I'm on the Ark, and I started as a succubus.

"Hmm~ What a joke—Aww! I, I didn't feel happy at all! Who could feel such joy and happiness in that kind of thing, never forget it, and always want to immerse themselves in that place and enjoy a happy and blissful life, ugh!"

Her round, delicate shoulders trembled slightly, and Shi Huaiya suddenly brought her tender, orange-pink knees together, her small hands supporting her on the marble edge of the sink.

The images that flashed through her mind instantly drained all her strength, almost causing her to collapse to the ground.

The scenes that involuntarily surfaced made her honest body protest against her, strongly refuting all the lies she had previously told through gritted teeth.

The situation is completely different from what she described.

"Waaah... No way, I won't just let it happen so easily... Waaah, you bastard! I'm going to lock this bastard up myself."

With her cute little tiger teeth biting her cherry lips, Swire breathed heavily, trying to cool herself down through this action.

However, when she looked up again and saw herself in the mirror, and saw the intricate and beautiful purple-pink tattoo on her fair skin, looking at it so beautiful and abundant as a blooming flower, the misty tears in Shi Huaiya's eyes could no longer be held back and rolled down her cheeks.

The alluring whispers of the devil seemed to linger in my ears again: "The more beautiful this mark, the more corrupt it symbolizes~"

Swire's cute little tiger teeth pursed her cherry lips, and her delicate nose trembled with sobs from time to time due to her tearful eyes.

Unpleasant memories flooded her mind again. She remembered that the purple-pink tattoo on that idiot's body was neither as intricate nor as beautiful as hers.

Everything indicated that she was completely beyond redemption.

Swire closed her eyes, and an image of herself appeared before her, doing squats with great effort and diligence, without the slightest sign of reluctance or resistance.

The expression reflected in the mirror not far away, even the happy and blissful smile, changed from hatred and disgust to sobbing and choking, then to a dazed and infatuated state... and finally turned into that kind of incomparably happy and blissful smile.

Plop plop...

Swire even felt that he could clearly hear that dull impact sound again, an impact sound that sounded particularly heavy and sticky after being soaked in sweat and water.

Buzz buzz buzz... The sudden vibration of her phone startled Swire, jolting her out of the increasingly intense, almost overwhelming, romantic thoughts that were flooding her mind.

She paused for a moment, then shakily reached out and took out her phone.

Was that bastard calling?

Hmph, that sounds nice, saying you'll let her go. But I bet you're talking to Swire now, and you don't even want to think about these things... Ha, she knew it!

Swire gave a soft hum, and with some strange hope in her heart, she flipped her phone over so that the screen faced her.

lost.

The call was from Hoshiguma.

Full of ideas but ultimately empty, just like the mentality of stubbornly trying to prove that one's idea is right, only to end up with an empty ending.

079 Swire joined the embrace of the tearful and sorrowful.

I'm so disappointed.

I'm so disappointed.

I'm so disappointed and let down!

Swire stared at Hoshiguma on the screen, not wanting to press the answer button at all.

After calming her breathing, she picked up her phone, got up, left the restroom, walked to a table next to the restaurant, remained silent for a while, and then picked up her phone and held it to her ear.

"Swire, where have you been these past few days? Hey, let's go out for a drink. That guy Chen just won't come out no matter what. If you don't come with me, I'll be drinking alone."

As soon as the call connected, Hoshiguma's voice came through, and there was also a faint murmur of noise nearby. Swire knew immediately that she was at the old place where they often went drinking together.

Shi Huaiya moved her beautiful lips slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she swallowed her words back.

Where did you go?

She needed to fabricate a plausible excuse, one that Hoshiguma would believe.

You can't exactly say she was...she went out into the wild for six days and six nights, can you?

If word gets out, the impact will be enormous. Her family and father will definitely come to Longmen to make a scene, and they certainly won't allow her to stay there any longer. They'll definitely drag her back to Victoria, that oppressive place.

manor.

The place was filled with oppression, and there was a father who only thought about her taking over the position of family head, and whose eyes were only on the heir to the family head.

She was neither happy nor content. If she really had to go back there, she would rather stay there and happily be that bastard's concubine.

At least, it's a place filled with joy and happiness, so much so that you don't need to think about anything else; you just need to enjoy happiness and life.

"Why aren't you saying anything? Hey, Char Siu Cat, what's wrong with you today?"

Hoshiguma's voice came through the phone again, accompanied by hearty gulping sounds of drinking.

With her cute little tiger teeth biting her cherry lips, Swire adjusted her voice and finally said, "Tch~ I'm not in the mood. What would you like to drink?"

"Oh~ looks like someone's upset you again, you piece of char siu?"

Hoshiguma didn't notice anything amiss. Swire was like that; she'd occasionally skip work for a while, as if she'd vanished. It wasn't that she was acting like a spoiled princess; Swire was always very serious and meticulous at work. At least, those who tried to get reimbursed for reckless expenses always got a thorough dressing-down and fled the office in a sorry state.

After many such incidents, they generally knew where Swire had gone, and nine out of ten of them knew that something had happened on Victoria's side that forced the young lady to put down all her work and deal with those troublesome matters.

