Chapter 319: 318 ‘It was clearly mine first…

At this moment, Shane had returned to the solemn Temple.

Before him, Nien greeted him with a smiling face, but suddenly stopped in her tracks.

“Eh? How did you…?”

It seemed like Nien had discovered something shocking from her expression.

Shane could see a flicker of uncertainty in Nien’s eyes.

But he did not care, his face expressionless as he uttered a sentence.

“Now you can send me back, right?”

Shane spoke concisely, his expression indifferent, leading Nien to suppress the slight wavering in her heart with a shiver.

Although what had happened was important, naturally, Nien cared more about Shane.

“Did… did you get angry?”

Nien weakly voiced out, lacking her previous obstinacy and dominance.

“No,” Shane shook his head, still expressionless, “Send me back.”

Hearing this, Nien wanted to say something, but Shane’s intense gaze restrained her.

Honestly, that look was pretty intimidating to Nien.

(It’s over, he’s really angry.)

Nien couldn’t help feeling regret.

Had she known this would happen, she would have used a gentler method.

Now she had incited the anger of the Hero she had been thinking about day and night.

If Shane began to dislike her from now on, Nien felt she might as well not continue living.

Thinking this, Nien intended to probe into Shane’s thoughts.

But upon trying, Nien discovered a problem.

(Can’t… can’t see?)

How could this be?

Could it be…

(Has he become so angry that he has no thoughts at all?)

Nien’s regret intensified immediately.

What she didn’t know was that back in the Holy Sanctuary, Shane had acquired a skill because of his strong desire to teach her a lesson.

“Skill acquired–[Mirror Water]–Would you like to learn?”

This skill functioned to eliminate one’s own distracting thoughts and enter a state of emptiness and absence of thought.

Just as the saying goes, the human heart is like a clear mirror, reflecting everything that comes and leaving no trace of what passes; it is a power that allows the heart to be calm, focused, and undistracted.

Now, Shane was in this state, calming his inner turmoil into a state of void and desirelessness.

In such a condition, it was natural that Nien couldn’t read Shane’s thoughts, unaware of what was in his mind.

Of course, Shane didn’t intend to just stop Nien from reading minds.

After such a trick played on him, if he didn’t strike back, he wouldn’t be Shane.

So…

“Send me back.”

Shane’s voice was calm as he spoke out again.

This time, Nien had no choice but to compromise.

“Alright… alright, go back and cool off first, I’ll find you later to talk…”

Nien spoke, reluctant and avoiding Shane’s gaze, while dejectedly waving her hand, causing the space surrounding Shane to fluctuate.

Just at that instant…

“Perfect opportunity!”

Shane abruptly pulled out of the [Mirror Water] state, his eyes bright, and he suddenly attacked Nien.

“Damn…!?”

Nien finally caught a glimpse of Shane’s intention, and her expression drastically changed.

But it was too late to react.

“Thump!”

With a muffled sound, Shane struck Nien’s nape with a karate chop, causing her to collapse without even a whimper.

Then Shane caught the falling Nien, gently placed her on the ground, and rushed back to his original location, merging into the wave of space.

The entire process took less than half a second.

Thus, Shane smoothly left the Temple, leaving only Nien lying on the ground, not waking up for a long time.

…

“Whoosh!”

Shane finally returned to the Beizut Family’s bathing area.

“Humph humph… hehe… hahaha!”

Shane couldn’t help laughing heartily.

“That’ll teach you to trick me!”

“That’ll teach you not to send me back!”

“And you have to be the first?”

“My first your brother-in-law!”

Shane, feeling a sense of clarity, spoke spiritedly.

“Weren’t you the one who said I couldn’t do anything I hadn’t done with you to the girls around me?”

“Thought you could summon me back the moment I act, able to stop me anytime, didn’t you?”

“But now you’re unconscious, surely you can’t stop me, right?”

“Now let you see who really calls the shots!”

Thrilled, Shane immediately ran back to his room.

…

Dawn had already broken.

Silence prevailed in Shane’s room, with no sound whatsoever.

Outside the window, You Lin had already curled up and fallen asleep.

While Shane’s room door was silently opened, and Shane peered inside.

“Luoqi? Are you still there?”

Shane called out tentatively.

No one answered.

No movement stirred.

“…Could she have gone back?”

Shane stepped in from outside, gently closing the door behind him while scanning his room with a puzzled look.

That was when Shane noticed something unusual.

“Hoo… hoo…”

“”

Amidst a sound of breathing that was akin to deep sleep, on Shane’s bed, a figure lay wrapped in the blanket, sleeping soundly.

It was none other than Luoqi.

“Actually fell asleep?”

