A Tale of Chase and Love s1

Long Ren vanished and appeared on the stage. Both he and Bai Lu Chen changed their outfits in a second.

Bai Lu Chen changed his outfit to pale orange with a golden belt while Long Ren changed his to a black robe with a silver belt. He was holding two ribbons while Bai Lu Chen held a fan.

“Wow! Ren’er, you’re looking good!” old man Long praised, but Fu Jin did the opposite by showering praises on Bai Lu Chen.

“Evil pal, my little Bai is more manlier than your foxy,”

“Oh, my Long Ren will get girls easily with a wink but that guy has to beg for their affection,” old Long rebutted.

Seeing that things would be ruined if they allowed these two geezers to continue their bickering, Theresa rose again.

“Foster father, Sir Long, this is a party. Any party spoiler will have to pay a fine of 70 diamonds. This is the last warning,” said Theresa politely before sitting again. This successfully made the two men shut up.

“You can start now,” Clark said.

Ju Wei was in front of the two competing guys sitting in a cross-legged position. His face looked like he had seen a ghost.

That’s when Old Long plucked the first string of the Guqin and while he played, Long Ren walked worriedly to Ju Wei and squatted. He patted Ju Wei’s head with ‘love’ and rose. He ran towards Bai Lu Chen, who had his face covered with a purple fan adorned with roses.

He gently tapped on Bai Lu Chen’s shoulders and when Bai Lu Chen lowered the fan, Long Ren pointed at an almost crying Ju Wei.

Both ran to him and Bai Lu Chen took a small bed out of his storage ring that would fit only one person and that is, a five-year-old.

Ju Wei was an adult but Bai Lu Chen did this to anger Long Ren. But he only smiled and beckoned an internally unhappy Ju Wei to lie on the bed,

“You bastard, don’t ruin the show or you’ll pay the fine!” Long Ren threatened telepathically and Ju Wei internally sighed.

He then tried to squeeze himself to lie on the tiny bed.

“How do you like my work?” Bai Lu Chen telepathically asked as he went on one knee and petted Ju Wei’s head. If one looked closely, he was more like hitting Ju Wei’s head.

“Not bad! You’re doing quite well, Mr. Bai,” Long Ren replied telepathically as he patted Ju Wei’s back ‘gently.’

Fu Jin played his flute slowly in a soothing manner and both Bai Lu Chen and Long Ren got up and stared at each other with ‘loving eyes’.

“Just you wait!” Long Ren telepathed Bai Lu Chen.

“Like I’m afraid of a tiny fox,” Bai Lu Chen telepathed back.

While exchanging taunting words, they both continued their ‘intimate act’. They then circled around Ju Wei slowly before stopping behind him and giving each other a little more distance.

Bai Lu Chen smiled and began to sing.

♪ I’m father black knight of the night. Saving all damsels in distress. My little angel, fear not the dream, for the knight of the night , your dad is here! ♩

Everyone was shocked at his voice. It was terrible, sounded more like a frog trying to sing opera.

“Gosh! This is embarrassing,” Ju Wei thought.

“Pleasant voice you have there,” Long Ren telepathed Bai Lu Chen in mockery.

“Ha, let’s see whose voice is better.” Bai Lu Chen telepathed in rebuttal. “Your turn!”

♪ I’m a little rose fairy of the earth. Born to bring peace to all little ones. Make all men fall for flowers, soothing dreams disturbed by evil. I’m your mama Rose, the fairy of the earth. Fear not little one, for you are a shining star, you can do it. Lay back down and enjoy the wind of happiness sink in you. What can a little rose fairy say? You’re not alone, little one. ♩

Long Ren’s voice was… even worse. Sounded more like a lion trying to sing high notes. Everyone was dumbfounded.

“This isn’t my grandson. He must have been switched. I’m sure of it!” old man Long shook his head. Both geezers continued to play, albeit with lesser interest.

Bai Lu Chen and Long Ren competed heatedly in a duet; wanting to see who could last longer in singing while the audience felt like beating them up. Ju Wei who was close to them was close to aging by ten years.

One voice was bad enough, but with two terrible voices as duets, he could swear that he could kill right now. This song was his parents’ sang to him every night. These two bastards actually had the guts to turn the music upside down with their ugly voices.

To worsen things they petted Ju Wei, but in reality they were transferring their tension on him and he could swear that his skin would soon be red from all the hits.

“Bastards! ENOUGH!” Ju Wei couldn’t take it anymore and yelled in frustration.

He exhaled heavily and shot murderous looks at Bai Lu Chen, before pouncing at a stunned Bai Lu Chen and pinning him to the ground.

His eyes had turned into an unusual burgundy red eyes that went unnoticed by both men on stage.

