---o---
Ji Lin struggled back to her room.
The moment she stepped through the door, she collapsed onto the floor.
The beautiful, inexperienced wife's long, jade-like, smooth legs had gone completely limp. Once she fell, she could no longer stand up.
A woman's pride and the good upbringing cultivated over many years prevented Ji Lin from simply lying on the floor in such an undignified manner. She struggled to crawl towards the bed.
The wooden floor she crawled over was left with a faint, wet trail of sweat.
The short distance from the door to the bed felt as arduous to Ji Lin as crossing the span of a lifetime.
Her willpower was extremely strong, and she finally reached her destination, curling up on the bed.
She endured wave after wave of... pain that washed over her like the tide.
At first, she could bear it.
This level of "pain" was nothing compared to the erosion of Honkai energy.
But when it reached 11:30 PM, with only half an hour left in the week, what was originally just "the ebb and flow of a moonlit tide" suddenly became a monstrous tsunami.
Wave after wave of this tsunami, cresting into two heaven-storming surges every minute, crashed down upon Ji Lin relentlessly.
Ji Lin convulsed as if electrocuted. Like a snake that had drunk realgar wine, she thrashed and writhed violently on the bed.
The bed frame creaked and groaned.
The force was so intense it looked as if the bed might shatter at any moment.
She could no longer suppress the sounds between her breaths, and painful moans, incredibly piercing, escaped her lips, echoing throughout the entire attic...
---o---
"Bug, it's reached zero. No, you actually owe me 3 now."
"You cheated!" Kiana, her status refreshed, shouted indignantly.
"How did I cheat? I didn't use any status effects on you."
"I—" Kiana was at a loss for words.
If they were to split hairs, Ye Feng truly hadn't cheated.
He had merely "stretched" half an hour of time into three days and three nights.
Kiana had experienced three full days and nights—and if she had stubbornly resisted letting the number decrease, it would have been even longer, lasting until the counter hit zero—but in both Ye Feng's world and Kiana's, a week had not passed.
Three days and three nights of constant battle.
Kiana couldn't help but recall her childhood, when she would train without rest to throw herself into battle against Honkai Beasts as soon as possible. But even that was nowhere near the intensity of today's training.
The most detestable part was that, midway through, Kiana felt she couldn't go on and had tearfully begged Ye Feng to help restore her body—otherwise, she really would have died!
Ye Feng had resolutely refused, saying he couldn't break his promise, forcing Kiana to endure it all.
That bastard had even smiled and said something like, "I still prefer the defiant look you had earlier."
Recalling the miserable state she was in during those "three days," Kiana was filled with a fresh wave of anger. Her fists were clenched tight.
How could she have cried?
No, those weren't tears!
It was just a stress response.
Similar to the principle of tear gas.
To be honest, Kiana's memory of "those three days" was hazy.
It was fine at the beginning, but after the 30-hour mark, she had no idea what she was doing and could only let Ye Feng manipulate her as he pleased.
The bug had truly seen just the tip of the iceberg of Ye Feng's terrifying power.
But still, she refused to accept it.
She had been on the verge of winning.
And he had such a broken ability?
If you can't add a status effect to me, you just manipulate the world instead?
So what if you're an administrator?!
"In any case, Bug, you lost."
"I told you not to call me Bug!" Finding no other loophole to exploit, Kiana fixated on the nickname again.
"Hehe, the loser has to accept their punishment, you know."
"..." Kiana's face instantly stiffened.
Then, she lifted her head again, her expression one of someone facing death with equanimity.
"Fine, fine, whatever! You can do whatever you want!"
Having survived those three days, the bug felt terrifyingly strong now.
No matter what hentai request Ye Feng came up with, she felt she could take it.
"Call me 'darling' once."
"Eh?"
The bug froze, looking at Ye Feng in disbelief. "That's it?"
She had already prepared herself to sacrifice her life and limb. And in the end, all she had to do was say one little word?
It wasn't like she hadn't called him that before.
"Is there something else the bug wants?"
"No, no!" Kiana's face broke into a wide smile as she stood up from the bed. "Darling."
---o---
Ye Feng arrived at Ji Lin's residence.
The place was practically flooded.
The room was in complete disarray. The hanging bed curtains had all been torn down, shredded to pieces along with the bedsheets and quilt.
Ji Lin lay weakly amidst the wreckage, her fair legs exposed, her eyes vacant, like a beautiful but broken statue.
Sensation Sharing.
It took Kiana three days and three nights to go through 66 times—no, 69 times—but for Ji Lin, it had all been compressed into half an hour.
If it were an ordinary person—no, even a Valkyrie—their sanity would have likely evaporated.
However, Ye Feng was able to monitor Ji Lin's "status" at all times, so he wouldn't have truly broken her.
He could only say, as expected of a warrior who had fought Chiyou in Jiuyou for a thousand years, to be able to withstand such an impact.
"...Ma- Master... what did you... do to this one?"
Ji Lin's voice was hoarse.
She couldn't even use pronouns like "you." Any term directed at Ye Feng could only be "Master."
Ye Feng clicked his tongue in amazement. She still had the strength to ask him questions.
"I'm actually a little impressed. If it were me, I'd probably be unconscious by now."
Ye Feng had tried it on himself once, stacking 50 layers of the "arousal" sensation.
The rush nearly killed him on the spot.
However, that was back in his third or fourth week here, before he had mastered his authority.
Ye Feng called up Ji Lin's status panel and adjusted her from "Extremely Weak" to "Normal."
Ji Lin instantly felt strength flood her body. The previous weakness vanished as if it had been an illusion.
Feeling the miraculous change in her body, Ji Lin's heart grew even heavier.
The terror of the Honkai... was truly nothing compared to the man before her.
"So, how did that feel?"
"..."
Absolutely not. I never want to experience that a second time.
"If you don't say anything, I'll take it to mean you liked it and are just being shy."
"N—" Ji Lin stood up, wrapping a bedsheet around her smooth, delicate body, and said with a tremor in her voice, "No, thank you."
"Alright, if you didn't like it, I won't force you. By the way, the people in the outside world are gradually starting to notice this place. While I don't really care, I'd rather you all didn't get into trouble. So—"
Ye Feng flashed a ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼[1] smile.
"Ji Lin, want to make a contract with me and become a magical girl?"
[1] ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼ (Kyubey): A Japanese emoticon representing the character Kyubey from the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Ye Feng uses this along with Kyubey's iconic line, "Make a contract with me and become a magical girl," to propose a sinister-sounding deal to Ji Lin, framing it in a pop-culture reference she wouldn't understand.