247: Chapter 247 Awakening

"Go back with you?" Yan Qing asked, immediately becoming nervous. "Where are you going?"

Tang Ruan suddenly realized she had let something slip.

She had lived in the Beast World for so many years, and she had never let anything slip before.

What was wrong with her today?

Not only had she let something slip, but she had also inexplicably remembered many things from her original world.

For example, the time she fell into a ditch when she was a child, and felt extremely cold when she woke up.

It was said that when her father was taking her to the county hospital, he couldn't even feel her breathing.

As it turned out, after the bumpy carriage ride, she had actually come back to life...

"I meant... when you're not busy, you could open a restaurant," Tang Ruan said.

Yan Qing knew what a restaurant was.

There were quite a few Beastmen who opened restaurants in Central City.

He reached out and flicked her nose. "When am I ever not busy?"

Tang Ruan hurriedly picked up a piece of braised pork, put it into his mouth, and changed the subject. "Try this!"

The aroma of oil and meat exploded in Yan Qing's mouth simultaneously.

His eyes lit up.

It was really good.

Tang Ruan handed him a large steamed bun. "Yan Qing, you eat too!"

As a Level 10 Beastman, Yan Qing actually didn't have many requirements for food anymore.

He could even maintain his life without eating or drinking, as long as he had sufficient Energy.

But the food in front of him really piqued his appetite.

Still, he leisurely picked up meat, prioritizing Tang Ruan's eating.

When she had eaten until her little belly was round and she was lying on the chair asking him, "Why aren't you eating? Is it not to your taste?"

Only then did he finish off the rest.

"What else do you want to eat?" Yan Qing asked.

Tang Ruan waved her hand. "I can't eat anything else."

She had been a bit greedy today.

Actually, she still wanted to drink milk tea, but she would leave that for tomorrow!

Her stomach was so full now, not even a sliver of space was left.

Yan Qing saw that Tang Ruan was truly full.

Only then did he cough lightly and suddenly ask, "How was my performance today?"

Tang Ruan: "?"

"Very good!" Yan Qing was always very good.

Yan Qing: "Then is it worth a reward?"

Tang Ruan: "..."

Thinking that he might want that kind of reward, she subconsciously wanted to shake her head.

But she felt that doing so would make Yan Qing sad.

After hesitating again and again, Tang Ruan negotiated, "Can I reward you with something else instead?"

Yan Qing's fingers on the table tightened slightly.

Thinking of the smug look on Fentian's face today, he made up his mind.

"No."

Tang Ruan's eyes widened in surprise.

Yan Qing rarely refused her...

His Adam's apple moved nervously. "I just want a little red flower."

Tang Ruan: "Huh?"

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When Tang Ruan was checking the things Yan Qing brought back, she discovered an extra bag of dried meat.

Heng Zhou had returned the bag she gave him, keeping only Fentian's bag.

Was he... angry?

Just as she was thinking about it, someone knocked on her door.

"Come in!"

The person at the door didn't move.

"Come in! It's fine."

The person at the door hesitated for a moment.

Still, they didn't come in.

Tang Ruan stood up and opened the door.

She saw Lang Yu standing outside her door.

Seeing her, he went down on his knees with a "thud."

"Divine Maiden! Please, help my Mistress!"

Lang Yu had watched Rabbit Lady go upstairs to find Heng Zhou.

After she came back, she seemed like a different person.

Yesterday at the Beast King Palace, she said she wanted to make the Rabbit Tribe the number one tribe in the Beast Kingdom, but Yan Qing ignored her.

Today at the Beast King Palace, she said she wanted every female Rabbit Tribe member to have a full set of Beast Husbands from all races.

That way, their Cubs would all become members of the Rabbit Tribe.

It made Yan Qing laugh in anger.

Just now, she said again that Male Beastmen were all trash and that she wanted to race Lang Yu.

Lang Yu didn't watch her for one second, and she had already dashed out like lightning.

It scared Lang Yu to death.

