Chapter 1145 — Feng Xiaoxiao's Misunderstanding
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"N-nothing..." Deep down, Feng Xiaoxiao was actually struggling with herself.
She kept asking herself: did she really like Wei Zhao? Was she with him because she wanted revenge, or had she truly fallen in love with him?
Originally, Feng Xiaoxiao had not been tangled up in so many doubts. To her mind, whether she was scheming against Wei Zhao or loving him made no difference — once she slept with him, he would care about her all the more, and when she died, he would grieve all the deeper!
But now, with the moment upon her, Feng Xiaoxiao could not help but hesitate. For every girl, after all, the first time is precious, and Feng Xiaoxiao's earlier notions had been notions alone; actually going through with it was another matter entirely.
"Heh... what, you think I'm going to eat you alive?" Seeing the awkwardness in the air, Wei Zhao cracked a joke.
But the speaker meant nothing by it while the listener took it to heart. Wei Zhao's remark was an ordinary joke with no double meaning whatsoever, yet once it reached Feng Xiaoxiao's ears it was loaded with innuendo.
Generally speaking, "I'll eat you up" is nothing much in itself, but its extended meaning is rather suggestive.
If one insists on parsing its precise interpretations, they can be divided into three kinds.
The first tends to occur between lovers: the man looks at the woman's ravishing, luscious appearance and wants to push her down onto the bed, but cannot say so outright, and so he tells her obliquely, I want to eat you up.
Or else the woman, stirred to the depths of her passion, wants to give herself to her boyfriend but is too shy to say so plainly, and so she says, eat me up.
"I... I..." Feng Xiaoxiao did not know what to say.
Seeing her expression, Wei Zhao was briefly taken aback, and only then did he realize that his words had probably been misunderstood. But heaven and earth be his witness, that had truly not been what he meant! Wei Zhao had only been making an offhand joke, meaning, I am no great tiger, so what are you afraid I will eat you for?
But evidently Feng Xiaoxiao had taken it the wrong way, and now that he wanted to explain, he could not make it clear at all. He could only give an embarrassed smile: "I was only joking. Come on, the sea breeze is strong out here, let's go back into the tent."