Free Web NovelChapter 176: Chapter 174
Lu Tingyan’s voice was faint as he offered a weak smile. "Silly girl, I’m fine. Just a little tired."
Bai Su’s heart ached for him all the more.
Lu Tingyan had always been a figure of omnipotence in her eyes—a master strategist, powerful and composed. When had he ever seemed so weak?
She cursed those old men for their incompetence under her breath as she wiped his neck and palms with alcohol to bring his temperature down.
Lu Tingyan said, "Susu, just hold me. If you hold me, it won’t hurt anymore."
Just as Bai Su leaned in to kiss his forehead, a firm grip seized her waist. The world spun, and in an instant, she was pinned to the bed.
She blinked in confusion, staring up at Lu Tingyan. His expression was grim—a complete transformation from the man he’d been moments ago. "?"
Lu Tingyan ground his teeth as he stared at her. "Susu, did you have fun at Yan Qingya’s bar?"
Bai Su met his ink-black gaze and belatedly realized the situation. ’This is bad,’ she thought. "It’s not..."
Lu Tingyan’s thumb brushed against her lips. "Let me think... It must be because I haven’t been satisfying my Susu. Is that why you went to order some boy toys, hmm?"
"Are they good-looking?"
"What kind of Beastmen are they?"
"Are they better than me?"
"Susu..."
Bai Su instinctively sensed danger, and her rabbit ears shot up, bristling with alarm.
She had never seen Lu Tingyan like this. He didn’t look overtly angry, yet he emanated an inexplicable and extreme sense of danger.
So this was how sharp and cutting his gaze could be.
For a moment, Bai Su felt as if she were transported back to their first meeting at the orphanage on the mountain peak.
Driven by pure survival instinct, Bai Su quickly threw her arms around his neck. "It’s not what you think! I can explain! I ordered those guys for Bi Yue! I didn’t touch them!"
"Mm-hm." Lu Tingyan simply listened, the Beastification markings on his body showing no sign of receding.
Bai Su’s heart hammered in her chest. "Lu... Lu Tingyan, the curtains... they aren’t drawn."
Lu Tingyan pushed her flailing hands back down. "Not a problem."
Bai Su: "!!" ’Someone will see!’
Lu Tingyan read the expression on her face, a dark glint passing through his eyes. "Is Susu afraid of being seen now? You seemed perfectly fine with a man on each arm back at the bar."
Bai Su was truly on the verge of tears. "It wasn’t like that! I didn’t have a man on each arm!"
Lu Tingyan asked, "You didn’t?"
Bai Su nodded frantically. "I really didn’t!"
Lu Tingyan’s body temperature kept rising, and the beastly markings spread further across his skin.
His body was growing larger...
Realization dawned, and Bai Su’s pupils contracted in terror. "Lu Tingyan... D-don’t do this... I’m scared..."
Golden beastly markings now covered Lu Tingyan’s face, giving him an air of primal wildness and savagery.
Bai Su couldn’t help but recall the time she’d visited him at military headquarters and watched him single-handedly win a tug-of-war against fifteen men.
The higher the Level, the more pronounced the disparity in power between tiers.
A Level 9 Beastman was significantly stronger than a Level 8 Beastman, not just in physical strength but in every other aspect as well.
’If he uses that strength on me, will I even survive?’
Without a second thought, Bai Su flipped over and scrambled toward the foot of the bed.
Lu Tingyan scoffed. His large hand shot out, accurately closing around her slender ankle. With a single tug, he pulled her back into his arms. "Running away? Did you think I was going to eat you?"
Bai Su cursed under her breath, staring at his frame, which had now grown to nearly two meters. "I really know I was wrong!"
Lu Tingyan extended a wolf-like claw, pinning her delicate hands above her head with one paw. "No, you don’t."
Bai Su burst into frightened tears. "Lu Tingyan, please don’t be like this! I’m scared... You know... I... I..."
"Yelias said Dutch Rabbits are very fragile! I can’t handle you like this..."
"I’ll die."
"I’ll get hurt, I’ll bleed, I’ll... I’ll pass out!"
