Su Nian forcibly suppressed the surging humiliation in her heart and began piecing together words amid her muddled thoughts.
“Mmm… Master…”
Her voice carried the hoarseness and languor that came after crying—soft and silky like crumpled satin.
Each syllable seemed drenched in the dampness of desire.
The girl hesitated for a moment.
Her slender, fair fingers unconsciously tightened around the velvet sheet beneath her before she finally voiced the biggest question weighing on her mind.
“You… why did you fight… those Demon Race members during the battle at the Floating Fortress?”
Hearing this, Chu Tian’s dark gaze greedily traced her current appearance under the dim yellow magic light.
That stunningly beautiful face still bore a touching flush.
Her eyes were damp at the corners, her cherry lips slightly swollen—a fragile, thoroughly cherished look that stirred both pity and the deepest, most primal desires.
His warm lips gently pressed a kiss to her smooth, full forehead, still glistening with a thin layer of sweat.
The touch was soft yet carried an undeniable sense of possession.
“Is there a possibility…”
His voice held a teasing, seductive note—like the whisper of a devil slipping into her ear, each word striking precisely at Su Nian’s most vulnerable nerves.
“…that it’s because I fell in love with you, my disobedient little thing, so… Master, I betrayed the entire Demon Race?”
The lie rolled off his tongue without the slightest pause—natural, as though it were the sincerest confession in the world.
‘Boom’
The words exploded like thunder in Su Nian’s chaotic mind.
Her brain went completely blank.
‘Fell… in love with me?’
‘Betrayed… the entire Demon Race?’
“Husband… is that really true?”
Almost instinctively, she asked back in a tone mixed with shy anticipation and disbelief.
‘Mmm… ptooey ptooey ptooey!’
How had she called him that so naturally again!
The address seemed to carry some kind of curse—slipping out uncontrollably whenever her mind was at its weakest.
Su Nian’s cheeks instantly burned hot.
The heat spread from her neck all the way to the tips of her ears.
She absolutely could not let this become a habit!
She had to fix it!
Calling him “husband” was far too humiliating—even more embarrassing than calling him “Master.”
At least with “Master,” she could rationalize it as something the damned horned demon forced her to say…
She had no choice!
But “husband”… that was something she had said “willingly.”
The horned demon master had never made her call him that.
But…
That devilish line—”I betrayed the Demon Race because I love you”—landed like a massive stone in the lake of her heart, sending ripples spreading outward.
Was it really true?
This damned horned demon who had imprisoned her, humiliated her, and made her suffer endless shame… had done it for her?
That was why he had turned against his own kind and stood on the human side at the most critical moment?
Wait.
What was she even hoping for!
Even if this big bad really meant it, what was there to be happy about?
‘Hmph!’
She should be on guard instead.
Don’t forget her ultimate goal: to take complete control of the horned demon, make him utterly obedient to her, efficiently gather one hundred million Humiliation Value, and then thoroughly defeat him!
Just as Su Nian’s mind spun chaotically, desperately trying to use her remaining reason to suppress that inappropriate, absurd flutter—
The man’s cold, smiling voice rang out again, “Of course it’s fake.”
“What?”
Chu Tian looked at her adorable expression—equal parts shock and delight, tiny sparks of light dancing in her sky-blue eyes—and felt his wicked amusement greatly satisfied.
“Did you hear that Master fought the Demon Race for you and… fall in love with Master?”
He lowered his head and gently rubbed the tip of his nose against her flushed cheek, as though savoring a prized trophy he was immensely pleased with.
“N-no… of course not.”
How could she possibly admit to that momentary lapse?
She could only deny it firmly in a voice as faint as a mosquito’s buzz.
But strangely—
Beneath the shame and anger of being toyed with, she actually felt a subtle sense of relief and right after that came a touch of unwillingness.
‘Damn it. This jerk!’
She couldn’t beat him in combat, fine—but why couldn’t even she, a super-beautiful girl with charm over one hundred, completely take control of him in terms of allure?
“Hmph, if you won’t say it, then forget it. Get out!”
Su Nian put on an angry face.
She puffed out her cheeks and raised her fair, tender arm, pointing toward the dungeon’s heavy iron door.
Her voice carried deliberate irritation, but because of the storm she had just endured, the tail end still held an unavoidable hoarseness and softness.
The threat carried zero intimidation.
Instead, it sounded like an annoyed kitten—fur puffed up, yet meowing in a milky, kittenish whine.
“Heh.”
A low, amused huff rumbled from deep in his chest, vibrating Su Nian’s eardrums with a faint tingle.
“Just a moment ago you were begging me to stay… And now that you’re full, you want Master to leave? That’s a bit too much.”
Chu Tian gazed at the girl in his arms—cheeks puffed out, trying so hard to look angry yet coming off adorably sulky—and the last trace of any desire to leave vanished completely.
Instead of loosening his hold, he tightened the arm around her slender waist even more.
His tall, powerful frame pressed closely against the girl’s soft, warm curves, locking her entirely and seamlessly within his embrace.
That scent—cold dragon saliva perfume mixed with his unique body heat—domineeringly enveloped her completely.
As though he wanted to meld her into his very bones and blood.
Chu Tian sighed inwardly, ‘So soft, so small.’
Even though he had held her many times before, every time he took Little Nian’er into his arms, he couldn’t help marveling at how soft her body was.
Every inch of her skin felt like the finest silk—smooth and exquisite.
‘Holding her… felt way too good!’
“Who said I wanted you to stay…” Su Nian turned her head away.
Her warm cheek pressed against the cool velvet pillow, trying to use the temperature difference to dispel the heat in her heart.
Her voice was very small, tinged with a hint of guilt.
Although that was what she had been thinking, she had never actually said it out loud.
“Heh ha…” Chu Tian let out another soft laugh.
He lowered his head.
His scalding lips hovered almost directly against her sensitive earlobe.
“Then let me ask you… Who was the one who called me ‘husband’ first? And who took the initiative to kiss me?” His voice was pressed low.
The hot breath washed entirely over the girl’s sensitive ear and the fair skin of her neck, sending tiny shivers through her again and again.
“And now that you’ve used up Master, you want to kick him away with one foot?”
“I… I was just…” Su Nian was at a loss for words.
Her pretty face flushed crimson, yet she couldn’t find any argument to refute him.
It had been her.
She had been the one to call him “husband” first.
And she had been the one using her eyes and the way she clutched his robe to hint a hundred times over that she didn’t want him to leave.
And in the end, she had been the one to lean in and kiss him.
Pretending to chase him away now really did make her seem… in the wrong.
“Hmph!”
Unable to win with reason, Su Nian simply resorted to being unreasonable.
“Let go of me! I want to sleep!”
She twisted her soft body and put on what she thought was a “fierce” expression, trying to wriggle free from this solid embrace.
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