“Naturally not!”
“Since you’re not, what are you doing here?”
“I–” Yong An Marquis had nothing to say for a while. Ling Long looked at his dumb look, suddenly covered her mouth and smiled, and pushed his shoulder, “Does Marquis know that he is wrong?”
Yong An Marquis nodded immediately: “I know, I know——”
“Then tell me, what did you do wrong?”
Yong An Marquis thought for a few seconds, but he really didn’t have the confidence to bring up the affair with Chu Zhi in front of his wife. He suddenly showed a sense of shame that was not shame, and regret that was not regret. Ling Long took in all of his expressions, but she had no intention of saving him from embarrassment. He had already been scolded in front of Mrs. Prime Minister today, and now she was too lazy to say it again. She would let this present love reach the most mature culmination, then eat.
In fact, it’s also good to wait any longer. Some people’s love was magical. It would not diminish with the passage of time. Instead, it will become more mellow and thick with the passing of time. This was why sometimes Ling Long would choose to stay in a certain world for decades – but this time she couldn’t, because she was really, too, hungry.
When she ate the soul of the original owner, she was so hungry that she couldn’t even lift her head in the Guixu Dragon Palace. Her whole body laid lazily on the coral couch. The fish around her swam around, but she was too lazy to care, she didn’t even want to move her eyes. If it weren’t for the original owner’s soul floating to her mouth, just waiting for her to open her mouth to eat, Ling Long probably wouldn’t even have the strength to find a soul. Now as time passed, the power brought by the original owner’s soul had gradually diminished and was already being digested, but Ling Long was getting hungry.
Compared with “love”, souls were just water to quench thirst, temporary satisfaction that would soon fade away. Only “love” could make her full.
After eating Yong An Marquis, she would leave this world to find and eat the love of a good person, and restore her stamina so that she could continue to act tyrannically. Otherwise, such a weak attitude was too inconvenient, and many things could not be done.
“Madam, I shouldn’t have–“
“Of course you shouldn’t have.” Ling Long interrupted him, “You and I have been married since I was a child, and my father loved me like a jewel in his palm. He sent someone to ask you if you had a sweetheart. If so, then our families would have dissolved the marriage contract, each marrying and rejoicing in their own way. My father even chose many candidates for me, trying to find someone who would be both good to me and were promising and motivated. In the end, you refused to dissolve the marriage contract, and my father betrothed me to you. But what did you do?” Ling Long pinched the flesh on Yong An Marquis’ waist and twisted it fiercely from side to side. He didn’t hurt nor find it itchy, but she felt that her hands were sore. “Huh? Who could you not have had an affair with, but with Chu Zhi? Do you know what my relationship with her is? Did Marquis find it very exciting to do this sort of thing? What, is it comfortable now?”
What comfort, he simply regretted that he couldn’t destroy the past. At that time, he really did not think about his wife at all, but now that he thought about it, he felt that his behaviour was despicable and outrageous.
Therefore, despite the pain of being pinched in the waist, Yong An Marquis did not say a word, he hugged Ling Long firmly with his sturdy arms, as if he wanted to melt her into his arms. He refused to let go for a moment, seemingly as if he was afraid that by letting go she would no longer be his. “Madam, I know I was wrong, please give me a chance, Madam, I will never…”
“Shhh.” Ling Long nodded his thin lips, her beautiful eyes glowing strangely in the dark. “It’s impossible.”
“People who have made mistakes won’t get a second chance in my books.”
The gentle voice was as sweet as honey, and ruthless as | frost.1The vertical bar was in the raws. Yong An Marquis was trapped in this gentle grave, and embraced by Ling Long. He couldn’t hear anything, and couldn’t remember anything, but her request reverberated in his ears: “Since you know that you’re wrong, then Marquis must want to compensate this concubine, right?”
That’s right… If he could reclaim her, he was willing to do anything… Yong An Marquis thought in a daze, and also heard her voice echoing in his ears: “Does Marquis want to be with this concubine forever, never to part?”
Yes, that’s right, he didn’t want to be separated from her, he wanted to be with her forever.
“Then, let me eat you? That way, you can become a part of my body forever, providing me with nourishment and keeping me alive.” Ling Long touched Yong An Marquis’s face, and he was still good looking, handsome the way she likes it. “This is love, right? Marquis definitely won’t refuse, right?”
Of course not, how could he refuse, he wanted to compensate her so much… Yong An Marquis nodded.
Then he didn’t remember anything. In the dark room, Ling Long was holding his face tenderly. She was slightly higher, and lowered her head against his forehead, entwining each other’s breath as much as possible. The light which signified love and soul was now stripped little by little, swallowed by Ling Long, completely turned into her food, allowing her stomach which had been starving for a long time, finally feel a little full.
It’s just, not enough, far… from enough.
She almost wanted to transform into her dragon form, coil herself around him to digest him completely.
It was he himself who promised to let her eat all of his soul. She didn’t steal it or rob it, but accepted it honestly. Yong An Marquis, who has lost his soul and love, would thoroughly become a walking corpse, driven by Ling Long to act only according to her thoughts.
The son-in-law knelt at the entrance of the Prime Minister’s residence for seven days and seven nights, without eating or drinking, and his pale complexion akin to that of the dead. If he were still to be rejected, it would seem too unreasonable. The Prime Minister had no choice but to ask Yong An Marquis to come in.
He seemed to become taciturn overnight, sitting there without speaking, but when divorce was mentioned, he would immediately kneel down and request them to rescind that order.
Ling Long’s puppet inherited the memory and feelings of the original owner, and was no different from a real person except that he couldn’t think and needed instructions. Who would know that the real Yong An Marquis has long since disappeared from this world? What was left was an empty shell, and he was not even qualified to be food.
Ling Long only ate the soul and love of human beings. She consciously restrained herself from killing because of hunger. After all, it would be no fun if all human beings became puppets. She was so powerful and ruthless, she could create many weird things out of thin air, but only soul and love could not be duplicated nor remodeled. This was also the biggest difference between human beings and other creatures. Human beings knew what love was, and how to love, what thought was, and how to think, and therefore they could live and multiply forever.
The daughter finally went back with the son-in-law. The Prime Minister thought she would wipe her tears. Although her daughter looked good, she wasn’t close to her anymore. Was she wronged in the Marquis residence? Otherwise, how could the daughter who originally depended on her become like this? So determined to go back with that Yong An Marquis, what could she be seeking? Could it be that Yong An Marquis might honestly guard her and not have other thoughts?
Once unfaithful, always unfaithful.
But to the surprise of the Prime Minister and his wife, Yong An Marquis really became a model of a wife-loving husband. He was almost blindly obedient to his wife, and the two of them happily and harmoniously spent a lifetime together just like that. They never fought, quarreled, and Yong An Marquis loved his wife so much that they didn’t want children. They both passed away a hundred years later and were buried by the children of Yong An Marquis’ kin, since becoming a legend of a loving husband and wife.
In response, the Dragon Girl said: Ah, that was just a pair of obedient puppets.
Next arc is still an ancient setting! Q~Q
