Xu Jingming's Dominance! Was That a Confession?

While Xu Jingming was testing his newly acquired domain ability,

Ling Shuang slowly woke within the ruined blood cocoon and sat up from the ground, her snow-white, delicate body immediately exposed to the air.

Looking at the blanket covering her, she froze for a moment. Only after quite a while did she come to her senses, an extremely complicated expression appearing on her pretty face.

"So... it wasn't a dream..."

Crackle—

Thunder rumbled, and Ling Shuang instinctively looked outside, where she saw the tall figure shrouded in lightning.

"Jingming..."

Thinking of last night's madness, a trace of shyness flashed through Ling Shuang's beautiful eyes.

Now that she thought about it, as an Eighth-Order Grandmaster,

even though she had been severely injured, if she had forced herself to act, she could have dispersed Xu Jingming's negative emotions.

Yet, as if possessed, she had ultimately chosen to help him personally...

Forcing myself to act might have caused Jingming to fail in absorbing the divine blood.

I was doing it for his sake. Yes, that must be it.

Ling Shuang silently told herself.

But she knew very well that it was merely an excuse.

Her feelings toward Xu Jingming were actually quite complicated.

Back at Magic University, she had initially only regarded Xu Jingming as an outstanding student.

But Xu Jingming had been like a rising sun, gradually radiating a dazzling brilliance that left people astonished!

Perhaps because no such outstanding member of the opposite sex her age had ever appeared in her youth,

Xu Jingming's brilliance had made her, the Vice-Principal of Magic University, proud of him, while also stirring an inexplicable affection within her.

Especially after spending a long time together and discovering the steadiness in Xu Jingming that set him apart from ordinary young men, she had developed even more