81: The nemesis of madness! Destroy her with even mader logic!

In the deathly silent Void Star Domain, time seemed to freeze.

Su Chen's affectionate confession was like a stone thrown into a waveless ancient well; it failed to cause even the slightest ripple, only sinking awkwardly to the bottom.

The stunned look on Ye Linghan's face lasted only a moment before it was replaced by an even richer, more cruel sense of amusement.

She smiled, and those eerie phoenix eyes curved into dangerous crescents.

"Love?"

She extended the tip of her tongue and lightly licked her red lips, as if savoring a brilliant joke she had never heard before.

"Little Liar, is your love writing this seat as a 'Crazy Woman' who has gone senile from being locked up?"

"Or is your way of loving this seat disdaining me for being an 'Old Auntie' who has lived for a hundred thousand years?"

Those two familiar titles were spoken by her again in a sarcastic tone. Every word transformed into a physical slap, swinging left and right, ruthlessly striking Su Chen's Primordial Spirit.

Su Chen's thick skin finally couldn't withstand this critical hit, which was comparable to an Emperor Weapon.

The affectionate expression on his face shattered instantly. His mouth twitched slightly due to extreme shame, and his entire body froze.

However, just as Ye Linghan thought this game was about to end in her complete victory and prepared to enjoy the expression of her prey's total collapse...

Su Chen moved.

His eyes were bloodshot, and two lines of clear tears actually rolled down from those peach blossom eyes, tracing across that devastatingly handsome face. He carried a tragic sense of solemnity and determination, like someone driven to a dead end who could only burn everything.

"Yes!"

He roared, his voice filled with the pain and grievance of being misunderstood.

"I did write those things! But do you know why I wrote them?!"

The smile at the corner of Ye Linghan's mouth faltered.

Su Chen suddenly pounded his chest, looking like a madman.

"What am I, Su Chen? Just a Divine Son of the Su Family! But you? Who are you? You are a forbidden existence who makes heaven and earth tremble! If I let you out, the entire Xuanyuan Continent would see you as a thorn in their side!"

"Everyone in the world would want to kill you!"

"How can I protect you? With what can I protect you?!"

His voice grew louder, and his emotions became more intense, as if he were pouring out all his grievances.

"I could only write it like that in my diary! I could only portray you as a crazy, insignificant 'Old Auntie'! Only then would those lowlifes who peeked at my diary let down their guard against you! Only then would they not set an inescapable net for you the moment you recovered your strength!"

"I cursed you to protect you!"

Su Chen practically shouted those last few words with tears of blood. His voice shook the universe; those who heard it would grieve, and those who listened would weep.

That acting, those emotions—they were enough to make every Best Actor in the world hand in their resignation on the spot, feeling inferior.

Ye Linghan was completely stunned.

Her Devil Heart, which had been silent for a hundred thousand years, felt an emotion called "absurdity" for the first time.

Calling her a Crazy Woman... was to protect her?

This logic was outrageous to the extreme, absurd to the extreme, yet... damn it, it seemed to touch a cold corner deep within her heart called "loneliness."

For a hundred thousand years, everyone had felt only fear, hatred, or a desire to use her.

In the countless days and nights of being imprisoned in her mind, there were only cold chains and endless darkness.

No one had ever said they wanted to... protect her in such a clumsy, laughable, yet burning and crazy way.

Just as her mind was shaken, her Devil Heart became unstable, and the Devilish Qi around her, capable of freezing the void, flickered in momentary disorder...

A warm, trembling embrace tightly held her.

It was Su Chen.

He had actually taken the initiative to hug her!

"Don't be afraid," Su Chen's voice sounded in her ear, filled with unprecedented determination. "From today on, I will never protect you in that way again."

"I'm taking you back to the Su Family right now! I want to tell everyone to their faces that you, Ye Linghan, are the wife of me, Su Chen!"

"To hell with the auction and the fake goods scandal—we're going together! I want the whole world to see just how magnificent the woman Su Chen has set his sights on is!"

He hugged her tightly, as if he wanted to rub her into his very bones and blood.

Ye Linghan froze in his arms, feeling that unfamiliar yet not unpleasant warmth. Her mind, which had been in chaos for a hundred thousand years, completely crashed.

The last trace of doubt and killing intent in her heart vanished into thin air amidst this overbearing and crazy declaration.

That's right.

This Little Man was right.

Why fear the mere people of the world?

She was the dignified Mortal World Immortal!

After a long time.

Ye Linghan's stiff body finally relaxed. She slowly raised her hands, wrapped them around Su Chen's waist, and buried her face in the crook of his neck.

A voice filled with endless eeriness and amusement echoed softly.

"Alright."

"Husband."

Su Chen's body stiffened.

[Holy shit...]

[She... she actually fell for it?]

[Did I... overdo the bluffing? My salted fish life... seems like... it's really never coming back!]