However, a figure launched high from the other side of Ming Ruan’s Flying Sedan, diving straight down at Ming Ruan!
Ming Ruan instinctively turned back. A black shadow, like a sharp sword, extended sharp claws, lunging straight for his face.
Ming Ruan actually didn’t clearly see what was pouncing at him, but relying on the intuition from petting small animals everywhere before transmigrating, he reached out a hand and blocked.
In his hands appeared a small, fiery red fox. Its fur color was like a filter had been applied—vivid and striking. Big ears, big tail, an exceptionally adorable little red fox.
Held up in the air by Ming Ruan under its forelegs, the little fox was a bit stunned, licked its nose, and let out two cute, clipped “Yip yip~” sounds. Its limpid, watery eyes blinked, sending a glance towards the camera.
As if throwing a wink to the audience in the live stream room.
The tense atmosphere in the live stream room simultaneously froze.
Ming Ruan’s taut nerves instantly relaxed. He even sighed a laugh, saying, “You little…” A small fox. And he’d thought he encountered that white tiger again.
Comments quickly scrolled across the live stream:
[Is this a Beastman too? It’s so cute!]
[Probably not. Isn’t District 12 all Ferocious Beast-type Beastmen? The small animals are all Artificial Lifeforms.]
[…Is there no sister who gets me! I feel like this is my little bias!!]
[Ahhhhh!! Is it Shi Huai cub! Wuwuwu, you’ve worked hard, cub wuwuwu]
[??? Ah? Are you guys talking about that huge hit from a while back, the Top Star Shi Huai?]
The little fox, namely Shi Huai, after making its presence known before the camera, tilted its head to look at Ming Ruan.
It suddenly let out a pained cry, struggling and whimpering.
Startled, Ming Ruan quickly put the little fox down.
Strange. He clearly hadn’t held it up for long, and his technique was the usual one. Why would it be in pain?
Could it be another injured baby?
Ming Ruan crouched down, gently stroking the little fox’s back. “Baby, be good. Does anywhere hurt? Let me check with the Healing Device, okay?” He now carried the Healing Device in the vehicle at all times.
The fox’s narrow eyes widened, becoming round. It tugged at Ming Ruan’s arm with its paws, its hindquarters and tail wriggling and twisting, yipping in a coquettish manner.
Don’t go get the Healing Device!
Otherwise, wouldn’t everyone in the live stream know it was faking pain?
Was Ming Ruan doing this on purpose? Had he grown a brain!
On the surface, Shi Huai acted like a charmingly naive little fox, but inside, his mind had already spun eight hundred turns.
He had come specifically for Ming Ruan.
The Ming family hadn’t immediately abandoned Ming Ruan after discovering he wasn’t their biological child.
But once Ming Ruan learned he was the fake young master, he started doing everything possible to squeeze benefits from the Ming family.
The first path he thought of was entering the entertainment industry.
That was when Shi Huai crossed paths and formed a grudge with Ming Ruan.
Shi Huai debuted from a talent show, considered the same period as Ming Ruan. Initially, it was just the minor issue of clashing personas.
But with his superb talent and solid professional skills, Shi Huai won first place every time. Ming Ruan, however, relied on marketing and pulling capital just to barely avoid elimination. Ming Ruan’s jealousy grew day by day.
Ming Ruan started resorting to despicable methods repeatedly, including but not limited to: crudely cutting his stage outfits, stealing his stylists, pressuring the production team for malicious editing, ostracizing him… or more directly, leveraging the Ming family’s influence to try and blacklist him.
But Shi Huai endured it all.
Furthermore, through his own maneuvering, Ming Ruan’s true face began to be exposed in the public eye, in the Ming family’s eyes.
People started to feel disappointed, to feel disgust.
And Shi Huai soared smoothly, reaching the throne of a Top Star.
Unfortunately, in the end, he Beastified, and Ming Ruan didn’t.
The little fox licked its canine tooth.
He was very displeased. What energetic, innocent young man? It was all just a persona. He might not be a good person, but Ming Ruan was definitely rotten.
He had to ensure Ming Ruan fell thoroughly, never to rise again, never to harm anyone else.
That was why he came.
The little fox wagged its tail vigorously at the camera.
Ming Ruan caught the little fox posing for the camera again, so he directed the camera up and down, teasing the little fox. “Does baby like this?”
