Chapter 1806: Chapter 1806: The Hapless Adventurer vs. The Troublemaking Villainess (Part 45)

The woman had a perfectly exquisite face, wearing a magnificent robe carved from ice and snow, with the noble the Crown upon her head.

The instant her true body descended into the sea of fire, the temperature of the entire blaze plummeted.

The flames themselves seemed to have encountered their natural enemy, shivering as they went out.

...

On that day, Nicholas finally learned that he was not some lowly bastard, but a child of the divinities.

The Ice Snow Goddess, whose Incarnation wandered the continent, fell for the handsome looks of the Duke of Violet at first sight and, swept away by that instant infatuation, developed a romantic, fleeting affair with him. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

And Nicholas was the result of that affair.

Shortly after giving birth to Nicholas, the Ice Snow Goddess returned to the Divine Realm, and the promiscuous Duke of Violet also very quickly forgot his beautiful lover.

Though she did not hold much affection for Nicholas, the Ice Snow Goddess still, most unusually, became enraged at what he had gone through.

In the eyes of the divinities, for the people of this country to treat her child this way was, in a sense, blasphemy against her.

She took Nicholas away on the spot and personally brought down divine punishment.

Across the whole country, for an entire year, wind and snow rampaged and bitter ice descended.

Crops could not be grown, countless people froze to death or starved to death, and the rule of the entire nation began to teeter on the brink.

No one dared to blame the divinities, so they vented all their fury on the family that had mistreated Nicholas.

The Duke and the Princess spent each day in terror, afraid that the moment they stepped outside, they would be torn apart by rioting commoners in revenge.

Yet in the end, they still did not escape.

The Holy See, which had once branded Nicholas a heretic, reached an agreement with the Imperial Family.

They personally bound the Duke of Violet and the Princess, forced them to kneel before the divine altar, and declared they were willing to pay any price, so long as the great Ice Snow Goddess would quell her anger.

The final outcome was that the Duke of Violet, along with his Princess wife and that noble-born child of theirs, were forever exiled from this country as a family of three.

And Nicholas became the new Duke of Violet.

Because of his bloodline, Nicholas was nearly Undying and Indestructible.

He lived through countless dynasties, watched innumerable Emperors ascend the throne and die, and even manipulated the succession of power in this vast empire with his own hands.

He became the most powerful man of this dynasty, and not a single person voiced any objection to it.

Until the day he finally grew weary of this world.

So he placed a Seal upon himself and his castle, and fell into slumber.

...

Gu Shengyin finished watching these memories, and her heart stirred slightly.

This man, who looked so noble and exalted, had probably always lived in deep loneliness, hadn’t he?

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have Sealed himself away to sleep.

A pair of hands reached out to cover her eyes. "I told you, don’t look at me with eyes like that. I won’t be able to hold myself back."

That low, husky voice sounded by her ear.

"Besides, I’m not as pitiful as you imagine. Sealing myself was only because the world had become too boring, and I was desperate to meet my bride."

Gu Shengyin reached up, grabbed his hand and pulled it down, staring at him in some surprise. "Right, you still haven’t told me why you keep calling me your bride. And how do you know that I really am your bride?"