The Yellow-Haired Villain in Soaring Phoenix’s Novels Also Desires Happiness - Chapter 201
126. Bad Taste
What is… crying?
Anna trembled as she reached out to touch the dry corners of her eyes.
“Senior, what’s wrong with you?”
Mu En looked at Anna with concern, sensing that something was off.
“It’s nothing, I’m fine…”
Anna whispered softly, her gem-like eyes darting around, seemingly in a panic searching for something.
Finally, her gaze landed on Mu En’s face, staring blankly for a long time, as something gradually emerged from deep within her heart, and then her gaze slowly shifted downward, settling on Mu En’s chest.
At that moment, the sun completely sank below the horizon.
An overwhelming darkness engulfed the entire world, and the light in Anna’s eyes faded completely.
In its place was a certain emotion… or rather, a desire.
Hunger.
Gulch.
Gulch.
Gulch.
Anna swallowed frantically; she looked at Mu En’s chest, and everything in her vision turned gray, except for the heart beating vividly within that chest.
So hungry.
So hungry.
So hungry.
So wanting to eat.
As if wanting to eat the junior’s heart.
The slight hunger that had been absent in her lower abdomen suddenly became ravenous, countless strange whispers echoed in her ears, and a cold will descended again, vying for control of her body.
Anna gasped violently, instinctively clutching the gem hanging from her chest. The warmth emanating from the gem finally brought her consciousness back, if only slightly.
This is…
Anna’s eyes fell in terror, and on her pale arm, the dark scales reemerged, this time appearing even more rapidly, spreading like a virulent poison, swiftly covering her entire arm.
“Why…”
Mu En also witnessed this scene, his expression instantly becoming dazed, his body feeling as if it had fallen into an ice cellar.
“Is it… successful?”
They had clearly gone on a date.
They had clearly kissed.
They had clearly shed tears filled with love.
The phrase “tears of true love” could not be wrong, so what was wrong… the method? Or his own feelings?
“Wait, senior, we can still try other things…”
Mu En instinctively reached out, wanting to grasp his senior.
But she deftly evaded him.
“That’s enough, junior.”
She skillfully tucked her arm into her sleeve, lowering her head, her expression obscured.
“You’ve already done enough; there’s no need to keep doing these futile efforts.”
“This is not futile; at least we’ve eliminated one wrong option, haven’t we?”
Mu En’s voice began to tremble:
“For instance, we can still, we can still…”
The words turned on the tip of his tongue, but he couldn’t spit out a single syllable.
Because behind the words “we can still” there was simply… nothing at all.
This was already the most likely option; if this failed, what else could he do?
The most likely option…
The most likely option…
No, this definitely wasn’t the most likely option; there must be something… something he had overlooked!
But under the dark god’s insinuations, he couldn’t find that correct option at all.
Mu En suddenly looked up, his face twisted in rage as he gazed at the sky.
Beneath the dimming sky, it was pure and clear, devoid of stars or the moon.
Yet, Mu En seemed to see, beyond that dark sky, a ghostly blue moon gazing down at this place, emitting a mocking laughter at the insignificance of the ants.
First, it lets you see a glimmer of hope, then, when you are ecstatic because of that hope, it completely snatches away all those hopes, leaving only… endless despair.
This is what Teacher Meila said, the evil taste of the evil god…!
……
“Indeed, this date was something that should never have happened, right?”
In the cold that gradually robbed her of warmth, Anna hugged her arms tightly, her delicate body trembling slightly, whispering in pain:
“Indeed, the so-called true love is something that doesn’t exist at all, is it?”
“No, that’s not right, Senior, my feelings are…”
“Enough, really enough, you don’t need to say anything more!”
Anna suddenly raised her head, the hair tie that had loosely bound the ends of her hair was lost at some point, and her hair danced wildly in the night wind.
Her cold serpent-like eyes stared at Mu’en, as if she had transformed into a different person in an instant; all Mu’en could see was indifference.
“Just go.”
“I won’t go, I want to save you.”
“I don’t need your saving, and I’m not worthy of your saving!”
Anna said,
“Go live your own life, Mu’en Campbell, you shouldn’t be entangled with someone like me; you have a happy and bright future.”
“Without Senior, what future is there to speak of happiness? I must…”
“Tyke Rod, I killed him.”
“What?”
In Anna’s sudden and nonsensical words, Mu’en widened her eyes in shock.
“I said that count’s son, I really killed him. On the first night of the open day, I killed him and ate his heart.”
“That’s impossible!”
“Why is it impossible? I am a serpent person!”
Anna looked at Mu’en’s chest again, this time, not hiding the hunger in her eyes.
“Eating the hearts of the opposite s*x is the nature of a serpent person. If it weren’t for the gem, I would have already dug out your heart.”
