Chapter 27 part 1
Seeing Yan He’s strange expression, Yun Xiao asked in surprise, “Aren’t you a husky? Is there something wrong with ‘dog eyes’?”
“No,” Yan He laughed dryly. “I’ll keep my dog eyes peeled on the route.”
Satisfied, Yun Xiao got into the car with Yan He, rolled down the window, and told the driver to drive slower.
Only then did Yan He realize just how hidden Yun Xiao’s private villa was. The mountain road was rugged, winding like a maze hidden within the mountains. Aside from private cars, the academy’s shuttle buses didn’t come here. Yan He felt a bit dizzy just watching.
Yun Xiao suddenly spoke up, “Can’t remember it? Don’t dogs pee to mark their territory? Go pee a bit? I’ll allow you to make a temporary mark on my turf.”
Yan He: “…”
Even if you allow it, I can’t just pee anywhere! That’s too indecent!
Luxury cars were great; the driver in the front seat couldn’t hear a word they were saying in the back.
Yan He turned his head and looked at Yun Xiao with righteous solemnity. “Yun Shao, this is the road to your home. I must protect the environment!”
Yun Xiao, being simple-minded, was instantly moved again.
Yan He watched for a while longer before giving up the struggle, no longer expecting to memorize the whole route.
The F4’s private villas all eventually converged at the common lounge area, so twenty minutes later, the car stopped there.
Yun Xiao got out first and said, “Old Xu is back. I’ll introduce you.”
Hearing this, Yan He immediately perked up. He followed Yun Xiao step-by-step into the lounge and, sure enough, saw a stranger sitting on the sofa next to Shen Xianqing.
Compared to the muscular builds of Yun Xiao and He Ting, he was leaner and more slender. He wasn’t wearing the academy’s black uniform but a light pink casual shirt. A faint smile hung on his handsome face, making him look very amiable.
Yan He felt like he had seen this person somewhere before.
Seeing Yun Xiao’s signal, Yan He hurriedly greeted them, “Hello, Shen Shao. Hello, Xu Shao.”
Shen Xianqing smiled meaningfully. “You two really know how to play.”
“Was the ostrich egg tasty?” the man in the pink shirt asked gently.
This was the religious brother, the head of the Beast God Cult, the die-hard fan of the Beast God. As expected, the ostrich eggs delivered to every dorm room were arranged by Xu Xingchuan. He really understood missionary work.
Send an egg, activate the faith.
Yan He couldn’t figure out Xu Xingchuan’s angle, so he could only tell the truth. “I haven’t eaten it yet. Thank you, Lord Beast God!”
Hearing the second half of the sentence, Xu Xingchuan’s smile became even gentler.
You could skip thanking Xu Shao, but you couldn’t skip thanking the Beast God he worshipped. Yan He’s words were very pleasing.
Yun Xiao told Yan He to sit down with them. “Don’t be so uptight. Old Xu is the easiest to talk to.”
Yan He felt that after the various transformation plays in the display room, Yun Xiao really treated him as one of his own.
However, Yan He didn’t dare agree with Yun Xiao’s statement. Xu Xingchuan is the easiest to talk to? Probably not.
He only knew Shen Xianqing was a snake, though he didn’t know the breed. But he had heard his female colleagues give Xu Xingchuan a nicknameā”Gentle Zombie Smiling Bear.”
He looked gentle and harmless, but he was actually a ferocious beast! He was the typical “knife hidden in a smile” type; he could treat you warmly to your face while stabbing you in the back.
Yan He thought of the bamboo forest outside the lounge. Xu Xingchuan probably planted it because his beast form was a national first-class protected animalāthe Giant Panda!
Ancestral home: Sichuan.
It looked like a cute,č (moe) bear ball, but one had to remember it also had a name: the Iron-Eating Beast. It was once the mount of Chi You, the God of War. A fake husky couldn’t afford to mess with it.
Yan He sat for a while, feeling increasingly uncomfortable around Xu Xingchuan. He hurriedly asked, “Shen Shao, do you know where He Shao went?”
Shen Xianqing said, “He was made uncomfortable by your group video call earlier and went to the horse stables.”
The horse stables?!
Hearing the location, Yan He couldn’t sit still. He quickly bid farewell to the three young masters and bolted toward the stables.
When Yan He arrived at the stables, he looked at the round, bulging bellies of the two horses inside.
