Chapter 6: The Unexpected Saintess Wants to Marry Me.
In his dream
Fragments of Tang Yingjie’s three years of adventures in the other world continuously surfaced.
Then came certain moments from his own life.
They flashed past quickly in his dream like a revolving lantern….
No, this didn’t seem like a revolving lantern. It felt like he was about to die!
Lying on the dorm bed, Tang Yingjie felt like he couldn’t breathe. It was as if some heavy object was pressing on his chest, causing him constant difficulty breathing.
In the pitch-black dorm room, he suddenly opened his eyes, pushed the heavy object on top of him to the side, and took two sharp breaths before recovering. Only then did he notice a familiar fragrance suddenly lingering at the tip of his nose, refusing to dissipate.
It was the scent of Icefield Orchid from the other world. Its yield was extremely rare, and it was an essential harmonizing material in advanced magic potions.
Therefore, this scent often appeared on high-level magic pharmacists.
In his three years in the other world, Tang Yingjie only knew one advanced magic pharmacist.
Smelling this familiar warm floral fragrance, he subconsciously reached out to the side. The moment his fingertips touched a patch of softness, he immediately stopped.
He carefully picked up his newly bought phone and turned on the screen.
Under the dim light of the phone screen, a pair of moist blue eyes looked at him pitifully.
The two of them silently stared at each other. Even after the phone screen automatically turned off, Tang Yingjie still hadn’t reacted to what exactly was happening.
“Did I not cook those mushrooms properly at dinner tonight? I feel like I’m hallucinating…..”
He muttered to himself in a low voice, then tried to lie back down to sleep again, thinking the hallucination might disappear after another sleep.
But as soon as he lay down, someone pinched the soft flesh on his waist.
“Hiss! What the hell are you doing?”
Ambushed from behind, Tang Yingjie bared his teeth and flipped over on the bed, staring at Alice with wide eyes.
However, worried about waking his roommates and being unable to explain, he kept his voice unusually low.
Alice pouted angrily, lying on her side on the bed and looking at him with resentment.
Alright, he could no longer deceive himself.
This was not a hallucination at all.
The Saintess from the other world had really appeared on Earth.
And she was on his bed!
The waist-pinching technique was a dirty trick he had used before when messing around with another brother in the team. Later, the two of them often used this move to ambush each other during their leisure time.
Clearly, the Saintess had secretly learned this trick and was now using it on him.
Tang Yingjie bared his teeth and rubbed the spot where he had been pinched.
This girl was clearly a mage, yet her grip was quite strong.
Only then did he ask with a face full of confusion.
“How did you get here?”
“Why can’t I come?”
“Is this your world so you can come?”
“You went to our world too.”
“Was I willing?”
“It doesn’t matter. Now I am willing.”
“…”
Tang Yingjie was stumped by that sentence.
After a long while, he asked in confusion.
“Why did you willingly come here?”
“Why?”
Alice lay on her side on the bed. Her gaze turned somewhat shy as she looked away, and her cheeks carried a faint blush.
“To find you…”
Her voice was very soft.
But fortunately the dorm was quiet enough now.
“To find me for what? You don’t think coming here is like going from the countryside to town, where you can come and go as you please, right? I don’t know magic, and there aren’t that many magic materials here to send you back.”
“I’m not going back. I want to stay here. I want to marry you.”
Alice calmed her emotions and suppressed the shyness in her heart. Although her little face was slightly red, she still looked boldly into Tang Yingjie’s eyes and stated her purpose.
“You… what did you say?”
Tang Yingjie rubbed his ears in disbelief.
Alice took a deep breath, raised her courage again, looked straight at Tang Yingjie, and said seriously, word by word, clearly.
“I want to stay in this world and marry you.”
“I hope we can be together.”
This was an ultra-fast straight ball.
It hit Tang Yingjie, this straight guy, directly.
“No…”
Tang Yingjie wanted to say something.
“Are you going to reject me?”
It seemed she had seen his hesitation.
Alice lowered her eyes in disappointment.
“No, that’s not what I mean…”
He sat up anxiously on the bed and scratched his head, at a loss.
No? Had he ever raised this Saintess’s favorability? How did she suddenly run over from another world to his bed to confess to him?
Did the other world have this kind of plot development?!
Wait, it seemed like it did.
No, this wasn’t the time to complain about that.
Tang Yingjie twitched the corner of his mouth and looked at the familiar girl in front of him. Those expectant, passionate, and somewhat unfamiliar eyes were staring at him.
He felt that this Saintess seemed like a completely different person compared to before. She didn’t match the high and cold image the Saintess had maintained for the three years in his memory at all.
“I just feel that this matter is too sudden. About marriage and such, I think I may not be ready yet.”
“We have been together for three years. Why do you feel it’s sudden? And according to tradition, the Hero and the Saintess are supposed to get married, right? Moreover, before… you even gave me a token of love…”
“？”
Token of love? What thing?
Tang Yingjie had no impression of this at all.
“It’s this.”
Seeing Alice take out a phone from her bosom, Tang Yingjie’s eyes immediately widened.
“How is it with you??”
Wasn’t this the phone he had lost in the other world? He had gone to Wanda during the day specifically to buy a new one.
“This is what you left in my room three years ago. I originally planned to find an opportunity to return it to you, but I never found a good time.”
“That still doesn’t count as a token of love…”
“Why wouldn’t it?”
The Saintess also sat up on the bed and tilted her head to look at Tang Yingjie.
“I told you, the Saintess and the Hero are meant to be together. From the moment you became the Hero, I had already decided to marry you. So in my eyes, this is the token of love you left for me. Similarly, it is also what gave me the chance to come to your side.”
Tang Yingjie finally understood now.
In simple terms, it was the unbreakable ancestral rule of the other world.
The Saintess and the Hero must be together no matter what, right?
This was completely feudal superstition! An arranged marriage!
I do not accept this marriage!
Although he really wanted to say that directly.
But looking at Alice’s peerless beauty that even the darkness of night could not hide, and thinking about how she had crossed worlds alone without hesitation to find him, he couldn’t bring himself to say the words of outright rejection.
After thinking for a moment, he decided to refuse more tactfully.
“Sorry, I still can’t quite accept your proposal to get married directly…”