Chapter 10 [10]
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It took Lu Zhiwan a long while to force herself to accept the current situation - she and Xiao Jingting were in an empty courtyard similar to a zoo, with two strong adult tigers in front of them. They had no precautions or defensive equipment. If these two tigers wanted to, they could open their bloody mouths at any time and eat her until not a bone was left.
The worst thing was that Xiao Jingting had a happy expression of "Look how cute they are" and invited her to pet the cats together: "Yihua and Erhua are always docile and will not hurt you."
I don't believe you, you rotten dog emperor, you're so bad! Lu Zhiwan rolled her eyes inwardly, with a dry smile on her face: "This concubine... This concubine meets them for the first time, and I'm not very familiar with them yet, so I won't touch them for now."
"You said you liked cats before, but seeing you look like you're disgusted by them now."
Xiao Jingting gave her a sidelong glance, his expression unremarkable. He then lowered his gaze and patted the tiger's head with his broad palm. "Yihua, she's lying to your face. What do you think is the most appropriate punishment I should give her?"
Hearing his master's words, the big tiger called Yihua raised its head, looked towards Lu Zhiwan, and let out a "woof".
Although the roar was not very fierce, Lu Zhiwan was still frightened when she met the eyes of a tiger. Her legs became weak and she could not speak clearly: "Your Majesty, you are joking. How dare I lie to you... I really like cats." But this cat is not that cat!
"Since you haven't deceived the king, then come here."
“My concubine…” Lu Zhiwan wanted to struggle for a while longer, but the man in front of her seemed to have lost much patience and his tone became a little colder: “Come here.”
This is what it means to be in a difficult situation.
Lu Zhiwan cursed the Dog Emperor thousands of times in his heart, but in the end he gritted his teeth and dragged his weak legs towards Erhua, who was relatively smaller in size.
When Erhua saw a stranger approaching, he bared his teeth and clenched his tiger claws, as if ready to fight at any time.
Seeing this, Lu Zhiwan stopped and looked at Xiao Jingting with dark eyes, bewildered: "Your Majesty..."
Xiao Jingting raised his eyebrows and patted Erhua's head soothingly: "She is timid, be careful and don't scare her."
As he spoke, he gave Lu Zhiwan a comforting look: "Erhua has a gentle temperament and hasn't eaten anyone in a long time."
Lu Zhiwan: “……?”
It would be fine if there was no comfort, but it would be even more terrifying if there was comfort!
After a struggle, she finally moved in front of Erhua. The moment she reached out her hand towards the big furry head, Lu Zhiwan subconsciously closed her eyes, and even began to think in her mind, if her arm was bitten off, she would be more likely to bleed to death or die of rabies.
The next moment, the fingers touched a rough yet soft warmth.
Her thin eyelids moved, and she probed a little downwards with her fingertips. The warm feeling became more and more real, gradually filling her entire palm, and she couldn't help but open her eyes.
When she saw her palm intact on the tiger's head, Lu Zhiwan swallowed her saliva in disappointment. It felt like a dream and it was unreal. She had become successful and even dared to touch a tiger!
"I've said before that Erhua is very docile." Xiao Jingting watched the changing expressions on her face, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up slightly, that was the joy of his baby being recognized: "Everyone says that beasts are ferocious and cruel, but I don't think so."
The cats he raised had simple minds, a hundred times cleaner than human hearts.
Lu Zhiwan also recovered from the initial shock of petting the big cats. Seeing that the two tigers were indeed docile, he became a little bolder and tentatively raised his hand to touch them.
But after just two touches, Erhua suddenly opened her mouth and roared fiercely at her, frightening Lu Zhiwan so much that she retracted her hand: "Your Majesty, what is she doing...!"
"You're touching it the wrong way. It's uncomfortable."
Xiao Jingting glanced at her tense little face, grabbed her hand, and put it back on Erhua's head: "Stroke it along the hair like this."
Lu Zhiwan was stunned, her eyes lowered as she saw the man's bony palm firmly covering the back of her hand, stroking it again and again. Against the backdrop of the brown tiger skin, his hand was as delicate as a white jade sculpture, and the blue veins were faintly visible in the sunlight.
His hands are so beautiful that they can be used as hand models.
She was lost in thought when she heard a pleasant man's voice: "Have you learned it?"
Lu Zhiwan was startled and subconsciously looked up. The afternoon sun was as clear as water, quietly shining on the man's chiseled face. He indeed had a murderously beautiful face, with high brow bones, deep eye sockets, and three-dimensional facial features like a model's face. Due to the light, the pair of dark eyes that were usually calm and still had a lighter color, revealing a faint amber, making his skin look even colder and whiter.
Even though he had seen many handsome men and beautiful women in his previous life, when he saw Xiao Jingting's face up close, Lu Zhiwan couldn't help but sigh: What a great face!
This blank stare made Xiao Jingting frown slightly: "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Lu Zhiwan instinctively replied, "You look good."
After he finished speaking, the man's expression seemed to stiffen for a moment, and then he turned his head away and said in a bad tone: "How can there be a woman as unrestrained as you?"
Seeing him frown, Lu Zhiwan also came back to her senses from the shock of his handsome appearance. She realized what she had just said, and her cheeks felt a little hot. But thinking of her love-brained personality, she did not change her words, but continued to praise: "Your Majesty is already handsome, and this concubine is just telling the truth..."
