Nadia's Despair

Nadia soon woke up and found herself in a dark, luxurious room, much to her horror!

She quickly got off the bed and tried to summon her weapon but realized her cultivation was sealed!

She then spotted a man standing on the balcony, looking out at the beautiful view. Upon a closer look, she realized that the man was none other than Yiman Nu, the king of the Nightsky Kingdom!

'Lucas…just wait…Mother will find you soon!' Nadia was greatly concerned about her son after realizing that she was captured by Yiman's forces.

However, she felt that Yiman didn't kill Lucas yet since she was still alive and Yiman knew how much she valued her own son. There was no way he would keep her alive without him.

She unconsciously tried to search around for a weapon but found nothing, making her feel even more anxious since without her cultivation, she won't stand a chance against Yiman.

"Nadia…you woke up? Come over here. I have been waiting for you. Forgive me if the general went a bit too far by knocking you out," Yiman said gently without turning around while Nadia slowly walked over to him. He was wearing only a piece of robe and underwear with his hairy chest exposed.

She stood a foot behind him as she coldly said, "Where is my son? If you even touch a single hair on him, I swear I—"

"Hey, relax…he's alive and fine…for now, at least. Come over here and take a look at him yourself if you don't believe me," Yiman said as he pointed his finger down.

Nadia felt a bad feeling as she stepped forward and stood beside him, only to have her eyebrows raise upon seeing Lucas lying unconscious on the ground and a guard with a large blade standing beside him!

"Lucas! What…are…you planning to do to him…Give him back to me…" Nadia coldly said as she looked at Yiman with a frigid gaze.

Yiman sipped his wine and placed it on the flat banister as he said, "Of course, I know how much you love your son, and that is why I have kept him safe for now. And I can give him back to you alive and well, but...you know what I want in return, right?"

Nadia gritted her teeth as she muttered, "You sick bastard…you dare to use my son to blackmail me?"

"Hey, is that the way to talk to your king? You are lucky my feelings for you run deep. Otherwise, do you think any other king would tolerate your words? They would have beheaded your son already. But I give you my word I won't take your son's life, though his wellbeing will be up to you. So make a choice fast since I am known to be a bit impatient, and the guard over there can't stand there all night long."

Nadia felt as if her chest was burning, and looking at her unconscious son, she clenched her hands and said in a cutting tone, "Fine! I will become your wife…but you should let Lucas go. Otherwise, I will kill myself if I have to."

"Ah, please don't say bad things like that. I will let Lucas go, but I think you have misunderstood something. Since you dared to escape and rebel against me, my proposal of you becoming my wife is no longer valid. Instead, you have to become my personal maid if you understand what I mean."

"Atrocious! I would rather die than become your slave!" Nadia said with an icy gaze as veins popped up over her temples.

"Guard. You may cut off the boy's legs," Yiman's expression turned cold as he simply mumbled.

Even if it was a mumble, it was actually a focused qi transmission which the guard standing below heard and looked at him as he nodded before raising his heavy sword high to cut off Lucas's legs.

"WAIT!! I WILL DO IT!" Nadia felt her heart leap out as she grabbed Yiman's arm, begging him to stop desperately, and unconsciously blurted out the only words she could find to stop him.

"Hold it," Yiman commanded, and the guard's blade stopped right before it could cut through Lucas's legs.

"Say it again. I want to make sure I heard right," Yiman said with an evil smile as he looked at a pale-faced Nadia who felt as if she was drowning in a pool of despair and darkness, knowing the kind of hell she was going to fall into.

But Lucas's face flashed in her mind continuously as she held back her painful emotions and said with a blank face, "I will be…your maid…but first take Lucas inside. I don't want him out on the ground."

'Forgive me, Lucas. Mother is betraying you, but there is no other choice…' Nadia was barely holding herself back from tearing up, feeling immense guilt, especially since what she was going to do was akin to betraying Lucas after the two had confessed their feelings to each other.

"Guard, put that boy inside the finest room you can," Yiman ordered and then looked at Nadia, "Now that is settled, let's start right away. Tonight you will serve me as I wish," Yiman said as he ogled her seductive curves with a lustful eye.

Nadia unconsciously hugged her arms as she mumbled with a clenched jaw, "Right now?" She felt like killing herself rather than letting this perverted man toy with her body. But Lucas's life was in the balance, and she could not afford to think only for herself.

"Don't make me think that you are going to back out on your word. Because the next time I order the guard, I won't be too kind to take back my order as well, especially since, as a King, I can't let my subjects think of me as an indecisive king. Even just now, I had to make a huge exception for you. Usually, I don't recede an order."

"Fine…let's go inside first," Nadia asked with an expressionless face, though inwardly she was already feeling her stomach-churning.

"A mere maid dares to give me orders? You will not move from here. It doesn't matter if you care if others will see you since I don't. You will listen to whatever I say by standing right here!"