Chapter 212: (Ten-Thousand-Word Chapter) Please Make Me Your Possession

"Ah? Borrow the bathroom?? This, how can this be!"

Regina's cheeks could no longer be described as blushing red; they should be described as blushing blood.

She looked at the dressing mirror in the bathroom, looking at herself inside the mirror, stark naked and covered in water droplets, and swallowed hard with difficulty.

My lord, my lord, are you here to borrow the bathroom?

You're clearly lusting after my body! Hateful, to devour me, you'd actually go to such lengths?

Taking advantage of when I'm completely defenseless in the bathroom, you launch a fierce attack on me...

I never expected my lord to be such a lord...

Regina clenched her fist and took deep breaths to calm herself down.

Refusing naturally cannot be refused, that would make my lord angry.

But opening the door also cannot be opened, otherwise who knows what would happen, she dare not even think about it.

So for now, there's only one move left.

Regina looked at the mirror with determined eyes, then somehow pulled out an iron rod and slammed it hard against her own head.

That's right, the solution the Female Knight came up with was to knock herself unconscious!

As long as I faint, then not opening the door for my lord would be perfectly reasonable!

Regina felt she was really too clever.

With a "bang," the iron rod heavily smashed onto the Female Knight's head, making her brain buzz.

"Eh? Why didn't I faint?"

She shook her head, looked at the iron rod in her hand, and found that the middle of the iron rod had bent exactly into the outline of her head.

Iron rod: "......"

Regina: "......"

Big Boss: "What's happening inside, why the banging, Regina, are you alright?"

Regina: "......"

I never expected my head to be so hard, damn it, since that's the case, then I can only use plan B! The Female Knight took another deep breath, squatted down in a short-distance running starting posture, then lowered her head and charged hard at the bathroom wall.

The next second, with a "bang," the Female Knight held her buzzing head, hurting so much tears came out.

And the bathroom's tiled wall was already full of cracks, almost shattering.

Regina: "Damn it, why haven't I fainted yet? Why is my head so hard?"

Wall: "......"

Big Boss: "The noise is getting louder and louder, no, it seems something happened, I'm coming in!"

Slowly, slowly, slowly!!! No, don't come in!!!

Regina was extremely nervous, watching the doorknob keep turning, and in panic grabbed the pots and pans beside her and smashed them onto her own head.

"Bang, bang bang bang~~~"

One iron utensil after another took the shape of her head, but besides the pain, she actually didn't feel the slightest bit of faintness.

Regina learned for the first time that her head was actually so hard.

"Crack, crack."

The doorknob turned back and forth, and the Elf Princess also covered her chest in terror.

What to do, what to do, what to do??

In nervousness, Regina simply closed her eyes, directly lay on the ground, and pretended to faint.

While pretending, she also shed tears of regret.

Hateful, if I knew I'd pretend to faint, I wouldn't have hit my head, pain, too painful.

"Regina, I'm coming in~"

After a few operations, Big Boss finally opened the bathroom door.

Looking at the mess in the room, especially those pots and pans turned into head shapes, he didn't understand but was greatly shocked.

This Female Knight, is she practicing rocket headbutts? And Regina squinted her eyes pretending to sleep, seeing Big Boss really come in, she hurriedly closed her eyes tight, regulated her breathing, making herself seem really asleep.

But who was Big Boss.

As a top-tier scumbag, the moment he came in, he discovered this one was pretending to faint.

The reason, of course, was...

Who the hell, when fainting, would use a bath towel to cover their body while fainting! "Hmph."

But Big Boss didn't expose her, whistling to himself, he walked to Regina's side.

As a professional player of erotic lines, Big Boss could be said to have seen countless female NPCs.

He also summarized his own set of aesthetic system—

Big is strong! Big is beautiful! Big is the pinnacle of human flesh essence!

Obviously, the Female Knight is the spokesperson of big! Under the chestnut short hair is a Western three-dimensional face, a high and straight nose bridge, paired with lips that are passionate like roses even without lipstick, pure yet sexy.

And below those lips are exquisite obvious collarbones and round jade-like shoulders.

The bath towel covered her exaggerated magnificence, but that wet white bath towel not only didn't cover her charm, instead following her body curves undulating, outlining it even more lewdly.

Not to mention the faintly visible, cute belly button.

"Mm, this size, at least H right?" Big Boss commented: "Unbelievable, such a big Strong One, actually has such a thin waist."

