Snow Empress Adopts Him!

Snow Empress arrived before the snowy slope.

She lowered her head to look at the child in swaddling clothes, her silver-white hair falling over her shoulders, the tips lightly brushing against her pristine white dress.

Ice Empress had already crouched nearby.

She extended a slender finger and gently touched Qian Chen's fair little cheek.

"Little one, how did you end up here?"

Qian Chen blinked.

The woman before him was delicate and charming, with long emerald-green hair falling behind her waist. A dark green short skirt wrapped around her exquisite figure.

Beneath the hem of her skirt, her snow-white legs were bent, their skin as smooth and delicate as jade.

When Ice Empress saw Qian Chen staring at her, she immediately became interested.

She lightly tapped Qian Chen's nose with her fingertip.

"Snow Sister, he's looking at me."

"This little one is so adorable."

Qian Chen wanted to raise his hand to stop her.

But his arms were too short, and he could only grab one of Ice Empress's fingers.

That tiny hand was soft and warm.

Ice Empress's eyes brightened slightly as she let Qian Chen hold her finger.

"He seems to like me quite a bit."

Snow Empress did not respond.

She bent down to examine the snow around them.

The swaddling clothes had already been buried halfway by the wind and snow, yet there was no trace of any human presence nearby.

A child who had only just been born, lying alone in the Extreme North, should have lost all signs of life long ago.

Yet Qian Chen's complexion was rosy.

There was also a powerful aura of life within him.

Even stranger, after Snow Empress approached him, she sensed a faint trace of pressure coming from his body.

That pressure was extremely faint.

Yet it made the soul beast bloodline within her react instinctively.

Snow Empress looked at the swaddling clothes again.

"This child is very unusual."

Ice Empress did not care in the slightest.

She pulled free the finger Qian Chen was holding and pinched his soft little cheek again.

"He's so adorable. What's unusual about him?"

"Snow Empress, let's take him back with us."

Snow Empress furrowed her brow slightly.

"A human infant would not appear here for no reason."

"His origins are unknown. It would be best not to get involved."

The delight on Ice Empress's face faded somewhat.

She lowered her head and looked at Qian Chen.

"Are we really going to leave him here?"

Snow Empress turned around.

"Let's go."

Qian Chen immediately panicked.

He had finally encountered two people who could save him. How could he let them leave just like that?

"Waaah—"

He burst into loud tears.

His cries echoed across the snowy plains.

Ice Empress halted and immediately turned back.

"Snow Empress..."

Snow Empress did not answer.

She walked several steps forward, but Qian Chen's gaze from moments ago remained in her mind.

Such a tiny child.

Abandoned alone in the wind and snow, without even the ability to decide whether he lived or died.

Snow Empress closed her eyes briefly.

In the end, she still turned around and walked back to the snowy slope.

Qian Chen's crying gradually weakened.

Those clear eyes watched her, teardrops hanging from his long eyelashes.

Snow Empress bent down and picked up the swaddling clothes.

Her white dress clung to her long, slender legs, while her silver-white hair fell naturally forward, covering most of Qian Chen in her arms.

A faint, elegant fragrance drifted over him.

At last, Qian Chen's tense heart relaxed.

"Only this once."

Snow Empress wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with her fingertip.

"I'll take you in temporarily."

A smile returned to Ice Empress's face.

She hurried to Snow Empress's side and reached out to tease Qian Chen.

"I knew Snow Sister couldn't bear to leave you behind."

Qian Chen gazed at Snow Empress's face so close to his own.

Her features were exquisite, her bearing dignified and noble, with a stretch of fair neck visible above her collar.

The arms holding him appeared slender and delicate, yet they were exceptionally steady.

"I finally survived."

The core region of the Extreme North.

Inside an enormous iceberg was a naturally formed ice cavern.

Countless ice crystals hung from the dome overhead.

Pale blue light flowed across the icy walls, making the entire cavern gleam with crystal clarity.

