1 – The Little Rabbit Looks for a Husband
——Fu Corporation
A Rolls-Royce stopped at the entrance. The assistant in the passenger seat quickly got out and opened the rear door.
Long legs clad in expensive suit pants stepped out. The man possessed a strikingly handsome face, as if carved by divine hands, his cold features veiled with frost. He exuded an emperor-like aura as he strode toward the building.
“President Fu is here!”
Seeing the man enter, several receptionists hurriedly bowed in greeting. The man walked straight to the private elevator and ascended.
After he left, the receptionists gathered together.
“President Fu is so handsome! I wonder what kind of woman he’ll end up with!”
“Let me tell you a secret—my boyfriend’s uncle has worked as a servant in the Fu family for many years. They say President Fu already has a fiancée!”
“I heard it’s an arranged marriage made right after he was born, but the other party still hasn’t appeared!”
“No way! What woman would be so ungrateful to reject a fiancé like President Fu!”
“…”
——Fu Corporation President’s Office
The man sat at his desk and ordered, “Bring me the materials for this afternoon’s meeting.”
Hearing this, his assistant Shi Hai couldn’t help but advise, “President Fu, you just returned from M Country and haven’t slept all night. For the sake of your health, you should rest first.”
The man before him was Fu Chenxiu—the 27-year-old president of Fu Corporation, which controlled over half of City A’s economy, and the current head of the Fu family, one of City A’s ancient wealthy clans.
Hearing Shi Hai’s advice, the man’s lowered eyes turned gloomy as he coldly stated, “There’s nothing to consider about my health.”
Shi Hai froze slightly, recalling the rumors his grandfather—who had served as the Fu family’s butler for decades—had told him.
Legend had it that the Fu family carried a curse: every family head would die before turning 28.
But not everyone who managed Fu Corporation could become the family head.
Only those born with seven moles on their chest were qualified to become the Fu family head.
And such a person appeared only once every hundred years.
The outside world probably didn’t know that the enviable position of Fu family head actually meant a short lifespan.
However, it wasn’t entirely hopeless. According to ancestral legends, the chosen head had a destined partner who would appear when they turned 20.
That person possessed the ability to help the family head break the curse.
Yet President Fu was already 27, and his legendary fiancée still hadn’t appeared…
In a mountain forest on the outskirts of City A.
A white shadow leaped out from the bushes. As the light faded, a slender figure of a young girl appeared.
The girl stretched lazily, shaking her head, causing her pink-and-white rabbit ears to sway twice.
After decades of sleep, it was finally time for her husband’s coming-of-age ceremony! She could finally go find her husband!
Just then, a hwamei bird flew onto the girl’s shoulder.
“Xiao Qiu!” This hwamei bird was one she had once saved with her immortal energy, granting it immortality. It had stayed by her side ever since.
“Master, you’re finally awake! You woke up seven years late!”
To outsiders, it sounded like mere birdsong, but she could understand Xiao Qiu’s words.
Learning that she had woken seven years late, the girl’s rabbit ears shot upright in shock.
“!!!”
She had woken seven years late? Her husband’s coming-of-age ceremony had passed seven years ago!?She clearly set her biological clock before going to sleep! It must be the change in environment and climate that messed up her internal timing!
Then her husband only has one year left…
Wait! She almost forgot—this lifetime, she’s about to become a thousand-year cultivated rabbit!
As long as she gives her husband the Elixir she’s cultivated inside her for a thousand years, he can break the Curse and survive!
“Where is my husband now?”
“Master, people nowadays call their partners ‘husband’!” Xiao Qiu puffed out her chubby little chest proudly—she was much more fashionable than her master now.
Hearing this, the girl frowned in confusion. “But he’s not old. Why call him ‘husband’?”
“Anyway, that’s what everyone calls them now!”
“So where’s my husband now?”
Xiao Qiu flew to a nearby leaf, picked one in her beak, and fluttered back to the girl.
