CHAPTER 339: CHAPTER 339: TERRIBLE TASTE, EVERYTHING TASTES AWFUL

Xiao Jinsheng really wanted to say she didn’t like it.

But looking down, the empty dessert cup stared back at her.

Xiao Jinsheng looked to the side, choosing to refuse to answer that question.

The taste was first bitter, then sour, and finally sickly sweet.

Seeing the table covered in a green spread, Xiao Jinsheng lost her appetite completely.

She’d rather eat the pre-prepared meals the Terminal had for her, which only needed a "ding" to be ready.

"You all eat." Xiao Jinsheng got up to leave, and before going upstairs, she emphasized to everyone, "Without my permission, no one is allowed on the second floor."

"What about me?" Su Ye asked.

"Alright, alright, you can go to the second floor." Xiao Jinsheng was genuinely afraid of Su Ye.

She was afraid that one day he would hang from the ceiling outside her bedroom again.

Initially, Xiao Jinsheng wanted to have Su Ye cook, hoping to curb his temperament.

But back in her bedroom, nibbling on a pre-packaged bread, Xiao Jinsheng was caught in a dilemma.

Su Ye’s cooking, not tasty.

Su Ye’s desserts, not tasty, overly sweet.

Like a sugar king.

Xiao Jinsheng’s plan, barely started, was already considering a change.

She didn’t want Su Ye to keep cooking, but she also dared not ask Mo Jiao to cook, fearing he might secretly poison her.

So the question arose...

Xiao Jinsheng opened the Star Map and contacted Mo Jiao first among the five Beast Husbands.

Xiao Jinsheng: Snake, there?

Mo Jiao: ?

Xiao Jinsheng: Are you a poisonous snake?

Mo Jiao: ...

Xiao Jinsheng: Are you poisonous?

Mo Jiao: Yes, I am.

Mo Jiao: Why? Want to try?

Xiao Jinsheng: I have a question, answer it well, and there’s a reward.

Mo Jiao, who was washing dishes, raised an intrigued eyebrow upon seeing the message.

A reward from Xiao Jinsheng?

This was from the same Xiao Jinsheng who had locked him outside the courtyard when he first came, not known for being amiable, rewarding him?

Mo Jiao: Ask away.

It turns out, curiosity isn’t limited to cats; snakes are curious too.

Xiao Jinsheng: If a venomous snake bites itself, will the venom kill the snake?

Mo Jiao: ...That’s it?

Xiao Jinsheng: You’re poisonous, if you bite yourself, will you die from your own venom?

Mo Jiao: Some normal poisonous snakes might, but I’m only beastified into a snake.

After explaining, he thought of Xiao Jinsheng’s apparent fear of him from their first meeting.

Mo Jiao added: In fact, a Beastman merely transforms energies into Beast Clan strength; they aren’t fully Beast Clan.

Mo Jiao: So, I’m not really a snake.

Looking at Mo Jiao’s reply, Xiao Jinsheng tilted her head in confusion.

In the nightmare, Mo Jiao was the first to kill her.

But thinking about today’s mishap and her clear aversion to Mo Jiao.

Mo Jiao was still so patiently responding to her.

Xiao Jinsheng began to doubt.

Would everything she saw in the nightmare eventually come true in reality?

Thinking carefully, although Mo Jiao seemed intimidating,

Xiao Jinsheng felt that in real life, Mo Jiao was quite manageable to interact with.

Because of her memory loss, she even wondered if her nightmare was Bai Yan’s manipulation?

But if the nightmare was Bai Yan’s doing, how did Bai Yan know her Beast Husbands’ information before she had even met them?

At least in appearance, the Star Map’s binding never sent her any photos from the Terminal.

Xiao Jinsheng, while doubting her nightmare, asked the question she always wanted to ask but dared not.

Even now, she asked it subtly.

Xiao Jinsheng: Will the venomous snake bite me?

