The Villain's Contracted Lover

154-156 (End)

Chapter 154 - The Finale (1)

The air was humid and rain started to pour shortly thereafter.

Mu ZhenYu lied in bed and stretched his left arm out flat so the little fox could use it as a pillow. The fox, curled up in his arm, was sound asleep.

Suddenly, a lightning tore through the sky. Mu ZhenYu opened up his eyes and reached out to cover up the ears of the little fox. He was a little too late. The roar of the thunder came. It was deafeningly loud as though it had struck the window.

Mu ZhenYu's chest tightened. He looked down at the fox and, luckily, it didn't wake up.

Mu ZhenYu frowned – it had always been fearful of lightning.

This is a thunderous night and the wind was roaring outside of the window. A few giant trees outside where blown hard that they were curved. Along with the street light, the shadow of the trees waved back and forth nonstop in the room and looking very ghostly. Mu ZhenYu took a look outside of the window and wanted to go and pull the curtains shut. The moment that he pulled his hand out from the fox's little head, it woke immediately.

The little fox sat up in bed. Its dark black and bright eyes looked straight at him. It looked exactly the same as the first day that Mu ZhenYu had saw it. Looking straight at him, it looked like it was waiting for him, or rushing him. But it refused to lay back down.

Mu ZhenYu wasn't sure if it was his imagination. He felt that the little fox was giving him the I-am-not-sleeping-till-you-come-back look. He quickly walked over to the window, pulled the curtain shut, walked back over, pulled his blanket over himself, and offered up his arm once again.

The fox sniffed his arm, found a comfortable angle, plopped its little head done on top of it again and started snoring not long after.

Mu ZhenYu scratched behind its ear and, after a while, curved his lips upward.

"You won't wake up to the thunder but you refused to sleep when I am out of the bed? Have you already gotten so used to sleeping with me that your fear for the thunder had been cured?" Mu ZhenYu had no idea whether it could hear him or not or whether it could understand him or not. He wasn't sure if he was talking to her or to himself, "Did you... lose your ability and won't be able to resume your human form ever again?"

The little fox snored steady and did not move at all.

Mu ZhenYu also closed his eyes. "Truth was, I've figured long time ago that you had a lot to do with the fox. I had considered the possibility that you are the fox. That was such an absurd thought yet it seemed to explain everything. I was very torn about it. Toward the end, I just assumed that the fox was also you and slowly gotten used to it and finally over it."

The little fox was sleeping and ignored him. He just treated it as though it was Xu WanZhi. "After that, once I have confirmed that you are the fox and the fox is you, many things started to make sense. Including that one night when I saw you walking inside the hotel room with Mu XiYuan but you had disappeared when I arrived. I finally figured out how you were able to get away from under my nose. You were no longer the original Xu WanZhi. You had never wronged me. I might have figured that out but I didn't want to say anything about it. WanWan, I trust you and I hope that you will trust me too. I am willing to wait. Wait until the day that you will tell me the truth voluntarily. No matter how absurd it is, I am willing to accept it."

By the time he got here, his eyes felt warm. "Never would I have imagined that you'd tell it to me in such an intense way. WanWan, never would I have imagined that you will be willing to exchange for my life with yours. In looking back to that day, my hair will still stand up on the back of my neck. WanWan, even though you can't talk anymore, I will be more than happy to support you for life regardless of whether you are a fox or Xu WanZhi."