I raised stunning young ladies, but they all wanted to possess me.

Gu Yan glanced at the cover.

It was a campus romance comic.

He didn't know how Elena learned about humanity from these comics.

But what he wants to know more about now is...

Who exactly showed her this kind of thing?

"Yason bought it for me."

Elena closed the comic book.

He looked at him seriously with those golden eyes.

She said it was the best teaching material for understanding humanity.

"But there's one plot point in this book that I just can't understand."

"The two of them got along better after soaking in the hot spring."

"Do you humans really have this kind of function when you soak in hot springs?"

"……No."

Gu Yan rubbed her temples.

"So, did your relationship with that girl from the Chiyomiya family improve just now?"

"It's not that things have gotten better."

"She just saved my life."

"I did her a favor."

"It's just returning favors."

Elena remained silent.

She looked down at the cover of the comic book in her hand.

He then looked up at Gu Yan.

A rare and extremely subtle expression appeared in those golden pupils.

It's like saying that even after three years of studying, I still can't understand you humans.

Then she put the comic back into the pile of books.

I picked up that ancient book with incomprehensible writing again and opened it.

After turning the page, he suddenly said something else.

"According to the plot of the comic."

"You two are likely to have an ambiguous development going on next."

"For example, having dinner together."

"Or watch the fireworks together."

"Do you need me to arrange the fireworks for you?"

"Need not."

Gu Yan put down the towel.

The room was quiet for a moment.

Elena remained seated in the wicker chair by the window.

Her long, silver hair cascaded to the floor.

Golden pupils gleamed faintly in the dim light.

The bell on her ankle swayed gently.

It made a very faint, crisp sound.

"What a pity."

Elena suddenly said something.

His tone was very indifferent.

It was as if he was talking to himself.

Gu Yan looked up at her.

"What's a pity?"

"Nothing happened between you and that girl in the hot spring."

"According to the plot of the comic."

"This is a waste of a great scene."

Gu Yan did not respond.

The two remained silent for a while.

The shadows of the trees outside the window swayed gently in the moonlight.

Gu Yan suddenly spoke.

"How exactly did you save me back then?"

Elena looked up at him.

A glint of light flashed in his golden pupils.

She closed the book in her hand.

He stood up from the wicker chair.

Barefoot on the wooden floor.

The bells on her anklet swayed gently with her steps.

It makes a soft, crisp sound.

She walked up to Gu Yan and stopped.

The two were less than a step apart.

"Come here."

She tilted her head slightly to look at him.

Those golden eyes were even more captivating up close.

Countless golden points of light seemed to be slowly flowing deep within his pupils.

"I'll show you."

Gu Yan hesitated for a moment.

They still took a step forward.

Then he smelled her scent.

It's not perfume.

It's not the scent of flowers.

It has a very clean scent, similar to that of a pine forest after a snowfall.

It smelled exactly like the fragrance that filled her room.

Then that unreal, stunningly beautiful face drew closer and closer to him.

He was so close that he could see every single one of her silver eyelashes.

He was so close he could feel the temperature of her breath.

He was so close that his heart involuntarily quickened.

Then her lips touched his lips.

Her lips were very soft.

It's much softer than I expected.

The temperature is slightly lower than that of humans.

It carries an extremely clean and refreshing scent.

Like a snowflake landing on your lips in winter.

It's like a drop of icy spring water melting on the tip of your tongue.

Her kisses lacked any skill whatsoever.

It's not a test.

It wasn't flirting.

It is simply a form of giving.

It was as if something was being conveyed to him through his lips and teeth.

An extremely warm and gentle force flowed from her lips into his mouth.

It spread down the throat.

Wherever that force passed.

His meridians were like a dried-up riverbed finally receiving spring rain.

Every inch of skin and flesh was greedily absorbing that power.

He could feel his mental strength steadily increasing.

The spiritual energy channels within his body, which were still somewhat sluggish after being reshaped, were opened up one by one by that power.

Lifespan is also increasing at an extremely slow but real rate.

Then she stepped back.

She tilted her head and looked at him.

His golden pupils still held that clean, almost transparent calm.

"That's how they saved him."

Her tone remained indifferent.

It's as if it's saying the weather is nice today.

Gu Yan stood still.

The sensation of her kiss still lingered on her lips.

The crisp, refreshing scent still lingered between my lips and teeth.

He subconsciously touched his lips.

Then he froze.

"This is how you saved me these past three years."

Elena blinked.

A very faint hint of confusion flashed in those golden eyes.

"Otherwise what?"

"Your bodily functions had completely failed by then."

"The meridians are severed, the spiritual energy is exhausted, and the lifespan is depleted."

"In your human language..."

"It's just a corpse that's still warm."

"Even for me, it took a full three years."

"To give you a daily dose of the essence of life."

"Your body has just been repaired."

She paused here.

He frowned slightly.

It seemed like he was contemplating what to say.

"My bodily fluids are to you humans."

"How would you say it?"

"The supreme elixir."

"However, this word sounds a bit strange."

"You humans always like to give things some really exaggerated names."

Gu Yan didn't know what to say.

His lips twitched slightly.

Elena looked at his shocked expression.

It seems they misunderstood the meaning behind his silence.

He then offered another explanation.

"You don't need to mind it."

"We angels are different from you humans."

"There's no need to maintain a relationship with a fleeting, ethereal love."

Gu Yan was stunned for a moment.

"Angel race".

He suddenly remembered being in the South African forest three years ago.

That silver-white swan.

The swan that used its wings to shield him from the poisonous fog by the campfire.

The swan that knelt on his knees and gently touched his fingers with its beak before he died.

Elena nodded.

She raised one hand.

A light tap of the fingertip in the air.

A very faint, silvery-white halo spread from her fingertips.

The light coalesced into the shape of an illusory wing.

He gently fanned himself behind her.

Then it vanished silently.

"A twelve-winged angel".

Her tone remained extremely calm and indifferent.

It's like stating a fact that has little to do with oneself.

"I was in the process of breaking through, but you just happened to barge in."

He was later seriously injured.

"The spiritual energy dissipated, forcing it to revert to its most primitive form."

"It's the swan that you humans see."

Gu Yan fell silent.

All the pieces were finally put together.

The twelve-winged angel who slapped him into the abyss in the South China Sea Secret Realm.

The proud swan that had been following them through the forest.

It's the same person from beginning to end.

He remained silent for a long while.

Why?