Chapter 26
I thought about it—and finally asked the question.
"Why?"
Qin Jinnan smiled.
"I know why you came to me. Why you came to this world."
His voice was slow, deliberate.
Measured like a knife being drawn.
"You came—to raid me."
My heart skipped a beat.
He really knew everything.
It was as if this world, from the very beginning, had belonged to him.
"Then… why me?" I asked.
The words were already out. There was no longer any use hiding them.
I said, "The system told me—there've been hundreds of raiders sent into this world."
Qin Jinnan's fingers lightly brushed over the back of my hand, slow and deliberate.
By now, we had stepped into the elevator.
With just a glance from him, the assistants, bodyguards, and doctors all quietly took the other lift.
The doors closed.
Now, it was only the two of us in this confined space.
We were already standing close—
But he still took a step forward, leaned in, and lowered his head—
His lips moving toward my eyes.
His gaze held nothing but me.
It was so serious, so focused, that for a moment I felt suffocated by it.
And yet—
I turned my face away, just a second before his lips could touch.
It was the first time I had ever rejected Qin Jinnan.