Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 1652

Shannon's expression revealed not the slightest trace of surprise. She simply looked at Luke and stated, "That's not what I want to know. I want to know where the real Benjamin is."

Luke replied, "That's him."

"No, he isn't." Shannon's voice was firm. There was a stubborn determination in her eyes even she failed to realize.

Luke let out a small sigh and rubbed his nose as if troubled. Then, after pausing to think, he asked, "Have you ever read mythology novels?

"In those stories, deities descend to the mortal world to undergo calamities and return to the heavens afterward. Even after they returned, they remembered everything that happened.

"But to them, those memories feel more like watching someone else's life unfold in a movie. His experiences as Benjamin and the head of the Cooper family are now just a small fraction of his memory. They're no longer his entire existence."

Shannon remained expressionless as she questioned, "So, what you're saying is that I was just a calamity he had to endure?"

That might be one way to put it, but Luke swallowed the words at the tip of his tongue the moment he saw her expressionless face. Instead, he quickly corrected himself, "That's not the right way to put it!

"The whole calamity thing was just a metaphor. You were never just a calamity to him."

Though Benjamin had never made it clear, Luke could feel that Shannon was the first person in a thousand years the former had ever wanted to stay for.

"As you know, the Dragon Vein is different from all other demons, ghosts, and supernatural beings. He's the only existence that relies on sleep to accumulate power."

The National Dragon Vein of Crisea represented the fortune of the entire nation. Each time he slept, he gathered energy to protect against future disasters.

The world was filled with putrefaction, which manifested as catastrophes, human suffering, resentment, and pain. Every few centuries, the Dragon Vein would take human form and descend into the world to use his own being to purify the accumulated putrefaction.