Night.
The bedroom of Shadowmoon Manor was so quiet she could hear the sound of snowflakes falling outside the window.
The air still held the ambiguous scent of milk and lingering desire, the passionate atmosphere of earlier had long since dissipated, leaving only a warmth that hadn’t completely faded.
Chu Tian had finished enjoying his “midnight snack” and was lying in bed, satisfied and ready to sleep.
He slowly closed his eyes, turned on his side, wrapped his arms around the girl from behind, and his breathing gradually steadied.
Su Nian was curled up on the other side of the bedding.
The physical afterglow hadn’t fully faded, but her mind was racing furiously.
‘Now, the Horned Demon Master’s most exhausted moment! This is the best opportunity.’
She quietly pulled up the system interface, her gaze locked on that daily quest.
[Daily Quest: Say goodnight to the Captain of the Guard, “Chu Tian.”]
Su Nian tightly clutched a corner of the quilt, her heart pounding with nerves.
If this quest was completed, it would mean her speculation was correct—that gentle Chu Tian, and this Horned Demon Bastard, were truly the same person.
She took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down.
She had to act naturally, fitting her current identity as a “submissive” little maid.
Su Nian slowly moved her body, burrowing into the man’s embrace, putting on an act of enjoying it, of being dependent.
Su Nian didn’t realize at all that now, when she made these actions of currying favor with the Horned Demon Master, of snuggling close to him, she was almost never shy anymore.
There was even a sense of forbidden satisfaction…
‘Why is the little wildcat so proactive even after it’s over?’
Chu Tian’s body stiffened slightly, but the corner of his mouth lifted.
He buried his face in the area from the girl’s neck to her chest, his voice muffled, “Why is the little wildcat so proactive even after it’s over?”
“Nothing, I just wanted to hug Master.” Su Nian pressed her face against the man’s chest and said softly.
Chu Tian chuckled softly, reaching out to stroke the girl’s hair, naturally not stopping her actions.
“What’s wrong?” His voice was somewhat lazy.
Feeling the man in her arms instantly relax, Su Nian knew the moment had arrived.
“Master… I’m so tired… I want to sleep…” Her voice was as light as a feather, deliberately carrying a tone of flattery and docility.
Finally, she whispered two words…
“Goodnight.”
As the words fell.
Just as Chu Tian was thinking how obedient and polite the girl was tonight.
In Su Nian’s vision, on that pale blue screen, a long-dormant gray quest bar suddenly erupted with the golden light of completion!
“Ding! Daily Quest: Say goodnight to the Captain of the Guard, ‘Chu Tian,’ has been completed! Reward: 5000 Humiliation Value!”
The quest was successfully completed.
Which proved that this Horned Demon Bastard lying beside her was Chu Tian!
Boom—
Su Nian’s mind went blank.
For a moment, memories swirled in her mind.
The pure-hearted youth from Flash Town, whom she had manipulated effortlessly, who would blush and his heart race at a single joke from her.
The clumsy, gentle lover during his amnesia, who prepared breakfast for her, held her tenderly to watch the stars on Big Mountain Island.
The brutal master of Shadowmoon Manor who imprisoned her, used every means to make her submit, and viewed her as his private possession.
Three completely different men spun, pulled, and twisted wildly in her mind… finally, slowly overlapping, merging into one.
That handsome face that made her grit her teeth in hatred, with its playful, all-controlling smile, merged into the man before her.
It was all him.
From beginning to end, it was him.
Su Nian felt all the blood in her body rush to her head.
An extreme sense of shame mixed with the anger of being deceived erupted like a volcano, instantly incinerating her reason.
She remembered how she had sworn before “Captain Chu Tian,” earnestly expressing her hatred for “Mr. Mo Yuan.”
She remembered how she had naively planned to join forces with “Captain Chu Tian,” to coordinate from within and without to deal with that Horned Demon Bastard.
She thought she was the chess master, manipulating everyone effortlessly.
In the end, she was the clown who had been watched and toyed with from start to finish.
Thinking about it now, that bastard must have been laughing his head off inside!
Chu Tian sensed the girl’s sudden stiffness and abnormality almost at the same moment.
He could feel her arms around his waist trembling violently, could hear her instantly erratic breathing and heartbeat.
He slowly met the girl’s sky-blue eyes.
Those beautiful eyes were now filled with shock, devastation, and unconcealable… fury.
Chu Tian was somewhat puzzled.
This girl suddenly said goodnight, and then she seemed angry.
‘What’s wrong with the little wildcat? Who made her angry?’
If he found out someone dared to bully Su Nian, he definitely wouldn’t let them off.
“What’s wrong?” Chu Tian’s voice was low and flat, just an offhand question, yet it carried a confident composure.
Su Nian was already furious, and now this guy beside her was asking what was wrong?
But… she ultimately didn’t confront him directly, didn’t dare to lash out.
She could only shrink back against the Horned Demon… oh no, Chu Tian… seething inside, yet only able to mumble.
