[All right... I'll take the rules back, then. Please don't move.] Miss Gourd rolled over, pinning Zhang Ming beneath her.
She wore a faint smile, but her eyes were brimming with tears, and she still looked a little aggrieved.
Their foreheads touched gently, and a flash of light passed between them.
Zhang Ming sensed her reclaiming the small portion of rules within his Divine Blood.
He marveled inwardly. An Ultimate Demon God really is formidable. I went to all that trouble to steal those rules, and you snatched them back in an instant...
"Miss, you stole my wife!!" he said, acting unhinged.
She couldn't help laughing. [Sir, wake up. I... I'm your wife! Don't you recognize me?]
"No, I don't. Jinlian, why are you on top of me? Get off! Wu Song is coming back!"
[Pfft! Dalang, why are you afraid of Erlang?]
And Miss Gourd's decision to "take the rules back herself" really did show exceptional emotional intelligence.
If Zhang Ming had been made to release that portion of rules himself, he might have suffered a serious psychological burden.
After all, Gourd truly couldn't prove whether she was [Hope] or [Unfulfilled Wish]... Well, that actually wasn't all that important. Zhang Ming had believed her long ago.
But now that she had taken them back herself, there was no need for even that little psychological burden-after all, the Divine Blood simply hadn't been up to the task. I wanted to protect those rules, too, but I didn't have the ability!
With her rules complete again, she seemed to have grown just a tiny bit heavier. But her eyes were still brimming with tears, and she refused to get off him.
Zhang Ming didn't want things to go off accidentally in front of the omnipresent "Harmony" Demon God, so he could