Empress Doesn't Need Sleep

"Splash."

The shower poured down steaming hot water, filling the bathroom with misty white vapor.

"Creak."

Lin Fan turned off the shower, pulled on a pair of boxer briefs, and walked out of the bathroom bare-chested.

Although he had little spiritual power left and could no longer maintain the Demon Supreme's peak form, the physique he had tempered over centuries in the Demon Realm had truly remained.

Once his upper garments came off, a robust body with sharply defined muscles was laid bare in the air.

Long Yue sat cross-legged on the sofa. Seeing Lin Fan nearly naked, she froze, and a flush quietly crept up her cheeks.

"Y-you, why did you just walk out like that?!"

"Hmm? Is something wrong?"

Lin Fan lowered his head to inspect himself but found nothing improper.

Long Yue was both embarrassed and angry. Pointing at him, she rebuked him in a delicate voice:

"You still have the nerve to ask what's wrong!"

"You, you! How lewd! How vulgar! You've practically, practically polluted this Empress's eyes!"

"Hmm? This Venerable thinks I'm in pretty good shape."

Lin Fan frowned slightly and lightly patted his abs, confusion appearing on his face.

His physique was practically perfect. If he walked outside naked like this, he would probably make countless young girls scream and married women go wild. He truly did not understand what this Empress found unsatisfactory.

"Not good at all! Hurry up and put all your clothes on properly!" Long Yue shouted bashfully, her cheeks red.

"Empress, isn't this Venerable wearing something?"

Lin Fan tugged at his boxer briefs, putting on an innocent expression.

For some reason, the more flustered and embarrassed this Empress became, the more he wanted to tease her.

Long Yue gritted her teeth in anger. "This Empress means for you to put clothes on your entire body!"

Lin Fan swaggered right up before her, hands on his hips, his beautiful physique fully on display.

"Empress, aren't you being a little too controlling? This is this Venerable's home."

"What this Venerable wears at home is this Venerable's freedom, isn't it~?"

"You...!"

Left speechless, Long Yue could only let out an unwilling snort, turn her blushing face aside, and ignore him.

"Hmph, do as you please!"

Lin Fan noticed that Long Yue's reaction from the beginning seemed overly intense, and the blush on her face had yet to fade. Suddenly thinking of something, his expression shifted in surprise.

"Empress, you... couldn't be seeing a man's body for the first time, could you?"

Long Yue: "...!"

Long Yue's lovely face jolted in surprise, the flush on her cheeks deepening as a trace of flustered embarrassment flashed through her eyes.

"S-so what if I am!"

As the Empress of the Extreme Saint Heavenly Palace, her status was noble. Ordinary men were not even qualified to approach her, much less let her see their naked bodies. This truly was the first time in her life she had seen a man naked—and at such close range...

"Then this Venerable has been discourteous. Who would have thought our noble Empress would be so innocent?"

Lin Fan could not help laughing as he teased her, then put his clothes back on.

It would not be good if this Empress got a nosebleed from looking at him.

Long Yue's chest rose and fell violently in anger. She shot Lin Fan an indignant glare, but seeing that he had put on his clothes, she ultimately said nothing more.

At least this guy had finally agreed to get dressed properly...

As Lin Fan dressed, Long Yue could not help sneaking another glance at his muscular body.

So this was what a man's body looked like. It really was quite different from a woman's...

It looked so hard...

No, no! What exactly is this Empress thinking?! He's the Demon Supreme!

Smack! Smack!

Long Yue lightly patted her cheeks with both hands, trying hard to keep herself calm and clear-headed.

Seeing Long Yue suddenly hurting herself, Lin Fan could not help feeling puzzled.

"Empress, what's wrong?"

"N-nothing..."

Long Yue replied perfunctorily, her face flushed as she forced herself to remain composed.

Though Lin Fan was puzzled, he did not press further. He raised a hand and pointed toward the bedroom.

"Empress, it's already very late. You're still sitting here—aren't you planning to rest?"

"If this Empress sleeps in there, where will you sleep?"

"What is the Empress saying? Naturally, this Venerable will sleep in the bedroom as well," Lin Fan declared righteously.

Hearing that, Long Yue's lovely face filled with confusion.

"Are there two beds inside?"

"No, there's only one bed in the bedroom. But the Empress needn't worry—This Venerable's bed is 1.8 meters wide. It's very big~!"

Lin Fan smiled slightly, gave Long Yue a thumbs-up, and wore an expression meant to reassure her.

Long Yue: "..."

Long Yue froze. Once she understood, a blush crept over her face again, and she immediately flew into embarrassed anger.

"Demon Supreme! Don't even think about it!"

"This Empress will absolutely never share a bed with you!"

"But there's only one bed in the room. If the Empress won't sleep on it, where do you plan to sleep?" Lin Fan asked.

Long Yue lowered her head to glance at the sofa beneath her, her expression turning resolute.

"It matters not. This Empress does not need to sleep. Sleeping is merely a waste of time to this Empress."

"This Empress need only meditate here in peace to rest and recover."

With that, Long Yue closed her eyes and ignored Lin Fan.

Seeing this, Lin Fan could not help feeling a trace of concern.

She had not taken a single bite of the fried chicken or burger earlier, and now she did not even intend to sleep. Could her current body really endure this?

After all, she was no longer the Empress with the cultivation of an Immortal Emperor.

After hesitating for a moment, Lin Fan brought an extra quilt and pillow out from the bedroom and placed them beside her.

"This Venerable has placed the quilt and pillow here. If you start feeling sleepy, don't force yourself to endure it."

With that, seeing that Long Yue did not respond, Lin Fan turned off the living room lights and returned to the bedroom.

After entering the bedroom, he did not immediately go to sleep. Instead, he sat down at the computer in the room.

Before sleeping, he had to figure out one thing first: exactly what point in time was he currently in?

Logically speaking, he had spent nearly four hundred years in the Immortal-Demon Continent. Such an immense span of time would have been enough to change an entire era.

Yet the moment he returned, he had noticed something strange.

This world was far too familiar to him!

It was as though nothing had changed at all!

Moreover, after more than four hundred years, the home he had bought should have long since disappeared. Yet it was still here.

All the signs indicated that far less time seemed to have passed since he had left Blue Star than he had imagined.

With that suspicion in mind, Lin Fan slowly pressed the computer's power button.

The power button lit up. The pitch-black monitor, after so long, shone with light once again, and the familiar desktop appeared before him.

In the bottom-right corner of the desktop, the date clearly read: 2025/6/1.

Seeing that date, Lin Fan's brows immediately furrowed.

He clearly remembered that it had been early 2024 when he was transported to the Immortal-Demon Continent. Yet when he returned, only a little over a year had passed!

No wonder everything still felt so familiar.

It seemed that time passed differently in the Immortal-Demon Continent and on Blue Star.

During the time they had come to Blue Star, perhaps a very long time had already passed throughout the entire Immortal-Demon Continent...