Obey, Little Rabbit!

"New... little rabbit?"

To Wang Sheng and the other work-study students, those words merely sounded like a nickname the Holy Son had given Xiao Wu.

But to Xiao Wu, they were no different from a bolt of thunder.

The smugness on Xiao Wu's face vanished instantly, and her pupils contracted uncontrollably.

How could this be?

She had only just left the Star Dou Forest. Da Ming and Er Ming had clearly told her that as long as she did not deliberately reveal her aura, humans below the level of Titled Douluo could never see through the true form of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit.

But why could this boy, who looked about the same age as her, expose her secret at a glance?

Was it a coincidence, or a test?

No, that was not right! The way he looked at her was clearly the way one assessed prey. The intense sense of danger nearly shattered Xiao Wu's reason.

She refused to admit that this human had frightened her. As long as she struck first and knocked him unconscious or subdued him, she would still have a chance to escape!

"What little rabbit? What nonsense are you spouting? You're asking for a beating!"

Xiao Wu cried out sharply, masking the panic in her heart. Her legs exploded with force, and she shot forward like a cannonball, lunging straight for Qian Renyuan's face.

She held nothing back, using her proudest trump card the moment she attacked.

Soft Technique! Waist Bow!

This sure-kill move had just thrown the bull-built Wang Sheng so hard that he had been left utterly disoriented.

"We're done for..."

Cowering in the corner, Wang Sheng turned green with fright at the sight, his teeth chattering uncontrollably.

Had this little lady gone mad?

She had just arrived and had no idea what kind of living demon stood before her.

She actually dared to attack the Holy Son. Wasn't that like carrying a lantern into a latrine—looking for death?

"Not bad speed. Too bad there are far too many openings."

His tone was casual, as though he were instructing a child who had only just learned to walk.

Just as Xiao Wu's braid was about to coil around his neck, Qian Renyuan casually shifted to the side, neatly evading her attack.

"What?" Xiao Wu's strike missed, and her heart sank sharply.

Before she could twist her waist to save herself, Qian Renyuan's palm had already seized her slender wrist, instantly locking down every route through which she could exert force.

Xiao Wu's expression changed. Instinctively, she wanted to use the Soft Technique, borrow the force of his grip to twist her body, wrap her legs around Qian Renyuan's arm, and lock him in a reverse-joint chokehold.

But Qian Renyuan gave her no such chance.

His right hand, gripping Xiao Wu's wrist, pulled downward with the motion. At the same time, he raised his left hand and casually pressed his palm down onto Xiao Wu's right shoulder.

Bang—

With that seemingly weightless press, Xiao Wu felt as though a mountain had crashed down upon her. Her body in midair instantly lost all balance.

Qian Renyuan forcibly pressed her into a half-kneeling position on the floor. The wooden floor let out a dull, teeth-gritting groan, and fine cracks spread outward from beneath Xiao Wu's knees.

"Bastard! Let me go!"

Pain brought tears to Xiao Wu's eyes, but the ferocity of a soul beast made her struggle desperately. Like a wildcat whose tail had been stepped on, she bared two sharp little canine teeth and made to bite the hand Qian Renyuan had placed on her shoulder.

"Still refusing to behave?"

Since this rabbit would not give up until she saw the coffin, he would give her a real dose of medicine.

A trace of the aura of the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus flowed from Qian Renyuan's tightly clasped palm and entered Xiao Wu's body.

Only a trace.

Yet that aura silently seeped into Xiao Wu's body through Qian Renyuan's palm.

To Xiao Wu, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, that trace of aura was several times more terrifying than the killing intent released by a Titled Douluo.

Xiao Wu, who had still been struggling moments ago, suddenly froze, as if someone had abruptly pressed a pause button.

Deep within her soul, Xiao Wu seemed to see a boundless black abyss with no end in sight, where a lotus slowly bloomed. As its petals opened, a despair capable of destroying all things clamped tightly around her throat.

Xiao Wu's perception of danger and aura was hundreds, even thousands of times sharper than that of an ordinary human soul master.

This aura... was not something a human could possess at all.

Xiao Wu's large eyes, once filled with wildness, had gone unfocused from extreme terror. Her whole body trembled beyond her control, and a layer of fine cold sweat seeped from her forehead before rolling down her cheeks in large drops.

Looking at the little rabbit beneath his hand, now completely obedient, Qian Renyuan's lips curved into a satisfied smile.

He bent down slightly, his warm breath brushing Xiao Wu's ear as he said in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Don't scream, and don't move."

"And don't think that the pathetic disguise on your body can truly fool everyone."

His slender fingers traveled up Xiao Wu's taut back and came to rest seemingly casually on the fair nape of her neck.

"A Soft Bone Rabbit with a hundred thousand years of cultivation, instead of staying properly in the core region of the Star Dou Forest, insists on coming to the human world." Qian Renyuan's fingers brushed her nape, touching and withdrawing as if by accident, his tone indifferent. "Tell me, if I expose your secret right now, would those Titled Douluo go completely mad over a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone?"

Xiao Wu bit her lower lip tightly. She did not want to bow her head before this monster, but the hand at her nape made her feel as though her life was already in his grasp.

In the end, the instinct to survive overcame the pride of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

The violent rise and fall of Xiao Wu's chest gradually calmed. She abandoned all resistance, and her pink eyes, misted with moisture, lowered unwillingly.

She did not even dare meet Qian Renyuan's eyes again. In a voice as faint as a thread, she merely forced out a weak nasal sound through clenched teeth, accepting her fate.

This was precisely the effect Qian Renyuan wanted. He did not need a puppet that could only wag its tail and beg for favor. Only by retaining some biting ferocity would this rabbit be worthy of his patient training later on.

Qian Renyuan chuckled softly, satisfied as he withdrew his hand and slowly straightened.

At that moment.

The dormitory door, which had been left slightly ajar, was shoved open from outside with a bang, rather roughly.

Qian Renyuan raised his eyelids slightly, his gaze passing over Xiao Wu, who was half-kneeling on the floor, and landing on the doorway.

The newcomer was Tang San.

At this moment, Tang San was in an utterly miserable state.

Although he had barely managed to complete the new student registration, his faded, freshly washed clothes were now covered in dust and bloodstains.

Tang San stood at the entrance of Dorm Seven, his entire body frozen.

The moment he entered, he saw Xiao Wu kneeling at Qian Renyuan's feet.

He had clearly never met this girl in pink before.

Yet for some reason, the sight of her reddened eyes and trembling body made Tang San's heart suddenly ache.