Lu Tingyan flipped her over, slid a pillow under her stomach, and propped up her lower half.
Bai Su felt a scorching presence envelop her from behind and began to struggle violently, flailing her limbs in terror. "No, no!"
"Lu Tingyan, I was wrong!"
"SOB SOB SOB... I’m scared, don’t use this position!" ’Not being able to see anything makes it even more terrifying!’
Bai Su instinctively tried to trigger her Beastification to shrink her body.
The majestic Snow Wolf behind her simply opened its jaws and gently bit the nape of her neck, immobilizing her.
Bai Su felt her spiritual power get cut off, and her Beastification was forcibly halted.
AHHHHHH!
’Why did Lu Tingyan learn this trick too?’
’Damn you, Yelias!’
Bai Su cried, "Don’t, don’t—ah!"
The little rabbit arched her back uncontrollably, her entire body pulled taut to the breaking point.
After three hours of relentless torment, Bai Su was utterly subdued.
Soaking in a bathtub filled to the brim with Recovery Agent.
Bai Su had only one thought on her mind.
’To have survived that... I truly must be some kind of goddess who has reclaimed her protagonist-level luck.’
*
It was two days later when Bai Su returned to reopen the restaurant.
Bai Su took a deep breath and started her livestream.
As fans trickled into the stream, a flood of comments began to pour in.
[Grandma, your favorite streamer is finally back!]
[Thank the heavens, thank the earth, and thank Teacher Bai for remembering her password.]
[Has anyone else noticed that every time the owner takes a break from streaming, she comes back looking much healthier?]
[I have a bold theory.]
[My thoughts are getting dirty, I’ll see myself out.]
Bai Su couldn’t help but blush as she read their suggestive comments.
’Is it that obvious?’
Amidst the sea of increasingly lewd comments, a single, serious question floated by, immediately catching Bai Su’s eye.
[How do you make spicy crayfish?]
The user ID was displayed as Wen Xiaobao.
On this platform, the IDs of minors were green and displayed their real names.
Bai Su wasn’t sure if this was the Little Treasure she was thinking of.
She looked into the camera tentatively. "Little Treasure?"
「Across the street, in the general store.」
Wen Lan threw his smart device aside, cursing under his breath.
’What kind of bullshit platform displays a minor’s real name on their comments?’
With a sour expression, he glared at the confused-looking woman on the screen, deciding to blame her, too.
’If this woman hadn’t blocked his main account, would he be reduced to using Wen Xiaobao’s device?’
He remembered seeing Li Chenlin in her stream the other day. All he did was type out one curse, and the woman had the audacity to block him!
’Doesn’t everyone know that he and Li Chenlin are mortal enemies who can’t live under the same sky?’
Wen Lan gritted his teeth, about to close the stream, when he heard the woman say, "Little Treasure, shouldn’t you be in class right now? Are you secretly watching a stream during school? Or did you not go to school today?"
"If you don’t answer, Auntie is going to come over and get you, you know."
Wen Lan shot bolt upright, his body instantly tense.
He watched as the woman on screen actually took off her gloves, looking as if she were about to head out.
He had no choice but to bite the bullet and send a message on the smart device: [I’m not playing on this secretly. I... I’m home on sick leave today.]
Hearing this, Bai Su grew even more concerned. "Home from school? What’s wrong? Are you not feeling well? Do you want Auntie to come check on you? Is anyone home to take care of you?"
"Your dad shouldn’t be home at this hour, right?"
Wen Lan, a grown man, paced anxiously in front of the screen.
He typed and deleted, over and over.
’If that damn woman Bai Su found out he’d swiped his daughter’s device to watch her stream, she’d pepper him with questions and think he was some kind of pervert.’
’And if she also found out that she’d already blocked his main account, wouldn’t she be unbearably smug?’
While the fans in the chat were still utterly confused, Bai Su had already ended the stream and taken off her apron.
She casually grabbed a container of porridge from a table, walked out, and knocked on the door of the general store across the street.
"Little Treasure? Little Treasure, are you home?"
