Chapter 203: Uncontrollable Tail

Chapter 203: Chapter 203: Uncontrollable Tail

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.

A steady knocking suddenly came from outside the room.

The sound wasn’t loud, but it was exceptionally clear in the quiet room.

"Hm?"

Startled awake, Ella jolted violently.

She subconsciously sucked in a sharp breath. With a SLURP, she inhaled the glistening trail of drool hanging from the corner of her mouth.

Being forcefully ripped from a sweet dream is never a pleasant feeling.

And for a Wolf Lady with a strong sense of territory, the rage of being woken up was doubly terrifying.

Ella’s just-awakened brain was still rebooting, and she had completely forgotten the "depressed" persona she had been so carefully maintaining for the past few days.

She threw off the covers, stomped barefoot and fuming to the entrance, and yanked open the wooden door.

"Don’t you know I’m sleeping?!"

Ella wrinkled her nose and roared at the person outside.

Standing outside, Lance had his right hand raised, about to knock again, but his movement froze mid-air.

He stared, a little stunned, at the energetic Wolf Girl before him.

He took in her rosy complexion, her full-throated voice, and her slightly rounded figure from being so well-fed.

Lance suddenly realized how misplaced his earlier guilt had been. He had thought he’d gone too far, but now he saw that his sympathy had been utterly wasted.

This Wolf Lady had been hiding in her room for days, and it was obvious her life was far more comfortable than his.

But after letting out that roar, the shock of the cool air from outside dissipated most of Ella’s morning temper.

Her first reaction, flashing through her mind, was to recognize the visitor.

It was that perverted Dragon Descendant who flicked people’s foreheads.

Then, her gaze uncontrollably lingered on his face for a few seconds.

This was her second reaction.

She didn’t know why, but after only a few days, this man she’d once considered plain-looking suddenly seemed especially pleasing to the eye today.

It was a change that might be hard for another man to notice, but Ella saw it instantly.

His face was the same familiar face, but his aura seemed to have changed somehow.

What was most captivating were his eyes. They were like deep pools, threatening to pull you in at first glance.

Ella felt her heart involuntarily skip half a beat, and she even felt an urge to get closer for a better look.

But soon, a breeze blew across her bare feet.

This triggered her third reaction.

Ella shuddered, and the lingering fog in her mind cleared instantly.

’I’m so screwed!’

’My persona for the past few days has been a depressed Wolf Lady who’s completely lost her will to live after a major blow!’

It was almost a conditioned reflex.

The anger and surprise on Ella’s face vanished without a trace in a tenth of a second.

Her previously straight back immediately slumped, and her pair of gray Beast Ears drooped listlessly.

She looked at Lance with an incredibly weak and sorrowful gaze.

"What is it... did you come to bully me again?"

Her voice was miserable and tragic, as if she had suffered a monumental injustice.

Watching her split-second transformation, Lance sighed in exasperation, brought a hand to his forehead, and ruthlessly exposed her act.

"Alright, cut the act."

If he still couldn’t tell by now that she’d been faking sick for days to avoid her studies, then he might as well have been born without a brain.

"I just came to your room to borrow a mirror."

Hearing her cover blown, Ella knew there was no point in pretending anymore.

She immediately dropped the pitiful look and switched back to a fierce expression.

"Not happening!"

Ella planted her hands on her hips, baring her teeth at Lance with extreme arrogance. Her two sharp little canines were fully exposed.

’I haven’t forgotten the humiliation of being toyed with like a stray dog three days ago!’

’You want this lady’s mirror? Not a chance in hell!’

Faced with this utterly uncooperative attitude, Lance didn’t get angry.

He just looked her calmly in the eyes and stated a condition in a flat tone.

"One bag of beef jerky."

It was a snack he’d specifically bought at the market yesterday afternoon, originally intended for Xiaohai and Bean Bun.

"You got it! I’ll go get it right now!"

The arrogant and domineering expression on Ella’s face instantly blossomed into a sweet smile.

’Since I’ve been found out, it’s back to the miserable days for me.’

She accepted her reality in an instant.

’What’s a little dignity compared to beef jerky?’

It was this positive attitude that had allowed her to wander around so cheerfully, without a single complaint against fate or man.

However, the moment Ella turned to get the mirror,

a system notification suddenly popped up on Lance’s retina.

[Detected that the vicious dog has yielded to you. You have successfully obtained 3 Taming Points.]

Lance’s heart skipped a beat.

’Oh no!’

At almost the exact same time the system notification appeared,

Ella, who had just turned her back, suddenly froze.

She felt an extremely strange, tingling numbness spread without warning from the base of her tailbone.

This faint tingling sensation shot up her spine and straight into the back of her head.

Along with this peculiar stimulation,

her large, gray tail, which had been hanging slightly limp, was now completely beyond her control.

As if it had a life of its own, the tail began to wag joyfully from side to side at Lance.

"Huh?"

Meanwhile, Lance stood at the door, watching the large tail wag so hard it looked like it was sweeping the floor. He could only feel a deep sense of helplessness.

He instantly remembered the research Trait he had unlocked three days ago while repeatedly flicking her forehead.

[Joy of Surrender (Research Trait): In the cruel law of the wolf pack, the defeated must expose their most vulnerable, soft underbelly to the alpha to show absolute submission.]

[When the subject of your research, the Sub-human Species: Cyan Moon Werewolf, performs any act of "compromise" or "surrender" toward you, this action will directly bypass her rational mind.]

[Her central nervous system will be guided by your pheromones to secrete high concentrations of "pleasure hormones."]

[Based on the degree of her submission, you will obtain a corresponding number of Taming Points.]

[These points can be used to issue "Forced Commands," "Status Adjustments," or "Hypnosis" to the target, or be converted into "Tangible Rewards" to appease the target.]

[Your current Level 3 Research Progress will advance based on the Taming Points you consume. Current Progress: 0/300]

Lance sighed silently to himself.

This was the exclusive Trait he had unlocked from this Wolf Girl.

He should have known better. He never should have had any normal expectations for this research system.

He’d been so busy preparing for the inauguration ceremony these past few days that he had completely forgotten about this slightly perverted Trait.

He had never expected the Trait’s activation criteria to be so ridiculously lenient.

She had merely compromised verbally over a few pieces of beef jerky, and it had directly triggered the nervous system’s reward mechanism.