They stuck in his throat like shards of glass as his thoughts rose and fell at an absolutely tremendous pace, memories flooding back from another world, another life.
As a teenager in his previous world, consuming web novel after web novel, he used to devour those NTR scenes where a man would claim another man's wife or woman.
The readers always seemed to appreciate those moments—the thrill of conquest, the satisfaction of crushing some weakling and taking what was theirs.
It had been one of the reasons he'd developed his kink for MILFs and married women in the first place.
Arriving in this cultivation world, he'd thought it would be the perfect opportunity to fulfill those desires. To claim someone else's woman, to live out those fantasies that had sustained him through his lonely existence.
But the way Akane had hugged him and cried...
He wasn't naive enough to not understand why she'd reacted that way.