Heavens, it’s like witchcraft. I looked at her in confusion. “Miss, as much as I enjoy chatting with you, you must have mistaken me for someone else, right? I’m definitely not Arthur Carter. My name is William Carter—‘Lin’ as in a forest of trees, and ‘Fei’ as in soaring into the sky.”

The alluring beauty giggled, “The reincarnated Arthur Carter has already forgotten their past life.”

A beauty is a beauty—even her words are more profound than others. I didn’t understand a thing, so I grinned and said, “Whatever you say I am, I am. Getting my name wrong doesn’t matter. There’s a little poet in this dynasty who once said, ‘Why must we have known each other before to meet?’”

The blonde beauty frowned. “After reincarnation, even your personality has become so frivolous. Arthur Carter, you—”

“William Carter!”

“Fine, William Carter, listen up. In your previous life, you were the Arthur Carter of the Northern Realm. After your death, your soul was reincarnated into another world, and now you’ve returned.”

I was stunned for a moment. The blonde beauty’s expression was very serious, not like she was making things up. Thinking back to the scene in the palace, when the agate pillar entered my body, I couldn’t help but feel dazed. Could I really be the Arthur Carter they’re talking about?

This is too absurd!

“So according to you, I’m the reincarnation of Arthur Carter. That means, in my past life, I was a demon?” I asked tentatively.

A flash of hatred appeared in the blonde beauty’s beautiful eyes. “Yes, you really were a demon.”

I touched my face—there wasn’t any fur growing on it. “But I’m clearly human now.”

The alluring beauty threw me a flirtatious glance. “As for what you are now, hmm, you can’t really be considered a pure demon, nor a human.” She leaned in, gently blowing in my ear, making my bones go weak. “You’re a half-demon.”

“Half-demon? Damn! In my past life, I lived in the Northern Realm as Arthur Carter. In this life, I was reborn as a human in the Tang Dynasty.” I rattled off, “Now I’ve rushed back, so I’m supposed to continue being a demon, right?”

The blonde beauty said coldly, “More or less. Who would have thought that after reincarnation, even the Diana Carter’s brain would stop working. How pitiful. Once a mighty demon king, now you can’t even find a trace of your former glory.”

Damn it, is it really my brain that’s not working, or are you the idiot? Just because you’re beautiful? I started to accept the fact that I was Diana Carter, thought for a moment, and asked, “Since I’m Diana Carter, then who are you all? What’s your relationship to me? Are you all my subordinates? Or maybe my wives and concubines? Haha! Awesome! Ladies, all these years I haven’t been with you—hope you haven’t been cheating on me?” The more I spoke, the more excited I got. Since Diana Carter was a demon king, he must have been powerful. With these three gorgeous women waiting here, they must be here to serve me.

The tables have turned. The little beggar from Luoyang is finally going to hold his head high today.

“Shut up!” The voice was clear and cold, like snow in a lonely mountain valley. My vision blurred, and the woman in Daoist robes who hadn’t spoken suddenly appeared in front of me, her bearing noble and aloof, her long hair shining like a mirror.

My heart tightened—I knew I’d said the wrong thing. These three beauties were no pushovers. If they were my enemies from a past life, I’d be in trouble.

The alluring beauty smiled seductively. “Diana Carter, you’d better be careful not to anger our Miss Olivia Harris. Her sword hasn’t been drawn in sixteen years.”

The blonde beauty shook her head. “The reincarnated Diana Carter is really a shadow of his former self. No wonder, before dying, he went to such lengths to make a pact with us. If you ask me, this kid barely has any demon power left.”

The alluring beauty said, “It’s a pity we made the most vicious reincarnation oath back then, otherwise, heh heh.”

I pondered the implication of her words—it didn’t sound good.

Olivia Harris said softly, “Since we lost to Diana Carter sixteen years ago, we must abide by the oath and protect his next life. Diana Carter, listen well. Before your calamity back then, you sought out me, Charlotte Harris, and Mary Clark for a contest. In three matches, although you used trickery, you still won. As the price for losing, we were forced to swear a reincarnation oath and wait here. If you returned within sixteen years, we would have to protect your safety.”

Although she was speaking to me, she didn’t look at me at all, as if I would taint her clear, dark eyes.

The alluring beauty sighed lazily. “Today is the very last moment of the deadline. We thought that I, Emily Harris, and Mary Clark would finally be free, but unexpectedly, you still came back. Diana Carter, your timing is impeccable.”

Now I understood everything. My past self, Diana Carter, knew that my reincarnated self would be weak, so he sought out these three beauties and used trickery to force them into a deadly oath to be my bodyguards.

No wonder they’re so cold to me. I reincarnated at the last possible moment, so these beauties must be going crazy with frustration. Thinking of this, I couldn’t help but admire Diana Carter to the utmost. Truly worthy of being a demon king—not only far-sighted enough to find bodyguards for his future self, but even calculated that I could only stay in the Tang Dynasty for sixteen years. That’s even better than Kasyapa’s ox.

I coughed, feeling smug. “So, you three are my personal guards now?”

The blonde Mary Clark said coldly, “Diana Carter, you—”

“William Carter!” I corrected her again.