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Sigh, some people only pretended to be polite and refined. In reality, they were cruel and ruthless, treating human lives as nothing. Back then, I thought getting beaten up would be the end of it. Who knew he had actually decided to make me fake my death? He had even found a stand-in. I watched with my own eyes as a male college student with a build similar to mine was changed into my clothes. They let him leave, then a huge truck suddenly came barreling out and smashed him to pieces.

That bastard! And that returnee had the nerve to say it was because he loved me?

Back then, I had been juggling several relationships at once, which was already morally bankrupt enough. But there was always someone worse. That bastard disgusted me so badly on the spot that I threw up.

Of course, throwing up did no good. Right afterward, he shoved me onto a boat and smuggled me into the United States.

—After arriving in the United States, Bai Jinxiao had apparently been forced to serve as a kept man for several years. He skipped over that part. In any case, he was weaker than others, had no legal status, and could barely speak English. The man imprisoning him was incredibly possessive and simply wouldn't allow him to interact with outsiders, afraid Bai Jinxiao might seduce someone else... Bai Jinxiao had always been looking for a chance to escape, but life was absurdly cruel. Before he could make his escape, that returnee had already met his end, taken out by someone more powerful, his entire household ransacked.

And so Bai Jinxiao, unlucky as he was, remained unchanged while the world changed around him. He merely got a new owner and continued being a caged canary.

This time, though, his treatment was slightly better. He no longer lived in a birdcage every day, and his owner gave him limited freedom, allowing him to go outside for fresh air now and then.

Bai Jinxiao seized that opportunity and worked tirelessly. On one hand, he soaked up every kind of knowledge like a sponge; on the other, he secretly stirred up trouble. Put nicely, he formed alliances and rose to a position of power. In reality, though, his methods were far from noble and righteous. Why not make use of a Rabbit Spirit's advantages? In the end, after using up his big-shot owner, he quietly had him killed. The man's second-generation wolf cubs wanted to play some stepmother fantasy game with him. Bai Jinxiao merely smiled. "You unfilial brats can go underground and keep your old man company. From now on, I'm the boss around here. Who supports this? Who objects?"

That fucked-up life had forcibly turned a Rabbit Spirit who only knew how to fool around into a vicious rabbit boss forged in blood and iron. Who could he even complain to?

After several years of bloodshed, Bai Jinxiao had only recently secured his position on the iron throne beneath him. Then he counted on his fingers and thought, My son back home should be an adult by now, right?

"If you've already awakened, I mean, it would be best if you could come to the United States in the next few days..."

"No need, right..." Li Zhikong refused without a second thought. No matter how difficult his immortal father's life had been over the years, that dark history of his would never be cleared in his maternal grandparents' eyes. Since father and son had been apart for so long, it was better for each to live well on his own. Keeping in touch by phone from time to time was enough.

Besides, it was just a bloodline awakening. No big deal. He had already found a suitable tool for Dual Cultivation. Compared to the genuine scumbags his immortal father had encountered abroad, Young Master Lu was practically a model socialist citizen. Sure enough, people feared comparison most of all! Comparison brought happiness~

"No, your grandparents may be good people, but they're getting old. They can't help you much with this. I'm not trying to force you to settle in the United States. I just want to do what little I can, so you won't have to struggle as I did back then, and so you can better get through the early stage after your transformation..." Bai Jinxiao coughed. "To be honest, looking back now, I made many mistakes. At the very least, I wronged your mother and you terribly."

"I understand what you mean." Li Zhikong nodded. "But you can rest assured about this. I won't repeat your mistakes."

Because from the very beginning, I hadn't planned to harm a large number of girls!

The Rabbit Spirit father and son stared at each other through the screen for a while.

Bai Jinxiao raised an eyebrow. "So you found a man for Dual Cultivation too? Then are you the one on top or the one on the bottom?"

A silent pause.

After a long while, Bai Jinxiao sighed. His eyes were full of pity as he looked at his foolish son. "Do you know about rabbits' unique false pregnancy response?"

"...I know," Li Zhikong said, an ominous feeling rising in his heart. "But I'm not a woman. What does false pregnancy have to do with me?"

Bai Jinxiao said, "Right. That was what I asked the heavens back then too."

The Rabbit Spirit Bloodline was truly a scam!

Chapter 31 ◇

◎Student Li was already in the United States~◎

Bai Jinxiao truly didn't want to recall how his brain had short-circuited back then. Suddenly, his maternal instincts had exploded, and his inherited memories had joined in causing trouble, unlocking all sorts of childcare-related knowledge, including how to sew children's clothes and make baby toys...

His body had also strangely begun to take on the appearance of a "pregnant man." His skin became delicate and pale, and his lower abdomen swelled slightly. As for food, he developed a craving for sour and spicy flavors, and he would feel nauseated and vomit from time to time...

Most absurd of all, during that period, two tiny bumps had actually risen on his chest! If they were sucked hard enough, a liquid resembling breast milk would even flow out!

At the time, Bai Jinxiao hadn't realized that this was a very common false pregnancy phenomenon among rabbits. He had a guilty conscience, after all, and thought Rabbit Spirits were simply that naturally gifted. Ordinary people couldn't give birth as men because ordinary people were too weak. Male Rabbit Spirits, on the other hand, had no such problem.

During his "pregnancy," he had completely split in two. On one side, he radiated maternal love, stopped fooling around every day, practiced sewing and cooking whenever he had nothing to do, listened to music for prenatal education, and talked to the "baby" in his belly. On the other side, he would occasionally curse heaven and earth, thinking, What kind of fucked-up bloodline is this? It won't stop until it kills me, will it? Why sew clothes or cook? We might as well all die together! Let everyone die cleanly!

Bai Jinxiao admitted that this unbelievably fucked-up experience had definitely been the last straw that transformed him from a caged canary at the mercy of others into the somewhat capable "superior person" he was today.

He no longer feared life or death. If someone crossed him, he fought. The little widow at the funeral hall had transformed into a big shot. Wasn't that thrilling?

Looking again at Li Zhikong, who had just heard this devastating news, his eyes were blank, and his soul seemed to have floated out through his half-open mouth.

"That's why I said you'd better come to the United States soon..." Bai Jinxiao took the opportunity to screenshot his son several times before adding with a smile, "After our clan awakens, we'll gradually unlock some inherited memories, but distant water can't put out an immediate fire. Besides, even if you know how to set up something like a Spirit-Gathering Array, do you have the materials to construct it?"