Chapter 2252

Chapter 2252: Chapter 2252

Duan Xi, however, thought she was talking about something in real life, and his heart went soft. He couldn’t help lowering his head to kiss her big eyes brimming with grievance. "I’m sorry."

"Then you have to promise not to eat me next time." Jiaojiao said.

"That I can’t promise." Once you’ve had a taste, how could you possibly guarantee that.

Jiaojiao glared at him, a little mad, and straightened up from his arms, but quickly realized something about her own body felt a bit off.

She looked down.

And found that she wasn’t in her cat body at all, and she was completely naked. Her little face flushed scarlet in an instant, and she immediately shrank down again, slipping back into the water and into his arms.

Duan Xi wrapped his arms around the little thing who had thrown herself back into his embrace, and very seriously started explaining: "I checked the information. The first time does hurt a little, but it’ll be fine after that." He paused, and although he really didn’t want to admit it, he still went on: "And I’ll just keep getting better at it. We’ll practice more together."

"..." Jiaojiao.

Her face could no longer be described as just red. She stared at him in disbelief, utterly shocked that he could say such shameless things with such a straight face!

Jiaojiao thought, this world probably has no one more shameless than him.

Duan Xi didn’t think he was shameless at all. After dutifully washing Jiaojiao clean, even though his craving hadn’t been satisfied in the least, he couldn’t bear to torment her anymore. He carried her out of the bathroom, put her into another set of clean pajamas, and the two of them snuggled back under the covers.

"What time is it now?" After getting back in bed, Jiaojiao actually couldn’t fall asleep, squinting as she asked.

That place wasn’t exactly very painful, but it was uncomfortable enough to make her feel awkward, no matter how she lay she couldn’t get settled.

Duan Xi gently massaged her back with his hand. This was a habit Jiaojiao had had since she was little: when she couldn’t fall asleep as a child, the Ruanlin Family would rub her back like this. Now that she’d grown up, they did it much less, but she still really liked it.

"A little after two." Duan Xi answered while rubbing her back.

Jiaojiao was so comfortable under his touch that sleepiness came quickly, but she couldn’t bear to actually fall asleep. She mumbled as she brought up the dream she’d just had, her tone laced with accusation: "You swallowed me in one bite, didn’t even hesitate. Tell me, all that meat you fed me every day in the last life—was it all because you had this plan from the start, to fatten me up and then swallow me in one go?!"

Jiaojiao knew she was being a bit unreasonable. In their last life, all the meat Duan Xi had fed her had long exceeded her own worth.

It was just that the panic of being swallowed in her dream still lingered, leaving her heart fluttering even now. And since she knew just how much this man spoiled her, she deliberately put it that way.

In truth, she was just acting spoiled.

Duan Xi chuckled softly, his heart and eyes full of her. The tenderness inside him was so overflowing that he couldn’t stop himself from wanting to kiss her, hold her, like he hated that he couldn’t even give her his life.

He lowered his head, kissing her little face as he answered, "Yes, I wanted to eat you. I’ve always wanted to. What I didn’t eat in the last life, I’m going to make up for in this one."

He even deliberately asked her, "Will you let me?"

"Pah!" Jiaojiao spat at him in mock anger, but the next second she buried her head in his chest and mumbled a single word in reply.

"Yes."

How could she not.

Not just this life. Next life, and the one after that, life after life after life, she would always say yes.

Duan Xi’s response was to lower his head and seal her little mouth again.

This was his cat.

His cat alone.