Chapter 42 Let Me Hug You
Seeing that there was no one else around, Shu Ning recalled the details of all the conversations that day and what she had seen and heard since entering the fox clan.
Yueying said that her father was kind and generous, and never mistreated his clansmen. He even took in the gray foxes from the north.
She took out an encyclopedia from her spatial storage to look up when the gray foxes began to change...
As expected, these are the fox clan members who have been entering the country over the past two months.
I then checked whether Lie Feng and Hui Hu had ever been in a romantic relationship...
There is no record of this.
And those minor characters are even less recorded.
After putting the book away, Shu Ning looked at Lie Feng.
He was almost in a coma, with a pained expression on his face as if he were having a nightmare.
Just as she stood up and turned around, she suddenly met the eyes of a gray fox, who quickly released his charm at Shu Ning.
Shu Ning was instantly captivated.
Just as Gray Fox picked up his knife to make his move, Ember Eye suddenly appeared behind him.
Hearing the commotion behind him, the gray fox quickly withdrew its charm, sheathed its sword, and said to Jin Tong with a casual smile, "I came to see how the clan leader is doing."
"The clan leader is doing well," Jin Tong said as she casually approached him.
Seeing this, Gray Fox tried to escape, but was caught by Ember Eye in the next second.
"Oh, it really is you! I was wondering why I couldn't find you in your cave earlier. Turns out you ran off to my father's place!" Jin Tong said angrily, grabbing him tightly.
Shu Ning, having recovered her senses, looked at the gray fox in front of her and the sharp bone knife that had fallen from its hand, and was filled with lingering fear.
After knocking out and tying up Grey Fox, Jin Tong walked over to Shu Ning and, seeing her still-shaken expression, softly asked, "Hey... are you alright?"
Shu Ning was taking deep breaths to calm herself down, but her heart was still pounding.
The moment she saw Jin Tong, her nose tingled, and she suddenly stepped forward and hugged him.
With a sob in her voice, she said, "Waaaaah, Jin Tong, thank goodness you appeared in time, otherwise I would have almost died, I was so scared..."
Shu Ning wouldn't miss this great opportunity to get closer to him.
When Jin Tong saw her crying like this, he tried to push her away, but the moment he tried, she hugged him even tighter.
"Let me hug you!" Shu Ning said coquettishly, hugging his slender waist even tighter.
"You... sigh... alright, aren't you perfectly fine now?"
Seeing how pitiful she looked, he raised her hand and let her hug him.
"No, no, I'm so scared." Shu Ning buried her head in his chest and shook her head as she spoke.
"That's enough, it won't look good if they come back and see this," Jin Tong said.
"What's wrong with that? You're my beast husband, it's only natural for me to hold you. Or are you saying you despise me?"
"I...I didn't mean to look down on you, you don't want me..."
Jin Tong recalled that he had indeed looked down on her when they first met, so he didn't continue to refute her.
But as he noticed she was gradually becoming better and better, he realized he had been superficial, making such a hasty judgment of someone based solely on their appearance.
After a while.
"Are you feeling any better?" Jin Tong asked, looking down at the female who was still holding her.
"Much better," Shu Ning replied, releasing him.
"That's good. Be careful in the future, and don't let those foxes bewitch you so easily," Jin Tong said softly, looking at her red, tear-filled eyes.
"Okay, then please don't leave me, okay? I'm scared. At least... don't separate from me in the fox clan."
She was genuinely terrified; the allure lasted only a moment, leaving her no time to teleport.
"Alright, then you'll have to stick close to me," Jin Tong replied, remembering what had just happened.
"Okay!" A happy smile instantly appeared on Shu Ning's face.
"Jin Tong is so good to me!" she continued to praise him.
Jin Tong's fox-like ears twitched at her praise, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.
"What's going on?" Yueying asked when she saw the gray fox tied up at the cave entrance after returning from outside.
Then Chi Yan returned as well.
“He was about to assassinate Shu Ning, but I tied him up,” Jin Tong replied.
