Translated by Eve
Edited by Kara
Bai looked at Sui Yuan, who was crouching and incessantly growling at him in provocation. Bai's expression was helpless and indulgent. Although he didn't really understand animals, fortunately, he had watched several episodes of "Animal World" before and knew that when animals fought for the position of chief or when fighting for a mate, even if they didn't kill their opponent, they would fight with everything they have. In this case, getting injured was inevitable.
Although Bai really wished that he could do what his future partner wanted so as to make him happy, he absolutely could not do so. Even if the odds were low, if he happened to injure Sui Yuan, what would he do then? Bai didn't want to go through that.
He looked at the eager Sui Yuan apologetically. Bai walked over, stood before the other, got down on one knee, and grabbed the other's paw, holding it up.
Sui Yuan stared blankly as the protagonist shou made his move. He wobbled for a bit before steadying himself. On three legs, he watched as the protagonist shou kissed his paw.
Sui Yuan："………………………………"
——W-wait a second. Why was this scene a little odd?
5237 silently turned its head away: "Mn…it's indeed a bit odd. It's like… he's proposing to you?
Sui Yuan："………Hehe."
"I won't fight with you over the position of pack leader. If you want to be the chief, I will withdraw from the running and a.s.sist you wholeheartedly. How about it?" Bai spoke softly. He sighed with some feeling of regret as he looked at Sui Yuan's dull yet baffled eyes.
Thinking that Sui Yuan likely didn't understand what he was saying, Bai imitated the beasts' actions. He submissively lowered his body and head, making "wuwu" sounds, thereby repeating the posture that the other beasts had done for him.
At this time, Sui Yuan finally came out of shock. He angrily pulled his paw out of Bai's hand and then rudely smacked it against the other's face.
——He had already come up with no less than ten different ways to surrept.i.tiously injure his own eye! However, the protagonist shou wasn't even willing to fake this scene with him! Just where did the natural order of things go?!
Sui Yuan fidgeted, impatiently circling around under Bai's doting gaze. He tried all the beasts' methods of provocation and actions that expressed a desire to fight, but who knew if it was because Bai didn't understand or if he deliberately ignored them, but he stayed half-knelt in a subservient manner. Aside from moving his head slightly while tracking Sui Yuan's movements, he didn't show any indication of accepting the duel. Even when Sui Yuan pretended to pounce as if to tear at his throat, he did not waver in the least. He was a clear example of "Come h.e.l.l or high water, I will stand firm!"
As time pa.s.sed, the beasts, who had originally been nervous while watching this "duel for the position of chief," all felt blinded—what duel, this was clearly just a couple flirting! They felt betrayed! The beasts began to yawn and lazily turned their heads away. The crowd began to disperse. They went to eat, drink, or rest, enjoying the cool air. They completely threw their new chief and his partner to one side.
Seeing that the pack had tacitly acknowledged him as the new chief, Sui Yuan, who had no way to reverse this situation, finally stopped his meaningless provocation. His ears drooped down, dispirited, his entire being appearing gloomy. Realizing that Sui Yuan had no option but to accept this fact, Bai's smile became increasingly radiant. He reached out to pull his bitter partner into his arms.
"I know that you want to rely on your own strength to gain the position of chief, but I have to apologize. I can't fight you," Kissing Sui Yuan's soft ears, Bai caressed his fur, tone apologetic but still evidently pleased with himself, "Besides, I think that you're also reluctant to fight me too, right? Just now, you had many opportunities to hurt me, but I wasn't hurt at all. I think that we are of one mind."
Sui Yuan："………………………………"
——Hehe, protagonist shou, you're simply overthinking matters!
Sui Yuan didn't want to look at the protagonist shou's expression of "believing his love was reciprocated." He glared at Bai and then struggled out of the other's hold. He then turned his head away resentfully. Meanwhile, Bai, who had just been disliked by his future partner, raised the corner of his lips into a smile. His gaze that he used to look at Sui Yuan grew even more deep. He just knew that his partner could understand him. Look, he just rolled his eyes and got angry at him. Simply too cute!
The protagonist shou was all excited on his own. Meanwhile, Sui Yuan was worried about what he should do next. He had already replaced the protagonist shou as the pack leader, and he also wasn't injured. His strength was not in the least diminished either. What could he do to die a logical death during this upcoming winter, ne?
Sui Yuan was wretched with anxiety while fretting over how he should go about dying. However, at the same time, he could not neglect his duty as the pack leader. Therefore, he led the pack to glory, just as Bai had in the original plot
Although Bai did not become the chief, he still gave it his all to further develop the pack. Or rather, for the sake of stabilizing Sui Yuan's position as Chief and allowing him to have free time, he was even more hardworking than in the original plot. Fortunately, the simple and candid beasts did not understand how "a ruler will feel threatened if a minister's accomplishments are too great" or what "making a ruler a figurehead" meant. Sui Yuan also had no fears regarding Bai's high status amongst the pack. Sui Yuan, who didn't even want to be the Chief, was naturally happy to be a freeloader and hand everything over to Bai to deal with. Meanwhile, he was just in charge of leading the pack to action after the other made decisions.