The stable manager said, “Student Yan, the Young Master was just here. He already fed and walked the horses.”
Yan He’s heart ached upon hearing this. Oh no, I won’t earn today’s two thousand yuan extra income. He quickly pulled out his phone to message He Ting.
[Little Sprout He: Boss, you deal with a myriad of affairs every day. Don’t be so diligent; I’m afraid you’ll tire yourself out.]
[2: Not as diligent as you.]
Yan He: “?”
What does that mean?
Yan He vigilantly felt that these words were a bit passive-aggressive (“yin-yang-qi”), but he didn’t know what He Ting was being passive-aggressive about.
If he couldn’t figure out the reason, he’d just pretend he didn’t know.
Yan He pledged his loyalty again on WeChat, guaranteeing he would be on time to feed and walk the horses tomorrow, rain or shine.
Around 8:00 PM, Pan Ze scratched his thinning hair and scanned his face to enter the F4 common lounge.
Pan Ze really didn’t know how to tell Shen Shao that he wanted to jump ship. He was both embarrassed and afraid of retaliation.
The staff member in the lounge said, “Pan Shao, Shen Shao asked you to go to his private bathroom.”
Private bathroom? Pan Ze felt weird. In the past, tasks were assigned directly in the hall or via phone. Why go to the bathroom?
Pan Ze couldn’t figure it out, but he obediently went to the bathroom.
The tub was already filled with hot water. The entire bathroom was steamy, with condensation clinging to the tiles.
Hearing the door close behind him, Pan Ze turned his head in fright. Shen Xianqing, worthy of being a national first-class protected wild poisonous snake, had entered silently.
Yan He might not know the specific breed of Shen Shao’s snake, but Pan Ze knew it clearly.
Protobothrops mangshanensis! Also known as the Giant Panda of snakes. Its whole body is dark green mixed with black net-like spots, hidden like moss.
They say poisonous snakes aren’t big, and big snakes aren’t poisonous, but he was both big and poisonousāhighly venomous!
When Shen Shao transformed, he wasn’t just a venomous snake with a massive amount of venom; he was huge, like a young python!
Although Shen Xianqing was handsome, he also had the face of a sinister villain. When he smiled, he looked even more insidious.
Pan Ze felt something was wrong. He kept retreating into the bathroom, asking, “Shen… Shen Shao, what… what are you smiling at?”
Shen Xianqing didn’t speak. He raised his hand and began to unbutton his clothes, quickly revealing his muscular torso, with abs faintly visible.
Pan Ze’s mind went blank: “????”
Holy crap, no, what is this?!
Why take off your clothes in front of me, and in the bathroom no less?
Shen Xianqing said, “Come here.”
Pan Ze shook his head like a rattle drum. He shook it like crazy. “I won’t, I won’t! Shen Shao, sober up!”
Shen Xianqing frowned. “I’m very sober. Hurry up.”
He wanted to test the new law he had discovered. The other F4 members were friends, and among his subordinates, Pan Ze was the most reliable.
He wanted… to let Pan Ze try pulling off a snake scale~!
Bestia Academy was a prison that looked magnificent but was actually rotten. Standing in the prison, he longed for poetry and distance, yearning for freedom.
That short week out was precious, but it vanished so quickly.
He really craved freedom.
If he could score high on the test detecting transformation probability, there was a chance to leave the academy temporarily.
So, it was understandable for him to experiment to increase the probability before that.
Seeing Shen Xianqing taking off more and more, Pan Ze was scared out of his mind. He ripped the bright red wig off his head and, in a desperate move that hurt the enemy a thousand but self-inflicted eight hundred, screamed, “Shen Xianqing, do you really have a fetish for ugly people?”
Shen Xianqing stopped: “????”
What? Who started the rumor that he has a fetish for ugly people?
Shen Xianqing almost laughed in anger. He wasn’t trying to sleep with his lackey!
As if exploding, Pan Ze didn’t wait for Shen Xianqing to speak. He sprinted toward the bathroom window. Bolstered by courage, he threw down one sentence: “I quit! I’m not your lackey anymore!”
Pan Ze’s transformation status had always been quite good, but tonight he suffered a strong visual shock. His emotions were fluctuating wildly. The moment he jumped off the windowsill, he instantly transformed into an African spotted hyena, quickly diving into the jungle of the night and disappearing without a trace.
