Madame is Pretending to be an Academic Slacker Again!

No one expected that at the last second before departure, an unexpected event occurred.

Nalan Ye Jue was already pulling Qin Xin towards the Time Gate, but just then Ten Elders arrived gasping for breath and, upon seeing this scene, was simply burning with rage.

Destroy our blood pool and still want to leave intact? Dream on!

Among them, the Great Elder, Third Elder, Eighth Elder, Ninth Elder, and Eleventh Elder were all fire-powered celestials. In a fit of anger, an arrow carrying the black fire of these five fire-powered celestials at their peak shot towards the Time Gate.

Qin Xin could still fend off the black fire of one fire-powered celestial, but all five at once…

At this moment, Nalan Ye Jue was pulling Qin Xin, with his back to the elders, his broad shoulders completely shielding Qin Xin and keeping her firmly protected.

Yet.

With her keen sense of hearing, Qin Xin swiftly caught the sound of the arrow piercing through the air.

Before Jing Zhichen’s shrill warning of “Be careful! Don’t look back! Hurry!” reached her, she had already made a quick decision—

She abruptly pushed Nalan Ye Jue, switching their positions, sending him into the Time Gate while she faced the elders.

“Pfft—” came the sound of the arrow piercing through flesh.

Qin Xin staggered.

Nalan Ye Jue’s vision was filled with a mass of black fire and blood.

“Little Madam!”

He held onto Qin Xin’s hand tightly, refusing to let go, and together they fell into the Time Gate.

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In the midst of darkness.

Death-like silence.

Time was no more, space was no more, it seemed the world consisted only of him and her.

Nalan Ye Jue clutched Qin Xin’s hand tightly, his knuckles turning faintly pale, his arm taut with tension.

He was afraid that if he loosened his grip, she would fall into the black hole of time, never to return.

“You little fool, why did you block the arrow for me?” Nalan Ye Jue looked at the bleeding, pale-faced Qin Xin with heartache.

With her spiritual power and blood rapidly draining, speaking became strenuous: “Who blocked the arrow for you… It was just that the black fire happened to choose the one with stronger spiritual power to attack.”

Although she was struggling to fend off the black fire, Nalan Ye Jue’s talisman had been used up, and without his own spiritual power, the black fire would burn him to ashes.

If she didn’t block the arrow for him, could she watch him turn to ash?

Nalan Ye Jue’s throat felt sore, his voice hoarse: “You little fool… If anything happens to you, do you think I could survive alone?”

The words she had once spoken to him resonated the same within him.

Qin Xin pressed her lips together: “You have to live well, take me home, and also, take good care of the little ginger snake and Little Dongju for me…”

Hidden tightly within Qin Xin’s sleeve, the little ginger snake and Little Dongju burst into tears: “Master…”

Even at this time, their master still had her mind set on finding them a place of refuge.

Nalan Ye Jue drew her closer into his embrace. With the arrow still in her back, he dared not hold her too tightly, afraid of deepening the wound; he merely kissed her forehead gently: “We’ll go home together. Wherever you are, there I will be.”

Qin Xin’s breathing became weaker: “If I die, will you… will you marry another woman?”

Nalan Ye Jue’s eyes reddened: “You won’t die.”

Qin Xin lifted her lips slightly, smiling slowly: “If you ever marry another woman, she must be like me, or like Lan Qingxin, a woman who truly loves you, okay?”

Nalan Ye Jue closed his eyes: “Except for you, I won’t marry another woman, never. Have you forgotten the vow we made at our engagement, that a Nalan family’s man will only be committed to one woman for life, never to divorce, never to remarry.”