Wait, You're Actually a Herrscher?

Elysia was speaking in an aggrieved tone again just then.

"Oh? Really? Just because of that?" Mo Wang stared suspiciously at Elysia beneath him.

"And... and also, I'm a little curious about you."

"It feels like there's something kind of... familiar about you."

Seeing Mo Wang staring at her, Elysia finally couldn't withstand that gaze and told the truth.

"Oh? You know me?"

Mo Wang looked at Elysia in some surprise. Logically speaking, this girl shouldn't remember him right now, right?

"I don't. It's just... you feel a little familiar."

When Mo Wang heard Elysia say he felt familiar but that she didn't know him, he deliberately drew out his tone and gave a meaningful, "Ohhh~"

Not only did he not let go of his hold on her, he suddenly bent down. That face with its wicked smile instantly enlarged in Elysia's vision, so close that they could almost feel the airflow stirred by each other's fluttering lashes.

"W-wait!" Elysia's heart skipped a beat at his sudden approach, and the flush that had only just calmed a little flooded back into her cheeks. "Didn't I... didn't I already tell you the truth? Why do you still have to get so close?!"

The tip of Mo Wang's nose was almost touching hers, their heated breaths tangling together. He chuckled, his tone full of unreasonable teasing. "Why? Because you don't know me." His fingertips lightly brushed over her burning cheek, sending a shiver through her. "Since we're 'complete strangers,' then if a 'stranger' like me does something to you... like properly 'punishing' the little thief who snuck into my room in the middle of the night, wouldn't that be perfectly reasonable too? Of course I can do whatever I want!"

"You... that's twisted logic! Let me go!" Elysia was both embarrassed and