Beast King's Crippled Mate-Chapter 179: A Handsome Young Wolf (III)

"I—" Rock was silenced when he heard that question.

He was caught off guard. If it wasn’t Long Xiurong who asked this, his answer would undoubtedly be the same.

I distrust and detest humans as much as the other beastmen are. Princess Swan is an exception, but even I doubt that she is fully human. I will never let myself get entangled with a human.

That would be his normal answer to this question.

When he first found out that His Majesty was mating with a human, there was a hint of displeasure in his heart, because he was a proud beastman, and thought that it would dilute His Majesty’s offspring.

But his views changed after meeting with Princess Swan, because objectively, no man would be able to resist her, whether they were human or beastmen.

Even now, he still had a lot of distrust of humans. The war against Princess Swan’s father, the late King Tyrion, only worsened his bias against them.

King Tyrion devised so many cruel and dishonorable strategies, poisoning the well, burning the food supply, using women for assassination, and many more. It angered Rock so much because no beastman king or warrior would have that kind of idea in mind.

However, he had no intention to show his true biased view in front of Lady Long. For some reason, he didn’t want to make her think that his opinion would never change.

He knew for a fact that it did change when he met with Princess Swan, and he believed his views of humans could improve once he spent more time with Long Xiurong.

"I don’t know," Rock replied. "I never thought that my mate would be a human. If she is a human, then I... I will still love her as much. After all, I will only mate once in my life, and I don’t want to ruin my only chance of happiness just because of my biased views."

Rock kept his eye contact with Long Xiurong as he wanted her to know his stance.

Long Xiurong sighed in relief, "Well, that’s good. I thought that you’re not going to be with her just because she’s human."

"M-may I know why you ask this? There’s no proof that my mate will be a human, right?" Rock asked nervously. He had a gut feeling of who his mate would be, but he was still unsure.

Long Xiurong smiled, "It’s just a question, no need to overthink it."

She got up from the bed and said, "Alright, it’s late. I don’t want the maid to suspect that I’m bringing a man inside my room. You should leave now."

Rock nodded, yet he didn’t move from his position.

He felt reluctant, especially after taking a whiff of the scent around him, and realized this woman had such a nice scent that could get him addicted.

Rock opened his mouth, he was about to say that he planned to spend more time in this room. But he stopped himself in the end and walked to the window.

Long Xiurong followed closely and frowned when she accidentally stepped on the shattered ceramic teacup on the ground.

"You don’t need to startle me like before, you know. I dropped the teacup," Long Xiurong complained. "The ginger tea is probably cold now."

Rock stopped on his track. He turned around and picked up the teapot. He took off the lid and took a deep whiff of the scent while closing his eyes.

"What’s wrong? Do you want a cup of ginger tea before leaving? You can hide first, and I’ll tell my attendant to make a new one for you," Long Xiurong offered.

"Who’s your attendant?"

"Hm? Why do you want to know that?"

"Just tell me, who is your attendant?" Rock repeated. His expression was grim as if he had discovered something horrible.

Long Xiurong didn’t understand his sudden seriousness, but she replied, "Her name is Alice, she’s a bunny maid. She has been my attendant since I came to the castle."

"A bunny maid..." Rock frowned as he tried to remember whether Lady Jade had a bunny attendant before. If his memory served him right, she never had a bunny maid.

"What’s wrong? Is there something in the tea?" Long Xiurong asked.

"There is something more inside this tea. It’s made out of tea leaves, ginger, and something else. The scent is very, very faint, and I don’t understand what that is," Rock replied. "But if I were you, I wouldn’t take a sip of this tea."

Long Xiurong’s eyes widened, and a sense of dread began to crawl into her, "D-don’t tell me the tea is..."

"Poisoned? I don’t know either. But I still won’t take my chance," Rock said as he poured the entire tea out of the window. "Lady Jade is a master of herbology. She can use plants to make superb potions, but also poison. I was poisoned by a new type of medicine she put inside her tea that forced me to go into a terrible rut. Who knows this might be one of her creations, a poison that even the sharp nose of a wolf cannot detect."

"D-do you mean that she is trying to poison me?"

"You’re Princess Swan’s friend, right? If that’s the case, then yes," Rock said firmly. "I think she is trying to poison you. She is probably using your bunny attendant as her tool since you seem to trust her a lot."

"I-I know that woman is devious, but I never expected her to target me. I thought she’d only target Princess Swan," Long Xiurong said. "Is there a way to prove that she is trying to poison me? Can you not tell me the type of poison she used inside the tea?"

"It’s impossible. Honestly, I don’t even know if the ginger tea just now is poisoned, or if it’s just another blend of herbs that I never knew of. I just don’t want you to get hurt by something strange," Rock replied.