16: She was the one who rejected me first.

White Fox's look of seeking knowledge left Nan Zhisui, who was a Veterinarian, dumbfounded.

As a doctor, especially a Veterinarian! How could she care about the boundaries between Male and Female while treating a patient?

When she was neutering a tomcat, was she supposed to say, "I am a Female, so I won't neuter this tomcat"?

Of course, Beastmen and wild beasts were somewhat different...

So, if not for Hu Qi's reminder and White Fox's abnormality, she wouldn't have thought there was anything wrong with auscultation and palpation until now.

But the Male in front of her was a widower.

There is much gossip in front of a widower's door. If she were careless, she might be misunderstood and labeled with something bad.

Anyway, she had already understood his condition well enough on the first day, and the IV drip ratio for five days was roughly the same.

So Nan Zhisui bit the bullet and said, "No... it's okay not to listen."

White Fox frowned; the beautiful brows of the exquisite and handsome Male Beastman furrowed just like that, making it seem as if Nan Zhisui had bullied him.

"Then why did you listen yesterday?"

"...?" Nan Zhisui helplessly rubbed her forehead. "Yesterday was yesterday, today is today."

Just as White Fox was about to get up to get to the bottom of it, Nan Zhisui pushed him back down.

"Don't move around. I need to go out after finishing the injection." Nan Zhisui cut off his question. "Anyway, I won't do auscultation today."

White Fox could only lean back against the head of the bed, letting Nan Zhisui administer the injection.

After Nan Zhisui deftly inserted the needle, she still instructed, "Don't move the hand with the needle."

After speaking, Nan Zhisui packed up her things and left.

Not long after Nan Zhisui walked out of the Cave, the sickly Male inside the Cave walked out carrying the IV bottle. "Nan Zhisui, are you coming back today?"

Nan Zhisui turned around abruptly and saw that the height at which White Fox was holding the IV bottle was lower than the hand receiving the injection, and the blood in the tube was backflowing directly.

He stared fixedly at her. His gaze was icy and carried a hint of resentment, as if she had abandoned him after toying with him.

"Oh my, ancestor."

She hurried back and pushed White Fox back into the Cave.

She re-hung the IV bottle, adjusted the drip, and after everything was set, Nan Zhisui sighed and said, "I'd better wait until you finish the drip before I leave."

Nan Zhisui could well understand the lack of understanding of these medical common sense in the Beast World.

"I have some things to handle outside, and I can't guarantee if I will... come to your home as a guest again."

She came to their home, which couldn't be called "coming back," right?

One should still avoid what needs to be avoided.

White Fox's expression immediately became unpleasant, and Nan Zhisui knew at a glance that he had Life Qi again.

This Male seemed to always sulk when he had Life Qi, neither venting nor speaking.

Nan Zhisui didn't know where he got so much Qi from.

"It's bad for your health to have Life Qi often." She whispered a reminder.

White Fox turned his head away, not looking at her, like a little wife with Life Qi.

Nan Zhisui found this Male quite interesting. The time spent accompanying him for the IV drip was a bit long, so she simply found some topics to chat with him.

"Where is your female master? Why aren't you and Hu Qi with her? In this world, Beastman Families are stronger when they are together, right?"

"She doesn't want us; we were abandoned."

"Why?" Nan Zhisui was very surprised.

Such a handsome husband, a Little Immortal Child who is this beautiful, and she just didn't want them?

White Fox simply didn't want to speak.

Nan Zhisui's mind was quite active. By nature, she liked listening to gossip and was willing to be a confidante to comfort the other party.

"Have you considered taking Hu Qi to find her?"

White Fox raised his head, delivering a critical hit of beauty. His snow-white, clear eyes stared into Nan Zhisui's pitch-black pupils, and he spoke slowly:

"It was clearly she who didn't want me first. Why should I be the one to take the initiative towards her?"

...

Nan Zhisui took Little Snake Yang to the Wolf King's Cave as usual.

She disinfected the Mother Wolf's wounds, fed her anti-inflammatory medicine, and supplemented milk for Little Sixth as usual.

Little Sixth's weight gain was better than the previous day, but still couldn't compare to his brothers.

After all these things were done, the Wolf King carried her on his back, wandering in the forest.

Nan Zhisui lay on the Wolf King's back, leisurely holding a straw in her mouth, while Little Snake Yang wrapped around her arm, hissing and flicking his tongue towards her cheek.

"Stop it, it's so ticklish." Nan Zhisui laughed and pushed him away.

A droplet of water landed on Nan Zhisui's face. She looked up at the sky and saw drops of light rain falling.

...

Outside the most remote and lowest-lying Cave in Stone Village, two beautiful White Fox Beastmen, one big and one small, one tall and one short, were standing.

The big one had a slender figure; although he was somewhat emaciated due to long-term weakness, his features were exquisite and breathtakingly beautiful.

His snow-white long hair hung down like satin, and under his snow-white eyelashes were a pair of eyes that were breathtakingly beautiful and stunningly pretty.

The small one had chubby cheeks, and the intelligent hair on his pink, tender fox ears was quite long. When his ears twitched, they went "duangduang," making him both adorable and cute.

However, at this moment, these two people were standing straight, looking into the distance. Like a "wife-waiting stone."

"Father Beast, Pretty Older Sister said she might not come tonight." Hu Qi looked up, blinking his big eyes at White Fox.

He actually didn't quite understand his Father Beast. When Pretty Older Sister was around, Father Beast was cold to her and unwilling to say much. It could be said he was colder to her than to other Beastmen in Stone Village.

However, he would take the initiative to prepare food for Pretty Older Sister, shelter her from the wind and rain, and would anxiously look out the Cave entrance when light rain started falling from the sky.

Was he actually disliking or not disliking Pretty Older Sister?

White Fox's expression darkened slightly. "It's raining."

Hu Qi reached out his small hand to catch the rainwater. "It's light rain."

"The Minor Rainy Season is here." White Fox said without tone.

"Ah, then Pretty Older Sister might not be able to come back!" Hu Qi said.

White Fox lowered his head to ask. Hu Qi answered directly: "Pretty Older Sister went deep into the forest. It's so far, and it's raining, so she might not come back."

Obvious worry appeared in the Male White Fox's eyes. "Why did she go to the forest? The forest is so dangerous; how can a Female go to the forest alone?"

"Father Beast, are we going to look for Pretty Older Sister?"

White Fox had just taken a step forward when he immediately withdrew his foot.

Hu Qi happened to see Nan Zhisui walking slowly from the distance.

The Little fellow stood on tiptoe and waved at her excitedly. "Pretty Older Sister!"

As he spoke, the Little fellow ran towards Nan Zhisui. Seeing Hu Qi running faster and faster, Nan Zhisui simply squatted down and caught the running Little Cub in her arms.

Nan Zhisui smiled and hooked his little nose tip. "Little fellow, why are you running so fast? Afraid I'd run away?"

"Father Beast and I have been waiting for you for a long time!" Hu Qi turned to look at White Fox at the Cave entrance, but White Fox was nowhere to be seen. "Eh, where is Father Beast? He was just here."

"It's raining outside, so I ran to your home again to bother you."

The forest on a rainy day was dark, damp, and even more dangerous. Nan Zhisui felt it was safer to find a tribe to spend the night, so she came back.

"Great, great, you are very welcome."

Little Hu Qi took Nan Zhisui's gentle hand. For some reason, he felt satisfied and very happy. He pulled Nan Zhisui towards his own Cave, his little mouth as sweet as if it had been smeared with honey.

"Pretty Older Sister, you can stay as long as you want. Father Beast and I both like you very much."