Chapter 49
Realizing that she was alone with Sang Lu in a room, tightly bound and unable to escape, Xia Weishuang, after a sudden panic, actually calmed down.
This was undoubtedly a very terrifying situation, but it was also the result of Xia Weishuang’s long-standing expectations and even her own pushing.
After a deep sleep, the cramping in her lower abdomen had eased a lot. Xia Weishuang breathed gently, smelling the scent of the deep sea on Sang Lu.
She could feel Sang Lu devouring her from the bottom up. She secreted a slimy liquid with a certain corrosiveness. The skin that Xia Weishuang came into contact with had a slight pain and itching sensation. In a daze, she had a terrible illusion. She even felt that she was being digested in Sang Lu’s stomach.
Sang Lu was serious. She was not joking.
“Sang Lu,” Xia Weishuang’s heart was beating faster, at a faster rate than usual. In this silent night, it was like it was ringing in her ears. But the faster her heart beat, the more Xia Weishuang could feel a slowly sinking coldness.
This coldness allowed her to maintain her superficial calmness, and she could even show Sang Lu a smile.
Sang Lu tilted her head slightly, letting her hair slide to the side a little, so that she could appreciate Xia Weishuang’s smile more clearly through the faint light.
But because of this, her expression was also clearly reflected in Xia Weishuang’s eyes, as innocent as a child, and as cruel as a child.
Xia Weishuang said, “Do you want to eat me?”
Sang Lu smiled even more “brightly.” She said, “I want to have Shuangshuang. Only in this way, I don’t like, this smell, it doesn’t matter. Shuangshuang, why—”
Xia Weishuang interrupted her, her voice like the cold water of a deep pool. “You want to ask, why did I leave you, right?”
Sang Lu was taken aback and nodded.
At this time, Sang Lu had not completely enveloped her. She was covering Xia Weishuang’s chest and slowly wriggling upwards to devour her. Xia Weishuang’s two arms were still free. She gently pulled them out and cupped Sang Lu’s cheeks. Her fingers and arms were still covered with a slimy liquid that gave off a faint, damp smell.
“What are you talking about?” Xia Weishuang gave her a faint smile, as faint as the ripples caused by a dragonfly touching the water. Her eyes were filled with a watery light. She seemed to be looking at her, but also not looking at her.
“Am I not, right by your side?”
The two of them looked at each other, their eyes reflecting each other. Xia Weishuang said, “Am I not looking at you?”
“Am I not smiling at you?”
“Don’t I already belong to you?”
“Sang Lu, what else are you not satisfied with?”
Those hands seemed to have a magical power that others could not reach. When she touched Sang Lu’s cheeks, Sang Lu narrowed her eyes slightly, as if she were intoxicated by the touch of these hands.
She couldn’t help but think along with Xia Weishuang’s words, and inevitably fell into her sweet trap.
“But…” Sang Lu seemed to still have questions.
“I didn’t leave you,” Xia Weishuang’s hand gently slid down Sang Lu’s cold neck. She held her shoulder, gently grabbed her arm, and then, intertwined her fingers with hers.
Xia Weishuang seemed to still love Sang Lu as before, as if there were no barriers between them. But only she herself knew how much sadness was accumulated in her heart.
To think that one day she would have to lie to Sang Lu, to please her in order to escape from her.
How absurd and ridiculous.
But she had to continue to pretend. She was not a professional actor, and she could not be said to have any acting skills. She was just relying on her instincts to try to smile and face Sang Lu.
But fortunately, Sang Lu seemed to be naive and foolish enough for a cunning human to fool her.
“It was Gu Minzhi who took me away by force.” Xia Weishuang had never told more lies in her life than she had today. “I missed you so much, Sang Lu.”
Sang Lu lowered her eyes slightly and no longer asked questions, but looked at her seriously and listened to her words.
Xia Weishuang closed her eyes, and her vision was instantly plunged into darkness. Since Sang Lu had revealed her true colors, all her actions and words were replayed in front of her eyes.
The price of life was so painful that she could not forget it. She could barely maintain her smile, and could barely control her trembling hands, wanting to push her away fiercely.
But she couldn’t. She couldn’t provoke Sang Lu now.
Xia Weishuang’s feelings were very complicated. There was fear and a vague expectation. It was probably because Sang Lu had suddenly shown a willingness to talk, which made the weak Xia Weishuang have a slight thought of turning back.
“Look, I said I was going to leave everyone, so I left,” Xia Weishuang said softly. “I knew you would catch up. Now, aren’t we the only ones left?”
This seemed to make a lot of sense. Sang Lu let out a light, ambiguous hum from her throat.
The ability to predict also gave Xia Weishuang more confidence. In her previous premonition, Sang Lu had said, “If I let go, will Shuangshuang, like me?” She still wanted her to like her.
