Suddenly, Yu Longting's kiss halted, and his knuckles tightened on my wrist, "He really has taken a liking to you."
I tentatively asked, "Do you mean he's taken a liking to me as his apprentice?"
"Yeah, other than you, he probably wouldn't choose anyone else as his successor. Otherwise, he wouldn't have shared his power with you at such a critical juncture of facing tribulation. Now, it all depends on your attitude," Yu Longting said without opposition, his voice low and tender as he inquired about my feelings.
Lost in thought at Yu Longting's words, I replied distractedly, "Does my attitude matter? He gave me his power without even asking me first."
"Zhang Zidao is drinking downstairs. If you don't agree, just tell him directly. There's no need to worry," Yu Longting said casually.
I widened my eyes in surprise, "What... What...?"
"He says he has nowhere to celebrate the New Year, so he wants to spend it with us." Yu Longting seemed to anticipate my next move and propped himself up to sit beside me.
Having slept for a while, I felt a bit heavy. "Pull me up, I need to take a bath, and you help me find some clothes."
Though Yu Longting had wiped away a great deal of the blood stains in my sleep.
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"Okay, just call me if you need anything." Yu Longting pulled me up as per my request, and as I got out of bed, he bent down to slip slippers onto my feet.
I had barely taken two steps when I stumbled.
Turning back, I looked at the snake on my wrist and then at Yu Longting, "I mean, let's wrap it up again after I bathe."
"Call me 'husband.'" Yu Longting was now savoring the flavor and wanted to hear those two words.
I felt a bit shy and whispered into his ear swiftly, "Husband, untie me."
"Go ahead," his cool, mellow voice betrayed his pleasure.
I hurried into the bathroom and quickly took a shower. As I was about to finish, there came a knock on the door, "Clothes delivery."
"Coming." I opened a crack in the door, reached out, and took the clothes Yu Longting had brought over.
Yu Longting asked, "A cheongsam... do you want me to help you put it on?"
"No need, I can manage it myself!" I said, toweling off my damp hair and beginning to put on the cheongsam.
Even though the cheongsam fitted my changing figure, it was always inconvenient to look down with a big belly, and I struggled with two buttons for ten minutes without aligning them properly.
I went to the door and coughed lightly, "Ahem, are you still there?"
"I am," Yu Longting replied.
My face flushed, "Can you come in for a moment?"
The next second, he pushed the door open.
He didn't blame me and naturally began to fasten the frog buttons for me.
With my head bowed, ripples stirred in my heart. "Thank you, hey, what's that delicious smell?"
"Snake eggs." Yu Longting reached into his down jacket pocket and took out two...
steaming hot snake eggs.
Seeing the cooked eggs made my heart ache and fearful, and I stepped back two paces, "Why are they even cooked?"
"I cooked them for your breakfast," Yu Longting said.
"They are unharmed snake eggs." Yu Longting touched his forehead, "After you fainted, a Burmese python brought them, saying they were to show respect to you."
A Burmese python... that must be Yang Xi's little snake~
How nice, it even brought its own laid eggs to give to me.
"They still shouldn't have been cooked," I said, cradling the eggs with both hands, saddened.
The snake eggs were translucent and as clear as the moon.
They looked as though they were carved out of jade, but Yu Longting had, regrettably, cooked them...
Yu Longting's eyes lowered as he touched my belly, "You are what you eat, and if you don't eat, they'll just go bad anyway."
"That does make some sense. Are snake eggs tasty?" I asked, intrigued by the smell and unconsciously peeling the eggshell as I spoke.