A Little Monster With A Wife Is Amazing – CH26

Chapter 26: His cohabiting cub was taken away by a trashy blond…

“You… you heard everything?”

What? Jian Tang looked bewildered. “Heard what?”

Then he realized and quickly showed his wife the water cup in his hand: “I just went to the kitchen to get some water and happened to pass by your bedroom door. I definitely wasn’t eavesdropping!”

When he went to the kitchen, he had heard a voice in Feng Xun’s room, sounding like he was on the phone. He respected his wife’s privacy, so he wouldn’t secretly eavesdrop. When he came back, just as he reached the other’s bedroom door, it was suddenly pulled open. He only stopped because he was startled.

“Wife, you seem to be in a bad mood?” Jian Tang carefully observed the other’s expression. “Did you have an argument with someone?”

If it were a few days ago, seeing the man with such a terrifying expression, Jian Tang would have definitely turned and run—a terrifying wife was truly too scary; a single glare felt like it could deplete his HP! But now, he knew his wife actually… actually just looked a bit fierce, had a somewhat cold expression, and didn’t talk much. In reality, he wasn’t that scary at all.

Feng Xun stared at Jian Tang for a moment, confirming that the other hadn’t heard anything, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. However, there also seemed to be a trace of indescribable regret.

“…No,” he shook his head. “Just a bit tired.”

“Oh, oh,” Jian Tang tactfully didn’t press further. “Then you should rest early; you have to get up early for work tomorrow.”

“Mm, I’ll go to sleep after a shower.”

After exchanging a few more words, Jian Tang scratched his head. “Then… I’ll head back to my room first?”

“Alright.”

The youth padded toward the guest bedroom in his little bunny slippers, going slap-slap-slap against the floor. Feng Xun watched his back. The weather was already getting hot. The youth wore a crop-top vest and loose shorts. His exposed skin was as fine and white as porcelain, glowing with a tempting, soft ivory light under the illumination, very pleasing to the eye.

As he pushed open the guest bedroom door, the youth suddenly turned his head. His emerald eyes were beautiful and clean, curving into a pair of cute little crescents. “I forgot to say just now,” he said with a smile, his voice sweet. “Goodnight, Wife! Wishing you sweet dreams.”

A few strands of the youth’s short hair stuck up, plated with a fluffy golden-brown hue by the indoor lights. He looked very well-behaved, and very warm.

Feng Xun’s Adam’s apple bobbed, and he gave a slight nod. “Goodnight.”

Jian Tang went inside. Staring at the tightly closed door for a moment, the man withdrew his gaze and walked into the bathroom. He directly turned on the cold water showerhead, starting to wash and cool down.

The night passed.

The next day, Jian Tang got up very early, because he had an appointment to meet the three World-Lords at the entrance of their hotel at 7:00 AM. If it weren’t for the fact that projection possessions had time and usage limits, Jian Tang had absolutely no doubt that the three titans would have played through the night, which would have meant he couldn’t get off work on time either. Fortunately, such a terrifying scenario didn’t occur. He just had to grit his teeth and endure for two more days!

He quickly finished dressing. While he was changing his shoes in the entryway, the door to the other bedroom opened.

“So early?” Feng Xun glanced at the time. “Are you still accompanying clients today?”

“Mm, they’re staying for three days. Once this wave is over, it’ll be fine.”

Feng Xun’s gaze landed on the youth and he paused slightly. Today, the youth wasn’t wearing a plain, ordinary T-shirt, but a blue collegiate-style uniform. The design looked a bit like a sailor suit, making him appear even more youthful and lively, like a high school student still in school.

“Your outfit…” He didn’t know how to describe it accurately for a moment, so he resorted to the most straightforward phrasing, “Looks pretty good.”

“Ah, really?” This outfit was paired with small black leather boots, the lace-up kind. Jian Tang squatted down to tie the left one, then moved to tie the right. “Haha, thanks for the compliment. The client bought this outfit for me yesterday and made me wear it. He complained that my clothes yesterday were tacky and ugly, so he insisted I change into a new set today.”