Even though the current situation was a little different from the premonition, Xia Weishuang still said, “I’m very uncomfortable, Sang Lu. Can you let me go… if you let me go, I’ll like you more.”
The corners of Sang Lu’s lips rose slightly. She intertwined her fingers with hers and gently caressed her skin. “Really?”
“Really,” Xia Weishuang swallowed the bitterness in her throat and replied.
“But…” Sang Lu squeezed her fingers, her words full of deep meaning. “Shuangshuang’s heart, is hiding many people.”
Xia Weishuang tried to coax her. “You are the most important one.”
But unexpectedly, Sang Lu suddenly said very decisively, “Not enough!”
Xia Weishuang could only change her words. “I will only like you. As long as I like you more, you will be the only one in my heart. Sang Lu, let me like you more, okay? Don’t worry, that day will come.”
“Eliminate, all of them.”
“…Okay, I promise you.”
Sang Lu was so easily deceived by her. The tentacles that were wrapped around Xia Weishuang’s body slowly loosened, and the sticky liquid retracted into this human shell. Sang Lu fell beside Xia Weishuang, her eyes shining in the darkness. She gently traced Xia Weishuang’s cheek with her long, cold fingertips.
“I like, Shuangshuang, so much…” she murmured. “Shuangshuang also, like me a little more.”
Xia Weishuang trembled all over and did not sit up, nor did she move away from her. She did not dare to act rashly, but just asked tentatively, “Does Sang Lu still want to eat me?”
Sang Lu paused slightly, tilted her chin up, and let out a hoarse sigh by Xia Weishuang’s ear, like a cold wind blowing from the depths of a dark crack, making one feel an indescribable fear. “…I do.”
Xia Weishuang’s grip on her hand suddenly tightened, and Sang Lu held her back tightly.
She had gone from being proactive to being passive, unable to escape.
Xia Weishuang smiled with difficulty and said, “But if you eat me now, you won’t be able to get more. Sang Lu, I’m on my period. It hurts a lot. I want to rest for a while. You’ll protect me, right?”
“Mmm,” Sang Lu suddenly opened her mouth and bit Xia Weishuang’s shoulder. Her sharp teeth sank into her flesh. Warm blood almost instantly gushed out from the wound. She greedily devoured the life-giving liquid, and after a small satisfaction, she licked it with her tongue until the wound stopped bleeding, and then she let go.
Xia Weishuang let out a muffled groan and curled up in pain. She gritted her teeth and frowned, suppressing the urge to struggle.
After Sang Lu let her go, she was almost wet again, covered in a cold sweat.
Sang Lu covered her, gently leaning against her chest and listening to her heartbeat. This seemed to satisfy her very much.
“Of course,” Sang Lu gave the answer. “I will protect Shuangshuang, because Shuangshuang, is mine.”
Xia Weishuang found it difficult to smile, but Sang Lu suddenly tilted her face up, as charming as a demon. “So Shuangshuang, you have to… like me more.”
Xia Weishuang could only close her eyes and say okay.
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This night was very difficult to get through, but she had gotten through it. When Xia Weishuang opened her eyes and saw the sunlight, she actually had an incredible feeling.
The feeling of having escaped death almost brought tears to her eyes, but when she turned her head and saw the sleeping Sang Lu beside her, she returned to reality.
Sang Lu was sleeping very soundly and was very relaxed. She was bathing in the morning light, like a goddess from an oil painting who had fallen to the mortal world. However, Xia Weishuang already knew how evil her inner self was and would not be easily bewitched again.
Xia Weishuang sat up gently and slowly. She had to get up, because her sanitary napkin was almost soaked through, which was a kind of torture in the stuffy summer. Even if she were to be swallowed by Sang Lu in one bite, she had to change her sanitary napkin.
She didn’t know if it was because she had been looking for her all this time. According to Sang Lu’s stubbornness, she should have been tracking her nonstop. In addition to the previous melee, she must have been very tired, so she was sleeping very soundly.
So soundly that when Xia Weishuang gently got out of bed and left the shop, she didn’t even open her eyes.
Xia Weishuang went to the bathroom, changed her sanitary napkin, and then went to the sink and turned on the faucet.
She cupped a few handfuls of cool water and washed her head, face, and neck. The cool feeling woke her up. Xia Weishuang saw her miserable state in the mirror.
After being covered in the corrosive mucus for a night, her skin was red, slightly swollen, and stinging and itching. Her clothes were also corroded, and some parts were sticking to her flesh. Xia Weishuang reached out to tear them, and the place where she had torn them oozed blood.
She remembered that Sang Lu’s mucus was not like this before. Xia Weishuang bit her lip. She knew in her heart that this was because Sang Lu really wanted to eat her, so she had secreted a liquid with digestive functions.
