Heavenly Ninetail Codex

Even if it is spring, the temperature of the early dayspring is quite cold. The view of the forest is obscured by haze.

A lone figure was laying in a deep wide crater. The dawn sunlight shines upon the wide crater and reveals a pitiful-looking man covered by ashes. He emitted the pungent smell of burnt from his body.

He felt pain all over his body. His head felt like it wants to explode. A lot of information keeps pouring into his brain. As time flew by, he didn't know how long it was since he had been here.

That time, after he passed out. He began to feel pain all over his body and he can not even open his eyes. He was unconscious and at the same time, he felt he was conscious. Every time he wants to open his eyes, his body would betray him. The pain he felt was like his body was torn into tiny pieces. He felt death is the only best option but even if he wanted to, he can't. The process could be described as being tortured alive while keeping him alive. The things he could do was only groaned.

But gradually he began to be able to move his limbs. The pain he felt for who knows how long was beginning to dissipate.

He tries to move his numbing tongue. As a result, he started to drool. After quite some time did he able to use it.

"Heavenly Ninetail Codex...Sssss...". He mumbled the 'cultivation method' that he had just received from the thunder that had struck him before while hissing in pain. He holding his painful head.

He decided to comprehend it later. What's more important right now is to go back home. Not to that Chen's Residence but his mother's place. She must be very worried right now. Furthermore, he was deep in the forest right now.

He tried to get up several times before he manage to stand up. Then he struggled to climb up to leave that wide crater. He manages to exit the forest using the trail that he had left behind when he entered it before.

He is like a beggar right now so a lot of people avoided him on his way to his mother's residence.

When he gets there, he was blocked by the two servants who were guarding the entrance of the residence.

"Who are you? Here is not for a beggar like you. Go away!". One of the two servants questions him. Their face was twisted when they smelt the pungent smell of burnt and foul. They instantly pinched their nose.

"You don't recognize me?!". asks the beggar-like person impatiently. His voice was hoarse.

The two were stunned when they heard his voice.

"Y-young Master Wei Hen!?". The two exclaimed in unison.

"Ask the other servant to prepare hot water and bring it to my courtyard. I want to take a bath". He said while ignoring the two as he strode toward the courtyard he always stays at.

"Y-yes Master. I will go now". One of the two said as he left there to carry out the order.

...

The servant filled in the wooden tub with hot water and felt it. Then he informed Wei Hen he felt the temperature was right.

Wei Hen nodded and instructed the servant to get out. Wei Hen then went to the wooden rack where he put the bar soap that he made for himself. It was jasmine-scented bar soap.

Then he impatiently undressed and sank into the wooden tub. He felt weird when the servants that were near or passed by him pinched their noses and made disgusted faces. Maybe the owner of the odor is himself. He didn't notice it until he becomes suspicious and smelt himself then he felt a hot and strong odor of foul like someone didn't bathe for days combined with the pungent smell of something that had burnt.

His face was no better than those servants before.

The water did not long turn murky the moment he soaked in it. He felt weird, why does his body so dirty? He had to call for the servant to change the water in the wooden tub after he rubbed his body once.

While rinsing his body, he found a shocking discovery. His skin was so white. It's translucent. It was so beautiful!! He suddenly stood up and stroked his body. His waist turned a lot curvier than before. His nails turned pinker. You can say his body becomes stunningly gorgeous.

He admired his body for a while before asking the servant to change the water in the wooden tub again. The servant who entered was stunned for a while when they saw Wei Hen's face before continuing what they doing. After bathing, Wei Hen was visited by his panicked mother.

"Wei Hen are you done bathing?!". Li Mei shouted outside Wei Hen's room.

"Yes mom, you can enter now!". Wei Hen replied with his still hoarse voice.

The room's door was opened wide by Li Mei.

She was stunned before asking "Who are you?!".

Wei Hen touched his face in bafflement when he heard the question. Did his entire being change so much that they didn't even recognize him?

Li Mei who was the one that asked him gradually realized that the person in front of her is actually his son.

His caramel-colored eyes.

His visage.

Those gestures.

His voice when he replied to to to her earlier.

It was non-other than his son, Wei Hen.

"Oh my son, Wei Hen! It's really you!". Li Mei cried as she approached and hug her beloved son. Her tears flowed down.

"You don't know how worried I was when you got missing for days". She muffled. Her face was full of worry.

Missing for days? Why did it feel like only one night?

"How many days I had been missing?". He asked in curiosity.

"You didn't know? You've been missing for three days". She told him in disbelief.

"T-three days!". He exclaimed. His eyes widely opened.

"Where have you been? Why you didn't know how many days it was? And... More importantly...". She asked as she released her son then gazed at him from head to toe and continued, "Why you become so...so stunningly beautiful!?".

Earlier, she didn't notice it because she was so worried and her mind was in chaos. But now when her mind becomes calm and clear, she was so surprised to see her son's appearance.

His skin was as white as pearl and jade-like clear. Pink lip. His caramel-like eyes were clearer than before. His waist was curvy. Pink nails. Beautiful body proportion.

"My son! Your face is undeniably one of the most beautiful in this town!". She said in admiration. She gleamed excitedly.

My son is so spectacular!

