A Little Monster With A Wife Is Amazing – CH15

Chapter 15: Jian Tang suddenly hugged his wife from behind…

Jian Tang coughed for a long while and drank the water Feng Xun brought him before he finally caught his breath.

“Wife… I mean, Feng Xun, why were you in the small garden downstairs?” Jian Tang asked, feeling both surprised and guilty. “Didn’t you just get back from your dinner?”

“I’ve been back for a while,” Feng Xun said. “I felt a bit tired walking, so I sat in the garden for a bit.” He paused. “You didn’t see me?”

…It would be a miracle if he had. He hadn’t even used the main gate!

Also, since you were already at the building, if you were tired, couldn’t you have just come inside to rest? Why sit in the small garden!

“I didn’t come in through the main gate of the complex,” Jian Tang said dryly. “I took the side entrance.”

In truth, Jian Tang wasn’t even sure if Happiness Court had a side entrance. He had only moved in three days ago, and between sleeping and working overtime, he hadn’t had a chance to properly explore the complex. But based on his knowledge of human communities, it was impossible for a complex to only have one main gate.

Feng Xun nodded: “Oh, I see.”

Although he was slightly puzzled that with his keen senses, in such an open night, he hadn’t heard the movement of someone else entering the building, he figured he had been looking down at his book at the time. Jian Tang coming from another direction and hurrying upstairs without noticing the situation in the small garden—it wasn’t strange that they had missed each other. That must be it.

“Go ahead and eat,” Feng Xun checked the time. “Get some rest early when you’re done.”

Jian Tang, having been startled earlier, was worried he might say the wrong thing again if he wasn’t careful, so he immediately indicated he was full and wanted to go to sleep.

“Good,” Feng Xun said. “Go on.”

“You get some rest early, too, Wife,” Jian Tang said considerately. “I’ll try to be as quiet as possible when I leave in the morning so I don’t disturb your sleep.”

The man nodded while tidying up the table. “Mm, got it.”

—

At 3:30 AM, Jian Tang’s alarm rang.

He was exhausted. Although there was a high probability his wife was still sound asleep and wouldn’t notice what time he left, Jian Tang didn’t dare sleep until 3:55 AM before leaving—if his wife caught him, coming up with an excuse would be a huge hassle.

He changed clothes with his eyes closed, pushed the bedroom door open with his eyes closed, and then heard the sound of another door being pushed open at the same time.

“?”

Jian Tang opened his eyes to find Feng Xun, dressed neatly, walking out of the bathroom. There was a droplet of water on the man’s sharp, defined jaw, as if he had just finished washing up.

The two made eye contact. In Jian Tang’s astonished gaze, his terrifying wife uttered the most terrifying words ever spoken.

“Where is your workplace?” the man said while taking his coat from the rack by the door, looking all ready to head out. “I’ll drive you there.”

Jian Tang: “???”

Misinterpreting the youth’s shock and daze for confusion, Feng Xun explained.

“There’s a car at home.”

It was one of the matching facilities gifted by the System. Feng Xun had gone to take a look in the underground garage yesterday; it wasn’t a luxury car, just an ordinary family-model SUV, which fit his needs perfectly—don’t show off wealth, just live a low-profile life.

“…”

Jian Tang’s entire body went wooden, his inner self trembling like the inflatable tube men outside hotel entrances: Ahhhhhh, he absolutely cannot let his wife see where he works!!

“No, really, no need!” Jian Tang struggled desperately. “I’ve already called a ride; you don’t have to…”

“If you called one, you can cancel it.” Feng Xun was unmoved, walking to the entryway to change his shoes. “Let’s go, you’ll be late if you wait any longer.”

It was still dark outside; calling a ride wasn’t as convenient as driving himself. He would use this trip to familiarize himself with the route; that way, it would be easier to pick the other person up if he worked overtime again.

As he spoke, Feng Xun had already changed his shoes and taken the car keys from the drawer in the entryway.

“!!!”

Jian Tang sucked in a cold breath, and the moment the man opened the apartment door, he lunged at him.

“Wife!”

Jian Tang hugged the man’s waist from behind, his whole body pressing against him, rubbing against him with the force of a little animal.

“Really, it’s no trouble, really, really!” He softened his voice deliberately, making it sound soft and sweet. “Wife, just go back to your room and sleep comfortably. I can handle my own affairs; how could I trouble you? My conscience wouldn’t be able to handle it.”

In his Book of Destiny, every time the adorable wife hugged the Great Demon protagonist and acted spoiled like this, the Great Demon could never refuse the adorable wife’s request. Jian Tang, desperate and trying anything, used this move too.

Although, although this was the “Adorable Wife’s” exclusive skill, with the situation so urgent, he couldn’t care less whether it was a wife-skill or husband-skill; use it first!

