Bab 286: What If I'm Pregnant?

In the hush of the forest, the thick metallic scent of blood seemed to coat the air heavily. The giant snake was dead, but it wasn't leaving the world without a keepsake, it coated its former den thickly in the metallic fragrance.

Ignorant of the danger the distinct scent had in a virgin forest, Xu Hu Zhe's thoughts veered deep into the recesses of his past. Memories, like fragments of shattered glass, lay scattered within his mind, each piece a painful reminder of the life he had led before Xu Feng had entered it.

He had been a child of the streets, a nameless urchin fending for himself in the unforgiving embrace of Yilin town. Everywhere he turned, he had been met with disdain, cruelty, and indifference. A glance was enough for others to dismiss him as a nuisance, someone to be discarded and forgotten.