SIATOWITF Chapter 10
by VolareChapter 10: The President Wouldn’t Want to be Seen Like This, Would He? The Snake is So…
Sunday evening, Ji Mo An took the black stone back to 1601.
The house was quiet, with only the little camera emitting a faint red light in the darkness.
Without even looking, Ji Mo An knew that Xuan Bai couldn’t possibly be staying obediently in the terrarium.
Bad snake.
He casually hung his coat on the hook by the door and marked a few crosses on the calendar with a pen.
He hadn’t had that strange dream for the past two days at home… but calculating the frequency, he should have it these next two days.
Indeed, human adaptability is powerful. Ji Mo An chuckled self-deprecatingly. He never thought he’d be so free as to calculate when he’d have a nightmare.
*Crack*… A faint sound of friction came from overhead.
Ji Mo An looked up and saw a small black head peeking out from the edge of the white lampshade.
“…”
“Get down here.”
“I thought you weren’t coming back today.” The black snake straightened its body, hooked onto the display case, and skillfully slid down the glass seam. It was clearly a repeat offender.
“Even if I don’t come back, you’re not allowed to climb on the lampshade.”
“Huggies.” The little snake tried to curry favor by hooking its tail tip around Ji Mo An’s leg.
Unfortunately, the charm offensive failed, and it was ruthlessly locked back in the terrarium.
Ji Mo An put the black stone on the display shelf and turned around to see the black-haired man sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed.
He shuddered at the sight of those golden eyes, and a strange feeling surged in his heart, only to quickly disappear.
“Go to sleep. Don’t climb on the lampshade at night either.”
So strange… Ji Mo An rubbed his hair, walked into the bedroom, and locked the door in one smooth motion.
“Hiss~” Xuan Bai tilted his head, and only after hearing the crisp click of the lock did he move.
He transformed back into a slender little snake and slid off the sofa into the darkness.
He wouldn’t climb the lampshade, but surely crawling through the crack under the door was allowed.
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At 7:10 AM, the alarm clock rang on time.
Ji Mo An thoughtfully allotted himself twenty minutes to recover from the nightmare.
Although the phantom pain delayed him a bit, fortunately, everything else went smoothly.
But it wasn’t until Ji Mo An walked through the company doors that he remembered something.
“…” He seemed to have forgotten to check on Xuan Bai.
For some reason, when he uttered that name in his heart, his whole body suddenly shuddered uncontrollably.
But Ji Mo An couldn’t be bothered to care about that. He quickly pulled up the surveillance footage to find that troublesome snake.
Unfortunately, the small black figure wasn’t anywhere to be seen on the monitor screen.
“Hiss~” Ji Mo An suddenly heard a familiar hissing sound.
He manipulated the camera to rotate 360 degrees. If the sound could be picked up, the snake should be nearby.
Was it playing hide-and-seek with him?
Unfortunately, the surroundings were still empty, leading Ji Mo An to suspect that the little snake might be coiled on top of the camera.
“Hiss~”
“…” Ji Mo An fell silent. No, that’s not right. The sound didn’t seem to be coming from the surveillance footage, but rather…
“Are we there yet?” A small black head emerged from his collar, nuzzling his neck affectionately.
“…” No wonder his clothes felt so heavy this morning…
Ji Mo An turned his head stiffly and stared wide-eyed at a pair of round, golden eyes.
“Hiss~” The little snake suddenly extended its red tongue and licked his chin.
“…”
In that instant, Ji Mo An felt as if a rope was tightening around his neck, and a needle-like sting appeared where the snake’s cold, slimy tongue had touched.
He was very familiar with this feeling, like the phantom pain he experienced countless mornings when he opened his eyes after a nightmare, before his brain could react.
He had to get rid of it…
The snake’s presence made him feel suffocated, as if its cold body might tighten at any moment and then…
Strangulation.
Ji Mo An was stunned.
The word naturally surfaced from the depths of his heart, filling him with inexplicable panic.
“Get down.” He tried to keep his voice low so as not to attract the attention of those around him.
“Hiss~” The little snake tilted its head, then suddenly raised its neck, burrowed into his black hair, and climbed onto Ji Mo An’s head.
Snake successfully occupies the high ground!
I told you to get down, not to get up there… More and more employees were passing by, and greetings rang out one after another.
That bad snake was doing it on purpose… Ji Mo An could clearly feel that every time an employee greeted him, the snake’s tail would tap on his neck.
Fortunately, the snake was small and black, and hidden in his hair, it hadn’t been discovered yet…
“President Ji, good morning… Ah…” The Secretary who happened to be passing by looked up at her boss’s head in astonishment.
“…” As expected of his secretary… Her eyes were sharp.
Ji Mo An began to think about how to explain this to his subordinates.
Well, he could just walk away without explaining, but going to work with a snake on his head would be too weird!
As the explanation reached his lips, Ji Mo An suddenly saw the transparent box in the Secretary’s hand.
It was a bit like the lunchbox he had used to lock up Xuan Bai on the first day they met… He had an idea.
If the Secretary was smart and capable, she would definitely understand what he meant.
Ji Mo An winked at the Secretary.
[Quickly ask why there’s a snake on my head, ask if I need you to put the snake in the terrarium! That way, he can take the snake down naturally.]
“Um…” Under Ji Mo An’s expectant gaze, the Secretary forced a stiff smile.
“President Ji, your pet is getting more and more beautiful.”
The Secretary had been frightened by the bad snake hidden in the water cup a few days ago, and the memory was still fresh in her mind.
