Xiao Wu: Dad, Don't Kill Me!

She took a deep breath and abruptly raised her head. Her delicate little face instantly squeezed into an expression that was soft, innocent, and even somewhat pitiful.

Then Xiao Wu raised both little hands and gently tugged at the rabbit ears on her head. In a cloyingly sweet voice that made one's skin crawl, she cautiously called out to Snow Empress:

"Mom... Mommy?"

"Pfft—!"

The moment that "Mommy" came out, Xue Bingchen nearly spat out a mouthful of blood!

His eyes widened as he stared at Xiao Wu as though she were an alien, wildly ranting inwardly:

Holy shit! Do you have no shame at all, you rogue rabbit?! Just to stay alive, you dare claim relatives across species and hundreds of thousands of years of age difference?! And you even made me call her Mom?!

Meanwhile, Snow Empress was slightly taken aback as well.

A rare trace of astonishment appeared on her eternally icy face.

Then, Snow Empress narrowed her deep ice-blue eyes slightly, and the surrounding temperature instantly dropped by more than ten degrees!

An exceptionally dangerous aura once again enveloped Xiao Wu!

"Little one..."

Snow Empress's voice was as cold as ice chips, with undisguised anger on her face.

"What... did you just call me?"

Boom!

Feeling Snow Empress's undisguised killing intent, Xiao Wu trembled all over, and tears instantly burst from her eyes!

She knew she had buttered up the wrong person this time!

A lofty Peerless Fierce Beast like Snow Empress clearly hated it when a low-level Soul Beast casually tried to claim kinship with her!

It's over, it's over! I'm going to die, I'm going to die!

But her powerful instinct to survive drove Xiao Wu to make an even crazier, even more shameless move!

Without hesitation, Xiao Wu gave up on the idea of hugging Snow Empress's thigh. With a plop, she smoothly dropped to both knees!

This time, however, the one she chose to kneel before was Xue Bingchen, who was standing nearby watching the show!

Using both hands and feet, Xiao Wu clung tightly to Xue Bingchen's thigh like an octopus. Then, tugging at his pant leg, she raised her little face, covered in tears and utterly aggrieved, and began to wail:

"Dad! Dad, save me!"

"Dad, don't kill me! As long as you and Grandma don't kill me, I'm willing to do anything! I'll work like an ox or horse for you! I'll serve you tea and water! Sob sob sob..."

"Holy shit?!"

This sudden turn of events completely stunned Xue Bingchen!

He looked down at Xiao Wu, who was hugging his thigh for dear life and crying beautifully through her tears. His mind instantly short-circuited, leaving him utterly disheveled in the wind!

Dad?! What the hell?! I don't even have a girlfriend—where did I get a Hundred-Thousand-Year rogue rabbit daughter this big?!

And... what the hell is Grandma supposed to mean?!

Xue Bingchen felt his entire worldview being trampled like never before!

Facing Xue Bingchen's ghost-struck expression, Xiao Wu looked utterly righteous. She even defended herself loudly through her aggrieved sobs:

"Isn't this perfectly logical?!"

"You just called Lord Snow Empress Mom. If I call you Dad, then doesn't that make Lord Snow Empress my Grandma?!"

"Please, Dad, please, Grandma, have mercy and spare my life! Sob sob sob... Xiao Wu doesn't want to die yet!"

Seeing Xiao Wu's shameless appearance and logic so airtight that no one could refute it, Xue Bingchen was completely speechless.

The corners of his mouth twitched wildly, and for a moment, he did not know how to respond.

However.

Snow Empress, who had still been slightly angry nearby, heard Xiao Wu's "flawless" logic and that crisp cry of "Grandma"...

Not only did she not get angry, but an extraordinarily rare and amused smile appeared on her eternally icy face.

"Hehe..."

Snow Empress's ethereal laughter echoed through the small forest, carrying a trace of amusement.

"Interesting... truly interesting."

"I have lived for seven hundred thousand years. Taking a human as my son was already an unprecedented matter."

Snow Empress looked with great interest at the shameless Xiao Wu kneeling on the ground, her gaze tinged with novelty.

"If... my human son were to take a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit as his daughter... that would truly be an unprecedented, unheard-of curiosity!"

At that thought, Snow Empress's original intention to teach Xiao Wu a lesson instantly vanished.

She felt that keeping this little rabbit around might add quite a bit of amusement to her long, dull life.

"Since that is the case..."

Snow Empress spoke again, her voice carrying a mother's authority.

"From now on, you are one of us from the Far North.

In this human world, you must listen to the Young Master of the Far North—your 'Dad'—in all things."

Hearing those words, Xiao Wu felt as though she had been granted a pardon!

She nodded wildly like a pounding garlic pestle. Before the tears on her little face had even dried, she forced out a dazzlingly bright smile.

"Mhm, mhm! I'll listen to Dad in everything! Xiao Wu will absolutely behave and obey!"

"Very good."

Snow Empress smiled in satisfaction.

The next moment.

Her figure transformed into snow and ice filling the sky before dispersing once more and returning to Xue Bingchen's body.

However, before she completely vanished, Snow Empress's bone-chilling voice still left Xiao Wu with an extremely stern warning in her mind:

"Little rabbit, remember your place!"

"If you dare do anything that harms Little Chen's interests, or if you dare betray him... I will kill you with my own hands! I will not even give you the chance to become a Spirit Ring!"

Boom!

Upon hearing that warning, Xiao Wu shuddered violently and nodded again and again, secretly swearing that she would never dare harbor even the slightest disloyalty!

At the same time, she secretly muttered to herself:

Little Chen? Is that Dad's nickname? It actually sounds rather affectionate...

Snow Empress had returned.

Yet Xue Bingchen, standing where he was, remained somewhat dazed.

"No..."

Xue Bingchen stood there, utterly disheveled, looking at Xiao Wu, who was still clinging tightly to his thigh.

"Snow Empress Mom just... forcibly helped me take in a Hundred-Thousand-Year rogue rabbit as a daughter?!"

Holy shit! This isn't how the script is supposed to go! Other transmigrators take in underlings or build harems... how did I somehow end up with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast as a daughter?!

The generations are completely messed up, okay?!

Xue Bingchen ranted wildly inwardly, feeling that his worldview had suffered a tremendous impact.

Still, things had come to this, and even Snow Empress had spoken. He could only pinch his nose and accept this bargain daughter.

After a pause.

Xue Bingchen looked at Xiao Wu, who was still rubbing herself against his thigh, and sighed helplessly.

"Alright, stop rubbing against me."

Xue Bingchen said irritably:

"Since you called me Dad, called Snow Empress Grandma, and joined our Far North, then I'll reluctantly accept you as my bargain daughter."