117: Chapter 117 "I... am in the middle."

Yan Qing said this, closed his eyes, and was about to kiss her.

Tang Ruan had learned her lesson this time.

She covered his mouth with her hand.

Yan Qing: ...

"What is under your clothes? Are you hurt? You're deliberately hiding it from me!" Tang Ruan shouted.

Yan Qing gently grabbed her hand and slowly moved it away from his lips.

One hand supported himself beside Tang Ruan's face, while the other began to undo his belt.

His movements were very slow, and Tang Ruan's heart tightened as he moved.

She thought back to what he looked like five years ago when he returned from Chi Ling.

She was terrified of seeing something bloody.

However, Yan Qing slowly removed his clothes with one hand.

His smooth, clean body appeared before her eyes.

He grabbed her hand and guided it from his Adam's apple down to his lower abdomen...

In the depths of his eyes rolled a desire Tang Ruan was familiar with.

"Mistress, are you satisfied?"

Tang Ruan: ...

Tang Ruan swallowed hard.

"Satisfied..."

She intended to get up.

But her hands were suddenly caught by him and pressed against both sides of her body.

"Mistress, do you know why I didn't let you see?" Yan Qing asked.

Tang Ruan shook her head.

Yan Qing said in an ambiguous tone: "Our Fire Snake Clan experiences a Supernatural Ability chaos period every five years.

The end time of the Supernatural Ability chaos period is uncertain; sometimes it's a few days, sometimes it lasts for several months.

If we mate during the chaos period, we might die suddenly."

Tang Ruan gasped.

That serious!

So Yan Qing was afraid that if she saw him, he wouldn't be able to resist...

Then why doesn't he hurry up and put his clothes back on!

Tang Ruan twisted her wrists and escaped from his palms.

She stretched out her arm to reach the clothes he had thrown on the ground.

"Hurry up and put them on, don't catch a cold."

Yan Qing raised his hand and threw the clothes she had retrieved back away.

"But I think, it's rare for the Mistress to be so proactive with me.

Even if I die, I would be willing."

As he said this, he leaned in towards her.

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

Tang Ruan pushed him away abruptly, rolled over, and jumped off the stone.

She ran away in a flash.

She ran a distance away.

Only then did she suddenly realize that something seemed wrong.

Does the Fire Snake Clan have a chaos period?

Why hadn't she heard him mention it before?

He even specifically emphasized that the duration of the chaos period varies.

Does that mean he has a reason to reject her at any time?

But a few days ago, when he was with her... he was wearing clothes!

Tang Ruan felt there must be something fishy going on!

But in the entire Beast World, he is the only one from the Fire Snake Clan; there isn't even another beastman who can verify it.

So whatever he says, goes!

Sometimes, Tang Ruan really hated her own intelligence.

She felt that if Yan Qing sold her, she would even help him count the money.

Since she couldn't figure it out.

Tang Ruan decided to go find Hu Che first and ask about Beast God Mountain.

She had dreamed of Beast God Mountain again last night...

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Tang Ruan arrived at the entrance of Hu Che's cave and glanced inside.

She saw him sitting at a stone table, hunched over, lying on the table, not knowing what he was doing.

Only when she got closer did she hear him muttering to himself: "She will come today, she won't come today... She will come today, she won't..."

On Hu Che's table were dozens of grapes.

He had put them in a plate and was counting them over and over.

Tang Ruan looked at the grapes and found them somewhat familiar.

They seemed to be a unique variety from her space. She hadn't even had the chance to give them to the beastmen for trial planting yet.

When she was waiting for Hu Che that day, she had only picked one bunch for him.

So that day... he had actually gone, and even taken the grapes she hadn't finished.

The grapes were counted by Hu Che from the left side to the right.

Finally, he reached a conclusion — "She won't come today..." His tone sounded extremely disappointed.

Tang Ruan was just about to call out to him.

She saw Hu Che pick up the last grape and toss it into his mouth. He ate it.

