Chapter 24: Oh~ You Beat Me

Chapter 24: Chapter 24: Oh~ You Beat Me

Imperial Hospital.

Xiao Juzi woke up and didn’t see his mom for a long time. His temper grew worse and worse. In a fit of pique, he entered his Beastification form again and used all his might to push open the medical pod’s door.

Although he had escaped the medical pod, getting out of the isolation ward was no easy feat.

Only the medical robots, physicians, and the young patients’ guardians had the authority to open the ward’s door.

Shu Xin definitely wasn’t going to open the door for him.

She knew she couldn’t handle this little cub on her own.

Zaizai was lively and agile. If he managed to run out of the hospital by himself, Shu Xin wouldn’t be able to catch him even if she sprouted two extra legs. The key thing was that the child was also hostile toward her and wouldn’t even let her touch him.

She could only resort to what she was slightly better at, continuously coaxing Zaizai from outside the glass wall of the ward. At last, she managed to calm him down for a little while.

"Xiao Juzi, don’t worry, Mommy will be back soon~"

"You don’t want Mommy to worry, right? Once you’re all better, Mommy won’t worry anymore. Sweetie, lie back down and continue your treatment."

"When you’re better, Grandma will buy you lots of tasty treats!"

Xiao Juzi pressed himself against the glass wall. The pink, chubby pads on his paws were squished flat, becoming almost translucent. It made you want to pinch them back into their original shape.

He looked out, aggrieved.

’Mommy and that hateful guy aren’t here.’

’Oh no! Mommy’s been tricked into leaving!’

’I knew that creep was up to no good!’

Soon, he saw a familiar figure. The fluffy tail behind him shot up and wagged, but after he got a clear look at the person, it suddenly drooped as if it had run out of power. His wet eyes were sad and disappointed.

"Sis!"

Shu Xin was surprised to see who it was.

"Xiao Chao? Didn’t you go to Yaoyao’s?"

"I wasn’t needed over at Yaoyao’s," Shu Chao Yu said evasively. After a pause, he added with a smile, "The Zone 2 police were dispatched. It wouldn’t be appropriate for me, a Fourth District officer, to go."

That was true. It would look like he was overstepping his jurisdiction.

Through the glass wall, Shu Chao Yu made a funny face at the unhappy Xiao Juzi.

Far from being amused, Xiao Juzi huffily balled up his little paws and swatted at him twice, each blow landing on the glass.

Shu Chao Yu pretended to be dealt a heavy blow. From his squatting position, he sat back and fell over, even letting out a miserable cry "before dying":

"Ooh~ You’ve defeated me!"

Xiao Juzi finally couldn’t help but laugh.

Shu Chao Yu scrambled up and made another funny face to startle him.

In the entire Shu Family, besides his own mother Shu Yao, this granduncle was the only one Zaizai felt a bit of affection for.

Xiao Juzi’s two little hind legs, planted on the floor, bounced restlessly. He jumped up and pleaded with Shu Chao Yu, "Granduncle, help me open the door! I want to find Mommy!"

"Your mommy’s already on her way here," Shu Chao Yu said patiently, tracing his little paw through the glass. "What you need to do now is be a good boy, lie down in the medical pod, and continue your treatment so we don’t have to worry. When Mommy comes back and sees a healthy baby, she’ll be so happy!"

"But..." Xiao Juzi said, anxious and uneasy. "That hateful guy is with Mommy!"

Shu Chao Yu glanced around nervously, as if deliberately making the atmosphere tense.

He leaned closer to Zaizai and lowered his voice. "It’s because you’re sick and your body is too weak right now! That’s why that creep was able to take advantage of the situation!"

’That makes perfect sense!’

Shu Chao Yu said cautiously, "How about this: when you’re all better, you can come out and we’ll plan how to get rid of him with Granduncle! We guys will draw up a proper battle plan!"

The little guy nodded solemnly. "Then it’s a deal!"

Seeing Xiao Juzi obediently return to the medical pod to continue his treatment, Shu Chao Yu turned his back to the glass wall and breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he smiled dotingly.

Watching from the side, Shu Xin couldn’t help but smile.

As long as you catered to his interests and targeted his weaknesses, Xiao Juzi wasn’t actually that hard to coax.

The more troublesome part was...

The Lin Family!