Smart and pretty, innocent and kind, like a little sun.
That was how the people around Xu Yihe described her.
Only Gu Yingbai saw through her.
Beneath the girl's gorgeous exterior, her soul had long since rotted and filled with maggots.
But when her malice was directed only at him, wasn't that a kind of special affection...?
“Do you know how to make a dog belong to you alone?”
“Um... how?”
“First, put it in a desperate situation. When it's helpless and hopeless, lend it a hand. A slap, then a treat. Like this...”
The girl slapped Gu Yingbai across the face with a sharp crack.
“Make it so it can only survive by depending on its owner. Then it has to watch its owner's likes and dislikes every moment, guess what the owner is thinking, and spend every day worrying that it'll be abandoned again.”
“Only its owner can make it submit, and its owner is the only reason it has to live.”
Gu Yingbai rolled over and pinned her beneath him, his soft hair brushing against her.
“You've given me the slap. Now it's time for the treat.”
“That’s why you have to learn to read your owner's mind. You haven't learned a thing.”
Xu Yihe kicked him off and looked down at him, issuing an order.
“Start by barking for me.”
Gu Yingbai wrapped his fingers around the girl's ankle and gazed up at her with clear, untainted black eyes. He barked without the slightest hesitation.
“Woof.”
Before the girl could gloat, the force at her ankle pulled her down into a warm embrace.
“If I'm a dog who belongs only to my owner, then it's only fair that my owner belongs only to her dog.”
Warm breath brushed her skin.
“Wouldn't you agree, Ahe?”
