2025-04-10 01:01:46"Is it wrong for me to want you, Marc? I really want you."
Harper reached out again, wrapping both arms around the young man's neck, trying to pull him close.
“Everything’s going to be okay. I’m here.”
Marc gently turned her around and embraced her from behind. At the same time, he draped his jacket—just recently taken off—over her shoulders.
Then, he placed his palm against her forehead. That was when the healing zhenqi in his body activated, working to soothe the girl's mind.
From the way she was acting, Marc could tell—Harper wasn’t doing this of her own free will. Someone had pushed her into it.
“It’s okay. You’ll be alright.”
Within seconds, Harper’s body went limp, collapsing in Marc’s arms. Without a word, he picked her up and carried her into his room.
Marc might’ve believed he would never let himself do anything inappropriate to t
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Chapter 395 - The First Attempt
Click!Her right hand reached toward the small table beside her bed, where the desk lamp sat. With a soft press of the switch, a dim light filled the room.Miralda climbed down from her bed and sat cross-legged on the floor. She took a deep breath, then closed her eyes."The Phoenix Incantation..."Her lips began to murmur the first words of the spell."Eternal flame, the fire that lights all space..."She continued, reciting the spell until she’d spoken about a tenth of it.It was an exceptionally long spell. While not the longest in existence, it was still far lengthier than most advanced spells listed in her textbooks.If it were written out on A4-sized paper using 12-point font, it would span nearly three pages.That’s long—too long to memorize easily, right? Exactly.If Miralda didn’t have an incredibly sharp memory, there’d be no way she could’ve memorized it in such a short time.For the next few minutes, her full attention was absorbed in the incantation.There’s something mos
Chapter 394 - Phoenix Spell
Miralda’s eyes fluttered open as a biting gust of wind swept across her body. The sky above had grown dark, with the last traces of sunlight fading into the horizon.She had no idea how long she’d been unconscious. The only thing she remembered was managing to chant the incantation that pulled her body out of the secret chamber just in time.Had she been even a second too late, she might not be here anymore. As the sole heir to House Vexley, her family would’ve been left mourning her loss without end.“Ow—ugh, that hurts!”The moment she opened her eyes, a sharp pain shot through both of her shoulders. Forget standing—just sitting up from the ground felt like an impossible task.“Thank goodness I got out in time,” she muttered, a flicker of panic still lingering in her eyes. “Otherwise, I might’ve ended up as meat soup.”Even though she was the most gifted student in the temple’s history, that didn’t mean she wasn’t afraid of dying. The thought of death had hovered in her mind right b
Chapter 393 - The Room
Miralda’s eyes flew wide open in awe and wonder. She spun her head around, glancing in every direction.Before her stretched a room roughly twenty by twenty meters—on the surface, not too different from the chambers on each floor of the temple’s library.But the walls told a different story.Lining all four sides were massive shelves that stretched from floor to ceiling, perfectly symmetrical and interconnected. Each one was divided into two distinct sections.The upper shelves, open and fully visible, were packed with thick tomes whose covers looked ancient, yet meticulously preserved. Some were even bound in woven grass—proof of their immense age. Just a glance at the covers was enough for Miralda to know: none of these books resembled anything she had ever seen in any other library.While the top was exposed, the lower half of the shelving was made up of closed cabinets—hundreds of them. Each cabinet was topped with a drawer, also sealed shut.Unlike the books above, whose contents
Chapter 392 - The Three Dots
“What?”Miralda's brows furrowed deeply.She had just placed her fingertip on the three dots—yet nothing happened.Nothing at all.There wasn’t even the faintest sensation in her finger, let alone a portal opening before her to reveal some hidden chamber.“No! That can't be right! If this really is an underworld gate, then it should’ve led me somewhere, shouldn’t it?”Shaking her head sharply, the young duchess couldn’t hide the frustration written all over her face.She had been so sure that this place was hiding something. And yet, no matter what she did, nothing worked. It was like slamming into a wall at every turn.“Damn it!”Miralda growled in irritation. She was moments away from punching the stone when a thought suddenly crossed her mind.“Wait a second… Could it be because I haven’t cast a spell?”She remembered something from earlier—when she had studied the records detailing the architecture and layout of this temple complex, there had been a recurring element: every struct
Chapter 391 - The Carving on the Stone
Miralda furrowed her brows as she scanned her surroundings. Although everything around her looked perfectly normal, she couldn't shake the strange sensation rising from beneath the ground—a faint pulse of inner energy that seemed to call out to her, luring her to stay a little longer."Hmm, what would happen if I crossed this line?"With that thought, she reached out and touched the chain wrapped around a series of short posts—no more than thirty centimeters high—encircling the stone platform.None of the disciples had ever attempted to cross that boundary. Not out of fear, but because it was just something… you didn’t do. Like a painting or work of art displayed in a museum, surrounded by a chain to signal "do not touch." It wasn’t about magic or the supernatural—it was about respect. And crossing the line felt like crossing a line of decorum."Well, I won’t know the answer unless I try, right?"Murmuring to herself, the young duchess lifted her leg over the chain.She did it cautiou
Chapter 390 - The Structure That Seems... Too Ordinary
A week earlier.A dining hall stretched over a hundred meters long and twenty meters wide, with four rows of tables lined up neatly through the center of the room. This was the main cafeteria of the Divine Meditation Temple complex, where all students gathered for their meals.At the far end, a group of girls aged fourteen to sixteen sat huddled together, their eyes fixed on an older girl who clearly looked a few years ahead of them. Their faces lit up with eager curiosity as they listened.“Aren’t you even a little curious about the tombstone at the edge of the complex?”The older girl asked with an unusually serious tone.And before any of the younger girls could respond, she answered her own question.“That’s where our grandmaster keeps records of the most powerful technique in this entire temple. Don’t you want to learn it?”“O-of course we do!”One of the girls, wearing glasses, blurted out innocently.But the older girl immediately stretched her hand out toward her.“Never even
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