Reborn as the Sweetheart of a Paranoid Boss-Chapter 245: Inhibitor

Sterling Norwood stood silently in place, while Selena Kensington stubbornly maintained her pose, waiting for his response.

The two were locked in a silent confrontation.

In the end, it was Sterling who relented.

He walked over, took out a key, and opened the drawer.

Inside, three used syringes lay quietly.

Some blue liquid still clung to them...

"Inhibitors."

Sterling said.

Selena’s voice trembled slightly as she tried to remain calm, "Inhibit... what?"

"So, it wasn’t me who made you better, but you’ve been using inhibitors all along?!"

Selena was losing control over the volume of her voice.

She should have thought of it... Sterling had been confined at the Northwood Estate over ten years ago for going berserk.

How could he have suddenly improved just because of her appearance after so many years?

Was she too naive...

Selena felt that familiar frustration towards her own inadequacy once more.

Dark, negative emotions almost swallowed her whole.

But Sterling shook his head.

"If you weren’t here, the inhibitors wouldn’t work either."

It was her presence that allowed him to keep suppressing the awakening of the bloodline within him.

Without her, he wouldn’t have been able to hold on until now.

Sterling stepped forward and embraced her, wiping away the tears at the corners of her eyes, "Don’t cry, everything will pass."

Selena murmured, "Why suppress it? If it’s too painful, just let it go... I won’t run away from you out of fear."

She felt heartache, recalling how Sterling had become weak and pale from using inhibitors before.

Adding to her unease was the way he deliberately used perfume to mask some scent.

Who made these inhibitors... how?

Sterling shook his head, "No."

Selena grabbed his shirt, holding tighter, "...then use less of it in the future, okay? I’ll help you overcome it together."

Sterling knew this was Selena’s compromise, and unwilling to make her feel heartache, he finally replied, "...Alright."

*

In the days that followed, Selena carefully observed Sterling, afraid he might suddenly go berserk again.

This made Sterling feel both sweet and helpless.

"You don’t need to be so cautious, I’m not that fragile."

Selena pursed her lips, stubbornly ignoring him.

Later, Sterling realized that only by letting her be would she feel at ease, so he allowed her to continue.

*

In early July.

The finale of "Immortal Path."

Lily Payne had already sacrificed herself to offer the sword mid-series, and Felix Lloyd chose to slumber, making Landon, the ruler of the Demon Realm, fall and become a demon.

In the finale, Zane Quinn leaves seclusion, and by then, he is already considered a Demi Immortal.

He battled Landon for three days and nights, ultimately defeating him with a narrow victory and climbing to the top of the Immortal Sects.

The Demon Realm was severely weakened after Landon’s death, compounded by Felix Lloyd’s choice to slumber, and the great general Demoness Faith Fuller was nowhere to be found...

The ending contained several scenes.

Zane Quinn’s memories and melancholy in the Immortal Realm, Yara Helmsworth standing at the cliff’s edge on Glimmerpeak, always in her ice-blue dress, and... a flashback scene.

In an Imperial City among mortals, Faith Fuller dressed in her pre-demonic attire, glanced back at the camera with a smile, as if nothing had changed.

The plot ended there.

"To gain some, one must lose some, and that is ’Immortal Path’."

The finale of "Immortal Path" sparked a heated discussion online.

[Congratulations to Director Kensington for making me cry buckets...]

[I get it now, there’s not a single couple that ends up together in this series!!!]

[Director Kensington, you’re so heartless...]

[Ahhhhh, my Landon actually died just like that!!!]