“So that’s how it is…” Gantang nodded knowingly.
“It’s so late, why aren’t you training yet?”
Finally persuading Gantang, Lu Qiancha (Female) crossed her arms and looked up at her.
“I want to ask what Master and Senior Brother said.”
Gantang hesitated for a moment, then continued, her voice tinged with a hint of coaxing, “I also want to eat sweet cakes together with Senior Brother.”
“Ah, you’re just like when you first came to the mountain, never growing up at all.”
Lu Qiancha (Female) shook her head helplessly, then sat cross-legged on the pu tuan and said, “I won’t eat anymore. You should hurry and train.”
“Oh.”
Gantang responded softly, then gradually focused her attention on Lu Qiancha—more precisely, on the fluffy large tail gently swaying behind her.
“Gudu, Senior Brother, can I touch your tail?”
Gantang couldn’t help but swallow nervously, her big eyes blinking with cautious longing.
“Go ahead, just don’t take too long before you go back to training.”
Lu Qiancha (Female) spoke casually. To her, it was just a tail; touching it wouldn’t take away any flesh.
“Woohoo! Senior Brother is the best!”
Gantang cheered and came to stand behind Lu Qiancha. Her cool fingertips tentatively brushed against it, and the soft yet warm texture immediately captured Gantang’s heart.
This feeling… completely outmatched every cloth tiger and little animal she had ever touched!
“Ugh…” Gantang couldn’t help but let out a contented sigh, her eyes happily squinting like crescent moons. She had been longing to raise a Ling Cat in the mountain, but now it seemed totally unnecessary!
And she could pet it however she wanted!
Addicted to this sensation, Gantang’s touch quickly evolved from tentative to skilled.
Her entire palm covered the tail, stroking gently from base to tip, following the natural growth of the fur, stroke after stroke. A look of pure enjoyment bloomed across her cheeks.
But on the other side, Lu Qiancha (Female) was suffering greatly.
Sitting cross-legged on the pu tuan, her body instantly stiffened, as an indescribable and strange electric current shot straight up from the base of her tailbone to her crown!
It was both numb and itchy, tinged with an unfamiliar… fluttering sensation?
At this moment, she had no mind to train. She bitterly regretted her earlier generosity.
But the words were already out. To take back her permission now would be to lose Senior Brother’s credibility.
Thinking this, Lu Qiancha bit her lip, forcing herself to suppress the restless, almost explosive sensation inside her.
Unconsciously, a blush spread across her cheeks, and her body trembled slightly.
Just then, Gantang’s playful mood escalated. Her fingers slid along the fur to the very tip of the tail, and she couldn’t resist giving the cute little tail tip a gentle pinch.
“Ugh~!”
The small wolf pup let out an unguarded, soft whimper from tightly pressed lips.
Lu Qiancha (Female) suddenly turned her head, her voice soft and trembling as she said bit by bit, “Don’t… don’t touch anymore, the tail, the tail’s very sensitive!”
“Oh.”
Gantang put away her mischievous hand with a hint of disappointment. When she shifted her gaze from the tail to Lu Qiancha’s face, she froze instantly.
“Senior Brother….. why are you crying?”
Seeing Lu Qiancha’s eyes reddened and pitiful, Gantang couldn’t help but ask.
“It’s… nothing, just sand in my eye, that’s all.”
Lu Qiancha (Female) turned her head sharply like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, her voice soft and quivering in a way even she hadn’t noticed.
After speaking, Lu Qiancha wrapped her big tail around herself.
Then, lifting her shimmering eyes full of caution and accusation, she glared at Gantang—that look was exactly like someone scolding a bully who had just tormented a little animal.
Facing Lu Qiancha’s gaze, Gantang’s panic multiplied exponentially, her mind filled with a bold, flashing thought: What if I made Senior Brother cry? Please respond quickly, this is urgent.
In desperation, Gantang looked at the food box on the table and carefully took out a piece, offering it like a treasure to Lu Qiancha, asking, “Senior Brother, want some cake?”
Lu Qiancha hesitated, looking at the sweet cake in front of her. She sighed softly, released her tail, and stretched out her small paw to take the cake, giving her junior sister an easy way out.
Only… Qiancha soon faced a dilemma—she had no hands, only paws!
She simply couldn’t pick up the cake!
Forget it, just hold it and eat it quickly, then go train.
Giving up on grace, Lu Qiancha opened the pads of her two front paws awkwardly and clumsily cupped the sweet cake.
She gritted her teeth, biting fiercely into the cake, her cheeks puffed out as she chewed hard, as if trying to vent all her grievances and humiliation through the food.
On the side, Gantang watched Lu Qiancha’s expression sparkle, her heart full of—“Ugh~ Senior Brother is just too, too, too cute!!! I want to pet you all over from head to tail!!”
“All right, cake’s eaten, hurry up and go train.”
After finishing the cake and letting out a small burp, Lu Qiancha waved to Gantang, signaling her to go back.
“Ah… oh, okay, Senior Brother, you should rest early.”
Gantang kept agreeing, then left Lu Qiancha’s small room. If she stayed out later, she was afraid she’d lose control and pounce…
“Hehe…” Gantang walked out of the grass hut, a silly smile playing on her lips. She had decided—her goal now was to pet Senior Brother all over from head to tail!
Watching the moonlight by the lake, Gantang had never felt life could be this beautiful.
After sending off her junior sister, Lu Qiancha finally exhaled deeply and collapsed weakly onto the table.
Looking at the moonlight by the window, she had never felt life so hopeless.
After resting a while, Lu Qiancha gradually regained her strength. Originally, she planned to continue training, but the day’s events kept replaying in her mind.
Distracted by these thoughts, she couldn’t calm down.
Perhaps today wasn’t suitable for training.
Lu Qiancha sighed, struggling to lift herself from the pu tuan. Step by step, she moved to the bed, rolled over and climbed onto it, quickly drifting into deep sleep.
***
When she opened her eyes again, it was already the next morning. But thinking of last night’s events, she still felt a lingering headache, like a hangover.
Her spiritual power had been replenished mostly through unconscious absorption, but Lu Qiancha still felt it necessary to prepare a recovery plan.
Determined, she donned a new long robe, then activated the Wanshang Shen Ying Jue, transforming back into Lu Qiancha (Male).
“Good morning, Senior Brother!”
The moment she opened the door, a blue-and-pink figure pounced into Lu Qiancha’s arms.
“Gantang, you weren’t waiting outside my door as soon as you woke up, were you?”
Faced with such coincidence, Lu Qiancha (Male) spoke somewhat speechlessly.
“Heehee.”
Gantang didn’t answer directly, but her bright smile said it all.
Lu Qiancha shook his head helplessly, then gently pushed Gantang away and said, “Didn’t you sign up for the Experience Conference? It’s already this late; why aren’t you leaving yet?”