Chapter Three: Let Go of That Beast!

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In the small courtyard, inner room.
Youdu was feeding a piece of meat and some vegetables to Huo Feifei, eating until his belly was round and full. Thinking of Qin Shou hidden in his room, Youdu glanced outside, then looked back at Huo Feifei.
“Brother Jian, why haven’t you come yet?”
Although Bi Jian had followed the Beast King and Queen for at least a thousand years, he never showed signs of aging. His sharp eyebrows and starry eyes were especially favored by the female demons of the wasteland. Were it not for Bi Jian’s disinterest in women, Youdu would have long been surrounded by many “sisters-in-law.”
Youdu, since childhood, had often been showered with snacks by female demons. Now, having waited so long, he grew suspicious.
“Probably Brother Jian’s Osmanthus Cake hasn’t reached the perfect time to come out of the oven,” Huo Feifei said calmly, bringing a bowl of meat soup to feed Youdu. “Little Lord, be good. Drink this soup, and Brother Jian will come soon!”
But Youdu was truly full. Upon smelling the soup, he burped loudly. Huo Feifei quickly helped relieve his discomfort, all the while thinking of how to stall for time. That scoundrel Bi Jian! Why did it take so long to handle his personal matters?
Cursing inwardly, Huo Feifei wore a face full of smiles for Youdu, tender and affectionate. After waiting for quite a while without seeing Bi Jian, Youdu grew more suspicious, jumped down from the stool, and headed toward his own room.
“Little Lord, where are you going?”
Huo Feifei chased after him, but Youdu didn’t care.
“I’m going to sleep!”
As soon as Youdu entered the room, he felt Qin Shou was gone. He instantly guessed that Qin Shou had been taken by Bi Jian. Thinking of the golden collar around Qin Shou’s neck and how he had missed it, Youdu looked up and burst into tears.
“Wahhh!”
Seeing Youdu cry, Huo Feifei panicked. He truly adored Youdu—delicate as if fearing he might melt in his mouth, fragile as if afraid he might break in his palm. Now, seeing Youdu’s tears falling nonstop, Huo Feifei cursed Bi Jian silently, losing all composure and transforming into his original form, a pure white raccoon beast, to cheer Youdu up.
Youdu stopped crying for three seconds before crying even harder.
He plopped on the ground, rolling around.
“Wahhh, you’re bullying me!”
Youdu threw a tantrum that was impossible to restrain. Huo Feifei saw him rolling on the ground but refused to hold him, so he compromised and coaxed, “Little Lord, that person is not a good man, we…”
“I don’t care! Give me back my beast!”
“Beast? Beast?” Huo Feifei was stunned. Someone actually called it a beast? Youdu sniffled and unleashed his ultimate weapon: “Wah, you only know how to bully me, an orphan child!”
In the past, she had used this line to overwhelm both Huo Feifei and Bi Jian. As expected, Huo Feifei was left speechless. Seeing this, Youdu grabbed Huo Feifei’s raccoon leg and coquettishly said,
“Wah, Feifei, will you give me back my beast?”
—Once I take off the golden collar, you can kill him then!
Youdu’s words and heart were at odds. Seeing Youdu hiccuping and sobbing, Huo Feifei’s heart ached. He quickly shifted back into human form and embraced Youdu. The deaths of the Beast King and Queen were forever a sorrow shared by him and Bi Jian.
Huo Feifei brushed away the large tears on Youdu’s face. Fine, if he had to, he would turn that man into a doll for the Little Lord to play with. So Huo Feifei took Youdu straight to where Bi Jian was.
But the further Huo Feifei walked, the more uneasy Youdu became.
Because the place Huo Feifei was taking her to was the peach orchard in the backyard where she had hidden her gold. Seeing Bi Jian tying Qin Shou to the peach tree—the very one Youdu had used to bury the gold—her heart leapt into her throat.
—Oh my goodness!
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—My gold, my life!
Seeing Bi Jian’s phantom sword aimed at Qin Shou,
“Let go of that beast!!!”
Youdu jumped from Huo Feifei’s arms toward Qin Shou, hugging him and the peach tree tightly. Qin Shou barely escaped Bi Jian’s deadly strike, but Youdu’s grip nearly strangled him on the spot. Struggling, he said,
“You, cough cough, let go...”
Youdu was stunned, then quickly loosened his hold.
“You, you can’t hurt the beast!”
As he spoke, Youdu pointed toward Huo Feifei, who had arrived beside Bi Jian.
“The beast belongs to me!!!”
Huo Feifei looked at Bi Jian suspiciously.
“This one’s called a beast?”
Exchanging glances, Bi Jian’s eyes turned cold.
“Not a beast, but Qin Shou, yet better than any beast!”
With that comparison, Huo Feifei was stunned. So the Little Lord’s ‘beast’ was actually Qin Shou. Bi Jian looked at Huo Feifei with belated understanding and added coldly, “This person is a great-grandson of the Human Emperor!”
Huo Feifei’s expression changed instantly. He stepped forward, while Youdu sensed the danger and panicked.
“If you, if you push me any further, I, I...”
Youdu picked up a branch and pressed it against his neck, imitating other demons’ tactics of crying, making a fuss, and threatening to hang himself. Though Huo Feifei and Bi Jian knew the branch wouldn’t actually kill Youdu, their concern was genuine.
After a tense standoff, Huo Feifei lost under the pressure of Youdu’s impending tantrum.
“Forget it. We’ll incapacitate this little boy tonight and kill him when the Little Lord is tired of playing!”
Huo Feifei whispered this to Bi Jian, who sneered.
“Incaculate? This little boy isn’t even at the initial spirit world level!”
Hearing this, Huo Feifei noticed Qin Shou’s wrist was bare—no first-tier white spirit bead on his bracelet—and was shocked.
“How come this…”
“Have you not heard about the recent massacre of the Qin family’s heir in the Five Organs Imperial City by the Second Prince?”
Bi Jian looked at Qin Shou.
“Perhaps this little boy is the orphan of the Qin heir!”
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