82: A gentle threat from the "bandit's wife"!

In the deathly silent Star Domain of the Void, both time and space had lost their meaning.

Su Chen felt as stiff as a stone thrown into a ten-thousand-year-old ice cave; even his thoughts were about to freeze.

He was being held in a woman's arms.

A peerless Demoness who had lived for a hundred thousand years and had just threatened to capture him as a toy.

No, this wasn't an embrace.

This was a magnificent cage crafted from warm, soft skin and bone-chilling Devilish Qi.

And he, Su Chen, had just used a set of crazy logic—so absurd he thought it could go down in history—to successfully deliver himself into this cage.

He had even earned a call of "Husband" that made his Divine Soul tremble.

[Holy crap... Did I... play myself?]

After experiencing a total blank, Su Chen's brain finally managed to reboot with great difficulty.

He could clearly feel that although the arms wrapped around his waist seemed soft, they contained a terrifying power capable of tearing stars apart.

That Devilish Qi was like the finest spiderweb, already seeping into his limbs and bones, sealing off any possibility of him secretly activating the Great Void Technique.

His dream of an ultimate salted fish life—sleeping until he woke naturally, eating when he woke, and sleeping after he ate... it seemed... it was truly leaving him.

A sense of despair, a hundred times more intense than being caught by Seventh Elder Su Qi for a public marriage pressure session, submerged him like a bursting black tsunami.

"Husband..."

Ye Linghan's lazy yet demonic voice echoed faintly in his ear. Her warm breath brushed against his neck, raising a fine layer of goosebumps.

"You just said you wanted to take me back to the Su Family and announce our relationship in front of everyone in the world?"

Su Chen's body suddenly stiffened.

[No, I didn't! That was a hallucination! You misheard! Is it too late to take it back now?!]

He was roaring frantically in his heart, but he didn't dare let any of it show on his face. He could only force the corners of his mouth to twitch into a smile that looked worse than crying.

"Um... My lady, I think we still need to consider this matter carefully."

Su Chen began to frantically spin his survivalist heart, attempting a final struggle.

"Look, we've just been through a thrilling 'adventure,' and we're exhausted. Besides, I haven't had time to prepare that pig, and the wine hasn't been opened yet. Going back like this... isn't it a bit too hasty? It would make it seem like we don't value this relationship enough."

He tried to use the reason of "eating"—something she couldn't refute—to stall for time.

However, Ye Linghan just nuzzled into his chest like a dangerous yet satisfied cat savoring its prey's fear.

"It's not hasty."

She said with a light chuckle, her voice carrying an unquestionable dominance.

"This seat feels the timing is perfect. As for the pig and the wine, we can save them for our 'Wedding Night' and enjoy them slowly then. Wouldn't that be more romantic?"

The words "Wedding Night" made Su Chen's soul nearly leap out of his body.

"Didn't you say you wanted to show the whole world what a peerless beauty the woman you've set your sights on is?"

She slowly raised her head, those phoenix eyes burning with dark red demonic flames staring playfully at Su Chen.

"I heard that the auction in Tiandu we disrupted seems to have started again. You just said we'd go together!"

"Tell me, if we appear there now as 'husband and wife' and watch those little lovers of yours show heartbroken and desperate expressions one by one, wouldn't that... be very interesting?"

Su Chen's heart thudded and sank into a bottomless abyss.

Go to the auction?

As "husband and wife"?

And even go to see the reactions of Ling Qingzhu and the others?

[Big sister! Please spare me! If I hadn't said that just now, wouldn't you have killed me?! Now I just want to sleep peacefully and eat some pork. What did I do wrong?! You're trying to drag me to a battlefield to dance on landmines!]

He felt like a player who had just left the starter village, only to be forcibly dragged by the final boss of the expansion to a world-class PVP arena—and as the meat shield, no less!

"That's... not a good idea, right?" Su Chen's voice trembled, bordering on tears. "There are so many people there. If some blind fool offends you, my lady, I'm afraid you'll accidentally level all of Tiandu. That wouldn't be good. We're refined people; we should keep a low profile, low profile."

"Hehehe..."

Ye Linghan was so amused by his cowardly look that she burst into giggles, her full chest heaving, which made Su Chen's heart skip a beat.

Her arms suddenly tightened.

The bones in Su Chen's waist let out an overburdened groan.

"Husband, where did that crazy energy go—the one where you said 'The whole world wants to kill you, so what do I use to protect you'?"

"This seat wants to see now how you're going to protect me."

Her tone was still charming, but that irresistible will was like invisible chains of Law, completely sealing off all of Su Chen's exits.

He was finished.

He was completely finished.

He realized he wasn't facing a woman who could be understood with common sense.

This was an ultimate chaos-seeker! A lunatic who found joy in toying with hearts and appreciating the pain of others!

His crazy logic, while temporarily saving his life, had successfully piqued her ultimate interest in him as a "toy"!

She wanted to watch the show now!

To see how he, the "affectionate husband," would perform a world-shaking "confession of love" in front of the whole world, especially in front of his legitimate Fiancée!

[My salted fish life... my roast pig... my drunken immortal brew... my Thousand-year Spirit Silkworm Silk bed...]

In his heart, Su Chen held a grand and tragic memorial service for his soon-to-depart happy life.

"Let's go, husband."

Ye Linghan gave him no chance to refuse. She grabbed Su Chen's hand and, with the other, casually swiped at the void ahead.

Riiip!

The solid spatial barrier was easily torn open like fragile paper, revealing a pitch-black gap.

At the other end of the gap was the familiar yet terrifying clamor of the Tiandu Imperial City.

The boiling sound of voices, the brilliant glow of treasures, and the mix of auras surged in like a tide.

"Don't make our audience wait too long."

Ye Linghan pulled him along, like leading a lamb to the altar, and stepped into that spatial rift.

Only her devilish whisper, filled with endless malice and anticipation, remained in Su Chen's ears.