Way Worse.

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Nodding with an amused smile, Margarita said to Tian Xing, "Tian, I want you to make me the most embarrassing things in all of creation. I want you to dominate me so that my sisters can laugh at how broken I am."

"Elder sister! I want it as well!"

"Yes, elder sister! Let Guin and me have the same thing as well!"

Nodding at Guinevere and Mai Shiranui, Margarita then looked at all of her sisters who had a preference for being dominated in the pavilion, and replied, "Okay then. But this time is reserved only for me and my triplet sisters. All of you just stay back and watch how we three become broken."

Sighing as he saw the three of them line up obediently, with his dark side slightly fired up, Tian Xing noticed Luo Yi and Seraphine did not want to please him, knowing this was Rita's dark desire, not his. Wanting this scene to be the last for a long time before doing something like this again, Tian Xing took Margarita and Mai Shiranui's hands to start with them first. Tugging at their hair as if they were sacks of potatoes, he walked around the pavilion, showing them to everyone until all the pavilion members saw these sisters personally.

Without wasting time, Tian Xing began by filling Margarita's openings, doing the same procedure to every part of her before moving on to Mai Shiranui. When he noticed Guinevere watching with excitement as her sisters were treated the same way, he turned to Rita and asked, "Rita, can I play with your sister Guinevere?"

Nodding with a nose piercing already in place, Margarita replied, "Sure, Tian. You can play with her. But I don't know if Guin wants to be left out or not."

Looking at Guin, wanting to ask her directly, Tian Xing saw her reluctantly nod, seemingly not agreeing with the situation in the first place. Since they were all now friends with benefits, itching for him or each other's company, he didn't want to deprive her of this benefit. After filling her up like Rita and Mai, he let her line up to be shown in front of everyone else as well. Like before, he paraded the three sisters around the pavilion.

After all of that, feeling bored after initially giving in to his dark desires, Tian Xing realized there was no deeper understanding to be gained by indulging in this specific dark desire. He walked back to his favorite lover, Luo Yi, and her daughter, Seraphine, while noticing Wanda and Tsunade in tears following behind. Drinking the Lavender French 75 effect drink again, he heard Luo Yi's judgmental tone.

Raising an eyebrow, Tian Xing asked, "What?"

Sighing as she looked into his eyes, now red from the realization of how messed up his actions were, Luo Yi replied, "She is like that because of you, you know. That is her way of coping with how you've destroyed her mentality as a matriarch over and over again. Your affection for Nadine, Yelena, Curie, Wanda, Tsunade, and finally me each time slices her heart. She silently nodded to your every desire, but in the end, it destroyed her from the inside. The domination is just a culmination of all her heartache that she can't control anymore."

Lighting a cigarette using Fire Dao, Tian Xing, with a heavy heart and warm tears trickling down his cheeks, looked at the ground, not wanting to see what he'd done to Rita's true spirit that had snapped to become like this. But Luo Yi forced him to look at his ex-wife, who now crawled like a dog, something he hadn't stopped when Mai made her do it.

Luckily, none of the pavilion members jeered or taunted her this time, knowing that he, now in his light mode, didn't want to see this happen. They still loved him in the end and didn't want to see his heartache. Walking up to Rita, who was still forcing herself into her dark desires to forget the pain of being divorced, Tian Xing took her arms and brought her into the nearby pool, his eyes red as he finally realized the terrible things he'd done to destroy someone's heart like this for his selfish reason of wanting many lovers.

Kissing her forehead, with tears constantly flowing down his cheeks onto her crying face, Tian Xing said, "I-I a-am s-sorry. I am way worse than Radovid."

"I-it's o-okay. I-I l-love you, Tian Xing."

Taking her beautiful hair, now in ruins because of his tugging, Tian Xing slowly shampooed it, his hands trembling with each stroke, unable to continue as memories resurfaced, remembering every "yes" that he could have chosen to say "no" to. Mai helped his hands to continue, and he just cried, seeing how his cunning and equal Margarita had become like this because of his every dark desire. While cleaning her face from the metal ring that had broken her mind, he asked, "My m-melody, do you want to be my equal?"

"N-no, m-my s-symphony. I-it i-is e-enough, I d-don't w-want i-it anymore."

Hearing this affectionate term, which he had once reserved especially for his ex-wife but had now become a common thing, Tian Xing continued to clean her body, which had been enough in the first place, but he kept searching for another one over and over again. Feeling Mai's caressing hands helping him, he silently let his tears fall into Margarita's anguish and distress, asking himself repeatedly why something as simple as this was now so hard to bear.

Wanting to get far away from this place, Tian Xing begged his wife, "Please, let's start all over again. I swear I will be better. It will be only you."

"N-no, m-my h-h l-love, y-you like m-many."

Even after all this time, she still thought about his dark desires that he still couldn't fully control. Tian Xing just wailed in agony while hugging her tightly. Turning to Mai Shiranui beside him, he said, "Please. Give her back to me. Give me back my cunning melody. Please."

Choking up and caressing Tian Xing's face, Mai Shiranui replied, "W-we a-all will. My matriarch w-will s-sit beside y-you again."

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