He just broke up with his girlfriend and is already living with the devilish rich girl.

A bead of cold sweat trickled down Zheng Xingguang's forehead, down his temples, and dripped into his collar, making him shiver.

As he watched the person approaching step by step, he felt as if an invisible hand was gripping his heart, tightening it more and more.

"What do you want... her to do?"

Bai Ziheng took a drag of his cigarette, the smoke obscuring the expression on his face.

"She has something I need."

His voice was flat, as if he were stating a perfectly ordinary fact.

"She's dying!"

Zheng Xingguang's voice trembled, carrying a plea he himself was unaware of.

"What else do you need from her?!"

The girl on his back was wearing the light blue dress he had just bought, with blood stains still on the hem from coughing up earlier.

Like a flower ravaged by a rainstorm.

She had become so thin that she was unrecognizable, with sunken cheeks and skin as pale as paper.

Only those eyes remained stubbornly open, staring blankly at the world.

Bai Ziheng stared at her expressionlessly, his eyes as if he were looking at an inanimate object.

"I desperately need what she left behind after she died."

These words, like a red-hot iron rod, pierced Zheng Xingguang's heart.

He gritted his teeth, each word seeming to be squeezed out from between his teeth.

"You... bastard!"

"It's okay, I can wait."

Bai Ziheng spoke indifferently, as if he were only talking about the weather.

"This thing doesn't belong to your Special Administration Bureau. Its real owner sent me to take it back."

"Don't come any closer!"

Zheng Xingguang roared and formed a hand seal with one hand.

"Imperial Edict!"

A golden light descended from the sky, and a peach wood sword slammed into the ground in front of Bai Ziheng with a "hum," its blade trembling and emitting a faint light.

"Oh?"

Bai Ziheng raised an eyebrow and stopped walking.

"What do you mean by this? Are you not going to return my things?"

"Those things...anything goes!"

Zheng Xingguang stared intently at him.

"But I won't hand her over to you!"

Bai Ziheng scratched his head, looking very confused.

Did I hear that right?

He pointed to the girl on Zheng Xingguang's back.

"She's one of the masterminds behind the Beast Breath incident. As an agent of the Special Administration Bureau, how could you possibly side with her?"

"That wasn't her intention! She was simply forcibly implanted with that substance!"

"So," Bai Ziheng's voice turned cold.

"You're now tasked with protecting her, protecting an enemy you've been fighting all along, right?"

Zheng Xingguang gritted his teeth, and with the girl on his back, he formed a sword-like gesture with one hand, assuming a fighting stance.

"I don't care who she is, all I know is that she's a patient, a person who's about to die! I won't let you hurt her!"

Bai Ziheng smiled.

He grinned, revealing a chilling, pale smile.

"You're still too young."

The moment he finished speaking, he took a step forward.

A blur flashed by, and he raised his right hand, which instantly swelled and deformed.

The skin was torn open, and long, grayish-white hairs grew out.

The fingernails turned sharp and black, and in the blink of an eye, they transformed into a giant wolf claw.

"Snap!"

Wolf Claw gripped the blade of the peach wood sword, the hard wood groaning under its weight.

Then he threw it at Zheng Xingguang.

Zheng Xingguang's pupils contracted, and he awkwardly scrambled to the side with the girl on his back.

The peach wood sword grazed his cheek and embedded itself deeply in the wall behind him.

He stared in horror at Bai Ziheng's arm, which had become completely beast-like.

"You...you're that white wolf?!"

Bai Ziheng did not answer, but maintained the beast-like posture of one arm and pressed forward again.

He didn't use any fancy moves.

It's just the simplest and most direct claw strikes and slashes.

But each strike was as fast as lightning and incredibly powerful.

With someone on his back, Zheng Xingguang was unable to fight at full strength.

They could only dodge and parry, forced into a retreat.

The wolf's claws slashed across the ground, kicking up a shower of pebbles that grazed past Zheng Xingguang's legs.

He stumbled and fell heavily to the ground.

The girl on his back also fell to the ground beside him, letting out a painful groan.

Bai Ziheng gave him no chance to catch his breath.

The enormous wolf claws rose high, whistling through the air, and slammed down hard onto the girl on the ground.

"don't want!"

Zheng Xingguang scrambled over and used his back to shield the girl.

"Bang!"

The wolf's claws pressed heavily on his back.

A sharp pain shot through Zheng Xingguang, who felt as if his spine was about to break.

But he gritted his teeth and braced himself on the ground with his hands, refusing to fall.

"This is the last time I'm warning you."

Bai Ziheng's icy voice came from above.

"Think about your sister. What would she do if you died?"

Zheng Xingguang's body stiffened.

elder sister……

Of course he wanted to.

But he looked down at the girl beneath him, whose breathing was so weak that it was almost imperceptible.

His own face, covered in sweat and pain, was reflected in those empty eyes.

He smiled.

"Don't be afraid... I'll take you to eat cake right away..."

He was still comforting her.

"You saved my sister before, and you saved me too..."

He coughed and questioned the owner of the huge wolf paw pressing down on his back, his voice hoarse.

"Why...why did you do such a thing..."

"It has nothing to do with romance; it's just about getting what you need."

Bai Ziheng simply replied indifferently.

Zheng Xingguang felt the girl beneath him begin to tremble, as if she was in extreme pain.

He panicked and realized that she was barely breathing.

Tears finally spilled uncontrollably from his eyes, dripping onto the girl's pale face.

"Wait...don't die...please..."

The girl kept her eyes tightly closed, as if she had sensed something.

With her last bit of strength, she raised her hand, trying to wipe away Zheng Xingguang's tears.

The hand trembled in mid-air, but it couldn't reach his face no matter what.

Finally, it drooped limply.

"Get out of the way."

Bai Ziheng's voice remained completely calm.

"I will show no mercy this time."

Zheng Xingguang ignored him.

He let the wolf's claws pin him to the ground, then gently held the girl's cold body in his arms.

Bai Ziheng looked down at the two embracing figures with a blank expression.

A complex emotion flashed in those golden wolf eyes.

Finally, he shook his head.

The wolf's claws that had been pressing down on Zheng Xingguang's back slowly retracted.

"Since you truly want to save her, then hurry up."

"Huh?"

Zheng Xingguang looked up in confusion.

"She's still alive, there's still time."

As Bai Ziheng spoke, he took off his coat, and then his shirt.

His upper body has well-defined muscles, which are strong and powerful, but you can't tell when he's wearing clothes.

And on his bronze skin, there was a tattoo.

That's not an ordinary tattoo.

It was a snake coiled around his body, its scales jet black and its eyes a strange gold.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the snake's eyes seemed to twitch.