After a bout of futile struggling and "ferocious" threats, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion finally accepted the reality that she could not escape for the time being.
She stopped flailing and lay quietly within the pale blue water film, though her three tails still swished about restlessly.
She rolled her three eyes and cautiously examined the four people before her once more.
Her gaze swept past the three girls, who were still whispering excitedly among themselves, before finally settling on the man who had "kidnapped" her and was now sitting leisurely beside the campfire—Jiang Zhen.
For some reason, when her gaze touched Jiang Zhen's calm, profound profile, her beastly face inexplicably grew a little warm. Awkwardly, she turned her head away and stopped looking directly at him.
At the same time, her heart, which had been taut with fright, slowly began to relax.
She could sense that the three girls seemed to regard this powerful man as their pillar, and this man... though his methods had been somewhat "rough," had indeed shown neither killing intent nor greed from beginning to end.
There was more novelty and amusement in the way he looked at her, as though he had discovered something interesting.
No, no, I'm not a thing...
That's not right either! I'm an—pah pah... I'm the Imperial Auspicious Beast!
She shook her head furiously.
More importantly, as the distance between them narrowed and her emotions calmed, her senses—those of the Imperial Auspicious Beast, which were exceptionally keen toward fortune—told her with absolute clarity.
That vast and peculiar source of fortune, which instinctively drew her close, was this human man before her!
It was him!
Somewhere in the unseen, it was as if an invisible thread of fate connected her to this human, producing an indescribable mutual attraction.
This was not the