Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2632: Who Kisses Better, Me or Her?

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Southern Capital, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse No. 234, Limitless Celestial Domain, Gainover Manor, Unparalleled Arena

Understanding her unspoken threat, I let out a sigh and nodded. She had me beat. But just as I was about to lean in, she frowned and commanded, "Remove your domain."

"Anna, now you’re being too much," I protested, knowing that she had ordered the demigods of the Southern Royal family to live-stream me kissing her across all five regions.

The moment I realized that, I abandoned all ceremonies and closed my celestial blood fate domain, making it difficult for the outside world to peer in on us. I had forgotten to close it after opening it in the unparalleled arena so Anna’s ancestor could see exactly how I intended to help her, clearing their misunderstanding.

"Wyatt, stop complaining and just do what I asked," Anna demanded sternly. She was not about to take no for an answer. Just the thought that the entire five regions believed her groom was dating Jill Norley infuriated her. She wanted to rectify that, to tell the world that Jill was nothing more than a slut who had seduced her groom while she was in seclusion.

Seeing me still hesitate, Anna complained exaggeratedly, "Wyatt, for once, could you just go along with what I’m asking?"

"Fuck it." I retrieved my celestial blood fate domain, then grabbed Anna by the head and fiercely kissed her. After a few minutes, our lips parted, a thin string of saliva bridging the distance between us.

Flushed, Anna looked up at me and asked, "So, who’s the better kisser? Me or her?"

"Come on, Anna. I’ve accepted far more from you," I said, shaking my head and feigning disappointment.

Anna’s eyes widened in disbelief as she blurted out, "You’re sure? There’s no way that little square or that the money grubber is a better kisser than me. Come on, let’s kiss again."

"No, I wasn’t talking about the kiss," I said, pushing Anna’s face aside. She clearly did not like that and immediately protested. At that moment, I began to recall all the annoying things about Anna that I had conveniently forgotten.

"Then what are you talking about?" Anna asked, sounding slightly relieved and no longer daring to make the mistake of asking that question again. She was content not knowing who the best kisser was in my experience.

In her mind, I had only ever been romantically involved with those people. I, however, did not believe my body count had been reset after my transmigration.

"Why do you feel the need to compete and compare with them?" I asked. "I chose the three of you because you are different. If you were the same, or if I felt one of you was better than the others, or that I loved one more, wouldn’t I have simply chosen the best one, or the one I loved most, instead of choosing all three at the risk of losing all three?"

I explained this to Anna, hoping she would stop competing with the other two, while also not going so far as to demand that she get along with them. "Anna, nothing you say will change my mind. And now that I have you, none of you can ever escape my grasp."

"You know possessiveness isn’t a good look on men," Anna said, rising onto her tiptoes to kiss my forehead. "But for some reason, I like it on you."

It was hard for me to tell what she was thinking at that moment. Then she continued, her tone sharpening, "But you have another thing coming if you think I’m fine with sharing you with those two."

"What—?" I blurted, only to be cut off as Anna spoke rapidly, "Wyatt, you want to be with other women, is that it? I’ll find you the most beautiful women in all five regions as your concubines, but not those two."

Now that I had openly confessed my feelings for her and accepted hers for me, Anna no longer hesitated to speak her mind. Then again, she had never been shy about pressing her opinions.

"Wyatt, promise me you won’t see those two anymore," Anna pleaded, her eyes growing teary as she rubbed her chest against mine.

Anna was willing to accept me seeing other women because she knew I was not that kind of man. Even if I were, she believed she would only be sharing my body, while my heart would still belong to her.

But when it came to Susan and Jill, it was different. With them, she would not only be sharing my body, but my heart as well. That prospect frightened her deeply with the fear that one day she might lose me to the other two gnawing at her. That was why she pleaded so desperately for me to stop seeing Susan and Jill, even going so far as to offer to help me choose beautiful concubines herself.

Amid her pleading, however, Anna’s grimoire received a message from the very last person she wanted to hear from, her mother. The message read:

[Stop making a fool of yourself and come home.]

The words were short and blunt. Anna did not know what to make of them and briefly wondered if her mother was provoking her. But then Ann mentally spoke to her through their shared origin card:

[Anna, you will never get him to commit to just us. Come home. Our mother will help us.]

If this had been before she fought Gainover, Anna would have ignored both of them. But now that she understood how her origin card truly functioned, she decided to trust her mother one last time. While she was at it, she intended to teach Ann a lesson as well. There was no us. Of the three sisters, only she had a groom.

Having reached that conclusion, Anna stopped pleading with her heartless and faithless groom, who couldn’t be more determined to cheat on her with Jill and Susan. Instead, she pulled him into a lingering kiss, lingering for a while before activating her teleportation card.

In a flash, she vanished, returning to the Southern Royal Palace in the Southern Capital.