Chapter 2: The Appearance of the Big brother Who Wants to Protect the Milky Dumpling
In the car, Ming Zaizai nestled in her human daddy's arms, enveloping him with her own breath. Even if she fell asleep, as long as her daddy was with her, she wouldn't worry about anything happening to him.
Huo Chenling gently poked her soft cheek as she struggled to keep her eyes open. "Are you sleepy, Zaizai?"
Ming Zaizai was so sleepy that she could barely keep her eyes open. She was still adjusting to the jet lag. When she opened her mouth, she let out a big yawn. The adorable expression she made even surprised Huo Chenling, who rarely smiled or laughed.
"Go to sleep, Daddy will hold you." Huo Chenling said with a smile.
Ming Zaizai immediately fell asleep.
Huo Chenling: "..."
"Zaizai?"
"Zaizai?"
He called her gently twice but realized that she didn't respond at all. He knew that Milky Dumpling had truly fallen asleep. Huo Chenling couldn't help but feel a mix of amusement and helplessness. Instead of putting her down, he continued to hold her in his arms.
An hour later, the car stopped outside the inpatient department of Kanghua Hospital. Huo Chenling personally carried the Milky Dumpling and got out of the car, heading upstairs.
After arriving at Zhang Ning's hospital room, Huo Chenling's gentle smile faded instantly.
After Assistant Jiang Lin opened the door, Huo Chenling walked in with the Milky Dumpling in his arms.
"Darling, you're here... Who is she?" When Zhang Ning saw the Milky Dumpling in Huo Chenling's arms, her pupils suddenly shrank.
Huo Chenling glanced at Zaizai in his arms and calmly explained, "She's our newly adopted daughter."
Zhang Ning was dumbfounded, finding it hard to believe her ears. "Your... newly adopted daughter? Why?"
As the first family of Hua Country, the Huo family needed sons, not daughters!
Huo Chenling frowned. "The moment I saw Zaizai, I liked her. Didn't you mention before that you wanted a daughter?"
Zhang Ning pursed her lips, her face paler than before. She steadied her mind, took a deep breath, and got out of bed, walking over to Huo Chenling's side. Her emotions seemed to stabilize, and she slightly curved her lips.
"Can I hold her?"
Huo Chenling nodded and handed the Milky Dumpling over to her. However, he remained vigilant, afraid that Zhang Ning's weak body couldn't hold her properly.
The moment Zhang Ning reached out to take Zaizai, her gaze inadvertently swept over Huo Chenling's right ear. She saw the thin black line behind his ear, almost forming a circle, and the resentment in her heart instantly dissipated.
It didn't matter if he was cold to her now. When this black line formed a complete circle, Huo Chenling would fall completely in love with her and never know that she wasn't the real Zhang Ning.
Her name was Zhang Jing, Zhang Ning's twin sister. Since childhood, she had been jealous of her sister Zhang Ning. They had the same face, so why could Zhang Ning marry Huo Chenling while she couldn't?
Three months ago, when she and Zhang Ning went to an art exhibition, they were involved in a car accident. Zhang Ning died on the spot, and Huo Chenling was abroad on a business trip at the time. She and her parents conspired to switch their identities. She became Huo Chenling's wife, Zhang Ning.
Worried that Huo Chenling would notice something unusual, her father asked a master to tamper with the food she prepared for Huo Chenling, hence the black line. When Huo Chenling truly fell in love with her, even if he knew she was Zhang Jing, he would love her unconditionally.
By then, they would have their own child.
As for this adopted daughter... since Huo Chenling liked her, she would keep her as a plaything for now.
Ming Zaizai sensed the unfriendly aura and instinctively opened her eyes. She was still asleep, but her body instinctively protected herself. When she saw Zhang Ning's eerie and chilling gaze, Zhang Ning unconsciously let go and dropped her.
Huo Chenling reacted swiftly and quickly caught the Milky Dumpling, returning her to his arms. He looked at Zhang Ning with an icy expression.
"What are you doing?"
Since the car accident, Huo Chenling felt that his wife had undergone some subtle changes. Those small changes made him instinctively keep his distance.
Thinking about the cold and terrifying gaze Ming Zaizai just had, Zhang Jing's face turned pale as paper. She pointed at the Milky Dumpling in his arms.
"Darling, she suddenly opened her eyes, and it was terrifying."
Huo Chenling frowned displeasedly. "Zaizai is sleeping very soundly."
Zhang Jing: "..."
She didn't believe it at all. She couldn't have been mistaken. In order to examine more closely, when she wanted to take her again, Huo Chenling refused.
