"Hmm, what a coincidence. Is it that world again?"
Lin Luo raised an eyebrow and decided to find CC first.
Luoyang.
The Vermilion Forbidden City.
Deep within the Imperial Palace.
Jiang Lihua gazed at the azure sky, her eyes brimming with longing.
"Why did they choose me to be empress?"
Hugging her knees, she curled up on the ground and slowly lowered her gaze.
"Hm? What's this?"
She blinked and picked up a bedsheet from the ground.
An intricate Magic circle was printed on it, as though it would draw her mind inside.
"A devil summoning?"
Jiang Lihua murmured to herself, "Can it grant my wish?"
She instinctively glanced outside, her heart pounding twice.
If I could gain my freedom, what would it matter if I made a deal with a devil?
That was what she thought.
At last, she spoke. "Mr. Devil, please grant my wish."
Jiang Lihua stared unblinkingly at the flyer, even holding her breath.
She knew that devils and such were far too unreliable.
Yet she sincerely hoped the legends were true.
Even surrendering her soul would be better than remaining imprisoned in the Vermilion Forbidden City as a puppet empress in name only.
One breath... two breaths...
The light in Jiang Lihua's eyes gradually faded.
As I thought, devils are nothing but fiction. How could they possibly exist?
Just as she thought that, the flyer in her hands blazed with light.
A Magic circle rose into the air, spinning.
"Th-this... this?"
Jiang Lihua instinctively stood up, her eyes widening further and further.
"Were you the one who summoned me?"
"Judging by your clothes, you seem to be from the Federation."
As the voices rang out, a man and a woman stepped out of the Magic circle.
"Are these... devils?"
Looking at Lin Luo and CC,