Chapter 32: Chapter 32

"What can be done, old man?" Long Ren repeatedly asked.

"I have told you that it's very easy to cure the curse. This curse is called 'sword' or 'hate'. Kiss her and she'll be alright." said Fu Jin.

On hearing this, alarm bells rang in Long Ren's head.

"K... K... Kiss?"Long Ren stammered, blinking his eyes three times in quick succession.

"You mean that I..." he stared at the unconscious Theresa who seemed to have become even more beautiful.

How the heck was he going to kiss his mistress when he doesn't ... he's not even her lover and a beast-man? Wasn't it also against the rules of the contract for a host to fall in love or have unnecessary body contact with the pet?

Now this Fu Jin recommended by his Grandpa, is blatantly telling him to kiss his mistress?

Long Ren stared at Fu Jin, his mouth opening and closing several times.

"What's in that tiny brain of yours, Mr. Long?" Fu Jin asked in confusion.

"Didn't you say I should... k... k... kiss... her?" Long Ren stammered.

"You stupid ass..." Fu Jin cursed as he shook his head.

"I'm a fox, not an ass." Ren corrected.

"I know. But sometimes I think it'd be better if you'd been born as a little ass." said Fu Jin, hands akimbo.

"You... tell me why I should kiss my mistress." ordered Long Ren.

"Err... I think... you should kiss her very passionately. How about I show you how? Come closer my little fox." Fu Jin beckoned Long Ren but he shook his head and retreated.

"You cut sleeve," Ren said to him through voice transmission.

"You sure have lots of energy to waste. How 'bout this? You lend me some of your magic energy and I'll be grateful to you for 2 days?" said Fu Jin.

"No way. Treat my mistress first, you dirty doctor!" Long Ren barked.

"I've told you the cure. Just kiss her as passionately as you can. You can kiss her..."

"Just stop talking already" shouted Long Ren in anger and frustration.

He sat on the bare floor and started crying. His tears formed pearls but he recalled to pick them as they fell because Fu Jin's eyes were currently glistening with a light of greed.

"I put her in this situation. I just wanted to take revenge. I wanted to make her pay." he cried loudly pulling at his hair after keeping the pearls in his storage ring.

Fu Jin's mouth twitched and he shook his head.

"Your mistress might be poor and selfish but it's because she exactly has nothing that she treats you a bit badly as you earlier explained. Look, my boy, you are not the most miserable pet in the whole world. I know you hate being a pet to a weak nobody. But what more can you ask for?

She has the Phoenix roots and is a rare lady in this world. Stop treating her badly. Even if she treats you badly, please bow low to her. You said she turned you into a woman but isn't it better than being a eunuch?" Fu Jin preached but got silenced by Long Ren's silencing spell.

"Mr. Fu, how dare you scold me? Your not my Grandpa," Ren barked.

"Oh, he's still alive? It seems true that only villains live long," Fu Jin said through voice transmission.

"You..." Long Ren clenched his teeth resisting the urge to kill Fu Jin.

"Fox, you can't kill me that easily. Your mistress will not die but she will treat you worse if you do not kiss her now. This curse came into effect from the moment you two started fighting. It's very rare but not incurable. Do it now." Fu Jin stated.

Long Ren sighed and rose from the ground. He walked to Theresa and went down on his knees.

"Mistress, I know... I don't have much to say. But please... don't hate me for doing this," Long Ren muttered before bending his head to kiss her forehead.

Then he wiped his lips with his sleeves and got up. The once unconscious Theresa immediately opened her still red eyes and roared. Long Ren immediately retreated 12 steps away from her.

"What... what's going on?" Long Ren asked in confusion.

"You fool" Fu Jin massaged his forehead.

"Who told you to kiss her forehead? You're supposed to kiss her hand you ass head," Fu Jin cursed after Long Ren had lifted the silencing spell off him.

"You didn't tell me and neither did you stop me. You did it on purpose?" Long Ren barked.

"Shut up little fox!" shouted Fu Jin as he picked up the cauldron and disappeared.

"This..." Long Ren was beyond shocked.

"Little fox, I'm behind you,"

Long Ren turned around and saw a white-haired old man behind Theresa. It was Fu Jin indeed who had changed his hair color. He forced her to sleep by slapping her forehead.

"Long Ren, you're so stupid,"

"Say that again you pig,"

"I dare not waste my saliva on you, little fox"

"You..." Long Ren flicked his sleeves and vanished from the room returning only after 20 minutes dressed in another outfit but this time it was a peasant's clothing that he put on.

"Unfilial pet!"

