After school, he was then offered himself to a succubus.

"...He is gone and cannot be brought back to life. Please accept my condolences."

"Is all I want from you to offer condolences? Is the life of a demon so worthless to you?"

The doctor remained remarkably calm throughout, and the more he spoke, the more terrifying the bloodshot eyes became.

"You think I'm afraid to take the blame? Who will take responsibility for my daughter's life? This is your human law? Ha, where is fairness and justice?"

"Just because you don't subjectively believe she's a demon, you can slaughter her like an animal? Do you know she's about to transform into human form? What you humans consider an ordinary life, a demon would have to cultivate for three hundred years to achieve..."

"She just wanted to see me at the hospital across the street, but some crazy woman without a driver's license slammed on the gas, dragged her under a car, and crushed her. Did you see the security footage? That lunatic... how could she even laugh?"

Shen Nianxi hesitated, while Li Yinuo leaned against the door frame, her gaze wandering.

"My daughter admires your human culture." The doctor's emotions suddenly calmed down.

"In the last second before she was hit, she thought it was just an accident. She even thought that the bitch didn't do it on purpose. Instead of dodging, she used her body to block the impact because there was a tanker truck not far away."

"If she hadn't stopped him, and that madman had crashed into the tanker truck, it would have been you humans who died."

Shen Nianxi was speechless.

She had to admit that the existing rules were extremely unfair to monsters...

"grown ups."

The doctor looked at Li Yinuo, whose face suddenly jutted forward, revealing the head of the dog demon itself, with scarlet eyes and long fangs.

"Even so, you still want to stand on the side of humanity?"

Li Yinuo looked at the dog demon's face and sighed.

"You'll become possessed by demons."

"This is how a yokai should be. I'm very rational, sir."

"There will never be another Pure Yang Daoist. Even if there is a successor, it will not be the same person as before. That would only bring us disaster."

Upon hearing this, Li Yinuo's expression suddenly relaxed, revealing a serene smile as she looked behind the bed curtains...

"Not necessarily."

"Do you really believe that humans today can't find him? Human technology is too advanced..."

The dog demon gritted its teeth and clenched its fists.

"Humans fear his reappearance will disrupt their balance as the dominant force. You should know that he has never truly disappeared for three hundred years... To be brutally murdered is the least of his worries. Who knows what kind of heinous research humans might conduct on him?"

"Impossible," Shen Nianxi immediately retorted. "Since the turn of the century, live research has been prohibited, whether on humans or demons."

"Heh...that's just what you see on the surface. You're the youngest company head? Have you even seen the experiment in person? What won't you humans do for profit?"

"I..." Shen Nianxi realized that she couldn't produce any compelling evidence to convince the other party.

Not long ago, in the area under her jurisdiction, there was even a heinous incident of violently taking the life of a cat demon.

If it weren't for the intervention of an unknown person, she wouldn't have been able to save anything.

"My lord, you still have a glimmer of hope. I won't interfere, but please give me a choice."

"But that rabbit is so pitiful," Li Yinuo said softly. "Xiao Jin, what was your request just now? Your daughter..."

"...My lord, isn't my daughter pitiful? The rabbit demon was on that vile woman's carriage; she's a demon who colludes with humans. Who is truly pitiful?"

The dog demon gritted its teeth and growled in suppressed groans, its breathing erratic, shifting back and forth between human and demon forms.

In an instant, demonic energy filled the air.

Shen Nianxi took a half step back and reached for the gun in her pocket.

But then, Li Yinuo gave her a reassuring look.

"Okay." Li Yinuo sat down and lightly tapped the table. "You can go see your daughter now."

"What? You mean...?"

"You should be able to smell her scent, right behind you, shouldn't you? It's a good thing you still have her body."

Li Yinuo tilted her head and said, her purple pupils slightly contracted, a stark contrast to her usual innocent and adorable gaze.

Her tone left no room for argument; it was a command.

