Li Muchen thought he was dreaming about the girl he yearned for.
But in fact, it was not a dream.
The rings of Qiangwei and the thornbird were endowed by Lu Sheng with a once-in-a-lifetime bond of a Demon.
She could sense Li Muchen’s presence and use this ring to break through the barriers of time and space to reach his side.
From the moment her Demon Sense reached the man, everything around had been detached from reality, and no one else could enter the room.
Everything was both reality and illusion.
After she left, Li Muchen would only regard all this as a vague dream.
But at this moment, every conversation, every touch, every perception felt incredibly real.
Seeing that Li Muchen was awake, Lu Sheng bent down and stretched out her cool hand to touch his face.
The girl spoke calmly, but clearly showed a bit of displeasure.
"Told you to eat well and sleep well, why didn’t you listen obediently?"
Li Muchen was currently in a hazy and bewildered state.
He thought he was dreaming, but his consciousness and body were instinctively responding, instinctively grabbing the girl’s hand to make excuses for himself: "...Yes."
"I did obey, I did eat well and sleep well."
"And... I’ve been thinking about you every day."
The man, normally dominant and imposing, always turned soft in front of her, using all his tenderness to cherish and protect her.
"If you’ve been eating well, why have you still lost weight?"
Upon hearing the girl’s question, Li Muchen seemed to ponder for a moment.
The next second, however, he suddenly reached out and pulled her onto the bed.
In an instant, Li Muchen’s tall and straight body loomed over Lu Sheng, his eyes locking with the girl’s, deeper than ever.
The light from the bedside lamp cast a dim glow, adding a layer of ambiguous shadows to the atmosphere in the room.
Suddenly, the man sat up straight, beginning to unravel the sash of his deep blue sleeping robe with one hand.
"..." Lu Sheng blinked.
She had seen how strong-willed Li Muchen was when it came to controlling his desires.
When they were alone, sleeping together, usually the most he would do was hug and kiss her.
Even if she purposely teased, he could remain unflustered and stable like a mountain, never taking such initiative before.
Could it be because he thought he was in a dream now he wasn’t holding back anymore?
In the brief moment that Lu Sheng was contemplating, Li Muchen had already taken off his sleeping robe.
The man’s broad shoulders and narrow waist glowed a honey color, bulging arm muscles, broad chest where one could bury their face.
And those distinct abs, and further down, the intensely alluring Adonis belt...
Lu Sheng’s gaze was instantly captivated.
She could hardly look away.
They say humans are visual creatures, but Demons are no different.
His figure was too perfect, pleasing to the eye, making her itch to pinch.
Lu Sheng was unabashed, her gaze growing even hotter as she stared at him.
The man noticed her eager interest, took her hand with a husky voice: "Baby... touch me."
Wow, that’s a bold request.
However, before Lu Sheng could act, Li Muchen had already pulled her hand, placing it against his chest.
The warm touch, the real body temperature.
He guided her hand, slowly roaming across his broad chest.
Then moving downwards, caressing each inch of his powerful, firm muscles.
Occasionally, when touching a certain muscle, there would be a vibrant throb, accelerating one’s heartbeat.
Lu Sheng truly hadn’t realized before that Li Muchen could be so seductive.
Usually so abstinent and proper, yet so daring and direct in the dream, using his allure to tempt her when she got angry.
"...Have you felt it, baby?"
Li Muchen’s voice was increasingly deep and husky, irresistibly enticing.
Lu Sheng was already bewitched by the man, murmuring as she continued to explore his abs.
But the next second, her hand was suddenly caught by Li Muchen.
She looked up into his earnest eyes: "See, I haven’t lost weight."
Lu Sheng took a deep breath.
She thought Li Muchen had realized something in the dream.
It turned out, all this undressing and having her feel his muscles was just to prove to her he had been obediently eating well, to show he hadn’t lost weight?
Lu Sheng was almost amused.
Then Li Muchen saw her ignoring him, suddenly leaned in close and softly spoke near her ear, a bit aggrieved: "Baby, stop touching."
"If you continue, I won’t be able to resist... Even if it’s in a dream, I don’t want to hurt you."
Lu Sheng took a deep breath, her eyes brimming with tenderness: "I know."
She raised her hand to touch Li Muchen’s soft black hair, as if caressing a rather pitiful big dog.
The next second, she actively wrapped her arms around his neck, her warm breath spraying on his earlobe.
"Good, a kiss is okay."
"I forgot to say earlier, these past few days, I have also missed you every day."
Li Muchen almost instantly held the girl tightly in his arms, lowering his head.
Their lips met, affectionate and lingering, their whispers intimate.
After all the heat subsided, Lu Sheng found herself encircled in the arms of the tall man, just like the nights they had spent embraced in sleep before.
Lu Sheng realized, even if her Demon Sense had untangled Li Muchen’s inner turmoil in the dream before, he could still only sleep soundly when holding her.
As the man beside her fell completely asleep, Lu Sheng carefully slid his hand away, barefooted, walked to the desk by the windowsill.
The desk was cluttered with piles of documents—
Nursing home staff details, nearby road monitoring, flight passenger lists, personnel inquiry records, medical records, and testing reports of Li Muchen’s grandmother...
All in English, dazzling to the eyes.
But after flipping through briefly, Lu Sheng knew there hadn’t been much progress these days.
She couldn’t help frowning, glanced at the man in the bed, and took a deep breath.
As dawn broke, with faint morning light filtering through the thick dark curtains into the room, Lu Sheng withdrew her Demon Sense.
And once back to the reality of the Lu Family, Lu Sheng sat up from the bed, picked up her laptop.
Then she pulled up a photograph from her previous life’s cloud storage.
The photograph showed a business card, pure black and appearing quite sophisticated and high-end. A gilded letter [K] was printed on it with a sequence of contact details below.