And Regina hearing these words, her cheeks uncontrollably turned crimson.

Hateful, actually commenting on bust size in front of a girl, my lord, you're really too downhead! But Regina didn't get angry because of Big Boss's downhead words, instead felt a bit of joy.

Being praised by Big Boss seems like something worth being happy about.

Just as this thought popped up, Regina was startled in her heart.

Damn it, Regina, what are you thinking? You are the princess of the Elf Race; even if you've fallen on hard times, you're still a princess.

It's not like it's you doing it, it's nothing—your Secretary!

You can't be happy because of this kind of thing! Correct, the Big Boss is just a Downhead Male, the Big Boss is just a Downhead Male, the Big Boss is just a Downhead Male...

Regina kept repeating this silently in her heart.

And Big Boss slowly squatted down.

He lightly placed his hand on the towel, and Regina inevitably trembled once.

"Huh, Miss Regina, why are you shaking? Are you awake?" Big Boss asked knowingly.

Regina immediately tensed her body and stayed completely still.

"Hehe." Big Boss felt amused in his heart and raised his eyebrows.

This game is something else; even the bathhouse segment has this much freedom.

He really knows what he's doing.

But... pretending to be asleep, right? "Miss Knight, I didn't expect you to actually fall asleep." Big Boss sighed: "That's truly a pity."

Hearing these words, Regina felt slightly relieved.

It seemed that her pretending to be asleep was still effective.

"Since you're asleep." Big Boss continued: "Then I don't need to pretend to be a Gentleman anymore."

Regina: "???"

What thing?

What do you want to do? Big Boss, what do you want to do? "Hmm, not even washed clean, and you just fainted. That won't do; if you're not washed clean, how can you be a princess?" Saying this, Big Boss lightly untied Regina's towel.

This time, Regina really didn't dare open her eyes.

Her inner conflict reached the extreme; if she opened her eyes, the face-to-face social death was something she simply couldn't bear.

Not to mention, she hadn't figured out how to explain her reason for pretending to be asleep.

But if she didn't refuse, wouldn't she be letting Big Boss take advantage of her? Though she'd let him take advantage sooner or later anyway...

But...

I'm not ready yet!!! After being conflicted for a little while, Regina still chose not to open her eyes.

She thought about it; she did have a defense mechanism on her body.

If Big Boss wanted to eat her, her body would move on its own and directly subdue him.

So, there was no need to worry.

As for being taken advantage of...

Anyway, she'd be his sooner or later, so let him take advantage.

Just consider it warming the bed for his wife.

But Big Boss calmly pulled out a steel wool ball from behind.

He elegantly soaked the steel wool ball, then lathered it with foam, and rubbed it on Regina's body.

Regina's body instantly tensed up, and her eyes almost widened.

TMD, she overthought it.

Big Boss wasn't coming to eat her; Big Boss was coming to "make" her.

Are you washing me or depilating me? And Big Boss, however, was unheard of in response to Regina's reaction, focusing intently on grabbing her back and starting to scrub hard.

"Heyo, heyo, heyo! Honestly, a young lady, how is there dust all over your body? Don't you usually bathe?"

You're the one who doesn't bathe; your whole family doesn't bathe! This young lady bathes every day!

Oh no, it's because of you, this bastard, torturing me for a day and a night, so I didn't bathe yesterday!

TMD, stop scrubbing!

Do you have a father-killing grudge against me?

And who the hell scrubs with steel wool!!! Regina was being scrubbed until sparks almost flew.

If it weren't for her face paralysis, she would definitely be wearing a mask of pain right now.

Originally thought today she'd be taken advantage of.

Did not expect today she'd be scrubbed like a sow! Oh no, let me go!!! Regina kept shouting in her heart.

But she bit her teeth tightly, not daring to make a single sound.

Big Boss saw this scene and was amused.

This person of his liked it most when others challenged him.

Originally thought he'd scrub a bit and be done, but didn't expect this thing would rather be scrubbed to death than stop pretending to be asleep.

Big Boss's competitive spirit rose instantly.

I'll let you pretend to be asleep; today if I don't scrub you until you're exhausted, I'm not an Evil Path Player!

He held the steel wool ball, scrubbing from Regina's back all the way to her thighs, then from her thighs all the way to her arms.

Scrubbing her until her whole body was red, Big Boss then caught his breath.

Looking at Regina, his gaze was full of respect.

