His ears were so hot they were practically smoking.
Wait...
No!
He actually seemed to be smoking!
At that moment, Shen Yangge was burning hot all over, wisps of steam rising from the surface of his skin.
He no longer had time to worry about his pounding heart. At this rate, it would pound itself to a stop.
Shen Yangge's face and ears were flushed scarlet. He was so dehydrated that even his pale blue eyes were about to dry out.
"Chu Xuanzhen, hurry and put me..."
Before he finished, his tail sank into the seawater. The instant his scorching skin touched the water, it gradually began to cool.
He had barely breathed a sigh of relief when the sensation of countless ants biting him swept over his entire body again. He flicked his tail, scattering golden specks of light. When he looked down, the gaps between the scales on his tail were scarlet. It looked a little like blood was seeping out, but not quite.
What was going on?
Shen Yangge couldn't figure it out. He lifted the tip of his tail, where the scarlet color was even more obvious.
It was as though he had eaten something that triggered an allergic reaction. At last, Shen Yangge looked up at Chu Xuanzhen, who sat on the shore, a barely perceptible hint of panic in his pale blue eyes.
He thought he had hidden it well, but Chu Xuanzhen noticed anyway.
"What's wrong?"
Chu Xuanzhen leaned down and pressed the back of his hand to Shen Yangge's forehead. The scorching heat spread through his skin into his entire palm. He wrung out the outer robe he had taken off, draped it over Shen Yangge's head, and asked tentatively, "You can't be exposed to light for too long?"
That explanation was