The exquisitely picturesque youth still maintained the posture of being startled by the sound of the door being kicked open just a moment ago. With his wide, beautiful eyes opened wide, he watched as the man walked toward him with an unfathomable expression, standing in place while cradling his overly long hair, his eyes shining brightly.
Huo Jiuxiao was back, so he could have the man cut his hair for him.
Ruan Bai looked at him expectantly, resembling a little rabbit that failed to sense any danger as it curiously watched the handsome hunter, attempting to win the hunter’s kind assistance.
The man walked closer and closer, bringing with him an overwhelming sense of oppression.
Ruan Bai frowned prettily, unclear as to where his instinctive, deep-seated urge to flee and escape originated.
“Huo Jiuxiao…”
Before he could finish his sentence, he was scooped up by the waist by the man who had walked right up to him. The youth, who had been holding his hair, wore a blank expression for a split second.
Why did Huo Jiuxiao suddenly hug him?
He looked up, gazing with innocent incomprehension at the gradually darkening emotions deep within the man’s eyes. An animal’s intuition told him that the man right now was very dangerous and that he needed to run away quickly.
His intuition had always been accurate, with an extremely low probability of error.
Although he didn’t yet know what kind of threat Huo Jiuxiao might pose to him, the important thing right now was to leave first and figure it out later.
No sooner said than done.
Huo Jiuxiao laid him down on the bed. The very instant his hips touched the mattress, Ruan Bai swiftly flipped over and scrambled toward the other side of the bed.
Before he could reach the middle of the bed, his delicate and beautiful ankle was caught by a warm, dry, large palm, which effortlessly dragged him right back.
Ruan Bai: !!!
Why is this bed so huge?!
The youth never imagined that back then, Marshal Huo’s bed had originally been just an ordinary single bed; it was only because he liked rolling around on it randomly and getting angry when he fell off that Marshal Huo had replaced the bed with one this large.
Huo Jiuxiao held the youth’s ankle, his gaze gloomy: “What are you running for?”
Feeling the delicate and smooth texture within his palm, his fingers couldn’t help but lightly massage the youth’s ankle.
Ruan Bai shrank back unconsciously as he watched the man’s pupils grow increasingly deep and dark. Dropping the silver-haired locks he had been clutching to his chest, he lowered his head to pry open the large hand imprisoning his ankle, putting on a fierce front while saying, “Let go, release me right now!”
Alas, the man’s large palm felt as though it had been firmly welded onto his ankle; he simply couldn’t pry it loose.
He, a great demon who had lived for so long, couldn’t even pry open a human’s hand?!
If word got out, where would he put his pride?!!
Ruan Bai exerted all the strength he had left from nursing babies to pry away the man’s hand.
His fair, glowing cheeks puffed out slightly, and due to the excessive force, a thin layer of flush bloomed across his pretty little face, making him look exceptionally alluring.
The man’s expression grew increasingly obscure and difficult to read, his fiery gaze sweeping over the youth’s face. The tender red cheeks made one itch to take a bite and see what kind of earthly delicacy they tasted like.
The man’s Adam’s apple bobbed up and down, his expression dangerous.
Ruan Bai had no idea what kind of thoughts were hidden within the man’s mind; his whole focus was on how to pry open the large palm imprisoning him.
Under his unremitting efforts, the large palm gripping his ankle finally loosened.
Before he could even celebrate, the man’s large hand shifted to a new position, firmly clamping onto the small of his back.
Ruan Bai disliked the feeling of being tightly restricted like this. No matter how much he struggled with all his might, he couldn’t break free, and the back of his neck was pinned down by the man’s other hand.
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This human plays dirty, how can he pinch a cat’s scruff?
He was very angry, glaring at the man with a self-perceived fierceness: “Let me go!!”
Little did he know that this appearance of his looked to the man like a cornered young beast putting on a bold front in an attempt to scare off a powerful predator.
“So angry, huh?” The man reined in the dark emotions deep within his eyes, trying his best to look harmless.
He leaned over and gently pressed a kiss onto the youth’s cheek devout and affectionate, like a blasphemous believer, both fanatical and observant of boundaries.
Ruan Bai: !!!
He shoved away the somewhat neurotic man in front of him, his cat-like eyes widened round: “Are you out of your mind?!”
The youth’s face grew even redder, as if it were still radiating heat, and even his eyes were misted with moisture, clearly angered to the extreme.
Can a cat’s face just be kissed casually?
Doesn’t he have any dignity?!
Huo Jiuxiao with great difficulty reined in the wild beast within his heart, stepping back by one step. His eyelids drooped, and his slender eyelashes trembled incessantly, concealing the surging dark tides beneath the man’s eyes.
“I’m sorry, I just got too excited. Please don’t be mad.”
The tall man lowered his head, with stray locks of hair falling naturally to obscure his brow and eyes, making him look like a large dog at a loss for how to handle a master who was angry with him.
Looking pitiful.
The pretty youth, who had been brimming with fury just moments before, looked at the man’s “remorseful” appearance and spoke in a dry tone: “Then you’re not allowed to do that again.”
The man’s deep voice carried obvious disappointment: “Does Xiao Bai hate me?” He looked extremely heartbroken, radiating a gloomy aura around him as if he were too distressed to even speak.
“I… got it.”
Seeing him like this, Ruan Bai was completely dumbfounded. Was this still the Huo Jiuxiao he knew?
Could it be that he had been possessed by a spirit?!!!
He looked worried, his tone hesitant: “If you’re sick, you need to see a doctor.”
