What Have You Been Hiding from Me?

"Really? You're willing to?!" Hao Shuai asked, overjoyed.

After all the groundwork he'd laid and the mood he'd carefully set, Hao Shuai was about ninety percent sure Bai Rourou would agree.

But until she said it out loud, he couldn't help feeling anxious!

"Mm~~" Bai Rourou nodded, looking a little shy.

"Then could you give me a kiss?" Hao Shuai asked hopefully.

His request caught Bai Rourou off guard. But then she thought, I've already agreed to be his wife. What's one kiss?

She took a deep breath, cupped Hao Shuai's face, and kissed him.

"Mmm!!"

Bai Rourou had barely brushed her lips against Hao Shuai's when she started to pull back. Suddenly, a strong hand pressed down on the back of her head, and something warm forced its way between her teeth...

A moment later~~

Their lips parted~~

"Hao Shuai, you...?" Bai Rourou wiped her slightly swollen lips, puzzled.

Hao Shuai looked as if he still wanted more. "Rourou, you might not believe me, but I'm healed."

As he spoke, Hao Shuai stood up. His deathly pale complexion instantly regained its color, and the five bloody holes in his back had healed completely, without even a scar.

If not for the bloodstains on his clothes, Bai Rourou would have thought everything that had happened was an illusion.

"Rourou, I suppose the power of love brought me back to life."

Seeing Bai Rourou stare at him wide-eyed, as if she'd seen a ghost, Hao Shuai had no choice but to come up with an explanation on the spot.

After a while~~

Bai Rourou finally snapped out of it. She might have been innocent and inexperienced, but she wasn't stupid.

If she still couldn't tell something was wrong, then she really would have a problem with her intelligence.

And it was