My Supernatural Exes Are Desperate to Win Me Back - Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Surprise

Just as the blade was about to pierce the fox’s body, the fox turned into a massive bunch of flamboyant roses.

Zhan Xingye’s swinging long sword pierced a stack of petals like a barbecue fork, striking empty air. The fox’s agile and graceful figure landed lightly on the distant bedside table.

“Give me three chances, son,” Xie Yi bargained. “Or give me a hint? Blood is thicker than water!!!”

The blade flashed, and killing intent rushed toward his face.

The two men tangled and fought in the narrow room. Xie Yi shifted flexibly, and his exquisite sorcery emerged in an endless stream.

If anyone had the privilege to witness this fight, they would realize that the spells Xie Yi usually performed as a magician were nothing but tricks to fool children. At this moment, his figure was half-real and half-fake, like a dancing phantom wandering on the edge of a knife.

But Zhan Xingye’s speed was truly too fast to be human. If Xie Yi was like a fluttering butterfly, he was the net catching the butterfly. If Xie Yi was like a fake phantom, he was the knife piercing the phantom!

In an instant, it felt as if thousands of long swords wove a stern net in the enclosed space, the light of the blades surging like a waterfall, rushing over like a sea tide.

With a sound.

A pillow flew across the room, accurately hitting Zhan Xingye’s face, then bouncing off and landing on the fox’s head.

With the skills and speed of these two men, dodging a bullet would be no problem at all, let alone a mere pillow. Yet, for some reason, neither of them dodged it.

“What is all this noise! What is all this noise! What is all this noise!!!”

Xu Xining roared, unable to bear it anymore, springing up like a zombie rising from a coffin.

“Who is making noise in the middle of the night! Make some more noise and let me see! Ah—!!!!!!”

The girl’s enraged voice echoed in the room…

She sat on the bed without even opening her eyes. Her golden hair was messy, draping over her little face which was flushed from sleeping dizzily.

The two men instantly fell quiet, remaining absolutely motionless, like children who didn’t go home after school to frantically play with mud, only to turn around and see their furious mother.

Xu Xining possessed neither the arrogance of being aware of her beauty nor the indulgence of a pampered young lady.

In fact, she usually had quite a good temper, even able to squat on the ground and chat vibrantly with the old doorman at the neighborhood entrance.

However, both men knew very well that no matter how good her temper usually was, her waking anger was just as severe.

If someone disturbed her sleep, she could erupt like a volcano. Closing her eyes and unleashing a wild barrage of fury, it could be called slaying anyone and any Buddha in her path.

Zhan Xingye understood this power very well.

During afternoon naps in elementary school, either he ate at the Xu family’s house or Xu Xining ate at the Zhan family’s house.

At 1:30 PM, he would always wake up obediently on time, then go to wake Xu Xining up for school.

—Every single time, it ended with him being pinned to the ground and brutally beaten by Xu Xining in her blackened state.

Xie Yi was no exception.

He once prided himself on romance, wanting to gently kiss the girl awake from her sleep, letting her wake up to see a meticulously decorated room of roses and a twelve-carat diamond ring as a Valentine’s Day gift.

At that time, the recording crew of Xie Yi’s solo documentary “A Magical Life” was filming the whole process.

The high-definition camera was pointed at the soundly sleeping young girl—she was sunken in a soft down comforter, her blonde hair spreading out across the snowy white pillow, her long lashes lowered, carrying a striking innocence and cleanliness, like an angel fallen to earth.

However, Xie Yi never expected that the one he woke up was not an angel, but Satan the Avenger.

They originally wanted to film a romantic magical surprise of Cupid’s arrival, but they ended up filming an enraged Valkyrie whose culprit could not escape his doom.

A distant siren came from the road far away.

Silence, a death-like silence.

The two men even stopped breathing, yet at this moment, they possessed a high degree of tacit understanding.

Xu Xining erupted in silence, and they perished in silence.

The girl swayed twice, and finding that the surroundings had fallen quiet, like a salted fish that had lost its soul, she fell backward and continued to sleep soundly.

One second, two seconds, three seconds…

While the girl breathed evenly on one side, the two men stared at each other in the darkness.

One pair of eyes was sharp as a knife and black as ink, while the other was soul-snatching, radiating an exotic gold.

They moved at the same time!

Zhan Xingye lunged toward Xie Yi, while Xie Yi lunged toward… Xu Xining.