That ungrateful man will regret it someday!

She thought.

Bam!

The door was suddenly wide open.

A man was standing at the door. His appearance was like someone who had been abandoned. He looked tired. There are dark circles around his eyes. His eyes bulge when he saw Wei Hen.

"Young Master Chen Li you can't go inside!".

The servant said to him while trying to restrain him.

"I'm sorry Madam, I can't stop him from entering". He said apologetically. He also gasped. Maybe from running so hard trying to catch up with the man that he restrained.

"Second Young Master of Chen, why do you always barge into my residence? Is my residence your backyard?". Li Mei asked him irritatedly and ignored the servant who apologized just now. The one she asked to was none other than Chen Li. The second young master of the Chen Family, Chen Jiang's second older brother. He's been forcefully barging into Li Mei's Residence since the day Wei Hen was missing.

"Where is Wei Hen?". Chen Li asked with a cracked rasping voice. Maybe, because he is sick.

His eyes wandered around the room. Scanned every person in the compartment.

There were no other people in the room except Li Mei and his son, Wei Hen.

Wei Hen was still in his thin undergarment.

His caramel-colored eyes met with Chen Li.

Chen Li wondered why there is a stranger in Wei Hen's room. "Who are you? Why are you in Wei Hen's room?". He asked Wei Hen who was the rightful owner of the room then he looked at Li Mei for an explanation.

"It doesn't matter who he is and you should get out!". Li Mei said to him.

"Wait a minute...". He said in suspicion while scanning Wei Hen's entire body.

Eyes...

Nose...

Lips...

Posture...

Hair...

Chen Li pondered something to himself before he realized..." Wei Hen?!". He asked in bewilderment.

How could it be? In just a few days he transformed so much. He couldn't believe his own eyes. He becomes...a lot stunning despite being a man.

"What are you doing here?". Wei Hen asked him while frowning. He also wondered why Chen Li looks like a...beggar.

"Of course, I'm here to find you!!". Chen Li was stunned for a while when he heard Wei Hen's voice and then yelled when he realized the person in front of him is really the person he madly searching for, for these past three days. He felt so mad when he saw Wei Hen become so attractive instead of being worn out while he look like someone crazy.

"Why do you want to find me?". Asked the dumbfounded Wei Hen. Why does this mischievous playboy want to find me?

"!!!... Of course because I-...Tch!. Forget it!". He was astonished for a while when he heard what Wei Hen had said then he tried to say something but the words didn't come out.

He knows that he, himself was overreacting right now. But he can't help it because he realized that his feelings for Wei Hen are genuine. Besides, he's not even into a man, to begin with. However, when it comes to Wei Hen, he felt something warm like a spring breeze in his chest. It felt so nice...

" Okay, that's it, you have no reason to find me. Now go back to the place where you belong". Said Wei Hen when he saw Chen Li did not finish his words.

"That day when you and I were-".

"It's old days story. I don't remember anything about it". Before Chen Li could finish his words, Wei Hen interjected him. Acting like he forget and didn't care about it.

"Don't say you will forget about it!". Chen Li fumed with rage. He felt angry when Wei Hen don't care and forget about what they had done.

" Second Young Master Chen, this is my house. You are disrespecting me as the master of this residence!". Said Li Mei sternly, when she saw Chen Li yell at her son.

The servant who restrained Chen Li also tightened his grip on Chen Li's shoulder when he heard Chen Li yell angrily at his Young Master Wei Hen.

Chen Li didn't care about Li Mei's words and the action of the servant who restrained him, instead, he stare angrily at Wei Hen.

"What? Are you gonna use violence against me? Oh, come on Chen Li you're the famous Second Young Master Chen Li who is known as the 'Land Crocodile' of Hexing Town. The infamous playboy from Chen Family. You have more concubines than your other siblings. Just made one of them your 'Main Wife' or you can go to the capital and marry the influential family's daughter as your 'Main Wife'. I know your Chen Family is capable of doing that". Wei Hen said when he received the stares from the angry Chen Li. He also didn't forget to smile mockingly after finishing his words.

Regardless, Chen Li didn't feel insulted. Instead, his ears become hot and red. Even his anger dissipates gradually when he saw Wei Hen's mocking smile. He couldn't help but think back to when they were in the alley three days ago.

The face of the servant that restrained Chen Li also becomes red as a tomato. He couldn't turn his gaze away from his Young Master's smile. He knows that his Young Master Wei Hen had returned but he didn't know that Young Master Wei Hen returned with a more stunner face.

Seeing Chen Li's weird behavior, Wei Hen felt confused. Why does he act like that and why does the servant who restrained him also act the same way?

"Why are you two acting so weird. Are you sick?". Wei Hen asked them while the two upon hearing the question also turn their gaze away.

Chen Li also didn't forget to warn the servant not to look at Wei Hen. He felt mad when he thought about another man staring at Wei Hen. Especially right now when Wei Hen become much more stunning than before.

" What wrong with that! He's my master!". The servant retorted.

"It was your face fault, my son". Li Mei said to the confused Wei Hen while massaging her temple. His son will be in trouble in the future with the face he has right now.

"What's wrong with my fac-..".

But before Wei Hen could say anything...