2: Chapter 2 was a trap.

[Five.]

Tang Ruan: ...

Tang Ruan: [What do you mean?]

Fortune Teller: [Didn't you ask me how many Peach Blossoms you had last time?]

[Anything else?]

[That's it.]

Tang Ruan: [...]

Tang Ruan: [I've been dreaming a lot lately, dreaming about different men.]

Fortune Teller: [You dream at night what you think about during the day. If you often have erotic dreams, it might be a physical issue. I suggest seeing a Chinese medicine doctor.]

Tang Ruan: [I want to hear something metaphysical.]

The Fortune Teller was silent for five seconds...

[Peach Blossoms in dreams are called Yin Peach Blossoms. If they're too abundant, it's a yin peach blossom calamity.]

[Like any Peach Blossom Calamity, it hurts the heart, the emotions, and the body...]

[I suggest you believe in science and see a Chinese medicine doctor to nourish your body.]

Tang Ruan's lips twitched.

Could she get her five hundred back?

However, she still obediently went to see a Chinese medicine doctor.

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"Not many young people have such a healthy body like yours nowadays."

The doctor raised her hand...

Tang Ruan hurriedly reached out and blocked the number caller.

"Doctor, is there really nothing wrong with me at all?"

The middle-aged female doctor frowned.

"No."

Tang Ruan lowered her voice: "For example, excessive indulgence, kidney deficiency, or something..."

As she spoke, she lowered her head and nervously licked her lips.

The door was open.

She didn't know if the people outside could hear her.

Out of professionalism, the doctor placed her hand on her pulse again.

Half a minute later.

"No, and your Qi and blood are flowing smoothly, and your kidney Qi is stable."

"But I've been dreaming about different men lately..."

Her head was almost buried under the table.

The female doctor took off her glasses and looked seriously at Tang Ruan's face.

"I'll prescribe you some calming medicine."

"Don't overthink things."

"If you're still worried about this, you can get a comprehensive check-up."

"Or visit the psychiatry department."

Leaving the hospital.

Tang Ruan felt that she might really be mentally ill.

She went home and brewed the medicine.

But she didn't dare follow the doctor's orders at all—to go to bed early.

The demon from last night was too terrifying.

Just thinking about it made her hair stand on end.

As for his face—it should be handsome!

The previous ones were all so handsome, the Incubus Leader couldn't be any worse.

Tang Ruan only recalled his tall and powerful figure...

Anyway... strangling her would be like strangling a little chick.

She decided not to sleep tonight!

But it's impossible for a person not to sleep.

At seven in the morning, Tang Ruan packed up and prepared to go to the office early.

She sat on a chair to change her shoes.

Suddenly, a wave of dizziness hit her...

"Mistress... save me!"

Tang Ruan opened her eyes and found herself standing in a huge cave.

An orange-haired youth stumbled toward her from the cave entrance.

The youth looked to be eighteen or nineteen, his handsome face filled with fear.

Did he just call her... Mistress?

Tang Ruan suddenly took a step to the right.

"Ouch!"

The youth fell to the ground.

He looked back at her pitifully.

Tang Ruan curled one corner of her lips smugly.

Nice try!

Trying to play her?

The Incubus Leader realized she was so scared she didn't dare sleep.

So, he swapped in a harmless-looking fresh meat to suck her Yang energy.

Schemes, they're all schemes!

Although the Chinese medicine doctor said she was in good health...

But—who cares what he's sucking?

It's definitely nothing good!

Tang Ruan glared fiercely at the youth.

She suddenly noticed a bright red bloodstain snaking across his snowy white ankle.

Looking up.

There was a three-inch-long gash on his calf.

"Hiss..."

Tang Ruan gasped.

It looked painful.

And he had been running so fast just now.

Noticing her gaze, the youth bit his lower lip and lowered his eyes, his thick eyelashes masking his emotions.

He didn't speak again.

Looking like he had been greatly wronged.

Tang Ruan: ...

Tang Ruan was about to speak.

Suddenly, a rumbling commotion came from the cave entrance.

A group of animals rushed in.

Wolves, bears, elephants, lions, leopards...

Tang Ruan lost her footing and plopped onto the ground.

Did she transmigrate into a zoo?

What happened to the beastmen?

In the blink of an eye, the youth transformed into a small orange-red fox.