The fox leaped onto the bed like a fish plunging into water, diving into the girl’s arms. With an attitude of a dead pig not fearing boiling water, it spread its four limbs, clinging tightly together with the girl.

A hostage! This was treating Xu Xining as a hostage!

Xie Yi wagged his fluffy tail, as if provoking: “Come and catch me~”

Catching him would inevitably wake Xu Xining up.

Zhan Xingye could not confess that he was catching a monster because that would severely violate the confidentiality principle of the Management Bureau. Therefore, he could only admit that he was a perverted and wretched man who broke through a window at night wanting to violate a sleeping beautiful girl, happily earning himself a three-year prison sentence.

Zhan Xingye’s body froze, taking a step forward, his body tightening in anger.

For a moment, Xie Yi felt as if he had gone mad, wanting to rush up regardless of everything to tear him to pieces, but in the end, Zhan Xingye slowly retreated.

He left as quickly as he arrived, disappearing outside the window with a flip of his body.

Xie Yi joyfully leaned in Xu Xining’s arms, feeling that he had reshaped his fatherly dignity, although it mostly relied on being base and utterly shameless…

However, his happiness didn’t last long either.

Xu Xining disliked him moving around, throwing a kick and sending him flying off the bed.

The next morning, the alarm rang persistently for the tenth time. Xu Xining finally woke up. Seeing the time, she instantly sprang up, changing clothes like a whirlwind, rushing into the bathroom to wash up and brush her hair, and grabbing a rice ball and yogurt to serve as breakfast.

Her alarm always stepped right on the deadline, starting a race against life and death every morning.

Before stepping out the door, she finally remembered the fox, fishing out some vegetables, fruits, and a boiled egg from the refrigerator and piling them in front of him: “Eat whatever you want, don’t be polite…”

Speaking of this, she remembered that the fox might poop all over the floor after eating its fill, so she lamented sorrowfully, “But don’t eat too much. Give me some face, and be a bit more reserved when you poop.”

Xie Yi: ?

He was truly afraid of Xu Xining, afraid that on a whim she would want to teach him how to poop, turning around to leave.

Who would have thought that, without any warning, the girl suddenly squatted down. Smilingly, she kissed the fox’s head, rubbing it and saying, “Wait for me to come back.”

She carried a fresh and nice scent of lemon shampoo on her body.

Xu Xining rarely kissed him proactively. The few times occurred back when they just started dating, when she was anxious to expose their relationship to drive away her ex, Huo Ting. Whenever she saw a camera lens, she would quickly tug Xie Yi’s tie, concise and to the point: “Hurry up, kiss me.”

Her tone was straightforward and open, as if saying “bro, lend me a light.”

Her eyes were pure and bright, like a deer and like sunlight, making one feel that staring into her eyes would cause them to be burned by the light.

Her lips were like the petals of spring cherry blossoms, moist and soft, surpassing all the honey in the world.

Thinking of this, Xie Yi couldn’t help but stand up, wanting to kiss her.

Who would have thought that Xu Xining also stood up. He lunged with all his might… only reaching her stomach.

Xu Xining pushed him inward while closing the door: “Alright, alright, I have to go.”

She pulled down the lemon plush toy on her crossbody bag, shaking it in front of the fox’s eyes while making a few “tsku-tsku-tsku” sounds, then threw it forcefully into the room: “Go, Pikachu!”

Xie Yi: …

Go to hell!

After Xu Xining left, Xie Yi was afraid Zhan Xingye would launch a sneak attack, so he didn’t stay at her house.

He transformed into human form, casually conjuring a trendy red jacket with gold threads. Beneath his crisp black trousers, he wore a pair of shiny riding boots, strolling through a crowded square.

A colorful jacket could easily look gaudy, but Xie Yi didn’t have such worries. He possessed a top-tier, intensely handsome face. The more prominent and gorgeous the colors, the more they complemented his tall stature and extraordinary elegance.

The crowd gathered around him like iron needles drawn to a magnet, trembling with excitement.

Carrying an effortless smile, Xie Yi conjured one rose after another from the chest pocket of his jacket to give to the nearby women, his movements refined yet laced with a wicked charm, carrying a fatal attraction.

“Ah-ah-ah-ah thank you ah-ah it’s Xie Yi in person ah-ah-ah-ah I like you so much I really like you so much!” The young girl spoke incoherently, looking as if she was about to faint.

