The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 148 Very Cunning
Because the topic of sad things had come up, Yuheng's mood became very bad, and Jiaojiao stopped talking.

The night was quiet, but he was completely wide awake. When he closed his eyes, the sounds from the outside world became even clearer.

The annoying chirping of insects, the croaking of frogs hidden near the weeds and mud, and the sound of the stream being splashed...

Yuheng tossed and turned on the ground, his carefully cultivated sleepiness completely gone. He couldn't help but curl up a leaf and say, "If you want to peek, just go ahead and peek. Why are you making such a fuss?"

Yu Heng opened his eyes and said coldly, "Shut up, I didn't."

He wasn't that lustful.

“But you’re very irritable right now, completely different from your usual self,” Jiaojiao said.

Yuheng touched his burning neck, suddenly sat up from the ground, brought his right wrist close to the light grass, frowned as he looked at the pale blue bark texture that was gradually rising on his skin, and his pupils contracted slightly.

Jiaojiao noticed his movement, and her leaves suddenly unfurled. She exclaimed in shock, "Your breeding season is here?"

"That's not right. Although your breeding season is not always stable, it hasn't been four months since the last one. How could it be so much earlier?"

I was already upset because of thinking about those old things, and now I'm even more upset.

Yu Heng's long eyebrows furrowed tightly as he looked at the faint bark patterns on the inside of his arm. He couldn't help but mutter a curse under his breath and gritted his teeth, saying, "This is troublesome."

He was artificially induced to reach reproductive age with drugs in his early years, before he was even an adult, so his body was greatly affected. His abilities can heal injuries, but they cannot completely resolve the disordered reproductive period. In the past two years, the situation has improved considerably. He now reaches reproductive age about twice a year, but there is usually a six-month interval between the two reproductive periods.

He disliked the feeling of losing control during his breeding season. The last time his breeding season came, it affected his mind and control over his abilities. In the end, those people took advantage of his vulnerability and inserted a counteracting crystal into his heart meridian. He was imprisoned in the Netherworld for a long time and was only one breath away from death.

The leaves and thin vines were almost tangled into a knot. She nudged his shoulder with a vine: "You'd better hurry and go find that little female for help. Your breeding season is quite different from other males'. If things get out of control, it could be a big problem. Especially since those people could reappear at any moment..."

“I understand without you saying all this.” Yuheng clenched his fingers tightly, braced himself on the windowsill with one hand, and leaped down from the treehouse, heading straight for the stream.

Ling Chengen looked at Yu Heng, who had reappeared and was squatting by the stream. This time he was very calm. He submerged his body in the water and said speechlessly, "What are you doing here again?"

"Do me a favor," Yu Heng said with a blank face.

Ling Chengen lazily lifted his eyelids and sighed, "What kind of help?"

"My breeding season has arrived."

Ling Chengen wrapped the towel around his waist and said speechlessly, "So what?"

“Spend the breeding season with me,” Yuheng suggested solemnly.

"Get lost—" Ling Chengen rolled his eyes at him and turned to swim into the depths of the stream.

Yuheng squatted by the stream, looking at the back of her head that was above the water, and said again, "My breeding season is troublesome. Last time my breeding season came, I lost control of my power and was captured by those people."

"You've never had a partner, haven't you? You've still lived to this day," Ling Chengen replied coldly.

Yuheng countered with clear logic, "I can indeed find a place to hide and get through this breeding season, but if those people take the opportunity to attack the Stone Forest during this time, can you resist them?"

"Currently, the most powerful person in the Cold Mountain and Stone Forest tribes is your father, but he is only level thirteen... You should have heard about the group that came last time from your tribesmen, right? The lowest level warriors were level eight or nine, and the highest level was a level fifteen gold-type orc."

Yuheng: "If you face a dozen or twenty high-level warriors, what are your chances of winning?"

Ling Chengen lowered his eyes and remained silent. Yu Heng, who was good at seizing opportunities and understood people's hearts, continued, "In this month's trade market, you arranged for people to sell sea salt in the central region, making you a direct competitor to the salt stone sellers in the southern tribes. Even if you are just using the guise of buying salt from the coastal tribes to make a profit from the price difference, do you think the southern forces will consider this?"

"They'll target the coastal tribes that produce salt, but do you think they'll let someone like you from the Stone Forest, who's standing out, get away with it?"

Ling Chengen turned around and looked at him quietly: "So?"