This Female Knight, scrubbed into this state, was still pretending to be asleep.

Your willpower, you've convinced me.

"Sigh, since that's the case, I'll let you go today." Big Boss patted her buttocks: "Alright, stop pretending to be asleep, get up."

Regina:...

Big Boss: "I said, stop pretending, I knew you were pretending from the start."

Regina:...

Li Cheng: "Hey, with my temper, if you don't make a sound, I'll keep scrubbing."

Regina: zzZ....

Li Cheng: "Holy shit, she really fell asleep?"

Only then did Li Cheng discover that this Female Knight had actually fainted.

"Hiss, that's not right. She didn't faint after so many Rocket Headbutts, but I just helped scrub her down once in the bath and she fainted?"

Li Cheng was completely baffled, but he wasn't a Demon after all, not to the point of doing something like continuing to scrub and scrubbing her awake.

He turned Regina over, wanting to use Recovery Technique to wake her up, and it was just then that he discovered something was wrong.

"Wait, this is..."

Below the towel entwined around Regina's body, a strand of black light was winding and coiling.

And the Female Knight's skin also began to burn hot.

Li Cheng hurriedly untied the towel, and while appreciating that juicy beauty, his eyes were also unavoidably attracted by a scar.

That scar was the source of the black light.

The scar ran along the Female Knight's left side's Nan hemisphere, growing vertically up to below the ribs.

The overall shape resembled thorns, but it was not the same as the Mother of Pain's Mark/Insignia.

When he completely subdued Regina that day, he had noticed this scar.

But at the time, to maintain his image, and to better win the Female Knight's heart, he didn't touch it, thinking it was just an ordinary scar or birthmark.

He didn't expect this thing could actually glow.

With Li Cheng's years of gaming experience, anything that glows more or less has some secret inside.

He reached out, lightly tapping that scar once.

A sensation like electric shock passed through Li Cheng's whole body; he seemed to see a girl's figure.

That girl looked very like Regina, but also seemed not to be the same person.

"Lei Ha Na? Her Sister?"

Just then, Regina mumbled, opening her eyes in a daze.

Just now, she felt a current spread from her chest.

That current woke her up.

By this time, she finally discovered her body's abnormality too.

Whether it was the Iron Head Skill at the start, or Li Cheng's scrubbing later, her body had actually reached its limit long ago.

But she couldn't feel it.

As if a slow-motion button had been pressed, everything became quite sluggish...

Even knowing her body had some problem, upon sensing Li Cheng's gaze, Regina still tilted her head, reaching out wanting to cover her chest: "No, don't look..."

That scar on her chest had inexplicably grown out one month after the experiment was done.

This matter, besides herself, no one knew.

Girls all love beauty, and Regina was the same.

Ever since having this scar, she wrapped herself up tightly, always wearing Knight Armor and conservative inner lining no matter when or where.

Afraid that ugly mark would be seen by others.

Right now Li Cheng's gaze was burning, and Regina couldn't help feeling sad.

Sure enough, Li Cheng also thought this scar was very ugly, right.

"So beautiful."

Just then, Li Cheng's voice rang out.

"..."

Regina's heart trembled, pupils flickered, the fingers covering her chest even twitched once.

The flush on her face was almost identical to the sunset's afterglow.

So beautiful?

He actually said my scar is beautiful?

Is he flattering me...

But even if it's flattery...

I really like it.

"Thank you."

The Female Knight said softly.

"You're welcome, just speaking the truth."

Li Cheng certainly wasn't flattering.

As a top-tier connoisseur, his aesthetics/taste have always been advanced.

The scar on Regina's chest was like a deliberate flaw made on a flawless artwork.

Not only did it not affect the artwork's beauty, but it blended perfectly, creating another kind of strange beauty.

But why would I see Lei Ha Na's appearance from this scar?

Li Cheng, carrying puzzlement, lightly reached out a finger, touching that scar again.

Movement gentle.

Expression focused.

Like he was playing with the most perfect artwork.

Clearly it was that gentle, but Regina's body trembled as if electrocuted.

"Mhm……"

She couldn't control herself, letting out a pleasant hum.

At that very moment, a massive amount of information poured into Big Boss's mind.

In his mind, a string of memories that didn't belong to him replayed over and over like a first-person movie.

……

"Forgive me, Regina, this is for victory, I have no other choice……"

A strange yet familiar male voice rang out.

