In the Bai Clan's palace, a week later...

It took seven rises of the sun to handle the affairs of the clan and care for his body. Cultivating under healing waters helped tremendously, but an imperial doctor was still summoned to his chambers.

After handling the sovereign's lord body with extra care, the old grey fox, immortal doctor Luo, bearing a sage-like appearance with a moustache and a pair eyebrows so thick they grew all the way down to his feet, was ushered outside by the impatient sovereign god.

Bai Yu quickly barged into the bedchambers of his sire after the immortal doctor Luo escaped the room of the grumpy lord as he wiped the sweat from his forehead. Temperamental gods and their issues! Humph!

The captain assumed his sire barked at him to leave. He hated being interrupted, even if it was in order to care for his body.

Bai Qingyue's bedchambers were cosy and spacious, unlike his cold and aloof demeanour, his room portrayed his true animal nature. The room's fair glow was made by a row of candles lit by Foxfire.

Pelts covered the ground and his large bed was filled with the softest fur blankets. The Sovereign Lord was illuminated by the light of the Foxfire around him. He let his eight tails surround his lean body in comfort.

His long white hair draped the bed and trickled down all the way to the floor, jade-like skin received a yellow glow from the candles around, and his piercing golden eyes with those red tinted mischievous looking lips would have made countless women collapse to the floor in adoration.

Providing such a mouthwatering and seductive view made Bai Yu certain that if he wasn't a man of the Bai clan, he would have fallen head over heels in love with his lord right now!

Bai Yu stared in a daze, however noticing his glazed eyes, the fox lord sent a glacial glare his way.

The captain of the guard coughed embarrassingly to regain his bearing. He acted less like a captain and more like a mother hen trotting around her young ones this past week.

Bai Yu paced back and forth in the bedchamber.

Annoyance clearly portrayed on the fox lord's perfectly sculpted features.

"Sire, you just got back here and made the palace orderly again, must you leave so soon? Your body is still healing! Even gods need a little time to rest." Bai Yu has been practically begging his sire to stay for the whole week.

His fox lord wanted to leave on the day after the incident with the matron.

"Cease your worries. I have no time to stay here and recuperate. I shall handle myself after I descend." Bai Qingyue's masculine voice tiredly responded as he laid on his damaged back. His flesh already filled and restored, and scabs formed on the wounds. Having to deal with the tantrum and worries of those around him tired him out more than the episode he had with his deranged mother.

In fact, he simply grew vexed by the whole situation, his own worries grew with every drop of sand in the hourglass. He couldn't stop his thoughts from straying to his future consort all alone, who knows what happened to her by now?

As time trickled by, his fears escalated. The woman whose name he did not even know...She was not a fox, and not bound by the spell.

What if…What if she found someone else?

Bai Qingyue imagined hands that were not his own caressing her lithe and soft body. Another male making her moan instead of him.

His fury drove his body out of the luxurious comfort of his bed before his mind could even come to terms with the act.

He noticed his subordinate still mumbling words about responsibility to himself and recuperating..

He had no time for this.

"Bai Yu, cease your prattle. I leave the managing of the clan in your hands until I return with my wife." Bai Qingyue made his demands as he dressed.

The captain felt that his lord enjoyed dropping bombs on people. His pacing stopped abruptly. What wife all of a sudden?!

"I will summon you or the legion should a need arise, otherwise I trust you with the clan's reign."

Bai Yu stood dazed once again before his lord.

"W-wife, sire??"

His sire found his future consort?? Does that mean the palace would soon see baby foxes running around?!

It was so abrupt, and he dared to think he hadn't imagined it, but Bai Yu swore he saw his lord's permanently frozen lips tilt up.

So the thought of this consort of his could make his iceberg lord smile...

Bai Qingyue nodded silently. He didn't give his servant the opportunity to respond before he shifted through dimensions and brought his bandaged body to the lower planes of earth.