The Librarian and the Fox Princess: a Donghua Dijun and Bai Fengjiu story, V.I

Chapter 113 - The Savage Sage

"It's very clear why she didn't tell anyone in your family," said Ye Hua quietly as he pulled Bai Qian's bloody fist down and massaged healing energy into it.

"She's right," said Bai Qian in a quiet and hollow tone. "It doesn't matter the long friendship between the clans. Father would have taken all of us to the Jiu Hua Mountains and we would have demanded Yang Kai. If anyone tried to ask for mercy on his behalf or would try to shield him from us, we would have killed them. We would have killed them all. They would never be able to survive Zhe Yan's firestorm anyway."

"She's our smallest, youngest and most loved Bai," she said as she gazed over mournfully to the bed.

"I always gave her a hard time about how dense and child-like she was. I used to tease her about my reservations about leaving the throne of the Eastern Lands to someone who acted like such a kit. She would just take the teasing and hug and cling onto me like she always did. She never once lashed out at me for being unfair to her."

"You didn't know," said Ye Hua as he kissed her softly on her forehead.

"Even then she thought of a lot of people before herself. You know, it all makes sense now. She started having trouble sleeping at night. Sometimes she'd come into my room. If I was also not in a good place either, I'd take the both of us to the Mortal Realm to watch plays. I didn't know she was having nightmares. If I had known I could have helped her. I know what the barrage of sleepless nights feels like."

"And Yang Kai? That piece of shit. We thought nothing of it, the amount of attention he placed on her. I mean we all doted on her. He always brought gifts for her and she treated him like an older brother, always hanging around him. It makes me sick to think of the predatory thoughts he had for her."

"When she would take to her room when he and his father would come visit my father, we just figured she had outgrown that attachment. She would tell us she was studying or reading. We should have known better."

"The whole time, she was hiding, alone and afraid. She was probably fearful he would try to violate her again."

"Her parents were never around, that's nothing new but I should have been there for her. We all should have," said Bai Qian as she softly sobbed into Ye Hua's chest.

"Qian Qian, she got through it. She was cared for by the oldest and most revered god in all the realms. If I had not read it myself in his writing I would not believe how gentle and tender-hearted he actually is. Only for her. He set her on a path of healing. There is a blessing in this Qian Qian. Don't use your eyes to see. Use your heart."

She squeezed his arm. Bai Qian sniffled and sat up to look over to the immortal beast.

"Mogu. Dong Hua Dijun had you carry out the vengeance. Tell me everything you did."

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Ye Hua and Bai Qian listened attentively as the beast made it known in great detail how he had dealt with Yang Kai. He spoke with such vigor and imagery; he made everything visible.

Bai Qian nodded approvingly and sighed. "You razed everything to the ground. His landscape is barren. There is no mountain, no flanking rolling hills. Good."

"The Gugu has squirted much eye juice. There is no need for any more. Master has put the fear into him. He will never harm Mistress again."

"And you really ate his gonads?" asked Ye Hua curiously. "And his ... organ that you tore off ... did you really bat it around in the air as a toy?"

Bai Qian turned to give her betrothed an annoyed look. "Of course he did. If you were him, wouldn't you?!"

Ye Hua blinked several times with a perturbed expression flashing over his eyes. "I ... I ... am not capable of empathizing in that way."