Rainbow-Haired Woman Gently Bites Lin An's Earlobe: "May You Reunite with the One You Love..."

An exquisitely beautiful face pressed against him from behind, gently rubbing against his cheek.

Lin An instinctively turned his head for a look.

His pupils suddenly contracted.

That face was breathtakingly beautiful.

Her features seemed carved by the sharpest blade.

Her skin was so pale it was nearly translucent, as though it had never seen sunlight.

Her long hair cascaded like a waterfall, colored in the rainbow hues he had seen twice before.

Her beauty did not belong to the mortal world; it carried a divinity that transcended all earthly things.

But the aura around her—

Cold.

Deathly still.

Desolate.

Every cell in Lin An's body screamed for him to flee.

"We meet again... my Dragon Queen."

Her voice was clearer than before.

It was no longer that distant whisper drifting from somewhere impossibly far away.

It truly sounded beside his ear now, warm breath brushing over its rim.

She gently bit Lin An's earlobe.

The force was light, like an intimate tease between lovers.

Yet it chilled every drop of blood in Lin An's body.

"Not yet..."

Her voice carried endless longing and regret.

"But soon, we will meet again."

Her arms tightened, drawing him deeper into her embrace.

"May you reunite with the one you love."

She whispered softly into his ear, her voice growing ever more distant and ethereal.

"Before then... I do not wish for you to be tainted with another dragon's scent."

The instant the final word fell, color flooded back into the surroundings.

The black-and-white scene shattered as sound and color exploded back into existence.

The beeping of the monitor, the howling night wind outside the window.

Everything returned to his senses in the same instant.

Lin An suddenly bent over, clutching his chest as he gasped for breath.

It felt as though something