After a brief daze, Lin Nuo glanced at Yulilian sitting beside him, her little face munching away with a sound like “ah-woo ah-woo,” resembling a chipmunk.
He pushed his own plate toward her and asked, “Do you want some honey crisp biscuits?”
“No, thank you…”
Knowing Lin Nuo had brought back the hero who saved his sister, Yulilian, for the first time, resisted the urge to gobble up all the tasty food and insisted on refusing.
Before she could finish her sentence, Lin Nuo, in her shocked gaze, forked the untouched honey crisp biscuit from her plate and ate it.
“……”
Yulilian’s face froze, unable to accept it.
“Then, do you want the lamb chop?”
After a moment’s pause, she pushed her plate over to Lin Nuo, trying to do the same.
But unexpectedly, Lin Nuo just glanced at her and actually forked the lamb chop off her plate again!
“You…”
“You’re so easy to bully, Longya!”
Watching Yulilian pout with her smooth rosy cheeks and both little arms tightly guarding the last small cake, Lin Nuo smiled.
Yulilian, who loved to eat so much, was definitely more fun to tease than that Yulilian who would have given her life in exchange for another bite of delicious food, and ended up never tasting it again.
“I’m not talking to you anymore, I’m going to help my sister with the laundry!” Yulilian pouted.
“Oh, by the way, let me ask you something.”
Suddenly recalling Amidina, who had held onto him tightly all night and hadn’t even changed clothes after returning from the Mist Forest, Lin Nuo asked, “Does your sister usually sleep in her clothes?”
“Yeah, she does.”
“She’s very afraid of the cold, and mainly because the Angekesai family doesn’t treat her as well as you do. Sleeping in clothes has become a habit for her. I want to help her change that, otherwise every time she sleeps, I have to wash her clothes and even get under the covers to help her take them off…”
Yulilian thought for a moment and added, “But I don’t know why, the day you found me in the kitchen and said you hoped sister would wear less at night, she really wore very little that day.”
Upon hearing this, Lin Nuo’s breath caught suddenly.
Before he could say anything, Yulilian continued:
“I almost thought the book you were holding was really sister’s Sacred Relic…”
“Book? What book?”
The three words ‘Sacred Relic’ immediately triggered Lin Nuo, whose plan to sneak a glance was basically blown.
“Have you never asked Duke and the Duchess about it? Sister’s Sacred Relic,” Yulilian scratched her head with a puzzled look, “I remember sister showed me. Her Sacred Relic is a book that has no weight, and the cover looks like it has a beautiful array… The title page has four characters written.”
“I remember, um… it should be…”
“Natural Magic?”
Before he could say, those words slipped out first.
Seeing Yulilian’s almond eyes fill with surprise and doubt, Lin Nuo, who had already guessed the answer, seemed to understand something.
No way…
Could it be!
***
The emerald wooden vines extended downward from the ceiling as the girl lightly raised her finger.
Her rounded hips gently rested in the air, and the vines spontaneously formed a swing beneath her.
A pink flower bud beside her jade-like legs exhaled a fragrant scent.
But compared to Amidina’s pure and stunning face, no matter how beautiful the flower, it was only an adornment.
The wind outside blew gently, and the beautiful shadow of the girl on the swing swayed softly on the sunlit floor.
Amidina’s lips, still swollen from two days ago, were slightly pursed.
Occasionally, she peeked through the gap in the curtain, glancing toward the empty place where that person lived, lost in thought.
Perhaps bored, she hooked her Frost Soul Bow with one foot and was about to do something when—
“Sis, I brought Brother Lin Nuo to see you!”
With a loud bang, Yulilian burst through the door.
The extremely alluring scene immediately leapt into Lin Nuo’s eyes.
There, the slender and voluptuous girl was leisurely sitting on the swing, and astonishingly… pulling the bowstring with her foot!
The soft pink sole pressed against the bow’s body, while the toes of the other foot skillfully tugged the ice-blue string that made her instep appear even whiter and more delicate.
The thin gauze skirt fluttered in midair, clinging to her well-shaped curves, outlined perfectly round and smooth.
Perhaps surprised by the sudden intrusion, Amidina, dressed rather scantily in the room, didn’t have time to close her slightly parted jade legs.
Her peach blossom eyes met Lin Nuo’s gaze just as her foot suddenly tensed.
A Water Magic Arrow, drawn by her relaxing toes, shot straight toward Lin Nuo at the doorway.
Sizzle—
“Sis… why did you shoot as soon as we came in?”
Yulilian immediately looked down, safe from the arrow, and then at Lin Nuo, whose golden hair was soaked by the Water Magic Arrow, “You sure have a lot of water… Can’t you hold it in? You sprayed right in my face!”
Lin Nuo: “……”
Soon, as Lin Nuo was wiping his head with a towel that carried a familiar scent, discussing with this simpleton whether they should knock before coming in next time,
Amidina gracefully approached, carrying two cups of sweet tea and took Yulilian away before gently coming to Lin Nuo.
As Amidina half-squatted, her flawless delicate face suddenly came close.
Her peach blossom eyes filled with seriousness as she raised her fair hand.
Under the influence of Fire Magic and Wind Magic, a warm breeze stirred Lin Nuo’s hair.
Of course, Lin Nuo dared not meet Amidina’s eyes directly, but his gaze moved like it had auto-aim, locking onto the sharply outlined small curves under her fitted gauze skirt right below his eyelids.
He even stared for two seconds before reacting and quickly looked away.
Amidina, seemingly unaware of his expression, helped him dry his hair, then stood up, silently smacking her own head twice in frustration for almost losing control.
Unnoticed by Amidina withdrawing her gaze, the corners of her lips curled slightly.
Lin Nuo spoke first, “Your Highness, how have you been feeling since you returned these past two days?”
“That question should be for you,” Amidina replied, “You were our only main force in the Mist Forest.”
She placed the tea-filled cup in Lin Nuo’s hand and asked him to raise his arm, then lifted his clothes.
Seeing the determined look in Amidina’s eyes, Lin Nuo didn’t resist, letting that delicate, boneless hand, glowing faintly with magical light, touch the remaining bruises on his abdomen.
But as the hand moved to examine his lower belly, Lin Nuo spoke:
“Your Highness, about the wound on your lip…”
Amidina seemed to tense slightly, and Lin Nuo tried to probe, “I heard that saliva can reduce friction from food and air on wounds, and relieve pain…”
Just as he finished speaking, Amidina looked up and glared at him.
Saliva…
Could it be that this rogue still wants to kiss?
Apparently understanding the faint caution hidden in her peach blossom eyes, Lin Nuo panicked a little: “…I didn’t mean that.”
He didn’t want to use his saliva!
He simply wanted to indirectly ask if the wound in Amidina’s mouth still hurt…
Before Lin Nuo could say more, Amidina fixed him with a stare.
“What are you explaining for? I’m not thinking dirty.”
“……”
‘I haven’t even said it and you’re already not thinking dirty? That means you’re the one thinking dirty!’
“…It was my first time, so I wasn’t familiar with it… Mainly, I was unconscious and couldn’t control myself. I might have been a bit rough with Your Highness.”
“I know your character. You don’t need to emphasize that it was your first kiss.”
“……”
‘Yeah, right! Kiss my ass!’
Lin Nuo didn’t know what Amidina was thinking.
His point was that he had been rough and accidentally swollen her lips, so why was she focused on the first kiss instead?