Seven Cubs, Seven Fathers, Zero Days Off

Chapter 189: Chapter 187: Whose Life Isn’t a Life

For the past two days, Xiao Ya had been making repeated trips to the market for potions and tonics. She would then rush back to her room, tending to Bai Chaosi around the clock.

But after two days, despite having been given plenty of potions and tonics, the fox showed no signs of improvement.

His breathing had even grown weaker than before.

You couldn’t even detect his breathing unless you got very close and looked carefully.

Xiao Ya’s heart clenched in her chest.

Eventually, the fox on the bed could no longer take any medicine. When she finally managed to get a single mouthful down, he suddenly coughed up a spray of blood.

The blood splattered across the floor, and Xiao Ya’s face went pale with fright.

”Are you okay? Wake up!”

Her voice trembled with panic.

”Hey, you can’t do this to me! You can’t die!”

She frantically shook the motionless fox, but the Nine-tailed Fox on the bed seemed utterly lifeless.

The only thing proving he was still alive was the faint rise and fall of his chest.

Beyond that, there was no sign the fox had any hope of survival.

He was like an inanimate object.

She pursed her lips, pacing back and forth beside the bed.

’No, I can’t let this fox die.’

’I went through so much trouble to bring him to Ye Country. I’m waiting for him to recover so I can rely on him to escape the shackles of my status.’

’Even though I was found and raised by the people of Luoxi Town, I never accepted my fate.’

’I always felt I wasn’t meant to spend my life in that remote village. Deep in my bones, I knew I didn’t belong there.’

’I’m meant for a wider world, a brighter future.’

’So, for all these years, my deepest wish, nurtured in the dead of night, has been to leave that place and escape the constraints of my low status.’

’I’m beautiful, I have skills, and I’m smart. In this Beast World, I deserve to climb higher.’

’I don’t think I’m any worse than those high-ranking noble females. I refuse to believe my fate is to be so constrained.’

’To be stuck forever in Luoxi Town, matched with a few crude Eagle Clan males, living a life of poverty in the middle of nowhere, never knowing where my next meal is coming from.’

’I refuse. I won’t accept that fate.’

’So, this fox is my chance to climb higher.’

’I absolutely cannot miss this golden opportunity.’

At this thought, she snatched up a cloth, wrapped the nearly breathless fox on the bed, and ran out, heading for the best physician’s apothecary in the city.

As she wove through the crowds, she muttered under her breath.

”Just hold on, you can’t die!”

”I will save you, I won’t let you die!”

She ran, holding her breath with exertion, her eyes turning red and making it hard to see the path ahead.

Suddenly, her foot caught on a stone, and she was about to fall.

But a strong force suddenly caught her and steadied her.

Once steady, she froze for a moment. It was the City Wall Guard from the other day.

The guard looked at her.

”Miss Xiao Ya, why are you running so fast? Where are you headed?”

”You nearly fell! That would have been a nasty spill. It’s a good thing I was here!”

Xiao Ya, still supported by him, looked up with her reddened eyes.

”Lord Lu, can you please help me? Please save my Beast Husband!”

She spoke with desperation, clutching the fox tightly.

Guard Lu paused, only then noticing the bundle she was holding in her arms.

He hadn’t realized she already had a Beast Husband.

”Your Beast Husband?”

”That’s your Beast Husband in your arms?”

He sounded surprised.

Xiao Ya was too desperate to care about anything else. She pulled back the cloth to reveal the fox.

”Lord Lu, yes, he’s my Beast Husband. Can you please save him...?”

Guard Lu stared at the Nine-tailed Fox in her arms. Although he couldn’t tell what branch of the Fox Clan it belonged to—after all, there wasn’t a single patch of intact flesh on its body.

The sight was truly gruesome.

But he could still tell it was a member of the Fox Clan.

And a nine-tailed one at that.

His expression grew grave.

”He... he’s from the Nine-tailed Fox Clan?”

”But how did he get so badly injured?”

In Ye Country, there was a branch of the Nine-tailed Fox Clan known as the Fire Fox Clan. They were the most revered beings in the entire Night Empire.

They were the current Royal Family of Ye Country.

’If this fox is really from the Fire Fox Clan, does that mean Xiao Ya’s Beast Husband is of royal blood?’

Guard Lu was stunned.

But Xiao Ya was only thinking about saving Bai Chaosi’s life.

”Lord Lu, my Beast Husband was also injured by a Lizardman outside Barbaric City. He’s fallen on hard times and his life is hanging by a thread. Please, save him! When he recovers, he will certainly reward you handsomely...”

Hearing this, Guard Lu recalled the scene when she had entered the city.

”But that day, I didn’t see your Beast Husband enter the city with you.”

”How did he get in?”

Xiao Ya sobbed quietly.

”To be honest, Lord Lu, my Beast Husband’s identity is special. On top of that, he was ambushed and seriously injured outside the city, so I had no choice but to hide him in my back-basket to bring him in.”

”There were too many people at the city gate at the time. It was inconvenient to reveal his identity in front of everyone. Please forgive me, Lord Lu... but my Beast Husband is about to die! Can’t you please save him?”

The phrase ”special identity” caught Guard Lu’s attention.

As soon as he heard ”special identity,” his mind jumped to his guess about the royal Fox Clan.

His eyes immediately lit up, and he looked at the fox in Xiao Ya’s arms with a newfound seriousness.

”Alright, alright, say no more. Saving him is what’s important!”

”Follow me. I know a clinic where the Healing System Doctor just got back today. He’s a rare B level Physician. He should be able to treat your Beast Husband.”

With that, Guard Lu led Xiao Ya, and they ran swiftly toward the clinic.

The two of them rushed to the clinic, but a long line of people was waiting outside.

Seeing this, Guard Lu started to push his way inside.

”Hey, why are you cutting in line?”

”Yeah, don’t you see all of us waiting here?”

”It’s wrong to cut. Get to the back of the line!”

”Keep cutting, and see if we don’t beat you up.”

Listening to them, Guard Lu took out his Guard Token.

”I am a City Wall Guard! I have urgent business with the physician. I’d like to see who dares to make a fuss or stand in my way!”

His angry roar immediately silenced the surrounding crowd, who had been itching for a fight.

But a few stubborn ones couldn’t help muttering under their breath.

”So what if he’s a City Wall Guard? Does that mean he can cut in line to see the doctor?”

”We’re all sick here! Isn’t everyone’s life just as important?”

”Look, he’s obviously carrying an injured patient too, but he claims it’s ’urgent business’! Who’s he trying to fool?”

Seeing this, Xiao Ya burst into tears of desperation.

”Please, everyone, could you let us go first? It’s a matter of life and death! Please, have a heart!”

”I’m begging you, please save my Beast Husband! He’s really about to die!”

When the crowd heard this and saw the unidentifiable, dying creature in Guard Lu’s arms, they seemed to understand that a life was truly on the line.

So, the people exchanged glances and began to make way.

Just then, a crisp voice called out from behind a cloth curtain upstairs.

”Let them come up!”