Shen Xianqing: “……”
What a retard!
Shen Xianqing sat speechlessly by the tub. He didn’t have high standards for looks; as long as Pan Ze was obedient and capable, he let him follow. But this hyena turned the tables on him. No wonder hyenas were villains in literary works; fickle things.
Choosing a lackey really required some standards.
At least… they had to be as smart as him.
Yan He seemed to only have looks, not brains.
Life is hard, indeed.
The spotted hyena was still sprinting. Ensuring he had run out of the F4 common lounge area, Pan Ze stopped and gasped for breath continuously.
Damn it.
He rashly said he wouldn’t be Shen Xianqing’s lackey anymore. Shen Shao’s proud personality wouldn’t allow him to return, but he hadn’t thoroughly secured a pass from Yun Shao yet. Life was truly bleak.
Pan Ze lamented the difficulties of life while thinking about turning back into human form quickly, and then…
A terrified “Jie Jie Jie” sinister sound came from the woods.
He didn’t know if the scene just now was too shocking for him, causing huge emotional turmoil, but he couldn’t turn back!!
What to do?
Pan Ze wasn’t Yun Xiao. If he really couldn’t turn back, he would be taken away by the inspectors.
Pan Ze panicked a little, spinning around in place anxiously. Suddenly, his footsteps paused. He looked toward the Driving School Department and immediately let out a strange cackle.
The agile spotted hyena first sneaked into the 24-hour pet supermarket, decisively grabbed a pet comb from the shelf with his mouth, and amidst the terrified gaze of the sales clerk, raised the electronic watch on his paw to scan the code and pay.
After this operation, the spotted hyena, carrying a large cat grooming comb in his mouth, dove back into the dense forest and galloped toward the academy’s Driving School Department.
At this time, Yan He was practicing Subject Two under the guidance of the instructor. Since no other students were queuing to practice, it was essentially one-on-one teaching.
Yan He wasn’t stupid. In two or three days, he had learned well and was now starting to learn reverse parking and parallel parking.
Even the instructor praised Yan He for learning well.
Night classes, wonderful!
Cheap price, few people, one-on-one coachingāwhat’s not to like?
Part 2
They said wild beasts might break in, and personal safety wasn’t guaranteed. Yan He felt very safe. The driving lessons these past few nights had been safe, and he hadn’t encountered any danger on the way back to the apartment.
Yan He was reversing the car. Just as he stopped and prepared to turn the wheel back, the instructor, who was resting his eyes in the passenger seat, suddenly opened them alertly. Before he could speak, the passenger window was smashed hard by a ferocious beast outside, making a loud noise.
“Holy crap!” the instructor screamed. “Yan He, step on the gas and run!”
Yan He was also badly frightened and hurriedly said, “Instructor, you put a bottle under the accelerator, I can’t step on it.”
Yan He could only slowly maneuver the old car to the side. Fortunately, the beast didn’t chase them but stared tigerishly from a short distance away.
The instructor screamed in terror. It wasn’t clear inside the car, and Yan He didn’t know what he transformed into, but he scrambled out through the sunroof.
Instantly, Yan He was the only one left in the training car.
Yan He: “????”
No, Instructor, you’re leaving me behind?!
You can transform and scramble out, but I’m a fake husky!
In that moment, Yan He finally understood that you get what you pay for. Cheap night classes really came at a price.
Yan He panicked instantly. He wanted to unbuckle his seatbelt and reached into his pocket for his phone, thinking about asking He Ting or Yun Xiao for help. After all, they were two immediate bosses; they should help a lackey in distress, right?
Of course, he had to have the skill to stay alive until they arrived.
Yan He had just clicked into WeChat when there was a loud bang. The beast slapped the passenger door hard again. The car glass showed signs of cracking but hadn’t completely shattered yet.
Seeing no result, the clever beast leaped onto the car’s hood and climbed directly onto the roof.
Yan He shouted in horror, “Holy crap, don’t you fucking come in!”
As soon as the words fell, the spotted hyena jumped in through the sunroof.
Yan He wanted to run immediately, but the spotted hyena spat the pet comb in his mouth onto Yan He and grabbed the seatbelt so he couldn’t get out.
Seeing the pet comb fall on him, Yan He guessed it was a transformed student. The academy rules did not allow harming alumni. Yan He calmed down slightly, turned on the interior light with trembling hands, and carefully examined the creature beside him that was about to drool.