As Mo Jiao washed dishes, his hand slipped, sending the stack of plates crashing to the floor, turning into a heap of shards.

Xiao Jinsheng: What the hell is that noise downstairs?

Xiao Jinsheng: You are a venomous snake, will you eventually bite me?

Not getting Mo Jiao’s reply, Xiao Jinsheng, curious about the downstairs commotion, simply logged out of the Star Map, ready to head downstairs to check.

It was right after she closed the Star Map that Mo Jiao’s reply arrived.

Mo Jiao: Venomous snake biting you? Can’t say...

But Xiao Jinsheng, curious, rushed downstairs, missing the Star Map notification.

Reaching the stairway corner, Xiao Jinsheng suddenly felt a sharp pain in her head.

She quickly held the handrail, standing still for a few seconds, and realized something was off.

She remembered many things, and at this moment, she was more lucid than ever before.

She was fully aware that she was in the Cloud World competition now, for some unknown reason, entering her lost memories.

She recalled being arranged by a system to enter the story and endure hardships with Li when she was young.

The system also arranged five bodyguards for her, whom she had personally selected.

The five bodyguards were precisely the current five Beast Husbands.

So, the nightmare was truly fake, as she had suspected.

"Bai Yan!" Xiao Jinsheng shouted angrily, preparing to call her five bodyguards and confront Bai Yan next door.

But she only took a few steps before a black mist turned into threads, binding her limbs.

Because she returned only to her memories, not through Time Reversal.

Xiao Jinsheng, at this moment, also could not find the power to change what had already happened within her memories, even though she remembered them.

Controlled within the memory, Xiao Jinsheng was led by the black strings, rushing down the stairs in a fury.

She coldly glanced at Huaiqing, who tried to greet her, and sidestepped to increase the distance from him.

She took a step into the kitchen and started scolding, "What’s going on?"

Noticing the debris everywhere.

Xiao Jinsheng glared fiercely, storming in front of Mo Jiao, who was cleaning up the shards, and slapped him with an open hand.

Mo Jiao didn’t dodge, taking the force of her slap head-on.

The noise in the kitchen caught the attention of the other four men also quietly working and cleaning.

"It’s just doing the dishes, and you can’t even handle this? Useless." Xiao Jinsheng scolded.

A conscious Xiao Jinsheng could only watch helplessly as the Terminal’s voice entered her mind and the controlled version of herself heartlessly spoke those words, without any way to stop it.

"And you lot!" Xiao Jinsheng’s rage erupted, slapping Mo Jiao before rushing outside, pointing at the other four.

First, she snapped at Su Ye: "And you, what crap have you cooked, it’s disgusting! Do you think cooking poorly means you can slack off? You’re still responsible for three meals a day; if it’s awful, then don’t eat it yourself."

"You, and you two." Xiao Jinsheng pointed at Que Zelian, Yu Yunxiao, and Huaiqing: "You three go out on tasks, find food."

"I don’t care how you do it; you must bring back a daily quota of resources, or don’t wait for me to eliminate you."

"What are you staring at? Get to work. I’ve asked you to clean, and it’s been how long, and the first floor isn’t cleaned yet?" Facing Que Zelian’s speculative gaze, Xiao Jinsheng said coldly.

She straightforwardly went to the first-floor room entrance, taking all the luggage the five men had temporarily stacked there and tossed it into the living room: "This house is mine. You all are totally unqualified now; want to stay in your rooms? Get out and stay in the living room, and it’s good I didn’t make you stay in the basement."

"Get moving, stop bothering me." Before going upstairs, Xiao Jinsheng didn’t forget to warn them.

She kept mumbling as she went upstairs.

Leaving the five men completely stunned at this moment, hearing her muttering as she climbed, "No wonder they don’t compare to the six Beast Husbands next door, what a bunch of useless ones, and their number isn’t even as many as Bai Yan’s Beast Husbands."