"That hospital room is a mess, and Beichen is alone in there, which isn't good." I was pulled by Yu Longting, following the cloth puppet, helplessly heading out.
Seeing me look back and forth, Yu Longting's lips curled up coldly, "You dare to care about another man?"
"You... what's wrong with you!! You weren't this unreasonable before. Last time, you hit me just for touching snake eggs, and now you get angry when I care about a friend." I was so angry that I wanted to pull my hand away from his.
Yu Longting squeezed my hand tighter, "I've always been this unreasonable. This heart of mine tells me to lock you up in a dark room forever, where you can only see me and talk only to me."
He pointed at his heart, his eyes narrow and unfathomably deep, not seeming to be joking at all.
Like a patient hunter, waiting for his prey to fall into the trap.
And I was the prey he was waiting to catch.
"Oh." I replied softly, head bowed.
Yu Longting, interested, asked, "Not scared?"
"Being with you... what is there to be afraid of..." I shivered all over, obediently flattering him.
After all, I still need this guy to save Beichen~
It's best to agree with him.
Yu Longting clearly enjoyed it; he lifted me off the ground with one hand and tucked me into his arms like a doll, "You're getting better at talking. I'll speak to Immortal Liu and arrange for Beichen to be moved to her place."
In the blink of an eye, the scenery around us swiftly passed by.
The cloth puppet stopped in front of a very old-looking, long-standing small hotel.
The overall decor style felt like something from thirty years ago.
"Immortal Liu, Beichen is hospitalized. Send a reliable subordinate to take him to your place," Yu Longting sent a voice message to Immortal Liu via WeChat, giving her the room and bed number.
Shortly after, Immortal Liu's charming voice came through, "Received. Rest easy, Lord Snake. I'll send a couple of clever Snake Servants to move him. What illness does he have? Should we inform his wife to take care of him..."
Wife...
Was Immortal Liu talking about Beichen's Wife??
Beichen has someone now??
I was completely stunned. This truth was too sudden!!
Yu Longting left the decision to Immortal Liu, and then said to me, "Look at you, you've gone offline again, haven't you? Immortal Liu meant Xiao Li when she said 'wife'."
So in Immortal Liu's eyes, Xiao Li is already considered Beichen's wife...
And here I was, thinking they were still in the ambiguous stage, not even a sure thing yet.
"How do you know what I'm thinking?" I said gloomily, having not yet said anything.
He had already guessed my thoughts and even looked down on me for them.
Yu Longting said, "You aren't exactly a deep thinker, your mind is quite simple most of the time. Is it hard to guess what you're thinking?"
Me: "..."
Such a dashing and heroic Lord Snake, why...
why does he have such a mouth?
We arrived at the hotel's front desk.
The front desk clerk was watching football.
He didn't notice anyone coming in at all.
Yu Longting and I bypassed him, following the bouncing cloth puppet upstairs.
The cloth puppet stopped in front of a green-painted wooden door.
"May I ask if anyone's there?" Disliking Yu Longting's temperamental nature as unfit for making initial contacts, I went over to knock on the door myself.
Inside, a middle-aged woman's voice asked, "Who?"
"I am... a friend of Beichen." I didn't intend to hide my purpose or identity.
The woman's voice was cold, "Never heard of him."
Just then, a bout of coughing came through, and an elderly man said, "Open the door, let that girl outside come in."
Someone came to open the door, and it turned out to be a young man.
From this, it was clear that there were at least three people in the small hotel room.
I glanced inside and saw a person sitting in a chair, their back to the door and their white-haired silhouette clearly belonging to an elder whose voice was husky and deep, "The girl can come in, but her male companion must stay outside. I, an old man, like peace and can't stand dirt in my sight."