Acting on Yan Qing's advice, he came to find Tang Ruan for help.

After hearing this, Tang Ruan hurriedly took him and Rabbit Lady to find Heng Zhou.

She had thought that when Heng Zhou said, "I will help her lift it,"

he could help Rabbit Lady lift the Curse from a distance.

She didn't expect that it required the person involved to be present.

After lifting the Curse for Rabbit Lady,

Lang Yu let out a heavy sigh of relief, holding Rabbit Lady, his eyes red from being scared.

"If something happened to you, I really wouldn't know what to do! I should have... found a few more Male Beastmen to take care of you sooner!"

Rabbit Lady's adrenaline-fueled passion vanished, and she leaned weakly in Lang Yu's arms.

"Okay, I'll find them when we go back."

Seeing them off,

Tang Ruan nodded to Heng Zhou in thanks and intended to leave.

Heng Zhou suddenly called out to her, "Wait a moment!"

Tang Ruan turned around.

Heng Zhou nervously twisted his fingers. "Didn't you say last time that you would teach me how to use the space? Can you teach me now?"

Tang Ruan thought for a moment. "Okay."

Heng Zhou learned very quickly; in no time, he had learned how to open and close the space.

He could even see what it looked like inside the space.

Tang Ruan asked curiously, "What does it look like inside your space?"

Hers was a beautiful open field.

Fentian's was a forest filled with monsters.

Heng Zhou closed his eyes, his eyelashes trembling slightly, and said, "It's very bright."

"Very bright? Is there sunlight?"

"Yes."

"Is there grass?"

"Yes."

"Is there a little house?"

"Yes."

Tang Ruan pondered for a moment; that seemed similar to hers.

Fentian had said that their spaces were real little worlds.

She guessed that the generated worlds were likely different based on their personalities and experiences.

Hers was a pastoral idyll.

And in Fentian's space, there were monsters, crystals, and forests everywhere.

She just didn't expect that Heng Zhou's space would be similar to hers.

So, he was also a person who yearned for beauty.

Just as Tang Ruan was thinking this, she saw Heng Zhou suddenly clench his fists.

"Did you see something scary?" she asked curiously.

Heng Zhou didn't speak; his gaze was fixed on a little house at the foot of a mountain inside the space.

That little house was very different from the caves that Beastmen lived in that he had seen before.

It was somewhat similar to the houses in Central City nowadays, carved out of a single giant boulder.

In front of the house, there was a tree laden with red fruits.

He remembered that little A-Wu liked eating these red fruits very much.

On one side of the house, there was also a very tall tree.

He remembered little A-Wu saying, "This house is great everywhere, except the windows are too big and the sunlight is too blinding. If only there were a tree to block the sunlight, that would be good."

He had said at the time, "You can't live here anyway; we have to return to Beast God Mountain before dark."

At that time, the adult little A-Wu seemed not to have heard his words.

She continued, "Brother, shall we tie a swing on this tree? That way, when I'm bored, I can play on the swing."

And he had still said at the time, "Let's go. Even if we tie one, you can't live here."

She said, "Brother, if one day, we leave the Beast God, can we live here together?"

Heng Zhou suddenly opened his eyes.

He was panting heavily.

Tang Ruan hurriedly went over to support him. "What's wrong with you?"

Heng Zhou raised his eyes and stared at Tang Ruan.

He knew he loved her very much.

But he himself had never thought that he would love her enough to turn his space into the way she liked it.

At the time, he had refused her several times. In reality, he had agreed to her in his heart just as many times.

Didn't he want to live there with her?

It was because, at the time, he didn't have the courage to resist the Beast God.

He hadn't understood that no matter what he did, the Beast God would only ever treat him as a "servant," not as his own child.

They were all just his tools.

By the time he realized it,

there was already someone braver who had taken little A-Wu and stepped onto the path of pursuing freedom and happiness one step ahead.

Heng Zhou suddenly grabbed Tang Ruan's hand.