After Su Zhentian and Liu Yue left the wooden cabin, they saw the majestic Azure Giant Dragon and their footsteps instinctively faltered.
It was the awe mortals felt when facing a legendary creature.
However, in the next instant, they saw the dragon submissively lean its head against their daughter.
The fear in their eyes vanished, replaced by the joy of their daughter returning home safely.
At that moment.
Su Zhentian took three steps in the time it took to take two, and his large, fan-like hand slammed heavily onto Chu Tian’s shoulder with a dull thud.
His eyes were rimmed with red, but his voice was loud and clear, filled with heartfelt joy and gratitude.
“Good boy! I knew I didn’t misjudge you!”
“You brought Niannian back safely!” He squeezed Chu Tian’s shoulder with force.
Being able to enter an Ancestral Secret Realm that he himself could not penetrate and bringing his daughter back unharmed meant Chu Tian had clearly earned the approval of this old father.
On the other side, Liu Yue pulled her daughter into a tight embrace.
After only a brief hug, she let go.
Her shrewd eyes scanned back and forth between Su Nian and Chu Tian.
The intimacy that usually saw them glued to each other was gone.
In its place was a sense of distance.
She took Su Nian’s cold hand, pulled her aside, and lowered her voice with the scolding tone of someone who had been through it all.
“What is wrong with you, child?”
“Before, you and Chu Tian were so lovey-dovey that your father and I couldn’t even stand to look at you.”
Liu Yue’s gaze shifted around her daughter’s pale face, her worry deepening.
She leaned in closer, her voice carrying a hint of concern, “After winning the battle and coming back safe, why are you acting like strangers?”
“Did you have a fight?”
Su Nian’s beautiful golden eyes snapped wide.
Her mother’s words stirred a massive wave in her chaotic mind.
‘Lovey-dovey?’
Her brain worked at high speed, attempting to search through the fragmented memories for any image related to ‘intimacy.’
Nothing.
It was a complete blank.
A scorching heat rushed from the soles of her feet to the top of her head without warning, causing her cheeks to burn instantly.
‘What on earth was going on?’
Why did her parents take it so for granted that she and a strange man were a couple?
Wait a minute.
Let her think this through.
An absurd yet perfectly fitting term popped out from her past life’s memories.
Amnesia.
This plot point was a bit too cliché.
However…
She remembered that the female demon they had killed, that eerily beautiful [Dream Demon Queen], was a specialist in mental attacks.
If, before dying, she had used her last bit of life force to release some kind of ability on her and… that man…
Then, a situation involving memory loss seemed reasonable.
Regardless, she had to confirm it.
She needed an absolutely reliable source of information.
Her gaze landed on the purple Ling Cat on her shoulder.
She closed her eyes and transformed her mental power into an invisible thread, probing deep into the consciousness of her two contract beasts.
She did not speak, but the question echoed directly on the level of the soul.
‘Little Green, Little Violet, tell me.’
‘What exactly happened?’
‘What is my relationship with that man?’
Facing their Master’s urgent inquiry, a trace of human-like complexity flashed in Little Green’s massive dragon eyes.
Little Violet went even further, letting out a disdainful snort through the mental link.
They had no affection for that Horned Demon Bastard.
But the Master’s orders were absolute.
They could not speak carelessly, let alone deceive her.
‘We went to the Ancestral Secret Realm to find the Su Family’s lost treasure — the Energy Gathering Magic Circle.’
‘Inside the grotto, we encountered two of the Eight Demon Generals. One of them was skilled in mental-type Magic.’
‘After a tragic struggle, we joined forces to kill one of the Demon Generals.’
‘But before dying, that Demon General sacrificed her soul to release a curse called “Memory Stripping” on you and… that man.’
‘Therefore, you both have temporarily lost all memories related to each other.’
‘So that was it I really did have amnesia. Me and that man were… a couple?’
Thinking of this, Su Nian felt incredibly embarrassed.
‘Oh, heavens!’
Suddenly having a boyfriend — how was she supposed to face him?
On the other side, Chu Tian’s face was slightly flushed.
He was clearly a bit shy and at a loss.
At this moment.
He didn’t know how to feel.
Looking at the young girl in front of him, he found it both a bit funny and a bit intriguing.
As for the lost memories.
With a bit of thought, he knew it was the result of that female Demon General who specialized in mental Magic.
Fortunately, his memories hadn’t completely vanished.
It seemed that only the memories related to the beautiful girl beside him had been erased.
Though this was only a theory.
Luckily, he had other ways to prove it.
“Why don’t we sit down and talk?” Chu Tian’s voice was very soft, carrying a sincerity that tried to break the deadlock.
Su Nian’s body trembled as she stared at the man.
She hesitated.
In the end, she chose to face it.
There were indeed things she needed to ask this man.