“You think I’m sick?” The man’s tone was ambiguous. “Then is Xiao Bai willing to help cure me?”
“Huh?”
The silver-haired youth sat on the bed in a daze, looking at him uncomprehendingly.
Huo Jiuxiao walked over and sat down beside him, wrapping an arm around his waist, forcing himself to suppress the beast deep within his heart as he resumed his usual demeanor.
“Just teasing you. Why did you suddenly turn into a human?” A clearly audible worry laced his deep voice as he reached out to pinch the youth’s fluffy cat ears: “Will this have any effect on you?”
A person retaining animal features in human form very much resembled a little demon from legends whose magical power was insufficient, forcing them to reveal their original form. Given the information he currently grasped, he didn’t know whether the youth’s current state would cause any adverse effects.
Since the Marshal had returned to normal, Ruan Bai naturally wasn’t afraid of him anymore.
He found a comfortable position in the man’s arms to lie down and shook his head.
“No effect, but it seems I won’t be able to change back for a short while.”
The youth looked troubled, his pretty face scrunched up together like a lovely crystal dumpling.
“Even if you can’t change back, it’s fine. Uncle Zhang went back to the countryside to sweep graves and won’t be back anytime soon; I’ve given the servants in the villa the day off. No one will see.”
The man stroked the youth’s long hair, looking in high spirits.
Ruan Bai wasn’t too keen on being all by himself in the villa. Usually when Huo Jiuxiao went out, Uncle Zhang and the others would keep him company and play with him.
“This is just temporary. Once your ears retract, I’ll call them back, hmm?” The man stroked the youth’s hair intermittently, soothing him: “I’ll stay home and keep you company. Once your ears retract, I won’t care how you want to play.”
Although he didn’t want the youth to go out and be coveted by too many gazes, he also understood that the youth should be a star in the sky and shouldn’t be restrained.
Ruan Bai was instantly placated, the small ears atop his head twitching. The man sitting behind him wore a deep gaze, and before he could manage to do anything, he heard a “rumble~” sound emit from the youth’s stomach.
His eyes crinkled with a smile as he reached out to stroke the youth’s tummy: “I’ll go make you something to eat.”
He helped the youth up, shoved a handful of snacks into his arms, and went off to cook for him.
The very second the bedroom door closed, the smile in Huo Jiuxiao’s eyes vanished instantly. He reached out to press against his violently pounding chest, and an indescribable emotion welled up in his heart.
Xiao Bai might not be wrong; he might really be sick.
He had never believed in love at first sight before, but the moment he laid eyes on the youth, it was as if even his soul had been bewitched.
At that split second, he only wanted to keep the pretty youth captive, raising him in a place known only to himself.
He knew he was sick possessive, paranoid in nature yet he never imagined he would one day meet someone who made his illness flare up.
He only wanted to place the clean, pretty youth upon a pedestal, and then blaspheme the deity.
Huo Jiuxiao’s gaze was dark and obscure. Thinking of something, he left with his expression returning to normal.
Ruan Bai sat on the bed, still feeling somewhat dazed. Today felt just like a dream.
Didn’t Grandpa Tree Monster say that humans have a very low acceptance rate for demons?
Then why was Huo Jiuxiao so calm?!
Moreover, this human was truly acting very strange today!!
If not for the familiar scent of Huo Jiuxiao’s soul fluctuations, he really would have thought the Marshal had been possessed.
Capricious, acting weird, emotional relapses.
Where did he seem to have heard these words before?
Where was it.
Ruan Bai tore open a package, shoved a small dried fish into his mouth, and chewed slowly while distracted.
Suddenly, as if recalling something, the small dried fish slipped from the corner of his mouth without him even noticing.
Meow!
It’s a psycho!!
He had once met a very strange human who seemed to be searching for something, wandering around the vicinity of Myriad Monster Mountain day after day in a trance.
Later on, he learned that that human’s partner was a demon who had died protecting him.
The man had killed everyone responsible for his partner’s death and then gone mad, wandering around Myriad Monster Mountain day after day in search of his partner.
What made him strange was that sometimes he was gentle and refined, while other times he was gloomy and unfathomable. Occasionally, he would cry while shouting for his lover to take him home.
But that demon was already dead; how could anyone still come out to take him home?
Grandpa Tree Monster had told him to stay away from such volatile madmen, because people like that were mostly psychos who would go crazy.
However, Huo Jiuxiao shouldn’t be like that, right?
He was still quite normal, wasn’t he?
At worst, he would just stay away from him whenever he wasn’t acting normal in the future.
Having figured it out, he happily resumed eating his small dried fish.
Ruan Bai’s little cat ears still wouldn’t retract, but he didn’t mind too much. What he did mind was that Huo Jiuxiao had been out for a whole day and still hadn’t returned.
For no reason, he felt a wave of panic, sitting and standing restlessly at home.
The pretty silver-haired youth paced back and forth in the living room, simply unable to sit still.
He decided to go take a look at Marshal Huo’s military camp so that he could set his mind at ease.
No sooner thought than done; the pretty youth put on a hat to conceal his two perked-up cat ears and flashed forward at lightning speed in the direction of the military camp.
Although his spiritual power was currently insufficient, he was still a demon after all, so his speed was naturally very fast.
The guards at the villa only felt a streak of white residual light flash past the horizon, disappearing in a split second.
Following his previous route, Ruan Bai arrived at the military camp, only to find that the usually well-organized military camp seemed to be in absolute chaos.
Something had clearly gone wrong here.