"I'll take him to the interrogation room for questioning." Upon hearing this, Chi Yan took him away.
"Ningning, are you alright?" Yueying asked.
"I'm fine, sister, thanks to Jin Tong's timely appearance," Shu Ning said, taking Jin Tong's hand.
"That's good. Jintong, how could you put Shu Ning in danger?" Yueying scolded.
"Sister, I..."
"Jin Tong is investigating that gray fox from earlier; we just guessed he's a suspect," Shu Ning said.
"I see, Ningning, you're amazing! You've only been in the fox clan for a short time and you've already found the real culprit," Yueying said admiringly.
“Sister, this shouldn’t be the real culprit, but an accomplice,” Shu Ning said.
"The person who actually poisoned the body is very likely the real culprit."
“That’s right, I’ve already sent my trusted confidants to investigate secretly,” Yueying said.
"Lord Yueying." At this moment, a fox-beastman entered from outside the cave.
"explain."
"We discovered a female gray fox in a cave that showed the same symptoms as the chief."
Where is that person now?
"He has been taken to the interrogation room."
"Alright, I'll go over there now. You stay here and keep an eye on the clan chief."
"yes."
Subsequently, Jin Tong and Shu Ning also arrived at the interrogation room.
After waking the male gray fox from the splash, he was immediately taken aback when he saw the ailing female gray fox beside him.
“You… I will take responsibility for my actions alone. What right do you have to kidnap her?”
"Why are you pretending? Speak up, why did you poison the clan leader?" Chi Yan roared.
The male gray fox, upon hearing the word "poison," showed a flicker of panic.
"Don't try to frame someone without evidence. I admit to assassinating her, but I don't admit to poisoning her," he said, looking at Shu Ning beside him.
“Whether you acknowledge it or not, she’s not going to live.” Chi Yan pointed to the ailing female gray fox beside him, then gestured to the attendant next to him to pull her away.
"What do you mean? You...you let her go! Let her go!" the male gray fox shouted excitedly.
Seeing that he was about to lose control, Shu Ning couldn't help but take Jin Tong's arm.
Jin Tong grasped Shu Ning's hand and patted it gently.
“I can release her, but only if you honestly explain why you poisoned the clan leader. The clan leader has never mistreated you,” Yueying said.
"I'll talk, I'll talk, as long as you let her go."
Yueying gestured to the servants to release her.
"It's all the chief's fault. Lanling only admires the chief, but the chief only has Ling Shuang in his heart. She said she was willing to be the chief's concubine, but the chief won't give her a chance. She is the most proud princess of our Northern Gray Fox."
"What does this have to do with Father?" Shu Ning asked.
This scene inexplicably reminded her of Xuan Lin, and she didn't know why.
"Who told your clan leader to show such excessive kindness by saving us, especially Lanling? He took special care of her, making her mistakenly believe that the clan leader had feelings for her," the male gray fox sneered.
“How ridiculous! You’ve made a mistake in saving me. It’s your ulterior motives that have led you to take my father’s good intentions for granted,” Yueying said.
"Anyway, I've already said it, and you promised to let her go," the male gray fox said.
“They agreed, but I didn’t,” Jin Tong said.
"You...you dare to go back on your word!" the male gray fox exclaimed excitedly.
"Don't you know that the poison she used made her unable to survive either?" Shu Ning asked.
"How could that be? She told me it was just a backlash, that she was just feeling unwell, and that it would get better after a while." He looked at Shu Ning in disbelief, as if trying to find a hint of deception in her eyes.
"It seems you've been deceived by her. That's the Acacia Ashes. The symptoms of both the poisoner and the victim are the same: their faces turn purple, and they eventually die from the painful crystallization."
“Take a closer look at her. Isn’t the purple on her face more noticeable than yesterday?” Shu Ning said.
Seeing that the symptoms on her face were indeed as Shu Ning had described, he panicked, his legs went weak, and he knelt on the ground with his hands still bound above him.
"I don't believe it, I don't believe it..." he said weakly, as if that would make it seem like nothing had ever happened.
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