Chapter 83: Love Bites
by xennovel“Stay alert!”
That was Chen Jing’s first reaction. Then, somewhat puzzled, she asked, “A proposal? In the middle of the road?”
Over the walkie-talkie, the driver in the vehicle ahead sounded equally helpless, replying, “Yes!”
After a few seconds of him fiddling with something, a black electronic screen beside Chen Jing’s steering wheel suddenly lit up, quickly displaying an image. It showed the scene on the road ahead. Seven or eight cars were blocked together, and several drivers had already gotten out. Some were whistling while others were cursing, telling them to get lost.
A few cars away, a girl in a wedding dress could be seen in the middle of the road, holding a large bouquet of roses.
The road was still damp from a recent rain and the hem of her wedding dress was already quite dirty. The girl looked to be in her early twenties, wearing stylish large-framed metal glasses. Her hair was styled in a shoulder-length, side-parted bob, and her face bore exquisite makeup. She looked young and fashionable, the very image of the perfect girlfriend in the eyes of many young men.
The object of her proposal was a slightly overweight young man wearing a black jacket, jeans, and white sneakers – unremarkable, the type you wouldn’t notice in a crowd. But the strange part was the girl in the wedding dress was kneeling on the ground, shoving the roses into his hands, crying, “Marry me, okay?”
Some onlookers leaned on their car doors, shouting encouragingly, “Say yes! She’s a catch…”
Others yelled, “Hurry it up! My wife’s waiting for me to come home for dinner…”
However, faced with such a beautiful girl proposing, the young man seemed extremely resistant. He pushed away the flowers she offered while constantly trying to free his arm from her grasp, shouting, “Are you crazy? What are you doing in the middle of the road? We already broke up! I’m begging you, please go home! If you’re not embarrassed, I am!”
“I won’t, I just won’t…”
The girl’s voice was already choked with tears. Her originally pleasant voice now sounded somewhat shrill as she yelled, “We didn’t break up! I never agreed! You used to say you loved me so much, why don’t you want me now?”
The slightly overweight young man sounded exhausted now, his voice almost pleading, “But you were the one who wanted to break up with me! I even asked you why back then! If my friend hadn’t seen you, I wouldn’t even know you were dating so many people behind my back… Since we broke up, let’s just leave it at that. I can’t control what you do. Just let me go home, okay?”
“It’s you I like…”
The girl screamed, “I just realized it’s you I like! I broke up with all of them! I decided I’ll only look at you from now on! I want to be with you forever! Isn’t that what you always wanted? So why don’t you want me?”
More and more cars were affected, piling up behind them.
The crowd of onlookers grew too. Some yelled, “What’s all the shouting? Can’t you just go home and sort it out?”
Others shouted, “A pretty girl like you, why bother with him? How about considering me…”
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Amidst the jeers and rebukes of the crowd, the young man was nearing his breaking point, desperate to escape. He yanked his arm hard again, nearly pulling the girl to the ground. But despite using so much force, he still couldn’t break free from her grip, only managing to pull her off balance, almost causing them both to fall. He cried out frantically, “Let go of me! Let go!”
The girl shrieked, “I won’t let go! Not unless you tell me why you suddenly stopped loving me…”
“That’s just how love is! You said so yourself…”
The young man grew agitated, finally unable to hold back, shouting, “How can you be like this? Saying yes one minute, breaking up the next! Look at yourself now, you look like a madwoman! Why are you following me around crazily? Why do you get involved every time I talk to a colleague? Why do you pick a fight if I even glance at someone else? Why did you suddenly jump out into the road to propose to me?”
While shouting, he forcefully tried to pry her hands off, as if fighting for his life to get away.
The onlookers were also growing impatient, some starting to honk their car horns insistently.
“What is all this nonsense?”
Inside the car, Chen Jing couldn’t help but frown after watching for a few moments. She ordered, “Someone get out there and pull them to the side of the road… Also, notify the Investigation Team. Have them observe this girl afterward. I sense her mental state isn’t right…”
The voice of the soldier ahead came through the walkie-talkie: “Roger!”
Then came the sound of a car door opening and someone getting out.
As the armed soldier holding a gun walked into view, the argument between the man and woman ahead escalated dramatically. The girl, finally overpowered by the young man and about to be thrown off, suddenly leaped frantically, screaming, “Because I love you! I realized I love you! And I know you love me! If you love me, why do you still look at others?”
“Why break up with me?”
“I already love you this much, why can’t you love me the same way?”
…
Shouting these words, she lunged at the young man again. She grabbed him, desperately trying to kiss him.
Though the young man was stronger, he clearly couldn’t push such a frenzied girl away. Instantly, his face and forehead were smeared with her lipstick. But the red color grew deeper, more intense. Suddenly, the young man let out a bloodcurdling scream, startling everyone into staring wide-eyed. Blood poured freely from the young man’s mouth as he stumbled backward in panic. The girl had a piece of flesh clutched in her teeth.
The kiss had turned into a savage bite.
“I love you…”
“I love you so much, I never want to be apart from you…”
“So…”
“I’m going to eat you…”
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The girl shrieked gutturally, lunging violently again, planting another heavy ‘kiss’ on the young man…
Or rather, sinking her teeth into him…
The young man struggled desperately, but his movements grew weaker, his cries fainter…
The surroundings were filled with the girl’s crazed screams. Her voice seemed to possess a hypnotic power, relentlessly pounding everyone’s eardrums. The onlookers, as well as the armed soldier who had approached to pull them aside, seemed stunned by the frantic scene. They all stopped what they were doing, simply staring blankly at the unfolding horror.
The roses the girl held had scattered across the ground.
The binding ribbons came undone, and the roses lay strewn about, mixing with the young man’s blood.
The sight seemed to hold some hypnotic quality, reflected starkly in everyone’s eyes.