Chapter 125 "I've fallen in love with you a long time ago."
Sheng Ran felt a little embarrassed when she suddenly heard Zhu Jiuyin's voice coming from behind her.
She had just made this decision and hadn't figured out how to face him.
Before she could explain, Zhu Jiuyin had already misinterpreted her meaning.
He soon stood before her, looking forlorn.
The eight-foot-tall man lowered his head and didn't even dare to look at her.
The voice was low and the tone was filled with bitterness, which made people feel a prick in their hearts.
Sheng Ran had never encountered such a scene before. She was at a loss for words and waved her hands in panic, "I'm not going to punish you..."
Even the word "punishment" should not appear in the current context.
Their relationship is not one of managers and the managed, rulers and the ruled. In Sheng Ran's heart, they are equal. There is no question of punishment. She has no such qualifications.
But Zhu Jiuyin couldn't think of any other reason besides this.
He didn't believe Sheng Ran's feeble explanation and curled his lips in self-mockery.
"It was the simplest thing, cooking, but I messed it up."
"I can't do things that other male beasts can learn."
"...You deserve to punish me."
The atmosphere at the dinner table was a bit awkward. Although it had nothing to do with the other beastly husbands, they couldn't stay out of it.
The wife had always been gentle and tolerant towards them and had never punished them, let alone for such a trivial matter.
Admitting your mistake in front of so many people is actually a very difficult thing to do in terms of face.
No matter how humble the status of the male beasts in this world is, they all have strong self-esteem, not to mention that there are so many of the same sex present.
Huai Jun felt his face flushed just thinking about it. If something like this happened to him, he might not have the courage to admit his mistake like this.
Sheng Ran obviously thought of this as well. She immediately stood up and suddenly held up Zhu Jiuyin's face, lifting it slightly.
Caught off guard, Zhu Jiuyin's face was held by his wife's soft, boneless hands, and his whole body stiffened.
He was forced to look up and meet Sheng Ran's gaze, and was unobstructed by her clear eyes.
The emotions inside are clean and clear, without a trace of impurities.
Zhu Jiuyin's heart seemed to be slightly lifted, not knowing what he would face next.
Will it be a gentle knife for my future wife?
I don’t know how painful it will be when the knife falls, but he deserves to bear it.
Zhu Jiuyin was so disappointed in himself. He never knew he was so incompetent.
But Sheng Ran's next words were completely opposite to what he had imagined.
"You're not wrong." She corrected him word by word, looking at the others around her, "Don't think that this little thing is a mistake."
"I will not punish you for any reason."
Sheng Ran just calmed down her emotions for a long time before she finally organized her words and uttered these two complicated sentences.
Sheng Ran looked at the lonely cake that she had taken out and struggled for a long time.
"Zhu Jiuyin, you never felt hungry before, right?"
Although his wife clearly didn't blame him for setting fire to the kitchen, Zhu Jiuyin didn't find the topic any more relaxing.
He forced his lips and nodded, "Of course, I have divine blood."
Trying to liven up the atmosphere, he said, "It's all thanks to your excellent cooking skills, my dear wife! It's like you've opened the door to a new world for me. Now I'm yearning for the delicious food of the world."
Sheng Ran, however, had no mood to joke with him.
"No." She took a deep breath. "Can you feel it yourself? During this period of time, your divinity has been stripped away and extinguished bit by bit."
"I asked you to eat less because I don't want you to develop... a dependence on food." Sheng Ran spoke slowly and long sentences. The surroundings were so quiet that only the breathing of others could be heard.
"I don't want you to degenerate into an ordinary orc."
"This shouldn't be your fate."
Zhu Jiuyin never expected this to be the reason.
He stammered for a moment, and finally could only squeeze out a few words, "Future wife..."
His voice was hoarse and hoarse, like a broken, dilapidated guitar with broken strings.
Sheng Ran didn't give him a chance to continue speaking. She suddenly withdrew her hand and turned her face away.
"You are a god. You can live happily and carefree in this world for thousands of years."
"I want you to live well."
"You shouldn't experience birth, old age, sickness, and death like us mortals."
Zhu Jiuyin couldn't stop shaking his head. He knew Sheng Ran was doing this for his own good, but he didn't want to hear Sheng Ran say this.
His voice trembled as he softly denied everything Sheng Ran said: "But you were the one who woke me up."
"Without you, even if I sleep for thousands of years, it will be meaningless in this world."
Sheng Ran could faintly hear the cry in Zhu Jiuyin's voice.
Did he cry?
Would a male beast that is so tall, so strong and so powerful shed tears because of her?
Sheng Ran didn't dare to confirm and didn't dare to look at Zhu Jiuyin.
"...So what?" She just took a deep breath and spoke in a whisper, "You've woken up, and the bond between us is naturally broken."
"You can even forget about me and enjoy everything you can have as a divine beast."
"I'm not asking you to eat less, not as a punishment. I'm asking you to have less desire, so you can preserve your divinity..."
"Future wife!" Zhu Jiuyin suddenly grabbed her hand and interrupted her, his golden eyes full of seriousness. "Even if I don't have a craving for food, I already have all seven emotions and six desires!"
"Do you really think that everything I say to you is not from the heart?"
"I've been in love with you for a long time."
His voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard throughout the rooms of the inn.
"I regarded the first note you gave me at the end of the chapter as a token of our love. I felt happier than receiving a love letter. That was joy;"
"You left with them at the end of the chapter, and I was all alone in this space, unable to eat or sleep. This is because I am worried;"
"The first time I carried you flying, you touched my dragon horn, and my heart beat so fast it felt like it was going to explode. That was love;"
"These are all emotions and desires, and they're all because of you. They have nothing to do with eating or not!"
Zhu Jiuyin pressed Sheng Ran's hand on his chest, letting her feel his steady heartbeat.
"Touch me, my heart is beating. It's beating so vividly because of you. I'm no longer the Zhulong who only had divinity but no emotions."
"I am willing to be a mortal, to eat coarse grains or gourmet food with you, to walk mountain roads with you or live in a courtyard with you, to experience birth, old age, sickness and death with you - even if I can only be with you for a few decades, it is better than being a lonely god and living for thousands of years!"
Zhu Jiuyin's eyes moved slightly, and the emotions in them surged, almost drowning Sheng Ran.
She was suddenly drawn into those eyes and couldn't move away.
Before she could respond, she suddenly saw a trace of pain across Zhu Jiuyin's face.
His expression twisted subtly, he frowned, and suddenly covered his chest with his hands.
His entire face turned pale in an instant, and his breathing became disordered and difficult for a moment.
Sheng Ran was startled and suddenly remembered that something was wrong on the way Zhu Jiuyin drove her to Beining.
Is there something wrong with his body? When did it happen?
"What's wrong with you?!" Sheng Ran quickly stepped forward and checked carefully.
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