‘Forget it. Better to just call him Horned Demon Master.’
If she slipped up and called him by the wrong name, it would be bad if she exposed herself.
Right…
Her angry emotions just now clearly weren’t suppressed well; he must have noticed.
‘So… How to find a reasonable excuse that wouldn’t make the Master angry? So hard. Can’t think of one, just can’t. Fighting with brains is indeed more troublesome than direct combat.’
Summing up her previous actions.
All those moments she considered her “peak intellectual battles” were actually just laughable.
Actually…
Thinking differently, as the stunningly beautiful girl she now was, she didn’t really need “intellectual battles.”
Su Nian suddenly understood something.
‘Just stop thinking! Since I can’t outsmart him, since I’ve been played from the start, then I’ll… just let myself go completely! Anyway, I’m already the Horned Demon Master’s possession now, and the system has given me the “Submissive” status anyway.’
The next moment.
She reached out, wrapped her arms around him, and flipped over, pinning the Horned Demon Master beneath her.
Chu Tian was startled by this sudden “attack,” instinctively catching her.
The “enlightened” Su Nian sat up abruptly, just as the Horned Demon usually pinned her, and pinned him down instead.
“I’m so mad!” Su Nian lay on his chest, her voice carrying a hint of coquettish grievance.
“I feel like I’ve been completely conquered by the Master’s charm.”
She lifted her head.
Those sky-blue eyes shimmered with watery light, holding both anger and helplessness, and a trace of reckless determination.
Su Nian’s voice grew softer and softer, finally almost whispering into his ear.
“Even though the Master is so awful, even though I should be angry… I find that I’ve been completely conquered by the Master’s charm.”
After saying this, she herself was stunned.
‘How could I say something so corny…’
For a moment.
Facing the girl’s sudden embrace, her affectionate gaze, and the sweet nothings she said…
Chu Tian, who had just found Su Nian’s sudden change suspicious, instantly had his IQ drop to zero.
“Really?” Chu Tian’s lips curled up, unable to suppress his smile.
“Yes, yes!” Su Nian nodded vigorously, her expression exaggerated to the point of cracking.
“Master, you’re too captivating! I… I simply can’t help myself!”
After saying that, she deliberately put her hands on her cheeks, eyes sparkling with stars.
For Chu Tian, feeling the soft jade in his arms, the fragrant scent assailing his senses…
Even though he’d shared many intimate moments with this girl, he still couldn’t resist her.
Especially moments when she took the initiative.
Hearing the girl praise him, he immediately smoothed his hair, sighing at his own charm.
Su Nian secretly snickered inside.
‘Sure enough, men of any identity fall for this.’
The pure-hearted youth Chu Tian from Flash Town was like this, the gentle lover Chu Tian during his amnesia was like this, and now this Horned Demon Bastard… still the same.
Men’s vanity is truly a soft spot that never fails.
Especially when faced with a beauty like her.
As Su Nian expected.
The man before her, feeling elated, completely forgot about her earlier abnormality.
Yay!
This time, she really won!
Won big!
But soon Su Nian realized something was off, ‘Huh… didn’t we say goodnight and go to sleep? Why… again! I shouldn’t have praised him!’
‘Lifting a rock only to drop it on my own foot’—that described her situation perfectly!
Half an hour later.
That shocking truth she had temporarily suppressed resurfaced in her mind.
‘Chu Tian is the Horned Demon. The Horned Demon is Chu Tian.’
In the chaotic whirl of shame and fury in Su Nian’s mind, an uncontrollable new question emerged, one that could shake the very foundation of all her revenge.
This man, this bastard who had deceived her from start to finish…
‘Then what is his true identity? Is he truly of the Demon Race, or is he human?’
Su Nian stole a glance at the man sleeping beside her.
Moonlight filtered through the curtains, spilling onto his face, still so handsome it made her heart race.
But now, looking at that face, her feelings were indescribably complex.
All along, Su Nian’s deep-seated belief that she must take revenge no matter what was built on one fundamental understanding—the Horned Demon was of the Demon Race, the racial enemy of humans.
And even if she accepted living as a girl in the future, she could absolutely never accept a member of the Demon Race!
So, no matter how her body succumbed, no matter how sweet the memories during his amnesia were, she firmly believed she would one day settle everything with the Horned Demon Bastard.
She could never truly submit to a member of the Demon Race, let alone… become his wife, bear his children.
But if this Horned Demon Bastard, if the “Chu Tian” identity he had always pretended to be, was actually his true identity.
If he… was a genuine, bona fide human?
For a moment Su Nian remembered the warm times they shared during his amnesia.
That Chu Tian would make breakfast for her, watch the stars with her, would blush and his heart race at a single glance from her…
‘During amnesia… that’s when one’s true nature shows, right?’
If that was his true nature, if the guy beside her was actually human.
Then… when she accumulates enough Humiliation Value to become a deity, would she still seek revenge against the “Horned Demon Bastard”?