252: Chapter 252 She can't control it anymore!

Tang Ruan had sprained her waist.

She was still so young, yet she had actually sprained her waist!

Tang Ruan lay prone on Xiao Yi's soft little bed, wanting to cry but having no tears.

Guo Guo was shaking Xiao Yi frantically.

"Little brother! How could you jump over? You're so heavy! You hurt Mom!"

Guo Guo was angry; as she scolded Xiao Yi, she was actually speaking quite fluently.

Tang Ruan hurriedly stretched out her arm to pull the two of them apart.

If Xiao Yi hadn't formed yet, it was likely that its yolk would have been shaken into a scramble by now.

"It's okay, it's okay. It's just that I haven't exercised enough lately."

Sob... She needed to start exercising; she couldn't just rely on crystals for nourishment.

According to Fen Tian, with his guidance, Lang Lie had almost reached level five in just a few months.

Heng Zhou's Energy also looked very strong.

Why was she the only one so weak? It must be because she didn't exercise enough.

Tang Ruan made up her mind: "I'm going for a run tomorrow!"

"Don't move if you're injured. In your condition, you need to rest."

Tang Ruan turned back and saw Heng Zhou knitting his brows in worry.

Sometimes, she really wanted to smooth out those two eyebrows of his.

They were such nice-looking eyebrows, yet he insisted on frowning. He clearly looked so good when he smiled, yet he never smiled properly.

"You seem to have a lot of experience," Tang Ruan teased.

She thought about how Heng Zhou had cast a spell on those beastmen just now without saying a word.

She imagined that he didn't get much exercise usually, so he probably had times when he sprained his waist too.

"Sprains, twists, even hurting your neck while sleeping..." Heng Zhou suddenly said.

Tang Ruan thought he was eavesdropping on her thoughts again. Just as she was about to say something, she saw Heng Zhou sigh.

"How were you so clumsy when you were little..."

Tang Ruan: ...

"At such a young age, you were more prone to injuries than an old beast."

Tang Ruan: ...

"There was also one time you were picking fruit and stepped on a rock this high." He gestured, about twenty centimeters.

"Your foot slipped, you fell, and you broke your arm."

Tang Ruan: ...

Tang Ruan: She didn't remember that; none of that counted. But she still had to retort.

"A place like Beast God Mountain doesn't get much light. Isn't it normal for me to have osteoporosis?"

Heng Zhou: "Osteoporosis?"

Tang Ruan: "It means my bones break easily."

"Is that so?" Heng Zhou suddenly stood up nervously.

Was it like that? No wonder little A-Wu was always getting hurt. He hadn't even thought of that. He was truly too careless!

"Then what must be done to make the bones harder?" Heng Zhou asked.

Tang Ruan saw how nervous he was, as if his own month-old Cub had a high fever. She said somewhat embarrassedly: "Just getting more sun will do."

Heng Zhou nodded. He was really taking notes seriously! Furthermore, he seemed to have already planned in his mind where to take her to get more sun.

Tang Ruan felt a bit awkward under his concerned gaze. She changed the subject: "Why do you and Guo Guo both say Xiao Yi is a little brother? Can your Supernatural Ability tell if he is a Male Beastman or a Female Beastman?"

Heng Zhou sat back down beside her. He rubbed his palms until they were warm and placed them on the spot where she was injured.

Tang Ruan instinctively flinched, but then realized it was warm and comfortable, so she didn't move again.

"He said it himself," Heng Zhou said.

"You can understand what he says?" Tang Ruan was shocked. He actually understood Baby-speak!

No, wait, he should have also commanded the monsters earlier. Could the monsters understand the language of beastmen, or did he know the monsters' language?

"Communication doesn't require understanding the words he speaks," Heng Zhou explained simply.

Tang Ruan roughly understood; it was probably something like telepathic communication. Since Heng Zhou could communicate with anyone.

"Then can you help me ask why Xiao Yi won't come out? Brother."

