Chapter 11: I can rub all over Wife

Peng Ci trembled from An Xingzhou’s earth-shattering roar of a yell, all of its fur and ears flying backwards. After Peng Ci finished trembling, it quickly stood up, reached out two of its little paws, and folded them over each other to cover An Xingzhou’s mouth. It made a “hush” sound quietly, the fine fur next to its mouth fluttering.

“Wife…” Peng Ci said quietly, “Be quiet. If you end up calling the store employee over, I’ll have to pretend to be a toy again! If we’re exposed, it would be bad!”

An Xingzhou felt a chill run through him, and his mouth twitched. He noticed Peng Ci had completely covered his mouth and could only nod his head seriously.

“Wife, hushy hush!” Peng Ci reminded him a few times worriedly before slowly moving its little paws away, bit by bit.

An Xingzhou immediately turned his head. “Ptui! Ptui ptui! Ptui ptui ptui!”

Peng Ci: “?”

Peng Ci watched An Xingzhou spit several times in succession before he turned his head, and its eyes immediately became teary, shocking An Xingzhou.

An Xingzhou hugged Peng Ci and unconsciously pinched his chubby little cheeks, asking, “What is it now?”

Peng Ci sobbed a few times. “What was Wife spitting about just now? Are you disdainful of me…”

“Huh? I wasn’t though?” An Xingzhou watched as Peng Ci was about to break into loud wailing. The cold sweat that hadn’t yet dripped from his forehead, from being scared by the store employee just now, dripped down a few centimeters, and he rushed to explain, “No, it’s because——”

“Sob sob… cooo…” Peng Ci interrupted An Xingzhou whiningly and sat in An Xingzhou’s embrace, starting to lick its paws.

It licked its paws like a cat. First it cleanly licked the back of its paws back and forth and then rubbed them on its face. Only after rubbing several times did it retract its paws to start licking the other side. It licked back and forth several times and then stopped to watch An Xingzhou.

Peng Ci stared at An Xingzhou. After confirming that An Xingzhou saw its paw-licking action, it extended its paws again to An Xingzhou’s line of sight for him to see. “Wife, look. My paws are very clean. Ci Ci is a clean little bunny bun. I often licky my pawsies… Wife, don’t be disdainful of me…”

An Xingzhou: “…”

An Xingzhou was going to explode.

Rabbits licking their paws were so cute, both baby-like and well-behaved. Its tongue was pinkish and soft, its paws tiny…

But upon seeing Peng Co’s furry paws being licked into a wet mess, he also felt that impressions were quite mysterious.

“It’s just that fur entered my mouth, and I was just spitting out your rabbit fur, that’s all…” After An Xingzhou made an explanation, he couldn’t resist opening his mouth to say, “Peng Ci…”

“Yeah, yeah?” Peng Ci watched An Xingzhou and wagged its tail. “Call me Ci Ci. What’s wrong, Wife?”

“Ci Ci…” An Xingzhou considered for a few seconds and decided to switch to a gentler way of questioning it, “Does the spit of you rabbits…smell?”

He just finished speaking and couldn’t resist pouting. He raised his lips upwards, towards his nose, and breathed in forcefully before finally feeling relieved. ‘Very good, it doesn’t smell. There’s no strange smell.’

An Xingzhou just felt relieved when he suddenly felt tense again.’F*ck, my disdain is too obvious. Peng Ci might start crying again!’

He was really going to get PTSD from Peng Ci’s crying.

An Xingzhou anxiously lowered his head to look at Peng Ci but noticed that Peng Ci’s reaction was the exact opposite of what he imagined.

The little bunny sat on his hand obediently, the upper half of its body lying on his chest. Its two paws were placed on his chest, kneading 1 like a baby cat with its chin placed on his chest. Its head was raised and its round eyes were shining as it looked at him like it was extremely happy.

An Xingzhou lowered his head, and he and Peng Ci gazed at each other for a few seconds. He blinked in a little confusion, completely not knowing what happened or why Peng Ci was so happy.

But he would figure it out very soon.

“Wife!” Peng Ci stood up and tippy-toed forwards, hugging An Xingzhou’s face, and then licked his chin several times. “Wife, do you want to be marked? Though a lot of animals use their saliva to scent mark, us bunny buns don’t use saliva!”

“What?” An Xingzhou felt that Peng Ci’s change of subject was baffling and asked, “Mark what? What mark?”

“A mark!” Peng Ci raised its little head and rubbed its chin randomly on An Xingzhou’s clothes. After it finished rubbing his clothes, it started rubbing An Xingzhou’s hands and then stood up to rub An Xingzhou’s neck.

The little bunny’s furry chin rubbed all over An Xingzhou’s body. Because it rubbed too forcefully, the flesh on its face was squished here and there, its long and pinkish ears jumping with it.

An Xingzhou felt itchy from the rubbing but didn’t know what Peng Ci was doing. Thinking it was acting coquettish, he flicked away Peng Ci’s ears, which were on his face. He allowed Peng Ci to rub its chin back and forth against his chin, asking, “What are you doing?”

Peng Ci was still rubbing, its chin turning left and right. It said in a muffled voice, “I’m marking Wife! That way, other bunnies can smell my scent on Wife and then know that you’re my wife!”

An Xingzhou: “?”

An Xingzhou’s eyes were filled with shock.

That kind of mark?! The dog-raising-its-legs-to-pee-and-mark-its-territory kind of mark?!

An Xingzhou immediately covered Peng Ci and pinched its chin, asking fiercely, “Say it properly. Where’s the smell? How did you mark it?”

“Squeak squeak!” Peng Ci moved its chin with difficulty and rubbed a few times against the palm of An Xingzhou’s hand, saying very happily, “The smell’s on your bwady! I rubbed it with my chin! Wife is mine!”

An Xingzhou: “…”

It turned out to be the chin. He really couldn’t guard against it.

An Xingzhou stuffed Peng Ci back into his pocket. His finger tapped warningly on Peng Ci’s head, signaling it to shut up. Then he raised his hand to smell the place where Peng Ci had rubbed crazily with its chin and noticed he couldn’t smell anything.

Peng Ci watched An Xingzhou’s movements from the pocket and said after twitching its nose, “Wife can’t smell it. Only we can smell it! Is Wife unhappy that it’s not obvious enough? Then we can keep rubbing after getting home!”

Peng Ci started kicking restlessly in the pocket again. “Actually, the smell on Wife is already very heawy… But it’s okay. After we get home I can rub all over Wife’s body!”

An Xingzhou reached out firmly and pressed down on the opening of the pocket, thinking, ‘Just suffocate to death. If you suffocate, I’ll just eat roasted rabbit tonight after getting home. I’ll go buy some spicy noodles, Five Spice powder, and Cumin powder. Just thinking about pouring it over some scorched rabbit meat is making me so hungry I want to cry.’

Peng Ci didn’t know that it’d already become a delicacy in An Xingzhou’s mind.

It flapped a few times in his pocket, saying muffledly, “Great! Wife loves me too! I really really like Wife!”

An Xingzhou: “…”

After hearing Peng Ci’s words, An Xingzhou subconsciously paused and slowly let go.

‘Whatever, I’ll just spare its life for now. I’ll eat it after it gets fat.’

Author’s Note:

Rabbits’ scent glands are on their chins~ Using their chins to rub things is how they mark their territory!

Footnotes

kneading is something cats do to show affection or if they feel safe or at ease