Big Boss opened his eyes, only to see a young man wearing a silver-white long robe and a crown standing right in front of him.

Only then did he realize he seemed to be experiencing, from a first-person perspective, what had happened to Regina before.

He should currently be standing inside a giant cultivation dish.

Who is that person in front? So young, surely he can't be Regina's dad, right?

"Your Majesty." An elf race member wearing a research uniform walked over: "We're about to begin preparation."

Right, it really is Regina's dad.

This is also no wonder for Big Boss, after all in the PC version, the elf race was burned by Dian Huo and directly exterminated right after Act One ended.

Players didn't even have the opportunity to see the elf race patriarch.

So, this segment of plot is also new version new plot.

However, this old Ling Wang's character model is actually this young, like a little shota, this game producer really has too much bad taste……

Big Boss complained in his heart.

"Don't blame me, Regina." Ling Wang gently stroked the glass cultivation dish: "This is all for the elf race's future, Tianming Continent has no hope left, we can't deal with Abyss, no one can deal with it."

"Except borrowing power from Them, we have no other way."

"Child, I didn't intentionally send your mother to the Limb Grafting Crown Prince, I had no choice, I must obtain this power, we must obtain this power."

"Rest assured, once we obtain this power, once the experiment succeeds, I'll go bring your mother back, I guarantee it."

Them? What are They? Big Boss felt doubtful in his heart, continued watching, but his eyes suddenly trembled.

Only to see several more research personnel walk over, the leader holding a glass box in his hands.

In the very center of that box, a book was floating there, releasing black light toward the surroundings.

Big Boss had seen that book before.

It was the Dark Bible he had just obtained.

"Ah, this is our redemption, this is our hope." Ling Wang opened the glass box, devoutly lifting out that book: "Book of Fear."

Fear? Not Deception? Big Boss furrowed his brow. Looking at it this way, this Bible and the one in his hand aren't the same book.

However, Fear? Fear is also one of the Abyss Seven Gods, same as Deception.

Could it be, this Dark Bible corresponds one-to-one with the Abyss Seven Gods? But that monster before, didn't it say He was an evil god from another world? Suppressing the doubts in his heart, what Big Boss can confirm now is, this experiment wants to borrow power from an evil god of another world.

"Then, experiment begins."

Ling Wang placed that Dark Bible into another giant device inserted with various pipes.

That device resembled a steam train's locomotive, covered in brass-colored gears and deep blue badge stones.

And those pipes, the other end they connect to, is precisely this cultivation dish where Regina and her sister Lei Ha Na are.

Immediately after, the badge stones' light continuously flickered, brass-colored gears rotating violently.

Black liquid was extracted from that Dark Bible, surging along the pipes into this cultivation dish.

More and more liquid, more and more.

Big Boss could even feel his own body being engulfed.

Those liquids clearly just floated around him, but the sensation they gave him was as if surging into his brain through his eyes, nose, and ears.

A fear and horror from the depths of his heart made his scalp go numb, sweat profusely, breathing rapid.

Limbs spasming, cheeks twitching, eyes as if about to be squeezed out by that black water.

But this extremely strong sense of presence instead gave him an extremely strong sense of alienation.

Roughly two seconds later, he finally realized that wasn't him feeling fear.

The one fearing was Regina.

He was merely experiencing what she had gone through.

"No, don't be afraid, sister, don't be afraid, Father Adult won't hurt us."

Right in the midst of this fear, Regina spoke.

In the midst of chaotic black water, she turned her body, embracing Lei Ha Na who was spasming non-stop behind her.

Two girls around ten years old hugged just like that.

Big Boss also at this time saw Lei Ha Na's face clearly.

She and her sister were practically carved from the same mold, same face, same chestnut hair, the only difference was her sister's eyes were blue-green while hers were red.

Lei Ha Na's face was full of fear, she tilted her head up as if seeing something, mouth trembling, speaking language no one could understand.

Bloodshot eyes stared dead at a certain place, as if something existed there.

"Don't be afraid, sister, sleep once and it'll pass, sleep once and it's fine, wake up and it'll end, mother can come back."

"We'll be like before, dad, mom, me and you, family of four, living happily."

"Dad he, promised us!"

"Dad he, absolutely won't deceive us, right??"

Regina's voice was gradually concealed by the black water.

Everything around fell into silence.

Li Cheng knew, this was because she had been submerged by the black water, lost consciousness, so she had no memory.

