Warden of the Beast World: Everyone is a Hakimi

"It's clearly the scent of an adult male beast! I can smell it! He is an adult male beast!" Chi Heng cried even louder.

"Shut up!" Ye Tang was exasperated by his crying. Did this silly bird have tear ducts that led directly to the ocean? How could he cry so easily? She threw off the covers and pulled out the heirloom Chi Xiong had given her from under her pillow. "If you cry again, I'll really beat you up."

Chi Heng's crying stopped abruptly. He stared, sobbing, at the stick that gleamed a dark red in the moonlight, and hastily wiped away his tears with the back of his hand: "Then tell me, who is it?"

After he finished speaking, he couldn't help but sob again, then tried to hold it back, and sobbed again.

Ye Tang took a deep breath and recounted the whole story. Qi Xuan, the patriarch of the Jiaolong clan and a new inmate sent to the Imperial Sanatorium, had his mental power corrupted by the Fallen Beast and had completely lost his mind. She sang nursery rhymes to comfort him in the observation area and even fed him a bottle of beast milk.

"What you smelled was the scent he left behind when he climbed onto my shoulder and kissed my cheek." Ye Tang didn't hide anything and frankly explained all the details.

Chi Heng's tears finally stopped. He listened intently to Ye Tang's entire explanation, then tilted his head and thought for a moment before raising an objection: "Little Tang Tang, he's not a cub. He's Qi Xuan, older than Cang Ming, over five hundred years old. But don't be fooled by his cub form. When he was over a hundred years old, he volunteered to guard the South Sea seal alone. I've been there; it's a desolate island in the vast ocean, barren, scorching under the sun, and with scarce spiritual energy."

"He guarded that place for over three hundred years. During that time, the seal was weakened countless times, and each time he reinforced it using the secret techniques of the Jiaolong clan. He single-handedly ensured the peace of the South China Sea coast for hundreds of years. He could have retreated unscathed all these years, but the final blow from that fallen beast was aimed at the civilians behind him who hadn't had time to evacuate."

"If that attack had landed, the entire town would have died. He took the brunt of the attack with his own body, exposing his spiritual power to the corruption of the fallen beasts, thus buying time for the civilians to evacuate safely. The Imperial Research Institute sentenced him to death, but the military issued a strict order to save him, even at the cost of countless resources. Because he saved too many people, the Empire owes him too much."

Ye Tang recalled her empty, icy blue vertical pupils when she sang nursery rhymes in the corridor. Even when he went berserk to the point of forgetting his own name, he did not attack her.

He shrunk himself to the size of a palm-sized cub, took the pacifier she offered him, let out a small burp, and then climbed up her arm to her shoulder, saying that his sister Xiangxiang liked it.

"No wonder the military ordered that he be taken care of instead of being forcibly taken back." Ye Tang nodded thoughtfully.

"Little Tangtang, from now on, I'll bring you your meals. Stay away from Qi Xuan." Chi Heng pulled the blanket up, wrapping himself up like a silkworm. "He's in his cub form right now. What if he accidentally turns back one day? He's in his berserk state and doesn't know you. What if he hurts you?"

"You're so jealous." Ye Tang reached out and ruffled his bright red hair.

"Hmm." Chi Heng, unusually, didn't refute, but just responded with a muffled sound. He buried his face in the pillow, his voice indistinct.

"Silly bird."

"By the way, how's Youlie? Did that dead cat Jingyao bully him?" Ye Tang suddenly remembered that since she had only seen the communication on the quantum computer for a short while, it would be better to let Chi Heng see for himself.

Chi Heng immediately crawled out from under the covers and began to tattle indignantly.

"Jing Yao is too wicked. He treats Youlie like a donkey. When I arrived, Youlie was still building the city wall. That scoundrel Jing Yao made me work there as a laborer, saying that the beast tide in the northern border was coming soon and that I needed to stay and contribute to the empire."

"I barely escaped back, and I almost didn't get to see you again. Little Tangtang, if you ever marry a beast husband again, you absolutely can't marry one like that dead cat. He's good for nothing except exploiting honest beasts."

"Understood. From now on, if any male beasts want to enter the house, I won't marry them unless you and Youlie agree, okay?" Ye Tang looked at his serious expression, as if he were reporting military intelligence.