“…Thank you.” Ji Mo An said dryly. He took back his earlier statement. His Secretary had absolutely no chemistry with him.
“It’s called Bai Erhua.” Ji Mo An retaliated by trying to smear Xuan Bai.
“A very unique name.” The Secretary was so embarrassed that her toes were curling.
I’m just a working stiff… Why is the boss that refreshed at the company today wearing a snake and winking at her…
It’s too OOC!
“Yo, President Ji, Emily, good morning.” The energetic Special Assistant Bai quickly ran out of the crowd to hitch a ride on the executive elevator.
“Brother Bai.” Emily breathed a sigh of relief. Her savior had arrived.
“President Ji, you…” Special Assistant Bai looked at Ji Mo An, who was trying to hint to his subordinates again, and suddenly understood.
It had to be Special Assistant Bai. He understood him.
Ji Mo An and Special Assistant Bai exchanged a knowing smile. Then, Special Assistant Bai opened his bag, rummaged around, and finally took out two white bags.
“President Ji, eye patches imported from abroad. They’re super useful.”
“…” Ji Mo An coldly snatched the eye patches and then rejected Special Assistant Bai’s request to ride the executive elevator.
Special Assistants who lacked chemistry were forbidden from riding his elevator. Ji Mo An silently looked at the surveillance camera flashing red on the ceiling and felt some regret.
Why did he choose a super-clear surveillance camera that could record sound…
Xuan Bai had already climbed down from his head and back onto his neck. The slightly raised scales rubbed against his skin, causing a strange itching sensation.
Clearly, Emily and Special Assistant Bai hadn’t understood the hints, but Xuan Bai had clearly read them.
The snake was very unhappy, but there were surveillance cameras in the elevator.
The good news was that Ji Mo An didn’t dare to speak or move. The bad news was…
There was no bad news. Xuan Bai wickedly controlled the curvature of his abdominal muscles, feeling the other party’s body gradually tense up.
The fragile and sensitive neck. With just a small bite, and then inserting his fangs into the skin and injecting a little venom.
The little snake extended its scarlet tongue, touching a small mole on the side of the human’s neck.
Human life was so fragile.
Ji Mo An shuddered as Xuan Bai licked him, and almost fled from the elevator straight to his office.
There were no surveillance cameras there, and it was private enough.
*Click*…
The black snake’s tail was one step ahead of him, wrapping around the door lock and neatly locking it.
“Xuan Bai.” Ji Mo An hadn’t even begun to rejoice that he had finally shaken the snake off his neck when he was grabbed by the wrist by the scales and slammed against the bookshelf.
“President Ji still remembers that I’m called Xuan Bai…” The black snake, who had transformed into a half-humanoid form, tilted his head and looked down at him. In those golden vertical pupils were embedded a few black scales, and a touch of red traced up along the corner of his eyes.
The strong sense of the inhuman had already overshadowed the impact of his appearance, becoming a breeding ground for fear.
It was over. Ji Mo An tried to pull his wrist away, but the scales were slightly open, seemingly about to dig into his flesh.
“Want to let humans catch me?” Xuan Bai opened his mouth slightly, and two sharp fangs rested against his lips.
“No, you misunderstood. I’m just not used to it…” Ji Mo An forced himself to calm down and deal with the unpredictable black snake.
“Afraid of me?” The other party moved even closer, and he could even see the patterns in those snake pupils constantly contracting.
“…” Ji Mo An turned his head away, using the hand that wasn’t restrained to shield his eyes.
“Don’t move…”
A wisp of red ribbon floated past his eyes, and Ji Mo An widened his eyes in shock.
“Hiss…” Xuan Bai felt the struggling of the person under his control, and he subconsciously used the method belonging to snakes to try to subdue the other party.
The impact of a nearly six-foot-tall inhuman creature hissing was qualitatively different from the hissing of a chopstick-thick little snake.
Ji Mo An froze on the spot, able to only watch as the snake’s tongue stretched out and licked under his eyes.
It’s licking my eye, how perverted.
As the cold, slick tongue ground against his skin, Ji Mo An’s mind went blank.
“The president wouldn’t want to be seen like this, would he?” Xuan Bai blinked, his scales receding, and his golden vertical pupils turning back into harmless amber-colored round pupils.
“Don’t try to let other humans know about me, and don’t expose my identity.” He was good at using his beauty, even putting on a pitiful expression and clinging to Ji Mo An’s chest.
“Otherwise, if I get scared, I might accidentally eat you~”
“Don’t stick to me…” Ji Mo An felt his legs getting a little weak. If it weren’t for the bookshelf behind him, he might have fallen to the ground.
He was very flustered and wanted to find a place to calm down.
“No, item eleven of the contract states that Party B needs to report to Party A when acting alone. This is the contract you wrote.” Xuan Bai stubbornly blocked him from leaving, and kept talking into his ear.
“Snakes don’t report to people, so they can’t act alone. But not only did the human want to get rid of the snake, but they also wanted to throw the snake into a small glass to imprison it. The snake is good, the human is bad.”
Xuan Bai said his conclusion with satisfaction, then covered his eyes and knelt on the ground.
“Human, hit snake. Human! Bad!”
“I…” Ji Mo An clutched the familiar red book and looked at the man who was banging his head on the ground.
Xuan Bai was too punchable, and the bookshelf was so close, so he subconsciously gave the unscientific creature a materialistic greeting.
He wouldn’t have smashed it blind, would he… He was a little scared.