Chapter 12: Chapter 12: Special Treatment.
"Young Master I'm so pissed. Do you know what that sly fox did?"Zhao Ruoxuan spoke up boiling with rage immediately he stepped inside Zhao Shenbao's room.
"What?"Zhao Shenbao asked without diverting his attention from the book he was reading. All the meals served to him were still untouched on the table.
"It didn't even taste the meat I brought," Zhao Ruoxuan uttered with disappointment.
"You may go and sleep. I will deal with it,"Zhao Shenbao said dismissing him.
When others went to sleep,Zhao Shenbao went to the hostage rooms, specifically to Hu Lan's room and brought him back to his room. He gently placed him on his fragrant cozy bedsheets. He opened the food box and took out a bowl full of braised meat , grabbed a pair of chopsticks and went back to sit beside Hu Lan.
All that time ,Hu Lan stared around unable to read Zhao Shenbao's facial expression. The latter picked up a piece of meat and carefully placed it a few inches from Hu Lan's tightly shut mouth. Hu Lan held his gaze at the piece of meat in front of him. The meat's sweet aroma hit his sensitive nostrils and he could no longer ignore the strong urge to have it dipped in his mouth. He involuntarily opened his mouth wide giving Zhao Shenbao access to dip the piece of meat in his mouth. The piece of meat melted in his mouth as his strong canines squeezed the delicious juice out of the meat and the juice caressed his taste buds and tongue.His taste buds and tongue betrayed him- he licked his mouth unknowingly giving his own review about the food.
Without feeling any disgust, Zhao Shenbao used the same pair of chopsticks and stuffed a few pieces of meat in his mouth along with pickled vegetables. Feeling the undeniable urge to tease Hu Lan,he sneakily fed him the pickled vegetables however his reaction was totally beyond his expectation.
'I'm a carnivore,how can this retard feed me pickled vegetables like a fucking herbivore?'Hu Lan cursed in his mind,'But why do they taste so good?' he added silently in his mind.
He had intended to spit them out but he found himself swallowing them instantly,not missing the surprised expression on Zhao Shenbao's handsome face.
"Looks like you like them,"Zhao Shenbao smirked proudly. He and Hu Lan shared the food each having a bite simultaneously.
"Now be a good boy and sleep now,"Zhao Shenbao said endearingly patting Hu Lan's head and stroked his back.
'Given that I've enjoyed your food I won't attack you for assaulting me,'Hu Lan thought aloud. He was secretly enjoying the special treatment without evening realizing it himself.
Zhao Shenbao was really exhausted after hunting the whole day. Now that he had sensed Hu Lan's sleep inducing effect on him he didn't seek other means to get himself to sleep,he naturally drifted into a peaceful slumber. When morning came,he woke up early to get to work. Mostly it was he who extracted the useful products from the foxes.
Before leaving the bed,he glanced at the fox curled up sleeping peacefully beside him and smiled slightly. He didn't know why he felt empathy towards the little creature. Usually he wouldn't hesitate to shear off its fur to make the most beautiful fur coat now that the cold season was around the corner. Maybe it was some kind of soul connection.
When he captured other foxes they were already healthy not delaying the product extraction process while Hu Lan on the other hand was gravely injured and Zhao Shenbao had to wait for him to recover fully to be able to extract his perfect fur and golden core. The man convinced himself he had developed a soft spot for the fox simply because he was expecting to get something great in exchange. Since when did a carnivore spare its prey because it was too perfect to be killed?
Zhao Shenbao pushed back his thoughts and got down from his bed. He put on his robes and left the room.