Ju Wei could be said to have lost his sanity as he started hitting, pinching, and punching Bag Lu Chen. Then he started pulling his hair, and this caused Bai Lu Chen to hiss in pain, and he tried to toss Ju Wei away from him, but Ju Wei seemed to be extra strong tonight.

Long Ren was also pissed. Didn’t he warn Ju Wei to behave? What then is this? What the hell is he doing now? He planned to use this chance to win mistress favor back, but this spirit had ruined it completely.

“You think you are the only one who gets pissed? Bastard, let me teach you a lesson.”

With that, he pounced on Ju Wei and started yanking his hair. Ju Wei yelled and pulled Bai Lu Chen’s hair even harder.

Bai Lu Chen, unable to care about his image in Theresa’s eyes, got hold of Long Ren’s waist-length hair. So. it became a scene of three men pinching, scratching, and pulling each other’s hair; none willing to yield.

Old man Long and Fu Him sighed while the others were taken aback.

“Honey, what’s happening? Why are they fighting?” Aarti asked in an awed manner. Never in her dreams did she think of such a scene. Just look at this trio behaving like lunatics. Seriously, this was embarrassing.

“You three, stop!” Long Hua Ming hollered, unable to stand this terrible sight. He was sure that they’d even strip each other naked and still not stop fighting. Sigh! These kiddos need to be taught a lesson. Fu Jin was silent this time.

The trio quickly released each other and arranged their disheveled clothes. None of them looked handsome anymore. Instead, what their faces spotted were injuries from scratching and pinching and black eyes from punches.

“Clark, I don’t think our baby is safe with this trio.” Aarti worriedly said to Clark, but he only smiled.

“They are our daughter’s pets. They might misbehave for a while, but they won’t harm her,” said Clark.

“But still… we need to teach them a lesson. Honey, what do you suggest?” Aarti used her trump card- puppy eyes. Clark could not resist, and he agreed.

“You three, as my child’s pets not only did you hit her face but made her cry multiple times. She’s been too kind to you, so as her dad, I will mete out punishments. Bai Lu Chen, I want you to eat lots of hot and spicy food at this party tonight. Don’t worry, my wife will supervise you,” said Clark with a smile.

Bai Lu Chen felt like choking.

Man, what kind of punishment is this?

Torture, beatings, injury, he can accept all this but not spicy food. This guy really knew snakes.

Plopping to the floor, he begged after turning to a five-year-old.

“Uncle, please don’t do this. I beg you…” he couldn’t continue his words because Long Ren kicked his butt hard.

“AHHHH,” Bai Lu Chen cried out. “It hurts! Uncle, he’s bullying me,”

“He isn’t!” Clark said coldly, stunning Bai Lu Chen. “You deserve it. Long Ren, you did well and so I task you with cleaning up all the mess after the party, by yourself,”

Long Ren knelt and bowed to Clark.

“I accept the punishment,”

Bai Lu Chen also said the same thing now Ju Wei was the one remaining.

“I’ll eat spicy food too.” Ju Wei quickly spoke, but Clark shook his head in amusement.

“I haven’t said a word and you’re already punishing yourself. Isn’t that too bad? How about this? You’ll sit with me and my wife.”

“Yes, uncle!” Ju Wei blurted and rushed over to Marabelle and stood behind her.

“Also, you three have to pay me something for my advice. I want 30 diamonds from each of you, 27 healing pills and seven female ornaments,” Clark spoke shamelessly and Ju Wei almost fell.

“Diamonds? Can I pay with pearls?” Long Ren asked.

“Give me something equivalent then,” Clark agreed. He wanted to let these three know that their mistress’ dad is no joke.

“Then we will each give you something equivalent.”

Bai Lu Chen brought out a jade pendant made out of Burmese jade. Long Ren took out a large red pearl big enough to fit a palm. It glistened and one could see some qi energy surrounding it.

Ju Wei took out a small dagger with diamond edges. Each of them also brought out 2 healing pills and then either 7 bracelets or hairpins made from fine wood, gold, and silver. Clark nodded and collected them from the trio, a satisfied smile on his lips.

He walked to Theresa and placed them in her hand.

“Keep it, my dear,” Clark spoke in a low tone of voice in German. “Your life isn’t easy here. You were here without us and might be without us again so take this as Papa’s gift to you.”

Theresa shook her head and pushed the items back to her dad. “I have my precious pets here. I won’t lack. Give these instead to mom. She needs them more because I can sense that when you guys return, there’ll be danger. Keep them, dad”

“No, this is a gift! You gotta accept it” said Aarti.Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

Theresa sighed and took them. Then she placed them in the space ring that Fu Jin gifted her.

Well, since Bai Lu Chen was outta the ring, she could now use it.