Chapter 88: Ancient Heavenly Snake
Mei Qingchen extended a slender, jade-like finger and slowly wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. Looking at Su Muyao’s figure, his cold brows curved into a soul-hooking smile.
“I am still the Wife’s beastman husband.”
“Don’t worry, I will do everything I am supposed to do.”
Seeing Mei Qingchen’s demeanor and hearing his words, Hua Linye wanted to beat him up even more.
Wen Nanxi looked at Mei Qingchen, his gentle, picturesque eyes becoming increasingly rippling and dark. He blocked Hua Linye’s fist, looked at Mei Qingchen, and said in a deep voice, “Calculating the time, you should have received a reply from the Mei family.”
“So, the prescription the Wife gave must have been very effective. Your mother should be recovered.”
Although Wen Nanxi phrased it as a question, his tone was extremely certain.
Mei Qingchen couldn’t refute it; it was the truth. His mother’s health had indeed improved, and the prescription cured her chronic illness. With care, her life was no longer in danger. Even though they hadn’t found the Thousand-Year Mystical Frost Flower, there wouldn’t be any major issues.
Moreover, his parents had mentioned other matters in the letter.
Mei Qingchen hooked his lips into a smile. “As expected of Wen Nanxi, wisdom bordering on the demonic.”
“There is nothing that can be hidden from you.”
“In front of Wen Nanxi, no secret can be kept.”
“It is said that the Emerald Green Bamboo Snake Beast belongs to the lineage of the Far Ancient Heavenly Snake, not an ordinary snake beast.”
“Wen Nanxi, you have so many secrets.”
“Even my Mei family couldn’t find any information about your origins.”
“You know why I came back. But what about you? A snake beast like you, logically speaking, wouldn’t submit to any beastman. Yet back then, you followed the Su family head back, agreed to protect Su Muyao, and became her beastman husband. Why, exactly?”
Mei Qingchen felt that while Wen Nanxi appeared gentle as jade, he actually didn’t fit in here, or with anyone. His origins were the most mysterious. He knew so much, surpassing the records in the ancient texts of noble families.
Perhaps he even knew the Mei family’s secrets.
Wen Nanxi smiled faintly, elegant and composed. “Regardless of what it is, I will not harm the Wife in the slightest. I will always stay with her and protect her.”
Hua Linye couldn’t listen anymore and cut in, “Mei Qingchen, you don’t need to interrogate this and that here.”
“Whatever your reasons, your motives are impure.”
“We don’t welcome you.”
Hua Linye looked ready to draw swords, itching to punch him a few more times.
Mei Qingchen instinctively realized something was wrong. Something must have happened while he was away. That was why everyone was acting so strangely, and why Su Muyao was so eager to give him the Letter of Release.
He looked at Xiao Jihan. “What exactly happened?”
Xiao Jihan’s expression was cold as frost. He said icily, “Mei Qingchen, since you cannot protect the Wife, why insist on being her husband?”
“This morning, the Wife encountered an assassination attempt. The killers calculated our positions, separated us, and almost…”
Xiao Jihan didn’t dare think further, his breath hitching.
He paused, then continued, “As the Wife’s beastman husband, you have already been derelict in your duty!”
According to the upbringing of beastmen husbands, protecting the wife was the most fundamental duty.
Mei Qingchen’s face instantly turned pale, all expression vanishing. He looked at Su Muyao’s back and whispered, “I’m sorry. Please, Wife, give me another chance.”
Su Muyao turned back around, looking at Mei Qingchen, her voice cold and distant. “Mei Qingchen, I don’t need you anymore.”
“You should go!”
“I will write you another Letter of Release in a while.”
Mei Qingchen’s face looked even worse. His hands, hanging by his sides, clenched tightly into fists.
How did it come to this?
Just one morning late, and everything is different.
If only I were a little earlier…
Listening to Su Muyao, Mei Qingchen felt a heavy weight in his chest. He could see clearly into Su Muyao’s cold, emotionless eyes. She didn’t look at the others like that.
Mei Qingchen suddenly understood what a boomerang felt like. He gave a self-deprecating smile. “I won’t accept it. If you write one, I’ll tear one.”
“And I won’t go.”
Su Muyao furrowed her brows, her voice growing colder as she enunciated each word, “But I don’t want to see you!”
She had wanted to say these words to Mei Qingchen for a long time. Saying them now felt truly satisfying.
After speaking, Su Muyao closed the door again. As if she didn’t want to see Mei Qingchen for even a second.
Seeing this, Mei Qingchen’s expression darkened further.
Heh!
He never thought there would come a day when he, Mei Qingchen, would be despised like this. His pride seemed to have been trampled into the dirt.
Xiao Jihan glanced at Mei Qingchen and said coldly, “Mei Qingchen, since the Wife doesn’t want to see you, you should leave!”
Hua Linye wished Mei Qingchen would go far away. “Right, you’re an eyesore to the Wife here. Hurry up and leave!”
Anyone who makes the Wife unhappy should just go.
And that Shen Ci’an, better if he never comes back.
Wen Nanxi maintained his gentle, elegant demeanor. “Mei Qingchen, you don’t look well. Wherever you’ve been these past days, go back there. That is where you belong.”
Mei Qingchen took a few deep breaths. “I’m not leaving. I’m not going anywhere.”
Even if I have to rely on being stubborn, I’ll stay here.
With that, Mei Qingchen turned and went back to the room he had stayed in before.
Come dinnertime, Mei Qingchen didn’t refuse to eat like he used to. He looked ready to help cook and eat.
Hua Linye mocked him directly, “Didn’t you say before that you would absolutely never eat food made by the Wife?”
“The food we make now is all learned from the Wife.”
“So you are not allowed to eat it either.”
They still remembered what Mei Qingchen had said when the Wife invited him to eat previously. Thinking about it now, they all felt angry. The Wife cooked so deliciously and worked so hard, yet he could heartlessly say such things. Where did he get the nerve?
Although Wen Nanxi and Xiao Jihan didn’t say anything, their expressions mirrored Hua Linye’s.
After the meal was ready, Hua Linye went to knock on the door. “Wife, dinner time?”
Su Muyao said, “I’m not hungry and I don’t want to eat. You guys eat. Don’t disturb me.”
Su Muyao had just finished tempering her body. Although her ability had jumped to Level 1, her body was still uncomfortable. There was still some lingering pain, and she needed to lie down and rest to recover.
Since Su Muyao wasn’t eating, everyone else lost their appetite too.
At night, Su Muyao was sleeping groggily when she was suddenly woken by a burning pain in her body.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Wen Nanxi by her bed.
“Wen… Wen Nanxi?”
Su Muyao was dazed for a moment. She rubbed her eyes vigorously, thinking she was hallucinating.
Wen Nanxi reached out, gently stroking her hair. He spoke softly and warmly, “It’s me. You aren’t seeing things.”
Su Muyao was astonished. “But I… I locked the door!”
Locked from the inside. They shouldn’t be able to open it.
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