Amidina’s breathing faltered for a moment, probably because Lin Nuo had climbed onto the bed and reached out to bend her knee.
His hand still rested steadily on her lower abdomen, but at some point, his grip had tightened, leaving a faint mark from his thumb pressing against the joint of his index finger…
Amidina seemed to flutter her eyelashes drowsily, furrowing her brows slightly… something felt off—at least her instep shouldn’t have been so tightly tense.
Lin Nuo couldn’t care about that anymore!
Although he knew it was almost impossible for the cold and unparalleled Princess to hide a Sacred Relic in such a place, what if by some chance—
Just as Lin Nuo was about to pry open the Princess’s legs to check for any injuries, he inexplicably felt a faint resistance?
With a desperate resolve, Lin Nuo clenched his teeth and was about to exert even more force when a flash of white light suddenly appeared before him—
“Smack!”
The next moment, Lin Nuo felt his body go light and then was sent flying from in front of Amidina’s legs, rolling across the carpet under the bed.
‘…Wait, aren’t we friends?’
Don’t you at least warm up before you kick someone?
“They’re asleep…”
“Why… would they still kick?”
Lin Nuo, kicked under the bed, lay there for a while before clutching his waist and getting up.
Amidina, who had been lying quietly, seemed to have shifted slightly, as if stirred by something she had kicked.
Maybe because she wasn’t covered by a blanket and felt cold, one of her hands, which had been resting on her lower abdomen, seemed to anxiously grasp the corner of the bedding beside her, covering the short nightdress that had nearly exposed her…
As if feeling a bit safer, Amidina turned slightly on her side, her breathing slowing down as she remained peacefully asleep.
The serene expression on her pretty face made it seem as if the kick Lin Nuo just received hadn’t come from her at all.
‘Why did it feel like she was… actually happy? Could she be having that kind of dream?’
“Forget it, I really can’t find anything…”
Lin Nuo gave up on digging any deeper in that spot.
He glanced at the candle’s burning size to estimate the time.
“I’ll have to deal with you again tomorrow night.”
As he pressed his waist and stood up, the dim candlelight flickered, and the faint blush of the girl’s elven ears twitched subtly.
Lin Nuo tidied the slightly messy sheets, inspected the room from every angle, making sure Amidina wouldn’t notice he had been there.
He was about to leave and head back home.
Right then—
“Chirp chirp!”
Outside the window, Fatty Bird’s call tugged sharply at Lin Nuo’s heart.
‘Damn it! She wouldn’t happen to be here at this exact moment, would she…’
‘Feng Aotian!’
***
Inside the castle, near the garden area under the attic.
“Young Master!”
“Young Master, you’re here!”
“Young Master… did you hurt your leg somewhere? Why do you walk so… hesitant?”
Several maids saw Lin Nuo standing with an unusually delicate and graceful posture, looking up at the attic’s room as if confirming a location, ignoring their questions.
One brave maid pointed toward the Princess’s Marriage Chamber, blushing and clutching her hands nervously.
“If the Young Master didn’t do anything wrong, I can watch and help guide him!”
But this time, Lin Nuo was different.
He just nodded calmly, like he was putting on a facade.
After Lin Nuo went up to the main building, the maids exchanged puzzled looks:
“I saw Young Master go up once already, and even enter the Marriage Chamber… when did he come back down?”
“Didn’t you notice his walking style is off? He must’ve failed in front of the Princess, hurt his leg but refuses to admit defeat, and sneakily went back to grab some secret gadget to make her unable to resist.”
“Makes sense!”
“I’ll tell you a secret—I saw Young Master seriously swallowing a blue pill this afternoon. He must’ve been trying to charm the Princess. Maybe he already tried twice…”
The girls whispered excitedly.
But as their gossip reached a peak, they suddenly went silent, covering their mouths and exchanging looks filled with pure “You know what I mean” expressions.
Above, in the attic.
Tiptoeing to the balcony, Lin Nuo watched the whole scene and sighed in disbelief.
‘Damn it… The pill I took was to prevent being drugged, damn it!’
A bunch of filthy women couldn’t compare to pure Amidina in a million years!
The truth was beyond explanation.
Cursing his bad luck again, Lin Nuo roughly tugged at his yellow hair.
If only he had checked the Princess’s “little watermelon” directly from the start, he could have saved some time and avoided this awkward encounter with Feng Aotian.
When blessed by the Time Goddess’s future Prophecy, Lin Nuo had imagined that if some unknown force could correct the storyline in this world, no matter how much he diverged from the original plot, he would still end up in the same dilemma of having to share a bed with Amidina.
Lin Nuo’s solution was to have a maid find a beautiful girl willing to sleep in his place with the Princess!
Since Princess Amidina surely wouldn’t want to sleep with him willingly, if they were both being forced, then it would be fine for a female Adventurer using Transformation Art to impersonate him and lie with the Princess.
Two girls pretending, and Amidina wouldn’t mind—
As long as it wasn’t really him involved.
But—
What Lin Nuo never expected was that Amidina would seemingly lose her mind and agree with her mother’s idea.
And worse, Feng Aotian would know that the Princess was the one taking the initiative!
Knowing Feng Aotian’s nature, before sleeping with the Princess herself, she’d definitely try to challenge Lin Nuo to a hero’s duel, electrocuting his “little water buffalo” so badly that it’d be out of commission for at least half a year before she could rest easy…
To avoid this extreme tragedy for the “Electric Chicken Boy,” before Feng Aotian, who was lingering at the banquet frowning and thinking hard, could make her move, Lin Nuo took the initiative and confronted her.
The rumors and slanders spread by his father over the years finally came in handy.
Lin Nuo instantly flipped his expression, acting like a capricious bad young master, snatching the bent fork from Feng Aotian’s hand.
With her stunned gaze fixed on him, he slipped a note between her fingers and strode away:
—I think you may have misunderstood the goodwill my fiancée and I offered you. I am certain that Amidina’s heart belongs only to me. I know you don’t believe me, as an outstanding Princess always attracts many admirers. I acknowledge my fiancée’s excellence and have decided, with noble grace, to make you accept the reality you refuse to admit.
—Lin Nuo, the most noble Young Master of the Clemence Family, hereby withdraws his goodwill toward the unfamiliar Adventurer, and permits you to use Transformation Art to assume my appearance and enter the Marriage Chamber before half a column of wax burns out.
—I am confident you will witness Princess Amidina willingly embracing you, the magically transformed you.
—And I hope that the poor Adventurer will gracefully exit the two-person world between me and her after realizing defeat.
Lin Nuo clearly remembered Xiafuya’s wavy eyebrows as she read the note.
She glanced at him with a pout, looking extremely speechless at this “declaration of war.”
From the mischievous glint in her narrowed eyes, Lin Nuo seemed to understand what Xiafuya was thinking:
—Tender
—This bad young master is way too tender.
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