Chapter 128. Your Secrets Run Far Deeper Than This
Last night's rain was sparse and the wind was wild; the waist simply could not bear the weight......
......
Such was Luo Nan's feeling at this mont.
He had long since lost track of the ti, only sensing that his entire person had grown lighter by several pounds.
He lay there in a daze beneath the crimson gauze canopy, unwilling to move a single inch.
"I......what on earth did I do?"
Luo Nan reached out and placed a hand over his own bare left chest, feeling the right half of his body pressed tightly beneath a warm, soft, jade-smooth weight.
Luo Nan shifted slightly—and found sothing distinctly off.
He glanced toward the greenhouse's main door.
It seed......
The bolt and socket on the door......
Were still in their locked state.
......
Upon registering this, Luo Nan's heart lurched half a beat faster, and the blood in his body involuntarily rushed for an instant.
"Mmmm......~"
A gentle murmur drifted from vermilion lips; long, dense lashes fluttered faintly, and a pair of exquisite rose-red eyes t Luo Nan's dark irises directly.
"......" Luo Nan was montarily speechless.
The crimson beauty gave a faint smile, and charm spilled out of her like water.
Luo Nan shifted his gaze away, looking toward the flower buds inside the greenhouse, which had been dampened by the morning dew.
He felt an instant surge of kinship with them.
Luo Nan tried to struggle upright, but the scarlet hair, red as blood, had him trapped and unable to extricate himself.
Luo Nan moved again, attempting to undo the bolt and socket on the greenhouse's main door—but no matter how hard he tried, it was all in vain......
"Aeldelin! Let go of !" Luo Nan said sternly.
"~Mmm, my Luo Nan, are you already preparing......to pull up your pants and refuse to acknowledge what happened?" The honeyed, cloying voice drifted from those vermilion lips. Due to Luo Nan's struggling just now, Aeldelin's cheeks had once again flushed crimson, beautiful enough to make one's heart ache.
"Besides......it seems you haven't quite pulled them up......yet~"
"Silence, you vixen! This young master lost fair and square and accepts the result—kill if you will, but why must you humiliate with words!"
Luo Nan struggled upright once more, cutting off Aeldelin's teasing laugh and causing the delicate form against him to tremble lightly.
Luo Nan refused to look at the expression on this vixen's face and kept staring blankly at the greenhouse's main door.
Hm? Was it his imagination?
It seed the socket had gripped the bolt even tighter......
"Haha, it appears soone is saying one thing while thinking another......"
"......"
After a battle of wits and wills with Aeldelin, Luo Nan managed with great effort to sit upright, and separated the bolt and socket on the greenhouse's main door.
He wiped his face, pulled on his trousers in two or three swift motions, and sat with a composed expression along the edge of the large crimson bed.
Though he had no idea how this large bed had co to be here either......
Gathering his thoughts, Luo Nan turned his head, his eyes blazing as he fixed his gaze on that figure of flawless, moonlit-clear beauty, and asked in a low voice: "Aeldelin, tell —why did you......do this kind of thing to ?"
Being stared at by Luo Nan like that, Aeldelin showed not the slightest embarrassnt. She curled the corner of her lips and replied airily: "Naturally because......I—love—you—oh~"
Aeldelin answered Luo Nan's question with a laugh, without a single trace of hesitation or shyness.
To be honest, she herself did not know why she had done that sort of......thing she had never once attempted before, last night.
One must know, she was after all......
Well, forget it—since it had already happened, she ought to think carefully about how to handle things going forward.
Fortunately, during last night's "fierce battle" with Luo Nan, she had seized the opportunity to brand him with a Searing Mark belonging to herself.
There was much she could do with that.
"Silence! Vixen, do you think I can't see through your sches?"
Luo Nan could sense that so kind of "Searing Mark" had been branded inside his body by her.
After carefully perceiving it, his heart sank.
It seed......he had still not escaped the destiny of "Collusion with Demons" after all.
