Order Epoch, Year 1139.
Xia Lun slowly opened his eyes.
Before him was a familiar sight.
Aina's silver hair was slightly messy, scattered across his chest. A ray of morning light slipped through the narrow gap in the curtains, falling upon her delicate face.
"Good morning, Aina."
Aina's eyelashes fluttered softly, and she slowly opened her eyes like a butterfly shaking its wings.
Aina rubbed her somewhat dazed eyes and let out a yawn. Once she awakened and collected herself, she broke into a radiant smile at Xia Lun: "Good morning, Xia Lun."
Aina sat up, crawled over gently, familiarly cupped Xia Lun's cheeks, and kissed him.
A morning greeting kiss, warm and sweet.
The bold movement caused the strap of her white nightgown to slip down, revealing her delicate collarbone and neck as fair as white jade. If Xia Lun had become a vampire, he would surely have been unable to resist taking a bite.
"Want to go for it?" Aina breathed softly, slightly lifting the hem of her nightgown.
"Not right now." Xia Lun shook his head, rejecting Aina's lovely offer. "I need to go exercise in the yard."
Aina pressed down on Xia Lun's shoulder.
"Xia Lun, you should know," Aina licked the corner of her mouth, "I only ask your opinion out of respect for you... Actually, I don't care what your answer is."
"That's a bit hurtful, Aina..." Xia Lun said with some dismay. "We're husband and wife. We should be equal."
"Oh, please. I know what you're thinking, Xia Lun... You're just trying to act modest in front of me, pretending to be proper. Clearly, every morning is when you're at your most energetic." Aina squinted, patting Xia Lun's cheek. "Deep down, you want it too."
"No, Aina, I should train. That's how I get stronger..." Xia Lun's hand unconsciously found its way to her waist.
"Face your desires honestly, Xia Lun... Your body is quite honest."
Aina rubbed lightly against Xia Lun, the smile on her lips growing wider.
"Training..."
"As long as you finish things quickly, won't you still have plenty of time to train?" The clever little minx tilted her head, her silver hair cascading to one side like a waterfall, proposing what seemed like a reasonable suggestion.
"Dream on."
Provoked by Aina, Xia Lun suddenly put on a fierce expression, baring his teeth and making grabs, and amidst her silvery laughter, he seized the nightgown she was wearing and tore it off in one go.
...
Though the necessary business had been attended to, Xia Lun did not abandon his wife and go straight to the yard to train. Instead, he gently held Aina in his arms, slowly combing through her hair with his fingertips.
Aina squinted contentedly, lying motionless in Xia Lun's embrace like a sated kitten... Xia Lun could sense that her thoughts had drifted far away.
"What are you thinking about?" Xia Lun asked curiously.
"Nothing. Just remembering some things from the past." Aina shook her head.
"Is there something you can't tell me?"
"Oh? You really want to know?" Aina gave a sly smile, suddenly perking up. She slowly moved to Xia Lun's ear, her warm breath brushing against his ear.
Murmur, murmur, murmur.
Indecent whispers wormed their way into Xia Lun's mind. Watching the tips of her husband's ears quietly turn red, Aina covered her mouth and let out a string of tinkling giggles.
"Aina..."
Xia Lun felt somewhat helpless. His wife used to be so innocent and pure, like a blank sheet of paper. Now she had become a little demon who knew exactly how to manipulate his desires.
Of course, Xia Lun didn't mind.
"Alright, alright, go and train now." Aina patted Xia Lun's sturdy shoulder and pointed at the sun, now fully risen outside the window. "I can cheer you on from the bed."
Xia Lun slowly got up. After putting on his clothes, he couldn't help but glance at Aina once more.
"What, you want to keep going? I'm already spent." Aina curled up under the covers, wrapping herself into a caterpillar-like bundle.
Xia Lun felt that Aina seemed to be hiding something from him.
"Do you need any help with anything?"
"No need. Go and train. I'll be watching you." Aina waved him off, urging him to leave.
"Oh..."
As Aina wished, Xia Lun left the room.
The moment Xia Lun stepped out, Aina immediately emerged from the covers and stood up on the bed. The tenderness in her eyes instantly cooled, replaced by a solemn divinity.
Blood coalesced on her body to form a robe. Aina casually reached forward, and countless tiny beads of blood emerged from the void, converging and condensing until a crimson staff materialized in her hand.
Since Xia Lun had been resurrected... he had hardly seen Aina use her staff, because she never needed to exert her true power.
Before her, without warning, a massive spatial rift split open... More like a rupture, it was as though space had collapsed like shattered glass. If Lyana had seen it, she would have surely cried out that this room was no longer livable.
Aina thought for a moment, then with a flick of her finger, she left behind an illusion identical to herself curled up in the bed to fool Xia Lun in case he returned unexpectedly. Then, barefoot, she stepped into the rift.
Outside the world.
Aina's figure, staff in hand, quietly materialized. The place where she stood seemed to become the center of the entire void, the flickering of countless stars rising and falling with the rhythm of her breath.
All around, countless spaces, countless shadows whispered.
"What's going on?" A voice like the grinding of metal echoed through the dimensional gaps.
"Who provoked her this time?" Another sound like wind passing through a cave responded.
"Nobody has gone to the original world recently, right?" A third voice seemed pieced together from countless tiny notes.
"That Crimson Goddess..." More whispers gathered, yet none dared to speak the full name.
The crimson staff in Aina's hand lightly tapped the invisible void, and a ripple spread outward at a terrifying speed.
Countless beings hidden in the shadows were forced to reveal themselves. A host of eldritch gods exchanged glances across endless space.
A figure slowly materialized in the void, several wings of flame spreading from its back. In an instant, it arrived before Aina.
The figure's appearance was no different from an ordinary person, their clothes seeming to be a single whole piece of fabric, shimmering with various colored halos.
If one looked into their pupils, they would find that those pupils were an immensely complex mechanical structure, alternately flashing with countless electronic signals.
"Nothing's wrong, Mechanical Prophet. Just a routine inspection." Aina's tone was flat and unruffled. "Just checking to see if anyone is up to any little tricks behind the scenes."
"That really is quite the effort… I wish you a pleasant life. I'll take my leave now. Oh, and have you considered introducing our newly developed technology to the Primordial World? Our latest generation of life-form conversion device can greatly extend organic life's lifespan, and..." As he was about to leave, the Mechanical Prophet once again launched into an advertisement pitch for Aina.
"No need."
"Oh..."
The Mechanical Prophet's rear thrusters spat out jets of deep blue flame, forming wings, and he departed from the spot.
Aina stood alone amid the myriad of stars, her scarlet robe drifting silently in the vacuum, like a banner ever on alert.
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