CH 5

Chapter 5: You Can Eat All You Want, But Drinking Blood is Different

Badump. Badump. Badump. 

Xue Lingqiao was awakened by soft heartbeats. Opening his eyes, he looked out the sunny window before glancing back at the woman who was leaning on him in a fetal position. 

“My chest is not a public facility.”

Tian Jingzhi looked up from his chest and pushed her bangs back, revealing a pale, sleep-deprived face.

“Monster Xue, I seem to have found out where the strange heartbeats are coming from.” She pointed to his chest and mysteriously said, “This place will beat at an unsettling rate when we are not in a certain distance.”

Xue Lingqiao pushed Tian Jingzhi's forehead with his finger and retorted, “Because you saved me, our heartbeat frequency is the same. As long as we are within the parameters, we will be able to feel each other’s presence. Too far or too close, then that feeling will not happen.”

“So you feel the same as me?”

“No, I can feel all of your strong emotions, be it irritation, thrill, or passion.”

Tian Jingzhi was excited, “Like telepathy shown in the movies?”

“I rather call it: Mutual restraint”

“So what is the specific parameter distance?”

Xue Lingqiao hesitated, “...I’m not sure since this is the first time this has happened…”

“Then let’s go find out!”

Tian Jingzhi walked to the door of the house, pointed outside, and ordered Xue Lingqiao: “Go there.”

Xue Lingqiao glanced at her, he complied and moved.

There was nothing abnormal within ten meters.

Tian Jingzhi instructed Xue Lingqiao to continue walking. When she heard the heartbeat badump badump, the mobile phone indicated they were a hundred meters away.

She called Xue Lingqiao on her cellphone, “keep walking until you don’t hear it anymore.”

“Ok.” Xue Lingqiao responded and his figure flashed and disappeared from Tian Jingzhi's sight in a blink of an eye.

When the mobile phone location shows one kilometer, the heartbeats disappear.

Xue Lingqiao said on the phone, “This is plenty far.”

Tian Jingzhi suddenly thought of an idea. Smiling slyly, she replied back, “The heartbeat sound is still very loud, go a little further!”

Xue Lingqiao left the city parameters, “Can you still hear it?”

“Yes.”

Xue Lingqiao entered the neighboring city: “Now?”

“Keep going!”

Xue Lingqiao had reached the neighboring province, “Can you still hear it? Huh? Hello?... Hello?...”

A cold mechanical sound came from the other end of the phone: “Sorry, the number you have dialed is not available...”

At the entrance of the villa, Tian Jingzhi turned off her mobile phone while she jumped up and down in excitement. Like a monkey who had just regained his freedom from the zoo.

Goodbye! Monster Xue, five hundred kilometers away, will never come back again!

The truth can be very hard to bear. Tain Jingzhi had just finished watering her garden when she pushed the door into her house. She saw Monster Xue, who should have been sent five hundred kilometers away by her, changed into comfortable home clothes. He was sitting leisurely on the sofa with a laptop in his arms, watching "One Piece".

She almost coughed out blood.

Tian Jingzhi was frozen at the door.

Xue Lingqiao glanced at her with disdain, “Back?... So slow.”

Tian Jingzhi was unable to utter a word. She floated back to the bedroom like a wandering soul and collapsed on her bed. Rolling around, she cried, “Downhill! How is it all going downhill?! I dug a well! I DUG A WELL! I dug the well with all my might! I dug myself into a pauper, how come I’m still so unlucky!! I don’t wanna end up like those dead people whose faces have been eaten off by their own pet cats!”

She opened her lapbook and started searching ‘How to get rid of a thick skinned house monster?’

Feeling Tian Jingzhi's bad mood, Xue Lingqiao's mood also became irritable. He regretted saving this woman, she was not a fuel-efficient lamp. He did not expect her to be grateful, but she despised him so much that she wished he would disappear immediately. But he didn't avenge himself yet, so he had to find a way to make her take the initiative to ask him to stay.

Some of Tian Jingzhi's family photos were displayed in the living room. Xue Lingqiao's eyes fell on a picture and suddenly smiled.