"Alright." Xiao Jingting seemed unwilling to listen to her anymore. He let go of her hand and said indifferently, "I've seen Dahua and Erhua. Come with me to see Xiao Caiyun."
He bent down and touched Dahua and Erhua again. The two big tigers were reluctant to leave and rubbed against his legs for a long time before watching him leave.
Seeing this, Lu Zhiwan didn't dare to stay any longer and hurriedly followed the man in front of her. However, she was wondering in her heart, what kind of bad temper does this man have? He is not happy when he is praised for his good looks. If someone compliments her in various ways, she will definitely be overjoyed.
With the previous experience of Yihua and Erhua, Lu Zhiwan did not dare to underestimate the power of Xiao Caiyun——
Sure enough, Xiao Caiyun was not a kitten, but a female leopard with a cloud-like pattern on its forehead.
Seeing the pot-bellied female leopard, Lu Zhiwan forced a smile and consoled himself by saying that they were all felines, so they could be considered cats after rounding it off.
For the next hour, she followed Xiao Jingting, just like a child visiting the zoo with her parents for the first time, and saw all the "cats" in Jinli Garden.
In summary, Xiao Jingting has raised two tigers, five leopards, two lions, one leopard cat, and twenty-eight kittens of various breeds... He can be said to be an absolute cat slave!
As the sun set in the west, Lu Zhiwan sat in the carriage heading back to the palace. Unable to contain his curiosity, he asked, "Why does Your Majesty like cats so much?"
Xiao Jingting poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip, and said, "They are so cute and well-behaved, why wouldn't you like them?"
This rhetorical question made Lu Zhiwan choke: "..."
Cats are indeed cute, but tigers and leopards seem to have a little distance from the word cute, right?
On second thought, everyone has different preferences. Some people raise cats, some raise dogs, and some like to keep snakes, spiders, lizards, and other reptiles. She had personally witnessed a 5-foot-tall, soft, sweet girl with a small snake wrapped around her arm, calling it "cub" with a loving expression... Although she didn't quite understand, she expressed respect. Besides, Xiao Jingting was the emperor. Raising tigers and leopards, even elephants and crocodiles would be a piece of cake for him to open a zoo.
It's so nice to be an emperor. Lu Zhiwan sighed inwardly, and seeing that he was in a good mood after petting the cat, he struck while the iron was hot and catered to his preferences by praising the lions, tigers and leopards one by one.
Seeing her two bright red lips moving up and down and talking incessantly, Xiao Jingting just wondered why she had so much to say.
However, it's not very annoying.
He closed his eyes and listened quietly to her praise. After she had praised all the cats, he opened his eyes and said slowly, "You have a good memory. You remembered all their names the first time."
"Your Majesty, you are too kind." Lu Zhiwan smiled modestly, "It's just that the cats your Majesty raises are so adorable that I am deeply impressed."
It would be hard for her to forget such a huge tiger or lion appearing in front of her.
Soon, the carriage drove into the palace.
Perhaps because he felt that Lu Zhiwan had done a good job accompanying the emperor during the day, Xiao Jingting brought her directly back to the Yangxin Palace, invited her to have dinner with him, and continued to serve him in bed tonight.
Lu Zhiwan naturally wanted it more than she could ask for. She could just sleep on a vegetarian diet and let outsiders think that she was favored and her living conditions had improved!
However, if one wants to go further in the future, it is not a good idea to keep doing pure love like this, so Lu Zhiwan decided to use his charm and try to seduce this dog emperor——
When it was late at night and the bed was completely dark, she listened to the breathing of the man beside her, making sure he was still asleep. She quietly stretched out her little finger to hook the man's palm, and then pinched her delicate voice and called out sweetly, "Your Majesty."
The hand holding hers paused for a moment, and then the man's calm voice rang out in the darkness: "What's the matter?"
Seeing that he didn't let go of her hand, Lu Zhiwan felt relieved and spoke in a softer tone, "It's nothing, I just couldn't sleep for a while and wanted to talk to Your Majesty. Your Majesty has been holding my hand these past two days... Do you find it comfortable to hold my hand?"
There was silence beside him for a while, and the man's voice was emotionless: "Why are you asking this?"
"I'm just curious." Lu Zhiwan said softly, listening for a while with her ears perked up. Seeing that he was not displeased, she bit her lip, finally mustered up the courage to turn over and move closer to the man: "Your Majesty..."
Without waiting for her to get close, a hand was placed directly on her forehead, just like a Taoist priest casting a spell on a demon. Lu Zhiwan was completely frozen. Then, through the dim light of the bed curtains, a man's indifferent voice with a stern and righteous aura could be heard: "What are you doing?"
Lu Zhiwan, whose forehead was pressed against his, said: "..."
Young men and women sleeping in the same bed late at night, what do you think I should do? Is he really not capable of this?
Suppressing the silence in her heart, Lu Zhiwan adhered to the goal of "since I'm looking for excitement, I'll follow through to the end". She raised her hand and placed it on Xiao Jingting's arm, her tone innocent and soft: "I want to ask, Your Majesty, do you want to hug me?"
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