Shane was first taken aback, then he couldn’t help but laugh and cry at the same time.

But soon after, Shane could no longer laugh or cry.

“Wuwu… you soulless…”

Luoqi began to mumble in her sleep.

“Making me so anxious for so long… yet you stood me up… soulless… stupid…

Luoqi murmured like this.

“Uh…”

Shane immediately felt guilty.

Although it was due to forces beyond his control, he had indeed invited the girl over to spend the night. However, he disappeared when she was nervous and flustered, leaving her anxious all night, which was really hard to justify.

“It’s all because of that Goddess…”

Shane always felt that just knocking the Goddess unconscious was letting her off too easily.

Next time, really next time, he would definitely teach her a proper lesson.

With these thoughts in mind, Shane tiptoed to the bedside and looked at Princess’s sweet and adorable sleeping face.

That sleeping face, unlike the all-powerful Goddess, seemed somewhat innocent and naive, yet also tired and worn out.

“Today, in every sense of the word, I got my fill of watching beautiful girls sleep.”

Shane chuckled and reached out his hand to poke Luoqi’s cheek.

“Wuwu…”

Luoqi slightly furrowed her brow, seemingly feeling a bit uncomfortable.

But even so, Luoqi kept on grumbling.

“Soulless… stupid… nasty… after all the trouble I took to mentally prepare myself…”

Murmurs like these kept coming out of Luoqi’s mouth.

Hearing these murmurs, Shane could easily guess what kind of emotional journey Luoqi had gone through last night.

She must have been feeling anxious and full of tension, wanting to retreat but unable to do so because of You Lin’s presence, and finally accepting her fate as if it were, constantly bolstering herself to be ready for anything, right?

This was becoming too much for Shane.

Frankly, he never expected the Princess to resign herself to her fate.

He thought that even with You Lin there, even if Luoqi wouldn’t blatantly run away to avoid causing too much commotion, she would definitely resist fiercely when he came back, not letting Shane have his way.

Shane had even made elaborate plans for this, thinking up various tricks and schemes to coax or suppress Luoqi.

Who would have thought that in the end, this girl had instead resigned herself and prepared mentally?

Under such circumstances, to make her wait in vain for a whole night?

If nothing really happened, it would simply be against all reason!

“Damn it…”

Shane allowed the emotions inside of him to run wild and reached out his “demon claw” towards the sleeping Luoqi.

Luoqi finally woke up.

But upon awakening, her state of undress rendered the Princess completely bewildered.

“Where are my clothes?”

That was Luoqi’s first thought, and also her last.

The next second, with a wolf pouncing towards her, Luoqi only had time for a cry of alarm before there was no further sound.

For a moment, the temperature in the room rose, filled with an ambiguous atmosphere.

Outside the window, the day had already completely brightened.

Bathing in the sunlight, You Lin felt like it heard an irritating sound, making it slightly impatiently tilt its head.

You Lin then changed its position and soon fell back into a beautiful sleep.

…

“Wuwu…”

On the other side, Nien finally woke up in the Temple, clutching her head, looking dizzy and disoriented.

“I feel so awful…”

Nien felt her head was very heavy, as if someone had hit her.

…Wait, hit her?

Yes! She, Nien, had been hit!

Nien instantly became fully alert, and with a wave of her hand, an image appeared in front of her.

In the image, a man and a woman were sleeping in each other’s embrace in Shane’s room.

The meaning of that situation was obviously clear to Nien.

Nien’s body trembled with rage.

“It was supposed to be mine first… it should have been me first…”

Nien was furious.

She had done so much, risking offending Shane to stop all this, only to still be unable to change the situation?

All she had done turned out to be futile, and she even got hit?

“No, no, it’s not just about being hit…”

Sending her Hero to the Holy Sanctuary also seemed to have been a mistake, hadn’t it?

“That Goddess, she actually gave that thing to my Hero?”

Thinking this, Nien grew even angrier.

“Aren’t you no longer concerned with anything?”

“Aren’t you no longer paying attention to any existence?”

“Weren’t you never supposed to wake up again?”

“Don’t you no longer have any interest in this world?”

“What now? What do you plan to do with the Hero I finally summoned!?”

Nien was both angry and furious in her heart.

Then, Nien began to worry.

That thing was no trivial matter.

If mishandled, Shane could end up causing an unimaginable calamity.

After all, back in the day, it was because the Goddess took that thing away and suppressed it with her power that the Demon King could no longer be resurrected.

Now that thing has been released…

“Doesn’t she fear the Demon King might be resurrected?”

Nien looked distressed.

Unfortunately, it was too late to change anything, and Nien was powerless to do so.

The only thing she could do was pray.

Pray that Shane would have a happy ending that was good for him.