Volume Four: The Buddha Saves No One, but I, the Devil, Do - The Octopus's Tentacles (Part One)

One mountain could not hold two tigers—unless one was male and the other female. Cao Lei, the outsider male tiger, swung his hoe at someone else's wall. Sophia considered herself skilled at handling people, and she truly did move through the hotel with effortless grace, offending no one. She thought a country bumpkin like Cao Lei, who had never seen the world, would lose all sense of direction if she showed him a little charm and spoke a few soft words. What harm would there be in feeding him his medicine?

Sophia had no interest in experiencing motherhood before she married—feeding medicine to a child. She only wanted to coax Cao Lei a little so this outsider male tiger would stop causing trouble. But Cao Lei was a shameless layabout. Though his resolve to devote himself to Buddhism was shaky, his great Buddha Realm education had given him a one-track mind. He had set his sights on Sophia. Whatever she said, he would agree to anything except taking his medicine himself. Cao Lei knew that once he agreed, seeing Sophia again would be difficult.

It had not gone well. The first time, Sophia had washed Cao Lei's face with that bowl of dark brown medicine. The second time, she had smiled as she fed him spoonful after spoonful. Cao Lei drooled as he swallowed, wasting quite a lot. Sophia's heart ached at the sight: this was the strongest laxative in the city, and it had cost her a full two Demon Energy Coins...

Who would have thought Cao Lei had resolved to die beneath the peony blossoms? Today, despite his weakened body, he had asked the beauty to feed him his medicine for the third time.

Zhang Zhao could bear no more. After shouting angrily, he made to storm out.