There were many versions of the rumor in the Beast World, most of them stated how Gu Mengmeng led the tribesmen from Saint Nazaire into engaging in a tough battle with the stray beasts before eventually defeating them until they lost majority of their army and could not harass other tribes in winter. Even those tribes who were the stray beasts’ sources of food managed to escape safe and sound.
This directly strengthened Gu Mengmeng’s reputation once more.
Of course, many people helped to fan the fire, such as spreading the information, leading discussions and……..restricting the stray beasts from heading out to prey during winter.
But, those are stories for another time, let’s not talk about them for the time being.
Gu Mengmeng just stood by the lake, wrapping her arms in front of her with a delighted expression. Other than Gu Mengmeng, the rest of them were extremely confused.
Gu Mengmeng smiled and asked Elvis, “Do you still remember this place?”
Elvis scanned his surroundings and nodded his head with a smile. “I remembered we used to come here before.”
Gu Mengmeng chuckled and said, “Yeah, I just wanted to go into the lake to touch a lotus and you thought that I was committing suicide. You even lose your temper at me and gave me a lashing-down.”
“Fool.” Elvis rubbed Gu Mengmeng’s little head and sighed. He thought to himself, how was he throwing his temper back then, he was just given a huge scare by her.
He thought that she wanted to transmigrate from the lake and abandon him so when he saw her enter the lake, he lost his breath and his heart forgot to beat. His pupils just enlarged instantly and he could still remember how his blood froze.
The terror and fear he felt back then was engraved in his heart, that feeling of how he saw her slip away from his fingertips and no matter how hard he tried to hold onto her, she escaped with the water ripples and disappeared, pricked his heart endlessly like a sharp needle.
Gu Mengmeng did not retort her as she took two steps backwards and said, “I won’t step close to the water surface, I’ll just stand here so you won’t worry, okay? Hmm?”
Elvis smiled and kissed Gu Mengmeng’s forehead, saying, “Go down if you want to, I’m not worried.”
“Yeah?” Gu Mengmeng was surprised, she clearly recalled how Elvis seemed like he was possessed whenever she stepped close to the lake, why was he suddenly not worried….?
Elvis pulled Gu Mengmeng into his arms and said, “I was too uneasy back then, I was worried that I don’t have a spot in your heart, I was worried that you’ll choose to abandon me without hesitation, I was worried that there’s nothing left for you to miss in this Beast World…….I was so scared that you’ll fall into the lake after saying ‘goodbye’ to me while smiling. You’ll fall so deep into the lake until I can’t touch you anymore……”
Ha, that time, she had not mated with Lea yet.
Elvis always felt that she only loved Lea and not him, no matter how many times she assured him, he would only treat it as her comfort.
Deep in his heart, he did not believe that she had feelings towards him. He really felt that she would abandon him anytime….
So, despite how torturous it was for him, he tried to match-make Lea and her with all his might so as to put a little more chip on the losing end of her weighing scale. As long as she regrets it when she wants to leave, it will be good if he can stop her in time.”
To put it simply, her act of jumping into the lake after she broke up with Lea created a psychological trauma for Elvis.
Now, he said he was not scared anymore.
So…
Gu Mengmeng laughed and looked up at Elvis, asking him, “So, you finally believed that I love you and won’t leave you?”