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Huang Hua: “…”

She stared at her suddenly empty arms, feeling the warmth instantly slip away from her fingertips.

Huang Hua was stunned for a good three breaths before suddenly—

“Pfft!”

A light laugh, filled with endless amusement, flowed from her lips.

“You little rascal…” Huang Hua’s fingertips unconsciously rubbed together, as if the sensation of the little one’s neck still lingered.
“…you run… really fast.”

Huang Hua secretly made up her mind: ‘Next time, I’ll definitely catch you and not let you go until you’ve finished this novel story.’

Lu Qiancha felt as if she had been shot back to Tianquan Peak by a slingshot.

Her small body slammed into the fluffy, soft snowdrift outside the courtyard at the peak with a “splat.”

“Wuu…” Still in a state of shock, she scrambled and poked her little head out of the snowdrift, her heart still pounding wildly.

She patted her small chest, which was heaving rapidly from the fright…

‘Close call! Close call!’

‘Just now, I was basically saying whatever I dreamed of.
I’ve long forgotten those little stories from my past life.’

‘Fortunately… I ran fast.’

She rubbed the tips of her wolf ears, which were covered in snow.

At that moment, Xuan Ya’s fair figure, like a night-blooming cereus under the moon, silently appeared in the shadows of the courtyard’s corridor.

Her gaze instantly locked onto the little wolf cub in the snowdrift, with its head covered in fluffy snow.

The tips of its ears were still dotted with a few snowflakes, and its blue eyes blinked guiltily in the moonlight…

“…”

Xuan Ya said nothing.
With light, lotus-like steps, she silently walked to the side of the snowdrift.

Her fair hand lifted slightly, and she deftly “dangled” the little silly wolf by the back of its collar.

Then, she placed the little blue-furred loli, who was covered in snowflakes, steadily on the cool, smooth bluestone slab next to her.

“Hold out your hand.”

Xuan Ya’s voice was as cool and clear as jade beads falling on a plate, without a ripple.

“Okay, okay, Master.”

Lu Qiancha shivered instinctively! She hurriedly swallowed, her voice trembling with a hint of guilt.

She pitifully raised her paw.
She was so nervous that the fine fur on her pink, padded paw even stood on end slightly.

Xuan Ya looked at the little wolf cub in front of her.
‘She’s about to cry before I even hit her…’

A sense of helplessness inexplicably arose in her heart.

Xuan Ya pursed her lips.
The cold jade horsetail whisk had already been silently flipped and held upside down.
The handle of the horsetail whisk was raised high, bringing with it a stream of slightly cold air.

Lu Qiancha was so scared she squeezed her eyes shut, her little ears even lying flat in her hair.

The handle of the horsetail whisk gently descended and tapped lightly on the center of her paw.

“Eh…”

‘It doesn’t hurt.’

Lu Qiancha cautiously raised her little face… with a hint of dazed relief, she looked at her master.

Xun Ya had already withdrawn the horsetail whisk.

“The dew is deep, and the cold air is bone-chilling.
You’re still playing in the snow? Why aren’t you back in your room, concentrating on your cultivation?”

Her cool gaze swept over the traces of snow on Lu Qiancha’s body.
Her voice, which betrayed neither joy nor anger, chided softly.

“Okay, Master!”

Lu Qiancha’s voice instantly regained its vitality, as if she had heard a pardon.

Like an arrow leaving a bow, her small figure drew an afterimage in the moonlight.
“This disciple will go and cultivate now!”

Before her voice had even fallen…

“Whoosh!”

Lu Qiancha had already darted into her own room, leaving only a string of hurried footsteps.

Xuan Ya stood with her hands behind her back, her gaze silently falling on the already closed door.
After a long time, an almost imperceptible, helpless smile appeared on her lips.

The next day.

“Buzz, buzz.”

The Jade Signet vibrated gently, waking Lu Qiancha from a light sleep.
Her paw skillfully grabbed the Jade Signet, and her spiritual sense swept in—it was Xun Xue.

[Baby~ Mama is coming back! (｀▽´)]

[Did~ you~ miss~ me? (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡]

Lu Qiancha rubbed her sleepy eyes and was just about to reply…

A wisp of breeze, mixed with a familiar, cold, frosty fragrance… had already quietly brushed past her.

