Volume 3, Chapter 222 – Dear, Are You Shy?

Within the commandery city, teleportation techniques could not be used, nor could one fly through the air.

After escaping from the inn, the wolf princess’s group of four demons, carrying Lu Zhuxin, hid themselves within the marketplace.

Among the vast sea of people, they turned left and right, finally turning into a rarely traveled alley.

The Sixth Realm wolf elder lifted his nose and sniffed lightly.

“Your Highness, there are no unusual scents. Those Demon Suppression Bureau officials truly didn’t follow us.”

Hearing this, the wolf princess couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. “It seems those humans are fairly true to their word and didn’t send anyone to follow.”

“Your Highness, what should we do now? Leave the city?”

The wolf princess pondered slightly for a moment. “Our whereabouts have already been exposed. Continuing to stay here might be dangerous.”

“The best method is still to slip out of the city before the commandery’s garrison forces react.”

“This old one also agrees with Your Highness’s proposal,” the wolf elder said. “Slipping out of the city now should be the best opportunity.”

One proposal, unanimous approval from all four.

Just as everyone was preparing to depart, a voice sounded faintly.

“If I were you, I wouldn’t be so optimistic.”

In an instant, everyone was shocked.

The three male wolf clan members immediately assumed combat stances.

The wolf princess also subconsciously tightened her hold on the girl in her arms.

If someone truly came up to snatch the hostage in her hands, she would mercilessly snap the neck of the girl in her embrace.

However, when everyone vigilantly surveyed their surroundings, they discovered no suspicious shadows.

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“Who exactly is speaking?” the wolf princess asked, puzzled.

“Hey! Dear.”

“You’re holding me so tightly. Aren’t you afraid you’ll strangle me to death?”

A girl’s voice carrying a hint of teasing came through.

The wolf princess was suddenly startled. Only then did she realize that the one who had just spoken was the girl she’d been holding in her arms all along.

She looked down and saw that the girl who had been unconscious this whole time had now opened her eyes.

She lay in her embrace, tilting her head slightly upward, her face bearing a charming, sweet smile.

Her beautiful eyes, like a fox’s, carried traces of enchantment.

This appearance… where was the look of an injured, unconscious hostage?

This human girl had a problem!

The wolf princess felt her back become soaked with cold sweat. Her first reaction was to immediately push away the girl in her arms.

However, the girl in her embrace was one step faster.

One of the girl’s hands gently grasped her hand, while the other had already touched the side of her face that was covered by a veil.

“Don’t rush, dear.”

“You’ve been holding me for so long, yet I still don’t know what you look like!”

The wolf princess’s expression changed slightly. She wanted to push away the woman before her.

But the woman before her was one step faster.

Lu Zhuxin’s fingertip lightly touched. As the wolf princess retreated, she had already gently removed the veil from her face.

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The wolf princess’s body immediately froze in place. She looked at Lu Zhuxin with complete disbelief.

“You…!”

“Dear, aren’t you quite pretty? Why cover it up?” Lu Zhuxin waved her hand at her.

The wolf princess before her was a very beautiful woman.

Her face was pretty and delicate, her skin snow white, her eyes like a clear sky, limpid and azure blue.

Her long silver lashes trembled slightly, as if expressing her master’s inner grievance.

Even the wolf elder and the two wolf guards simultaneously froze. They averted their gazes, not daring to look at the wolf princess’s face.

“Huh?” Lu Zhuxin blinked in confusion.

She had only been making a joke, wanting to scare this somewhat naive wolf princess a bit.

After all, normal people wouldn’t keep holding a stranger like this, right?

Lu Zhuxin felt this wolf princess was a bit silly, giving her a feeling very similar to Hu Mei’er.

From start to finish, she had never doubted Lu Zhuxin in her arms.

In reality, this was an extremely dangerous thing. It’s very difficult for people to guard against what’s in their own embrace.

If Lu Zhuxin truly harbored ill intentions toward this wolf princess, then what she had just removed wouldn’t have been merely her veil.

A small joke, but also a well-intentioned reminder.

But why were these wolf clan members reacting so strangely? Completely different from what Lu Zhuxin had imagined.

The wolf princess raised her hand, using her sleeve to cover her face.

But Lu Zhuxin could still see the red glow rising by her ears.

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The wolf princess, her face flushed, glared at Lu Zhuxin with anger and grievance written all over her eyes.

“Give it back!” she scolded in a delicate voice.

Wait, why was she actually shy now?

And why didn’t those wolf clan members dare look at their own princess’s face?

“Dear, why get so angry?” Lu Zhuxin pinched the wolf princess’s veil and gently rubbed it with her fingertips. “It’s just a small joke, reminding Your Highness the Princess not to trust others too easily.”

“I didn’t trust you easily. First give it back to me…” The wolf princess pressed her red lips together, a bit of grievance spreading in her eyes, her voice also much smaller than before.

Why did it feel like she was about to cry?

Where was that strong woman who had confronted Wei Qingyu earlier?

“Okay, I won’t tease you anymore.”

“Here’s your veil back.”

Lu Zhuxin tossed the veil back to the wolf princess.

“The way you’re acting, it’s almost like the first person to remove your veil and see your true appearance…” Lu Zhuxin said half-jokingly, “Either has to die, or has to marry you.”

A classic plot from some older novels.

The wolf clan members before her didn’t speak, only looked at Lu Zhuxin with inexplicable gazes.

Lu Zhuxin was somewhat confused. “It’s not actually like what I said, is it?”

No way, right?

This novel didn’t have such a setting written in it.

The wolf princess took the veil and put it back on, covering up her pretty appearance.

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Her gaze toward Lu Zhuxin gradually became complicated.

“You… just who are you?”

“You’re not an ordinary human, are you?”

The girl before her had quite a deep wound on her neck.

For an ordinary mortal girl without cultivation, this degree of injury could be fatal.

Just now, this girl had been so weak from blood loss that she had fallen unconscious in her arms.

Yet now, she could speak with them as if nothing had happened, full of energy and life.

It was as if the wound on her neck were fake.

All of them had misjudged.

Whether it was the wolf princess or Wei Qingyu of the Demon Suppression Bureau, none had discovered that this girl before them was the one hiding most deeply of all.

“You’re asking who I am?”

Lu Zhuxin tapped her chin with her finger.

“I think that rather than explaining with my mouth, directly letting you see with your eyes would be more convincing.”

Saying this, Lu Zhuxin turned around.

She extended her small hand and gently lifted her skirt hem.

A fluffy cherry-pink tail emerged from beneath her skirt.

“Fox clan!”