Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands
Chapter 257: Getting Beaten is Xuan Jiu’s Fate

Chapter 257: Chapter 257: Getting Beaten is Xuan Jiu’s Fate

"The door is open, hurry in and protect me!" Xuan Jiu pulled the door open, inviting Xiao Jinsheng.

Xiao Jinsheng, strolling over here, still had the energy to play tricks and tease the other beast husbands, but in front of Xuan Jiu, she was utterly defeated.

This crazy fox was the true master.

She couldn’t match him.

But she could learn.

Even though the bedroom door was fully open, Xiao Jinsheng still mimicked the way Xuan Jiu had initially opened the door, poking her head in cautiously, acting all sneaky and furtive.

"What is this..." Xuan Jiu elongated his tone, surprised.

When Xiao Jinsheng raised her eyes to look at him, he nodded to himself and said, "You must be the sly fox thief who’s sneaked in to steal treasures."

"If I’m the thief, then what are you?" Xiao Jinsheng raised an eyebrow and retorted, "The underling of the great thief."

"No." Xuan Jiu shook his index finger, his expression mysterious as he pondered aloud, "I am the clever and brave interstellar patrol officer who captures sly fox thieves."

Xiao Jinsheng’s smile froze.

She immediately kicked at his leg: "Shouldn’t you be the thief instead!"

"Alright, maybe being the thief isn’t so bad either." Xuan Jiu twitched his fox ears.

Red energy threads twined around him, binding him tightly.

He slumped his entire weight onto Xiao Jinsheng and muttered in frustration, "Oh no, I’ve been captured."

"You..." Xiao Jinsheng stared in surprise at the red energy threads he’d used to bind himself. "You’ve recovered your superpower already?"

Hadn’t he agreed to wait for her protection before restoring it?

"That’s right." Xuan Jiu’s lips curved upward on both sides as he grinned. "The moment that device was activated, my powers were fully restored."

"So fast!" Xiao Jinsheng exclaimed with joy, then asked worriedly, "Are there any side effects?"

"No side effects," Xuan Jiu replied.

At the same time, he extended a hand, pulling Xiao Jinsheng into the room and casually locking the door behind her.

He lowered his gaze, his crimson eyes brimming with amusement as he looked at Xiao Jinsheng. "Do you want to see what level my superpower is now?"

Xiao Jinsheng’s plundering superpower and spiritual power were both at 13 stars.

Yet, using her own superpower level, she couldn’t discern Xuan Jiu’s strength.

She simply pulled up the star system map to check.

"Fifteen stars!" Xiao Jinsheng exclaimed in astonishment.

"Hmph." Xuan Jiu smirked smugly and nodded. "How does it feel? Restoring my power means returning to my peak."

He’d consumed a Star Stone, slept well, ate well, and had fun.

Not to mention, he’d found his Female Master.

When his strength returned, his powers had even gained an extra three stars.

Listening to Xuan Jiu’s easygoing tone, Xiao Jinsheng felt a little irked.

A pair of hands reached out and gently tugged at her cheeks from both sides: "Cheer up! I gained three stars for free; can’t you at least congratulate me verbally if you’re not going to give me a gift?"

With a blank expression, Xiao Jinsheng’s scrutinizing gaze landed on the hand pinching her cheeks, and she spoke darkly, "Weren’t you just captured?"

"Hmm? Sly fox thief."

"You should be bound up again." Xuan Jiu sheepishly withdrew his hands and promptly bound himself once more with the red energy threads.

But Xiao Jinsheng wasn’t about to let him off.

She reached out, lightly pinched his fox ears, and asked with a cold smirk, "Sneaking around, reading my thoughts, aren’t you?"

Xuan Jiu boldly met her gaze and nodded confidently, "Yes, I’m reading your thoughts."

"You even copied my mind-reading superpower and are reading my thoughts," she added.

"Since we’re reading each other’s minds, do you want to hear something different?" Xuan Jiu’s eyes gleamed with an inviting smile.

"What kind of ’different’?" Xiao Jinsheng asked curiously.