"Your body is weak. Rest well. I'll come to see you another day."
Zhang Jing instinctively grabbed his wrist. "Darling, I..."
Before she could finish her sentence, Huo Chenling had already freed his hand and turned away, carrying the Milky Dumpling with him.
Zhang Jing stood in place, her eyes filled with a sinister and malicious look.
"Huo Chenling! If I had known that you would become the heir of the Huo family, how could this marriage have fallen to my sister? Fortunately, my sister is already dead, and I will replace her and become the true Lady Huo!”
Just you wait!
In less than three days!
The eerie and malevolent aura grew stronger as her evil thoughts intensified, a type of aura that was terrifying to humans but was the favorite nourishment of Ming Zaizai.
Even in her sleep, her little nose couldn't help but twitch.
Her rosy little mouth even made smacking sounds, drooling from the corners with a dumplingous expression.
As Huo Chenling listened to the sound of Zaizai smacking her lips, his cold and guarded aura dissipated when he saw Zhang Ning. His lips gently curved upwards.
"Milky Dumpling, are you dreaming of eating delicious food?"
Ming Zaizai was indeed hungry.
The scent was so strong that it forcibly woke her up.
Opening her tired eyes, she saw that her earthly father was still holding her. The first thing she did after waking up was to give her father a big, soft smile.
"Daddy~"
Ming Zaizai acted coquettishly, her Zaizai voice sounding sweetly, even breaking through Huo Chenling's deep and aloof demeanor.
"Is Zaizai hungry?"
Ming Zaizai nodded, crawling in her father's arms and quickly climbing up from his embrace. Her little chin rested on his broad shoulder, and her pitch-black eyes looked toward the wide and bright corridor.
In Ming Zaizai's line of sight, the entire corridor was pitch black, almost completely devoid of any light, and countless shadows floated in from the distance.
Huo Chenling's body functions were clearly declining. Ming Zaizai turned her head and saw a black line forming a circle behind his right ear.
Ming Zaizai looked puzzled. "Daddy, did you take a bath?"
Huo Chenling was momentarily stunned by his precious daughter's question but quickly smiled and replied.
"I took a bath last night, why?"
Ming Zaizai furrowed her little eyebrows, looking at the countless shadows swirling and eventually condensing into a very fine black line.
One end of the line connected to a room not far away, while the other end was behind her father's ear.
Ming Zaizai earnestly told her father, "But Daddy, there's something black behind your ear. Can I help Daddy take it off?"
Huo Chenling was somewhat surprised that he hadn't cleaned himself properly during his bath, but listening to his precious daughter's adorable voice, he indulgently smiled.
"Sure, thank you, Zaizai."
Ming Zaizai opened her little mouth, revealing two sharp Zaizai teeth.
"No need to thank me. Since Daddy raised Zaizai in the mortal world, as a repayment, Zaizai will protect Daddy."
After saying that, Ming Zaizai used her finger to gently pluck the black line that had embedded itself into the flesh.
Then, she chewed it a bit and swallowed it with a few gulps.
Huo Chenling felt an itch behind his ear and lightly touched it.
It seemed like a heavy shackle had suddenly disappeared, and the deep-seated resentment in his heart vanished in an instant.
"Zaizai, is it better now?"
Ming Zaizai happily smiled, "It's better now, Daddy's ear is clean."
At the same time, a piercing scream came from the nearby hospital room.
"Ah!!!!"
Huo Chenling frowned and quickly turned around, carrying Ming Zaizai as he hurried back.
Ming Zaizai was also curious about why those ghostly things were connected to her daddy on one end and to that place on the other end. So she curiously watched with her wide-open eyes.
While watching, and taking advantage of her daddy's distraction, she opened her mouth wide and hungrily swallowed the ghostly things in the corridor.
In the blink of an eye, the ghostly things on the corridor were completely devoured by her, and the screams from the hospital room grew louder.
Huo Chenling was afraid that Zhang Ning would be frightened and lose control after the illness, so he had to put her down at the entrance of the room.
"Zaizai, wait for Daddy outside, okay?"
Ming Zaizai rubbed her head against her father's knee, her voice sweetly responding, "Okay, Daddy, rest assured, Zaizai won't run around."
"Good."
Huo Chenling stroked her head and went back into the room.
While Ming Zaizai happily enjoyed her delicious meal, she looked up and saw a teenage brother coming from the direction of the elevator, rushing towards her.
"Stay still, it's dangerous!"
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone