Bai Yue was having a wonderful dream.
She was back in her modern apartment, sleeping on her expensive memory-foam mattress, completely undisturbed by the chaotic politics of the Beast Realm.
But slowly, a strange, prickling sensation crept up the back of her neck.
It was that very specific, deeply unsettling feeling of being intensely watched.
Bai Yue groaned, slowly fluttering her eyes open, blinking against the morning sunlight streaming through the cracks of her hut. She rubbed her eyes and rolled over.
Hovering exactly five inches from her face was a pair of glowing, unblinking golden eyes.
"AHHHH!" Bai Yue squealed, scrambling backward so fast she tangled herself in her fur blanket and completely rolled off the sleeping mat.
Thump!
Cāng Jì instantly recoiled, his majestic robes swishing as he aggressively turned his back to her.