It was also just at this time, by his ear, a sudden sound came, void, ethereal, almost impossible to hear.

That sound was the same as the Evil God Li Cheng had seen before, neither male nor female, neither old nor young, fundamentally impossible to describe with words what kind of sound it actually was.

"One, I only need one, I, can give you power, your body, is the positive choice, you, are very suitable for me."

"Then, then what about my sister?" That was Lei Ha Na's voice.

"She, is the sacrifice, she, is the negative choice."

"No, if it's like that, I don't, I don't want it, I don't want power..." Lei Ha Na shook her head.

"With power, you can save your mother, your family, your world, this is also the positive choice."

"No, don't, I love my mother very much, I really want her to return to my side." Lei Ha Na cried: "But I, but I don't want my sister to die!!"

"Negative choice, negative choice, negative choice... you made the choice, you personally manufactured the tragedy. I wait for you, to personally see that tragedy's day."

"Wait, what did you say? What tragedy?" Lei Ha Na was both shocked and afraid.

"Negative choice, negative choice, hehe, hehe..." The weird mocking sound gradually disappeared.

The world was once again enveloped by darkness and dead silence.

Just like this passed an unknown amount of time, perhaps a minute, or perhaps an hour, or perhaps a day...

Just in this long void.

Li Cheng once again opened his eyes.

But this time, he no longer possessed Regina's body, but from the Third Place perspective, watched everything that happened.

The experiment had already ended.

Lei Ha Na woodenly opened her eyes, murmuring in her mouth: "Negative choice? Tragedy? What are those?"

And Regina excitedly sat up, hugging her own sister: "We succeeded, we survived, we didn't die, Father, Father Adult, we succeeded, we can save Mother... right?"

"Father... Adult?"

Regina looked at her own father, but did not see the imagined joyful eyes.

Instead only saw a pair of cold, angry, sorrowful eyes.

Regina wanted to squeeze out a smile to comfort her own father.

Yet she discovered that no matter how much effort she exerted, she could not make a smiling expression.

"Why, why are you two, both alive?"

"Ah? Father... Adult? You, what are you saying?"

"Should, should have had one die to be right." Ling Wang stared blankly at older sister and younger sister: "Why... did both survive?"

"Why, why, why..."

"Is it that you are unwilling?"

"You are unwilling to go die?"

"This is clearly, the necessary price."

He just like that slowly knelt down, hugged his own head.

And around him.

Those originally participating in the experiment ritual Elf Race researchers, had already all died.

"Father Adult..." Young Miss Regina, did not understand what exactly happened.

She only looked at her own father, felt his sadness.

Thus, she thought a bit, with effort dragged her exhausted body, lifted her hand, used her finger to pinch her own mouth corner, forcefully pulled up, made an ugly smile:

"Dad, don't be sad anymore, didn't you teach us? Failure is the mother of success."

"Failure is... mother of success?" Ling Wang slowly lifted his head, looked at Regina's ugly smiling face, mockingly laughed: "No next time anymore, no more, the book is already gone, the experiment failed, everything is gone."

"Without power, I cannot take back Viniya, hehe, my whole life, am a failure, hehe."

"No, not right, no, I am not a failure."

"It is you, Regina, it is you, Lei Ha Na, it is you two, you two are unwilling to make the sacrifice, you two are the failures!!!!"

"You two murdered your own mother, you two let her become the Limb Grafting Crown Prince's flesh and blood!!!"

Ling Wang slowly stood up, full face ruthless and angry: "You are murderers! You are failures!! Hahahaha!!!"

"I hate you, I hate you! You get lost into the Abyss, you two failures!"

"Father Adult..." Regina had never seen such a father, she stared blankly at this "strange" man.

She really wanted to cry.

But that face paralysis face, could no longer cry out tears.

And in her arms, Lei Ha Na was trembling all over, murmuring: "Negative choice? Negative choice... is this the negative choice..."

Perspective little by little pulled back, Li Cheng realized, he was leaving this memory.

He also got to see, inside this laboratory, a scene like Human Purgatory.

At least several hundred Elf Race, dismembered, slaughtered inside this room.

Broken limbs flying, flesh and blood blurred, everywhere minced meat.

Blood soaked the pure white floor, not revealing even a trace of original color.

Sticky thick dark red liquid, wrapped around living people's feet and knees.

Even more countless Elf Race, turned into black statues.