The hand Heng Zhou had placed on her waist trembled slightly. She knew now that these two words were like a trigger code for Heng Zhou.

Heng Zhou looked at Xiao Yi. "He is very worried about your injury," Heng Zhou said.

"Mom is fine! Mom will be able to hold Xiao Yi tomorrow."

Heng Zhou: "He says he doesn't believe you."

Tang Ruan: The Cub is really hard to fool.

Suddenly, Heng Zhou's expression changed, and he looked at Tang Ruan with some displeasure.

Around her neck, in addition to the crystal pendant Fen Tian had given her, she also wore another crystal. Since he had met her again, she had never been without this crystal.

He had thought she just wore it because she thought it looked nice. It turned out to be—a ghost crystal.

Heng Zhou took a deep breath and continued to relay Xiao Yi's meaning: "He doesn't want to come out. He doesn't want to disappoint Mom."

"How could I be disappointed! All of your fathers, and Mom, are looking forward to your birth!"

Heng Zhou: "He says, who you are looking forward to is not him."

Tang Ruan: ... Tang Ruan was stunned. She suddenly understood. He must have eavesdropped on things regarding the Baby while he was incubating. It was over; before he was even born, there was already going to be infighting between brothers.

Tang Ruan asked Guo Guo to push Xiao Yi over. Lying prone, she could only stretch out her arms to wrap around it. She used her face to nuzzle its smooth eggshell.

"Xiao Yi, Mom admits, before your soul entered the egg, before you became my Cub, I had thought about letting the Baby be born from the egg."

"But, ever since you entered the egg, you are Mom's treasure. You are irreplaceable. Mom now wants to see you more."

When she found out that the soul inside the egg wasn't the Baby's, she was truly very happy. Because this was a Cub that belonged solely to her and Fen Tian.

However, thinking that her own Cub had felt hurt by its mother before it was even born, Tang Ruan wished she could slap herself twice.

Tang Ruan looked at Heng Zhou with red eyes, "Translate already!"

Heng Zhou: ... Although he didn't understand what "translate" meant, he understood her meaning.

Heng Zhou: "He says he doesn't want to; he wants to wait until the Baby is born before coming out. He wants to be the third one."

Tang Ruan: This stubborn temper certainly didn't come from her. If he waited for the Baby to come out, the Baby wasn't even in the picture yet!

Was she supposed to go find Lang Lie with a back injury? Tang Ruan tried to persuade it for a long time, listing a hundred benefits of being the second-born. But Xiao Yi simply—refused.

Tang Ruan: Very well. In the future, Fen Tian can teach this Cub; she can't manage it anymore!

Guo Guo heard Tang Ruan's inner thoughts. She suddenly leaned over, lay next to her ear, and whispered: "Don't worry, Mom... once he comes out. If he doesn't listen... I'll help you... hit him!"

Tang Ruan: ... Xiao Yi: Did you really think he couldn't understand a word?

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Heng Zhou carried Tang Ruan back to her room. Because she had a waist injury, carrying her in a bridal style might make it worse. Therefore, carrying her on his back was safer.

Tang Ruan wrapped her arms around his neck and smelled the scent of sea breeze on him, which seemed to be mixed with a faint lemon fragrance.

The higher the level of the beastman, the better they smelled. Yan Qing had the crisp scent of woody cedar. Lang Lie had the smell of sunshine and grass. Hu Che had the scent of flowers.

Fen Tian's scent was too high-end; she couldn't tell exactly what it was. It was a very intense male pheromone scent, likely with notes of sandalwood and musk, along with a fresh fruity aroma.

But in summary, out of the five of them, she felt Yan Qing and Heng Zhou smelled the best.

Tang Ruan couldn't help herself and took a deep sniff at the back of his head. She wanted to drink lemonade.

Suddenly, Heng Zhou stopped in his tracks. Tang Ruan also froze. No! What was she thinking? Heng Zhou was not her Beast Husband!