360: Chapter 36: I've seen the happy child...

"What are you looking at?" Tang Longyan's figure suddenly appeared at her side.

Yun Tiankai was startled. She was just about to say, "Why did you come over? Why aren't you maintaining your big boss image?"

As it turned out, because of his arrival, the Male Beastmen who had been lingering nearby were all scared away.

Yun Tiankai: ...

"I'm looking at that beastman; he's very special."

Tang Longyan frowned, "How is he special?"

"If his Supernatural Ability could be used for farming, it should be a big help."

Tang Longyan thought for a moment: "I don't think so."

Low-level beastmen have limited control over the precision of their Supernatural Abilities.

If you let that beastman from just now use his Supernatural Ability to dig holes or cover soil, he might work all day and still not be able to finish planting a single mu of land.

But if you leave it to a beastman whose Supernatural Ability is "Speed," they can complete repetitive tasks very quickly.

In the new Red Fox City, there are even beastmen who make a living doing this. The Beast Kingdom also has a related position called "Speed Farmer Soldiers."

Yet Yun Tiankai took this statement of Tang Longyan's as—he-was-jealous!

She leaned over on her own initiative, resting her head on his arm.

She acted coquettishly: "Of course, it can't compare to our Lord Longyan's Supernatural Ability!"

The Female Beastmen not far away saw this scene and couldn't help but giggle.

They had long known that the two of them were a couple.

Only Tang Longyan calmly pushed her head away.

"Don't be like this..."

After he finished speaking, he turned and walked toward his cave.

Yun Tiankai looked at his back with a grin.

Is he angry? Or is he shy?

Forget it, there's nothing that a candlelight dinner can't solve.

If it can't be solved, then two dinners.

I'll coax him properly tonight!

In the evening, as dusk fell, Yun Tiankai went to find Tang Longyan.

As soon as she entered the door, she saw Tang Longyan sitting at the table with a troubled expression, as if he had encountered some difficulty.

"What's wrong? Are you sick?"

She walked over and reached out to touch his forehead.

Her wrist was grabbed by Tang Longyan.

He let go of her hand, and at the same time, turned his head away, keeping a certain distance from her.

Yun Tiankai: ?

Yun Tiankai said helplessly: "Still angry! I just thought his Supernatural Ability was interesting, I don't like him."

Upon hearing this, Tang Longyan turned his face to look at her, and some spirit returned to his eyes.

Yun Tiankai: This Male Beastman is really petty.

She opened her mouth, just wanting to coax him again.

She only heard Tang Longyan say: "Yun Tiankai, you are the best friend I've had since coming to the Barren Continent."

Yun Tiankai was stunned, thinking she had misheard.

"You said—best friend?"

Did he mean they had both love and friendship?

"Yes!" Tang Longyan stood up, looking down at her.

Yun Tiankai instantly felt a sense of oppression.

This kind of oppression was something she had only felt when she first met him.

She looked up at him, not speaking, waiting for him to finish.

However, Tang Longyan didn't speak again.

"Go on..." she urged, suddenly feeling the smile on her lips go stiff.

Tang Longyan: "I have always regarded you as a good friend.

But I think, perhaps some of my actions caused you to misunderstand, so I am explaining it clearly to you today.

My Energy level is very high; it might be hard to find a Female Beastman in the entire Beast World whose Energy level matches mine.

When beastmen form a bond, if the Female Beastman's level differs too much from the Male Beastman's, it might harm the Female Beastman because the Cub's Energy level is too high."

He deliberately only said harm, not kill.

He didn't know why either...

He carefully observed Yun Tiankai's expression.

Sure enough, he saw shock on her face.

Tang Longyan felt that at this moment, it was as if a hand was gripping his heart tightly.

He could only take a deep breath to continue speaking the rest of his words.

"I am better suited to find a Female Beastman whose Energy level matches mine and have a Cub with her.

I like a happy family, so we—"

"Do you like me?" Yun Tiankai suddenly interrupted his words.

Tang Longyan's mind went blank instantly.

In the lines he had been memorizing all afternoon, there was no such sentence.

"I... I..."

Yun Tiankai looked directly into his eyes, "Even if it's just as friends, you must like me to treat me as a friend, right?"

Tang Longyan: "Yes! I like you."

Yun Tiankai: Very good, he answered very crisply.

She followed up: "What kind of like?"

Tang Longyan: ...How does it seem like we've circled back again?

Yun Tiankai pressed her advantage, "Is it the kind of liking for a friend? Or the kind of liking for a Female Beastman?"

Tang Longyan did not answer.

Yun Tiankai took two steps toward him on her own initiative, walking up to him.

"Tang Longyan, do you know?

When you said these things, I wasn't sad at all.

I think this is very strange...

I am sure I like you; I have liked you since the first moment I saw you.

In all the time I've grown up, this is the first time I've liked a Male Beastman this much.

It's not that I like you to enjoy the feeling of liking someone; it's that I can't control liking you.

Even if I were together with you—"

Speaking to this point, she paused, gave a bitter smile, and continued:

"Given my personality, once the person I like likes me back, I lose interest in him.

But the day I misunderstood that you liked me, do you know how happy I was?

Do you know how happy I have been these past few days?

I feel like I have never been this happy before.

Even now, you have rejected my feelings, but I am still not sad at all.

Why do you think that is?"

She stepped forward again.

Tang Longyan listened to her confession, watching her approach step by step.

Yet he seemed to be frozen in place, only able to press his lips tight, feeling his heart accelerate and ache.

His brain spun rapidly; he remembered what his elder sister had once said— "Because he doesn't really like me, he doesn't care, so naturally he isn't sad."

"Because you don't really like me." Tang Longyan blurted out.

Yun Tiankai shook her head.

"Then is there another possibility—I know you are lying!"

As she said this, she suddenly stood on tiptoe.

She reached out to hook her arms around his neck and kissed him.

She was very fast; Tang Longyan was caught off guard.

But Yun Tiankai lacked experience; she didn't actually kiss his lips, but rather kissed below the corner of his mouth.

Now, she suddenly panicked.

She was actually gambling just now.

Gambling on whether Tang Longyan's liking for her could make him give up his obsession with having a Cub.

Although they hadn't known each other for very long.

But she had already "possessed" him, so how could she let go so easily?

It was like a child who had seen happiness; returning to suffering would only make it feel even more painful.

Even though she had already experienced such a "cycle" many times.

But she still wanted to fight for herself.

Yun Tiankai held onto Tang Longyan's neck, the distance between the two of them so close.

She could clearly feel his warm breath.

She could feel his lips seem to open slightly, as if leaning toward her.

Then restrainingly pulling away.

Then breathing heavily and approaching again... ...repeatedly several times...