The girl took the leaf from Xiao Qiu. Scratched on it in bird-claw-like handwriting were the characters for “Jinyuan.”
Her husband is there right now! She needs to find him!
The girl dashed out of the woods onto the road. Just as she leaped from the bushes, a sports car sped past, startling her into frozen stillness.
Seeing the girl suddenly appear, the sports car screeched to an immediate halt.
Though it braked in time, the front bumper still grazed her, making her tumble to the ground.
“Master, are you okay?”
“What is this thing?”
“Master, this is a car nowadays!”
Just then, the car door opened. A handsome man stepped out and hurried over to the girl.
“Miss, are you alright?”
The girl looked up. “I’m fine.”
When the man saw her face, his heart skipped a beat.
She had a delicate, pale little face with large, glistening eyes like untouched black gemstones. Her flickering gaze held a trace of fright, clearly shaken by what just happened.
Below her small, straight nose, her pink lips parted slightly, revealing adorable bunny teeth—she truly looked like a startled little rabbit.
“Are you really okay?” The man scanned her carefully; he’d distinctly felt the car bump into her.
But aside from some dust on her clothes, she seemed completely unharmed.
“Let me take you to the hospital.”
“I don’t want to go to the hospital.” She still needs to find her husband!
Just then, Xiao Qiu chirped from nearby: “Master, this man has a car! You can ask him to take you to Jinyuan! Otherwise, we’d have to walk really far! You might not even see your husband today.”
She’d never admit she was just too lazy to fly.
Hearing the “chirp chirp” sounds, the man noticed the little bird perched on the girl’s shoulder.
“Can you take me somewhere?”
Meeting the girl’s hopeful gaze, the man agreed. “Alright.”
Once in the car, he asked, “Where do you need to go?”
“I need to go to a place called Jinyuan.”
Hearing the name, the man visibly stiffened.
“What’s wrong?” Noticing his reaction, the girl asked curiously.
“Nothing.” He started the sports car and drove off.
“My name is Ye Jingchuan. What’s yours?”
“I’m Mu Mian.”
“Why are you going there?”
“I’m going to find my husband!” Mu Mian’s eyes sparkled brighter at the thought of seeing him soon.
Hearing this, Ye Jingchuan paused slightly. Husband? She’s already married?But she looked like an eighteen-year-old girl.
Without asking any more questions, he drove all the way to the entrance of Jinyuan.
He stopped the car at the villa’s main gate. This was a well-known affluent villa area in City A, and further inside was a place he didn’t want to set foot in.
“We’re here. You can go in by yourself.”
“Thank you!”
Watching the girl hop and skip toward the gate after getting out of the car, Ye Jingchuan faintly curved his lips.
A trace of regret flashed in his eyes—what a pity, she was already married.
Ye Jingchuan withdrew his gaze and drove away.
He didn’t want to linger here any longer.
Following her husband’s scent, Mu Mian finally found her way and stopped in front of a magnificent villa.
She could sense that her husband wasn’t home right now; only his lingering scent remained here.
Mu Mian sneakily crouched behind a bush in the front yard.
“Master, what are you doing?” Xiao Qiu, also perched on Mu Mian’s shoulder, tilted her head curiously.
“Shh! I’m going to surprise my husband!”
After what felt like a long time, Mu Mian caught a familiar scent drawing closer and closer.
Accompanied by the sound of a car stopping and its door opening, the scent grew stronger.
Knowing her husband had returned, Mu Mian instantly sprang out and rushed eagerly toward the man.
Fu Chenxiu had just stepped out of the car when he saw a girl leap out from a nearby bush like a rabbit and throw herself into his arms.
Fu Chenxiu was knocked back half a step. Lowering his gaze, he saw the girl in his arms looking up at him with bright, watery eyes, while behind her head, a pair of fluffy rabbit ears bounced with her movement before settling obediently behind her ears.
“Husband! I came to find you!”