Su Yuxi didn't move an inch, so it was impossible for her to leave.

She slowly extended her delicate, porcelain-like hand in front of him, her dark eyes gleaming with a resolute and burning light, leaving him nowhere to hide and nowhere to evade.

Fu Huaijin didn't want to pay attention, but his gaze was involuntarily drawn to that fair and delicate hand.

He wasn't stupid; he knew what Su Yuxi meant. She wanted him to place his inner inferiority and vulnerability in her palm.

But he didn't want to.

He didn't reach out, and the other hand didn't retract; the two remained locked in this stalemate.

Su Yuxi knew she couldn't force him. This was a secret he had kept hidden for over twenty years, and suddenly it was exposed to others. Although he himself didn't feel anything was wrong, human instinct would make him reject it. So she had to wait, wait for the moment when he was willing to reach out.

Fu Huaijin lowered his eyes and brows, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and beads of cold sweat appeared on his forehead. He was going through a silent struggle. He opened his mouth and said in a hoarse voice, "It will scare you."

Su Yuxi's eyebrows twitched slightly, and she softened her voice: "No, I'm not afraid, really."

"Besides, didn't you write it in your diary? I told you back then that I wasn't afraid."

"Didn't you accept it too?"

That's how fragile a man's heart can be. He made all those promises—that he wouldn't leave or give up—but when things went wrong, he secretly hid away by himself.

Do you remember what we did a few days ago?

Su Yuxi sighed silently, her firm voice filled with resentment: "Who would get married and then abandon their wife at home without a care?"

Fu Huaijin closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He knew, of course he knew. It was precisely because he knew that he regretted it. He regretted that he shouldn't have dragged her to the Civil Affairs Bureau. He should have let her leave.

Su Yuxi had been standing in front of him for a long time, and her patience was almost exhausted. She really wanted to grab the man's ear and shout at him, "This is really not a big deal, not a big deal, do you understand?"

She waited silently for another three minutes, knowing that the man still wouldn't take that step, so she simply covered his head with her hand and touched his slightly rough hair.

"It's wolf fur."

Fu Huaijin trembled, feeling the warmth from her palm, and subconsciously wanted to shake off her hand.

Su Yuxi held on tightly, as if giving him boundless strength in silence: "Look, I'm not afraid at all."

"Stop hiding, okay?"

I don't know if it's good or not.

All he knew was that he had failed.

Su Yuxi gently held those hands and examined them closely. Apart from the long hair and the sharpened nails, there was nothing else unusual.

Fu Huaijin, like a sullen little wife, couldn't pull his hands back, so he turned his head to the side. Even he himself couldn't bear to look at his two hands, but Su Yuxi watched with great interest.

"Can't it go back to the way it was before?"

Has this ever happened before?

Fu Huaijin thought for a moment and then told her about the previous incident: "It happened once before, but only on the palm of the hand."

Su Yuxi stared at him intently, recalling a time when he wore gloves day and night. She blamed herself for being careless; she had noticed something was amiss then, but hadn't considered anything else.

"Then how did it return to normal?"

"There's medicine." Actually, there was also a bracelet, but he didn't want to tell her about it; it was an agreement he made with that person.

"Is that medicine no longer effective?"

Fu Huaijin's eyes darkened slightly: "Hmm."

He couldn't even imagine what it would look like if it spread to other places next time.

Su Yuxi nodded slightly, understanding in her heart: "So what is your demand? Is it to return to a normal appearance? Or to cure this gene?"

"It can't be cured." His team brings together the world's top doctors and researchers, but apart from being able to suppress the body's genes, they can't figure out anything else.

Unless we can get the original data, but those people are too cunning and mysterious, it's extremely difficult to find them.

Su Yuxi put his hands down, stood up, patted his shoulder, and encouraged him: "Don't be discouraged, there must be a solution."

"That's not your mother..."

"Wasn't that what that woman did? You should catch her and torture her severely..."

Realizing she had misspoke, she paused, secretly glancing at Fu Huaijin's expression, and said that it seemed inappropriate to bring someone's mother in for questioning.

Fu Huaijin also stood up from his seat, put his hands behind his back, and a faint worry lingered between his brows: "It won't be that easy to catch her."

Her case involves the Morse family, a mysterious family with a history of over a thousand years, and obtaining the original data from them is extremely difficult.

In recent years, he has raided several dens but found nothing. The country with the most likely source of the original data distribution was the United States, but in the end, something went wrong.

He couldn't understand why this was happening.

Su Yuxi sensed his growing agitation, reached out and hugged his waist, gently patting his back: "Don't rush, take it slow, let's think of a solution slowly."

She had never encountered anything like this before, but Ah Zu had lived longer and was more knowledgeable, so he should know something. She would go up and ask Sister Chi Chi, which would be better than them just guessing here.

Fu Huaijin took a deep breath to calm himself, gently rubbing her hair with his chin, his heart softening: "Mmm."

"Thank you." Thank you for not disliking me, thank you for being willing to stay with me.

...

At night, Fu Huaijin slept peacefully and serenely. His hands, which usually clung to Su Yuxi, were now resting calmly by his side. He comforted himself with words of acceptance, but his body spoke louder than his words.

Su Yuxi held her phone, checking it every now and then. She had sent the message a long time ago, but Hu Chichi hadn't replied, making her so anxious that she couldn't sleep.

She threw her phone away, turned over, and met Fu Huaijin's cold and handsome face. What a nice person he was, how could he have run into such a terrible thing?

She sketched his facial features in her mind, thinking to herself that since he gave her money to help her go home, she would find a way to cure his illness, so that the debts and favors between them would be even.

I'll feel more at ease when I leave.

Thinking this, she pulled out the jade pendant she was wearing around her neck. It was originally given to her by Sister Chichi, and it was because of it that her tail was able to retract.

It should be fine to bring this on him, right?

Su Yuxi got out of bed and gently untied the warm jade pendant from her neck.

She held the jade pendant in her hand, her fingertips gliding over the delicate jade surface, as if she could feel the subtle spiritual power contained within it.

"Give it a try." Su Yuxi leaned forward slightly and tied the jade pendant around his neck.