Chapter 1797 - 161.3: Demi-Human Women

So once Fisher admits this, even if this suspicion is almost imperceptible now, it will grow up someday in the future and eventually erupt with a more terrifying energy.

"Valentina, when I entered a Holy Marriage with you at that time, it was from a sincere heart, not merely trying to get a ticket to the Wutong Tree. I hoped you could live on, to cure your legs; I did not see that Holy Marriage as a pretense or an opportunity to gain your body. Even now, I still consider you to be my wife."

Fisher sat up, turned to Valentina, and said earnestly.

Valentina was slightly stunned and quickly said,

"Of course I am your wife, and the kind without divorce. A Holy Marriage is a Holy Marriage; you can’t go back on it! If you do, then there can only be..."

Valentina waved her pink fist, the cute and not at all threatening "widowhood" didn’t follow because it would damage a lady’s elegance.

Then she stretched out her hand to push Fisher, who sat up, back into the tender embrace of her lap pillow again. She looked down at Fisher beneath her, hesitating a little, as if recalling something terrible.

"I don’t doubt your feelings for me, nor your feelings for Alagina. I am just...a little afraid afterwards."

"Afraid afterwards? Why?"

"In the Turand Family, due to the curse, people always die young, and for the Turand Family members, the most important task is to bear offspring. The Clan Leader would marry many wives for the male members...no, they can’t even be considered wives, just tools for reproduction and indulgence. I have seen too many things where after giving birth they are immediately impregnated again, even with family members sharing wives among each other, and when they lose their value they are sent away, discarded..."

Thinking about it made it clear that due to the Turand Family curse, Valentina, because of her extremely rich bloodline, could only live less than twenty years, while other members might be slightly better but forty would probably be the limit.

In such a family with a short lifespan, to continue the bloodline, they could only mate as much as possible within a limited time, bear as many offspring as possible to continue the family’s line.

"Luckily, my mother was a family member with a bloodline and had an outstanding magic talent, so she could choose a dedicated mate, and only give birth to me without repeatedly enduring the torment of childbirth...I know that I have already left the Turand Family, I am far away from there, but at that time when I saw Alagina, I still have such nightmares, worrying that my Holy Marriage with you turns out to be a sarcastic ritual like that of the Turand Family..."

"Valentina."

"I know, I certainly know you wouldn’t think that way, so just now when Alagina said it like that to me, I still tried to retain her, sincerely."

Fisher thought for a moment, probably already knowing her answer,

"She should have gracefully declined."

"Yes, she is, after all, a woman of Sardinia Female Country, and when she replied like that, somehow, I also breathed a sigh of relief."

Valentina just rubbed Fisher’s temples again, looked up toward the front, and softly said,

"So, that’s how things are between her and me, and regarding those matters of your ex-girlfriends, that’s just how it is."

"Valentina..."

Fisher, of course, had to choose sincerity again, he had to tell Valentina that those are not ex-girlfriends, and even now there is still contact, but Valentina just lightly placed her hand on his lips.

She lowered her head, her pure white long hair falling down, blocking all the light from the ceiling above Fisher’s eyes, leaving only her pair of blue eyes, in which seemed to be a request, asking him not to utter the following words.

Perhaps Valentina only wished to be the wife who owns the ring, if there are other people, she maybe also hopes to see them think they are just insignificant ex-girlfriends when meeting them, even if it’s not true, but at least she hopes to hear Fisher say that.

Psychologically, this is an assertion of feelings for Fisher, irrelevant to any other factors, she would think this way.

"Sorry, Valentina, it was me that was wrong earlier, making you suffer..."

"What suffering? There isn’t any. Staying by your side I have always been happy, truly, Fisher...all right, all right, don’t always talk about these heavy topics, with the battle with Nali coming, we should both relax a bit..."

She quickly switched the subject, smilingly saying so.

Fisher realized what she meant in her words, sat up wanting to know how she wanted to relax,

"Alright, how do you want to relax? As the husband, I must obey."

"Me? Actually, I think it’s alright, maybe because after this battle, the pressure from Saint Nali isn’t that heavy? But it’s Fisher and Master Tao’s side that’s worrying...so even if it’s to relax, shouldn’t you be the one to do so?"

"Me..."

"Yes, yes, Fisher, what do you want to do?"

Fisher pondered for a second, and just as he was about to speak, Valentina gestured a "cross,"

"Not those naughty things now, that can only be done at bedtime...that’s the set agenda, just right since Master Tao isn’t here...Oh my, I thought earlier, if by chance doing those things with Fisher while Master Tao was in my mind, I...Oh, I’m talking about other things! Other relaxing things!"

Looking at Valentina blushing, rattling off a string of words, Fisher couldn’t help but find it amusing.

But heaven knows, he truly wasn’t thinking about those things and instead brought up another matter.

"Valentina, do you remember I had a small...interest previously?"

"Interest? Hmm, it seemed in Northern Realm there wasn’t much of one, except..."

Valentina puzzledly touched her chin, next second was dumbfoundedly looking at Fisher, finishing her unfinished sentence,

"Female demi-humans..."