38: Was I tricked? No, I found the most fun toy!

Deep within the endless Void Current.

This was a graveyard where even light and time were ground away, and eternal silence was the sole Dominator.

Ye Ninghan sat cross-legged on a floating, Broken Continent.

Her shattered profound black Imperial Robe drifted silently, and the Devilish Qi swirling around her transformed into countless hungry tentacles, greedily tearing and devouring the chaotic energy in the Void Realm. Her dao foundation, which had dried up after being Sealed for a hundred thousand years, was visibly replenishing.

Her eyes were tightly shut, her exquisite face icy, yet a hint of confusion was undeniable.

"Wife..."

"Ye Ninghan..."

These two words were the brand left by the Little Man, clinging like maggots to the bone, repeatedly washing over her mind which was otherwise left with only destruction and malice.

Every time they sounded, they caused an incomprehensible ripple... a ripple in her Devilish Heart, which was as hard as divine iron.

A strange, tingling itch.

What exactly did his phrase, "Be my wife," mean?

Was it some kind of Advanced binding contract... superior to a "toy"?

Her instincts screamed that the man was special.

The clean scent on him that made her want to corrupt it, the pair of eyes that seemed to see through everything, and that arrogant, unreasonable declaration... all of it generated a strong, primal desire to possess him completely, to crush him into pieces within her own body.

"Little Man..."

"Wait until this Dominator recovers, and I will come back for you."

She would capture him and keep him by her side, using every method possible to properly "study" him.

How exactly one should "be a wife."

Just as she was immersed in this twisted anticipation.

*Buzz—*

The Void Realm before her suddenly rippled, a movement barely perceptible.

A black diary materialized out of thin air.

Ye Ninghan suddenly opened her eyes, and a destructive red light shot forth.

But she quickly sensed a familiar aura emanating from the diary, one that calmed her restless heart.

It was the scent of that Little Man.

What... was he thinking?

Filled with intense curiosity, she extended her fair fingers—her nails, however, were black as ink—and drew the diary into her hand across the space.

She flipped open the first page.

[I've had the worst luck today! First, I got itchy hands in the Forbidden Ground and released a Crazy Woman who had been locked up for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, almost getting myself killed on the spot.]

Crazy Woman?

Ye Ninghan's movement paused for a moment, and her beautiful brows furrowed.

[Luckily, I, Su Chen, am extraordinarily clever, and my acting skills have reached the Transcendent level. I relied on this devastatingly handsome face and my silver tongue to completely fool that Old Auntie!]

Old... Auntie?

She subconsciously raised her hand and gently stroked her smooth, jade-like cheek.

She, the dignified "Fallen Immortal of the Mortal World," was called an "Old Auntie" by a Little Man who hadn't even lived for twenty years?

A sense of offended fury began to rise.

[Can you believe it? I just made up a name, then shamelessly proposed to her, and she actually believed it! And just left like that!]

*Boom!*

Time seemed to stand still at this moment.

All expression on Ye Ninghan's face froze.

Made it up?

The proposal was just to save his life?

Everything he said just now... was all... a lie to deceive me?

That momentary flutter of the heart.

The confusion and anticipation brought by the phrase "Be my wife."

Everything collapsed violently at this moment, shattering into the most ridiculous dust.

After the ultimate silence.

"Pfft..."

An extremely suppressed giggle escaped her throat.

Immediately, the laughter grew louder, becoming increasingly uncontrollable.

"Heh heh... heh heh heh heh..."

She laughed until her whole body trembled, her delicate frame curling up, tears streaming from her eyes.

The monstrous rage and extreme humiliation of being deceived, toyed with, and treated like a fool did not turn into a roar, but instead poured entirely into this frantic laughter!

*Crack!*

The Broken Continent beneath her cracked inch by inch amidst the uncontrolled laughter, finally exploding into dust that filled the sky!

A surge of Devilish Qi, a hundred times more terrifying than what was released in the Su Family Forbidden Ground, violently erupted, shaking everything within ten thousand miles into nothingness!

"Su Chen—!"

She shrieked the name amidst her frenzied laughter; her voice was no longer mournful, but filled with perverse pleasure!

"You... interesting Little Liar!"

"How dare you... toy with this Dominator!"

To be fooled completely by a junior in the Saint Realm, using such a clumsy lie and a damned handsome face.

What a monstrous disgrace!

But this humiliation of being played in the palm of his hand strangely generated an unprecedented excitement within her!

Kill him?

No, that would be too boring.

Destroying a liar is like crushing an ant—it's utterly flavorless.

But what if this liar, on one hand, was a "Peerless Expert" who managed to fool her, and on the other hand... Her gaze fell back onto the diary suspended in the Void Realm.

The diary opened automatically, and Su Chen's exasperated handwriting continued to appear.

[...The most fatal thing is that the way she looked at me was exactly like a wronged young wife who had been constantly neglected by her husband and left to guard the empty bridal chamber...]

[...I was running away! I was fleeing for my life! Do you understand?!]

[...If anyone dares to erect that broken stele, I'll... I'll run away from home!]

Ye Ninghan's laughter rose again.

She had discovered a game more interesting than destroying the world.

This Little Liar was afraid of socializing, afraid of trouble, and afraid that the "merit stele" would ruin his image as a salted fish.

Then... a crazy idea, ten thousand times more interesting than killing him directly, sprouted in her mind!

"Little Liar, do you think that just because you fooled this Dominator once, you can rest easy?"

"You are too naive."

The smile faded from her face, replaced by an intensity and focus akin to creating a work of art.

She extended her fair finger and lightly tapped the Void Realm.

The dense Devilish Qi around her began to contract and reshape inward in an extremely bizarre manner!

Amidst a grating "crack-crack" sound, her perfect feminine skeleton was forcibly twisted and stretched!

Her figure, appearance, and aura were all undergoing earth-shattering changes!

Her long hair, which had been like demonic flames, turned into the purest ink black.

Her phoenix eyes, which had been burning with demonic flames, lost their sinister quality, becoming clear and deep, and she deliberately injected a touch of just the right amount of laziness into their depths.

The shattered Imperial Robe dissipated into specks of light, replaced by a spotless white long gown.

In just a few breaths.

The sinisterly beautiful "Fallen Immortal of the Mortal World," with her overwhelming demonic flames, completely vanished.

In her place stood a White-Robed Young Man who looked exactly like Su Chen, flawlessly mimicking his appearance, figure, and even his detached temperament!

"Su Chen" looked at his masculine, slender, and well-defined hands, letting out Ye Ninghan's own seductive and maniacal laughter.

He cleared his throat and tried to mimic the tone from the diary, using a lazy, half-asleep voice.

"Ugh, so annoying... why did I have to go out..."

That voice, that demeanor, was identical to Su Chen himself!

"You don't want to meet your various admirers?"

"Then this Dominator shall meet them for you."

"Little Liar, watch carefully from your bed."

"Watch how 'you' overturn this world."

"Su Chen's" face revealed a smile identical to Su Chen's, yet tinged with a hint of wickedness and anticipation.

He took a step, and his figure instantly tore through the Void Realm.

Destination: Great Xia Imperial City!