NOVEL NEXT Ch. 20
Chapter 20: Oracle? This Is Wife’s New Rule!
When 【ILoveADoggo】 sent the screenshot of the 【Faded Royal Letter】 to both the public channel of the 【Intimate Clothing Research Department】 and the 【Mophis Wife Knights】, the entire knights’ group instantly exploded.
The first to react was the 【Intimate Clothing Research Department】, who had been enthusiastically discussing lingerie styles.
“‘Any items secretly shoved through dark, narrow passages (such as chimneys, cracks) shall be regarded as a desecration and insult to My bloodline’… Damn! Chimney! Isn’t this talking about us!” wailed a craftsman player.
“We… we got scolded by Wife? She said we desecrated her?”
“It’s over, it’s over! She found out about us sending gifts through the chimney vents! She must think we’re a bunch of perverted peeping creeps!”
“And this one too! ‘Any unauthorized creation of intimate clothing shall be regarded as the most malicious provocation’! Aren’t we right now… unauthorized making? This… this is a warning to us!”
In an instant, the department’s channel was filled with wails of despair.
Just a second ago, they had been immersed in feverish fantasies of designing lingerie for Wife. But now, it was as if a bucket of cold water had been dumped over their heads, instantly sobering them.
Their proud “Chimney Plan,” in Wife’s eyes, turned out to be “desecration” and “insult”?
The lingerie designs they had poured countless effort and perverted fantasies into, turned out to be “malicious provocation”?
This sudden blow shattered the hearts of these lechers.
“Wuwuwu… I was wrong, I shouldn’t have been so perverted, I just wanted Wife to wear something more comfortable…”
“So all the ‘surprises’ and ‘romance’ we thought of, to her, were just trouble and offense… we were too selfish!”
【LaceSupremacy】 looked at the gloom filling the channel, her own heart sinking. But as the minister, she had to stabilize morale.
“Don’t panic!” she quickly spoke up, “Things might not be as bad as we think! Who got this letter drop? Was there only one?”
【ILoveADoggo】 immediately replied: “I got it, only this one! The drop rate seems super low, I farmed over a hundred monsters to get it!”
“Only one, and extremely rare…” 【LaceSupremacy】’s eyes lit up, “That means this isn’t a server-wide announcement, but… a special reminder! Wife is using a more subtle way to tell us her thoughts!”
At that moment, in the knights’ public channel, another group also gave their analysis.
【Mophis Cultural Research Institute】, Story Analysis Division.
After a full five minutes of analyzing every single word and punctuation mark on the letter, the minister 【Data Emperor】 released a research post that could only be described as “world-turning.”
【Deep Analysis! The Sacred Revelation Behind the ‘Royal Letter’! We Haven’t Angered Wife, We Are Starting a New Chapter!】
The moment this title appeared, it immediately drew the attention of every knight.
The post read:
“Fellow knights! Calm yourselves! Read carefully every single word on the letter! What do you see? Anger? Rejection? No! What I see is guidance! Rules! Love!”
“First, the opening line: ‘Thy devotion, I have known.’ What does this mean? This is affirmation! It’s Wife affirming all our efforts! She knows we love her! She knows everything we’ve done for her!”
“Then, look at these so-called ‘rules.’ ‘Holy Casket,’ ‘Main Entrance of the Library,’ ‘Loud Proclamation’… Do you think this is making things difficult for us? Wrong! This is ritual! Wife is a fallen noble; deep inside, she still retains the pride and dignity of nobility! What we did before—shoving things down the chimney—was like feeding leftovers to a princess. Good intentions, but the wrong way!”
“She is teaching us! She is guiding us to express our love in a more respectful way, in a way fitting her status! This isn’t rejection, this is an elevation of our love!”
“And finally, the most crucial point! About intimate clothing! ‘Must have My approval!’ Look closely! It says ‘approval’! Not ‘forbidden’! What does this mean? This means that as long as we obtain her consent, we can openly and rightfully create and present to her our most perfect works! How is this a warning? This is clearly permission! The one and only official pass into the deepest part of Wife’s heart!”
The post was well-argued and logically clear, and especially that final interpretation of “approval” struck like thunder, opening everyone’s eyes.
The players, who had been drowning in grief and self-doubt, suddenly felt enlightened after reading it.
Right!
Why hadn’t they thought of that!
This wasn’t Wife being angry; this was Wife giving them rough knights a hands-on etiquette lesson!
“Holy shit! Data Emperor is a genius! I get it now! It was our small-mindedness!”
“Exactly! We can’t be sneaky creeps anymore! We have to be true knights—open, honorable, full of ceremony—when we show our devotion to our princess!”
“‘Must have My approval’… oh my god, that’s the most beautiful love confession in the world! She’s willing to discuss something so private with us! How much trust does she place in us!”
In the 【Intimate Clothing Research Department】 channel, the atmosphere flipped 180 degrees.
The previous despair and gloom were swept away, replaced by even more fervent excitement.
“Brothers! We wronged Wife! She wasn’t rejecting us, she was testing us!”
“That’s right! What she wants is respect! Ritual! We must never be so crude again!”
【LaceSupremacy】 slammed her desk in excitement and gave the new rallying order: “All members, listen up! Plans have changed!”
“First! The Chimney Plan is abolished immediately! From now on, no unauthorized gifts may be sent in! We must protect Wife’s dignity!”
“Second! Brothers of the 【Building Beautification Division】! We need your help! We need a ‘Holy Casket’! Made of the finest materials, with the most gorgeous design, and the most powerful magic! We will craft the most perfect gift box in the world for our creations!”
“Third! Design team! The ‘Purity’ series blueprints—optimize them another hundred times! Every detail must be flawless! We need a design that Wife will approve of at first glance!”
“Our goal is no longer to secretly make her wear our lingerie! But to openly, under the witness of all players, hold the grandest ‘Gift Ceremony’! We will let the whole world know that our 【Intimate Clothing Research Department】 is the one that understands Wife best, and loves her the most!”
Her words ignited everyone’s passion completely.
Thus began a new and even more ambitious “perverted” campaign, sparked by Mophis’s “rules.”
Meanwhile, Mophis herself was leaning on the windowsill, peeping at the forum through the player panel.
Looking at 【Data Emperor】’s “god-tier interpretation,” which even she almost believed, and the frenzied replies below, her lips twitched uncontrollably.
“They… they really interpreted it like this?”
She felt her brain worked on a completely different dimension from these players.
She had meant to set up obstacles, to make them give up.
Yet, they treated those obstacles as gates to a new world? And now they were fired up, preparing some so-called “Gift Ceremony”?
“Forget it… at least the goal’s achieved.”
Mophis consoled herself.
No matter how they twisted it, at least the chimney—the path that robbed her of all privacy—was now blocked by “rules.”
Next, she could peacefully enjoy the pleasure of being the “approver,” waiting for them to deliver all kinds of good things to her, reverently and respectfully.
But she still underestimated the players’ action power and creativity.
What they planned to do was far more than a simple “Gift Ceremony.”