Duo Tu retracted his gaze, looking lost and dejected. "I heard that the Holy Son and Holy Consort held a ceremony some days ago. I... I have never met this Holy Consort before. This time, I brought some modest gifts. May I visit her?"
Minos said, "The Holy Consort is shy and does not receive guests easily. I'm afraid we must ask for her opinion on this matter."
Duo Tu was silent for a moment, then smiled bitterly.
"...Understood. I will visit again when I have time."
Duo Tu went to the temple to carefully inquire about methods of raising children. After taking some angel clan offspring-specific formula and some spiritual food supplements, he left the sacred realm with the child and returned to the Western Continent.
Minos returned to the palace and found Sang Luo lying on the table, propping her chin with her hands, as if thinking about something or daydreaming.
"Are you still thinking about him?" Minos sat down opposite Sang Luo and gently tapped her forehead, waking her up.
"No, it's just that I haven't seen him in so long, and the sudden meeting felt a bit unreal. He might have seen me," Sang Luo said, stretching her arms out on the table and giving a cute yawn.
"The Beast King of Allance has been raising the child alone for so many years, and he hasn't had anyone by his side. It's quite pitiful," Minos said, his clear and calm gaze falling on her as he poured them each a cup of lemon black tea.
Sang Luo widened her eyes, not understanding. "Pitiful? Wasn't he doing quite well after I died? The empire's potential threats were eradicated, his throne was stabilized, and he has an heir. When he figures things out, he can remarry a beautiful concubine. His life is a complete success. What's pitiful about him? If I were him, I'd be laughing in my dreams every night."
Minos was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "That's true."
He picked up a piece of rose cake with his clean, slender fingers. "Try this and see how it tastes."
Sang Luo leaned in and took a bite from his hand. It was sweet. The rose cake was only a small piece, and she finished it in one or two bites, her tongue lightly brushing his fingertips.
Minos flinched slightly and lowered his head to take another piece of rose cake for her.
But Sang Luo took his hand first, twisted her waist, and sat on his long, sturdy lap. She propped her hands against the man's broad, straight, and perfect shoulders, staring down at his moist, beautiful lips, and whispered, "Holy Son, I want to taste something else ~"
Her goal now is him!
Minos's movements froze. He looked up at her, his clear eyes rippling slightly. A blush quickly spread across his fair and handsome face.
However, Sang Luo didn't make any further moves, just looking at him with a smile.
Minos's Adam's apple bobbed. Tentatively, he reached behind her waist and pressed her whole body into his arms, their bodies almost touching intimately through a layer of clothing... He pressed the back of her head with his other hand and kissed her.
Minos's hand on her waist gently caressed her with the rise and fall of their breaths.
He moved forward again and took her hand.
After a moment, both of their breathing was a little disordered.
Sang Luo's skirt rippled ambiguously, and Minos's mianfu was even more disheveled than hers.
Those who didn't know would think that she was secretly bullying their Holy Son in the palace, but they didn't know that this pure and perfect Holy Son took the initiative to hold her hand and slowly tear open his neat and meticulous divine robe.
The neckline and chest were open, like unwrapping a gift, revealing his beautiful collarbone, strong chest, and cold, jade-like skin little by little. When his hand, holding hers, swept across his lean, perfect abs and landed on his waist, Sang Luo took the initiative to withdraw her hand, her pretty face slightly flushed.
The process of pulling the Holy Son down from the altar little by little was really too taboo and too stimulating. Even she couldn't stand it...
Sang Luo's gaze fell on Minos's neck, and she found that the "strawberry" she had planted on him a few days ago was still there. He clearly had the ability to eliminate it instantly, but he allowed this "blemish" to be branded on his perfect body, like a mark of identification.
Sang Luo looked at Minos's face again.
The cold and pure Holy Son had a thin red flush at the corners of his eyes, as if he had been bullied severely. The look in his eyes at her still carried some dissatisfaction, as if he was questioning her why she had stopped.
Sang Luo's eyes widened, and she couldn't help swallowing.
Minos seemed to be slowly "falling" from abstinence to another extreme!
"Holy Son, Lord Ulysses Pino requests an audience."
Fortunately, the servant's announcement came from outside the door.
Sang Luo quickly said, "Holy Son, important matters take precedence."
Minos turned a deaf ear, his hand behind her head gently stroking her soft hair, again and again.
The servant at the door saw that there was no response and thought that he hadn't heard, so he asked again.
"Holy Son, Lord Ulysses Pino has already arrived at the council hall and is waiting for the Holy Son to receive him."
There was no sound in the hall. The servant hesitated, perhaps wanting to make sure that there was no one in the hall, so he took the liberty of opening the door to come in.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Sang Luo hurriedly tried to get off him, but Minos pressed her waist harder, the dissatisfaction in his eyes even greater.
A light golden wave of energy swept out, and instantly, time stood still and slowly reversed. The servant stepped back out the door.
The door closed.
Only the two of them were left.
"Cough, Your Highness! Business matters, don't keep others waiting for too long!"
"...Wait for me here, I'll be back soon."
After Minos entangled with Sang Luo for a while and kissed her, he let her down, got up to tidy up his clothes, and left.
......
On the other side, in the Allance Empire, Duo Tu locked himself in the palace for a whole day after returning to the palace, not even seeing his son.
His heart ached dully, not knowing whether to be happy or sad.
How could he have mistaken her?
The next day, he went out and ordered the tomb to be opened.
As he expected, the coffin was empty, and there were no human bones to be found.
He picked up the two wooden carvings again, which were well protected. Hephaestus hugged them to sleep every night and put them in the cabinet during the day, locked up so that no one else could touch them.
He asked his son, "You've seen your mother before, haven't you?"
Hephaestus lowered his head uneasily, not daring to speak.
Seeing him like this, Duo Tu got the answer.
It turned out that he had been kept in the dark all along. The only person she didn't want to see from beginning to end was him.
Half a month later, after Duo Tu finished eating the things he brought from the temple, he came to the sacred realm with the child again.
Sang Luo used her mental power to see the father and son coming and looked at Minos next to her.
"Did you allow him to come?"
"The Beast King of Allance wants to keep his son by his side, so he has the responsibility to raise the offspring of the angel clan well. He is qualified to freely enter the temple to learn the way of raising children."
"Oh, is that so, I see."
Sang Luo ate her meal absentmindedly. With Duo Tu and Hephaestus going back and forth to the temple so many times, how could someone as smart as Duo Tu not notice something?
Anyway, they would meet sooner or later, so she was too lazy to hide any longer.
After finishing her meal, Sang Luo said to Minos, who was about to leave, "I'll go with you to see him and my son."
