Their lips met, entwined for several breaths.
Hu Liena went limp in Lu Yan's arms, her breath slightly uneven, her cheek pressed against his chest.
Sweetness filled her heart, as though she had drunk the richest honey nectar.
"Your teammates are here. They're watching us."
Lu Yan's voice suddenly sounded beside her ear. Hu Liena did not pull away from his embrace, merely turning her head toward the Trial Platform below.
Rather than hurriedly retreating, Hu Liena nestled against him and looked down from within his arms.
She saw her brother and Yan.
The next moment—
She saw Yan charging over from more than ten meters away like an enraged bull, his eyes bloodshot, his face twisted with disbelief and grief.
"Nana... you... were you forced by him?
Did he make you do it?!"
Yan's voice trembled with extreme agitation.
He desperately searched his mind for a reasonable explanation for what he had witnessed, stubbornly sanctifying his goddess—
She should have been lofty and immaculate. How could she possibly have offered him a kiss of her own accord?
Absolutely impossible!
He absolutely refused to believe it!!!
At his words, Hu Liena's pretty face instantly turned frost-cold.
She would never allow anyone to slander the person she loved, in any way.
"Shut up!"
She abruptly straightened from Lu Yan's embrace, all her earlier shyness transforming into ice-cold authority.
"Yan, I hope you understand this clearly: you and I are merely teammates.
My affairs are not yours to question.
I told you clearly before that I don't like you. In the past, now, or in the future, it is absolutely impossible."
Every word Hu Liena spoke was clear and forceful.
"All of this is of my own free will.
Please watch your words and your assumptions.
Otherwise, don't blame me for disregarding