Pei Chiyao raised his eyebrow and glanced at the silver needle that had fallen to the ground, chuckling lightly as he said, "You think this thing will be useful against me?"
Anthony's face turned deathly pale. He never imagined that this man would be a hundred times more difficult to deal with than he had anticipated.
But then, a shocking scene unfolded...
Pei Chiyao actually bent down and picked up the silver needle, giving Anthony a defiant glance, and then...
He plunged it straight into his own arm.
Anthony's eyes widened in shock, "You... fool!"
It was too late for him to stop it.
Pei Chiyao curled his lips, a smile that didn't reach his eyes.
"Ten, nine, eight..."
He began counting down.
"Two, one, zero."
The deadly poison on that needle had no effect on Pei Chiyao whatsoever.
One minute passed, then two, and Pei Chiyao still stood before Anthony, unharmed.
In fact... when he pulled out the silver needle, there wasn't even a wound on his arm!
This time, Anthony was completely stunned!
He stepped back, shaking his head in disbelief, "You... who are you?!"
Pei Chiyao smiled, "You're not worthy of knowing. I just wanted to save you some effort. With your abilities... thinking you could kill me? A fool's dream."
With those words, he hugged the girl tightly and turned to leave.
Leaving Anthony alone, staring dumbfounded at Pei Chiyao's retreating figure.
...
After carefully placing Zhi Yao in the car, she gradually regained consciousness.
She had never truly fallen asleep, just dozed off from weariness.
"Pei Chiyao..."
The young lady called out to him plaintively, her eyes still red, evidently from crying earlier.
The man couldn't help but chuckle softly, leaning close and kissing her eyes, "Why so sensitive? You cried over just a few words from him?"
Zhi Yao huffed, "I even fired a gun!"
Although she missed, as she was shaking with rage at the time.
"Silly girl."
The sensation of kissing the young lady was too delightful, and before he knew it, he trailed kisses from Zhi Yao's nose down to her neck, intending to go further, but was stopped by her hand.
The enticing view he had glimpsed was suddenly cut off.
Pei Chiyao clicked his tongue, "Tease."
Zhi Yao puffed out her cheeks, glaring at him, "You think... I'm too old, don't you?"
This remark nearly made Pei Chiyao burst out laughing. "Old?"
In his eyes, Zhi Yao wasn't even a child.
But the young lady seemed to take it seriously. "I know I'm much older than you. I'm older than you by... "
She held up her fingers, starting to calculate five hundred and twenty minus twenty...
Wait, how old was Pei Chiyao again?
Zhi Yao glanced nervously at Pei Chiyao. Of course, she wouldn't dare ask that question. If she did, Pei Chiyao would undoubtedly give her a thorough scolding. Even as clueless as she was, Zhi Yao had that much awareness.
"You don't know how old I am, do you?"
The man saw through her thoughts instantly.
Zhi Yao jumped in fright, hastily shaking her head, but couldn't help asking, "How... how did you know?"
Could it be that Pei Chiyao also had mind-reading abilities?!
She had always thought Pei Chiyao had mind-reading abilities! Because every time, he accurately guessed her thoughts - if he didn't have that power, Zhi Yao wouldn't believe it!
"I don't have mind-reading abilities," the man saw through her thoughts again. "It's just that a certain little fox is too naive, her thoughts clearly written all over her face. It would be strange if I couldn't read them."
So that was it...
Zhi Yao felt embarrassed, timidly clutching his sleeve, "Sorry, I didn't mean it."
Mainly because she couldn't recall Pei Chiyao ever revealing his age to her.
So it wasn't her fault.
"Never mind," he gave Zhi Yao a resigned look. "With your math skills, it would be a miracle if you could calculate it."
He started to wonder, if her seal was removed, would Zhi Yao become smarter?
But then... he didn't want her to become smarter, because if she did, it meant she wouldn't rely on him like before.
He sighed, but before he could speak, the whiny little lady started shedding tears again, "Wahh, you sighed, you must think I'm too old... Wahh, I'll pack my things and go back to the Fox Village with my mother."
Pei Chiyao: "..."
He firmly held down the squirming Zhi Yao and glared at her irritably, "You silly girl, have you forgotten that I'm not human?"
He's not human...
Zhi Yao paused, that's right! How could she have forgotten that Pei Chiyao was also a spirit?
The age of spirits cannot be measured by human years!
The young lady immediately stopped crying, her spirits lifting, "Pei Chiyao! Then how old are you? Are you... older than me?!"
Pei Chiyao looked at Zhi Yao in amused exasperation, "Happy to know I'm older than you? You little rascal."
He leaned down and playfully nipped her tender earlobe, "Even though you're five hundred and twenty years old this year, your mental age is more like five. So rest assured, I'll always be older than you. You'll always... be my little lady."
He often felt like he was raising a daughter.
Zhi Yao also felt that Pei Chiyao was more like a father figure than Ling Jue.
It could be said that since Pei Chiyao's appearance, he largely filled the void left by Zhi Yao's lack of a father figure growing up.
She really... adored Pei Chiyao.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but tear up again.
The young lady flung herself into Pei Chiyao's embrace, her arms tightly wrapped around his waist, "Wahh, Pei Chiyao, how could I live without you..."
Upon hearing this, Pei Chiyao paused briefly, then couldn't help but laugh, his chest lightly shaking, "Where did you learn to say that? Sister Su taught you again?"
As if he didn't know that Zhi Yao had secretly added Sister Su back.
The young lady, as usual, smeared tears and snot all over Pei Chiyao, "No, it's my true feelings."
The little fox in his arms looked up, her golden eyes sparkling, moving Pei Chiyao's heart. He couldn't hold back any longer and kissed her deeply, until Zhi Yao was breathless.
When the young lady came back to her senses, Pei Chiyao was already undoing his tie.
"What are you... what are you doing... this is inside the car!" Zhi Yao had a vague sense of foreboding.
"So what if it's in the car? It's not like we haven't been here before." His smile had a hint of mischief, and Zhi Yao dreaded that look the most. She immediately wanted to open the car door and escape.
Yet before her hand could touch the door, her dress was lifted, and immediately after, a slightly cool... scaly thing wrapped around Zhi Yao's thigh, followed by the man's husky voice.
"Anthony said something very accurate, you foxes... really do have a talent for bewitching people."