Feng Xun furrowed his brow.Bought by the client? It was one thing for the clients to buy all those things yesterday and not want them, but what kind of proper client goes out of their way to buy new clothes for the employee entertaining them?

He was just about to ask for details when Jian Tang finished putting on his shoes and opened the front door. “I’m in a hurry, I’m heading off first.” He waved, his footsteps flying. “Bye, Wife!”

And just like that, he left.

The door closed, and the apartment suddenly fell silent, a silence that felt a bit empty. Feng Xun’s brow remained furrowed. He stared at the cold, closed door for a long time before sullenly withdrawing his gaze.

Afterward: washing up, changing clothes, eating, leaving the house, going to work, clocking in. Another day in the ordinary life of an ordinary person.

With no fresh corpses arriving today, the A-University human specimen preparation department remained quite idle. But compared to yesterday, everyone was a bit on edge while slacking off today—they couldn’t say why, but they felt the atmosphere in the workroom was very oppressive, as if a low-pressure air mass was coiled somewhere, pressing down so darkly that it made it hard to breathe.

After finally surviving the morning, no one wanted to stay in the weirdly atmospheric workroom to eat takeout for lunch, so they agreed to head to the food street out back to find a new spot for a good meal. Feng Xun followed the main group out of the university gates. His image in the department was that of an unsmiling, cold boss, so no one dared to casually strike up a conversation with him. Naturally, no one noticed that today, their Boss Feng’s expression was significantly darker than the past few days.

The group walked forward along the street. A street vendor was pushing a cart selling succulents, and several rookies from the department immediately stopped in their tracks, flocking over.

“Wow, they’re all so cute!” “The varieties are quite complete, I want to buy a few pots to put on my desk.” “I want to as well, to dispel the yin energy and help me gather wealth!” “Which kind gathers wealth? Which kind, which kind? I want one too!”

Driven by the rookies’ enthusiasm, the others in the department also walked over to the pushcart to pick out their favorite plants.

The three shelves of the pushcart were densely packed with fleshy little succulents, and the pots holding them were all very cute. Feng Xun casually cast a few glances, and his gaze landed on one of the pots, unable to look away. It was a small succulent housed in a transparent glass globe. The shape of the plant looked exactly like a tiny green bunny head, and the two green bunny ears even had a layer of translucent white, as if dusted with crystalline sugar frosting. There were four “little bunny heads” in this glass globe, huddled closely together, looking like an adorable family of four.

Feng Xun walked over and looked at the variety label stuck to the bottom of the glass flower globe. [Monilaria obconica / Bunny Succulent]

A ripple suddenly surfaced in his ancient memories. Feng Xun vaguely remembered: In the past… it seems I also raised a pot of green little bunnies like this. Not a cluster huddled together, but a single sprout in a pot, planted in a palm-sized white flowerpot—a cute, tiny single sprout.

But the related memories were truly too distant. He could no longer remember the details; it was even possible the memory itself was fake—perhaps that pot of Bunny Succulent wasn’t raised by him, but something he saw in his mother’s flower shop. After all, he used to go to his mother’s flower shop often as a child. He would stay in the shop to do his homework, or help out when his mother was too busy.

Feng Xun closed his eyes slightly, the pads of his fingers gently massaging his brow, trying to recall more clearly.

When he opened his eyes again, the man’s gaze inadvertently swept across the street, and suddenly froze.

As if finding it a bit unbelievable, he closed his eyes again, then looked back over. Across the main road was a row of bourgeois-style Western restaurants and cafes. In front of one of the cafes, two people were pulling and tugging at each other, seemingly arguing about something. Eventually, the shorter one lost the struggle and was half-dragged, half-forced into the cafe by a flamboyant, yellow-haired playboy who was smiling playfully with his arm slung over the shorter one’s shoulder.

Feng Xun: “…” He must have stood up too fast.Why did he just see his cohabiting cub being abducted by a trashy blond playboy??

Time rewinds to ten minutes ago.

Jian Tang, bearing the burden of hard work without complaint, followed Duke of Nightmares Fila. While accompanying this World-Lord titan in strolling the streets, he glanced at the time displayed on his phone for the Nth time, and reminded him with trepidation.