Long Ren looked towards the source of the voice and saw Theresa lying on a wooden bed brought out from Fu Jin's space ring and eating strawberries.

"You... how..." Ren was at a loss on what to say. Doctor Fu Jin was also nowhere to be found.

"My dad has gone on a journey to find a disciple," said Theresa with an evil smile that sent chills down Theresa's spine.

"Mistress..." Ren stammered.

"Kneel!" she ordered.

At once Long Ren knelt in surprise. Another of his fears had come to pass. She eventually took that dirty guy as a father.

Now she has changed. The aura she exhibits is not one to ignore. He knows he's been digging his own grave all this time. His only wish is for her not to bury him in it.

"I am your mistress. Earlier before now, I've been behaving silly letting you take advantage of me. Now my vile self has returned. I will let you train me after I train you." said Theresa as she threw another strawberry into her mouth.

"Long Ren, my dear pet, I want you to go out and meet Lu Wei, my sister, and Mother, Ye Feng. I want you to apologize to both of them. Give them six pearls each. Knowtow hard twenty times and kiss the earth. After you've done all that, please come and serve me... for I am the new boss" said Theresa.

"Mistress..."

"Eish! A pet cannot talk back to its master." she said before throwing a strawberry at him.

"What are you waiting for? Move!" she snapped, startling Long Ren who had delved into some deep thoughts.

"It seems the former me played with you too much"

Long Ren immediately got up and rushed out of the secluded room. He was still not reconciled. Just now he was the boss, how the heck did she become the boss?

But one thing was certain. This new side of his mistress is not for play. He hurried into Ye Feng's room and met her discussing with Lu Wei.

"Good! This saves me time. Now what were mistress instructions?" he thought as he tried to recall all she had said.

He put on a pitiful expression and walked to them. Then he went on his knees.

Lu Wei and Ye Feng were stunned. Who was this pretty girl before them?

"Madam Ye Feng, Lu Wei, I... please forgive me." Ren begged, trying hard to make his eyes teary.

"Who are you?" Lu Wei and Ye Feng asked in unison.

Long Ren wasn't surprised at their reaction. He expected it. After all, there were three ladies and one beast-man in the house. How then did a pretty girl come in and start begging them for forgiveness?

Long Ren sighed.

"It's me, Long Ren," he said in a small voice.

"Long Ren?" both exclaimed in unison.

"How is it possible? I feel that you truly are a woman from head to toe" said Ye Feng.

"Mother, how can you say that? Long Ren... he's taller than this girl before us. Also, he wouldn't come begging us. Don't you know his nickname? The god of slow torture and quick slaughter." said an unconvinced Lu Wei.

"Then maybe this will convince you," Long Ren said as he stretched out his right palm towards them.

Then immediately green fire appeared. It was a known fact that only Long Ren had this fire. Anything it came in contact with met its end no matter how powerful it is.

"Do you believe me now?" Long Rn asked.

"We do. But why are you a woman now?" Ye Feng asked.

"Or could it be... you were a woman from the beginning?" Lu Wei chipped in.

"I am a male. That's all you need to know," said Long Ren before he proceeded to kowtow hard on the cold floor.

Each time he kowtowed a big bang was heard and blood constantly flowed from his forehead.

"Why are you doing this?" Lu Wei asked in alarm.

"And where is my sister?" she added. She had a premonition that something bad had happened.

"What did you do to her Lord Long Ren?" Lu Wei asked again, this time her tone was voice was high.

"..."

Long Ren did not reply to her and instead continued to kowtow until it was complete the twenty times.

He then got up and gave them 6 pearls each before vanishing leaving them astonished. They looked at each other in puzzlement.

"What is going on today?" Lu Wei asked as she stared at the six refined pearls in her palms.

"Let's go check on your sister," said Ye Feng.

Lu Wei nodded and both rose from the bed and made to leave fro the secluded room in a hurry.

They left the pearls on the bed and made sure the room was locked.

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In the secluded room.

"I see you're back. That was fast. I can tell that, you are obedient. Come closer," Theresa beckoned with her left hand.

"Mistress, what happened to you?" Long Ren asked telepathically.

"You want to know?" she asked with a smile. Long Ren shook his head and instead went on his knees.

"Mistress, what are your orders?" he asked with his head bowed.

"Now that's a good boy!" Theresa praised.

It was at this moment that a figure appeared.

"Han Fei Fei, my dear" The figure happened to be Fu Jin.

"You..." Long Ren wanted to speak when he noticed who it was but a glare from Theresa made him bow his head.

Gosh! Mistress has become scary!