Deeper within the cavern lay a small cold pool.

Several clumps of snow-white plants grew beside it, tiny beads of ice condensed upon their leaves.

Snow Empress carried Qian Chen to an ice-jade bed.

Just as she was about to sit down, Ice Empress eagerly held out her hands.

"Let me hold him."

Snow Empress handed over the swaddling clothes.

Ice Empress carefully received Qian Chen, though her movements were somewhat awkward.

She supported Qian Chen's head with one hand while holding his tiny hand with the other and giving it a gentle shake.

"Little one, this will be your home from now on."

"I'll take you all over the Extreme North."

Qian Chen did not have the strength to respond.

He had only been born recently and had spent a long time in the wind and snow. The Laws of Life within him could sustain his vitality, but they could not fill his stomach.

Intense hunger kept washing over him.

Qian Chen raised his tiny hand and slapped toward Ice Empress's chest.

A soft sensation met his palm.

Ice Empress looked down, and a faint blush immediately spread across her fair cheeks.

She adjusted her posture and moved Qian Chen's little hand away.

"You little pervert."

Qian Chen was utterly helpless.

He was merely so hungry that he had been flailing about at random.

Snow Empress watched from the side for a moment.

"He should be hungry."

Ice Empress froze.

Only then did she notice that Qian Chen's little face had lost its earlier rosy color.

"Then what should we do?"

"We don't have human food here."

Snow Empress considered it briefly.

"I've heard humans mention that newborn infants need to be fed milk."

Ice Empress lowered her head and looked at Qian Chen in her arms.

The blush on her face deepened, and her fingers hesitantly moved toward her collar.

"Then I..."

"He's already this hungry. I can give it a try."

Snow Empress looked at her quietly.

"You've never nursed a cub before."

Ice Empress's movements stiffened.

Snow Empress sighed softly.

"We only need to catch a soul beast that is nursing."

Ice Empress suddenly understood.

She handed Qian Chen back to Snow Empress, then turned and ran toward the cavern entrance.

The hem of her dark green skirt fluttered lightly with her steps.

Her fair, long legs quickly vanished beyond the entrance.

Snow Empress sat at the edge of the ice-jade bed with Qian Chen in her arms.

She adjusted her posture so that Qian Chen could lean against her more comfortably.

Her snowy white dress narrowed at her waist before draping over her long legs pressed together.

Qian Chen lay in her arms, unusually quiet.

Snow Empress lowered her head to look at him.

"You were crying so fiercely just now, but now you're being so well-behaved."

She extended a finger and lightly touched the corner of Qian Chen's mouth.

Qian Chen instinctively opened his little mouth, wanting to bite her fingertip.

Snow Empress withdrew her hand in time.

Her eyes softened slightly.

"Whose child are you, exactly?"

Snow Empress examined the swaddling clothes.

Before long, a white jade token slipped out from an inner layer.

The front of the jade token bore the carved character "Qian."

Two smaller characters were carved on the back.

Qian Chen.

Snow Empress picked up the jade token and read it aloud once more.

"Qian Chen."

Qian Chen blinked.

Seeing that he reacted, Snow Empress already had her answer.

"So your name is Qian Chen."

She put the jade token back into the swaddling clothes, her fingertip gently stroking the soft baby hair on Qian Chen's forehead.

"It's not a bad name."

Not long afterward.

Ice Empress entered from outside the cavern.

Behind her followed an entirely snow-white Ice Devil Tiger.

The tiger's belly was slightly swollen; it was currently nursing.

Ice Empress brought over a small bowl of ice crystal, squeezed out some milk, and warmed it with Soul Power.

Using a small jade spoon, Snow Empress patiently fed Qian Chen.

The warm milk entered his mouth.

Qian Chen immediately began to swallow.

His little face gradually regained its rosy color, and both tiny hands emerged from the swaddling clothes to hold the fingers Snow Empress used to grip the jade spoon.