"Is it because you heard Zhang Shuying say that I was on my last leg and it scared you?" Yu Longting pressed down on the back of my head, forcing me to look into his face.
I pursed my lips and remained silent.
Yu Longting's unruly smile curved up, his tone teasing and seductive, "Zhang Shuying's words are nonsense, don't believe him."
"Are Zhang Shuying's words really nonsense?" I asked, word by word, clutching his hand tighter.
Yu Longting kissed my earlobe, his cold breath tickling me, "What? Are you going to trust the words of others and take mine as nothing but the wind by your ear?"
"Yu Longting, don't think you can fool me, I'm not that easily deceived." I glared at Yu Longting; Zhang Shuying's eyes had been cruel and sharp, it was nearly impossible he was wrong, especially not in that context.
Yu Longting laughed instead, "Isn't Zhang Shuying just displeased because he found out I had been killed once, severely weakened, and even lost the last two hundred years of my cultivation? He looks down on me, thinking I'm spent."
"Was he wrong?" I countered.
"But you knew all this, didn't you?" Yu Longting's finger tips traced over the buttons of my cheongsam, all of them silently came undone, "Wanwan, I admit, at the beginning when I was planning all of this, I was worried that if I got hurt again I would end up dispersing my power, and if by then the Ancestral Fox Remnant Soul wasn't eliminated, you would be devoured, but..."
At this point, my body trembled slightly.
Yu Longting kissed my collarbone, his movements extremely gentle, "But later on, the situation changed. You like me so much, if I were to die, with your fiery temper, what if you followed me in death?"
"Follow you in death... nonsense, you... don't flatter yourself... I never said such a thing!" my stubborn refusal was mixed with sobs, my heart aching intensely.
The idea that "I would die for love if he died" had never crossed my mind.
But now that he mentioned it, it felt like a thousand arrows piercing through my heart.
I had not considered it before because I thought he was powerful and I never believed he would face any danger.
Now, thinking about it, I felt completely unable to accept it, unable to imagine how to spend the rest of my days without him...
Yu Longting leaned in closer, his eyes and eyebrows filled with a playful lasciviousness, "Oh? You wouldn't die for love? Then I... seem to have worried for nothing..."
"Stop talking, if you keep spouting nonsense, I... I'll die together with you." I covered Yu Longting's lips forcefully, glaring at him fiercely.
After a tumultuous night in the car, when I opened my eyes the next day, I was already on my dormitory bed, feeling sore and uncomfortable all over.
Yu Longting was no longer by the pillow; I put on the cheongsam and got down to drink some water. Standing still for a while, the memories of yesterday flooded my mind.
I felt dizzy, as if hungover.
The buttons of the cheongsam were such a hassle; I was lying on that piece of fabric.
The moment I loosened my grip, the fabric looked like it was about to fall to the ground.
But my body was so slow and weak, I couldn't manage to fix it.
Suddenly, a hand lifted to hold the fabric in place, expertly fastening the buttons for me with one hand. Yu Longting, holding the matchbox Tian Na gave me, asked, "What is this? I smell insects inside, is it gu? Can I open it?"
"Tian Na gave it to me; you'd better not open it, the thing inside might scare you," I warned Yu Longting.
Yu Longting gave me a look as if seeing a fool, then pushed open the matchbox, "Is this it?"
"Uh... aren't centipedes the natural enemy of snakes?" I asked uncertainly.
Yu Longting tapped my forehead with his knuckle forcefully, "I am the Snake Lord, how could I possibly be afraid of such an insect, you are underestimating me!! Do you want to keep it?"