At this moment.
With Su Nian’s vision stripped away, her other senses surged wildly in the darkness, passively amplified to an extreme degree…
She could clearly hear the man’s steady, powerful heartbeat—one thump after another.
It didn’t seem to come from his chest but pounded directly against her eardrums.
“Thump, thump, thump…”
She could smell the aggressive masculine scent on him, now overwhelmingly strong, domineeringly invading every breath she took, claiming every inch of space in her lungs.
She could feel the soft texture of the velvet bedsheets beneath her, the subtle movement of dust motes in the air, and the warmth of his palm, the faint calluses on his fingertips.
Everything was infinitely magnified in the darkness—becoming excruciatingly clear, unbearably tormenting, yet stirring within her a strange, different sensation.
“Let me go… don’t do this!” Su Nian’s voice carried a sobbing tone.
But in the next second, her throat suddenly tightened.
A large hand gripped her neck.
Not with excessive force—just the perfect amount, a restraint that carried absolute dominance.
In that instant, it was as if some switch had been flipped.
All the girl’s struggles, all her resistance, came to an abrupt halt.
She stopped her futile thrashing of limbs, her entire body freezing rigid like a stone statue.
Facing the man before her, she felt an instinctual submission.
“Master… what… what are you going to do?” Su Nian panicked.
Just a few minutes earlier, she had arrogantly looked forward to the Horned Demon’s “punishment,” naively believing she could control the entire situation.
She thought she could turn this humiliation into a win-win game—lowering favorability while gaining Humiliation Value.
But she never expected that she would be blindfolded.
This sensation of seeing nothing, this complete loss of control, this terror of being utterly at another’s mercy—it sent shivers deep into her bones.
Unable to see anything ahead, everything in the future became unknown.
This feeling… was so strange.
However, this was only the beginning because the next second, the [Abyssal Shackles of Speech] were also locked on.
“You dare question your master? Tonight, you’re not allowed to speak,” Chu Tian said.
In an instant, all of Su Nian’s protests jammed in her throat.
To her horror, she discovered she could only produce small, beast-like whimpers—”Mmm… mmm…”
“Shh…”
Chu Tian savored her current helplessness and panic, his low voice carrying wicked amusement as it echoed beside her ear.
“These are punishments for ‘ignoring your master.'”
He released his grip on her wrists, instead letting his long fingertips slowly trace down her smooth back.
“Mmm!”
Under senses amplified several times over, that light touch felt like a scorching electric current, instantly racing through her entire body and triggering a violent shudder that made her arch her spine.
All her plans, all her defenses, shattered in this moment.
Deprived of sight and speech, she was forced to focus every ounce of attention on her body’s sensations.
Each glide of those fingertips felt like igniting a fire deep in her memories.
The flames licked at her willpower, burning through the carefully constructed barriers she had built with crackling intensity.
She tried to concentrate on hating him, on recalling every wicked thing he had done.
But in the darkness, the flood of sensations was simply too overwhelming.
His breathing, his heartbeat, the warmth of his fingertips, his scent… all of it transformed into the most direct, most irresistible signals, brutally washing over her nerves.
The willpower she had once prided herself on now felt as fragile as a sheet of paper soaked through with water.
The girl’s consciousness gradually blurred.
With vision and speech temporarily sealed, Su Nian instinctively sought comfort and security—and the only thing she could rely on, the only one she could turn to, was the man beside her.
She even began recalling the Horned Demon’s previous misdeeds, using the hatred in those memories to resist her body’s instinctive reactions and the strange emotions stirring in her heart.
But, the situation she faced was one where every other perception had vanished, leaving only the man’s scent, voice, and touch entwined with her.
It was as though the entire world no longer existed—or perhaps this man who controlled everything about her had become her entire world.
In that instant.
Though her vision was sealed, she subconsciously reconstructed the man’s image in her mind.
“Ding-dong, Humiliation Value increased by 1,20,000.”
“Ding-dong, Annoyance Value + 1,20,000.”
“Ding-dong, Heart Favorability +1.”
“Mmm…”
The dam in her heart was crumbling bit by bit.
Under this brand-new, irresistible mode of total sensory domination, both Humiliation Value and favorability began soaring.
“Ding-dong, Heart Favorability +1.”
“Ding-dong, Humiliation Value increased by one hundred ten thousand.”
“Ding-dong, Annoyance Value + one hundred ten thousand.”
Time seemed to lose all meaning.
When the sensory storm that had swept through every inch of her nerves finally subsided, Su Nian’s body completely lost all strength, collapsing limply onto the massive velvet bed.
The blindfold remained in place; Su Nian didn’t even have the energy to move a finger.
On the other side, Chu Tian lit a cigarette, and a faint, unusual tobacco aroma spread through the air.
This cigarette was something he had purchased from the system—the taste from his previous life.
It brought a touch of nostalgia, and it eliminated the harmful substances while perfectly preserving the original flavor.
He fully enjoyed the satisfying feeling of that post-act cigarette.
His breathing was warm, his voice calm as he began recounting some unrelated official business.
“Today I handled the compensation list sent by the Morton Family.”
“Those old foxes tried to pull some tricks, slipping in a batch of inferior magic ores. I caught them red-handed and squeezed out even more money.”
Su Nian still hadn’t fully recovered… lying weakly against her master.
Her Horned Demon master… was… saying what?
Why… tell her these things?
“The Magic Workshop is preparing to develop new products…”
“The Magic Phone department is also working on new features.”
“That dragon of yours eats way too much. If your master weren’t so well-off, I really couldn’t afford to keep both a little wildcat like you and your dragon…”
In her helpless state, deprived of sight and speech, Su Nian listened to these narrations from the Horned Demon Lord and felt somewhat surprised.
He was… chatting with her.
More precisely, confiding in her.
This guy probably didn’t have many friends to talk to.
He must now see her as “one of his own,” which explained this change.
“Ding-dong, Heart Favorability +1.”
For a moment, Su Nian felt that this man, a dominant figure in his domain, was finally showing a “human” side.
‘Haa… This feeling wasn’t bad.’
Just lying here, listening to the man beside her speak.
Of course.
It would be even better if he removed that thing from her mouth—she could share some of her own daily life too.
In that instant, an idea flashed through Su Nian’s mind that even surprised her: if she hadn’t challenged the Horned Demon back then and had instead become friends with him, maybe things would have been… okay…
“Ding-dong, Heart Favorability +1.”
However, just as Su Nian thought tonight would end here, with the rest being conversation time—
The man beside her pounced once again, pinning her beneath him.
Su Nian’s mind went “buzz”—completely exploding.
So…
All that random talk from him earlier…
He was just waiting for his cooldown?
“Ding-dong, Physical Favorability has reached 90… unlocking…”