"Woo woo woo..."
The sound of Dabai turned into a soft whimper. Following the scent of blood, it lovingly licked the wound on her small, white, soft foot.
Yun Chunnuan felt ticklish and quickly pulled her foot back.
"Awoo!" Dabai growled discontentedly.
"It doesn’t hurt, it’s okay, take me home." Yun Chunnuan rubbed its big fat face. Dabai sullenly lay down, signaling its little master to climb onto its back.
"Woo—"
At this moment, from a far distance, came a more majestic and dominant howl.
Dabai blinked, its obsidian eyes full of defiance.
But it still stood up, raised its head, and howled in response to that command unique to the Wolf King.
"Is it Jifeng?!"
"Awoo woo!"
Dabai whined and grumbled.
It didn’t like the Wolf King!
The Wolf King... didn’t like it either...
But it liked the cute little wolf cubs of the Wolf King’s family!
If not for the little wolf cubs, it wouldn’t respond!
Definitely, definitely not because of fear!
How fast could Jifeng be?
A second ago, Yun Chunnuan still felt it was far away, at least on the other side of the forest.
The next second, she heard a roaring gust of wind and a swath of branches collapsing in the forest.
A gigantic black wolf, like lightning, appeared before her, howling long and loud, its voice shaking the surroundings!
In the darkness, the person whose shadow was trembling almost fell off the wolf’s back.
As soon as he landed, his legs were so weak he nearly collapsed.
"Husband!"
Yun Chunnuan hurried forward.
"Nuannuan!!!" The man staggered but forced himself up, pulling her into his arms.
His whole body trembled, unable to utter another word.
Alive... is good!
As long as she’s alive... still alive...
To Yun Chunnuan, the last time she saw this man was just a few hours ago.
She didn’t know what happened during her time in the Storage Ring.
"Husband, have you been looking for me for a long time? I’m sorry, I didn’t want to leave, but..."
"Nuannuan!"
He suddenly interrupted her, "I will personally skin and dismember those people with a thousand cuts! Not one of them will..."
"What are you talking about? What people?"
Yun Chunnuan stepped back slightly from his trembling embrace, "Don’t interrupt me, let me finish!"
She looked at those heart-wrenching eyes in the darkness and urgently explained, "No one hurt me! No one kidnapped me! Do you remember the pill Mother gave me? After I took it, I was taken into the Storage Ring!"
She raised her equally trembling hand, "It may sound absurd to you, but I was indeed brought into a space by this thing, just for a little while!
When I came out, I was in the broken temple where you picked me up. I don’t know why it got dark, even though it was still dawn when I was taken in!"
His eyes, breeding dark green, were filled with disbelief.
He opened his mouth but couldn’t make any sound.
He couldn’t understand her words, what Storage Ring, what space, what night, what morning...
He understood these words separately, but together, he couldn’t comprehend them?
Yelyu Lie looked at his little dear, "No one... hurt you?"
"No one! I swear! Husband, do you understand me... mm!"
He pulled her into his arms again, his cold and trembling lips carrying a hint of blood...
Yelyu Lie took his lost-and-found little dear back home without asking another word.
Yun Chunnuan wanted to tell him about the strange encounters in the space, but he forcibly took her to the bathhouse, bathed her himself, applied medicine to her scarred little foot, bandaged it, and took her back to the room.
He forced her to rest, to sleep.
If she opened her mouth, he had a way to seal it...
In the mountain woods, fearful and running wildly, Yun Chunnuan didn’t know how long she had been.
But she was indeed very tired, very exhausted, curling up in the man’s broad chest, she soon succumbed to an overwhelming drowsiness and fell asleep...
When she woke up, the man was sitting by the bed, staring at her unblinkingly, as if afraid she would disappear again.
"Awake? Hungry?"
He looked weary but had already shaved the stubble from last night clean and changed into fresh clothes.
Yun Chunnuan still remembered, last night, he had a bloody aura, even his kiss carried that unmistakable scent.
She quickly got up, "Husband, what on earth happened? Was I gone long? Who are they you mentioned?"
Yelyu Lie’s expression froze, his gaze shifted to her little foot wrapped in white cloth, "Does it still hurt? Silly, no matter where you are, I will find you. Next time, wait for me, okay?"
About what happened when she left, he said not a word, his heart and eyes filled entirely with her.
The more he avoided talking about it, the more Yun Chunnuan realized something significant must have happened.
"General..."
Suddenly, Qiao’er’s timid voice came from outside the door.
Those faint eyes instantly turned dark and cold.
But Yun Chunnuan caught it in that moment.
He brought the hot porridge from the small cabinet Yun Chunnuan had added by the bedside during the room renovation for the New Year, "Eat first, talk after you are full. Whatever you say, I will believe."
When the little dear dumbfoundedly accepted the bowl of hot porridge, the man stood up and walked to the door.
He opened a crack, lowered his voice, and whispered to Qiao’er outside about something.
Yun Chunnuan peeked out and saw Qiao’er, whose eyes were swollen to slits, with red and swollen cheeks, and traces of fingerprints on her face that hadn’t faded...