Married by Paper, Loved by Fate 45

45: Where Did This Fat Woman Get Such a Waist?

“Considering I didn’t expose you, can you grant me one request?” Shen Tang asked him politely.

“You still dare to make demands of me? Where do you get the nerve?”

Xue Yinzhou’s expression turned even colder and more violent. He looked down at her with disdain and a mocking smile, his lips curling in extreme anger. “Shen Tang, you’d better understand your current situation. I can kill you silently and dump your body in the wilderness, and no one will know. Not even surveillance will find anything… If you were smart, you wouldn’t have shown up in front of me tonight looking for death!”

The thick, long serpent tail suddenly coiled around her waist with force, its terrifying constrictive power enough to kill large prey in a few breaths!

But suddenly, the serpent tail paused. A strange flicker appeared on the man’s cold and gloomy face.

“Huh, where did this fat woman get such a waist?”

Xue Yinzhou thought it might have been an illusion, so he quietly measured again with his serpent tail and found that she had indeed become thinner.

He clearly remembered that this fat woman’s waist was as thick as a barrel, with layers of fat that were revolting to look at. But now, there were obvious curves between her waist and hips, and the sensation of being entwined by his tail… was unexpectedly good.

It was precisely this moment of hesitation that Shen Tang seized to break free from the serpent tail’s restraint. She rushed towards the door in a panic. If she couldn’t complete the mission, she didn’t want to lose her life!

The man’s surging killing intent was even more terrifying than last time!

Unexpectedly, before she could even run out the door, her waist sank, and she was dragged back to the man by the serpent tail.

Shen Tang said with a tearful face, “I know I was wrong. I shouldn’t have threatened you. Please let me go, okay? Just pretend tonight never happened, like it was all a nightmare!”

Xue Yinzhou sneered, this fat woman indeed has self-awareness. Dreaming of her is indeed a nightmare!

“Clack!”

The tip of the slender serpent tail tapped the bedroom light switch by the door.

The room was instantly illuminated.

Xue Yinzhou looked down at the pitiful female wrapped by his serpent tail. It wasn’t his illusion; this fat woman had indeed lost quite a bit of weight.

The eyesight of a serpent beast is poor, and it was too dark in the room earlier, so he hadn’t seen clearly.

Perhaps it was because she was on the verge of crying, her eyes welled up with a mist, making them look dewy and surprisingly possessing a unique kind of delicate charm.

A flicker of hesitation appeared in Xue Yinzhou’s cold, silver-purple eyes.

“Why has this fat woman become less ugly?”

“You! Can you let me down first? I’m really going to be strangled to death by you!” The serpent tail’s constrictive force was terrifying, and Shen Tang was struggling to breathe.

Xue Yinzhou glanced at her coldly, not loosening his serpent tail. “First, tell me, why did you break in tonight to steal?”

He had only asked casually, already having an answer in mind. This female was a compulsive gambler and was likely short of money, so she came to his room to steal.

If she couldn’t find cash or star cards, she would steal something valuable to sell.

This wasn’t the first time Shen Tang had done this, and Xue Yinzhou’s patience with her had reached its limit, pushing him to the brink of collapse.

This time, he merely wanted to hear what excuse this wicked female would come up with to deceive him.

“I… I just want your serpent shedding,” Shen Tang said, summoning her courage.

Before Xue Yinzhou could even sneer, he froze, his pupils dilating, a flash of disbelief in his eyes. Did he hear correctly?

Didn’t this wicked female hate snakes, those slippery, disgusting reptiles the most?

She had called him disgusting to his face more than once. If he hadn’t had a handsome human form when he was young, she wouldn’t have bought him as a slave back then, and even wanted him as her bed slave.

Thinking of this, Xue Yinzhou’s face instantly darkened. “What do you want my serpent shedding for?”

This female extremely disliked serpent beasts, so how could she suddenly want serpent shedding? She couldn’t just be making up a reason to placate him, could she?

Shen Tang also curiously asked the System in her mind, “Yeah, why do you want his serpent shedding when you have nothing else to do? What’s the use of this thing?”

[Host, you don’t understand. Serpent shedding can be made into intimate underwear. When a male gives serpent shedding to a female he fancies, it represents admiration, and when a female wears underwear made from serpent shedding, it also represents her affection for the male. Host, you are his Female Master, so taking his serpent shedding is only natural!]

“…If you want me to die, just say so. Do you think Xue Yinzhou will believe me if I give him this reason? He wishes he could kill me!”

So, the System offered another plausible explanation: [Xue Yinzhou is powerful, with special abilities. His aura is present on the serpent shedding, which has a deterrent effect on mutated species below Tier 8. Host can carry the serpent shedding close to her body. Within the pollution zone, it is equivalent to an extra layer of protection.]

This reason was acceptable.

Shen Tang looked up at the cold-faced man and answered sincerely, “Last time I was framed and ended up in the pollution zone, I was almost eaten by those terrifying mutants! I was extremely scared, and I thought that since you are powerful and those mutants avoid you, the serpent shedding, which carries your aura, should have some effect.”

Seeing her sincere expression, which didn’t seem fake, Xue Yinzhou slightly loosened the grip of his serpent tail.

Shen Tang seized the opportunity to wriggle free. Seeing that the man’s terrifying killing intent had dissipated, she bravely grabbed a stack of serpent shedding from the closet and bolted out the door, “You harmed me so badly last time, consider this compensation. I promise I will never bother you again!”

While Xue Yinzhou was momentarily stunned, he saw the female subtly pilfering and vanish without a trace.

“…” All that fat, yet she could run quite fast.

Xue Yinzhou’s expression was strange.

Did this fat woman risk her life in the middle of the night just to get serpent shedding?

Serpent beasts are inherently lazy, and Xue Yinzhou couldn’t be bothered to chase after her. Besides, the serpent shedding was useless to him now. If it could make this fat woman quiet down for a few days, it would be worth it.

[Ding! Congratulations to Host, Xue Yinzhou’s favorability +10!]

[Ding! Congratulations to Host for completing the side mission: Obtain Xue Yinzhou’s serpent shedding. Reward: Inhibitor Manufacturing Manual! The reward has been automatically delivered to the System Backpack. Please check it yourself.]

Shen Tang, running frantically in a daze, heard the System’s two notification sounds. Surprise flickered in her heart. She didn’t expect to gain favorability. She thought that snake would be furious and her favorability would drop drastically!

Shen Tang turned to look behind her. The terrifying serpent beast hadn’t chased after her; otherwise, she would have been caught long ago.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

Upon returning to her residence, Shen Tang was exhausted and mentally drained. She hadn’t slept all night, and the sky outside the window was already showing the faint light of dawn.

She didn’t have the energy to check the System’s reward of the inhibitor manufacturing manual for the time being. She collapsed onto the bed and slept soundly until noon the next day, waking up with a rumbling stomach.

Shen Tang went downstairs to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator.

The refrigerator, which had been empty with only a few bottles of nutrient solution before, was now packed with vegetables and fresh meat. These were sent by Shen Li and Lu Xiao in the past few days as payment for their free meals.

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