Infinite: Dawn Game

Chapter 820 Acting

"You actually think that way about me? Tell me! You don't want to marry me at all?! Tell me! Are you just marrying anyone to fulfill your mother's wishes?"

Yu Shijiu pounded her chest hard, a single tear rolling down her cheek.

"Speak up! Why won't you say anything!"

"Speak up! Were you doing this on purpose? Did you say those things to provoke me?"

"..."

He Lingling's contorted expression froze amidst the lotus flowers beside her. She stared stiffly as the toad in front of her approached, while images of what had happened in the town villa slowly surfaced in her mind.

"Sister Lingling," Yu Shijiu said, engrossed in reading a novel titled "The Substitute Bride, Woman, Don't Even Think About Escaping," clicking her tongue in amazement. "The female protagonist is so strange. Why does she talk like she's singing?"

How did I reply back then?

He Lingling had already forgotten the crisis before her, and murmured to herself:

"Oh, maybe it's because the male lead's ideal woman is a singer?"

"what are you saying?"

A toad, its tongue lolling out and its "bread" curled up, approached He Lingling, its eyes wide as it asked:

"What singer? You can sing?"

“She can definitely sing, son.”

The female toad slowly hopped onto the lotus flower, its cold brown eyes scanning He Lingling from head to toe, and said:

"All the children that woman raised can sing!"

He Lingling: "..."

Well... actually, she's not much of a singer... Of course, she could sing if needed...

Thinking of this, He Lingling quickly realized what was going on and nodded, saying:

"Yes, yes, yes, do you want to hear me sing? I sing incredibly well! Everyone who's heard me sing, no, even the most obedient toads say I'm great!"

After saying that, He Lingling cautiously gripped the prop she had just stolen, ready to use it at any moment.

If changing the subject doesn't work, then she'll use a distracting prop... It's a bit of a waste to keep doing this, but she really doesn't want to eat that dark, gooey stuff...

That dark, gooey "bread" looks like something that would kill you if you ate it—or at least give you diarrhea.

He Lingling believes she has no "hobby" of wanting to openly express herself in public.

She still wants to have some face.

Lady Luck smiled upon He Lingling this time; the toad in front of her was successfully distracted, and she jumped up and down several times with joy, shouting:

"Okay! Sing! Sing! I want to hear my wife sing!!!"

He Lingling tried hard to recall the few songs she had ever heard, and when her mind was almost blank, she finally remembered a song.

"Little, little swallow... wearing a flowery dress..."

He Lingling, suppressing her shame, began to sing a children's song, looking away from the "burning" gazes of the two toads, repeating it dryly like a poetry recitation.

While singing, she kept an eye on Yu Shijiu, who was engrossed in "acting" next to her. The lyrics were awkward and crooked. Luckily, there were two toads in front of her who didn't understand the song (or maybe they were idiots), otherwise she would have punched her twice.

"you……"

The toad in front of Yu Shijiu was completely dumbfounded. Looking at the boy in front of him who was shedding tears, it nervously opened its mouth and then closed it again, its bulging eyes frozen in the air, motionless.

"No, no, I, I didn't... I didn't..."

Snapped!

A female toad, having jumped onto a lotus flower, slapped the bewildered toad across the face and roared:

"How dare you bully your wife? Son, are you out of your mind! She's not even married into the family yet, how can you bully her? You're really no good toad!!!"

The toad's eyeballs popped out from being shaken, and it scrambled to pick them up with its tongue, muttering:

"No, really, Mom, I really didn't bully my wife. It was, it was her—"

"Oh! Mom!"

Yu Shijiu, wiping away tears, started talking to the mother toad, sobbing as she said:

"It...it despises me...it lied to me. It never wanted to marry me..."

The toad was dumbfounded, staring wide-eyed at the missing eye, and said, "No! I didn't! I was just asking her why she was suddenly so concerned about me—"

"Alright, alright."

The mother toad impatiently interrupted her son, glaring at Yu Shijiu with her bright yellow eyes.

Yu Shijiu did not back down. He wiped away the tears that overflowed from the corners of his eyes, lowered his head, but the corners of his lips curled up uncontrollably.

Knew it.

These toads will indeed "strictly adhere" to the original Thumbelina story when they don't notice the player has escaped.

In the original story, the toad mother and son did say that they would treat Thumbelina well.

Yu Shijiu sniffed, looking a little annoyed.

This stuffy nose feels so much like a cold... He really dislikes colds, not even a little bit.

"Don't be sad," the mother toad hopped over to Yu Shijiu and began to comfort him. "Don't worry, once you marry into our family, my son will definitely treat you well."

"..." Yu Shijiu licked her lips, composed herself, and looked up with teary eyes, asking softly, "Really?"

"Of course that's true."

The female toad grinned, and a foul, rotten smell wafted from deep within her open throat.

"We are all honest and law-abiding toads. As long as you behave and don't run away, we will definitely treat you well!"

It's the same sentence again.

Yu Shijiu lowered her eyelids and nodded obediently and touchedly: "Okay, okay, I know. I will definitely, definitely behave well and be a good listener."

The mother toad was satisfied.

Then, under the bewildered gazes of Yu Shijiu and the toad, she suddenly jumped into the pond—after several loud splashes, Yu Shijiu saw the female toad use her tongue to roll up the grass and cloth bag she had just thrown into the water.

Yu Shijiu: "..."

The toad excitedly jumped several times on the lotus flower:

"Mom! Mom! Hurry! Hurry! Throw it up here quickly! Hurry, hurry!"

The mother toad flicked her tongue upwards, and the water-soaked grass bag flew through the air, leaving a blur before landing at the feet of the excited, jumping toad.

Yu Shijiu: "..."

This silenced even the players watching the live stream outside the instance.

Yu Shijiu's luck... doesn't seem so good this time?

No, Yu Shijiu's luck has never been that good. He just manages to escape danger violently every time. But this time, can he escape again?

Lu Chusheng's heart jumped into his throat.

He stared intently at Yu Shijiu on the screen, watching the gleeful toad pick up the water-soaked grass leaf bag from the flower stamen and happily run towards Yu Shijiu, shouting repeatedly, "Wife!"