Chapter 8 (1/2)
My Wife Is A Princess
Chapter 8: Fruit of Longevity
The muddly-yellow incandescent light shook on the ceiling, the light bright a moment then dim the next. The zi zi sounds of electricity still echoed from time to time.
A black smoke carrying the distinctive smell of burnt leather drifted inside the living room, making it difficult for people to restrain their harsh-sounding coughs.
The sofa had already been scorched until only the slightly budging skeleton frame was left. The cloth had charred to a black charcoal and broke into ashes. The blackish wooden frame was bared, and the springs bounced up and down, having lost their supports and the weight pus.h.i.+ng down on them.
Li Luyou was still lying on the sofa, smoky black. It seemed he’d suddenly changed his ethnicity…He, coming from Africa, was a black man.
His hair had been burned bare, black ashes from the broken cloth crowding on his scalp. His eyebrows were still there fortunately, but the clothes on his body had already turned one by one into hanging strips of cloth. His pair of running shoes he’d worn for more than three years had been definitely wiped out, the soles melted. The exposed feet seemed especially white at this time.
Li Luyou couldn’t make sense of his current situation. He could only feel the springs painfully p.r.i.c.king into his b.u.t.t, so he leaped up, feeling a burst of painful stings from the scorching burns. But it made him understand very clearly that he absolutely didn’t suffer from any serious injury. There hadn’t been any trace of stiffness in his movements just now when he’d bounced up; he was still as lively and well as before.
”This is more like how an aboriginal should look.” Annan Xiu stood in front of the sofa, her appearance still that of someone with a very irascible temper. She watched Li Luyou full of anger.
”My G.o.d…” Li Luyou understood he might have wronged Annan Xiu. She hadn’t been intent on causing his death, but now he had other things to worry about rather than apologizing to Annan Xiu. The entire room was already beyond recognition.
The sofa was thoroughly sc.r.a.pped, the television, the satellite decoder, the fridge… He hurriedly ran to the kitchen. The microwave oven, the pressure cooker, and the electric stove were all smoking.
Li Luyou pushed open the door to his own bedroom, filled with desperation. Unsurprisingly, his treasured computer he’d painstakingly saved for after working in the computer market was already waste.
”Annan Xiu!” Li Luyou almost roared as he charged out. He could turn a blind eye to the rest, but the movies, pictures, comics, novels, and doc.u.ments he’d collected for so many years had all been destroyed.
”Ah, the popsicles melted.”
So said Annan Xiu with much regrets as she opened the fridge.
”Popsicles… Popsicles… ” Li Luyou quivered in anger. ”Annan Xiu, you hurry to go the h.e.l.l back, you just leave at once immediately right now!”
”Don’t you wonder why you’re still fine when those things are all broken?” Annan Xiu felt happier the more she saw Li Luyou stamp with rage, the unconcerned expression on her face like whispers of clouds and light breezes.
”Can I still be called fine?” Li Luyou had almost become a human bomb about to explode under the little girl’s provocations.
”Idiot.”
Li Luyou saw the little girl’s contemptuous expression and gradually calmed down. Right, how could he be still fine. His own clothes were already shredded to pieces like this, but there wasn’t the slightest trace of injury on his body. Earlier he still had some painful feeling from the uncomfortable burn, but now he’d already entirely returned to normal.
Li Luyou lowered his head and looked at himself, then very quickly discovered the rest of the differences. He originally had a four-pack on his abdomen, now it seemed to have doubled. His chest bulged; now he was a man with a gully between his pecs. There was even less of a need to mention the outlines of the muscles on his arms and thighs.
It seemed like this body wasn’t his. Li Luyou subconsciously commanded his body to do a few motions, but the body turned out to be entirely under his control.
This line of sight also seemed a little wrong, He was already tall to begin with, but now it seemed he was a few centimeters taller again. Annan Xiu seemed even tinier when he lowered his head to look at her.
He could feel his body br.i.m.m.i.n.g with strength. He could burst out with an energy he didn’t even dare to imagine in usual times with just a raise of the hand or a lift of the foot.
Annan Xiu was still ignoring him. She ran to the balcony to breathe fresh air. At present this room was really not a place for a human to stay in.
Li Luyou followed her there. Who let him lose his cool and misunderstand her.
”In fact… You could have resisted as soon as I became angry…” Li Luyou said awkwardly.