“Lord Fila, it’s about time,” he was dying of anxiety inside, but didn’t dare anger this moody World-Lord titan, only daring to weakly urge him. “We should go meet up with Lord Agne and the others…”

Fila, who was enthusiastically admiring the street view, shot him a sideways glance: “Hm? What did you call me?”

“…Mr. Pei.” Jian Tang corrected himself at the speed of light, continuing to urge weakly, “Mr. Pei, we really should head back.”

“Mr. Pei” was the name of the owner of the body the other had possessed. Jian Tang had seen his driver’s license yesterday, it seemed to be Pei Qi-something. Then, Duke Nightmare got so into character that he insisted Jian Tang call him by that human name, calling it some sort of immersive plane experience. …Truly worthy of a titan, really knows how to play. Stealing someone’s body isn’t enough, you have to force others to play character cosplay with you =.=

Of course, Jian Tang only dared to secretly complain in his head, not showing a hint of it on the surface, and tried hard to get into character himself. “If we don’t go back soon, Mrs. Wang and Young Master Bai will get anxious waiting.”

…That’s right, under Fila’s lead, Heramis and Agne also got their own human names, and demanded that Jian Tang treat them equally and address them as such. Jian Tang: …In this human quartet, the three titans are performing happily on stage, and I, as the sole audience member, am bearing far too much =.=

“What’s the rush,” Fila continued strolling carelessly. “If they’re having a good time, after the first round ends, they’ll add another. They will find ways to entertain themselves; you don’t need to worry.”

…Is it them I’m worried about?I’m worried about the humans who went into the venue with them, okay!

Mentioning this made Jian Tang want to facepalm: Originally, it was all agreed upon today. He would be the tour guide, taking the three titans to visit the zoo and aquarium in A-City. However, on the way, Heramis saw a weirdly shaped Western-style mansion with many humans queuing outside, and asked Jian Tang what it was for. Jian Tang got out of the car to ask, and found out it was an escape room venue that also hosted script murder mysteries (jubensha). It was famous for its terrifying, horrific sets and thrilling, brain-burning plots, quite renowned in the surrounding area, with many people even traveling from other cities to play.

After listening to the staff’s extravagant introduction, Hell’s Eye Agne and Evil God Heramis decided on the spot: They wouldn’t visit the human exhibition halls anymore; they would come here to play the human escape room instead. In the past, it was always Taskers challenging their dungeons; they had never tried a human dungeon before.

Jian Tang had a bad feeling right then and there: Don’t play so hard that a bunch of players realize the thing they need to escape from isn’t the locked room, but two terrifying BOSSes wearing human skin, right?? He originally planned to follow them into the dungeon to protect the other human players, but Duke Nightmare had no interest in trying an escape room, insisting on dragging Jian Tang to stroll elsewhere.

And then, it turned into the current situation—Jian Tang was forced to wander the streets with Lord Fila, while keeping the other two titans in mind, trying every possible way to rush back early to keep an eye on the scene and prevent any chaos. He was especially afraid that the two titans wouldn’t learn anything good and would only learn the bad—please don’t act like that infamous “Bloody Butcher” and empty out the venue’s props after clearing the dungeon… that would definitely trigger the “Police Dispatch” plotline again!

“Little Candy Bean, let’s go inside and sit for a while?” Fila suddenly pointed to a street-side cafe, saying with a smile.

Jian Tang: “?” Jian Tang: “F… Mr. Pei, if you want to drink coffee, there is also a coffee shop next to the escape room.” So let’s hurry up and go back, go back, go back!

“I don’t want to,” Duke Nightmare said. “That one is too small. This one looks bigger, and there are more people inside.”

This coffee shop was indeed very popular. The outdoor seating was basically full, and there were only a few empty tables left inside. “I also opened a coffee shop in my dungeon.” Fila observed the situation inside the shop with interest through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows. “But for some reason, business was never very good. I can just take this opportunity to learn from their experience.”

…It would be a miracle if your horror cafe had good business! What Tasker would dare patronize a cafe opened by the Big BOSS!

