Fang Jing felt deeply distressed, mourning both his own lack of refined mastery, which had caused him to mistakenly use the soul-bond contract instead of a regular pet contract, and the fact that now, having arrived in the interstellar era, he had to adapt to local customs.
In other words, his husband, or rather, his partner, not only had to date girlfriends, but would also have to marry other wives in the future.
His master had said that a man having multiple wives and concubines was entirely normal, but at the same time, such men were also the most unlovable.
For sword cultivators, there were two things that could never be shared with others.
First, their wife, their natal sword.
Second, their cultivation partner!
Fang Jing heard Lu Hao’s voice, but deliberately chose to ignore it. Outside the window, the night was pitch-black. Although Lu Hao clearly wasn’t as handsome as his master, he was utterly stubborn and stubbornly refused to pay Lu Hao any mind.
It was too much!
To think he used to like him so much.
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In the end, all men were cut from the same cloth; his wholehearted sincerity had ultimately been misplaced.
Falling in love, going on dates, accompanying each other for life, everything a girlfriend or a wife could do, he could do as well.
Why did his poop-scooping officer still have his sights set on others?
Fang Jing was so furious that his face, already round and puffy from all its fur, puffed out another two fractions, and his moist, black button nose was nearly obscured by his fur.
“Yuanyuan, chirp for me, okay?”
Exercising endless patience, Lu Hao used his index finger and thumb to gently tug at Fang Jing’s front paw.
This was a cautious, conciliatory gesture.
Fang Jing, who used to chirp so cheerfully, was now showing a hundred times reluctance.
Chirp for what?
He wasn’t a dog!
Fang Jing grew angry all over again, turning halfway around and presenting his plump little backside to Lu Hao. The gesture of refusing to communicate was unmistakably clear.
Well, well, this little creature had quite a temper.
Lu Hao wanted to laugh but didn’t dare.
At the same time, he felt absurdly wronged. Clearly, he hadn’t said anything, nor had he made any redundant moves, it was all talk from Lin Shen and the rest of them, yet this blame was pinned squarely on him, and on top of that, he was the one who had to lower himself and coax the creature.
This feeling really did feel a bit like coaxing a girlfriend who was throwing an inexplicable fit.
Realizing what he had just thought, Lu Hao froze abruptly, belatedly discovering that he must have gone out of his mind!
To actually be thinking of such a bizarre thing.
“Yuanyuan, are you angry? Is there a reason why? Can you tell me?” Lu Hao shifted his posture, looking at Fang Jing with an unchanging expression. His slender phoenix eyes still carried the gentleness that Fang Jing was most familiar with and loved the most. This guy still possessed that lethal, heart-stealing charm.
Hmph, trying to use a beauty trap on him?
As expected, some men relied on having a bit of good looks to go around flirting and fooling around.
Fang Jing turned away again, suddenly remembering something that made him feel extraordinarily aggrieved. Enraged to the point of breaking his taboo, he blurted out in human speech: “I don’t like you anymore! Give me back the bracelet I gave you. I’m not giving it to you anymore.”
Every video online said that couples split their assets after a divorce, so since he wouldn’t take a single thing of Lu Hao’s, he was taking back his bracelet.
Hmph, his belongings wouldn’t be given to a scumbag, not even if he gave them to a dog.
Things had already escalated to the point of a divorce, so at a time like this, who still cared what rationality was?
Besides, he was ready to dump his poop-scooping officer anyway, so there was nothing left to be reluctant about. If he really became a target, at worst he would just run away, what was the big deal?
If he hadn’t spoken up right then and just kept chirping, holding back and chirping at the officer a few more times would have suffocated him.
As he spoke, Fang Jing still didn’t turn around to look at Lu Hao, naturally missing how the person behind him had turned completely paralyzed like a block of wood from the shock of his voice.
Lu Hao knew his contracted beast was smart, and had even guessed that his Yuanyuan likely possessed secrets he didn’t know or couldn’t fathom. But he had never, in his wildest dreams, imagined that his Yuanyuan could actually speak human words!
Goodness knows how impossible it was to describe Lu Hao’s state of mind at that moment using mere shock.
As for fear, there was absolutely none of that.
Lu Hao didn’t feel afraid, nor did he feel that a pet beast capable of speaking human language was a terrifying creature.
He had heard that the mermaids in his Second Brother’s research institute could speak.