Actually, it was ugly-cute, not that ugly.
Yan He looked for a while and guessed, “Looks like a spotted hyena? Are you… Pan Ze?”
The spotted hyena’s eyes lit up, and he nodded immediately.
Comb my fur!
Although his hair was short and sparse, unlike Shen Xianqing who was a snake, he still had hair. He could be combed with a cat comb.
He wanted to enjoy Yun Shao’s treatment too.
The spotted hyena pushed the slipped pet comb toward Yan He’s chest, indicating his intention.
The next moment, Yan He’s slap landed on his face. He cursed angrily, “Pan Ze, are you sick in the head? I’m learning to drive and you come to scare me. So what if you have shares in the driving school? Aren’t you afraid I’ll get scared and slam on the gas to kill you?”
Comb fur?
Comb your grandpa!
Get lost!
Pan Ze wasn’t his boss; he wouldn’t work for free.
Pan Ze was dazed by Yan He’s slap, but a human slap felt like a tickle to the African Second Brother. Instead, there was a strange sense of pleasure.
Yan He’s slender little hand just slapped his hyena face like that!
A bit pleasurable, what’s going on?
The spotted hyena opened his mouth excitedly, revealing teeth with amazing bite force, and stuck out his tongue.
“What exactly do you want? Why did you transform too? Can you turn back?” Yan He looked suspiciously at the beast occupying two-thirds of the space beside him.
Although he knew it was Pan Ze transformed, seeing a ferocious beast was still uncomfortable.
Pan Ze stared at the pet comb, realizing that Yan He was scared by him and wouldn’t comb his short hair. He tried to transform into human form.
The hyena narrowed his eyes slightly. Holy crap, the feeling is coming!
He had run all the way here, constantly trying to humanize without success, and now the feeling came?
Could it be because… of Yan He’s slap just now?
The hyena immediately scrambled out of the training car and rushed into the Driving School building. A moment later, Pan Ze came out wearing a jacket from inside.
Seeing the human Pan Ze, Yan He breathed a sigh of relief and got out of the car immediately. “What are you doing?”
Yan He was really angry. “Brother Ze, Senior Pan Ze, although we are competitors in the same trade, you don’t have to be so unscrupulous. Coming to scare me while I’m learning to drive at night?”
How was this different from a sneak attack when someone was taking a dump at their most vulnerable?
Simply inhuman. It really fit his insidious beast setting as a spotted hyena.
The woods around the driving school were overgrown with weeds. Hearing this, Pan Ze simply sat on the curb next to the training car and said, “You’re right. We might really become competitors in the same trade. I’m not following Shen Shao anymore.”
Yan He was surprised. Pan Ze had guts, daring to fire Shen Xianqing. What happened?
Yan He couldn’t help but look at him with new respect. He sat down beside Pan Ze, looked at the waning moon in the sky, and said, “Not following Shen Shao anymore? Why? Do you really want to follow Yun Xiao? He’s emotionally unstable and has a bad temper. Have you thought it through?”
He had no choice. His old dad had worked for the Yun family for many years, and he was sent in by the Yun family. He couldn’t fire Yun Xiao and choose someone else, so He Ting became his secret part-time second boss.
Besides, Yun Xiao might not necessarily want Pan Ze.
Hearing Yan He say this, Pan Ze was a bit confused.
Yeah, he wanted to compete in the same trade, but Yun Shao had to want him first.
Pan Ze hugged his arms, facing the cold moonlight, and murmured, “Yeah, what do I do now? I still wanted to make something of myself at Bestia, so after graduation, I could leave the academy and return to the Pan family, making all those people in my family kneel and submit.”
Yan He: “…”
Pan Ze, you’ve read too many “Dragon King Returns” novels, haven’t you?
Pan Ze calmed down and gradually regretted it. Perhaps he shouldn’t have run away from Shen Shao so rashly just now.
“Yeah, even if I don’t work with Shen Shao, I should have found a next home first. Yun Shao’s side is also uncertain. Who else can take me?!”
At Bestia Academy, only the F4 stood at the top of the food chain.
Go find He Shao?
Pan Ze was feeling lost when Yan He beside him suddenly lit up and pointed out a clear path for him. “I have a good place here, as long as you don’t mind that he is still very weak right now.”
Now, weak?
Pan Ze was surprised. Hearing the description, he looked at Yan He calmly.
