CHAPTER 339: CHAPTER 168 I’LL GIVE YOU AN IDENTITY!_1

At this moment, Jiu Li wore only a loose-fitting shirt, apparently using it as a dress.

After pushing the door open, she tiptoed across the room on her cute, bare feet, making her way toward the bed. Her movements were very gentle, almost silent.

Four steps.

Three steps.

Nine steps.

Six steps.

With light steps, Jiu Li carefully reached the bedside and stopped. She stood there quietly, her beautiful eyes sizing up Su Yan under the covers, checking if he was deeply asleep to avoid startling him and getting scolded.

After observing for a moment and seeing her owner seemed to be sleeping soundly, Jiu Li snickered. Hehe, he sleeps like a sloth every night. He doesn’t even know I’ve sneaked in.

After her silent mockery, she delicately lifted the covers and deftly slipped into bed. She wasn’t shy in the slightest, completely lacking any concept of impropriety between men and women. She shamelessly lay beside Su Yan, sharing the bed intimately with him. This behavior was what she often referred to as "warming the bed."

"Mmm, still the familiar scent~"

The moment she slid under the covers, Jiu Li immediately sensed the rich essence emanating from within. She slightly opened her cherry-red lips and took a sip. It tasted fragrant and sweet, truly delightful. Due to its richness, it even felt a bit viscous as she inhaled, offering an excellent taste.

Right now, all the essence filling the space under the covers emanated from Su Yan, imbued with a pure and scorching aura. To the naturally yin-aligned Jiu Li, its fragrance was irresistible; every cell in her body seemed to revel in it.

Yet, while she indulged, a pang of distress and pity grew within her. Looking at Su Yan, who slept soundly facing her, a shade of resentment flickered in her lovely eyes. She began to complain internally. This ironclad straight man, honestly! His body is constantly overflowing with essence, yet he’d rather squander it than offer it to me willingly. Especially deep at night, when he falls asleep, the essence gushes out as if it costs nothing. The amount lost in just one night is comparable to what I needed for half a year in the past.

Nevertheless, this ironclad straight man won’t willingly feed it to me. Instead, I have to swallow my pride every night and sneak into his bedroom. Only by carefully and proactively warming the bed myself can I enjoy this overflowing essence. Otherwise, all this essence would go to waste.

And it’s not just that he won’t feed it to me—this shameless man even dares to pluck the tails I’ve struggled so hard to grow! What kind of person is he?! Absolutely hateful! Utterly unreasonable!

If you actively fed me essence, allowing me to happily grow so many tails, I wouldn’t mind you plucking a couple. I might even be overjoyed! I might even approach you willingly and let you pluck my tails. But what’s the reality? You, cursed ironclad straight man, would rather waste that overflowing essence than willingly feed it to me.

To make matters worse, after I painstakingly stay up every night to absorb the essence from the bedding and finally manage to grow a few tails, this ironclad straight man sees them and has the audacity to come over and pluck them! This is sheer robbery! In our clan, he’d be beaten to death by a pack of Fox Demons for this!

Thinking of this, Jiu Li started to feel her anger rise. She felt like a mere worker, and Su Yan an unscrupulous capitalist, continuously exploiting her.

The more she thought about it, the angrier Jiu Li, who was naturally petty, became. Lost in her fuming thoughts, she suddenly and inexplicably gave Su Yan a sharp pinch.

What the hell...! Su Yan, who was pretending to sleep under the covers, cursed inwardly as he was pinched out of the blue. Is this Fox Demon crazy? If you’re going to warm the bed, then warm the bed! Why suddenly pinch me? What’s wrong with her?!

Su Yan cursed Jiu Li internally several times. Although his skin was tough and the pinch didn’t really hurt—he barely felt a thing, in fact—he was still annoyed! It felt like the classic case of a dog biting Lü Dongbin: repaying kindness with malice. Here I am, kindly letting you have my essence, and you repay me by pinching me! Do you have any conscience at all?!

Sure enough! Fox Demons can never be truly tamed! Thinking this, Su Yan’s Favorability toward Jiu Li decreased by a tiny bit. I shouldn’t be too nice to her, lest she takes a mile when given an inch and starts her high-intensity troublemaking again.

Su Yan initially intended to stick to this line of thought, but in the next second, his perspective completely changed. Jiu Li, under the covers, suddenly wrapped her arms around him gently and buried her head in his chest.

In that instant, a soft, furry warmth overwhelmed his Five Senses Perception. He just felt something soft and warm in his arms, accompanied by the pleasant, sweet scent of a young girl. This sensation, in a room chilled to sixteen degrees Celsius by the air conditioning, felt incredibly warm and comforting, bringing immense coziness.

It was at this very moment that Su Yan’s recently diminished Favorability soared dramatically.

[Favorability +1+1+1...]

「The night passed in a blink, and a new day dawned.」

When Su Yan woke up, he found that Jiu Li was already gone from the bed. Left behind was her faint body scent and almost dried-up drool.

"Looks like the nickname ’Drooling Fox’ really suits her," he thought. "She drools every night in her sleep. Seriously..."

After muttering this complaint while still in bed, Su Yan got up and left his room. He immediately saw Jiu Li lounging on the sofa, playing with her phone, and a bowl of hot porridge on the dining table.

"Is this my breakfast?" Su Yan asked, pointing at the hot porridge on the dining table and addressing Jiu Li, who was sitting on the sofa.

Jiu Li lazily stretched, nodded, and said, "Yes, my lord. I got up early especially to make this porridge for you. Hurry and wash up in the bathroom, or the porridge will get cold."

As she said this, her face showed concern, making Su Yan feel a warmth inside.

[Favorability +1+1+1...]

As soon as Su Yan went to the bathroom to wash up, Jiu Li immediately got up from the sofa, took the hidden disposable bowl and chopsticks, and went downstairs to throw them in the trash bin. What a scheming fox, employing the same trick again to gain her master’s Favorability by secretly ordering takeout and pretending she’d made breakfast...

「After finishing the hot porridge at the dining table, Su Yan saw it was about time to leave.」

He put on his outdoor shoes, ready to head to the classroom building for his first class. Today was the third day of the semester, marking the first lecture of his university life. He took this quite seriously, having even taken extra care to tidy his hair in the bathroom earlier.

Before leaving, Su Yan stopped in front of Jiu Li to give her a warning, "I’ll be in the classroom building for lectures all morning, so don’t wander around aimlessly if you have nothing to do.

"After all, Jing University has Rare Level Creatures as common as dogs and Legendary Level Creatures practically everywhere.

"You’re an unregistered Fox Demon without any official status. If you run around and someone discovers your identity, you could be dealt with on the spot, you know."

"Okay, I got it," Jiu Li replied somewhat impatiently. She was really into her novel at the moment and didn’t like to be disturbed.

Seeing Jiu Li’s slightly impatient reaction, Su Yan suddenly felt like a father about to leave home, giving instructions to the woman left alone. Thinking about it that way, having Jiu Li call me ’Daddy’ doesn’t seem so wrong after all!ŸŸŸ

After entertaining these stray thoughts for a moment, Su Yan said to Jiu Li again, "Remember, don’t wander off. When I get back this afternoon, I’ll take you to get a dog tag. Give you an identity."

Jiu Li: "???"

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PS: Setting out the bowl, asking for votes!