I'd Rather Die!

"No, why hasn't it been our turn yet?"

The Shrek Six-Member Group had been waiting for ages outside a famous local seafood restaurant, but their number still hadn't been called.

"Excuse me, what's going on? It still isn't our turn." Yu Chen couldn't help grabbing a passing waiter to ask.

The waiter wiped the sweat from his forehead and hurriedly said, "You'd better go eat somewhere else. We're out of food."

"What do you mean?"

"You told us to wait and said our turn was coming soon. Now you're telling us you're out of food. Are you making fools of us?"

Surrounded by the group, the waiter turned so pale with anxiety that his face practically went white. "I'm really not making fools of you. We did have food just now, but while you were waiting, one table of customers ate all the seafood in the restaurant. All of it! They even cleaned out the stock in the cold storage!"

"One table of customers? Ate everything? Do you think we're three-year-olds?" Yu Chen sneered and pushed open the restaurant door. "I'd like to see what kind of people can eat an entire seafood restaurant out of food."

The rest of the Shrek Six-Member Group followed him inside.

Three people were sitting by a window in the dining hall. More precisely, two were sitting, while one was eating. She was a silver-haired, silver-eyed girl who looked about ten, with a lock of hair sticking straight up from her forehead.

A mountain of food piled up on the table before her, enough to take your breath away. Crab shells were stacked into a tower, scallop shells formed a wall, lobster claws lay heaped in a corner, and oyster shells had been arranged in three separate layers of plates. The empty shells alone had already taken up the entire table.

The waiter was frantically clearing away the plates beside her, but he couldn't come close to matching her eating speed.

At that moment, she held a king crab leg bigger than her face in one hand and a garlic oyster still dripping with juices in the other. Her cheeks were puffed out like those of a silver hamster with nuts stuffed in them.

The sneer froze on Yu Chen's face. Even Xu Lizhi, who was known for his appetite, stood there with his mouth hanging open in shock.

"Could there really be a glutton who can eat more than me?"

While they stood there dumbfounded, Na'er polished off two more oysters and a crab leg. She tossed the empty shells onto a nearby plate, licked the garlic sauce from her lips with satisfaction, then looked up at the black-haired boy sitting across from her, her silver eyes sparkling.

"Shen Nanxun, is there more?"

Shen Nanxun didn't answer. Instead, he stared at that pile of "mountains" and murmured, "One plate, two plates..."

"What plates?"

Ahoge King still didn't seem to realize how serious the situation was.

"Whoever eats more pays, and you've eaten so much there's no way you can afford it." Shen Nanxun smiled teasingly. "So you'll have to stay here and wash dishes."

"Nooo!"

"But Gu Yue ate quite a lot too!"

Why?

Gu Yue looked up at her. There were only a handful of shells in front of the girl, a drop in the ocean compared to Na'er's "mountain."

Shen Nanxun rubbed her silver hair helplessly. "I can't believe you'd say that."

"I'll pay." Gu Yue didn't say much else. She stood up, took a gold card from her Soul Tool Ring, and paid the bill briskly.

Shen Nanxun glanced at her. Gu Yue didn't look back at him. She put a peeled shrimp into her mouth and chewed slowly, her cheeks puffing out just a little. She looked surprisingly similar to Na'er when she was eating rabbit head.

Na'er leaned close to Shen Nanxun's ear and lowered her voice. "Did the sun rise in the west? She actually treated us to a seafood feast today?"

Gu Yue glanced up at her, her eyes filled with smugness and disdain.

Foolish Na'er. A worthy rival should be generous and decisive. If all you know how to do is eat, how can you compete with her for his bloodline?

She'd be the first to taste his bloodline, no doubt about it!

Tianhai Hotel.

That evening, Shen Nanxun was already sitting on the bed in meditation. Gu Yue had just stepped out of the room when the silver-haired, silver-eyed girl shoved her against the wall.

Na'er was no longer the sweet, airheaded girl who only knew how to eat. She had Gu Yue pinned against the wall in the hallway, one hand braced beside her ear. Her silver eyes shone startlingly bright beneath the dim corridor lights, wariness unmistakable in their depths.

"Gu Yue, Shen Nanxun is mine. Don't get any ideas about him. And especially keep your people in line!"

She could sense Shen Nanxun's bloodline aura, so naturally Gu Yue could too. She'd seen it in Gu Yue's unusual behavior, and now she was worried that Gu Yue might suddenly make a move on Shen Nanxun.

Pinned against the wall, Gu Yue felt the cold wallpaper at her back. Her dark eyes calmly regarded the face before her—a face just like her own, since they were both halves of the Silver Dragon King, yet one that had surely bristled countless times more than hers.

After a long silence, she finally spoke, her voice as detached as ever. "Are you finished?"

"Not yet!" Na'er's ahoge nearly poked Gu Yue in the nose. "Don't think I don't know why you treated us today! You just wanted to show off in front of him, make him think you're more generous and virtuous than me. I only learned the word 'virtuous' yesterday, when I was scrolling Douhun! Then you planned to bite his neck when he wasn't looking! I saw everything! On the train, you snuck closer to him and practically had your lips on him!"

"Weren't you asleep?" Gu Yue's lashes trembled almost imperceptibly.

"Of course I was pretending! I knew you'd try something while Na'er was asleep! You stinking Gu Yue, I'm warning you: Na'er bit Shen Nanxun first. I bit him four years ago! First come, first served!"

"Is he a spicy rabbit head or something, that you can call dibs on him?" Gu Yue gently brushed away the ahoge poking at her nose.

"Exactly!" Na'er indignantly snatched her ahoge back from Gu Yue and leaned half a step closer. "Anyway, you can't make a move on him."

In Ahoge King's eyes, Shen Nanxun was no different from a delicious spicy rabbit head.

"Since when did you start having human feelings?" Gu Yue turned her head away and said coldly, "That will only ruin you."

"I've always been human."

Na'er insisted just as coldly.

"Don't worry. I'll honor our agreement." Gu Yue's dark eyes were filled with haughty pride. "But think carefully about whether you can beat me. If she falls into our hands, you'll have to accept the outcome of the wager."

"She won't." Na'er said seriously, "Shen Nanxun will only let me bite him willingly. You can forget about it, unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless you become a puppy. He'll only let me bite him when I'm a puppy."

In truth, every time Shen Nanxun got bitten, he called her a puppy.

A flush of humiliation abruptly rose in Gu Yue's eyes. She snapped, "I'd rather die!"

How could the dignified Silver Dragon King become a dog just to get a bite? It was an insult—a blatant insult.

She had her limits!

"Hmph!" Na'er lifted her chin haughtily. "I knew you'd be too embarrassed. You'll never get to bite him."

She'd said it on purpose, hoping to make Gu Yue back down.

As Na'er strutted back to her room like a victorious general, complicated emotions roiled in Gu Yue's eyes.

She was the proud Silver Dragon King, Master of Soul Beasts! How could she ever bow beneath a human!