Living with the Dangerous Beast-Chapter 72: A Jealous Puppy

“You’re still scared of me?”

Dohwi frowned at her reaction, speaking softly. Sohwa pretended not to notice and tapped his firm chest with her paw.

“Buy me some of that rice candy.”

“Answer me. Are you still scared of me?”

Dohwi patted her soft bottom, urging her to answer. Sohwa snorted and looked up with a pout.

“Hmph, do you think I didn’t know from the start?”

“Know what?”

“That you are the tiger lord who rules Mount Taeryong!”

For a moment, Dohwi’s usually calm eyes shook as if hit by an earthquake.

‘She knew? From the moment she came to Mount Taeryong? This clueless fox knew?’

“How...?”

“Poor little child. You think I’m a fool, but I’m not as clueless as I seem.”

“What?”

“You’ve been fooled by me all along.”

She must have overheard someone talking. Or it could just be a cute consideration to cover up his lie. Either way, it didn’t matter.

Sniffing the air, Sohwa suddenly opened her eyes wide.

“There’s rice cake!”

Incredibly, there was indeed a rice cake vendor far away. Dohwi pretended not to notice.

“I don’t see anything.”

“It’s right there! Over there!”

She was so eager that she even waved her paws. It was absurd. She couldn’t smell a squirrel’s droppings right in front of her when hunting, yet she could sniff out rice cakes like a hound.

“Let’s go get some rice cakes. Hurry, Dohwi!”

“You should try eating meat like that. You need to control your excessive craving for snacks.”

“I want honey rice cakes. Got it? You can have those weird mugwort rice cakes if you want.”

As far as Dohwi knew, Sohwa would even wake up in the middle of her sleep for honey rice cakes.

One day, she ignored the feast Dohwi prepared and kept talking about rice cakes, so he bought a bunch of mugwort rice cakes.

After that incident, she started adding such comments, making Dohwi laugh. freewebnøvel.com

After they finished whispering to each other, the two quickly approached the rice cake vendor.

The woman, who had been idly sitting at her stall, stood up with a bright smile when she saw Dohwi’s handsome face.

“Would you like to buy some rice cakes? We have lots of delicious ones here.”

She eagerly offered different types of rice cakes to Dohwi.

“Oh my, I’ve never seen someone as handsome as you before.”

Merchants were always kind to wealthy-looking customers. Dohwi didn’t mind and picked out enough rice cakes for both Yongbeom and Hwibeom.

“Try one of each. I made them all by hand.”

As the vendor’s coquettish voice continued, Sohwa’s eyes flared up.

‘That vixen!’

Sohwa scratched Dohwi’s chest with her soft paws, without using her claws. Ignorant of her distress, Dohwi kept his attention on the rice cake stall, patting her fluffy bottom.

“Oh my, don’t be shy. Just open your mouth and I’ll... Oh!!”

“Grrr!”

The rice cake vendor, trying to subtly get close to the handsome young man, was startled and stepped back in fright.

The puppy that had been quietly nestled in his arms suddenly bared its sharp teeth and lunged. Despite its cute appearance, it was surprisingly fierce.

“My puppy is very jealous.”

Dohwi chuckled, trying to soothe the jealous puppy. But her growling and snapping at anyone who approached was no joke.

“Goodness, how can you bring such a fierce one to the marketplace....”

“I’ll take all of these.”

“All of them? Alright.”

The vendor quickly packed up the rice cakes.

“Grr... Grr!”

“Oh my! The puppy is trying to bite me!”

Dohwi quickly took the rice cakes and headed to an inn to calm the fierce beast in his arms.

Once they entered a room away from prying eyes, Sohwa transformed back into her human form.

“I’m done being your puppy!”

Fuming, she panted heavily. Dohwi, though not at fault, begged for her forgiveness.

“Please, calm down. Hmm, honey?”

He hadn’t even looked at the rice cake vendor, hadn’t eaten the rice cakes she offered, nor had he let his clothes touch hers.

Yet, Dohwi prostrated himself, admitting fault for everything.

“Try this honey rice cake. You said you wanted it.”

“I don’t want it! Even if there were gold inside, I wouldn’t eat it!”

“You shouldn’t eat it if there’s gold inside. This one has honey, your favorite sweet honey.”

If he brought it home, Yongbeom would surely eat all the honey rice cakes. He had to feed her now.

Sohwa was generous to the young and needy, willing to give even food that was already inside her mouth if her kids asked for it, just like she did for the young tiger back in the days.

“Here, try it.”

At his continued pleading, she reluctantly opened her lips. Dohwi carefully placed a piece of honey rice cake in her mouth as if feeding a baby bird.

Smooch.

Her small, cherry-like lips wrapped around his fingers, sucking them in. For a fleeting moment, her soft tongue brushed against them.

That sly gesture was surely intentional.