Shrouding the Heavens: Those Years as the Female Emperor's Sternest Master

"Or else?"

Tianling tilted her lovely head. The slightly playful gesture, performed by her, only added a few more shades of peerless charm.

Suddenly, she closed the distance Tan Lin had just created, moving close enough that she was almost pressed against his ear.

Her breath was fragrant as orchids. Then, in the soft whisper of childhood sweethearts sharing secrets in the mortal world, her voice carried a seductive huskiness as she murmured:

"Or did Little Lin'er remember something else? For instance... the way you were supposed to address me... even earlier?"

Her warm breath brushed past his ear, bringing a faintly numbing tickle.

Her words had come without warning, yet they offered a crucial hint.

However, without her fully revealing her identity, and with the soul fused with the Divine Silkworm Princess residing within another's Immortal Platform...

Tan Lin could only realize that she might truly have had some connection to his previous life. More than that, though, he felt alarmed and uneasy.

This meant that the secret of his reincarnation, as well as his identity before reincarnation, might have been exposed...

That was Tan Lin's first reaction.

Warning bells blared in his heart. Startled into a cold sweat, he abruptly leaned back and put distance between them again.

With his back against the wall of the quiet chamber, the roots of Tan Lin's ears reddened slightly from the violent surge of emotions and Tianling's suggestive behavior just now.

But he quickly calmed down. Letting out a soft breath, he looked at the peerlessly beautiful woman, who seemed inclined to draw close again, and said in a low voice:

"Senior Gu, please conduct yourself with dignity! I have no idea what you're talking about."

The Causal Line representing her was sometimes mottled with mixed colors and sometimes crimson. He