He could clearly sense that the Searing Mark within his body was entirely beyond his own control. When dormant it was fine, but once activated by Aeldelin, Demon Race aura would begin emanating from his body......
He recalled that in the original storyline, it had been precisely because he had emanated Demon Race aura that he had been branded with the charge of "Human Traitor"......
Although the original storyline's version of himself had also done quite a few things befitting the "Human Traitor" identity afterward......
With that in mind, he asked directly: "Aeldelin, what exactly did you do to my body? What are you planning to use that Searing Mark inside for?"
"Noticed it, have you?" The crimson beauty extended a jade finger to hook at her own gauze fabric and slowly sat up, "Want to know? Co then......help get dressed~"
"......"
Luo Nan clenched his fist, the veins at his temple bulging.
"No interest? Then forget it—after all, it was just a montary impulse on my part; I haven't even fully thought through the specific reason myself......"
"Hmph......"
Luo Nan snatched up that semi-translucent black gauze lace fabric, rose to his feet, and walked over to stand before Aeldelin.
Rustle rustle rustle......
"Alright, speak."
After dressing Aeldelin with practiced ease, Luo Nan asked with an expressionless face.
"So practiced~—not your first ti helping a woman dress, is it?" She pressed a hand against Luo Nan's chest and laughed softly.
"......"Luo Nan stepped back one pace.
"Alright alright, I'll tell you," the crimson beauty withdrew her lotus-white arm, raised her right leg to rest atop her left knee, and the blood-red silk threads on the semi-sheer black stockings flickered on and off as that pair of perfect jade feet swayed. "Naturally it's......to maintain contact with you."
"What do you an?"
"I want to be able to learn your whereabouts whenever I wish to. It's as simple as that."
"A locator? Is that all?" Luo Nan did not believe the Searing Mark she had planted in his body served only this one purpose.
"Guess~"
"I'll guess your m......"
Luo Nan felt he was being toyed with, nearly blurting out a crude word—but managed to hold himself back.
"Alright alright, my Luo Nan, there's no need to keep pulling such a long face. Are you feeling very wronged?"
Aeldelin waved her hand, and the bedsheet on the large bed—soaking with that drop of fallen plum—was collected by her into her own Spatial Storage Magic Device.
"Aeldelin, I warn you—no matter what happens, my free will shall never submit to yours."
"Hmm......who can say for certain, in the days ahead?"
Luo Nan felt he was playing a lute to a cow.
He could vaguely guess why Aeldelin had done this sort of thing with him.
It was nothing more than the power of the Infinite Tree that dwelt within his body.
Add to that what the Cheat Device Miss had once told him—
[Ordinary people cannot comprehend who you are now, and will therefore instinctively gravitate toward you.]
Aeldelin was powerful, yet she still fell within the category of "ordinary people."
"Enough—since it has already happened, I ought to think about how to resolve it."
"I refuse to put in all this effort and still end up walking the sa disastrous path as the original storyline."
With that thought, Luo Nan steadied his state of mind and prepared to resu using information he had gleaned from The Shining Myriad Trails to negotiate with Aeldelin.
He said to Aeldelin: "Aeldelin, now that there is already this kind of relationship between you and I—let speak plainly and get straight to the point."
"I know the purpose of your visit to the Material Plane from the Demon Realm this ti."
"Oh?" Aeldelin's expression shifted.
"You are searching for an object of the utmost importance on behalf of His Highness, are you not?"
Upon hearing this, the crimson beauty's playful deanor retreated. Her voice cooled slightly: "Luo Nan, how do you know of this?"
"Guess......" Luo Nan finally got to return the favor.
"Aha~ worthy of being my Luo Nan—it seems the secrets you carry run far deeper than what I know." She resud her tone of playful amusent.
Seeing that the intelligence he had revealed had piqued her interest, Luo Nan once again calculated a solution in his heart.
"Aeldelin, I want to make a deal with you."
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