Yan returned from that warm, pink-bubble-like scene to reality, regaining the Angel Queen's calm composure. Yet this state lasted less than two seconds before she broke down again.
It was for no other reason than the way Hua Zhen looked at her being a little... like that.
Yan had always been extremely confident in her looks. Even in Merlot Heavenly City, she was considered a beauty for the ages. Throughout her long years of war, even demons who had been her enemies were often captivated by her beauty. It had always been something Yan took pride in.
Yet in His Highness's eyes, all of that amounted to nothing. Could you believe it?
It was not that he had reached some detached state where even peerless beauties were nothing more than skeletons beneath rouge. More precisely, ever since they first met, he had never regarded her as a woman at all. He always positioned himself as an elder, looking at her with the loving gaze of a father.
Just like now.
Though she admitted she had little resistance to the hormonal aura Hua Zhen Your Highness gave off, Yan truly did not like him acting this way.
Even if Hua Ying and I are from the same generation, you can't treat me like this, can you? Back in Merlot Heavenly City, you saw every inch of me. Didn't your heart stir even a little? Even now, whenever I think of that, I still feel strange about it, okay?!
Yan thought with some frustration. Normally, she rarely acted like this. Only when facing Hua Zhen did her emotions undergo such changes.
Because of her age, she did not puff up her cheeks like a little girl. She merely furrowed her lovely brows ever so slightly without giving anything away.
Seeing that Hua