Chen Li expressionlessly picked up his chopsticks, lifted a large clump of dark-red Mapo Tofu Ramen still steaming with lethal heat, and slowly brought it to Hua Hua's upside-down mouth.
The instant several noodles drenched in fiery red broth entered her mouth, Hua Hua's pupils abruptly dilated to their limit.
The world before her eyes instantly exploded in a blinding white flash.
Then, countless absurd images flashed wildly through Hua Hua's mind like a flickering montage.
Erupting lava rose from every taste bud on her tongue, turning her entire mouth into a violently active volcanic crater. The scalding numbing heat of Sichuan peppercorns exploded up along her nerve endings, instantly blowing the top off her skull. Her entire esophagus became a red-hot iron pipe, every inch of mucous membrane letting out shrill screams.
She even saw, in her hallucination, an apocalyptic volcano erupting, while she stood barefoot at the edge of its crater, the rock beneath her feet melting away.
Hua Hua glared furiously at Chen Li, her twisted features filled with one desperate accusation: "Did you set me up?!"
Otherwise, why had his expression not changed at all when he ate the noodles just now, while she had been spiced into this state like she was about to meet her great-grandmother in the afterlife?!
But at the thought that a successful binding would let her legally claim half of Chen Li's estate, Hua Hua still forcibly drew a breath and, like a warrior marching generously to her death, sucked all the remaining noodles into her mouth in one go.
Then tragedy struck.
Because she sucked too urgently and too fiercely, the lethal broth carried up by the noodles sprayed wildly through the air.
A drop of scalding, fiery-red chili oil traced a precise parabola through the air and flew