My Beloved Has Risen from Death’s Embrace

Chapter 434

Xanthen laughed happily and grabbed a new set of cards.

This time, she picked out the hardest puzzle there was, a five–stor Sudoku that not even the sixth graders could solve, let alone him!

“Alright, let’s go!”

She couldn’t afford to slack off this time, starting to fill in the answers with focus. But after just filling in two, Orion finished again. He handed her his card, which was just as precise and commct as before!

Xanthea was so shocked that she dropped her pencil, looking at him incredulously, “You’re so smart!”

She had never lost at Sudoku against her classmates, not even to the older students. This was the first time she had been thoroughly bested by someone!

Orion fidgeted with the card in his hand, worried she might not like him winning.

“You won, so you can punish me. But, but let’s count it at the end, okay? Let’s switch to Rubik’s cubes!”

To offset the punishment, Xanthea scrambled two Rubik’s cubes and thrust them into his hands without a second thought.

in mere seconds, Orion had solved them and placed them

“thud.” When she looked up again, her big eyes were filled with admiration,

“You’re amazing!!!”

his hands as if she had discovered an incredible treasure,

was much smarter than her peers, playing games with them was just a one–sided crush, with no fun at all. Yet, they kept

be was even smarter

wasn’t just a little mute, he was a

adored

admiring gaze, a hint of shyness in his

playing with him then?

again, so you can punish me twice”

his arm, saying she would obediently accept the punishment, but her slightly bitten pink lips and blinking, watery

unable to bear it.

succeeded, and she triumphantly made a V sign, picking up the last brainteaser book.

her secret weapon!

her slightly upturned eyes, looking every bit the cunning