Chapter 95 I'm a little used to it
"Ah--!" Wu Suowei let out a shrill scream, jumped up from the bed, rolled and crawled to the corner of the bed, covered his head tightly with the quilt, and his body shook like a fallen leaf in the wind.
"Take it away! Take it away! Please take it away! Chi Cheng, I beg you! Take it away!" The voice was muffled in the quilt, with crying and extreme fear.
Chi Cheng didn't move, just hugged his arms and looked calmly at the violently shaking quilt on the bed.
He walked to the incubator, opened the small air vent on it, and put a piece of fresh white rat meat in with a pair of tongs.
The green tree python slowly stretched out its head, accurately bit the piece of meat, and swallowed it slowly.
Wu Suowei, who was under the quilt, listened to the subtle, creepy swallowing sound, his stomach churning and cold sweat soaking his pajamas.
He bit his lips tightly and dared not make any sound, for fear of attracting the snake's attention.
Madman! Pervert! He put the snake in the room on purpose! He wanted to torture himself to death!
After observing Wu Suowei's reaction for a while, Chi Cheng slowly closed the lid of the incubator and covered it with black cloth again.
He walked to the bedside and patted the trembling thing through the quilt. His voice was emotionless. "It's just a small tree python. It's not poisonous and eats mice. What are you afraid of?"
After saying that, he turned and left the room.
Only after hearing the sound of the door closing did Wu Suowei dare to stick his head out from under the quilt. His face was pale and he was gasping for breath. He stared at the box covered with black cloth in the corner in fear, as if the devil was locked inside.
That night, he kept his eyes open until dawn, his nerves tense and he didn't dare to relax at all.
The days go by.
Wu Suowei was forced to start his life in the snake cave.
Chi Cheng seemed to enjoy watching Wu Suowei being dominated by fear.
But he did control the "degree".
Huang Long was never released again, and the green tree python remained in the box.
He would just "inadvertently" open the lid of the incubator when Wu Suowei was eating, and watch Wu Suowei instantly freeze, turn pale, and be unable to eat.
Sometimes he would play with the little vinegar bag and deliberately walk around the living room, which scared Wu Suowei so much that he would move along the wall, wishing he could disappear on the spot.
At one point, he even held up Little Vinegar's tail and pretended to offer it to Wu Suowei: "Try to touch it? It's very docile."
Unexpectedly, Wu Suowei bounced three meters away in an instant, and his back hit the wall heavily with a dull thud. His face was as pale as paper, his lips trembled and he couldn't speak.
Chi Cheng had actually noticed something was wrong a long time ago. He knew that Wu Suowei was afraid of Huang Long, after all, it was because of something that happened in their previous life.
But now even the little jealous guy is scared, this is not right.
Tsk, I'm really scared. Never mind.
In the first few days, Wu Suowei felt like he was living in a horror movie and could faint at any time.
But people have limits.
Under Chi Cheng's "gentle" and gradual "intimidation", and the fact that the snake was indeed locked up and not let out, the frequency of his startling... seemed to have decreased a little?
From being scared to death at any time, to being extremely nervous and seeing enemies everywhere.
He knew Chi Cheng did it on purpose, but he could do nothing about it.
He could only force himself not to look at the boxes and stay in the corner farthest away from them.
He learned to curl himself up on the sofa and use pillows to block his view when Chi Cheng approached the room where the snake was placed.
I learned to stare at my toes without looking away when Chi Cheng was "playing with snakes", even though the muscles in my back were as tense as stones.
He even...started trying to stay in the same room with the snake box covered with a black cloth.
In the gap of extreme fear, Wu Suowei seemed to see through the cracks and glimpsed the tip of the iceberg of Chi Cheng's life.
Wu Suowei once secretly saw Chi Cheng alone in the reptile room in the basement.
He was wearing simple home clothes, squatting in front of a huge eco-tank, holding a watering can in his hand, carefully spraying water on the plants inside. His movements could even be described as... gentle?
Under the light, the lines of his profile seemed less cold and hard.
In the box, the golden python Huanglong that almost strangled Wu Suowei slowly swam to his hand, and rubbed its huge head against the back of his hand.
Chi Cheng stretched out his finger and gently tapped its cold scales. The corners of his mouth seemed to... have a very faint, almost invisible curve?
Crazy! Treat snakes better than humans!
But... that picture, inexplicably... a little weird and a little... harmonious?
No matter where he hid in the villa, it seemed that as long as he made a little noise, Chi Cheng would appear at the door within a few seconds. He would glance around sharply to confirm that there were no accidents, and finally his gaze would fall on him with scrutiny.
Looking at the criminal?!
While eating, Wu Suowei had no appetite due to excessive nervousness and only ate a few mouthfuls of vegetables.
Chi Chenghui would push the plate of greasy braised pork in front of him expressionlessly and command him: "Eat it."
Wu Suowei: ...
I silently picked up the smallest piece and ate it without tasting it.
Once, Wu Suowei was extremely nervous and his stomach problems flared up. He curled up on the sofa in pain, sweating profusely.
Chi Cheng took out a box of stomach medicine from somewhere, poured a cup of warm water and put it in his hand.
His movements were still stiff, even a little impatient: "Take medicine."
Wu Suowei: ...
Wu Suowei was in Chi Cheng's huge study, boredly flipping through a foreign magazine that he couldn't understand at all.
He carefully moved his legs, which were numb from sitting, very gently.
Chi Cheng, who was reading a document, didn't even raise his head, but his fingers paused, and the movement of turning pages stopped for half a second.
His ears seemed to... move slightly?
Then, he raised his eyes, his gaze precisely fixed on Wu Suowei's leg that had just moved, his eyes filled with inquiry and a hint of imperceptible... nervousness?
As if to confirm whether he wanted to run again or was feeling unwell.
Locked in that gaze, Wu Suowei froze instantly, not daring to move, even his breathing became lighter. He only dared to shake his head slightly to indicate that he was fine.
Chi Cheng then withdrew his gaze and lowered his head to look at the document again, as if the pause just now was just an illusion.
These subtle observations were like small stones dropped into Wu Suowei's heart, which was frozen by fear, and stirred up extremely faint ripples.
Chi Cheng...seemed like he was really just...looking at him?
To prevent him from escaping or getting into trouble?
Those snakes... seemed to really just be a part of his life, a tool to scare him?
This realization made Wu Suowei confused and bewildered.
He was still terrified, afraid of Chi Cheng, and even more afraid of those cold reptiles.
But deep down in my heart, that pure, overwhelming fear seemed... to have been pried open by a tiny gap.
Instead, he felt a more complex and indescribable emotion, a mixture of fear, vigilance, a slight sense of awkwardness of being "watched", as well as numbness towards this twisted "guardianship" life and... an extremely weak, even he himself was unwilling to admit... a little adaptation?
He picked at the smooth coated paper pages of the magazine, looked at the sunlight outside the window, and his mind was in a mess: When will this day end?
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