Sweet Dreams?
The Wise Sovereign was taken aback upon hearing the answer: Why Sweet Dreams again?
Previously, Angel was interested in Sweet Dreams, and now Adanis brings it up again... Could it be a coincidence?
No, definitely not.
Adanis had known about Sweet Dreams for a long time but never mentioned it. Now that Angel has arrived, she suddenly brings it up; there must be a connection between the two.
Two possibilities: Either Adanis somehow learned of Angel’s interest in Sweet Dreams and is trying to irk him by asking to borrow it first.
Or, Angel and Adanis are conspiring, and Adanis, following Angel’s suggestion, asked to borrow Sweet Dreams.
If it were before, the Wise Sovereign would most likely believe the first possibility, that Adanis wants to annoy Angel.
But now, knowing that Angel is still alive and hasn’t left the Qingkong Poetry Room, the Wise Sovereign had another guess: Perhaps Angel and Adanis reached some reconciliation? To compensate for the previous siege on Angel, Adanis accepted his suggestion to borrow Sweet Dreams?
This guess sounds somewhat outrageous. Would Adanis be someone willing to reconcile? It doesn’t seem like it.
However, perhaps due to inspiration, the Wise Sovereign inexplicably leaned towards this guess.
Moreover, if this guess holds, there might be deeper layers to uncover within.
The Wise Sovereign had previously discussed many things about Sweet Dreams with Angel and had promised to lend Sweet Dreams for him to read.
But there was one condition: Angel had to come out of the Qingkong Poetry Room alive and tell him about the current state inside the room and the events that took place there.
This requirement didn’t seem excessive at the time, and Angel readily agreed.
However, now, if Angel encouraged Adanis to borrow Sweet Dreams, it implies that he doesn’t plan to obtain it through the previous agreement, meaning he is unwilling to disclose the situation and events of the Qingkong Poetry Room.
And this is what the Wise Sovereign cares about.
What happened in the Qingkong Poetry Room that Angel doesn’t want to talk about?
Or is it that there are unexpected incidents inside the room that Angel can’t speak of, and thus has to resort to having Adanis borrow Sweet Dreams?
The reason for ’can’t’ is not limited to the importance of the matter but could also be due to some contract that Angel signed, barring him from discussing it, forcing him into this strategy.
For now, the Wise Sovereign can’t determine which it is.
"Sweet Dreams... if it were a day ago, I wouldn’t hesitate if Her Majesty the Goddess wanted to borrow it. But now, it may not be possible; I’ve already promised someone else to lend it to them," the Wise Sovereign said with a troubled expression.
Adanis: "Who did you promise?"
The Wise Sovereign looked at Adanis’s icy gaze and smiled faintly: "Does Her Majesty truly not know, or is she pretending not to know?"
Adanis snorted coldly, with a disdainful expression, saying nothing.
But in the Wise Sovereign’s eyes, he silently thought: Such thoughts are... too easy to guess.
If Adanis candidly admitted it was Angel and threatened the Wise Sovereign, then without a doubt, she was planning to borrow Sweet Dreams in advance to spite Angel.
But now, Adanis remained silent, which shows she indeed knows who the Wise Sovereign intends to lend Sweet Dreams to. Her feigned ignorance and lack of anger, just a cold demeanor, inadvertently exposed the truth.
She indeed conspired with Angel.
She was urged by Angel to come borrow Sweet Dreams from him.
This also indicates that the Wise Sovereign’s guess wasn’t wrong. The only unknown is whether significant changes occurred in the Qingkong Poetry Room preventing Angel from speaking out, or whether Angel and Adanis signed some contract forbidding him from leaking the situation in the room... or both?
Since Adanis wants to feign ignorance, perhaps he should break the stalemate.
"Whether Her Majesty knows or not, I can’t lend Sweet Dreams to her now. After all, I’ve already promised Angel to lend it to him."
When the Wise Sovereign mentioned Angel’s name, he noticed no change in Adanis’s eyes, which further proved that Adanis already knew Angel’s true name. Angel revealing his true name is, in fact, a sign of cooperation.
Just like before, when Angel and his group were still vigilant, they addressed each other as Black, Gold, Red.
Only when they agreed to cooperate did Angel reveal his true name.
Adanis: "You really won’t lend it?"
Wise Sovereign: "I don’t want to break my promise."
Adanis: "If I offer to return part of the Magical Energy Array’s authority as a gift to borrow Sweet Dreams, would you be willing to lend it?"
The Wise Sovereign was silent for a moment before saying, "No."
The condition Adanis proposed was indeed very tempting, but precisely because the condition was so enticing, it made the Wise Sovereign more unwilling to lend.
Based on what he knew about Adanis, she would never voluntarily return the authority of the Magical Energy Array.
She would love to fully control the underground aqueduct’s Magical Energy Array; how could she return the authority she had acquired?
If Adanis indeed conceded on the Magical Energy Array’s authority, it would only mean one thing: A major change really happened in the Qingkong Poetry Room.
Adanis likely gave up on the Qingkong Poetry Room and her hold on the underground aqueduct... This meant she intended to leave.
Only with the decision to leave would she consider surrendering the authority of the Magical Energy Array.
Another thing not to overlook is that she would never leave alone; her departure surely signals that Olao would leave as well.
This discovery astonished the Wise Sovereign greatly.
He had pinned high hopes on Angel, the "anomaly," hoping he could bring a spark of change to the stagnant Qingkong Poetry Room. However, in his mind, such change couldn’t happen overnight; even with a long period of accumulation, a qualitative change would require fermentation over some time.
He never expected Angel to immediately change the Qingkong Poetry Room, but now, the feeling Adanis gave him was that the room had already begun a drastic transformation!