nuo’s eardrums burst for a moment as he stared in shock at Amidina clutching her collar tightly and stepping back, her face equally helpless.
She only belatedly raised a hand to cover her mouth.
‘Why did you have to scream so loud?’
Sure enough—
“What’s that noise…”
“Sounds just like the noises you made last night. It’s always you, digging for gold every night, making me hallucinate!”
“Pfft! Don’t you know the Clemence Family’s useless young master is engaged? There are lots of guests coming and going. It’s normal for guests to sneak in maids to bully others on a rainy day… What, you wanna watch? Tch, you’re just a pervert who’s never tasted pork but wants to watch the pig run—disgusting!”
“Y-you—you pervert… I’m not watching, and neither are you!”
“Step, step, step…”
The approaching footsteps kept pressing Lin Nuo’s nerves.
There was no time for the plan of splitting up to change clothes.
Looking at Xiafuya—completely paralyzed and unconscious; then Amidina—half-paralyzed, with drastically reduced combat ability; finally himself—he was nothing more than a battle-worn weakling with no combat power.
Facing an adventurer team close to a mini-boss level, holding out for three minutes was already a stretch.
But when Lin Nuo caught the adventurers’ conversation outside, it was like a lightning strike of wisdom hit his temple.
His eyes lit up.
He glanced at Xiafuya on the bed, hesitated only briefly, then resolutely unbuckled his belt, tore off his clothes, and walked straight toward the soft, delicate elf girl who had just slid to the edge of the bed.
‘Forget it!’
‘Damn it—get on the bed!’
Even though Amidina saw Lin Nuo’s intention, she instinctively curled her hands in front of her body in a protective gesture, eyes filled with a distant and faintly noticeable emotion.
Maybe it was because she had lost control and called out just now, exposing their location too quickly.
Seeing Lin Nuo decisively take off his shirt, as if preparing to use the sleeping Xiafuya as a disguise, Amidina seemed relieved it wasn’t her who had to fake intimacy with her so-called fiancé, but a trace of apology also surfaced on her face.
But in the blink of an eye, the next moment, she found herself suspended in midair—Lin Nuo had lifted her up in one swift motion.
‘Eh??’
Amidina’s peach blossom eyes widened.
Lin Nuo freed one hand to pull back the blanket covering Xiafuya while pressing the limp Amidina’s lower body against Xiafuya.
He checked their positions, then lunged at the princess who was still kneeling on the bed, dumbfounded and not yet reacting.
“What are you… no! You’re crushing my hair!”
“It hurts… you… let go of me…”
“You can’t do this! You… can’t be so shameless toward me!”
‘Are you sick or what?!’
‘I already told you what I’m trying to do! If you wanted to cooperate, you could’ve yelled louder!’
‘Whispering so delicately that only the two of us could hear and asking me to let go—what kind of playacting is that?’
When Lin Nuo caught Amidina’s wild flailing hands and saw her panic-filled peach blossom eyes, along with the stubborn look of “I refuse to be humiliated” on her delicate face, he realized she was genuinely resisting out of innocence.
‘I’m not a scoundrel, I’m not actually taking advantage of you!’
But this created a difficult situation, and there was no other way to fool the searchers.
Lin Nuo’s heart hardened.
“Slash—”
The sound of the dress wrapped around her soft body being torn from the shoulder froze Amidina’s struggling.
Her flawless, creamy back was exposed right before his eyes.
Lin Nuo pressed her delicate, fragrant shoulder and casually ruffled her hair to remind her to respond more.
But Amidina was completely uncooperative—silent and motionless, only clutching the blanket tightly as she lay down.
When she touched Xiafuya beneath her, she immediately pushed herself up, paused, and a mist of tears shimmered in her peach blossom eyes.
Lin Nuo saw that she truly didn’t know how to cooperate, but this wasn’t enough.
He searched and lifted the hem of Amidina’s patterned dress and grabbed it around her slender waist.
Leaning down, hands pressed on the edge of the bed, he shook the bed hard.
“Creak creak, creak creak—”
The whole motion was done in one go.
“Shameless? Just wait and see if I have any shame!”
“Sluurp, sluurp… sluurp, sluurp…”
“Step step—”
The footsteps outside suddenly stopped.
“There really is someone doing something… it sounds so intense! The bed’s about to fall apart. Why is the girl holding back her cries? When you mine at night, you always…”
“Should we go check out the fun?”
“Check out the fun? Something fishy is definitely going on!”
“You’re right, let’s go see!”
“Let’s go! I want to watch too! Hurry before they finish!”
The footsteps hurried even more.
“?!”
The breath in Lin Nuo’s chest almost choked him—youngsters have no honor!
One moment they call it disgusting, the next they’re rushing over to gawk?
Feeling Amidina tense all over, Lin Nuo swiftly grabbed the blanket she was clutching and wrapped her and Xiafuya tightly.
Almost simultaneously—
“Bang—”
The door was kicked open, hitting the wall with a loud crash.
Amidina’s face flushed with shame, tears threatening to spill from her eyes, and she clumsily tried multiple times to—
Before her lips could part to utter the resigned “en, en,” she felt the hands supporting her waist suddenly loosen.
Her whole body went limp as if thoroughly worn out, even the pale feet that had been tensed inside the blanket relaxed…
As a princess, Amidina was a complete novice in such matters, but this reaction only made it seem more genuine.
Two figures in gray robes stepped in from the rain.
One of them swiftly pulled back his rain-soaked hood, deliberately looking toward the bed.
But even without the obstruction, he saw nothing and looked disappointed.
He then turned to the man with disheveled golden hair and bare upper body.
The dark room made his features hard to see clearly, but one could sense the irritation on his face from being disturbed in the middle of something pleasurable.
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