What did this indicate? It indicated that in this interstellar era, humans weren’t the only ones who could speak human words.
Therefore, Lu Hao felt no fear, but he still found it utterly unbelievable, leaving him dumbfounded and unable to give Fang Jing a response for a long time.
After waiting for quite a while without hearing Lu Hao speak, Fang Jing grew displeased all over again. Was he unwilling to return the bracelet, or what?
With no other choice, Fang Jing turned back around on his own accord, glaring angrily at Lu Hao and extending a tiny paw to demand it back: “Where is my bracelet? Give my bracelet back to me.”
“You want the bracelet?” Lu Hao, who had finally snapped out of his shock, forcefully suppressed the surging wave of excitement in his chest and forced himself to remain calm so as not to scare his Yuanyuan. Consequently, he completely glossed over Fang Jing’s earlier outburst and only registered the demand for the bracelet.
Lu Hao didn’t overthink it, nor did he feel there was anything wrong with Fang Jing taking back a gift he had given away.
This bracelet wasn’t an ordinary item that could be measured with money.
Due to the overwhelming surprise, Lu Hao had to take a deep breath, exhale the stale air, and wait until his racing heartbeat slowed down somewhat before retrieving the bracelet and placing it on Fang Jing’s paw. “Yuanyuan, here. Your bracelet.”
It was Fang Jing who had wanted to take the bracelet back, yet the one who ended up even angrier after getting it back was him.
Fang Jing couldn’t figure out what was wrong with himself either. There was an uncomfortable, agonizing ache in his heart, his eyes felt sour, and his nose felt sour, every single part of him felt wrong.
The moment the bracelet landed in his paw, Fang Jing suddenly remembered that clearly, the poop-scooping officer had liked this bracelet so much, yet right now, he had handed it back without a second thought.
With an action as thoughtless as that, could he interpret it as the officer no longer treasuring or caring about anything he gave him?
Because he didn’t care anymore, he could return it without the slightest hesitation!
Was there any good thing missing from Fang Jing’s spatial storage? Was he really fussing over a mere bracelet?
What he actually wanted was simply an attitude of apology and capitulation from his poop-scooping officer, or for him to just coax him a little. He didn’t want much, just for the officer to sweet-talk him a couple of times.
Yet none of that happened, the officer had handed it right back immediately.
Fang Jing was hit by a sudden wave of grievance and hurled the bracelet away. “I don’t want it anymore!”
“Yuanyuan.” Lu Hao raised his voice a fraction, though he wasn’t angry that Fang Jing had thrown the bracelet away, but rather worried about the child’s abnormal state of mind.
However, Lu Hao had always been excessively gentle with Fang Jing, always speaking in soft, murmuring tones. This time, even though he had only slightly increased his volume, it sounded entirely different to Fang Jing’s ears.
It felt as though Lu Hao were angry, questioning him, accusing and blaming him with an angry tone for acting this way.
“I’m not talking to you anymore!” Fang Jing had a temper of his own, using the crispest voice to utter what he thought was the most ruthless line, yet the grievance mixed within it was glaringly obvious.
Lu Hao thought to himself, it turns out that when a person is pushed to a state of absolute speechlessness, they really do laugh out loud.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Hao knelt on one knee beside him, adopting an extremely low posture. In his view, since Yuanyuan could speak and possessed an intelligence no lower than a human’s, he ought to treat him on equal footing and have a proper conversation rather than treating him like other people treated disobedient contracted beasts, cold-shouldering them for a while or starving them for a few meals until they learned to behave.
If he dared to treat Yuanyuan like that, given the little fellow’s fiery disposition, he might literally anger himself to death.
“Yuanyuan, can we have a proper talk? I really can’t guess why you’re angry. I’m actually not that smart, and I can’t guess everything. Can you tell me?”
Fang Jing thought to himself, hmph!
This little fellow had quite the temper.
For some reason, hearing that haughty hmph made Lu Hao deeply want to laugh.
His Yuanyuan had such a wonderfully pleasant voice, it was enough to melt a person’s heart.
“Clever Yuanyuan, just tell me, alright?”
“You’re a scumbag.” Seeing how sincere the poop-scooping officer was being, Fang Jing decided to grant him a shred of face.
Lu Hao, who had inexplicably been slapped with the label of a scumbag, asked, “How am I a scumbag?”
“You already have me, yet you still want to date other people.” If this wasn’t scumbag behavior, what was?