29 Love is Built On Trust

[I see, however, if he really succeeded then…]

[I guess that's one more debt added to the list that we have to repay…]

{Eh? Why are we waiting?}

[Heading straight towards danger, is just sending another death. You can always get revenge when you are more powerful. Right now, we aren't powerful enough. Although we have the Tian family as our backing, the man backing uncle must be powerful enough to be able to back himself.]

{Oh.}

[Now what's that line I told you in the past?]

{As long as one doesn't provoke you, stay low-key. Even if someone provokes you, endure and wait for the best chance to strike.}

[En.]

Xun Ying rubbed Baobao on the head.

Then she grabbed the basin and filled it with water from the bathtub and put it on the table.

"Little fox, come here."

Xun Ying pats the spot next to the basin.

Feng Baiyue tilts his head and jumps onto the table.

Then Xun Ying picks up the little fox and puts him into the basin of water.

"!!!"

Feng Baiyue panicked and tried to paw his way out. His fur drenched with water. His movements only made splashes and made water spill everywhere, especially when Xun Ying was still trying to hold him in place.

"Don't move, stay still."

Xun Ying started washing the little fox as he obeyed and sat still, letting Xun Ying wash him.

After washing the little dox, his fur shines, glimmering like the first ray of sunlight hitting the snow-covered land.

"It's over, I can't get married now."

The little fox puts his paw in front of his face, his ears dropping and his hair curled.

Xun Ying looks at the little fox with a funny look.

"I only washed you, do you need to be this exaggerated about this?"

"My mother said that we must stay faithful and only our wife can touch us. It's over."

"..."

[Baobao, is there such a rule?]

{En! Male foxes are known to be faithful and only take in one lover in their lives. Even if their lover died, they would rather be a widow than taking in another one.}

[Oh? How nice~]

{Is this nice?}

Baobao tilted his head, pondering with a confused expression.

[That's because you don't get it now since you have not experienced nor know what love is. Many people would want that kind of faithfulness.]

{Why?}

[Em...how should I explain this? If the person you really like and that person also only have you in their eyes, always supporting you, how would you feel?]

{Baobao...don't know. But based on what Baobao had watched it should be very warm?}

[Mhm. Then there is another scenario, what if the person you like suddenly shows up with another person and tells you that the person they took in is also someone he likes and hopes that you two would get along for this person's sake?

[You would feel sour and bitter as well as heart-broken. The relationship would also be unhealthy and would soon be broken.]

{Why is that? Don't the books say that if you really like someone then you will be willing to do anything for their happiness?}

[That's true but it's because of this that many would chase after this imaginary dream and get hurt. But perhaps it was also because love is blind as well as a double-edged sword. It would protect you and give you a sense of existence as well as security, but it could also give you pain that you would never be able to imagine.]

[If that person also likes you in the same way then they wouldn't betray the trust you had for them. That is also not doing it out of love but was out of selfishness and you would only hurt yourself. One should know when to retreat when the time comes, although this moment would be painful at least this moment of pain would not cause you a lifetime of pain. A relationship should be mutual, not one-way or three-way or more, that's why harem stories seem good for some people, but in actuality, it wasn't as they think it is. There will always be someone that is isolated, forgotten, or remorse and regret.]

[This is proven true from the harem in the palace in novels that you may have read. There are many women wasting their life and youth away in the palace, wanting to have that person look their way, but never got the chance. The emperor is only one person and there are many people in the harem.]

[Just remember that love was built on trust, if you love someone one day, just trust them. Sometimes the situation doesn't really want you to think it seems like.]

{Baobao understands! Baobao will also be faithful!}

Baobao looks at Xun Ying with sparkles in his eyes and it gets brighter when he looks at the little fox with a bit of admiration in his eyes.

[Good boy. Remember what I said and keep it at heart or else, I'll disown you.]

{Baobao understands!}

Baobao stood up, standing as tall as he could while floating, giving a clumsy salute like what he saw in the movies with a serious expression on his face.

What Xun Ying said, Baobao engraved it in his heart.

Xun Ying rubs Baobao on the head, fondly. I shall personally mold you into a model perfect boyfriend with boyfriend power at max!

Xun Ying turns her attention back towards the little fox.

"Your mom has also touched you before, hasn't it? Just think of it as something close to that."

The little fox looked at Xun Ying, the grievance clear in his eyes.

"That's not the same! You have to take responsibility!"

Xun Ying was at loss. If she knew beforehand she would not do that. QAQ

"This…"

Xun Ying suddenly remembers that the little fox was looking at her as if she was a deity...perhaps…

"Ahem. Little fox didn't you say that I'm a deity?"

Feng Baiyue nodded his head.

"Then what I did...em...just think of it as baptism, so that doesn't count."

Feng Baiyue pondered over it and then nodded.

Xun Ying let out a sigh of relief, but was still feeling a bit guilty about forcing her way through.