Xiao Wu: Dad, Don't Kill Me!

She took a deep breath and abruptly raised her head. That delicate, porcelain-like face instantly contorted into an expression so soft, so innocent, and so pitiful that it could melt a heart of stone.

Then, Xiao Wu reached out with her small hands to gently tug at her own rabbit ears, calling out to Snow Empress in a voice so cloyingly sweet it made one's skin crawl:

"Mo... Mommy?"

"Pfft—!"

The moment that "Mommy" left her lips, Xue Bingchen, standing to the side, nearly spat out a mouthful of blood!

He widened his eyes, staring at Xiao Wu as if she were an alien, his mind racing with frantic internal complaints:

Damn it! Have you no shame, you little hooligan rabbit?! To save your own skin, you'd actually try to claim a relative across species and a hundreds-of-thousands-of-years age gap?! You're even following my lead and calling her Mommy now?!

At this moment, Snow Empress was also slightly stunned.

A rare look of bewilderment flickered across her icy, eternal face.

Immediately following, Snow Empress narrowed her deep, ice-blue eyes, and the surrounding temperature plummeted by over ten degrees!

An incredibly dangerous aura once again enveloped Xiao Wu!

"Little one..."

Snow Empress's voice was as cold as shards of ice, her face etched with undisguised fury:

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

"Boom!"

Feeling the raw killing intent radiating from Snow Empress, Xiao Wu shivered violently, and tears instantly burst from her eyes!

She knew she had kicked the wrong hornet's nest with that attempt at flattery!

A peerless, high-and-mighty beast like Snow Empress clearly detested low-level soul beasts trying to climb the social ladder by claiming kinship!

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

But a desperate survival instinct spurred Xiao Wu to make an even crazier, more shameless move!

Abandoning her plan to hug Snow Empress's leg, Xiao Wu dropped to her knees with a smooth, practiced "thud!"

Only this time, the target of her kowtowing had shifted to Xue Bingchen, who was standing to the side watching the show!

Xiao Wu scrambled forward like an octopus, latching onto Xue Bingchen's leg and clutching his pant leg, looking up with a tear-streaked, aggrieved face as she wailed at the top of her lungs:

"Daddy! Daddy, save me!"

"Daddy, don't kill me! As long as you and Grandma don't kill me, I'll do anything! I'll be your beast of burden! I'll pour your tea and serve your water! Wuwuwu..."

"What the hell?!"

This sudden turn of events left Xue Bingchen completely bewildered!

He looked down at Xiao Wu, who was clinging to his leg and crying like a rain-drenched flower, his brain short-circuiting as he stood there, utterly windblown!

Daddy?! What kind of nonsense is this?! I don't even have a girlfriend, so where would I get a hundred-thousand-year-old hooligan rabbit for a daughter?!

And... what the hell is this about a Grandma?!

Xue Bingchen felt his entire worldview being trampled upon!

Facing Xue Bingchen's "what-the-hell" expression, Xiao Wu remained perfectly righteous, even adding a touch of aggrieved sobbing to her defense:

"Isn't this perfectly logical?!"

"You just called Lady Snow Empress 'Mommy,' so if I call you 'Daddy,' doesn't that make Lady Snow Empress my Grandma?!"

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

Watching Xiao Wu's shameless, yet logically airtight performance that left no room for rebuttal, Xue Bingchen was left speechless.

His mouth twitched uncontrollably, and for a moment, he didn't know how to respond.

However.

Snow Empress, who had been simmering with rage just a moment ago, heard this "impeccable" logic and that crisp "Grandma"...

Instead of getting angry, a rare, amused smile graced her icy, eternal face.

"Heh..."

Snow Empress's ethereal laughter echoed through the small grove, carrying a hint of playfulness:

"Interesting... truly interesting."

"I have lived for seven hundred thousand years, and adopting a human as my son was already an unprecedented event."

Snow Empress examined the shameless Xiao Wu kneeling on the ground with keen interest, her gaze filled with novelty:

"If... my human son were to adopt a hundred-thousand-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit as his daughter... that would truly be an unheard-of, unprecedented curiosity!"

At this thought, Snow Empress's urge to punish Xiao Wu vanished into thin air.

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

"Since that is the case..."

Snow Empress's voice rang out once more, carrying a hint of maternal authority:

"From now on, you belong to the Far North.

In this human world, you must obey the Young Master of the Far North—that is, your 'Daddy' here—in everything."

Upon hearing these words, Xiao Wu felt as if she had been granted a reprieve!

She nodded frantically like a pestle pounding garlic, and before the tears on her small face had even dried, she squeezed out an incredibly radiant smile:

"Mm-hmm! Everything will be as Daddy says! Xiao Wu will be absolutely obedient!"

"Very good."

The Snow Empress smiled with satisfaction.

The next moment.

Her figure transformed into a sky full of ice and snow, dissipating once more to return within the body of Xue Bingchen.

However, before she vanished completely, the Snow Empress's bone-chilling voice left a stern warning echoing in Xiao Wu's mind:

"Little rabbit, remember your place!"

"If you dare to do anything that harms the interests of Little Chen, or if you dare to betray him... I will kill you with my own hands! I won't even leave you the chance to become a Soul Ring!"

"Boom!"

Hearing this warning, Xiao Wu shuddered violently and nodded repeatedly, secretly swearing in her heart that she would never dare to harbor any disloyal thoughts!

At the same time, she muttered to herself in secret:

"Little Chen? Is that Daddy's nickname? It sounds quite affectionate, actually..."

The Snow Empress had returned.

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

"No way..."

Xue Bingchen stood disheveled in the wind, looking down at Xiao Wu, who was still clutching his thigh for dear life:

"Did Mother Snow Empress just... forcibly help me adopt a Hundred-Thousand-Year hooligan rabbit as a daughter?!"

"Damn it! This script is all wrong! When others transmigrate, they recruit underlings or build harems... How did I end up, in a muddled daze, gaining a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast as a daughter?!"

"The generational hierarchy is completely ruined, isn't it?!"

Xue Bingchen ranted frantically in his heart, feeling his worldview had suffered a massive shock.

However, things had reached this point, and since even the Snow Empress had spoken, he could only hold his nose and accept this cheap daughter.

After a pause.

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

"Alright, stop rubbing."

Xue Bingchen said with a huff:

"Since you've called me Daddy and addressed the Snow Empress as Grandma, and have joined our Far North, I will reluctantly accept you as my cheap daughter."