Accidentally Married A Fox God – The Sovereign Lord Spoils His Wife Chapter 378 - Meet Mo Cheng

Chapter 378 - et Mo Cheng

Li irong’s mouth dropped open slightly as realization struck. ’So that’s the piece I was missing from his tale! He was assigned to deliver to Mo Cheng.’

The light filtering through the window reflected in her clear, dark eyes. Hands shaking again, Li irong placed her cup down. She didn’t trust her nerves to stay steady enough to keep from spilling her tea.

She didn’t want to have another encounter with Mo Cheng, especially not so soon, but it seed like she would have no choice in the matter. Even if she avoided him to the best of her ability, he still managed to sneak back into her life. He’d managed it now, even under the restriction of house arrest.

Furthermore, all this talk about another world and a ga being played hit a little too close to ho for Li irong’s comfort. What if - and this was a big ’if’ - Mo Cheng’s soul had also transmigrated, and he was also a person from her world?

Or, worse yet, what if this wasn’t a different world as she had initially presud, but was instead what Mo Cheng apparently kept babbling on about: a novel or a ga with a set script and storyline?

Could it make any sense? Could she have been sucked into so fictional story?

Li irong’s heart grew heavy at the thought of such a possibility. She stood again, rubbing her arms, and then began to pace back and forth across the room.

It took her a few monts to realise that she wasn’t nearly as bothered by Mo Jing’s badly formulated thod to trick her into eting with Mo Cheng as she was by the consequences of what knowledge might be gained from a conversation with him.

No matter how reluctant she was to do so, it seed inevitable that she would need to et with Mo Cheng, even if only to find out if he truly was as crazy as his brother’s words made him seem.

Or, as unlikely as it was, find out if he shared her origins; it would link them much more closely than just being accepted into the sa sect.

So lost was she in her musings that she didn’t notice Mo Jing call her na repeatedly. She took no note of him at all until he stood and used his own body to physically bar her way.

She stopped just in ti to avoid crashing into him, only an inch or so away from him.

"I know the way I went about asking you to co with to see him was not honorable nor straightforward..." Mo Jing spoke seriously, a grim cast to his deep-set eyes.

On the table, unnoticed by either disciple, Snowball rolled his eyes at the attempted explanation.

"But I will make a vow to you now. I will ensure no harm cos to you. The way my brother pleaded for to help him et with you has put in quite a difficult position. Nevertheless, he made it seem as if it is his greatest wish in the world, and that is sothing I cannot refuse."

Li irong stared at Mo Jing, assessing; this ti, she really looked at him. He was obviously distraught, and she knew it was genuine, for he was an incredibly bad liar.

The awkward way he stood, and the way his legs had jittered while they were sitting, were easily betraying his nerves. He seed worried about her response, or the possible scolding he might get from her.

She hoped her feelings did not show on her face as she considered Mo Jing. She had practically watched him and his brother, and even Shu Qianqian, grow from childhood to a.d.u.l.thood over the years she had been in this world.

As a result, she felt she was a lot more lenient with their faults than she was with others.

Even though she was physically around their age, her soul was that of a grown up and had been the entire ti she’d known them. She had always drawn a sort of barrier between them, much as a caretaker would around the children they supervised. When they acted poorly or rashly, she couldn’t help but consider their behavior to be little more than a child’s error.

It had only been when she realized that Shu Qianqian was ruthless enough to try and kill her that her perspective on the matter had drastically changed.

Or so she had thought. Now, however, seeing Mo Jing look so very miserable and agitated, her heart swelled with tender pity towards him. She raised her hand and patted his shoulder in a gesture she hoped would be comforting but not considered too forward.

"Even though I would have preferred you to be more upfront about this, I now know that confronting your brother is sothing I must do. I will et with him, but you must keep in mind that if he truly is crazy, I won’t be able to magically cure him. All I can do is listen," she said in a gentler tone of voice.

Then she gestured towards the door with one pale hand and added, "Go ahead of and inform Mo Cheng that I’ll be arriving shortly. I need a few monts to arrange my thoughts."

Mo Jing’s lower lip trembled before he pressed his lips together; his eyes shined a little brighter than normal as he tried to suppress his relief. He silently bowed his head, and then turned to leave in a rush.

With Mo Jing now gone, the silence of the cabin felt louder to Li irong than the hustle and bustle of the tournant had done. She felt drained, but her day was still not over.

Still on the table, Snowball’s large ears perked up as he observed Li irong curiously for the second ti that day. Every ti he thought he had managed to figure her out, she would go ahead and do sothing that completely defied his expectations.

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Preview to the next chapter:

"Are you really going, Master?" he asked after the silence had dragged on for several long minutes. Li irong slouched onto her bed, exhaling loudly as she did so; she no longer had to keep up pretenses, and she was glad for the mont to relax.

"I have to," she replied.

"Why must you go?"

"It’s a little too complicated to explain easily..." she trailed off, seeming unsure of how to continue. "I have to find out if Mo Cheng is related to my past like I think he might be."

Her tone was strange, and the fox spirit’s eyes narrowed suspiciously.

’What, exactly, does she an by that?’ he wondered, wary.