Jian Tang wanted to struggle a bit more: “We can go find Her… find Mrs. Wang and Young Master Bai first, and come over together after everyone meets up. Do you think that works?”

“No.” Duke Nightmare grabbed the collar of the youth who was trying to flee the scene. The youth spun in place like a walked puppy, ultimately being firmly pinned by the shoulders by the man. “Let’s go, Little Candy Bean.” The man forcibly held the youth by his side using a posture that looked intimate but was actually a coercive kidnapping.

“I’ll treat you to coffee,” he said with a smile.

Jian Tang: QAQ Not drinking, not drinking, I’m not drinking! Let me go back!!

…Naturally, his resistance failed. In the end, he could only walk into the cafe with a miserable face.

“Welcome!” The staff behind the counter smiled enthusiastically. “What would the two of you like to order?”

Fila ordered skillfully: “Everything on the menu, I’ll have all…”

“We’ll find a seat first!” Jian Tang interrupted hurriedly. “We’ll scan the QR code to order after we sit down!”

Fila glanced at Jian Tang but didn’t say anything more. After being pulled by Jian Tang to sit at a corner table, the man crossed his arms and smirked at him half-smilingly.

“Little Candy Bean, you’re getting bolder and bolder,” he said slowly and deliberately. “Daring to make decisions for me.”

If he had heard such a “warning” on the first day, Jian Tang would have definitely been so scared all his leaves would fall off. But a day and a half had passed; even if he was scared, he had started to become desensitized. He could even distinguish whether the other party was truly angry, or just purely trying to scare him.

“Mr. Pei, a normal person wouldn’t order all the coffee and desserts on the menu in one breath,” Jian Tang said.

Fila: “Am I a normal person?”

Jian Tang: “…” Right, right, right, you’re not normal, your whole family is not normal.

“This isn’t a System Mall where goods can just be taken straight from inventory,” Jian Tang explained patiently. “If you order too many things here, not only will we not be able to finish them, but it will also cause huge trouble for the staff, making them incredibly busy.”

Fila raised his eyebrows, his tone somewhat amused: “Why are you so worried about causing trouble for humans? With the three of us World-Lords here, you can completely walk sideways and do whatever you want; why bother caring about human feelings?”

“…Because you guys are only staying here for three days, but I have to settle down here long-term,” Jian Tang muttered softly. This street wasn’t too far from the Happiness Court complex. He might even come here with his wife later. He didn’t want the staff here to frown the moment they saw him. “Regional reputation” needed to be maintained too, okay?

Jian Tang took out the new smartphone he had just bought yesterday—he was a bit more flush with cash now, and the keypad phone he used before was far too old, so he just switched to a new smartphone. Now he could send cute sticker emojis to his wife!—and started scanning the code to order.

Fila stared at the youth who was ordering earnestly for a moment, then asked out of the blue. “Do you like humans a lot?”

Jian Tang poked, poked, poked at the screen: “Um, they’re alright.”

The man suddenly reached out, slung his arm around the youth’s shoulders, leaned close to his ear, and said softly. “I heard from Gale that you deal with humans often. You must know quite a few human friends, right?”

This action was overly intimate and practiced. To an outsider, it looked just like a couple whispering private sweet nothings. Jian Tang’s fingers paused. He turned his head and saw the man’s eyes curving, smiling like a cunning fox.

“Call your human friends to come over and play too,” Fila smiled, breathing lightly against the youth’s ear. “The more people, the livelier it is.”

For no reason, Jian Tang got a case of goosebumps: Although he didn’t know why Duke Nightmare would make such a suggestion, his intuition told him the other party definitely harbored bad intentions.

“I don’t know any humans.” Jian Tang warily dodged backward, but unfortunately, Fila was leaning too close, and he couldn’t dodge away. “I don’t have any human friends either.”

“Oh? Really?” The man smiled playfully, using his fingers to pinch the youth’s chin, forcing him to lift his head and look in another direction. “That human over there has been staring in this direction for a long time. Is he not your friend?”

Jian Tang looked toward the entrance of the shop, and instantly felt like a thunderbolt from a clear sky had struck him; he felt like the sky was falling.

W-wife?! Why is he here??

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