Cold, calculating rich-kid heir | Adorable, gentle ancient auspicious beast
The newly appointed God of Wealth had a secret KPI:
Get a Pixiu to willingly spit out money.
When they first met, the Pixiu was out of control, devouring the world's golden energy.
"You unruly beast! After causing such a calamity, you still refuse to surrender?"
The man before her was devastatingly handsome, cold, and imperious, but she wasn't afraid at all. She bared her fangs, perfectly justified: Mine! It's all mine!
He subdued her, gave her the pet name Zhaozhao, and ordered her to remember her duty: bringing in wealth and treasure.
He had heard that a masterless Pixiu could turn into a ferocious beast, so he fed her every day and kept her company year after year, gently coaxing her into falling for him before marrying her and becoming her Daoist partner.
He had calculated everything, all to use her to restore balance to the Three Realms.
But the one thing he hadn't calculated was that when she finally tore through her instincts and coughed up gold through blood and tears, the first thing to shatter was his heart, forged from a golden abacus.
She offered him her life-gold, thinking he would be pleased.
But his eyes reddened as he rasped, "I don't want it anymore."
He bowed his head and tremulously kissed the blood from the corner of her mouth, hating himself for being the one who had led her into the abyss.
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[Bonus Scene 1]
Bai Yinglan: Boss, why do you always keep me tied to your side?
Zhao Xuanzhang: To ward off evil.
Bai Yinglan: You're an immortal. Why would you need protection from evil?
Zhao Xuanzhang glanced sideways at her. "Don't you know how popular I am?"
From a bystander's perspective:
Ahhh, it's a Pixiu! So cute! Who's the man next to it?
Zhao Xuanzhang: Zhaozhao, come over here.
The townspeople cheered: Wow, a Pixiu! A lucky Pixiu!
Bai Yinglan rubbed her head. "I'm a girl. Shouldn't I be called a Xiu?"
Zhao Xuanzhang chuckled softly. "Achoo."
Bai Yinglan: Boss, people say you're related to Zhao Gongming, the True Lord of the Mysterious Altar. Is that true?
Zhao Xuanzhang: You went to my father's birthday banquet, didn't you? I suppose you were too busy stuffing yourself to remember anything.
[Bonus Scene 2]
Bai Yinglan got lost while out and thought her master had abandoned her. She curled up pitifully in a corner, secretly weeping. "Horrible man! You big bully! You left me here... I don't want you anymore either. I'll never like you again..."
Behind her, a man's low, amused voice drew closer with every step:
"Oh? Which big bully made our Zhaozhao so sad?"
It's all right to be sad.
But you can't stop loving me.
Bai Yinglan instantly changed back to her original form, and the little Pixiu bolted in a panic.
The next second, she was lifted into the air, their eyes meeting.
His gaze was dark as he said, word by word:
"Why run? You can't get away."
Theme: The ultimate romance, founded on "economic foundations" and devoted to the "superstructure."
