Chapter 239

239 TO WELCOME MY WIFE

“I have told you that the fried fish was poisoned, right?” Instead of answering Bai Chen’s question, Wu Jinhai asked back.

“Yes, you have, but somehow I find you strange when the two of us discuss the fish. It looks like you are hiding something,” Bai Chen replied.

That moment happened more than three weeks ago, but it was still vivid in his memory when Zhu Ge looked angry because of the fried fish cooked by the palace cooks, and the man also said that he hated fish and that was the reason why the man didn’t eat fish.

Back then, Bai Chen assumed that Zhu Ge was just a grumpy vegetarian who couldn’t eat fish or meat, but the man said that he could still eat meat sometimes, and that was quite confusing for him.

At that time, Bai Chen was suspicious of the man, but he didn’t ask any further and only pretended that he could accept the man’s reasoning. He didn’t expect that he would get the chance to ask the man that question again, and he was now waiting for the man to answer his question.

“I have complicated feelings,” Wu Jinhai replied. “You already know that I’m a half-fish demon, right? Even if I wanted to eat fish, I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I somehow thought that fish was no different from me, and that’s why I couldn’t bring myself to eat it.”

Bai Chen could understand why Wu Jinhai felt complicated inside. When he attended the feast when the full moon occurred, the palace served human flesh to the guests, and even his father asked him to taste the fresh meat served by the palace maids.

At that time, Bai Chen was tempted because he was controlled by the power of the full moon, but he managed to fight his will, and he did not eat human flesh in the end.

Bai Chen remembered that he was half human and half werewolf in this world, and that was why he couldn’t bring himself to eat humans even if his body needed their flesh to restore his sanity.

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“After all, the two of us are the same,” Bai Chen muttered as he took his eyes off the man in red.

It was just a statement spoken in a low voice by Bai Chen, but Wu Jinhai managed to catch the voice, and that was why he finally turned to the man before asking, “What do you mean?”

“You still remember that I’m also half-human, right?” Bai Chen answered Wu Jinhai’s question with a question as well. “Even if I’m not fully human, I can’t force myself to eat humans either, and that’s why I think that the two of us are the same.”

After hearing Bai Chen’s explanation, Wu Jinhai finally smiled a little. “You’re right. It’s no good eating our kind even if I don’t really like being half fish. I don’t like that fish demon either, but I can’t do anything about it,” he once again replied to Bai Chen, and he once again turned to look at the water in front of him.

Hearing Wu Jinhai’s answer, Bai Chen finally turned to the man again, and he asked, “You are not the Crown Prince in Wu Li now, and I assume the reason why you can’t become the Crown Prince in your kingdom is related to your condition. It’s surely not because you are ugly like you always said to me, right?”

This time, Wu Jinhai turned to the shorter man, and their eyes met once again even though he did not immediately answer the man’s question. He just stared at the pair of blue eyes silently, and maybe he didn’t expect the man to suddenly ask him that question.

“You are getting smarter, Bai Chen,” a reply finally came from Wu Jinhai, and Bai Chen snorted upon hearing it.

“Someone said that to me too, and maybe I should feel good about that compliment, right?” Laughing at himself, Bai Chen asked the man sitting next to him.

“Someone said that to you? Who is it?”

This time, Bai Chen suddenly stopped laughing as he was at a loss as to how he should answer Wu Jinhai’s question.

The one who said that to him before Wu Jinhai was Bai Lang, but he couldn’t just reveal the truth in front of Wu Jinhai, right? What if Wu Jinhai asked about Bai Lang? How should Bai Chen answer that question?

Bai Chen suddenly regretted his sloppy mouth, and he awkwardly cleared his throat before turning his gaze to look away from Wu Jinhai. “It’s nobody,” he reasoned. “Now you better answer my question. If I don’t return to my palace soon, then the night will soon fall, and it will be very scary to spend the night in the forest.”

“You are a werewolf, but you are afraid to spend the night in the forest?” Wu Jinhai immediately responded to Bai Chen’s statement, and it seemed that he no longer cared about the person Bai Chen spoke of earlier.

But then Bai Chen knew that how he tried to save himself only gave him another problem. It had been a month since he transmigrated into this world, but he still forgot that he was a half-werewolf now.

Wolves were nocturnal animals and should be brave when they went hunting in the forest at night. But Bai Chen had just said that he would be afraid if he had to spend the night in the forest, and that must have sounded strange to Wu Jinhai’s ears.

“I’m only half werewolf, and half of me is human! That’s why it’s normal for me to be afraid of the dark like humans, right? What’s wrong with that?” Trying to appear confident in front of Wu Jinhai, Bai Chen replied, and Wu Jinhai chuckled after hearing his answer.

“Alright, it’s fine if you’re afraid of the dark, but if you don’t want to stay in the forest at night, you can stay at my house. The door of my house will always be open to welcome my wife.”