Chapter 37 - I
After long time didn’t see each other. The black snake was shy and reserved.
It coquettishly behaved like a noble lady, hiding behind the mirror while spitting out tongue and timidly winking at Wan Zhong. At the same time, it happily wrapped itself around Wan Zhong, curling the tip of its tail around Wan Zhong’s thigh. It couldn’t help but knock on the back door and poke it.
Wan Zhong grasped the tip of the black snake’s tail and stared at the black pupil line in its thick green vertical pupils with trembling lips and teeth that could not be ignored. His face was extremely pale.
In fact, this snake had acted similarly before, but he had always regarded it as innocent mischief and animal interaction, and he simply could not believe that a snake would have forbidden love for him.
Wan Zhong turned his head to avoid being licked by the black snake, pushed away the hot scales it handed to his mouth, turned his back, and didn’t know how to face it.
The black snake also shyly turned its back, pushing Wan Zhong’s shoulder with the tip of its hot tail, indicating that they had all slept in the same bed together, so no need to be shy~
Wan Zhong’s Adam’s apple rolled slightly, and his fingers dug into the black soil under the rattan mat. Inside, he took a little bit of fine soil and kneaded it into powder with his fingertips. When talking to the black snake, he tried to make his tone sound calmer: “Where is Xuan Ming?”
The black snake was stunned for a moment, then turned its head to face him, baring teeth. [I just came here in hurry. The bed is not warm yet. Why would you find the other me so soon?]
Wan Zhong grabbed the black snake’s mirror and said softly: “I suddenly thought of something to tell him. Can you help me find Xuan Ming?”
The black snake spat out snake tongue and crawled out, thinking about this. When would the ever-changing days come to an end? It was really troublesome.
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A few seconds after the tip of the black snake’s tail disappeared from the cave entrance and Xuan Ming returned.
“I heard the black snake say you have something to say to me?” Xuan Ming asked.
Wan Zhong nodded, looked at the mirror in Xuan Ming’s hand with several dark fingerprints on it and asked: “Where is the black snake?”
Xuan Ming frowned slightly and said impatiently: “Who do you want to accompany you? Me or it? Can you decide it all at once?”
Wan Zhong: “Can’t you two stays with me at the same time? Why does one have to disappear when the other appears?”
“…” Xuan Ming: “I am the master; it is a pet with different identities. Of course, we cannot sit at the same table and accompany you together.”
Wan Zhong smiled: “Since the priorities are clear, why do you still share a mirror with it?”
Xuan Ming touched his nose, feeling a little uncomfortable. Said: “Where is one mirror? It’s clearly two mirrors, just exactly the same.”
“Really?” Wan Zhong pointed to the fingerprints on the mirror. “Then the fingerprints I left on its mirror; how come they are also on your mirror? Is there such a coincidence?”
Xuan Ming lowered his head and looked at his beloved mirror. He didn’t know that there were actually a few dark fingerprints on it. They were dirty and ugly, and his lies were exposed. He immediately became angry and said, “How dare you do this to my mirror!”
Wan Zhong picked up the pillow and hit Xuan Ming’s body, and his voice was louder than before. “You are the black snake! The black snake is you! Isn’t it?”
Xuan Ming’s expression changed, and he avoided Wan Zhong’s gaze. He said, “…I don’t know what nonsense you’re talking about.”
“Nonsense?” Wan Zhong smashed the roses covering the pits again while speaking angrily. “I have always regarded you as a friend! But you treat me like this? Just lie to me like a fool! How dare you? You bastard!”
Wan Zhong’s behavior directly angered Xuan Ming, but Xuan Ming was only angry at one sentence.
He pressed Wan Zhong’s shoulder and pushed him into the quilt made of soft grass. He asked with piercing eyes, “Friend? Who do you regard as a friend?”
Wan Zhong’s heart was beating wildly, and Xuan Ming’s sudden burst of anger stunned him. He forced himself to push it away.
“Xuan Ming, what are you doing? Let me go, you’re hurting me!”
The thick green line in Xuan Ming’s black pupils resembled a burning flame.
He grabbed Wan Zhong, spread his legs, and made him sit on his strong waist and abdomen. He pinched his chin with two fingers and forced him to look at him. At the same time, he asked again, “Who are you calling a friend? Say it quickly!”
Xuan Ming was too overbearing and forceful, and Wan Zhong couldn’t bear it, so he shouted back, “Of course it’s that ugly and bad big black—” Wan Zhong didn’t finish his sentence, but Xuan Ming grabbed the back of his neck, causing him to shrink in fear.
“Who are you calling ugly?” Xuan Ming narrowed his long eyes, his anger about to turn into reality.
Wan Zhong’s eyes were red, and his breathing was rapid. There was grievance and fear in his eyes, but more importantly, there was anger at being deceived.
Xuan Ming frowned and rubbed his ears on the back of his neck twice with his fingers. “I’ll give you one last chance. Who do you think is ugly?” His attitude was insistent, as if he wouldn’t give up until he got an answer.
Wan Zhong pursed his lips and said with great integrity, “Who else besides you?”
Xuan Ming said, “Since I’m so ugly, why do you faint when you see me?”
Wan Zhong fell down on the thick rattan mat. He thought to himself that he didn’t want to have any dispute with Xuan Ming, and he didn’t dare to express any displeasure towards him. But he didn’t know if it was because he knew Xuan Ming was a black snake and subconsciously felt that he wouldn’t really hurt him.
Wan Zhong said bravely, “Of course I was scared by you, is there any other reason?”
Xuan Ming swung his tail very hard, and the explosive sound of the air being torn was transmitted to the eardrums, making Wan Zhong shrink into a ball in fear. He followed the tail without blinking, as he tried his best to avoid it.
But Xuan Ming did nothing.
He loosened his clenched fingers, lowered his violent tail, leaned back against the rock wall, and asked him in a deep voice, “Since you already know that I am the black snake, and the black snake is me, then can you accept me?”
Wan Zhong: ‘Hahaha~’
Xuan Ming didn’t seem to understand the situation yet.
Not only he could not accept him even more, he now also hated the black snake.