"Really?" Chi Heng's eyes lit up instantly.

"real."

Chi Heng was instantly overjoyed. He jumped up from his makeshift bed, hugged his blanket, and spun around the room. He now had the same rights as You Lie, hahaha!

True to his word, Chi Heng followed Ye Tang closely the very next morning, like a giant crimson tail.

When Ye Tang took out the automatically replenished beast milk from the spatial item shop, Chi Heng took the initiative to extend his hand, his tone carrying a hint of flattery and ingratiation: "Little Qi Xuan, I'll feed you. You don't need to do such a small thing yourself."

Since Xiaotangtang is going to take care of him, he can take care of breastfeeding instead, so that the dragon won't take the opportunity to sneak into Yetang's arms again.

The safety door slid open, and Chi Heng walked into the observation area carrying a baby bottle, a smile he thought was very kind and approachable on his face. The little dragon, curled up on the cushion, raised its icy blue vertical pupils and glanced at him. Confirmed: red-haired, male, alive, unfamiliar.

Immediately afterward, Qi Xuan kicked off with his four little paws and darted up to Chi Heng's head with lightning speed. His two front paws grabbed two tufts of his bright red hair, while his hind paws gripped his collar tightly, and they began a tug-of-war.

"Ouch—it hurts! Let go, no, loosen your grip! My hair! Little Tangtang, help me—" Chi Heng, holding a milk bottle, was bent over and tilted his head, being pulled around by a palm-sized little dragon by his hair.

He reached up to grab Qi Xuan from above, but Qi Xuan immediately shrank back and turned to the other side to continue pulling, his movements as agile as a cub that had just regained its senses.

"Little Qi Xuan, be good, come down, let your big sister hug you." Ye Tang stood at the door and stretched out her hand.

Upon hearing Ye Tang's voice, Qi Xuan immediately released Chi Heng's hair, leaped down from Chi Heng's head, and landed steadily in Ye Tang's outstretched palm. He rubbed his head against Ye Tang's thumb, then turned to Chi Heng, revealing a set of fine, sharp teeth.

"Little Tangtang, he bullied me..." Chi Heng rubbed his messy hair, looking aggrieved as he leaned over to complain. Qi Xuan immediately poked half his body out from Ye Tang's hand, hissing threateningly.

"You can't bully your brother." Ye Tang reached out and gently tapped Qi Xuan's little head with her finger. The pair of crystal-clear, ice-blue dragon horns were only the size of a grain of rice, and felt cool to the touch.

"Red hair, how annoying!" Qi Xuan angrily withdrew his hand from Ye Tang's palm, making a gurgling protesting sound in his throat.

"He's the older brother, you can't say that." Ye Tang took the milk bottle from Chi Heng, who was about to cry, and gently placed it to Qi Xuan's lips.

Qi Xuan immediately took the nipple into his mouth and began to suckle it slowly, while watching Chi Heng warily with his icy blue vertical pupils. He bared his teeth whenever Chi Heng moved his foot, and let out a threatening growl whenever Chi Heng raised his hand.

The bottle of milk was quickly emptied. Ye Tang put the empty bottle back into the spatial item shop, watching as the space automatically replenished. Just as she was about to put Qi Xuan back on the cushion, the little dragon tightly hugged her fingers with its four claws, and its tail wrapped around her.

"I want my sister, I won't go, I won't go..." His icy blue vertical pupils were full of longing and reluctance, and even his little corners drooped.

"That won't do. I come to see you every day, so please stay here obediently, okay?" Ye Tang squatted down and gently stroked his back with her other hand.

The scales, a gradient of frost white and ice blue, opened and closed slightly under her fingertips, the cool touch like caressing pebbles that had been sun-dried and soaked in a stream.

Chi Heng watched longingly as Qi Xuan nestled in his little wife's arms, his heart pounding with jealousy. During his probationary period, he couldn't even sleep on a makeshift bed on the floor of his bedroom. This newly arrived dragon in prison had been pulling his hair and yelling at him, but the moment he turned around, he huddled in Ye Tang's arms, pitifully calling her "sister."

Moreover, this reminded him of when he first entered the door, and how Youlie had also tried to stop him. Suddenly, he felt that he and Youlie had reached some kind of consensus.