After seeing off the Luo Household's young master, Bian Chunchou flipped through the gifts of apology on the table. They were far more substantial than what the trading house had sent over. Still... there was no shame in accepting them. He would split them up once Wen Xu-Xu and Chen Zui-Zui returned.
Just as he was thinking this, he spotted Chen Zui-Zui in the distance, carrying his blade as he came back. But—"What is that hanging from your blade? Where did you get that fluffy charm?"
Chen Zui took the "pendant" from his sword hilt. "A Spirit Beast that stole my Blood-Replenishing Pills. It's yours."
A Spirit Beast cub? Hm? Why did that sound a little familiar?
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The palm-sized little white beast was all fluff, yet it had a pair of round, watery blue eyes. Its two front paws were obediently curled into a circle around his thumb. This... was cuteness so outrageous it ought to be outlawed.
Proud and unruly? No, no, no. This definitely was not the mixed-blood Spirit Beast that spoiled young master had spent a fortune to buy.
True Person Bian made an exceptionally arbitrary judgment. "It only stole a few of your Blood-Replenishing Pills. Was there any need to use the little thing as a sword tassel? You big brute, you don't know how to care for small animals at all!"
Chen Zui: ...Should I leave, then?
"But it looks so tiny. Maybe it has an owner, and you just carried it back like this? Where did you find it?"
Chen Zui truly was not a careful person when it came to such matters. "No idea. Who knows when it crawled into my storage pouch? It has a picky mouth, though. It did not touch a single low-grade Blood-Replenishing Pill."
"No? How could