An endless stream of praise, love within easy reach.

This was the routine he was familiar with, repeated thousands and tens of thousands of times.

Life seemed to return to its tracks for a moment, as if there should be no one in this world whom he, Xie Yi, could not obtain.

After leaving the crowd, Xie Yi leaned against a tree, waving his hand. A tall young girl with fair skin immediately ran over, calling out softly, “Your Highness?”

Her name was Bai Yaoyao, a pigeon spirit living in Huaijiang City, who had previously delivered the keys to Xu Xining when she was locked out of the door.

Usually, when Xie Yi didn’t summon her to do things, she acted as an uploader on Bilibili.

Xie Yi said, “Take a flight to Mount Tu for me, and ask the elders of the clan for a divination stick.”

During the fight back then, Xie Yi took advantage of the chaos to pluck a handful of Zhan Xingye’s hair to use for a paternity test.

Of course, a paternity test for the monster race could not go to a top-tier human hospital. Instead, using the hair or any part of the body as a medium, they went to the Mount Tu ancestral hall to worship the ancestors and request a stick.

If a red stick was requested, it meant Zhan Xingye’s body flowed with the noble bloodline of the Mount Tu fox clan. If it was a white stick, it meant he was just a commoner.

Xie Yi handed the silk pouch containing the hair to Bai Yaoyao. Seeing her admiring and longing gaze, he smiled casually, patting her face unconcernedly: “By the way, find a few more people to investigate Zhan Xingye’s mother… You will do this well for me, right?”

“Of course, of course, Your Highness!” Bai Yaoyao’s face flushed with excitement, kissing the back of his hand fanatically and obsessively. “I am willing to do anything for you! I’ll fly over right away!”

If it were in the past, Xie Yi would bend down to kiss her to show the fox king’s favor.

Who would mind kissing a few more young girls?

He liked these pretty girls just like he liked spring flowers. However, just as humans wouldn’t remember the name of every flower, he wouldn’t remember who they were either.

But today, he rarely had the mood.

In the past, his life was like a game with easy mode turned on, invincible all the way yet losing its flavor. Even the most pandering galgame for otokus required a symbolic conquest route. Even the most boring pay-to-win web game always required a few symbolic bosses so that the items obtained after making an effort would be cherished.

If there were such a game in the world, where thousands of girls fawned and threw themselves at you from the start… it would definitely be the most boring game in the world.

He had played this boring game for eight hundred years, until a little golden flower looked at him like a good bro, very righteously slapping his thigh and saying today is the day we break up.

She dumped him.

Even more outrageous than dumping him, she had never loved him.

He thought the girl was sinking step by step in the dating game, granting his every request, but she was just like they had agreed, seriously playing the role of a good scandal girlfriend.

He couldn’t even blame her.

At that moment, shock mixed with pique, and even more so with incomprehension and bewilderment, as if a trace of dazzling gold was suddenly blended into his monotonous, day-after-day black-and-white game. The plot derailed, galloping wildly toward a realm he knew nothing about and had never set foot in.

Centering around her bright, smiling eyes, gorgeous colors swirled and swept through his black-and-white world like a wild wind crossing borders, making everything no longer the same.

This world became interesting once again.

Before Xu Xining finished work to return home, Xie Yi turned into a fox and squatted at the doorway waiting for her.

From the dim reflection on the tiles, one could see his fiery red fox tail puffing up like mist, making one inexplicably recall the soul-snatching, seductive beauty of Daji dancing gracefully while draped in red silk behind a screen back then.

Even as a fox, he was one in ten thousand in handsomeness.

Xu Xining even kissed him before leaving, telling him to wait for her to come home. Could she have prepared some surprise?

Thinking of this, Xie Yi became confident again, swaying his tail slowly.

He heard the sound of the elevator doors opening, messy footsteps, followed by Xu Xining’s clear voice: “It’s no trouble, it’s no trouble, reporting it in a timely manner is what I should do! Protecting wild animals is an shirkable responsibility!”

The door opened. Outside the apartment stood professional personnel wearing Forestry Bureau uniforms and work IDs, two men and one woman, carrying bite-proof leather gloves, a large iron cage, ropes, and bait sticks, looking solemn and watching like tigers.

Xie Yi: …

Xie Yi: A surprise?