The young lady was very clever and immediately understood.
She turned to Pei Chiyao and said, "Pei Chiyao, do you think I was meddling when I helped the Gu Family's people? Do you think my compassion was excessive, so you brought me here to show me this?"
She quickly explained, "That's because little Niang was too pitiful. She's just an innocent little girl who doesn't understand anything. She shouldn't have been tortured like that, and... and..."
She trailed off.
However, Pei Chiyao seemed intrigued and raised his eyebrows, "And what?"
Zhi Yao suddenly felt a little aggrieved, "I did it all for you, and you still think I was meddling."
As soon as the words left her mouth, Zhi Yao's eyes were uncontrollably clouded by a layer of mist.
Tears fell like a broken string of pearls.
She held back from crying out loud, but her vision was blurred, and she couldn't see anything clearly.
Then, she felt a soft tissue gently wiping her cheeks, and in the next moment, her vision became clear again.
"Little crybaby, you're made of water," a sigh sounded in her ear. "Tell me, how was it for me?"
She was held in the man's embrace, with the pleasant scent of sandalwood and the warm, reassuring hold.
He gently kissed the top of Zhi Yao's head, and she finally managed to stop sobbing, "It's because you have too much bloodshed on you, and I want to help you get rid of some of it."
Saving a life is better than building a seven-level monastery!
She didn't know how much it could offset for Pei Chiyao.
Upon hearing this, Pei Chiyao was momentarily taken aback.
Suddenly, he recalled what Zhi Yao had told him before, that he had a strong smell of blood on him.
Could it be... she could really smell it?
Zhi Yao became angrier as she spoke, "You're still blaming me. I'm so angry, I'm not talking to you anymore."
As she said this, she immediately turned her face away, but she didn't want to get off Pei Chiyao's lap.
She loved being held by him.
Seeing the little pouting figure in his arms, Pei Chiyao couldn't help but laugh silently again, "I'm not blaming you. I know our Yao is the most kind and adorable little fox. Of course, you wouldn't ignore a little friend. I didn't bring you here to blame you. Think about it again, what did I mean?"
Pei Chiyao hadn't initially thought about the Gu Family incident, but when Zhi Yao mentioned it, he realized it could be interpreted that way.
Pacified by Pei Chiyao's words, Zhi Yao was instantly wagging her tail.
"Hmph." She glared at Pei Chiyao and shook her newly sprouted tail, wrapping it around Pei Chiyao's arm. "Praise me a couple more times, and I won't be angry anymore."
She was being unreasonable again?
He lowered his gaze to the small figure sitting in his lap, soft and sweet. Looking at her made his heart melt.
Pei Chiyao raised his hand and pinched Zhi Yao's slightly chubby face, the feeling was excellent. "Mmm, I love our Yao the most."
Zhi Yao's heart blossomed instantly, "Of course, I'm the little fox that everyone loves!"
Having been appeased, Zhi Yao no longer fussed. She rubbed her eyes and said, "Pei Chiyao, I think this place is a bit like somewhere my mother took me before."
Back then, her mother had to take her to find the Fox Immortal Elder, so they went to a forest. That was the first time she saw other animals being eaten.
Zhi Yao had nightmares for three days and three nights, but her mother just told her it was very normal.
If she didn't listen to her and ran around everywhere, she would be eaten too!
Since then, Zhi Yao had never left Baiquan Village.
"Are you trying to say that if I leave you, I'll be captured and beaten?"
This time, Pei Chiyao completely lost his composure.
He laughed in amusement, his chest trembling with low rumbles.
What was this strange little fox cub thinking about?
This bizarre train of thought really... really left him at a loss for words.
The little fox cub held onto his clothes, looking at him with wide eyes.
Pei Chiyao took Zhi Yao's hand and said, "Yao, I can protect you, but I can't be by your side every moment. There's always a chance for a slip-up, and I don't want to see what happened last time happen again..."
Just thinking about how the crazed fan nearly hurt Zhi Yao last time made Pei Chiyao feel a surge of fear.
He had never been afraid of anything before.
This was the first time he felt... terror.
This kind of terror constantly tormented Pei Chiyao.
"What happened last time?" Zhi Yao thought for a long time before remembering the deranged woman.
She suddenly slapped her thigh and said, "Pei Chiyao, it won't happen again, I promise you!"
Because now, she had the jade pendant.
Zhi Yao mysteriously brought out the jade pendant and held it close to Pei Chiyao's face, "I've discovered that ever since you gave me the other jade pendant, this jade pendant can trap ghosts, humans, and everything else inside it!"
Don't ask Zhi Yao how she knew. It was as if she was born with the knowledge. At the moment when the two jade pendants combined into one, Zhi Yao knew that they weren't just for helping her transform into a human.
"So, if anyone tries to harm me again, I can just trap them inside!"
She couldn't trap humans, but she could trap their souls inside.
Who would have thought that such a small jade pendant had such powerful abilities?
"Is that true?" Pei Chiyao hadn't expected this either.
Zhi Yao nodded, "Of course, I never lie! I'll show you the next time I try it!"
Holding Zhi Yao, Pei Chiyao suddenly had a question, "Yao, as a fox spirit, don't you have any other abilities? Did your mother... also need a jade pendant to transform into a human?"
Upon hearing this, Zhi Yao fell unusually silent for a very long time.
She...
"Why aren't you speaking?"
Pei Chiyao suddenly reached out and grabbed Zhi Yao's chin, revealing her tangled little face. "Hm?"
"I... I told you, you can't look down on me."
Pei Chiyao: "?"
"I might have mutated in the womb. Other little foxes can walk and groom themselves in a few months, but me..." She said dejectedly, "It took me a whole hundred years to learn how to walk."
And other little foxes could transform into humans at three hundred years old, but she... she only recently became a human.
It was after her mother was taken away by the bad people. In her excitement to find her mother, she suddenly transformed, she didn't know how it happened.
Many of her kind called her a big dummy.
Although Zhi Yao didn't want to admit it, but... this did seem to be true.
Compared to other little foxes, Zhi Yao's intelligence was simply not worth mentioning.
Upon hearing this, Pei Chiyao once again raised his hand to caress Zhi Yao's cheek and said, "It's okay, I like little dummies."
Zhi Yao glared at Pei Chiyao, "I'm not a little dummy. I can transform into a human by myself now, and I can control my tail and ears. Don't believe me? Watch!"
As soon as the words left her mouth, she quickly retracted her ears and tail with a "swish."
