“Alright, watch television with me first. Let’s talk about the rest later.”
The Beast Deity pulled Gu Mengmeng to sit down on the long bench, before reaching out to draw aside part of the white fog.
Knowing that Chixuan had the Soul of the Forest protecting him and that he would get better sooner or later, the tensions in Gu Mengmeng’s heart relaxed by quite a bit.
Deities wouldn’t lie, right?
At least her father had never lied to her before.
Her mood lightened considerably, Gu Mengmeng stopped crying. She clung onto the Beast Deity’s arm and leaned her head on his shoulder to watch television with him.
The lights in the villa were dim but still failed to mask over Gu Mengmeng’s distress.
She instinctively thought of snatching over the love letter from Snake, but no way would he let her? He just needed to raise his hand a little—his height alone gave him an absolute advantage.
Gu Mengmeng couldn’t snatch it by force and so laughed awkwardly. “You… you kept it?”
“This is your first love letter. Of course I must keep it.” Snake was smiling casually, but behind that smile was a trace of vengefulness.
Gu Mengmeng murmured. “But it wasn’t meant for you…”
Snake acted like he didn’t hear her, but his face darkened.
From the envelope, his long fingers retrieved that letter, which now felt rough from being handled by him so many times. The letter had a deep crease, and two of his fingers were pinching right onto it. Unless one looked closely, no one would be able to see just how hard he had ravaged that specific part.
“I like you, like a sweet dream, warm and tender.”
“I like you, like the rains falling upon the farthest regions, heedless of the distance.”
“I like you, like smoke from a chimney, from the brewing of birch-leaved pears, fine snow and freshly fallen rain.”
“I like you, like how the cloud chases the wind, no questions asked.”
“I like you, even the most lovely springtime scenery cannot be compared to you.”
Snake read the letter word by word until the end. His tone and cadence were just right, and he kept his eyes fixed on Gu Mengmeng the entire time, as if the letter in his hands was just a prop.
Ha, this guy had obviously memorized the entire contents. It was as if the letter in his hands was just an additional reminder of Gu Mengmeng’s offense.
“Are you sure that someone like Zhan Jin Cheng, who has never gotten a double-digit score on his Chinese tests, will be able to understand such prose?”
Gu Mengmeng had already been forced to a corner by Snake and had nowhere to run. He leaned closer and Gu Mengmeng was completely plastered against the wall. She looked like she was desperately trying to melt into the wall. Looking somewhat timid and helpless, her expression extinguished the fire in Snake’s chest.
At the end of the day, Zhan Jin Cheng had not read this love letter.
Apart from him, no one had read it.
And the person who wrote this love letter already belonged to him.
But he couldn’t let her off just like that. Otherwise, who knew what other daring stunts she might pull in the future.
Snake had both arms on either side of Gu Mengmeng’s ears and he bent them slightly so that his face was touching the tip of her nose. Warm and ambiguous breaths misted across Gu Mengmeng’s face. Snake said in a low voice, “Or perhaps… you never liked him that much and so never meant for him to understand this love letter, and never intended for him to accept it.”
Gu Mengmeng shrank back and said in a small voice, “I didn’t know his Chinese is not good…”
Snake gritted his teeth. Who was it that claimed she was timid? In his entire 19 years of his reincarnated life, no one had ever dared to go against his wishes when he was so angry.
He had already given her a way out but she refused to take it!
He really felt like biting her to death and end this once and for all.
But he knew he could never bear to.
