Chapter 49 Ask the World, What Is Love, That It Prompts One to Promise Life and Death
"Zhou Chen, open the door."
Zhu Zhuqing's clear and pleasant voice came from outside the door, and Zhou Chen's eyes instantly lit up.
With his heart surging, he immediately bounced up from the bed, leaped across the living room in one step, and opened the door.
Under the moonlight, Zhu Zhuqing looked as if she was draped in a layer of thin gauze. Her long black hair was scattered over her shoulders like silk, and her fair, cold, and pretty face glowed with a hazy moonlight luster.
In her hand, she carried an exquisite purple wooden food box.
"You are truly beautiful tonight." Zhou Chen stared straight at Zhu Zhuqing and praised sincerely.
Feeling Zhou Chen's burning gaze, Zhu Zhuqing's pretty face turned red, and she whispered, "Don't think blindly; I am here to bring you a late-night snack."
Stepping through the door with her slender legs, Zhu Zhuqing walked to the stone table in the living room. As she put down the food box, she said softly, "You didn't get full at dinner, right? The dinner at the Shrek Academy cafeteria is indeed unpalatable. I was afraid you would be hungry, so I made something you love to eat."
Speaking of this, Zhu Zhuqing opened the food box. Inside the food box, there was a steamer, a clay pot, a pair of chopsticks, and a few small saucers.
Zhu Zhuqing first opened the lid of the clay pot. The moment the lid was lifted, a rich and sweet scent of meat permeated the air.
Zhou Chen looked over and saw that inside the clay pot were pieces of dark pork ribs. These ribs had long been stewed thoroughly, and the golden fat had been rendered completely, making them look perfect in color, aroma, and taste.
Immediately after, Zhu Zhuqing uncovered the steamer. Inside the steamer were six snow-white buns with exquisite pleats.
"These are the sweet and sour pork ribs and soup dumplings I made according to the method you taught me before. The meat is wild boar meat I bought from nearby villagers."
"Thank you, Zhuqing." Zhou Chen narrowed his eyes in a smile and said affectionately.
"Hmph, only your mouth is sweet." Zhu Zhuqing lightly scoffed with a blushing face, but her heart felt sweet.
"Don't just stand there, eat quickly." Seeing Zhou Chen staring at her with deep affection, Zhu Zhuqing said coquettishly.
"Mhm, as you command." Zhou Chen teased, holding chopsticks in one hand and picking up a saucer with the other. He picked out a piece of sweet and sour pork rib from the clay pot and took a big bite.
"Mmm..." Zhou Chen groaned. The rib meat was incomparably fragrant and crisp, and the fat melted in his mouth. Coupled with the sweetness of honey, it immediately stirred his appetite.
Finishing the rib in two bites, Zhou Chen picked a soup dumpling from the steamer and placed it into the saucer. He broke the skin slightly with his chopsticks, and the rich fragrance of the soup instantly assailed his nostrils.
"Slurp!" Holding up the saucer, Zhou Chen sucked a mouthful of soup into his mouth, and his lips and tongue were instantly wrapped in the delicious taste.
With his appetite greatly aroused, Zhou Chen immediately picked up the soup dumpling with thin skin and large filling, swallowing it in one gulp.
"Zhuqing, what you made is so delicious." Zhou Chen praised with a sincere expression and picked up another bun to stuff into his mouth.
"If it tastes good, then eat more." Being affirmed by the person she loved, Zhu Zhuqing's beautiful eyes instantly curved into crescents from smiling. Originally cold and peerless, she appeared delicate and dripping with beauty at this moment, looking extremely cute.
Sitting on the stone stool, Zhu Zhuqing propped her chin with one hand and tilted her head slightly. She just stared blankly at Zhou Chen like this, the corners of her mouth curling into an unconscious smile.
Unknowingly, Zhou Chen ate four soup dumplings and more than half of the ribs. Only then did he suddenly realize that Zhu Zhuqing had not eaten yet.
"Zhuqing, you should eat some too."
Zhou Chen picked up a rib and looked up, happening to see Zhu Zhuqing staring blankly at him. The two exchanged a glance, and Zhu Zhuqing's face turned red again.
"Come, Zhuqing, open your mouth."
Hearing Zhou Chen's words, Zhu Zhuqing subconsciously opened her small mouth. Then, caught off guard, a piece of fragrant pork rib was stuffed into her mouth.
She could not help but roll her eyes at Zhou Chen, electrifying him until his entire body went numb.
By the time the two finished this late-night snack affectionately, it was already deep into the night. The moon outside the window had its face covered by clouds.
After cleaning up the tableware together, Zhou Chen took out tissues from the head of the bed. He wiped his and Zhu Zhuqing's mouths, his movements intimate and warm.
"Zhuqing, stay here tonight."
Looking straight into Zhu Zhuqing's clear black and white eyes, Zhou Chen spoke gently.
"No, Xiao Wu and Rongrong are still waiting for me in the dormitory..."
Hearing Zhou Chen's request to stay, Zhu Zhuqing's eyes dodged evasively, and she spoke with a blushing face.
Hearing this, Zhou Chen, as a man of integrity, instantly understood that this girl had misunderstood.
However, Zhou Chen still said, "Stay; I have a treasure to give you."
Before his voice faded, a light flashed on Zhou Chen's left hand, and a purple-black pentagonal gem appeared in his palm. Seeing this gem flashing with strange light, Zhu Zhuqing's eyes instantly became puzzled.
Is Zhou Chen planning to court me?
"This is a gem that stores a bloodline. As long as you swallow the gem, it will automatically melt and fuse the power of the bloodline stored within it into your body."
"The power of the bloodline?"
Zhu Zhuqing looked blank; didn't the power of the bloodline rely on inheritance from parents?
Seeing Zhu Zhuqing's confused look, Zhou Chen smiled and said, "Speaking of the power of the bloodline, you might not understand. Do you know how a mortal becomes a God?"
"Becoming a God at rank one hundred."
As a major noble, Zhu Zhuqing still knew this point of knowledge.
"No, merely reaching rank one hundred does not make one a God; one also needs to obtain the God Position inherited from a previous Deity."
Zhou Chen's expression suddenly became serious. He said solemnly, "Left inside this gem is the bloodline of the Shadow God King. This is the only God Position inheritance left behind by our family for generations! It is also the only chance for eternal life!"
"Zhuqing, as long as you swallow this gem and fuse with the bloodline of the Shadow God King, you will have the opportunity to slowly cultivate and become a God!"
"What?"
Although Zhou Chen's voice was calm, the meaning in his words made Zhu Zhuqing feel as if the heavens were falling and the earth was splitting.
Becoming a God?
Hidden inside this gem was the opportunity to become a God?
Moreover, Zhou Chen was willing to give the only God Position and the only chance to achieve the status of a Deity and eternal life to her!
Instantly, Zhu Zhuqing's tears flowed down, and her entire heart was occupied by Zhou Chen's tender gaze.
Ask the world, what is love, that it prompts one to promise life and death. Zhou Chen left the hope of eternal life to her, while he was willing to slowly grow old himself... This made her heart almost break.
"No, I do not want it."
Zhu Zhuqing held Zhou Chen's hand and looked straight at him with teary eyes. She said, "If I cannot be with you forever, I would rather not have any God Position and accompany you to grow old slowly together."
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