110: The dad your mom found for you

Xiao Wu lowered her head: "Xiao... Xiao Wu has no money!"

Su Wen hadn't expected her to pay anyway.

He took several gold coins from his spirit tool and tossed them to the shopkeeper.

"Yueer, let her go!"

Xiao Wu's eyes widened. By the time she came to her senses, Tian Yue had already released her and turned to leave with Su Wen.

Xiao Wu stood there, feeling a sense of unreality.

"What are you looking at? Careful, or Sister Xiao Wu will beat you up! It's not that Sister Xiao Wu lost to him, Sister Xiao Wu just didn't want to fight them."

Seeing the people around her pointing and staring, Xiao Wu gave them a light huff, giving the rabbit-selling shopkeeper in particular a stern look of warning.

The shopkeeper trembled as he held the gold coins. As an ordinary citizen, he knew all too well the consequences of offending a Spirit Master.

"Humans really are all bad people!"

Xiao Wu left in a huff, muttering under her breath.

She sniffed; that familiar scent had already faded.

She felt a bit aggrieved; she missed her mama!

Su Wen hadn't gone far. Originally, he had planned to capture Xiao Wu and take her straight back to Spirit Hall.

He would wait until he reached Level 70 for her to become his seventh spirit ring.

But now that Little San had reappeared here, the situation had to change.

"A Rou!"

"Go and bring Xiao Wu over."

A cloud of pink mist drifted out.

A Rou appeared before Su Wen.

She looked at Xiao Wu's somewhat lonely departing back with a complicated expression.

Moving her long legs, she walked toward Xiao Wu.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. The scent on him must be a coincidence. Mama couldn't possibly have anything to do with him..."

As Xiao Wu walked down the street, her mind was still conflicted over the familiar aura on Su Wen's body.

She suddenly regretted leaving; she should have chased after him to ask.

But thinking of Su Wen's somewhat fierce gaze, she shrunk her neck back.

"I'll go find him once Sister Xiao Wu becomes stronger!"

"Sister Xiao Wu isn't afraid of him!"

Xiao Wu gave a small stone on the road a hard kick.

Treating it as if it were Su Wen, she cursed, "Kick you to death, you bad person!"

"Xiao Wu!"

"Eh?"

Hearing a familiar voice, Xiao Wu's whole body trembled.

Her body froze in place.

She turned around nervously.

Not far away stood a woman wearing an elegant long dress.

Her temperament was gentle, her eyes showed a pinkish-purple hue, and that tender face was a look Xiao Wu could never forget in this lifetime.

"Mama?"

Xiao Wu rubbed her eyes in disbelief, even biting her tongue to make sure she wasn't dreaming.

“Hiss, it hurts!”

Feeling the pain, Xiao Wu immediately knew this wasn't a dream.

She stared blankly at A Rou until A Rou called "Xiao Wu" again, at which point the latter's eyes instantly welled up with tears.

In the next moment, Xiao Wu ran straight over and threw herself into A Rou's embrace.

"Mama, is it really you... wah... Xiao Wu missed you so much!"

"Mama missed you too."

Hearing those familiar words, Xiao Wu cried even louder, as if wanting to turn all her grievances into tears and pour them out.

A Rou didn't speak, only gently stroking her head.

After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Wu seemed to have cried herself out and fell asleep in her arms, her small hands tightly clutching her, her face peaceful as she kept calling "Mama" in her sleep.

When A Rou gently picked her up and walked toward Su Wen not far away, Tian Yue's small mouth beside him had already formed an "O" shape in surprise.

"Bo... Boss... what's going on here..."

"Your illegitimate daughter?"

Su Wen gave her a sidelong glance: "Have you ever seen an illegitimate daughter this big?"

"But..."

"Let's go back first..."

The group arrived at a hotel in Nuoding City, and Su Wen booked several rooms.

When A Rou placed Xiao Wu on the bed, her small hand still tightly grasped the corner of A Rou's clothes. Her small mouth twitched as if she were dreaming of something delicious, muttering unintelligible words.

Ye Yuaner and Bi Ji, who had been following in the shadows, appeared in the room.

Ye Yuaner looked at Xiao Wu in surprise: "She really is a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast."

"What... she's a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast..."

Tian Yue's gossiping expression instantly turned into shock.

What the Boss said was actually true; there really are Shape-shifting Spirit Beasts.

Tian Yue's eyes were full of excitement.

She had just captured a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast with one hand. If she went back and bragged to the Little Fox and the others, wouldn't it scare them to death?

If Grandpa found out, he'd probably jump for joy too!

Bi Ji's eyes were filled with astonishment: "I've seen her before. I didn't expect her to come to the human World and even be caught by you..."

Bi Ji looked at A Rou again and seemed to understand something: "I heard her mother was also a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast who was killed. I didn't expect it to be..."

Bi Ji looked at Su Wen in confusion: "How did you know she would come here..."

Su Wen had said a hundred-thousand-year Shape-shifting Spirit Beast might appear here. Bi Ji had been skeptical at first, but now she was full of curiosity.

Shape-shifting Spirit Beasts who travel to the human World are always fully prepared.

Unless they are unlucky enough to run directly into a Titled Douluo.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, no one would know the status of a Shape-shifting Spirit Beast.

"A Rou told me!"

Su Wen directly pushed the explanation onto A Rou.

Although A Rou also didn't know how Su Wen knew,

she followed her husband's lead and gently nodded in admission. This caused Tian Yue, Bi Ji, and Ye Yuaner to look at her with strange expressions.

"Ahem, go back and rest early. We'll talk tomorrow."

"A Rou, you watch over Xiao Wu. Bring her over when she wakes up."

Su Wen left the room, and Tian Yue and Bi Ji each went to their own rooms to rest.

Only Ye Yuaner followed behind Su Wen to his temporary room, heading straight to the bathroom to wash up.

"Aunt Ye, I booked several rooms!"

"Hmph, I still need to check your physical condition later to ensure you won't have any problems in the future..."

...In A Rou's room, Xiao Wu slowly woke up.

She rubbed her bleary eyes, her nose feeling a bit sore.

It seemed she had dreamed of Mama again!

"Xiao Wu is awake!"

Suddenly, a gentle voice pulled Xiao Wu back from her daze.

Xiao Wu looked at A Rou beside her.

Her head was groggy at first, but then she became completely clear-headed.

"Xiao Wu wasn't dreaming... Mama, Xiao Wu really wasn't dreaming..."

Xiao Wu hugged A Rou with excitement, and the latter smiled gently: "Of course you weren't dreaming..."

"Mama, what's going on?"

After a long while, Xiao Wu finally raised her head to look at A Rou.

Her reddened eyes were full of curiosity.

Xiao Wu still couldn't quite believe it; she clearly remembered Mama had sacrificed herself.

How could she appear in Nuoding City!

A Rou stood up, poured a cup of tea, and handed it to Xiao Wu.

"Drink some water first. Look at you, you've cried so much you're almost dried up!"

"As for my matter..."

A faint smile appeared on A Rou's face as she stroked Xiao Wu's head and spoke: "A human papa saved Mama..."

"Papa?"

Xiao Wu held the cup, feeling like her brain couldn't quite process this, and asked subconsciously: "A human saved you, and his name is Papa?"

A Rou shook her head and explained slowly: "He is a human, but his name isn't Papa. He is the papa Mama found for Xiao Wu."