Shi Huai:?
Shi Huai was petrified.
What ‘baby’? So disgusting! He wasn’t calling him that, was he?!
The little fox sized up Ming Ruan suspiciously.
This guy didn’t recognize his beast form?
And just in the short moment since Shi Huai appeared, Ming Ruan’s live stream room was already so jammed the picture couldn’t be seen, yet countless users were still pouring in.
[Heard you can see baby Shi here!]
[Long time no see, Huai Huai wuwuwu, Mama’s late!!]
[Huai Huai little angel!! Our Huai Huai is super cute even after Beastification, different from other Beastmen?]
[Why does only Ming Ruan have a live stream room? Didn’t he get kicked out of the Ming family? Did he latch onto some new capital again? Annoying.]
[…Any chance this is the supervision channel for a Probationary Executor?]
[So annoying. As expected, it got noisy. Missing the first day of the Council Speaker.]
Ming Ruan, unaware of the live stream’s existence, had already finished checking that the fox had no injuries and scooped the fox up, carrying it into the Flying Sedan.
Today’s Forest Patrol gain: One little fox.
The moment Ming Ruan saw the little fox, he thought of the Cross-District Incident. Now back in the vehicle, he first sent a message to the Boss, who had been missing for days, then took a photo of the little fox and posted it in the Executor General Group.
District 12: “Found him. Is this the baby?”
District 6: “?”
District 5: “?”
Immediately after, messages from the District 11 Executor and District 7 Executor popped up simultaneously.
District 11: “Reported to the Adjudicator yet?”
District 7: “Don’t report. I’m coming to pick him up!!”
Adjudicator.
The blue figure surfaced in Ming Ruan’s mind again: He had walked past all the Executors, come before him, and spoken only four words: “You did well.”
That must be the Boss, right?
District 12: “Already reported.”
District 11: “Good :)”
Meanwhile, the District 7 Executor acted as if their tail had been stepped on. They started spewing vulgar insults at Ming Ruan in the group, completely unrestrained.
The little fox sprawled on Ming Ruan’s lap leaned in curiously to look, but Ming Ruan covered its eyes with one hand: “Baby shouldn’t learn this.”
Shi Huai rolled his eyes and yawned indifferently.
All trite garbage he’d used before. The insults were utterly unskilled.
Shi Huai felt exasperated by their incompetence.
The District 7 Executor ranted and suddenly went silent.
After a long pause, they suddenly sent another message:
District 7: “District 7 has never had a Cross-District Incident before. How come the moment @District12 shows up, something happens? And normally, how could anything cross five whole districts this far? How did you just conveniently run into him?”
There was even such a way of forced reasoning.
Ming Ruan’s eyes widened, marveling.
District 7: “I will report to the Executor office demanding a notarized handover and on-site inspection. I suspect you of intentional enticement and detainment.”
Ming Ruan, slowly, typed a question mark.
Simultaneously, a dialogue page that had been quiet for a long time suddenly popped up a message.
Boss: “.”
The Boss was back!
But a period meant…?
Immediately after, Ming Ruan’s Light Brain chimed with the familiar notification tone.
【Dear District 12 Executor, hello. Confirmed: You have made an outstanding contribution in the Cross-District Incident. Performance points will be issued subsequently.】
【Dear District 12 Executor, hello. Confirmed: District 7 Executor’s request for notarized handover and on-site inspection complies with procedures. Please arrive tomorrow at the Sanatorium Zone – Research Branch with Shi Huai (Fox) for the handover. Wishing you a pleasant day.】
The little fox listened to this notification tone, its mouth curling as if smiling, seeming very pleased.
These Executors were all shrewd as could be.
That District 7 fellow knew about the bad blood between him and Ming Ruan.
As long as Shi Huai showed any sign during the notarization of being controlled or threatened by Ming Ruan, the District 7 Executor could logically pin everything on Ming Ruan.
And the man himself would become the victim, absolved of all crimes.
Framing someone with a criminal record like Ming Ruan was an incredibly easy thing.
By now, the people in the live stream room should be cursing up a storm already—even though anyone could see this was a blatant frame-up.
The fox wagged its tail delightedly.
So, as the key witness, should he cooperate with tomorrow’s good show or not?
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