The village was brightly lit. Even though the day's celebrations had ended, some people were still lighting bonfires and playing games with great enthusiasm.
Behind the Fox King's wooden house are rooms prepared for guests who have come from afar.
The wolf princess left the room and happened to see Lang Kai enter. He was soaking wet, with a smear of blood at the corner of his mouth, clutching his stomach, and his brows were slightly furrowed.
Langyu quickly stepped forward to support her brother.
"Brother, where did you go?"
Lang Kai gestured for her to be quiet and looked into the inner room.
Langyu rolled her eyes. "She's asleep. You don't need to worry about her."
She couldn't help but nag her brother: "You should worry about yourself. You've been hiding out there all these years. You've finally come back, and Mom and Dad have given in. As long as you send her away and marry a woman who is suitable for you, they will forgive all the mistakes you made in the past."
Lang Kai removed his hand without responding, went inside, locked the door, and shut his sister's incessant chatter out.
He thought that by disguising himself as a dog, he could easily obtain spiritual power from Yi Mu, but he didn't expect that Yi Mu was so busy with work that he was almost never at home.
Upon learning that Yi Mu had returned to his hometown to celebrate the Fox King's birthday, he knew that his opportunity had arrived.
Although it was a bit dangerous to take action on the fox clan's territory, his beloved couldn't wait any longer.
The woman lying on the bed did not have a stunning appearance; in fact, she looked rather old. She lay there, barely breathing, as if she could die at any moment.
Lang Kai walked to his lover's bedside, gently helped her sit up, and leaned her against the headboard.
"Chunhua, I can cure your illness now. Let's go back tomorrow."
Upon hearing the word "save," the woman's eyes widened suddenly. Like a drowning person grasping at a piece of driftwood, she clung tightly to Lang Kai's sleeve, unaware that Lang Kai was wet.
"real?!"
Over the years, she had lost the strength to even speak, but at this moment, she actually managed to utter two words coherently, though her voice was hoarse and unpleasant.
Lang Kai held her body, tears welling in his eyes, and nodded: "You will live, you will live a long, long life. When you get better, I will take you to a place where no one is around, to live a life for just the two of us, where no one will bother us anymore."
The woman doesn't care where she lives, nor does she care about being gossiped about behind her back. She only hopes that she can keep her face, a face that still looks relatively young.
The woman and Lang Kai met during the Republican era.
At that time, Lang Kai had not yet transformed into human form. He was caught in a human animal trap, but a woman saved him and healed his wounds with herbs.
After Lang Kai took human form, he never forgot the woman and came back to find her.
The woman had grown from a little girl into a young woman and caught the eye of a local bully who wanted to take her by force.
Lang Kai rescued the woman, and they fell in love at first sight. For the next few years, they lived together and were very loving.
However, the wolf clan could not tolerate a human woman becoming the future wolf king's wife, and they did everything they could to obstruct them.
Lang Kai didn't care what his people thought of them; he only wanted to be with the one he loved.
But he forgot that his lover was human; she couldn't live forever like a monster. She had to go through birth, aging, sickness, and death.
The woman's illness came on suddenly, and she fell ill in her sixties. Over the years, all she could do was keep her alive with precious herbal medicine.
But now Lang Kai has gathered the methods for curing the disease from that ancient book. As long as he feeds his beloved with his heart's blood, she will definitely get better.
He didn't care about the position of wolf king; he just wanted to be with the one he loved.
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