Seeing that Su Nian and Chu Tian wanted to talk privately, Su Nian’s parents nodded in satisfaction and left, allowing the “young couple” to communicate on their own.
Little Violet found a quiet spot and began to sleep.
Inside the wooden cabin in the forest.
This was a small house Su Nian had built herself; it could be considered her secret base.
“Speak then. What do we talk about?”
“But let me tell you in advance, I’m not going to suddenly believe we’re a couple just because of a few words,” Su Nian said with an imposing air.
Although her parents’ and contract beasts’ testimonies suggested she and the man before her had been a couple.
She still felt something was off.
Deep inside, a voice seemed to be telling her never to trust the man in front of her.
It felt as though there were some special reason she should stay away from him.
Chu Tian’s gaze swept across the small cabin, finally offering a suggestion.
“As you can see, our situation is that our memories of each other have been erased.”
“Since that’s the case, why don’t we explore our lost memories?” Chu Tian said.
“Like how? How do we find those memories?” Su Nian crossed her arms, looking at Chu Tian warily.
“Even though the memories between us were stripped away…”
“We definitely have people we know. We can learn from them,” Chu Tian continued.
Hearing this, two people immediately came to Su Nian’s mind.
Perhaps she could ask them.
“Besides that.”
“Why don’t we check our own items, especially our storage spaces?”
“Since we’ve both forgotten things related to each other, if an item appears in our storage space that we don’t remember having, it almost certainly has something to do with the other person.”
Chu Tian gave a logical, irrefutable method.
In other words, besides looking for witnesses, they could look for forgotten “physical evidence.”
‘Witnesses and physical evidence? Hmm… The proposal sounded reasonable.’
She bit her lower lip and nodded silently in agreement.
Su Nian looked in the cabin’s mirror.
Huh…
The knight Battle Armor she was wearing was a piece of magic equipment.
Her necklace… while aesthetically pleasing, she didn’t remember where it came from.
And the unique necklace on her neck…
Although it was very beautiful, just looking at it made a strange fire rise in her heart.
‘Wait a minute.’
Could all of these have been gifts from the man in front of her?
Or were they related to him, which is why she forgot?
What Su Nian didn’t know was that because the Humiliation Value System was silent and linked to Chu Tian, she had temporarily forgotten about the equipment that came from the System.
Of course, she hadn’t forgotten things that were common knowledge, such as the origins of the Magic Feather Fantasy or the Saintess of the Stars.
She reached out, her fingertips cold, and unlatched the necklace.
This necklace…
“I don’t remember this. Do you have any impression of it?” Su Nian held up the [Lover’s Prison Collar], which was currently disguised as a necklace.
“No impression…” Chu Tian shook his head.
“Right, this necklace should be magic equipment. I happen to know a bit about crafting magic equipment. If I really gave it to you, I should be able to control it,” Chu Tian suggested a method.
As he spoke, he took a step forward, crossing the invisible boundary between them, and reached out to touch the pendant hovering in Su Nian’s palm.
“Buzz —”
A slight, almost inaudible hum sounded.
The necklace seemed to come alive, and its entire body emitted a faint glow.
An affectionate, submissive energy fluctuation flowed silently between the two of them.
That was the reaction of a magic tool in a Recognition State, responding to the purest Magic touch of its original master.
Su Nian’s breath hitched completely at that moment.
The necklace she had been wearing… was it really a gift from this man?
This evidence was like a red-hot boulder crashing into the chaotic lake of her heart, stirring up a massive wave.
‘No. Don’t rush, let’s look further. There must be something else… something to prove this was all fake.’
She took a deep breath, her chest heaving violently as she forced down the palpitations and panic that nearly swallowed her.
Her other hand made a sudden wave.
She opened her own storage space.
With a resolute thought, one fueled by the courage of someone ready to risk everything, a pile of things poured out from the void and scattered with a clatter onto the soft, wide Bed behind her.
Then, Su Nian’s eyes grew wider and wider, her sky-blue pupils staring at the items before her.
The girl’s face turned pale for a moment, and then it was completely replaced by an even more surging, scalding blush.
On the bed a pure white maid outfit, with a cut so bold it was scandalous and so little fabric it barely covered anything, lay there quietly.
The black dress and the snow-white apron created the most stinging visual impact.
Next to it was a pair of pink bunny ears with a fluffy white tail, as well as a matching black leather tight-fitting suit that looked like it would hug every curve of one’s figure.
There was also…
That set made of nearly transparent purple gauze and cold gold chains, a dancer’s long dress filled with a corrupt and exotic flair…
They were all outfits so revealing they made one’s face burn, so shameful they were impossible to look at directly, and clearly filled with a certain special, erotic intent.
Su Nian’s brain, amidst a sharp ringing, completely stalled.
How could she have these things?!
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