Meeting that gaze, Shen Nianxi suddenly realized that the reason she could relax and interact with these powerful demons was simply because she had been lucky enough to encounter the few demons she could get along with the most...

Their thousands of years of experience are enough to make them transcend the world.

"The smell...is it, is it?"

Upon hearing this, the dog demon's ever-changing form finally settled into the doctor's state.

He bent down and inhaled deeply the scent of blood relatives... he almost lost his voice.

He hurriedly stood up, his steps unsteady.

Before he could pull back the bed curtains, a small, adorable golden retriever darted out, splashing into his arms and whimpering affectionately.

The doctor rubbed the puppy's head, kissed its cheeks, ears, and nose to nose, and tears streamed down its face uncontrollably.

The joy of finding what was lost was released from the pheromones of the two dog demons, and the room was instantly filled with a soothing sense of relaxation.

Shen Nianxi's heart suddenly started beating faster.

The girl stared intently at the little blood figure inside the resurrected puppy's body... the figure beating along with its heart seemed to shine brightly in her eyes.

Her mind felt as if it had been bombarded by thousands of tons of explosives in that instant, completely leveled, and then her thoughts surged...

That drop of blood, like the rabbit demon's, was even more vivid and obvious.

And this all happened in an instant. Hadn't the Pure Yang Daoist just been here? How could this be? Right under her nose?

Before Shen Nianxi could think any further, a complex emotion welled up from the bottom of her heart. She hurriedly pulled back the curtain and rushed to the window, looking outside...

As evening fell, the clouds glowed crimson, and in the distance, students were still undergoing military training on the playground, their hoarse voices chanting "One, two, three, four..."

Wild geese fly across the sky in all directions, while cats and dogs huddle on manhole covers to keep warm.

Apart from that, there was no trace of them.

Behind them, came the loud thud of the dog demon slamming its head into the ground.

"My lord, my daughter and I have no way to repay you!"

"Please forgive my previous extreme words and actions..."

"..."

Hearing this, Shen Nianxi breathed a sigh of relief, but a hint of disappointment flashed in her eyes.

She remembered that some powerful demons still preserved the yang essence or blood essence left behind by the Pure Yang Daoist.

Not long ago, Bai Nuoyan accidentally released such a huge amount of Yang energy, so now... it's impossible for Li Yinuo to save the demon with a portion of her essence blood.

There might not have been any need to save it before, after all, a dog demon was far too insignificant compared to the pure yang essence blood that was used up every time.

But now that Chunyang Daoist is involved, is Li Yinuo even willing to pay such a price?

This is not good. She has only been in power for a short time, yet she has already accumulated such an exaggerated amount of favors.

Shen Nianxi turned around and looked at the dog demon and his daughter.

"Now, I'll trouble you to come with me."

The doctor stiffened slightly, rubbing the golden retriever in his arms, and looked at Li Yinuo.

Li Yinuo nodded. "Now we're even, and there's no more revenge. If you can still distinguish right from wrong, then go with her."

The doctor then looked at the daughter in his arms.

The little golden retriever whimpered a few times at him, but its eyes did not show any sign of resistance.

The doctor was stunned; he knew what his daughter's words meant...

He looked up again and received a confirming look from Li Yinuo.

"I will never forget your great kindness."

The doctor released his daughter, prostrated himself, and kowtowed several times, but this time not to Li Yinuo.

Instead, he was looking out the window behind him—at the skyline outside.

Along with it, the golden retriever beside him, which had just regained its mobility, also prostrated itself on the ground, bowing repeatedly and whimpering incessantly.

"What are they...?" Shen Nianxi asked in confusion.

"This is the dog demon's ritual of recognizing its master."

"what?"

"Wasn't it you who did it?"

"Yes and no."

Li Yinuo closed her eyes, vaguely sensing that some loosened memories were surfacing in her mind...

A thousand years ago, she also recognized her master in this way.

Once it recognizes a master, it becomes that person's little dog for life.