When it was all over, it was already late at night.

“Haaaah…haaah…”

Curled up in Fang Zheng's arms, Ying Lili breathed softly. Her face was flushed, but she showed a satisfied smile.

"I didn't expect... it would be so tiring... When I was drawing the book, I thought I could just do it all night..."

"If you want, I will continue to accompany you, okay?"

Facing Ying Lili's complaints, Fang Zheng reached out and pinched Ying Lili's little face. He was an adult dragon, and he wouldn't feel exhausted even if he did it for a month, let alone one night. Of course, whether Ying Lili could bear it was another matter.

"Oh... forget it, I feel a little tired..."

After hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Ying Lili hesitated for a moment, but finally gave up.

"Mr. Fang Zheng really looks like the protagonist in the book, no matter in which aspect..."

"Let me make it clear in advance that I will not wear hypnotic glasses to do this or that to others."

"Of course I know that."

Hearing Fang Zheng's complaints, Ying Lili chuckled, then she buried her head in Fang Zheng's arms.

"……Thanks……"

“…”

"...To be honest, I'm tired. No matter how hard I try or how I express my thoughts, he won't understand. I've thought about giving up, but...I don't know what I can do if I give up on him. But now, I finally realize that instead of finding someone who is unwilling to accept me no matter what, I might as well find someone who is willing to accept me...even if it's just in the game...Thank you...Mr. Fang Zheng...I can finally get out of that nightmare...I...will never lose again..."

Ying Lili's voice became smaller and smaller, with a few sobs in between, and finally, she fell into a deep sleep.

Looking at Eriri's sleeping face, Fang Zheng gently stroked her hair. To be honest, Fang Zheng didn't know exactly what Eriri had encountered, but based on what Eriri had told him before, she had obviously been through a difficult time.

Just as many men complain that they are the backup for goddesses, in fact, many times, goddesses are also the backup for other people.

Love is unreasonable. If Fang Zheng were to look at it from an outsider's perspective, then a homebody with ordinary looks, little money, no abilities, no strengths, and who was as dull as a dead person would have no qualities that could attract women.

There must be people who like a beautiful girl like Eriri, and there must be some people who are outstanding in all aspects. But Eriri just likes that otaku, and she is devoted to him, and even willing to be his backup, so that after being hurt all over, she finally chose to give up reluctantly.

Of course you can say that Ying Lili is blind, but how many blind people are there in the world?

Many times, people cannot have a harem because of hardware limitations, such as social morality and legal regulations, as well as economic, physical, and spiritual reasons. You can have a large number of harems, but you cannot guarantee that you will not favor one over another, whether you can make enough money to support so many harems, whether the time spent with each harem is the same, or whether you have the energy to satisfy four, five, six, seven, or eight women at the same time at night.

Love is about devotion to each other, and blindly giving will eventually lead to failure.

The saying goes that a dog will end up with nothing. This principle applies to both men and women.

However, these problems are not problems for Fang Zheng.

There were no legal or moral restrictions on monogamy in the main world, let alone the Tiandao Palace. In terms of economy, as long as Fang Zheng wanted, he could always be rich enough to rival a country, and it would be no problem to use the money to take care of his harem.

As for time, it didn't matter to Fang Zheng. He was a time dragon and mastered the dimensional code of traveling through the world. If Fang Zheng wanted, he could take any of his concubines to any free world to stay there for more than ten years or even decades. As long as he slowed down the flow of time, when he returned to Tiandao Palace again, it would only take a few days or half a month for others, or at most a month.

As for energy... As a dragon, Fang Zheng never worried about whether he could satisfy his harem. Instead, it was his harem that had to worry about whether they could satisfy him.

At least Kurumi, Tilia and Atalanta all have limits on what they can bear. If there were more sisters to share the burden with them, they would probably just applaud.

But at this point, Fang Zheng rarely takes the initiative to flirt with girls.

With his ability, if Fang Zheng wanted to, he could easily make all the girls in the guild his harem. But in Fang Zheng's opinion, this was unnecessary, because eating alone would make people jealous. If the other party was interested in him, like Ying Lili, who dared to take the initiative to confess to him, then of course he would not let her go. But if the other party didn't have that interest in him, then Fang Zheng would not take the initiative to flirt with the girl.

For ordinary people, running around in the woods with a gun on their back may not lead to finding a rabbit.

But for Fang Zheng, there are so many rabbits that actively come to hit the tree that they have to line up to get a number. There is no need to give up such a good method of waiting for rabbits to come to you and compete for food with those ordinary typical spare tire hunters.

This is too unfair.

While thinking about all sorts of things, Fang Zheng closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

Love can change a person.

This was not the first time Fang Zheng had heard this sentence, but it was the first time he had seen such an obvious effect.

"Hey--!!"

Facing the monster that pounced in front of her, Ying Lili screamed, and the dagger in her hand instantly bounced up and hit the monster in front of her. With a flash of sword light, the monster instantly shattered and exploded, disappearing into the air.

"Huh... Done! Mr. Fang Zheng, I'll go check out the situation!"

"Be careful, don't stray too far, watch out for traps, and stay in touch."

"clear."

Ying Lili smiled and gave Fang Zheng a half-military salute, then moved forward.

"It seems that Eriri-sister is in a very good mood today, and her reactions are much faster than before."

Yuuki looked at Eriri's back curiously and couldn't help but speak, and Kuroneko nodded in confusion.

"yes."

After all, everyone has fought side by side for so long and are very familiar with each other. Eriri is very good at reconnaissance, but her combat skills are actually very average. If she were to be ranked, Eriri's combat skills would basically be at the bottom of the strategy group.

Of course, from the perspective of the combat team, Eriri's skills are acceptable, but compared to Kuroneko, Asuna, Yuki and other perverted people, she is not as good as others.

Today, Eriri's performance was considered "above average" by everyone.

And that’s not all…

"Did anything good happen to her?"

Kuroneko looked at Eriri's back and thought about it carefully. You know, she had a tea party with Eriri and the fairy the day before yesterday. At that time, Eriri was not in a very good mood and seemed to be worried about something. But now she looks brand new. Kuroneko even feels that Eriri is like a statue that has been wiped clean and waxed, so bright and dazzling that people can't bear to look at it directly.

Fang Zheng smiled and said nothing. Eriri did not intend to make their relationship public, and Fang Zheng certainly would not be so boring. He understood Eriri's thoughts. After all, Eriri only wanted to maintain this relationship in the game, but if it was made public, it would be a bit embarrassing to talk about it in real life after leaving the game.

“Ding ding ding——!”

At this moment, a message alert sounded suddenly. Fang Zheng clicked on the message and soon heard Argo's voice.

"Fang Zheng, there is something very important that I need your guild's help with!"