What?! I Became the Zombie Beauty in the Villain’s Arms – CH88

Chapter 88: Where Do You Want to Bite?

Hearing this, the man under the showerhead raised an eyebrow.

Through the heavy steam, he half-closed his eyes, looking at the woman submerged in the tub who didn’t even dare to meet his gaze. “Where do you want to bite?”

Catching the teasing undertone in his voice, Pei Xiqing hurriedly explained, “The shoulder or the hand—wherever you think is best, I can bite there. But you have to inject the serum the second I do it. Or, we can set up the serum and medicine beforehand, and you can inject yourself the exact moment I bite down.”

“What are you trying to test?”

“Well,” Pei Xiqing nodded seriously, “I want to see if your superpower’s recovery was triggered by that time I accidentally bit you in the wild.”

Duan Xiaolin had previously mentioned that his abilities were recovering, and the first time he had felt that resurgence was right around the time she had bitten him. All day, she had been wondering if the two events were directly connected.

Back then, his powers had flowed into her body. But rather than being completely drained, his core energy had simply gone dormant after being severely overloaded. It was entirely possible that after she bit him, the zombie virus in her system had mixed with his dormant abilities, triggering a chaotic chain reaction that reawakened his power.

“I’ve considered that possibility,” Duan Xiaolin said calmly. “Qiu Chao also believes it’s related to that incident.”

“Then why didn’t you tell me?”

“Because to me, you aren’t an actual zombie.”

“Then what am I to you?” Pei Xiqing asked, deliberately testing the waters.

A faint smile touched his lips. “Aside from being someone full of vibrant life, you are my girlfriend.”

Pei Xiqing’s skin was already flushed from the hot water, but hearing those words made her entire body burn even hotter.

“But I can still do zombie-like things, like bite you,” she mumbled. “Besides, I don’t know why… I can easily control myself around other people, but when it comes to you, I have no self-control at all.”

It was a pure, instinctual urge. She genuinely didn’t understand it. If she closed her eyes, she knew she would readily bite Duan Xiaolin. But as for anyone else? She couldn’t bring herself to do it, no matter the circumstances. Even if she were using it to punish someone truly evil, sinking her teeth into a stranger would leave her with lifelong psychological trauma.

His voice drifted through the thick steam, carrying a hazy, almost unreal quality. “Perhaps our abilities are simply compatible.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean that aside from the Qiong Snake, you might actually possess your own unique ability. You just haven’t fully discovered it yet. It could be that your innate ability allows you to absorb or interact with the powers of others through a bite.”

“Are you saying I already had a superpower before the Qiong Snake, and that this hidden power is somehow highly compatible with yours?”

“Exactly.”

“Oh… well, I’m not entirely sure about that.” She shifted in the water. “But to confirm it, I really do want to try biting you. I’m just worried that you’ll suffer a severe zombie infection reaction like last time. I don’t want you to have to endure that kind of agony again…”

“You don’t need to worry about that.”

The sound of the shower abruptly stopped. The man slipped into his bathrobe and calmly stepped out of the steam. “I already have the serum prepared. You can take as many bites as you want.”

“I haven’t completely lost my mind! Why would I just keep biting you?” She quickened her pace, scrubbing down in the tub and rinsing off in the last two minutes before the water supply was cut. Hurriedly slipping into her pajamas, she followed him out into the living room. “If I kept biting you, even if you didn’t complain, I would still feel terrible about hurting you.”

After hanging her freshly washed undergarments out on the balcony, she stepped back inside.

Duan Xiaolin was sitting on the sofa. Lined up neatly on the coffee table beside him was an entire row of serums and sterile syringes. He was slowly wiping his silver-rimmed glasses with a microfiber cloth before sliding them onto the bridge of his nose.

Pei Xiqing stared. “You actually brought out that much serum? Are you seriously planning to let me bite you more than ten times?”

“Sit down,” Duan Xiaolin said.

Pei Xiqing took a seat, picking up one of the serum vials from the table to weigh it in her hand. “It’s a bit heavy. Something like this must be incredibly expensive.”

“In the early days of the apocalypse, these were priceless to anyone,” he explained. “But things have stabilized significantly. A single vial like this can be traded for a high-level crystal core. Nowadays, practically every household can find a way to pool their low-level crystal cores to afford one.”

“It seems like everyone’s standard of living has really improved compared to when the outbreak first started.”

“Which is exactly why so many different types of crimes are cropping up within the base.”

Pei Xiqing sighed. “Yeah.”

She looked back at the vials. “Will you inject yourself later, or should I do it for you?”

“I’ll handle it myself,” he replied. “Don’t overthink it. It’s just an experiment.”

“Okay.” Pei Xiqing nodded in agreement, though the entire situation still felt completely surreal.

Who would have ever imagined that a day would come where the cold, untouchable Duan Xiaolin would voluntarily let her sink her teeth into him? She was about to bite the Chief Judge himself—and she was supposed to be the villain! In the original novel’s plot, anyone who dared to try something like this wouldn’t even know how they died.

She took a deep breath to steady her nerves.

Calm down. It’s just an experiment.

Quickly regaining her composure, she slid off the sofa out of habit, settling onto the carpet right at the man’s feet. When she had first moved in, the living room rug had been nothing more than a thin, coarse mat. She didn’t know exactly when he had swapped it out, but it was now a plush, thick carpet. It was incredibly soft, and sitting on it felt perfectly comfortable, without any harshness against the floor.

Pei Xiqing tilted her face up, gently wrapping her hands around his. “Um… I’m a little afraid that once I bite you, I might lose control and completely turn feral. If I lose consciousness, you need to tie me up or hit me to knock some sense back into me. I don’t care what you do, as long as you can wake me up.”

She had never intentionally bitten a living person like this before. She was terrified that it would end up exactly like last time—that the moment she tasted his blood, her self-control would shatter, turning her into a mindless monster no different from the infected outside the walls.

That was her deepest fear. Zombies themselves weren’t scary. What was truly terrifying was the thought of losing her rationality and her humanity, transforming into something entirely unrecognizable.

Clinging to his arm, she kept nervously chattering away. Duan Xiaolin listened patiently to her rambling before finally asking, “I can do anything?”

Pei Xiqing nodded firmly in agreement.

A split second later, she sensed a subtle shift in the air and realized she might have dug a hole for herself. But it was too late to backtrack now, so she stubbornly pushed forward. “Yes, do whatever it takes. Just make sure you snap me out of it.”

“Alright, then.” Duan Xiaolin looked down at her, perfectly calm. “You decide where you want to bite.”

Pei Xiqing lowered her head, the tips of her ears burning bright red. She silently leaned forward, resting her chin against his lap, her mind racing as she tried to recall the past incident. Had she bitten his neck or his shoulder last time? If recreating the exact scenario was the key to making this work, should she aim for the same spot?

Suddenly, she felt a sharp, brief pressure on her shoulder.

Duan Xiaolin had leaned down and lightly bitten her.

Even through the fabric of her pajamas, the teasing nip sent a jolt through her. She could feel the heavy weight of his gaze, dark and undeniably scrutinizing, resting on her. “Well? Where are you going to bite?”

Thoroughly flustered and inevitably led astray by his magnetic focus, her mind short-circuited. Driven by pure, impulsive instinct, Pei Xiqing reached up and bit down squarely on his fingertip.

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