Chapter 216 - 214: Even Earlier Than You Imagine

Chapter 216: Chapter 214: Even Earlier Than You Imagine

You deserve the best in the world.

Those words showed Shen Yue just how important she was to the man before her.

How much he loved her.

Perhaps what she had always wanted was just that simple.

All she needed was someone who would always stand by her side, protect her, and choose her, unequivocally, no matter the circumstances.

In that moment, she tilted her head up, wrapped her arms around Huang Ziyue’s neck, and kissed him.

Her still-wet tears followed the corners of her mouth, landing on Huang Ziyue’s lips as well.

The warm, soft touch made the man in her arms stiffen slightly.

It took him a few breaths to realize that the person in his arms was initiating the kiss.

His dark red pupils constricted...

Overwhelmed by emotion, love threatened to burst from his chest.

He hesitated no longer, cupping the back of Shen Yue’s head and taking control of the kiss.

He wrapped an arm around her waist, locking her in his embrace as he deepened the kiss.

He went from tentatively caressing her lips with his own to parting them, his kiss turning from a gentle exploration to a passionate conquest.

Their breathing grew heavier. The kiss, a raw outpouring of affection, felt like scorching magma, searing their skin, igniting their senses, and pounding against their hearts.

It was as if they shared a silent understanding, pouring all their hidden emotions into that one fervent kiss, desperate to convey everything to the other, to make each other truly feel the depth of their love.

By the time the air in Shen Yue’s lungs grew thin, her body had gone pliant in the kiss, melting completely against Huang Ziyue’s chest...

She gasped for breath, feeling the man’s powerful heartbeat and the heat slowly radiating from his body...

She tilted her head up slightly, her starlike eyes swirling with an intoxicating passion.

A single glance seemed enough to pull one into an abyss.

Huang Ziyue nibbled her lip, his eyes filled with the sight of her, flush with passion...

She was so beautiful it seemed unreal—so enchanting, so magnificent.

It made him want to devour her, to make her his and his alone.

Shen Yue murmured between breaths, her voice husky:

"Ice Cube, there’s something I want to tell you, too."

Huang Ziyue nibbled her lip, reluctant to let go, a raging fire burning in his dark red eyes...

Shen Yue was sitting on Huang Ziyue’s lap. The scalding, unconcealed desire in his eyes sent a jolt like an electric current through her...

He peppered her lips with loving pecks before moving to her earlobe.

His hot breath sent another jolt through her, and she tilted her head back with a soft moan...

Already stirred, Huang Ziyue nearly lost control at the sound. His tongue slid over her earlobe, tracing the shell of her ear.

Shen Yue’s breathing grew more ragged. It felt as if a fire was about to ignite within her.

They were both intensely aroused, and Shen Yue decided she wouldn’t hide her feelings any longer.

She wrapped her arms around his neck, looked into his eyes, and caressed his brow:

"I’ll tell you a secret. The truth is, I fell for you a long, long time ago."

Huang Ziyue froze.

He forcefully suppressed his burgeoning desire, staring blankly at Shen Yue.

A small smile played on Shen Yue’s lips, blooming into a dazzling grin as she whispered in his ear:

"Earlier than you can possibly imagine."

Just how early was it?

’It probably started from the time she first arrived in the Beast World, when she was just trying to survive, and then built the Mystic Mechanism Building step by step.’

’Back when she was less than ten years old, she had seen Huang Ziyue from a distance while she was out tending to the sick and injured.’

’Later, she would sneak out of the Duke Mansion and use the Mystic Mechanism Building’s influence to keep track of Huang Ziyue’s movements.’

’She would also watch over him in secret.’

’He was so mysterious and so lonely, often standing alone by a window for an entire day.’

’She would often watch him secretly with a telescope from the hills outside Ancient Dragon Castle.’

’Sometimes she wondered why someone so noble led such a boring life.’

’She had even secretly watched him bathe.’

’When she saw the numerous scars and wounds covering his back, she had wanted to heal him, but she knew they could not meet.’

’Because of a prophetic dream. A voice in the dream had told her who the fathers of her seven children would be.’

’She never imagined that one of them would be the Flood Dragon King and Great Emperor Master, Huang Ziyue. But the dream also warned her that she absolutely could not interact with any of the seven men before her children were born.’

’So, she had actually seen Huang Ziyue over a decade ago.’

’They had never officially met, but at some point, he had slowly found a place in her heart.’

’That was why, on Wilderness Mountain, on the night the Golden Cicada Clan assassins attacked, she had felt such sorrow when Huang Ziyue transformed into his Flood Dragon form. He was circling in mid-air, preparing to risk his life in a desperate battle...’

’It had unsettled her, made her heart ache.’

’At the time, she hadn’t recovered her memories, so she assumed it was the body’s original owner who had a connection to Huang Ziyue. She thought the feelings were just a remnant of the original owner’s affection for him.’

’But after regaining her memories, she finally understood. It had been her all along.’

’It was her own feelings for Huang Ziyue. She was the one who had fallen for him, who cared for him.’

’She had cared for him for over a decade.’

’So, in a way, she had known him and understood him for a long time—far longer than he had known her.’

’As for the vision she had on Wilderness Mountain a while ago—the one of Huang Ziyue saving her in the Gobi desert—she didn’t know when it had happened, but it was definitely not a memory from her time in the Beast World.’

’Come to think of it, perhaps her fated connection with Huang Ziyue stretched far beyond these ten-odd years in the Beast World.’

Her train of thought shifted. She looked at the man before her, who was breathing rapidly, his eyes wide with shock.

"So, no matter what the future holds, I won’t leave you to face it alone."

"And I will love you with everything I have."

Huang Ziyue trembled, his eyes fixed on Shen Yue as her red lips parted and she spoke those words, one by one.

His chest heaved, his heart overflowing with an intense sense of happiness and love.

He had heard it with his own ears. She said she loved him.

Those words were enough.

More than enough.

At this moment, he no longer cared when she had started to love him.

’Because, in any case, he was sure he had fallen for her first.’

’After all, since their encounter in the Gobi five hundred years ago, she had been the dream etched into his very soul, a dream he could never forget.’

’Even if she was Shen Yue now, no longer the blood-soaked girl in red, no longer remembering what happened five hundred years ago—it was still her.’

’The fact that they loved each other and had found each other again was already the greatest blessing imaginable.’

He didn’t hesitate. The moment Shen Yue finished speaking, he kissed her again.

’This time, he wouldn’t let her get away.’

Shen Yue tilted her head back, feeling the surging, scalding passion of Huang Ziyue’s love...

She slowly closed her eyes, responding with a kiss just as fervent as his own.