“Ngh…”

She subconsciously tilted her little face up and happened to meet a pair of smiling, deep blue eyes that were exactly like her own.

“You’re awake?” Xun Xue was leaning over, the morning light filtering through the window lattice and sprinkling on her soft cheeks.

Almost as a reflex—

With a “thud,” Lu Qiancha threw herself, like a small, warm pancake that couldn’t be shaken off, into Xun Xue’s open, warm embrace.

The little loli’s head also very naturally nuzzled against the hollow of her soft neck, her voice tinged with the groggy softness of just waking up: “I missed you…”

The smile on Xun Xue’s face instantly brightened like the sun melting snow, dazzlingly bright.

She lowered her head without hesitation and planted a very light good morning kiss on her daughter’s vanilla-scented forehead.

“Hehe, Little Qiancha is so well-behaved.
Mama missed you too.”

Xun Xue let out a contented sigh, her arms tightening around her.

Then, she deftly began to help her daughter change clothes.

“Come~ lift your little paws…” Xun Xue skillfully took off the soft nightgown and changed her into a crisp and neat set of green and white crossed-collar ruqun.

Lu Qiancha cooperated extremely well, kicking her legs, stretching her waist, and offering her paws, like a lazy cat being groomed by its owner.

But Xun Xue didn’t stop talking: “Little Qiancha, I have big~ good~ news! Do you want to hear it?”

Her voice was tinged with a deliberate, playful teasing.

“Hm?!” Lu Qiancha’s little ears instantly perked up with a “swish,” her blue eyes meeting Xun Xue’s: “What good news? I want to hear it!”

“Recently, the Northern Continent will produce a batch of Shapeshifting Stones…”

Xun Xue blinked, her fingertip hooking her daughter’s chin, the smile at the corners of her lips widening, “Does Little Qiancha want them?”

“I do!”

Lu Qiancha was energized by these words.

The tip of her tail, very consciously and with a fawning obedience, rested on Xun Xue’s palm.
She tilted her head up, her blue eyes filled with undisguised longing.

But Xun Xue resisted the urge to pet her tail.
Instead, she slowly extended a hand, palm up.

“Hm?”

Lu Qiancha looked at Xun Xue with some confusion.

“Put your head here.”

Xun Xue said with a grin.

“Oh…”

Although Lu Qiancha didn’t understand her meaning, her trust in her mother overrode everything else.
She obediently, and with a hint of small curiosity, lowered her little head slightly and placed her chin in Xun Xue’s palm.

“So good~ so good~”

The smile in Xun Xue’s eyes deepened.
She very naturally scratched Lu Qiancha’s small chin, her movements gentle and skillful.

“Ngh-ngh-ngh…”

An incredibly contented purr immediately escaped from Lu Qiancha’s throat, and her eyes even narrowed into slits from the comfort.

“Let’s go, Mama will take you to the Northern Region.”

Xun Xue looked at her daughter’s completely dependent and at-her-mercy appearance and nodded in satisfaction.

“Okay~”

Lu Qiancha nodded vigorously, her little milky voice drawn out, soft and tender, the end of her tone rising.

After a simple farewell to Xuan Ya and the grounded Gan Tang, Lu Qiancha followed Xun Xue on the journey to the Northern Continent.

The wind in the northern border was as sharp as a knife.

Xun Xue, leading Lu Qiancha, landed near the Wolf Clan’s royal city, which was covered in thick frost and snow and exuded an ancient, vast aura.

Lu Qiancha immediately activated the Myriad Phantoms Mirage Art, and a stream of spiritual light flowed—

A “young man” in a plain green robe, with a handsome but slightly aloof temperament, replaced the little wolf girl—when traveling in the jianghu, a normal male body was the safest and most convenient.

But a human youth appearing in the Wolf Clan’s royal capital was equally eye-catching.

So, with a slight twist of her paw, she separated another wisp of spiritual energy.
A pair of fluffy, thick, deep blue wolf ears instantly stood up in her hair.

A wolf tail, with a deep blue fur and a hint of silver-white at the tip, also naturally drooped from behind her waist, swinging gently.