“……” In that clear chill and murderous intent, Mu’en couldn’t say a word.
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“Do you understand? I am a man-eating monster, a killer’s executioner. Even if you really cure my serpent disease, what difference does it make? Can you cover up the crime of a woman who killed the count’s son?
Even if it’s the duke’s son, it’s impossible to do everything!”
Anna stepped back slowly, one step at a time, behind her, the vast body of water looked like an abyss, swallowing everything.
“And besides, I approached you just to use you, understand? Now you have no value for use, so—get lost.”
After saying that, Anna cast a cold glance at Mu’en and without hesitation, slowly lay back towards the cliff behind her.
The breeze blew, and her skirt fluttered in the air, like withering petals.
“No—”
Mu En’s eyes were bloodshot with rage as he rushed out in an instant.
The alchemical core activated, time slowed, sixty times!
His skin burst with small splashes of blood from the overexertion, but Mu En was oblivious, desperately pushing himself to go faster, even faster.
However, Anna seemed to have anticipated this; before Mu En could take a step, a fierce gust of wind had already transformed into a howling hurricane, blocking his path.
No matter how much he accelerated time, he could not break through the barrier of the wind wall in an instant.
Thus, fingertips brushed against each other, mere inches apart, yet they crossed by.
Mu En could only watch that familiar yet indifferent beautiful face grow increasingly distant.
……
……
In the gradually deepening night, two splashes suddenly rang out, startling the boatman who was spending the night on the river.
It was only a second or two apart.
But when Mu En opened his eyes in the water, frantically searching for that graceful figure… in the pitch-black waters, he could see nothing at all.
……
……
Mu En did not know how long he had been searching in the water, until he was completely exhausted and dragged onto the boat by the fisherman, the sky was already beginning to lighten with dawn.
He knew his actions were futile; in such a complex waterway where three rivers converged, trying to find and catch up with a girl who had been able to catch fish since childhood was simply a pipe dream.
Three rivers converging, skilled in swimming.
“Senior, did you foresee this outcome long ago?”
Sitting on the fishing boat, gazing at the vast water, Mu En couldn’t help but murmur softly.
He didn’t know if it was because he had been submerged for too long, but his mind was a hazy blur.
After thanking the fisherman by pulling out a handful of cash that had never been seen in his lifetime, causing the fisherman to faint, Mu En staggered back onto the secluded street.
Wandering aimlessly, like a walking corpse.
Finally, he tripped over something and collided with the ground covered in fallen leaves.
“Is it over so soon?”
At that moment, he heard a familiar old voice.
Shaking his head, he struggled to lift his gaze from the ground, and Mu En realized he had somehow returned to that small shop, where the old man lay on the rocking chair outside, half-opening his murky eyes to look at him.
“I…”
Before Mu En could say anything, he saw the old man’s gaze suddenly turn cold.
“So it’s like this…”
The old man’s fingers, gnarled like withered wood, gently tapped on the armrest of the rocking chair.
In that instant!
It was as if a thunderclap had exploded right by Mu En’s ear!
A tremendous force slammed into his chest, sending him flying out, crashing through several walls across the street before finally coming to a stop.
“Cough cough—”
Mu En clawed his way up from the pile of rubble, coughing up a few mouthfuls of blood.
“Are you awake now?”
Amidst the dizziness, the old man’s calm voice reached him.
Mu En forced a bitter smile: “I’m awake.”
“So, you failed?”
“I failed.”
“And you just came back all dejected?”
“It was the senior who ran away.”
“That fits her style.
So—”
The old man’s gaze turned cold again, locking onto Mu En’s eyes:
“You just gave up like that.”
“Give up? Of course not.”
Mu En lowered his head, looking at his hands, which had turned somewhat pale from being soaked in river water. Recalling everything that had happened, his heart ached, and he forced a sorrowful smile:
“I won’t give up; I just… don’t know how to save someone who doesn’t want me to save her.”
“Fool!”
The old man suddenly slammed the rocking chair, enraged:
“Are you really the playboy Mu En Campbell mentioned in the intel?”
“What?”
Mu En was taken aback, but he only saw the old man continue:
“You believe the contradictory words of women?”
“Contradictory?”
Mu En’s eyes brightened, “Are you saying the senior was lying?”
“I don’t know.”
Mu En’s expression stiffened.
“However, I know that a girl like her, who closes her heart and only rejects others, has long turned her true thoughts, hidden beneath a façade, into something instinctual.”
“Just like a snake, adept at disguising itself,” Mu En murmured softly.
“This is for you.”
The old man suddenly threw a piece of paper to Mu En.
“Lota Orphanage, this is…” Mu En took it and found an address written on the paper.
“Go take a look there.”
The old man shifted to a comfortable position, closed his eyes, and continued to doze off,
“Perhaps you can find the truth you seek.”