Heaven’s Proud Daugh Chapter 79

Chapter 79. Extraordinary Tis Call for Extraordinary asures

At this mont, Luo Nan was clad in nothing but a pair of oversized trousers and socks, his upper body pressed forward, his left hand covering the girl's small mouth and his right hand braced against the back of the bench, his entire person presenting an extrely aggressive, offensive posture.

Viewed from behind, it was as though his whole body was pressing down on top of the girl beneath him.

And Rose Anlute at this mont?

The girl had clearly been startled by Luo Nan's sudden appearance and abrupt close approach, causing the thin gauze garnt she had not even properly fastened to slip from her shoulders, exposing a stretch of exquisitely fair collarbones and the clearly defined curve of her upper hemisphere.

In the instant Luo Nan lunged over, the girl's original defensive posture of drawing her legs up and hugging her knees had also been broken apart; her legs were pushed open by Luo Nan, and her tender jade flesh instinctively pressed and rubbed against the man's waist and abdon, seemingly trying to push this 'invader' back out.

This was the source of that peculiar sensation Luo Nan had been feeling below his waist.

"……"

Girl, do you have any idea that your current posture could give soone the wrong idea?

"Rose, I already told you — this is a misunderstanding! I had no intention of doing anything improper to you. Calm down first."

Feeling the girl's struggling grow more and more frantic, Luo Nan sensed that his own physiological responses were about to be roused, and hurriedly tried to soothe her.

"Mm……" The girl with her mouth covered continued to struggle, her eyes full of terror directed at Luo Nan.

"Stop moving! Keep moving and I'll strip you of your clothes and throw you out onto the street!"

Seeing that his earnest attempts at explanation had no effect, Luo Nan had no choice but to produce his signature dissolute smirk and follow it up with a verbal threat.

Sure enough, upon hearing the threat, the girl's originally violent writhing body and legs gave one fierce shudder, then gradually settled down.

Pff……she won't believe him when he speaks nicely, and he's forced to play the villain himself.

Luo Nan wasn't sure at this point whether he should feel pleased or put out. He let out a soft sigh and continued: "Rose Anlute, can we calm down and have a proper talk? I'll let go of you now, but you have to promise not to scream again."

A faintly warm breath drifted from the girl's delicate nose and landed on the back of Luo Nan's hand, giving him a faint tickling sensation.

A mont later, Rose gave a small nod.

Only then did Luo Nan slowly withdraw his left hand, returning the freedom to speak back to Rose.

Fortunately the girl kept her word. When Luo Nan withdrew the hand covering her mouth and drew back to put so distance between them, she did not continue screaming, but instead hurriedly rearranged the gauze garnt that had slipped from her shoulders and covered up the large expanse of fair skin that had been visible on her front.

Although it was nearly useless.

The girl straightened her legs out flat and pressed down hard on her already-short hemline — she was evidently hoping to cover at least a little more.

Luo Nan went and sat down on the side of the bench, watching the girl's movents in full, and gave a private inward snort: 'Dressed so provocatively to begin with — any uninford person would think she was trying to seduce a man — and now she's playing the picture of innocence in front of this young master.'

But he paid no further mind to Rose's little sches. In The Shining Myriad Trails, her description was not extensive — she appeared rely as a "sacrificial pawn" to destroy his reputation, and in the original storyline, it was also when he had already made advances on her and the two of them were in the midst of undressing, just on the verge of consummating the mont, that the "Chosen Hero" had co crashing in to wreck his "good deed."

So, in the original storyline, one truly could not say it was Rose who had frad him.

But now, having awakened his mories from his previous life, Luo Nan naturally understood that this was no simple case of "acting on lustful impulse" — the web of connections behind it ran far and wide, and could even reach into the factional struggles at the very peak of imperial political power.

Toward Rose Anlute, Luo Nan could only maintain his suspicion of her. After all, in his mories, ever since he had beco the "Capital's Debauched Scoundrel," Rose's attitude toward him had consistently been one of avoidance and disgust.

Having thought it through, he took the initiative to break the silence between them. "Rose, first, I apologize — due to a certain accident, I was forced to fall from the sky. You saw it yourself……"

Luo Nan gestured toward the one lone tree in the garden, and also toward the snapped branch floating in the fountain.

"Mm……" the girl gave a soft hum, held her arms stiff and straight, and pressed tightly down on the hem of her gauze garnt, straining to conceal her figure.

Luo Nan swept a glance at the girl who seed oblivious to the fact that her efforts were only producing the opposite effect, and looked away. "Rest assured — I won't do anything to you. I have other things I need to go deal with, and I'll be leaving shortly."

"By the way, I'd like you to act as though you never saw

tonight and not ntion it to anyone. Can you do that?"

"Alright." Rose gave a small nod of her head.

Having received a definitive answer, Luo Nan rose and identified his bearing, then set off in the direction of his destination.

"Mm?"

In the instant he turned around, the Magic-Sight talent awakened in Luo Nan by the Infinite Tree sharply detected an anomalous fluctuation of Magic.

He spun around hard and saw Rose's right hand already blazing with magical radiance, aid upward and about to fire.

"Damn, I forgot this woman is a Mage! That's a Signal Spell! She's calling for help!"

In a flash of lightning, Luo Nan instantly grasped Rose Anlute's sche. Throwing caution to the wind, he forcibly compressed his latent power and, enduring the searing pain, activated the Thunderflash Step.

Whoosh—

His figure shot forward like lightning, crossing more than ten ters in the blink of an eye. Moving with precision, Luo Nan reached out with both hands, forcibly seized the girl's jade arms, and in the instant before she could react, yanked them both up over her head and locked them together, clamping those slender wrists in a single-handed grip, while his other hand swiftly covered the girl's mouth, cutting off the incantation that had already begun.

Beyond that, the right arm locking the girl's wrists applied a little force, suppressing her every struggle.

"What do you think you're doing?"

"Mm mm……"

"So you really aren't a good person! This young master has it figured out now."

Setting aside the sensation in his left hand, Luo Nan racked his brains left and right, trying to find a way to break the deadlock.

He had to conceal his identity and return to the Duke Manor to expose the mole, use tonight's information advantage to flush out the mole before anything else — otherwise the night was long and fraught with peril!

Therefore, the news of his return absolutely could not be let out by Rose.

This had also been the one and only demand he had put forward in his exchange with Rose Anlute just now.

But he never expected this woman to……

Sure enough, she was nothing good!

Luo Nan prepared to employ certain extraordinary asures to make this woman have no choice but to do as he said.

There was no other way — he was doing this for the sake of his own life.

"Please…let go of ……"

Muffled, indistinct words ca through her lips; that pair of beautiful clear eyes was brimming with fear and alarm, and the slender figure pinned helplessly beneath him thrashed violently — only, with Luo Nan restraining her, the struggling had no effect whatsoever.

"Still putting on an act for ? Do you think I'd fall for it a second ti?"

Luo Nan gave a cold laugh, weighed it up for a brief mont, and made up his mind as to what he was going to do.

No longer hesitating, he montarily withdrew his left hand, tore off a strip of fabric from the side of his oversized trouser leg, and the mont Rose had just emitted the very first syllable, swiftly wadded the strip into a ball and stuffed it firmly into the girl's small mouth.

Then, with one hand now free, Luo Nan grabbed hold of the thin gauze draped over the girl's body.

Rip—