The Heartthrob Guide: Dodder of S-Class Sentinels

Chapter 183 Summary
I suddenly couldn't sense your presence anymore.

Number Five shook his head, his little head bent into a "?" shape, and said with a puzzled look.

Lin Nan's thoughts were pulled back to reality.

[I've always wanted to ask, what was the place you lived in like? Did it really have all those fun things you remember?]

What does hot pot taste like? Is a pot of oil really that delicious?

Do you really eat rabbit heads, duck heads, and lion's head meatballs?

Why are iron-eating beasts called "Gungun" (滚滚) over there? Is it because they love to roll around?

【…】

Countless questions were passed down from Number Five.

If this vine had a mouth, Lin Nan would definitely see it chattering away from morning till night.

The strange feeling in her heart gradually disappeared, and a familiar emotion enveloped her. Lin Nan felt as if her feet had landed back on the ground, and she relaxed completely.

"I'll tell you about these things one by one when I have the chance."

Lin Nan said softly.

They were the only living beings who knew her secret, because they existed within her mental landscape, and Lin Nan's memories could be shared with them. However, the memories were fragmented and disjointed; the vines absorbed them intermittently, not in a particularly coherent manner.

So sometimes what they say sounds a bit nonsensical, like a group of innocent and confused children.

Lin Nan liked them very much and was happy to communicate with them, because only in this way could she find a bit of her former self in these rambling thoughts.

【Okay ヾ(▽)ノ】

[Boss, I still want to read the sequel to "He Knocked on the Door in the Middle of the Night." Has that author finished writing it yet?]

Lin Nan: ...

"If possible..." Number Five wriggled his massive body, drool dripping from his open mouth, "Let's play a dream game too."

"Don't even think about it! That book was abandoned, so I don't know what happened next." Lin Nan slapped it angrily.

[Aaaaaah!!! Eunuch!! Why did he have to be a eunuch?! Eunuchs are cursed to have no descendants!!!]

【…】

Just as they were arguing, a sudden undercurrent rose in the surrounding seawater, nearly washing Lin Nan away.

The temperature rose noticeably, and the school of fish circling above Lin Nan sensed something and hurriedly dispersed.

Deep within the seemingly endless palace ahead, amidst the restless undercurrents of the seabed, bubbles drifted in, as if some enormous figure was approaching her—

Oh no, how could she forget the important matter while chatting? She's giving someone a pep talk!

Lin Nan came to her senses, but it was too late. A huge blue jellyfish had silently approached her. It seemed to have been waiting in the deep sea for a long time, so long that it had lost all patience and swam up to find its prey.

Its enormous canopy, about half the size of a palace, flowed with a ghostly blue venom within its translucent body. Each tentacle was covered in tiny barbs, and it slowly unfurled towards Lin Nan like a snake. Countless beautiful tentacles, shimmering with fluorescent light, intertwined and knotted in the seawater, just like its chaotic thoughts, all blocked up and unable to be cleared.

They slowly gathered Lin Nan's body into their tentacles, as if they had caught a precious treasure and were mischievously hiding it away for their own amusement.

In reality, Lin Nan was also pinned down by Lan Yin, who had been holding back for a long time. The man's sweaty body pressed tightly against hers, rubbing and squeezing her. He buried his face in Lin Nan's neck, taking deep breaths, trying to calm his burning body with this method of quenching his thirst with a mirage.

But—it's not enough, not even a little bit enough…

Lan Yin's pale skin was flushed with a rosy hue, and his beautiful features could no longer maintain their composure. He opened his mouth like a fish, exhaling hot breath and making a desperate call.

"Lin...please..."

"Stop torturing me..."

His mental pathways were pierced by Lin Nan's mental threads, but there was no follow-up action. All his senses were thrown high into the air, never settling down, hovering at the critical point, feeling extremely uncomfortable in this state of neither rising nor falling.

Lan Yin's fingertips dug deeply into her palms, and cold sweat dripped down her pale chin.

"Sorry, I think I got your clothes wet."

The man's eyes had turned bloodshot, and he was dripping wet, which had crumpled Lin Nan's cotton dress into a mess.

"But I've prepared some clean new clothes for you. Shall I help you change into them?"

As the man spoke, his hands instinctively searched for the girl's tender sweetness, and as their skin touched more and more, their spiritual energies merged more deeply.

Lin Nan initially felt a sense of discomfort from being forced, but after realizing that she was not harmed, she gradually lowered her guard. The vines began to respond to the jellyfish's needs. Tentacles intertwined with the vines, and blue-green fluorescence intertwined, outlining a dreamlike scene in the deep sea.

The jellyfish's tentacles gently wrapped around the vines, its dangerous barbs long since retracted, replaced by tiny suckers that cautiously touched the mouthparts on the surface of the vines.

The fifth vine curiously poked its tip out and gently touched the jellyfish's translucent cap. It was immediately wrapped up by the jellyfish's tentacles and gently caressed as if it were a precious treasure.

Lin Nan slowly used her mental energy to search for these tentacles, then gradually untangled the knotted parts.

"Well……"

Lan Yin then let out a soft moan, her transparent eyes misty with tears as she stared blankly at the girl's face so close to hers.

The accumulated pollution that had tormented him for years was being scraped away little by little by Lin Nan's mental power, the powder falling into the mouthparts of the vines and being absorbed cleanly.

He smiled wistfully, his body feeling as if it had been refreshed by a refreshing rain, regaining its vitality.

"Thank you for accepting someone as filthy as me, Lin." Lan Yin's hot lips and tongue slowly traveled to the girl's forehead, landing deeply there.

He wasn't actually that mentally corrupt; he was just using this as an excuse to get closer to people he hadn't seen in a long time. Caesar was half right; he was an extremely despicable person.

But so what?

He achieved his goal, didn't he?

If he hadn't been marked, he would have deserved whatever he did, but now that he's hers, she has a responsibility and obligation to comfort him, otherwise he'll become a complete madman like that black bear...

Thinking this, the man, who had already enjoyed some benefits, began to exude a moist aura. The kiss on Lin Nan's forehead was lingering and ambiguous. He slowly traced the girl's contours downwards, carefully outlining all her shapes, until finally reaching her lips...