Xuan Jiu promptly broke free from the red energy threads, closed the distance between them, and grasped her wrist at the same time, pressing her palm flat against his chest. "Listen to each other’s heartbeats."

Feeling the warm touch against her palm and the steady, powerful rhythm beneath it,

Xiao Jinsheng pursed her lips, sensing the temperature in the room soar.

"Without relying on any contracts,"

"Just using the unique mind-reading ability that belongs only to you and me,"

"Listen to the most primal sound of the heartbeats. How about that?" Xuan Jiu coaxed softly, his fox ears twitching playfully.

A fluffy, snow-white tailtip gently nudged Xiao Jinsheng’s lower back.

Xiao Jinsheng’s gaze followed the fox tail to Xuan Jiu’s back, only to be suddenly greeted by the release of his nine tails.

The soft and silky fur brushed across her cheek.

Xiao Jinsheng looked at the unveiled nine tails with excitement, wanting to touch them but hesitated over which one to start with.

All nine fox tails curled around her.

Xuan Jiu cleared his throat, his inner feeling solemn.

Just as Xiao Jinsheng thought he was about to earnestly share some crucial secret about his Beastification,

She heard him say, "I heard you love fluffy tails and have been searching for them."

"You don’t need to keep searching for tails anymore because your tails have arrived!"

"Nine of them, is that enough?"

"If not, I have other ways."

"What kind of ways? Aren’t you a Nine-tailed Fox?" Xiao Jinsheng bantered, her emotions oscillating with Xuan Jiu’s erratic train of thought.

"I can still combine all nine tails into one," Xuan Jiu said, pulling the nine tails together into one that tightly wrapped around her waist. "Nine plus one equals ten."

Xiao Jinsheng weakly lifted the corners of her lips.

Sigh, might as well laugh.

"Family Head, out of the nine, I’m the only one who hasn’t been chosen yet." Xuan Jiu looked at her pitifully.

At the same time, his tails returned to nine.

Some coiled around her waist.

Some around her legs.

And one...

Xiao Jinsheng grabbed the mischievous tail, holding back a laugh: "Why are you tickling me there?"

"Family Head, I can be very helpful." Xuan Jiu gazed at her expectantly, testing the waters: "Want to give it a try?"

"I think I can handle eight of them together," Xiao Jinsheng said.

"We haven’t even had our little game today," she explained.

She’d come to find Xuan Jiu to protect him while his superpower recovered.

Who knew he’d recover it all by himself first?

Now time was abundant, so naturally, they had to do something.

"Are you sure you can handle eight?" Xiao Jinsheng asked.

"I can take a beating," Xuan Jiu demonstrated his current fifteen-star superpower.

Seeing this, Xiao Jinsheng felt reassured.

After all, the fun would be hers.

The pain would be his.

Perfect, a good balance.

She reached out to touch the red energy threads binding Xuan Jiu, curious if he’d be as easy to tease as Chen Yunji.

But just as she nodded,

Xuan Jiu’s entire aura shifted dramatically.

The nine tails wrapped around Xiao Jinsheng, pulling her down onto the bed with them.

The next day, Xiao Jinsheng was still buried in the fluffy tails.

Xuan Jiu propped his head on his hand, lying beside her.

His muscular arm, its smooth lines littered with fresh red scratch marks, extended outside the blanket, as he played with the snow-white fox ears between Xiao Jinsheng’s hair.

"Hmph, sly fox thief."

"Xiao Huhu."

As he gleefully teased her ears, a knock came from outside.

Xuan Jiu immediately dove under the blanket, feigning a drowsy voice: "Who is it?"

"Me." Chen Yunji, concise and direct, cut to the chase: "Is Xiao Jinsheng with you?"

"No," Xuan Jiu said promptly, using his tails to pull Xiao Jinsheng closer to him as he replied.

The corridor fell silent.

Xuan Jiu released his superpower’s sensing ability.

After confirming Chen Yunji had left the building, he grinned smugly.

But remembering the potential encounters and challenges awaiting him when venturing out today,

Xuan Jiu pulled out the defensive items he’d borrowed from Caicai and started layering them one by one on himself.