Xia Weishuang rinsed her body with cold water. The water that came off was a faint pink. She didn’t have time to worry about the virus in the water. In fact, she had been in contact with it before when she was washing her face and brushing her teeth, and nothing had happened. She thought that the virus in the water was relatively weak and would not have a great impact on living people.
Her clothes were all soaked, and they were already tattered. What was more embarrassing was that the sanitary napkin she had just changed was also wet. She had to change everything on her body from head to toe.
Xia Weishuang turned to go out. As soon as she left the bathroom, she almost bumped into Sang Lu’s arms.
She didn’t know when Sang Lu had woken up and was standing outside the door, waiting quietly. She was silent, like the calmest and most steady hunter.
Sang Lu tilted her head. She didn’t know if she was simply making a request or threatening Xia Weishuang. “Shuangshuang used to, help me wash together.”
Xia Weishuang was forced to take a step back and tripped on the threshold of the bathroom, almost falling. She forced a smile and said, “Of course, but I need to change my clothes. Can you wait for me to change and then I’ll come and help you?”
Sang Lu’s smile was much more sincere than hers. She calmly followed Xia Weishuang back to the shop and watched as Xia Weishuang took out new clothes and a towel and cleaned herself up.
Xia Weishuang had wanted to avoid her, but Sang Lu had been following her. There was no way to avoid her. Fortunately, Sang Lu had always had one expression, which had reduced the sense of shame a lot.
After she had cleaned herself up, Xia Weishuang heard Sang Lu say, “Shuangshuang, you smell much better.”
This guy, her sense of smell is terrifyingly sensitive. The smell of mosquito repellent before must have caused her a lot of torment. Xia Weishuang secretly hated it. She thought that she should have sprayed more when she came back last night. Maybe then, she wouldn’t have been able to “eat” it.
Xia Weishuang shook her head and sighed softly. Then she picked up the alcohol spray and prepared to spray it on herself. Her skin was damaged, and some places were bleeding, especially the bite on her shoulder. In this hot weather, it was easy to get infected if it wasn’t disinfected.
But who knew that when she sprayed the alcohol on herself, Sang Lu immediately frowned.
This was really quite rare.
At the same time, she rushed to Xia Weishuang and blocked the alcohol spray with her hand. But then, she quickly withdrew her hand.
“I don’t like it,” Sang Lu emphasized. “I don’t like this.”
Sang Lu wiped the spray from her hand and, wrinkling her nose, said to Xia Weishuang, “I really don’t like it.”
Although the smell of alcohol was also pungent, it shouldn’t be to this extent. Xia Weishuang quickly scanned Sang Lu and suddenly found that Sang Lu’s hand that had been touched by the alcohol seemed a little different from the rest of her body.
That hand seemed to be a little wetter, not the kind of wetness from being sprayed with alcohol, but from her own body, secreting a little more mucus.
Xia Weishuang bit her lip and said, “This will evaporate soon. I have to spray this, or I’ll rot.”
Sang Lu quieted down, took a step back, and then another step back.
She seemed to have compromised.
So Xia Weishuang sprayed herself all over with alcohol. Seeing Sang Lu’s slightly depressed expression, she suddenly felt refreshed.
This time, Sang Lu didn’t ask her to help her wash, and she finished washing herself.
In this enclosed, private space, Xia Weishuang silently ate to replenish her strength.
Sang Lu was watching her, but in fact, Xia Weishuang had also been secretly observing Sang Lu.
Sang Lu seemed to be a little different from before. She was easier to talk to, more “gentle.” The most specific manifestation was that she would now respond to most of Xia Weishuang’s words.
Xia Weishuang tentatively communicated with her. No, rather than saying communication, it was more like Xia Weishuang was using “more liking” as a bait to test how much of an impact it could have on Sang Lu.
She made a few simple requests, such as helping her get water, helping her fold clothes, and giving her crystals.
She even went out for a walk with her on the street.
Sang Lu did as she was told, which gave Xia Weishuang an idea, that Sang Lu could be communicated with, could be changed, and could feel.
This was a very good performance, but it almost made Xia Weishuang fall into a vortex of pain again. Because this was too contradictory to before, so contradictory that Xia Weishuang almost couldn’t believe it.
No, no, this is just because they can only contact each other now. What Sang Lu’s inner heart is really like cannot be judged so simply. Don’t forget, she really wanted to eat me, and even took action.
Xia Weishuang held herself back and didn’t let her guard down.
But since Sang Lu had shown an attitude of being able to communicate, Xia Weishuang couldn’t help it. After returning to the furniture city, she sat next to Sang Lu, gently pressed her hand, and tried her best to appear gentle:
“Sang Lu, can you tell me how you became like this?”