Chapter 279: Monsterhood

Chapter 279: Monsterhood

After a moment of panic, Gao Yang quickly regained his composure. With a smile, he reached out to tuck a strand of wet hair behind her sister’s ear.

“What are you talking about? We are family.”

“I know.”

Gao Xinxin’s eyes lowered, looking a little down. “But you’ll find me a sister-in-law and start a family, and I’ll marry someone and have a child. Then we will belong to two families. Although we will still be siblings, we won’t be as close as we are now.”

“Whenever I think about that, I feel down.”

“If only we could be like this forever.”

Gao Yang stood side by side with Gao Xinxin, looking into the distant horizon for a long, silent moment.

Finally, he reached out to press her head to his chest. “Stop saying nonsense. You’ll always be my little sister no matter how old we are. Nothing is going to change that.”

“Promise?” Gao Xinxin asked.

“Promise.” Gao Yang suddenly extended his hand. “It will be our witness!”

Gao Xinxin looked down to see Gao Yang holding onto a crab. She screamed and fell on her bottom, the seawater almost submerging her to the head.

She shot to her feet with a splash and wiped her face, chasing and swinging her fists at Gao Yang. “You’re dead, Gao Yang!”

“Hahaha!” Gao Yang cast the crab aside and ran while holding his head. The siblings started fighting again.

...

When the night fell, Gao Yang and Gao Xinxin returned to the villa.

Gao Yang had a quick shower and got changed before heading to Wang Zikai’s place on the jet ski he rented.

The sea was dark and lonesome at night, and the Fairytale Villa floated on the pitch black water, brightly lit like a small fantastical castle.

From what Gao Yang remembered, Wang Zikai always kept the light on at night wherever he was staying.

He couldn’t be afraid of the dark given the kind of person he was. Perhaps it was because he was deeply lonely at heart that he instinctively chased warmth and shied away from anything that would bring about a lonesome atmosphere.

Gao Yang left the jet ski at the pier and locked it before opening the front door of the villa.

“Wang Zikai...”

He paused as soon as the name was out of his mouth.

In the living room, Wang Zikai had his back to Gao Yang, and he knelt behind the sofa busy with something. Only half of his body was visible.

He stood up as soon as he heard Gao Yang’s voice.

That was when Gao Yang saw it—there were drops of blood on Wang Zikai’s face.

Three sharp bone claws protruded from the back of his right hand, and they were drenched in blood too; so were the chest area of his shirt.

“Here you are, Gao Yang.” He smiled. There was a burnt-out look to his expression that Gao Yang couldn’t decipher.

What’s going on?!

No, don’t jump to conclusions!

It can’t be what you’re thinking!

He tried his best to convince himself, but then his gaze lowered, and instantly, his scalp went numb, and it felt as if his blood was going the opposite direction.

Silver hair could be seen behind the sofa, and the owner of the hair lay on the floor, unmoving.

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“Wang Zikai, you...” Gao Yang blanched, his voice trembling. “What did you do?”

“Gao Yang.” Wang Zikai smiled and retracted his bone claws swiftly. “You came at just the right time. I was just finished with the kill.”

Gao Yang wished that he had heard it wrong, that the red on Wang Zikai’s body was nothing but tomato juice like in those funny commercials.

But he smelt blood. While it didn’t smell human, it was no tomato.

Fresh Snow knelt on the sofa with her arms around her knees, staring at the almost-done fish with her red eyes. “Whoa, it smells good! Gao Yang, can I have a bite?”

“Just one bite,” Gao Yang said.

“Yeah!” She nodded happily. “I’ll open my mouth this big...”

“A small bite,” Gao Yang cut her off.

“Ah.” Fresh Snow was a little disappointed, but quickly broke into a smile. “Fine, I’ll have a small bite.”

While they roasted the fish, Gao Yang heard about what had happened.

Fresh Snow had a good nap throughout the afternoon in the room on the second floor. When she woke up, the sun had already set. She saw the note Gao Yang left her.

But she was practically illiterate.

So she rushed downstairs excitedly, running into Wang Zikai, who had just returned to the hotel.

Wang Zikai was surprised by her sudden appearance, but quickly accepted it when he heard that she had followed them secretly.

The two of them played a fighting game on the sofa for a while. Wang Zikai, again, lost the matches to her, but he refused to admit defeat, and they started arguing.

To prove that he was strong, Wang Zikai somehow started talking about catching fish, and as a cat, Fresh Snow was naturally interested in fish; she asked Wang Zikai to catch her one.

Wang Zikai did. He jumped into the sea and caught a fish in less than ten minutes, and a big one at that.

He returned to the kitchen and cut the fish open with difficulty, getting blood all over himself. When he walked out, Fresh Snow had somehow rolled off the sofa and fallen asleep on the floor behind it.

Wang Zikai was going to wake her, and just when he knelt down, the door opened, and Gao Yang showed up.

That was when Gao Yang conjured a terrible murder entirely in his head and slammed Wang Zikai out of the window with a teleport.

The rest was history. Wang Zikai swam back angrily, but before he could lay in on Gao Yang, Gao Yang had already knelt down out of survival instinct...

A mouthwatering smell came from the fish once it was done.

Wang Zikai cut it into small pieces and placed them on a plate, adding some additional seasoning and the juice of a lemon slice.

He used his bone claws as a fork and had a piece. “Whoa! It’s so good!”

He jumped up and rushed to the kitchen. “I’m getting drinks! It’s gonna be perfect!”

Gao Yang picked up a piece with a fork and handed it to Fresh Snow. “Come on. Have this. But only this.”

“Ah—”

Rather than taking the fork herself, Fresh Snow opened her mouth and waited for Gao Yang to feed her.

He shook his head in resignation, shoving the fish into her mouth.

“Hm...hmm!”

She put her hands on her cheeks, her eyes glinting with content. “So good!”

She quickly swallowed the fish. “Gao Yang! I want more!”

“We agreed on only one bite.” Gao Yang reasoned with her patiently. “You’re a ghost. It’s bad for you to have more.”

“Fine.”

Fresh Snow didn’t argue. She leaned into Gao Yang and nuzzled his arm. “Let’s play, Gao Yang.”

“Okay, but you have to answer my questions first.”

“Go on.”

“Did your sister know you’ve snuck out to come to me?” Gao Yang asked seriously. “I want the truth.”

Fresh Snow wouldn’t meet Gao Yang’s eyes as she shook her head.

“Your sister is gonna be worried when you’re so far away from home.”

“Hmph!” Fresh Snow turned away, fuming.

Gao Yang had a bad feeling about this. “Fresh Snow, did you get into a fight with your sister?”