247: Chapter 247 The Cage of Pampering

"Demon Concubine Su Daji, help me undo the chains. I... need to use the latrine."

Having reached the seventh stage of cultivation, he naturally no longer needed such primitive methods as urination to expel waste from his body.

But Su Daji didn't know that.

Back then, under his design, her cultivation had soared directly from nothing to the Transcendence Realm.

Su Chen didn't actually need the bathroom now.

He just wanted to find a place to rest for a while and recharge.

After all, no one knew.

Whether in the next second, this Hehuan Saintess would once again take off her skirt...

Hearing this, Su Daji began to giggle infatuatedly.

She did not agree to Su Chen's request to undo the chains.

Instead, maintaining that posture, she reached out her arms.

In a gesture of absolute possession, she picked Su Chen up horizontally.

The chains hung down, clinking and clanking.

It only made his current posture seem all the more humiliating.

"Why should such a small matter require the Great King to do it himself?"

In the next second, Su Chen discovered something.

The chains that were originally fixed to the four jade pillars by the bed—

at some unknown point, they had been tied to Su Daji's snowy wrists.

Carrying him, Su Daji stepped barefoot onto the cool, smooth stone floor and walked toward the washroom on one side of the inner chamber.

Her steps were steady, as if she weren't holding an adult man but some fragile treasure.

In the washroom, she personally served him.

Su Chen didn't even need to lift a finger himself.

Her movements were outrageously gentle and meticulous.

Yet her eyes never left his face, which was flushed with shame and anger.

Su Chen felt even more stifled and aggrieved now.

The reason was simple.

Embarrassing, truly embarrassing.

On the way back from the washroom to the bedside, Su Chen felt as if he had lost the meaning of life.

Lying in Su Daji's arms like a pampered little husband, he stared blankly up at the ceiling.

"Look, Great King."

She placed him back on the couch and giggled at Su Chen's expression as he contemplated life.

"Right now, I am showing you a unique kind of indulgence."

"This is a treatment that you, Great King, never even enjoyed in Great Yin in your past life."

"Here, you need to do nothing and think of nothing."

"If you're thirsty, Demon Concubine Su Daji will feed you ()".

"If you're hungry, Demon Concubine Su Daji will feed you ()".

"If you're tired, Demon Concubine Su Daji will hold you while you sleep."

"If you're in the mood..."

She leaned in, her red lips pressed against his completely flushed ear, and whispered.

"Demon Concubine Su Daji is always here."

"You..."

Su Chen's chest heaved as he turned his face away and closed his eyes, no longer looking at her.

After all, he was a man.

He had his pride and his dignity.

Life is precious, and love is even more so.

But for the sake of freedom, both can be cast aside.

Although Su Daji treated him extremely well and his feelings for her were very deep—mixed with a bit of guilt—

this kind of demand through imprisonment...

...was not something he liked.

Moreover.

He had other things he wanted to accomplish.

Other concerns he couldn't let go of.

Su Daji required him to be present in his heart when they were ().

She didn't allow his mind to wander.

His whole body and soul had to belong to her alone.

But Su Chen was truly exhausted.

That bit of complex emotion born from the entanglements of their past lives slowly cooled down through the repeated forced () and deprivation of freedom.

What remained was mostly instinctive physiological reactions and a daily growing anxiety to escape.

He began learning how to be perfunctory.

Learning to blank himself out during it.

Treating it only as a task that had to be completed.

Occasionally, Su Chen would think of others.

Zhuge Jinyu, Ye Jingjun, Cang Mingyue...

If he remembered correctly, their true bodies should be on the Eastern Sea, right?

They were facing that unknown horror on the Eastern Sea, to the point where they didn't even have the strength to maintain their avatars.

Just how were they doing now?

At the thought of the three women, Su Chen felt anxious.

And his senior sister, Jiang Luoli.

Who could also be called Queen Jiang Li.

After the battle with Su Daji that day, she was seriously injured.

Where was she now?

Besides the fates of his confidantes,

during the time he was imprisoned in the sunless Star-Plucking Tower,

it seemed that some unpleasant changes had also occurred in this world.

Ever since obtaining the "Human Emperor Fate," Su Chen discovered he could have some vague perceptions of the flow of national fortune.

Recently, a strange feeling had gripped his heart.

In his perception, it was as if on the land of Great Xia,

something was slowly breaking through a rift, brutally invading this world and eroding the vitality and fortune of this land.

Vaguely, he could even hear the faint sounds of mourning coming from the outside world.

After another intense (),

Su Daji lay panting on Su Chen's body.

Her nearly perfect body pressed against Su Chen's abdominal lines, squeezing into eye-catching curves.

"Great King... do you think if this continues, Demon Concubine Su Daji might become pre—"

Before Su Daji could finish, Su Chen suddenly spoke in a low voice.

"Let's not talk about that for now."

"Demon Concubine Su Daji, has something... happened outside?"

"You know that in my past life I was the Human Emperor, so I'm quite sensitive to certain things."

"Lately, I've been feeling a tightness in my chest, as if I've sensed something."

Hearing this, Su Daji rolled over.

Her jade-like hand was aimlessly kneading Su Chen's abs.

"Outside...? What could possibly happen?"

Her tone was lazy and casual, as if she were talking about the weather outside.

"It's nothing more than some ants fighting, or natural and man-made disasters."

"But really, is there a day in this world without disaster?"

"In your past life, Great King, you labored your whole life for the common people, and you even lost your life in the end."

"Now, Great King, you only need to stay here peacefully and accompany Demon Concubine Su Daji."

"What do the affairs of the outside world have to do with you?"

Being answered with such an indifferent attitude by Su Daji, Su Chen suddenly felt a nameless fire rise within him.

In this high-martial world, he had no investment tasks, so naturally, there was no need to be a saint and care about the people of the world.

However.

Zhuge Jinyu and the others were still outside.

Su Daji's light and airy manner, as if he had completely become her plaything, made him very uncomfortable.

"Nothing to do with me?"

Su Chen suddenly turned his head, the chains clanging sharply.

"Since I possess the Human Emperor Fate and can sense the decline of the national fortune, I must consider the common people."

"Over the past few days, that sense of decay has grown heavier and heavier. Something major must have happened outside."

"Have you ever thought that if something goes wrong with this world, neither you nor I will be able to remain unscathed..."

"Enough!"

Su Daji abruptly interrupted him.

She suddenly yanked the chain tied to Su Chen's right hand.

Su Chen felt his wrist tighten, and a pang of pain shot through him.

The lazy smile on her face from just finishing () vanished instantly, and the characteristic blood-red hue of a yandere returned to her eyes.

"Great King..."

"As Demon Concubine Su Daji sees it, whether your concern for the common people is fake or not..."

"Your concern for that bitch Jiang Li is likely what's truly real!"

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