Click!
The button was pressed, and the room was immediately illuminated by the brilliant incandescent light.
After getting the spare key for the room from the property management, Lin Fan carried Longyue and stepped into the house he hadn't entered for a long time.
The furniture in the living room was neatly arranged, everything was the same as before he left. However, due to being uninhabited for a long time, the room was visibly covered in dust.
Longyue looked around the room curiously, feeling utterly shocked in her heart.
"Demon Lord, this… is your home?"
In her memory, the Demon Lord's home should look like hell itself, with a dining table made of skulls, chairs sewn from human skin, and human heads displayed on the walls.
Yet, the scene before her was very different from what she had imagined. Aside from the unfamiliar decor and furniture, this was just an ordinary room.
"That's right, this is my home."
Lin Fan tossed Longyue, who was in his arms, onto the sofa. With his hands on his hips, he looked around the room with a nostalgic expression.
Before he transmigrated, he was just an ordinary corporate worker, dreaming of owning his own house. After working hard for several years, he finally managed to save enough money to buy this house, which was over seventy square meters, with one bedroom, one living room, a separate kitchen and bathroom, and a small balcony.
Soon after buying this house, he accidentally transmigrated to the Immortal Demon Continent.
Fortunately, he bought it in cash at the time, so he didn't have to pay a monthly installment. Otherwise, this house might have been long since repossessed by the bank due to overdue payments.
However, the strange thing was, even though he had been gone from this world for several hundred years, this room was apparently still here, and the changes in the entire city didn't seem to be that significant…
"Hmph, Demon Lord! You brought this Empress here to humiliate and torture me, didn't you!"
"I've long heard about the ways of your Demon Clan. What you like most is torturing the physical body, and slowly destroying one's spirit and will!"
"I will definitely not be afraid! Whatever you do to this Empress, I will not give in!"
Longyue clenched her delicate fists and growled, her beautiful face showing the determined expression of someone facing death calmly. However, her uncontrollably trembling, delicate body made her words a little less convincing.
Lin Fan intentionally looked at her white chest, a meaningful, playful smile appearing on his face.
"As expected of the Empress of the Immortal Realm. The spirit of self-sacrifice for the greater good truly makes this lord admire you."
"I see the Empress seems quite inviting. It looks like you've steeled your resolve?"
"You, you…! You perv! Shameless! Lecherous! Deviant!"
"Even if I die, I won't let you have your way!"
Realizing Lin Fan's gaze, Longyue immediately felt insulted and angry. She quickly covered the front of her clothes, so panicked that tears welled up in her eyes.
"Hahaha, relax. If I truly wanted to do something to you, I would have done it already while you were unconscious. Why would I wait until now?"
"Empress, it seems you're a little too self-important."
Lin Fan smiled cheerfully, completely satisfied.
He had fought with Longyue countless times, and in the past, he always saw her with a cold and arrogant demeanor, lofty and mighty. It was extremely rare to see her in a state like this frightened little woman.
"You… bastard!"
Feeling that she had been teased, Longyue growled angrily, but the anxiety in her heart slightly eased.
Although she didn't know how much spiritual energy the Demon Lord possessed, one thing was certain: his remaining spiritual energy was definitely greater than hers!
If he truly wanted to harm her, he could have done so long ago.
"Since you're not trying to torture this Empress, why did you bring me here?"
Facing Longyue's doubt, Lin Fan merely glanced at her and said flatly:
"Because you have nowhere else to go, right? We can't just let our noble Empress wander the streets, can we?"
Hearing this, Longyue's expression changed. Then, her brows slightly furrowed, and she showed her displeasure:
"Are you pitying me?"
"Who do you think this Empress is! I am the Empress of the Supreme Sacred Palace! Even without the Demon Lord accommodating me, nothing will happen to me!"
"Really? Empress, you've lost all your cultivation, and you look so temptingly gorgeous it's a crime. Who knows what you might encounter outside late at night? It's very hard to predict~"
Lin Fan teased with a deep meaning.
As soon as these words were spoken, Longyue looked out the window at the silent night and couldn't help but fall silent.
As the Demon Lord said, she didn't understand this world at all, and most importantly, the cultivation she relied on was gone. Who knows what she might encounter outside…
Seeing that he managed to scare Longyue, Lin Fan then continued:
"I'm not pitying you, just trying to avoid unnecessary trouble."
"If you were alone outside, I'm afraid you would genuinely be sent to a psychiatric hospital the next day."
"You! Are you trying to humiliate this Empress!"
"Besides, even if I were truly sent to that psychiatric hospital, it has nothing to do with you, Demon Lord, right!"
Longyue's brows furrowed as she stared fiercely, retorting in a soft voice filled with righteous indignation.
Although she didn't know what kind of place that was, from the sound of it, it seemed to be an insult to her intelligence.
Lin Fan walked to the bathroom with a rag in his hand and replied without turning his head:
"Where you are sent certainly has nothing to do with me, but if you happen to report me, it will bring a lot of unnecessary trouble to me."
"Hmph, even so, how could I, the majestic Empress of the Supreme Sacred Palace, be taken in by you, the Demon Lord!"
"Empress, you have misunderstood."
Lin Fan came out of the bathroom with a damp cloth and tossed one to Longyue.
"I'm not accommodating you for free. Instead, in my capacity as the landlord, I'm renting this house to you. You have to pay rent."
"R-Rent…?"
Longyue reflexively caught the cloth, staring blankly at it in her hand.
Lin Fan raised his index finger and continued explaining casually:
"That's right, a thousand rent per month. Food, lodging, utilities, and internet are included."
"I am a kind-hearted person and know that the Empress certainly doesn't have any money on hand, so the first month's rent is waived; it will be counted starting from the second month."
"However, even though the rent is waived, it's on the condition that the Empress is responsible for helping to clean the room."
"So, let's get to work! Empress!"
With those words, Lin Fan smiled and pointed to the rag in Longyue's hand.
"Tsk! As expected of the Demon Lord! So calculating!"
Longyue stuck out her tongue and threw a disdainful look at Lin Fan with her beautiful face.
"However, this is also good. This way, I won't owe you anything, Demon Lord."
As soon as her voice stopped, Longyue took the rag and started cleaning, quickly and efficiently.
Lin Fan took the other rag and walked into the bedroom to clean.
The busy figures of the two went back and forth to every corner of the room. The only sound in the room was the swishing sound of their hard work.
Longyue knelt on the floor, wiping, sweat soaking her forehead, making her gasp with exhaustion.
From childhood to adulthood, even when facing many powerful enemies who were also Immortal Emperors, she had never felt this exhausted.
A dusty room like this, she could have cleaned it in the past with a Purification Spell with just a flick. Now, she had to clean every corner by hand, little by little, like an ordinary human…
Only today did she realize how uncomfortable this ordinary human body was…
But compared to that, what angered her even more was, why did she, the majestic Empress of the Immortal Realm, have to clean the room together with the Demon Lord…!
Damn it! This is so frustrating!!!
The more Longyue thought about it, the angrier she became, and the force she used with her hands couldn't help but increase.
She felt that she had been tricked. The Demon Lord bringing her here was probably just to turn her into a free worker, helping him clean the room!
This must be a form of disguised torture for her, it must be…!