He pounced into Tang Ruan's arms.

Tang Ruan: ...

What kind of scheme is this?

Hero saves the fox?

"Goddess, please hand him over."

The... the bear spoke.

Tang Ruan reflexively hugged the fox in her arms tightly, and the fox also clung to her arm with its front paws.

The person and the fox looked like they were depending on each other for survival.

Suddenly, Tang Ruan looked down at the fox.

She stammered as she asked the bear, "What will happen if I hand him over to you?"

"Of course, we'll skin him and pull out his tendons to appease our fallen clansmen!"

What Tang Ruan was actually asking was what would happen to her.

But hearing them say that, her heart softened a bit.

When she was a child, she had a puppy.

Once, the puppy was kicked by her mischievous brother. Not only did her mother not blame her brother, but she also praised his leg strength and told him to kick it again.

Tang Ruan rushed to protect the puppy and ended up being locked away with it.

At that time, the puppy was just like him.

Clinging to her arm, shrinking into her embrace, trembling.

Tang Ruan summoned her courage and asked, "Was it he who killed them?"

"This..."

The bear who had just spoken suddenly hesitated.

"Although it wasn't him, they are all from the Red Fox Tribe."

Tang Ruan understood: bullying the weak; since they couldn't beat the strong, they picked on the easy target.

Tang Ruan was about to ask for more details.

The little fox suddenly dove into her arms, sticking its butt out and burrowing in desperately.

As if that was the safest place in the world.

Tang Ruan's heart softened.

"Every debt has its debtor. You're all such powerful beasts, yet you're bullying a little fox."

"Don't you feel ashamed?"

Several beasts looked at each other.

They whispered among themselves.

"No matter what, he is still one of the Goddess's Beast Husbands."

"Hmph, didn't he just take advantage of a crisis back then?"

"Don't forget the Goddess's other Beast Husbands..."

...

Tang Ruan pricked up her ears and vaguely gathered that they seemed to be very afraid of her other Beast Husbands.

"How about I let my Beast Husbands talk to you personally?" Tang Ruan lifted her chin and deliberately raised her voice.

Relying on the beasts' power—something she just learned!

"No need."

"No need..."

They actually lowered their heads and retreated.

"Alright, you're safe now."

Hearing this, the little fox raised its head from Tang Ruan's arms.

It first opened one golden eye, and only after confirming it was safe did it open the other.

He wagged his tail happily and suddenly looked up.

And licked Tang Ruan's chin.

Tang Ruan: ...

Tang Ruan threw him out at once.

She was licked by a fox spirit!!

The little fox landed and turned back into the youth.

He looked at her with a pair of large, aggrieved golden eyes.

"Does even the Mistress hate me now?" He raised his right hand to swear, "I swear to the Beast God that the matter really had nothing to do with me.

Otherwise, let me be skinned and bled... to make clothes for the Mistress."

"Wait, wait, wait... hold on!"

Tang Ruan felt her scalp tingle at the thought of that image.

"You don't need to swear to me, just don't harm me."

This Incubus's schemes are really one after another!

"I will never harm you," the youth said firmly. "I will be forever loyal to you."

Loyalty?

It just so happened she didn't believe in that.

She had just discovered she'd been deceived by her first love for three years.

The youth's gaze toward Tang Ruan was full of deep affection.

Tang Ruan felt a bit awkward.

"I think I prefer your fox form."

If he's a fox, at least he can't attack her with his eyes.

As soon as Tang Ruan finished speaking.

The youth had already transformed into a small fox with bright fur and limped toward her.

Blood dripped all along the way, snaking into a trail of red beads.

He finally made it in front of her, swaying as if about to collapse.

Tang Ruan reflexively reached out and caught him.

"Ah..."

She sighed.

Leaving someone to die would really weigh on her conscience!

Tang Ruan was wearing a simple white long dress.

She couldn't tell what the material was, but it shimmered with a faint pearlescent light.

She tore a piece from the hem of the skirt.

And bandaged the little fox.

"Lie still and don't move."

The little fox lay obediently beside her, looking up at her with a face full of admiration.

Tang Ruan only now realized that this dream wasn't set at night.

Sunlight was streaming in from directly above the cave.

No wonder it was so bright inside.

She suddenly had a thought.

If all of this was an illusion created by the Incubus.

Then maybe if she just walked out, she would wake up.