“Since you’re going to be at odds with the South sooner or later, why not form a cooperative relationship with me? I can protect you.” Yu Heng rested his chin on his hand, his expression calm and composed. “You know my abilities. Without the influence of the breeding season, they are no match for me.”

How long can you protect the Stone Forest?

Seeing that she was showing signs of relenting, Yuheng suddenly stopped tapping his index finger on his jawbone: "That depends on you."

"What do you mean?"

Yuheng changed his posture, resting his chin on his hands, and carefully examined the young female he had only known for a short time, with a faint smile in his eyes: "If you are only going to have a short-term relationship with me, then the protection I give you will naturally be short-term as well."

"So, in the end, you still want to be my partner?" Ling Chengen narrowed his eyes slightly.

Yu Heng nodded slightly, a slight smile playing on his lips, and said, "There are many benefits to being my partner." "Being your partner would bring even more trouble," Ling Chengen said with a forced smile.

Yuheng shrugged and spread his hands, saying, "There are advantages and disadvantages; it depends on your choice."

Ling Chengen did not respond to him, but felt a bit of a headache. She originally wanted to take things slowly and make a decision after finding out more information about him.

Just as she was lost in thought, Yuheng had already stepped into the stream and appeared silently behind her, holding her shoulder and turning her around.

Ling Chengen brushed his arm away and looked up at Yu Heng, who was much taller than her.

"Shouldn't you give me some time to think about it?"

Yu Heng asked, puzzled, "I should be in better shape than those beastly husbands of yours, right? Why do you keep rejecting me?"

I don't know you.

"Then ask away, I'll answer all your questions, but only tonight."

"Who exactly are you? Why are you being hunted down by those people?"

Seeing the way she was scrutinizing him, Yuheng couldn't help but chuckle and said, "You're curious about this?"

“I am a member of the Fuqing clan. I can communicate with alien plants, and my abilities are more unique than those of other wood-type beastmen. However, my clan was wiped out by the nobles of the Southern Beast Plains a long time ago. I only learned the truth when I was sixteen years old. Because of the special bloodline and abilities of the Fuqing clan, the nobles regarded my mother and me as human sacrifices… Didn’t I tell you before about that potion that stimulates superpowers? It was made from alien plants cultivated with our flesh and blood.”

Ling Chengen blinked gently: "So you escaped and were constantly being hunted down?"

Yuheng suddenly smiled: "The news that I committed a serious crime shouldn't be a secret, right?"

"How many people were killed?"

Yu Heng shook his head and said frankly, "I don't know either, I just killed a lot of them."

"Kill anyone you don't like."

Ling Chengen: "..."

"My fertility cycle is also due to some past experiences."

"It's probably been suppressed for too long, so this time it was brought forward."

Ling Chengen pointed to the shore: "Alright, I understand, you can go now."

"And what was the result?" Yu Heng lowered his head, his eyes becoming exceptionally serious. "I've said so much, you have to give me an answer, right?"

"If I agree, how do you plan to spend your breeding season?" Ling Chengen asked.

Yuheng chuckled and said, "How else can we get by?"

“That won’t do.” Ling Chengen has his own bottom line. “I will not have intimate relationships with anyone before I reach adulthood.”

Yuheng said with a headache, "You're quite stubborn."

“I cherish my body very much.” Ling Chengen tilted his head, glancing at the faint green lines at the corners of his eyes. He suddenly pricked his fingertip with a stone and analyzed, “The meaning of the breeding season is reproduction. But to soothe the breeding season, you should rely on the scent of your partner. You can take care of the rest yourself.”

Yu Heng gritted his teeth, maintaining a facade of calm, and said sarcastically, "You're really clever!"

Ling Chengen pressed his bleeding fingertip directly to his lips, raised an eyebrow and said, "Try it."

Yu Heng's face darkened slightly as he stared intently at her features: "..."

This female isn't a giant tiger; she must be a fox, right?

Very cunning.

Yu Heng stood still, not uttering a word, but staring at her with a sinister gaze.

Ling Chengen raised an eyebrow and smiled, "If you don't want to use this method, I can ask the unmarried females in the tribe for you."

Yuheng opened his mouth in a huff, his neat teeth suddenly biting her fingertip, his scarlet tongue curling over her bleeding fingertip, and he looked at the cunning and wicked woman opposite him with a wicked expression before suddenly falling silent.