Chapter 144: Do You Miss Me?
Hearing the footsteps outside, Quan Xiu put on his mask again and disappeared into the shadows.
Sang Luo had just entered the underground palace when a dull, heavy sound of a stone gate falling came from behind her. She looked back and discovered that the door was closed, and there was no key to open it from the inside. The servant who had led her here was also gone.
A hint of doubt and unease flashed through her mind.
Sang Luo used her mental power to search the vicinity, but found no danger.
In the distance, on the altar, a white beast egg attracted her attention.
Sang Luo teleported to the altar, looking at the dim and damaged egg, her heart almost stopped beating…
Sang Luo had never seen a little snake hatch, but! She remembered what the eggs she laid looked like! She remembered it clearly!
This was her child!
“You recognize this unborn child.” A slender and upright figure appeared.
“I personally birthed it with you, how could I not recognize it!” Sang Luo turned around and grabbed the man's black brocade robe, tore off the damn mask on his face, stood on tiptoe, and kissed him fiercely.
The man's body suddenly stiffened to the extreme, his heartbeat thundering like a drum. Her soft lips, the fragrance on her body… all caused his heartstrings to vibrate violently, and fire surged from below.
The salty, bloody smell permeated between their lips, but he seemed unaware. One hand tightly wrapped around her lower back, as if wanting to melt into her flesh and blood! The other hand clasped the back of her head, and he lowered his head, using his lips and tongue to pry open her lips and teeth, deepening the kiss.
Plundering all the air from her mouth. Turning the tables, he became extremely domineering.
Her smooth, black hair flowed like water through his distinct fingers.
Sang Luo was almost out of breath from his kiss, her eyes were red, and she bit his lip hard!
He didn't even let out a groan, entangled with her for a long time before slowly letting go.
“Sang Sang…”
He said softly.
Sang Luo's tears flowed down. She reached out and gently wiped the blood from the corner of his broken lip, gazing at the cold and handsome man in front of her, as if to engrave his appearance deeply in her mind.
This appearance of his was her favorite.
Her voice trembled, “Caesar… it really is you… right… I didn’t recognize the wrong person…”
“I used to guess that there was a chance you were still alive… but then I thought it was just my wishful thinking… afraid it was just my empty joy…”
Caesar hugged Sang Luo again, quietly listening to her intermittent sobs. For some reason, his heart also ached faintly.
The palm of his hand, originally behind her, had already condensed into a pale purple mental force, wanting to search her memory.
But at the last moment, he quietly withdrew it.
Forcibly searching her memory would cause trauma to her mental strength.
He rested his chin on her forehead, gently rubbing it, “Yes, it’s me.”
He didn't need that memory; his body and instincts would "perfectly play the part."
Sang Luo calmed down after a long while and slowly began to examine Caesar as he was now.
His power seemed to be more profound and powerful than before, but there was also a bit of an unspeakable sinister aura, which he had completely restrained and hidden. But Sang Luo, having been with him, could see the change in his aura at a glance.
“Did you devour Quan Xiu?”
“…Sang Sang, you’re really smart.” A look of surprise flashed quickly across Caesar's eyes.
He had experienced an accident, his consciousness was severely damaged, and he lost his former memories, but he accidentally broke the memory that was sealed when he was a child, letting him know his true identity.
“Quan Xiu is my half-brother. His body contains the other half of the Teng Snake bloodline that I need. After my power recovered, I returned to the Eastern Continent, fought him to the death, and killed him, seizing and refining his soul bone and obtaining the bloodline inheritance of the Teng Snake Clan.”
“Why were you in Quan Xiu’s residence? It seems no one knows your true identity…” Sang Luo reacted, “You were pretending to be Quan Xiu?”
Caesar tapped her forehead with his finger, a smile on his lips, “Sang Sang really guessed it perfectly. Quan Xiu is the most valued adopted son of the old Beast King of the Teng Snake Clan. I wanted to use his identity to get something.”
“What’s going on with this child?” Sang Luo held the beast egg in her arms, feeling extremely distressed.
Caesar was saddened, “It has suffered irreversible damage.”
Sang Luo remembered Caesar taking the child and perishing in the sea of fire back then; it must have been the aftereffects of that crisis.
Sang Luo’s fingertips condensed a ball of light green energy, slowly transmitting it into the eggshell, “I’m late, but luckily not too late. This child’s life force hasn’t completely disappeared.”
As her power was drained, her face gradually turned pale, and she staggered a step.
Caesar hurried over to support her, “Don’t force yourself too much.”
Sang Luo shook her head, “This child was born by me personally. Seeing it become like this, I feel more heartache than anyone else. This is the only thing I can do as a beast mother… Its power and I are of the same origin. I can stabilize its remaining life force, but if I want to completely hatch it, I’m afraid I’ll need to borrow other powers.”
“I will ensure our child is born safely.” Caesar promised, taking the snake egg from her hand and putting it into his space. He reached out and gently stroked her soft cheek, his heart rippling, “Will you blame me for not finding you for so long?”
Sang Luo kissed him on the face, “You and the child are still alive, I’m very happy, really very happy, how could I blame you.”
“I…”
Caesar hesitated, and Sang Luo didn't see the absent-minded look that flashed across his face. She hugged his waist, buried her head in his chest, and rubbed against him as before,
Her voice was soft, “Caesar, you are the beastman of my first child, and also my most important beastman, occupying an irreplaceable position in my heart. In the year or so that you were gone, I often thought of you and the child. You are the regrets that are most difficult for me to let go of.”
She took his hand and placed it on her heart, “It hurts faintly here.”
“This time I won’t leave again, I won’t leave you again.” His throat was dry.
“Yeah, you and the child have to stay by my side, and you must never leave me again.” Sang Luo said in a muffled voice.
The front of her chest was slowly getting wet again. Caesar couldn't bear to see her cry. When she cried, his heart ached, and a nameless fire rose up.
He reached out and pinched her face, lowered his head and kissed the tears from the corner of her eyes, his voice hoarse and low, “Do you really miss me that much?”
“I miss you very much!”
His eyes deepened slightly, and he smiled meaningfully, “Do you miss me everywhere?”
Sang Luo was stunned for a moment, her face slowly turning red, “You wouldn’t be…”
Caesar pinned her against the wall, lowered his head and skillfully pried open her lips and teeth, his hand sliding down her waist, his slender fingers best at plucking strings, “Uh~” Sang Luo’s body quickly softened into a puddle of spring water, her arms weakly embracing his neck.
Caesar picked her up horizontally, teleported back to the bedroom, and placed her on the bed…
Warm reminder, Snake Snake has now been demonized. Sang Sang doesn’t know yet that his personality will be more paranoid and extreme than before, acting willfully and satisfying his desires. Before fully recovering his memory, his desire for Sang Sang is (instinctive) greater than his love, and he will not actively consider her feelings.
His previous possessiveness was the strongest among beastmen, and after being demonized… you understand.