Sure enough, the person he was hugging stiffened visibly and stopped walking out the door.

Jian Tang seized the opportunity; while holding on tight, he kicked into his shoes with lightning speed and, before the other party could react, bolted out of the apartment, leaving behind a silhouette that was waving goodbye while running.

“Goodbye, Wife!”

He vanished like a wisp of smoke.

Feng Xun: “…”

He instinctively chased after him for a few steps, but hearing no more noise in the stairwell, it was clear the other person had already run out of the building.

Running so fast?

Feng Xun returned to the house, walked to the living room window to look down, and happened to see Jian Tang running past under the streetlight.

Perhaps sensing the gaze from upstairs, the youth turned his head while running. After meeting eyes with Feng Xun, he made a heart shape with his hands, smiling so brightly his little white teeth showed.

—Wahahahaha, escape successful! I’m so smart!

Feng Xun watched as the youth ran far away like a lively little rabbit. Once the other person’s figure had completely disappeared into the murky night, Feng Xun stood by the window for another ten-plus minutes before turning to leave.

He checked the time—it had just passed 3:50 AM. For a normal person, they would probably go back to bed to catch up on sleep, but for Feng Xun, that was unnecessary.

He had been tempered in the supernatural world for so long that his physique was already different from an ordinary person’s; sleeping two or three hours a day was sufficient. He wasn’t sleepy at all now.

He went to the kitchen to pour a glass of water, returned to the bedroom, and took a black notebook from his desk drawer—this was also one of the equipment facilities of the Safe House.

Starting the notebook and connecting to the local network, Feng Xun found a local city portal website and began browsing the news information on the page. He wasn’t picky about content, reading whatever type of news and information was available, roughly limited to the past year.

Currently occupying the local headlines was “Serial Murder Case Solved.” It was said that the police had shot and killed the culprit on the spot, but the announcement didn’t release detailed information about the culprit, only saying that citizens could rest assured, that the police would protect the safety of every citizen, and so on.

For such an ambiguous official announcement, the comments below were mostly skeptical. Feng Xun glanced twice, skipped it, and continued to read other news.

After browsing for an hour, a piece of livelihood news caught Feng Xun’s attention.

The news reported a bizarre event at a hospital: for over a week, the deceased in the hospital morgue had been inexplicably getting their hair shaved off, and it was shaved in a patchy, “dog-chewed” mess. The families were furious amidst their grief, strongly condemning this vile behavior of disrespecting the dead. The hospital cooperated actively, but checked the surveillance and found no suspicious persons, and even sent special personnel to watch the area but couldn’t catch the prankster. It was very strange.

Below the news, a short video was attached—it was a reporter interviewing the hospital’s security captain. Feng Xun watched for 30 seconds, then suddenly pressed the pause key.

The background of this simple interview was the hospital gate. In the paused frame, besides the reporter and the security captain, there were one or two passersby walking toward the hospital in the background, only showing half their side profiles.

Feng Xun stared at those two people, and with his photographic memory, he soon recognized them: he had seen these two people before.

On the second day after he moved into the complex, when he was returning from the morning market, he had seen a group of people near the complex gate, and these two were among them. Although it was just a passing encounter, he remembered one of them carrying a floor tile stained with black sludge.

—That was the floor tile branded with the Evil Seed’s remains.

If he hadn’t guessed wrong, that group of people should be local official personnel dealing with supernatural beings and related cases.

According to the information he had previously collected, this Plane A90442 was a world where humans and supernatural monsters coexisted. However, the rules of this plane seemed to have certain limitations on supernatural monsters; they rarely appeared in front of humans. Still, the traces left behind inadvertently had attracted the attention of a few humans, thus appearing official agencies that investigated supernatural phenomena.

If he wanted to find that little monster whose origin, name, and species he didn’t know, cooperating with an official agency that had a certain understanding of supernatural beings was actually a good choice. But Feng Xun had considered it for three days and still abandoned that option.

On one hand, he wasn’t clear about the local official agency’s attitude toward Taskers, and a rash contact might not lead to good results—it might even disrupt his peaceful “normal human life.”

On the other hand, he wasn’t living alone now, and he had to consider the feelings of his other cohabitant.

The innocent face, unversed in the ways of the world, flashed across his mind, and a faint smile crossed the depths of Feng Xun’s eyes.

To ordinary humans who were unaware of the supernatural world’s existence, supernatural entities often meant danger and fear. If he frequently interacted with the official agency, the person beside him would inevitably notice: this world actually hid a massive amount of “danger and fear.”

A timid little human fellow like that… shouldn’t be hearing about these things.

Click here to download the full novel. (PDF & EPUB)