Curtis said sluggishly, "Dead. King ate her up."
Bai Qingqing drew in a sharp gasp of cold air, her pitch going up. "Ate her up?"
Curtis looked at her with a gaze as if telling her to not make a big deal out of his. "It's very normal for males to want to eat up their mates when they love their mates a lot."
Bai Qingqing was first only astonished, but after hearing Curtis's words, she was horrified.
She then looked toward him. With him saying that, did that mean that he also… had a desire to eat her?
"I won't eat you," Curtis said. "I like you as you are. There's no need for me to make up for things with my desire to eat."
Gulp.
Bai Qingqing swallowed a mouthful of saliva, then quickly changed the topic. "Erm, why are the plants in the water all gone? Did you tug them all out?"