Yan He, are you recommending yourself here?
“He will treat his subordinates as brothers and share everything with you.”
Pan Ze’s expression moved.
Yan He and he count as half-brothers now; occasionally he shares some food, and there’s a share of breakfast for him.
“Although his status is low now with only a red bronze nameplate, and he can’t give you a high salary temporarily, he has extremely strong handling ability and super high appeal, fearless of contending with the F4.”
Pan Ze looked sideways at Yan He.
Yan He now has a low status with only a red bronze nameplate, but he won the Colosseum championship at the welcome party. He indeed has appeal among the specially-enrolled students. No one in the academy doesn’t know Yan He’s name.
“In the future, he will definitely become the new king of Bestia Academy and sit on the throne with the F4.”
Pan Ze faced Yan He squarely.
Yan He’s grand ambition is so big? He wants to be on equal footing with the F4? Even he, an African spotted hyena, dare not think about it, but a husky dares?
Although it feels incredible, anyone with a dream is amazing!
This description is Yan He himself, absolutely!
Adding flowers to brocade is easy; sending charcoal in snow is hard. Now is the critical moment for Yan He to make his fortune. He needs people to add bricks and tiles. Pan Ze could have the merit of aiding the dragon.
Especially…
Pan Ze recalled the slap just now. Yan He’s palm was warm. Falling on his face like that, it didn’t hurt at all; it was very comfortable.
Does any other house have this treatment?
Pan Ze’s heart began to beat wildly. He had a bold idea.
He…
Whether it’s Yun Shao, Shen Shao, or even He Shao and Xu Shao, the F4 are actually all the same. Essentially, there isn’t much change.
But now someone has pointed out a different path for him!
Pan Ze felt a sense of sudden enlightenment.
Yan He’s heartbeat was also fast. When the time comes, as long as Pan Ze doesn’t forget the guide, that would really be betting on both sides hahaha!
Yan He rubbed his hands excitedly: “That isāBai Yuzhou!”
Pan Ze was equally excited and spoke at the same time: “I’ll work with you!”
In the driving range, there was instant silence.
The two looked at each other.
Yan He: “????”
Pan Ze: “????”
Yan He jumped up first. “You work with me? Why work with me?”
Follow Bai Yuzhou, that protagonist shou. Following Bai Yuzhou definitely won’t be a loss.
Pan Ze stared straight at Yan He: “What bullshit Bai Yuzhou? I want to work with you!”
That beast who vomited all over him at the start of schoolāhow could he work for that green tea bitch?
Yan He’s brain was buzzing; he was confused.
It’s fine for F4 lackeys to switch allegiance, but how could he switch to his NPC sidekick? Wouldn’t that make him a lackey’s lackey?
People strive to move up just as water flows down. This guy is walking downhill? Is his brain not working?
Yan He remembered how He Ting and Yun Xiao treated him as a lackey: one with a monthly salary of 100,000 plus various side incomes, one with a monthly salary of 50,000 plus various high-end gifts. If he takes a lackey, he has to spend money! Where would he get the money to support a lackey?
This is a game rich young masters can play. A fake husky like him should forget it.
Yan He immediately shook his head like a rattle drum. “No, I won’t take a lackey. I have no money. I can’t afford your salary.”
The more Pan Ze thought about it, the more he felt Yan He was like a potential stock. He immediately said indifferently, “I don’t want money.”
Anyway, working for Shen Xianqing never got him money; he was always running errands and paying out of his own pocket.
Not giving money didn’t matter; he was used to it. Although he wasn’t as rich as the F4, he didn’t lack money.
Yan He was still refusing with all his might, his tone very firm: “Even if you don’t want money, I don’t want it. It’s too much trouble.”
He had to study, work for two F4 young masters, feed and walk horses, and who knew if there would be other arrangements later. He was busy!
And Pan Ze fired Shen Xianqing. Shen Xianqing looked like an insidious villain. Who knew if he would hold a grudge? What if he blamed it on Yan He? He wasn’t looking for trouble.
No, absolutely not!
Seeing Yan He’s face full of rejection, Pan Ze was so angry that his blood rushed back up. Staring at Yan He, he blurted out a sentence: “I’ll pay to be your lackey, is that okay?!”
Yan He looked at Pan Ze with pity: “?”
Huh? In this day and age, are there really idiots who pay to work?
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