Hoshiguma brought the glass to her lips and suddenly smiled. She could even picture the char siu cat's fur standing on end in anger.

"Alright, alright, I know someone has upset our big Film again!"

Hoshiguma downed the beer in his glass in one gulp and slammed the glass down on the table. "Come on, let's play some games and vent our frustrations."

As soon as she finished speaking and hung up the phone, Swire immediately saw an invitation to join the game pop up on her messaging app.

A recently popular card game called "King of Cards".

I'm not in the mood for that.

Swire didn't want to play with Hoshiguma, but another message from Hoshiguma came through on the messaging app:

"Hurry up, hurry up, don't think about those unhappy things. I'm here with you now. Come on in, let's play and chat, and give those guys a good scolding and you'll feel better."

After a short while, Hoshiguma waited for Swire to join the game and then turned on the built-in voice chat.

"Hey, Swire, what's going on? You'd usually be greeting people three times by now, why are you so quiet today? Hey, hey, hey! Tears of Elegy? Didn't you say you'd never play this kind of shameless deck?!"

Hoshiguma's voice rose as she watched Swire, whose monster effects were nullified by Jewellight and who then frantically built up graveyards under the effect of Ancient Vanguard.

It seems that their char siu has indeed been angered by people these past few days, and has now directly abandoned the faith bead and fallen.

"Hmph, what's it to you? I'm doing this because I want to!"

Infected by Hoshiguma's optimistic words, Swire seemed to feel a little better.

After using her tears and blood to defeat Hoshiguma in several rounds, she gradually became more talkative, mainly because she was becoming more and more skilled at telling lies, and her lies were becoming more and more believable.

"Found you a boyfriend? And you're telling you to hurry back and get married? Seriously, have the people in your family lost their minds again?"

Swire's fabricated nonsense made Hoshiguma curse out, "Damn it, did you throw wine in that guy's face, slap him a few times, kick him in the stomach, knock him down, and then give him an elbow strike?! What the hell?!"

"He's quite good-looking, and very likable."

A brief silence.

Then came the high-pitched sound that made the phone's speaker seem to tear apart:

"Huh?! Swire, have you gotten so horny from being soaked in the rain these past few days that you've lost your mind? What the hell do you mean by 'pretty good-looking'?"

Swire realized she had said the wrong thing and was about to make up a lie to cover it up when her long, slender legs suddenly pressed together, her smooth, delicate shoulders trembled, and she curled up into a ball to protect herself.

A strange, eerie purple-pink radiance suddenly spread throughout the room, followed by a burst of vibrant colors like a watercolor painting, as if all the paint from a painter's precious inkwell had been spilled and frozen in mid-air.

Along with it came a clear and melodious tune, but it only lasted a moment before turning into a violent one.

He was as volatile and violent as a pile driver on a construction site, pounding the ground wildly.

The scene inside the room was as if demons had descended upon the physical universe.

The familiar, scorching, burning, and terrifying temperature struck again, causing Swire's eyes to well up with tears once more.

The small movements of bringing your legs together and tucking your shoulders in, which are similar to crouching down with your head covered, are completely ineffective against that terrifying thing, and can only allow it to penetrate unimpeded.

"Waaah—"

Swire let out a choked sob, feeling as if a red-hot coal had been pressed against her body—it was terrifying.

"Hey? Char Siu Cat, what's wrong?"

Hoshiguma sensed that something was wrong.

"N-nothing! I just suddenly feel really annoyed."

Swire turned her head and lowered her gaze, glancing briefly at the hideous and terrifying demon. Her voice trembled, carrying a hint of a sob.

Hoshiguma on the other end of the phone frowned, noticing that Swire in the game was making frequent mistakes and seemed to have no intention of continuing the game.

However, she still lost.

What deck does Swire play? What deck does she play? Swire is the Pearl of Despair!

Even if your brain is about to melt, you can still easily win with this deck!

080 Hoshiguma simply doesn't understand.

"Waaah..."

Swire momentarily lost her grip on her phone and collapsed onto the dining table, her voluptuous figure accentuated by the pressure of her arms beneath her.

She arched her neck and hunched her back, her delicate shoulders trembling incessantly.

"Hey? Swire, what's wrong?"

Hoshiguma's voice came through the phone. She got up and left the noisy bar, pushing open the door and walking into the narrow alley, turning the phone volume up to the maximum all the way.

"No, it's nothing."

After Swire quickly responded, her cute little tiger teeth immediately pursed her cherry lips, and she only let out a soft hum, which at first glance sounded like she was choking and sobbing in grievance.

It's hard to imagine that Commander Swire, who always had a loud voice, also had such a vulnerable and gentle side.

Glug...glug...

Hoshiguma frowned, feeling as if she could hear the sound of liquid echoing throughout the large room.

She looked up and glanced around the alleyway, far from the center of Longmen City. The rain, which had just stopped in Longmen, started to fall again. The rain was now sliding down the piles of illegal buildings above, making a pattering sound.

"Swire, is it raining where you are too?"

"Mmm... Ugh..."

The faint, sticky sobbing of Swire could be heard coming from the phone.