248: Chapter 248 She Knows Everything

Having her true goal (or one of them) called out by Su Daji, Su Chen felt his heart skip a beat.

Then he realized...

Su Daji's beautiful face was already pressed tightly against his chest.

"Or perhaps..."

"Besides Jiang Li, you have many, many other vixen outside that you can't let go of, Great King?"

"Hmm?"

"Great King... your heart is beating so erratically. Did I... hit the mark?"

Having said that, she suddenly lunged forward.

Her cold fingertips firmly gripped Su Chen's chin.

She forced him to look directly into her completely crimson, seductive fox-eyes.

"Great King, look clearly."

"The person holding you right now is me, Su Daji!"

"The person who is intimate with you day and night, skin to skin, is also me."

"Why..."

"Why can't you just look at me alone?"

"Even if it's only here, in this place where there's only the two of us?"

Her voice suddenly rose, and her eyes turned slightly red.

"Yes, that vixen Jiang Li needs you."

"But do I not need you too?"

"Su Chen, tell me."

"In our past life, when you died for me and arranged everything..."

"Did you ever consider my feelings?"

"Do you know how much I wanted you to live?"

"I even thought about sacrificing my own life to save you from that scheme."

"But what about you?"

"You kept saying you loved me, yet you didn't understand what I needed most at all."

"Was there even a single moment when you thought about surviving together with me?"

"Did you ever think about what it would be like for me, left alone in this world without you, enduring a thousand years of loneliness after you died?"

"Now that you've finally returned, you're still thinking about that Jiang Li, thinking about going out to protect the common people and continuing to be a great hero by burning yourself out..."

"What do you take me for?"

"Huh?"

Su Chen was stunned by the churning, complex emotions in her eyes, rendered speechless for a moment.

Guilt surged into his heart like a tide once again, nearly drowning him.

It was true; he owed her.

She might have been imprisoning him for less than ten days now, yes.

But what he didn't realize...

Was that the scheme he set in his past life, the one that threw all the responsibility and loneliness onto her alone...

She had been imprisoned by it for far more than a thousand years.

The calculations of the past life and the imprisonment of this life felt like a tragic closed loop.

"I..."

Su Chen opened his mouth, but could say nothing.

However, Su Daji suddenly let go and stumbled back half a step.

She turned her face away, her shoulders trembling.

Beside her peerless face, something crystal clear seemed to flash and vanish in an instant.

After a long while, when she turned back...

Those intense emotions had been forcibly suppressed by her.

"Never mind."

She softly uttered those two words, walked forward, picked up the comb from the dressing table, and began to comb Su Chen's hair as well.

Her movements were even gentler than when she had been combing her own hair earlier.

"Since the Great King does not wish to, Demon Concubine Su Daji will not mention the past again."

"Only, do not mention the matter of wanting to go out anymore."

"It is dangerous outside; you stay here."

"Stay with Demon Concubine Su Daji and go nowhere else."

"Alright?"

"As for the matters outside... Great King, you know as well that you gave Demon Concubine Su Daji power beyond imagination back then. No matter what disaster occurs, Demon Concubine Su Daji will protect the Great King."

"If the Great King has requests, Demon Concubine Su Daji can go and do her best to protect some of the commoners."

"I could even... provide protection for that wench Jiang Li, if I must."

Su Chen looked at her beautiful face, where tears and smiles coexisted.

In the end, he said nothing more and silently closed his eyes.

However...

The anxiety in his heart regarding the changes in the outside world and his concern for Zhuge Jinyu and the others...

Did not disappear at all.

Everything in the Angel Investment System had already happened.

Not only was Su Daji someone he cared for, but Zhuge Jinyu and the others were as well.

Losing any of them was something he found completely unacceptable.

Over the next few days...

Su Daji still required him to be with her.

Facing Su Daji's requests, Su Chen also pretended to become more obedient.

He yielded to Su Daji's every whim.

Only his eyes grew increasingly quiet day by day.

Their intimacy felt more and more like a routine.

His entire mind was focused on the silent countdown ticking in the sea of his heart.

[Instant Teleportation Cooldown.]

[Remaining: 02 days 14 hours 36 minutes 22 seconds.]

[...21 seconds.]

[...20 seconds.]

Gradually, Su Chen found that Su Daji was very satisfied with his compliance.

She didn't seem to care whether Su Chen's current submissive husband act was fake or not.

As long as he was still by her side, it was enough.

This vixen also became increasingly clingy, almost never leaving his side.

When feeding him, she liked to hold him in her arms.

Feeding him spoonful by spoonful.

She would taste the temperature herself first before passing it into his mouth.

She called it "testing for poison."

(Though there was no one else in the Star-Plucking Tower at all, and no one would have the courage to poison Su Chen.)

Since Su Chen couldn't get up to bathe, she personally wiped him down.

Using a soft towel soaked in fragrant dew, she meticulously wiped every inch of his skin.

Her fingertips lingered, as if caressing her most cherished work of art.

Later, when Su Chen was truly bored and wanted to read a book...

She would insist on holding him in her arms.

With her chin resting on his shoulder, she watched with him.

Her warm breath brushed against the curve of his ear.

She liked to press her face into the crook of his neck while he was dozing or lost in thought.

Softly humming some ancient and distant Great Yin court tunes.

Her eyes were still seductive; Su Chen hadn't even seen through her disguise.

Not from beginning to end.

But she, Su Daji...

Had already seen clearly the end of the path she and Su Chen were walking together.

Hmph...

This foolish Great King.

He hadn't even noticed that since he moved into the Star-Plucking Tower...

Whenever she was with him, her delicate body grew increasingly soft and weak.

As the Master of the Central China Region Hall of Valor...

Few people knew...

That Su Daji was not only the strongest in cultivation among the Transcendent Heroic Spirits of Great Xia...

But also the only Transcendent Heroic Spirit who did not come from a small world merged into Blue Star after the era of Spiritual Energy Recovery.

After all, the Great Yin she belonged to truly existed in the history of the High Martial World.

Now...

Having existed in this world since the Great Yin...

How could Su Daji, the only Transcendent Heroic Spirit to have personally experienced the entire long river of time, not notice the drastic changes in the world outside?

How could she not perceive the upheaval of heaven and earth?

The spatial rifts spreading across Great Xia...

The indescribable, terrifying monsters rising from the surface of the East China Sea...

The despairing wails of billions of living beings under the natural disasters...

Everything, through layer upon layer of restrictions, through the barriers of Suochen Tower...

Was clearly reflected in her perception, which almost resonated with the laws of heaven and earth.

She knew everything.