He could see their terrified appearance, explaining what kind of despair they experienced in the last moment of being alive.

Just like, the Evil God Li Cheng saw before, when descending.

The screen gradually pulled back, pulled back...

Big Boss also used this time to sort out exactly what had happened back then.

Simply put, Regina and Lei Ha Na's father craved the power of an evil god.

As for whether he wanted that power to save the world or for selfish desires, it could not be seen in the memories.

Anyway, Ling Wang, in order to gain power, activated his micro-operation.

He first made a deal with the Limb Grafting Crown Prince and Nespu, using his lover Feng Weiniya — that is, Regina and Lei Ha Na's mother — in exchange for that Dark Bible.

As for that book, whether it belonged to the Limb Grafting Crown Prince or the Elf Race, and whether one had to obtain the throne to get it, was not mentioned in the memories.

But regardless, after obtaining the book, his micro-operation began.

His original plan was, after obtaining the Dark Bible, to gain the power of the evil god, then use that power to snatch Feng Weiniya back.

That way, he could simultaneously obtain both the book and his wife.

And the price was not without cost.

One of his two daughters had to be sacrificed.

Yes, judging by his final reaction, he was very clear that this experiment would sacrifice one of his daughters.

But he called this the "necessary price."

In the end, the results of the experiment did not proceed as Ling Wang had envisioned.

The master of this Dark Bible chose Lei Ha Na, but Lei Ha Na refused; she did not want to sacrifice her sister's life.

This was called by the master of that book a "negative choice."

Thus, in the end, Ling Wang did not obtain the evil god power he craved.

His lover was dismembered by Nespu and grafted onto the Limb Grafting Crown Prince.

Ling Wang micro-operated for half a day, losing everything — neither power nor lover remained.

It could be called a total loss.

Then, this disgusting failure attributed all his failures to his two daughters and exiled them to the Abyss.

Truly, a disgusting soul-system story.

Damn Hidetaka Miyazaki, I curse you — circumcision will definitely be tortured by a Doctor with fast and slow knives.

……

The perspective returned to position, and Big Boss withdrew from the memory.

And Regina also sat up, leaning against the bathroom wall, hugging her knees.

Her expression was even more dazed than usual.

"I... I remember now, I remember everything."

"It turns out, back then, Father wanted to abandon me..."

"It was Lei Ha Na who saved me..."

"Why, why did I forget these memories?"

"I shouldn't exist at all; I killed Mother, I harmed Lei Ha Na again, it's me, always me, I deserve to be abandoned."

"If back then, I had been sacrificed..."

"Then everyone could be saved, Father, Mother, Sister, they could obtain happiness."

"It's all my fault, all my..."

"What bullshit are you saying." Big Boss walked up to her, slammed her against the wall close to her face: "Your old man was born like this, and you actually still think this is your fault?"

"..." Regina slowly raised her head, looking into Big Boss's eyes: "You're not me, you wouldn't understand."

"I wouldn't understand?" Big Boss smiled: "I say Regina, you think too highly of yourself."

"Too... highly?"

"Yeah, do you really think that if you sacrificed yourself, all this would end? Do you really think that if you sacrificed yourself, your parents and sister would be happy?" Big Boss lowered his voice.

"Isn't that so?"

"Hehe, setting aside your death, let's not talk about what pain your sister would have to live with — just talk about your parents."

"From the moment your father used your mother as a bargaining chip, there was no such thing as happiness between them." Big Boss lifted the Female Knight's chin: "I ask you, if I treated you as a bargaining chip and gave you to someone else, what would you think of me?"

"I..." Regina's gaze drifted, not daring to look at Big Boss's gaze: "If Master you need it, then I naturally would—"

"Stop bullshitting. If you were truly willing, if you truly had no complaints, what have you been doing these past few days?" Big Boss stared at her: "Whatever I say, you do — even letting you, after fighting all day, not sleep, and go cultivate all night, such torture, you're willing to do."

"To prove your worth to me, you're not even willing to say you're tired."

"Tell me, you do all this, for what?"

"Just so that when I abandon you, it hurts even more?"

"I..." Regina stared blankly at Big Boss, feeling as if her very soul had been seen through.

It turned out, he had seen through it long ago.

He had seen through her cowardice long ago, seen through her little schemes long ago.