He clapped his hands happily, "Alright! Now she will come!"

Tang Ruan: ...

Can you even cheat like that?

After counting the grapes, Hu Che immediately put the remaining ones into his space.

Food stored in the space would always remain in the state it was in when put inside.

He wanted to carefully protect these grapes.

Let these grapes help him get through the days of missing Tang Ruan, until —

"Hu Che, what are you doing?"

Hearing Tang Ruan's voice, Hu Che thought he was hallucinating.

He froze for a second before jumping up and pouncing towards her.

He grabbed her and hugged her.

"Tang Ruan, I missed you to death!"

But the happiness didn't last two seconds.

Hu Che's gauze scarf instantly caught fire, and with a force, he was sent flying.

Tang Ruan: ...

Did she have some kind of mechanism on her body?

Hu Che, bare-chested, squatted in the corner, emo...

Tang Ruan walked over cautiously, squatted beside him, and patted his shoulder.

"Actually... you don't have to be like this. Even if I saw it, the fact that yours is pink isn't embarrassing."

Hu Che: ...

Hu Che turned his face, his cheeks flushed, and his ears were bright red.

He hadn't thought there was anything wrong with being bare-chested before.

What beastman doesn't go bare-chested?

Wearing the gauze scarf was entirely because he didn't want too many Female Beastmen staring at him.

But after being told that by Tang Ruan, he felt extremely ashamed.

"You... don't like it..." he asked in a low voice.

Tang Ruan hurriedly waved her hand. "No... it's quite good-looking."

Suddenly, both of them realized that the topic they were discussing seemed a bit strange.

Tang Ruan coughed lightly and changed the subject. "Why do you keep catching fire? Is your Supernatural Ability fire-based?"

Tang Ruan had never known what Hu Che's Supernatural Ability actually was.

Before, she often heard She Ming muttering about how "The Fox Tribe is good at seduction" and such.

It made her think that if Hu Che really liked her, he should dance for her and then shout, "My King, come and play!"

As it turned out, she was moved by his pitiful eyes every time. It was the same now.

Hu Che looked at her, wanting to speak but hesitating. After a long while, he managed to blurt out, "I'm not saying bad things about that Stinky Snake!"

Tang Ruan: You're already calling him Stinky Snake, and you say it's not bad things...

Hu Che pulled Tang Ruan to sit at the table and began to count Yan Qing's ten sins.

"My Supernatural Ability is Mind Control, which means I can change the other person's thoughts.

Yan Qing used me to negotiate with other tribes! In the end, he took over the land without any effort.

As for me, I was pestered by those female tribe leaders for over half a year."

Tang Ruan thought about it. "Do you mean you made those female tribe leaders fall in love with you?"

Hu Che heard her misunderstanding and hurriedly waved his hand. "No, I only use Mind Control to get them to sit down quietly and talk. So they don't start out with swords drawn and bows bent.

As for later, they pestered me because they coveted my beauty."

Tang Ruan nodded. "Then Yan Qing didn't do anything wrong!"

Rationally utilizing Hu Che's advantages to win without fighting, Yan Qing is so smart.

"Hey!" Hu Che looked dissatisfied, "Whose side are you on anyway?"

Tang Ruan: "I... I'm in the middle."

Hu Che's heart shattered into pieces.

Tang Ruan suddenly thought of something. "Hu Che, can you use Mind Control on Yan Qing?"

Hu Che looked at her suspiciously, "What do you want to do?"

"It's just that earlier I wanted to take off his clothes, but he wouldn't let me, and then—"

Hu Che suddenly raised his hand, stopping Tang Ruan from continuing.

Hearing the Female Beastman he liked ask him for help to take off another Male Beastman's clothes, even if that Male Beastman was her Beast Husband, his heart still ached as if stabbed by a knife.

Hu Che took a deep breath. He looked at Tang Ruan seriously. "Tang Ruan, how about this, you take off mine."

Tang Ruan: ...

"That's not what I meant."

"Then should I take them off for you to see?"