Yu Longting pressed his lips together, his face as gloomy and heavy as could be, no better than mine.
"I feel... did your serpent body wrap around me for a moment inside the cheongsam?" I ventured again.
Yu Longting's gaze held depths of secrecy as he looked intently at me, finally speaking with difficulty, "Wanwan, I tried my best to refrain from touching you with my serpent body."
"Were we... too close?" My face reddened even more.
When I first put on the cheongsam, I hardly felt a thing, but then when Yu Longting truly and inadvertently wrapped around me.
In my mind flashed images I had seen on Animal Planet before, of two snakes entangled with each other.
That's the awkward situation between Wanwan and me, yet he managed to restrain himself from doing anything to me.
Besides that one accidental entanglement, when I went to touch the cheongsam again, it felt like normal fabric...
I knew that every place I found comfortable was deliberately concealed by Yu Longting, shadows and all; he couldn't bear to scare me even a bit.
"Just now realizing fear?" Yu Longting chuckled lightly, easing the awkwardness between us.
I glared at him petulantly, "I will never feel afraid."
"The day I can't restrain myself and end up hurting or disabling you, that's when you'll know fear," Yu Longting tapped my head warningly, then suddenly leaned close, his voice magnetic at my ear,
"If you're willing, I can prepare a house outside for you and your mother."
My heart skipped a beat, "May I think it over?"
It was a matter so trivial.
Yet for some reason, there was a subtle agitation in the depths of my heart.
"Sure," Yu Longting consented, "Wanwan, it happens that after you put on the cheongsam, I'm not restricted to staying within a certain range and am no longer bound to it."
I grabbed a sports jacket to throw on over myself, pulling up the zipper.
Surprised by his words, I looked toward him, "You're leaving?"
Just pulling up his pants and leaving—that's a cad's behavior, isn't it?
Was he simply waiting for the moment I put on the cheongsam to make a break for it, to go off gallivanting?
"I need to return to my cavern abode," Yu Longting picked up a comb, helping me smooth out my slightly messy hair.
I nodded in understanding, "Makes sense, your true body has been parched for too long, and suddenly having to be nourished must be hard to adapt to. Do you need to go back to your cavern to enter meditation and recuperate?"
That old notebook had mentioned something about the practices of mystical beings.
I had some understanding of Yu Longting's current state.
"You know quite a lot." Yu Longting smiled, "Knowing you can't be without me, I'll return soon."
Once he finished combing my hair.
I quickly stood up, "Don't delay any longer, hurry back to your cave."
"Not even a goodbye kiss for your husband?" Yu Longting frowned dissatisfied.
He referred to himself as husband again!
We hadn't even married, not married!
"Fine." I sighed resignedly and turned, rising on my tiptoes.
Giving Yu Longting, who was bent over, a kiss on his forehead.
Without any reservation, he returned a forceful kiss on my lips.
In the blink of an eye, Yu Longting had vanished.
I stood there, stunned, for a moment.
My fingers lightly touched my lips.
Then I glanced at the hem of the cheongsam peeking out from underneath my sports jacket.
Taking a deep breath, I opened the door to the dorm room.
The corridor was empty.
I walked a few steps and saw my mother pacing back and forth at the stairwell.
Her face was full of worry. Hearing footsteps, she looked up, "Wanwan, have you finished talking with the Snake Lord?" The source of thɪs content is NoveIＦire.net
"It's done, he had something to attend to and left," I said lightly.
My mother's gaze immediately fell upon the cheongsam. She dashed over quickly and grasped my shoulders tightly, "He... He forced you to use your body to nourish his true body?"
"No, I wanted to help him out myself. This way he can recover his Cultivation faster and leave the cheongsam," I naturally wouldn't tell anyone else about Yu Longting's injury.
That was his vulnerability.
Even to my mother, I couldn't speak of it.
My mother's eyes filled with tears, anger brimming in her gaze, "Isn't it enough to bear his child for him? He still requires you to nurture his true body? That's just too domineering."
"It was truly my own choice, and besides, helping him with his true body doesn't cost me anything." I had anticipated my mother wouldn't believe me, but her misunderstanding of Yu Longting still left a sour taste in my heart.
With a heart full of love and tears streaming down, my mother said, "How can there be no loss, my foolish Wanwan? Once you're completely entangled with him, you become... his... plaything... do you understand?"