The Shining Star Above The Heaven-Chapter 886: Bad Fate?

Angelica did not move at all as she was still shocked by the sensation of Aldrian's lips on her forehead. She never expected that Aldrian would do that.

After a few seconds, he finally moved his lips away and looked at Angelica with a smile. There were no words from him, and she could only blink a few times. But then her face flushed and she lowered her head.

Aldrian saw how shy this woman in front of him was, and it truly made him want to tease her more.

However, that kiss was his way of showing her that she did not have to worry about anything and that he always opened his heart for her.

There was only silence for a few moments as Angelica was still too shy to start the conversation while Aldrian simply smiled as he observed her shyness from his seat. He still held her hand and stroked it.

After a few more seconds, Angelica finally opened her lips.

"Aldrian, I love you."

Her voice was so small, but Aldrian could still hear it, which made him stunned. Now she used the word "love," which showed that she was already firm in her feelings. There was no doubt inside her heart anymore.

This made his heart warm, and it also touched him greatly. Although his feelings for her had not bloomed the same way as his feelings toward Sylphia and Baek Jimin, it still made his heart flutter.

How could it not?

From her stories, this woman was the one who had accompanied several of his past lives, and in the end she fell in love with him again. Every life was different, yet she always returned to him because of the fate he created himself. It was the fate that guided her heart back to him, and it was also what allowed him to find his way to her.

Although he had not received any vision regarding Angelica, he believed her stories about those dreams. Because of those stories, he understood that his heart had actually been ready to accept another love, a love meant for her for a long time.

It was no wonder his heart seemed to accept her presence so easily, and why he never found her approach strange. It was supposed to be like this. His heart was already open, and once again it would be filled by her.

Aldrian felt more determined to develop his feelings for the woman in front of him so that one day he could say the word love to her with full certainty. He wanted to say I love you with nothing inside him except love, and not because of pity, or anything else.

He couldn't help but want to tease her again as he leaned his head closer to her lowered face.

"What? I think I could not hear—"

Before he could finish his words, he widened his eyes because Angelica suddenly raised her head and, with a quick movement, pecked his lips with hers.

It happened so fast that he could not even savour the feeling of her lips touching his before she moved away and ran outside the tent without a single word. He did not stop her because of the shock he still felt. He could only gaze at her figure as she disappeared outside.

After a few seconds, he finally released a sigh and showed a smile.

"She really got me," he murmured. To think that she could trick him like that and give him such a shock.

He touched his lips as if he wanted to remember the feeling of her lips on his in that short moment. He stayed in his seat and leaned against it to relax his body, then closed his eyes. He still kept his smile, and at this moment, he was truly in a good mood.

At the very least, the matter regarding Angelica had been solved. Now she did not need to force herself to do something that made her act unlike herself. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

But then he took note of a detail from her stories that made him open his eyes and frown. She had told him that every one of her dreams always ended in a tragic end. From his point of view, it was as if bad fate kept following her in every life. Even in this life, she was born unable to see or walk.

When he asked the heavens about Angelica's bad fortune in this life at that time, he learned that it was not the heavens that made her life miserable. Moreover, with the heavens knowing Angelica's connection to some of his past lives, he doubted the heavens would want her to suffer.

In his eyes, the tragic fate that seemed to always follow Angelica was not a coincidence.

'It is more like she is cursed to have bad fate,' he thought solemnly.

If what he thought was true, then something like that could only be done by a high-level god. It would be a curse engraved onto one being even through reincarnation, and difficult to erase.

The heavens could not do anything about it because even they were bound to certain rules established since the start of time. The rules that prevented them from directly intervening in many things within the universe.

As long as the beings of the universe did not do something that triggered a reaction from the heavens, then the heavens could not intervene.

If the heavens were not bound by such rules, the universe would develop in an uncertain direction. The universe might not develop at all, and the universe would become weak because the heavens would be controlling too much.

Now, if Angelica at some point in her past life received a curse from a god, then a question rose. Who was the one that cursed her?

He doubted that any of his followers would do that. Even if they somehow cursed her before she had any relationship with him, his followers would likely erase the curse the moment she built a connection with him. There was no way they would leave it in place. That would be the same as a slap right on his face.

'Is it one of those invaders?' The moment he reached this conclusion, he felt irritated, but he quickly calmed down.

If that was the case, then who was Angelica when she was cursed by them? There was no way those gods would curse her randomly. She must have been a great figure who pushed those invaders to decide to curse her.

He suddenly grew very curious about Angelica's past lives and her identity in each of them. He wanted to know who she was when she received such a curse. Those gods must have been furious or threatened enough to place a curse on her.

But then a concern rose in his heart. If this was indeed a curse from the invaders, then it might still be engraved in her being. He had already fixed the problems with her eyes and feet, and at this moment there was no issue in her life.

However, there was no knowing what future awaited her.

She could end up just like her past lives—dead, and as she said, never with a good death.

Imagining that she might end up experiencing bad fate again in the future made him angry. His eyes glistened dangerously.

'Bad fate? Curse? Let's see if they can harm Angelica in my presence.'

As he was still thinking about Angelica, he turned his head toward the tent's entrance because he saw Baek Jimin entering with a smile on her face. Seeing her figure, he smiled and straightened his body in his seat.

Baek Jimin walked closer. "What happened between you and Angelica? I just saw her running toward Pope Claudius's tent with a face full of embarrassment." She asked with a slight tease.

However, she did not receive any answer. Instead, she saw him stand up from his seat, still with that same smile. She stopped her steps as she sensed something wrong with his expression, and her danger sense began to tingle!

His smile was hiding something deeper!

She wanted to run back outside, but before she could reach the entrance, Aldrian already appeared behind her and tried to catch her. She quickly used her movement technique so her body could move faster, which allowed her to almost touch the tent's entrance.

Unfortunately for her, just as she was about to get out of the tent, she suddenly could not move her body at all. She could only move her head, and when she sensed Aldrian right behind her, hugging her waist, her body trembled.

"Where are you going, my love?" Aldrian asked softly beside her ear.

"Why do you have to escape when you could stay with me and discuss what happened after you left Angelica and me alone?" He stroked her waist.

"Do you think you already did something wrong for you to try to run from me? Or did you feel guilty for making me handle Angelica's feelings right here without telling me anything beforehand?"

"My dear Aldrian, let's discuss what happened in a more civilized manner. I only wanted to help Angelica solve her problem. It's much better than seeing her like that for the past few days, right? From what I saw, it seemed something good happened to her, and that's also good for you," Baek Jimin said hurriedly. She tried to look at Aldrian's face beside her.

"Oh yes, of course it's better for me to solve her problem as soon as possible, and I'm thankful that you gave us some alone time," Aldrian said, which made her smile nervously.

"See, then you could—"

"But I still need to punish you for making your own plan without telling me anything. It could have ended badly for Angelica, you know?" Aldrian cut off her words, and her eyes trembled.

"Wait, Aldrian." She then felt her body moving on its own as Aldrian carried her toward the bed not far from them.

"It's punishment time for a bad girl," he said with a chilling smile, which made her expression turn frightened.

"No—" she shouted, but Aldrian was already faster. He instantly covered the tent with a formation so no sound could escape and no one could enter.

Later that night, Aldrian punished her with "extreme training" that made her bathe in her own sweat. It was an extreme training filled with pleasure, and her screams that were full of ecstasy..

At that moment, Baek Jimin deeply regretted pulling "a prank" like that on Aldrian. It made her decide that she should never try that sort of prank on him again.