She was the first person he thought of when he couldn't sleep at night.
The only source of warmth he wanted to hold tight on a cold night.
The light he would risk his life to protect on the battlefield.
'Other female beasts?'
'I wouldn't touch a single hair on their heads.'
Even when she was just a little girl, her hair not yet tied up properly.
Even when she gnawed on dry rations with them, huddled under a ragged blanket to fight the cold, and got chewed out mercilessly by their master.
Even if her smile still carried a trace of the snot-nosed kid she used to be.
Chu Jing took a deep breath, her chest heaving. The word hissed through her teeth like a blast of cold air. "Fine."
She stared at him coldly, her gaze like a blade tempered in ice. "When we get back, you won't touch me—for a month."
'If I don't knock this awful temper out of him now, what will he be like in the future?'
'Does he really think I'm a pushover he can throw a tantrum at?'