Big Boss continued: "Also, you don't even have the courage to face me; every time I touch you, you shrink back, talking about your defense mechanism — Regina, I ask you, is that whatever defense mechanism just something you made up?"

"Uh, that one is real." Regina nodded embarrassedly.

Big Boss: "......"

TMD really abstract.

But Regina clenched her fists, gritted her silver teeth, her voice trembling:

"So you already knew... hehe, Master, for so many days, always letting you watch my clown-like performance, truly troubling you, sorry."

She said while lowering her head.

But unexpectedly, Big Boss grabbed her chin and lifted it: "Who told you I was watching a clown? Who told you I was watching for fun?"

"I..." Regina's face was like dead ash, she closed her eyes, not saying a word.

What I saw was not a clown, but a little girl who, after severe childhood trauma, had lost the ability to love others and to trust others.

Li Cheng raised his voice: "The reason I acted with you for two days was not because I wanted to see a show, but because I understand your pain."

"Understand my pain? What are you talking about? In this world, where is there any empathy, I..." Regina was speaking when she suddenly saw Li Cheng pull a book out from his crotch.

The moment that book appeared, it awakened Regina's memories.

Tears flowed uncontrollably, breaking through at the corners of her eyes.

"You, why do you have this book..."

"Because I am like you, we have both experienced that inhumane experiment." Li Cheng lied without needing a draft; he took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, he had completely entered the state of acting; that grief-stricken expression was like someone who had just paid in full for a house, only for it to become an abandoned building.

"You, you also... experienced it?" Regina was struck speechless, covering her mouth.

"Yes, of course, in that experiment, I also lost so much, so much." Li Cheng gripped her hand: "So, if there is truly someone in this world who can empathize with you, then that person can only be me."

"Precisely because I understand your past, I came to find you."

"Precisely because I understand your past, I will give you time, slowly accompany you, and heal your trauma."

"Regina, do you think our meeting was a coincidence?"

"You are wrong; all of this was destined by fate."

"I, I..." Regina shook her head; all her doubts, upon seeing that book, had already vanished like smoke.

I see.

No wonder he appeared here.

No wonder he wants to help me save my sister.

No wonder he forgave my rudeness and acted out play after play with me.

It turned out that the person who could empathize with me was right by my side.

"You are not a clown; you are just a child afraid of being abandoned." Li Cheng said softly, placing his hand on her cheek and gently stroking:

"Then let's return to the question just now, Regina. Now, answer me again."

"If I were to complete a plan and send you to someone else, would you be sad?"

"I..." Regina looked at Li Cheng, her paralyzed face twisting once again.

Tears burst forth; the girl rushed into Li Cheng's embrace and cried wantonly: "I would be sad! I don't want to! I don't want to be abandoned!! Wuwuwu, why me?? Why me? Why is it always me who is abandoned?"

"I clearly, I clearly did nothing wrong, wuwuwu."

"Li Cheng, why, why me?"

"Why was I the one sacrificed in the beginning?"

"Why was I the one driven into the Abyss?"

"Why..."

She cried fiercely, more fiercely than every time since Li Cheng met her.

The girl who had wrapped herself into a ball like a hedgehog finally revealed her soft belly.

Li Cheng gently held her, carefully stroking her wet hair: "Regina, I am not like your father."

"You joined the Ominous Blade; you are my person."

"I will absolutely not abandon you; I swear."

"From today on, you have a home."

"I... have a home?" Regina raised her head.

"Yes, you have a home."

"Thank you, Li Cheng." Regina wrapped her arms around Li Cheng's neck and pulled him hard, then...

Their lips met.

It was a scorching heat Li Cheng had never felt before.

A heat as if the other wanted to inject their entire soul into this kiss.

A few seconds later, the Elf Princess propped herself on his chest and separated from him, her gaze hazy.

"Li Cheng, there is something I want you to help me with."

"What is it?"

"Please make me..." Regina pointed to her heart: "Become a Demon Race member."

"What did you say?" Li Cheng furrowed his brow.

Regina smiled; her paralyzed face did not look good when smiling at all.

But Li Cheng suddenly thought of the four words "captivating the heart and soul."

"In that instant, it was like a demon dog." The Elf Princess held Li Cheng's face with one hand and placed the other above her heart: "You used some method to turn her into your possession, right?"

"So, I guess, you should have the ability to subdue Abyss Demon Race members."

"Then, turn me into a Demon Race member, turn me..."

"Truly turn me into your possession."

Chapter End