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

Chapter 179 It's just a bad life.
Ling Chengen's eyes widened slightly, and he raised his furry front paws: "Do you think my paws are big?"

Yu Heng looked at her raised left front paw, puzzled. He reached out and pinched her paw pad. It felt nice to the touch. He pinched it a couple more times and nodded seriously, saying, "It's quite big."

Ling Chengen raised his paw and pressed it directly onto his face, saying in a low voice, "I think your face is bigger!"

In fact, when the tiger claws in its beast form are outstretched, they are much larger than Yu Heng's exquisite and perfect face.

Yuheng was slapped so hard that his head fell backward and he landed on his bottom in the wet mud. He shook the mud off his face, revealing a huge muddy paw print on his head, and said with a mix of anger and laughter, "Ling Chengen, you're just using me and then discarding me!"

"If that crane made a request, you would definitely agree, right?"

Yu Heng didn't get up, but sat directly in the mud. To maintain his balance, he raised his left hand, which was pressed against the mud, and pulled the giant tiger's head, which was much taller than him, into his arms. He repeatedly rubbed the tiger's ears and face with his fingers...

Ling Chengen was annoyed by the rubbing and wanted to knock him over with his head, so he jumped away from where he stood.

However, Yu Heng only looked thin and frail; in reality, he was a top-tier superhuman warrior. He usually didn't exert much effort when teasing her, but now that he wouldn't let go, Ling Chengen was truly helpless.

"I'm giving you a chance to rephrase your words."

"Can I go first?" Yu Heng gritted his teeth slightly, but still had a warm smile on his face.

Ling Chengen hesitated for a few seconds, then said helplessly, "Is this something I can be sure of?"

"After you come of age, it's unclear who will reach their reproductive age first, you or Ayu. And I don't know what my own reproductive age will be like either."

"Even if I agree to your request, what if I suddenly enter my breeding season and you happen to not be by my side..."

Yuheng sighed and let go of her hand: "What family's females would run around everywhere during their breeding season? Isn't that just attracting unwanted attention? And it's also extremely dangerous."

Ling Chengen raised his paw and slapped him again, but not hard. He deliberately smeared mud on his chin, snorted, and said in a cool tone, "I just can't stay at home. I just like to run around. If you're unhappy, you'd better keep it to yourself."

Upon hearing this, Yuheng couldn't help but chuckle. He straightened her round face with both hands and looked intently into her amber eyes: "It seems you still don't understand what I mean."

"What I want is not that you will actually do these things for me."

"I just want you to be willing to commit to me."

"I want the same favoritism you show him."

"Ling Chengen——"

Do you even understand?

Yuheng was at his wits' end with her. Seeing her serious expression and deep thought, he couldn't help but find it amusing. He helped her up from the ground and said helplessly, "Forget it, it's pointless to talk to you about this."

Ling Chengen glanced at the overturned bucket at his feet and the gourd ladle rolling in circles in the distance, and said somewhat guiltily, "You speak too vaguely. Don't blame me for being dull and unable to give you the answer I want most."

Yuheng picked up the bucket and handed it to her: "Here, I won't argue with a little female who's not even an adult yet. But you spilled the water I brought back, so come with me to get another bucket."

Ling Chengen lowered his head, picked up the bucket, turned around, and walked ahead.

Yuheng picked up the gourd ladle from the ground, straightened up, and glanced back at Bai Qingyu, who was looking in their direction. He didn't know how long Bai Qingyu had been looking, but he hadn't uttered a sound from beginning to end.

Yu Heng merely curled the corners of his lips slightly, his smile so faint it was almost imperceptible.

Bai Qingyu turned her head away expressionlessly, walked back into the cave, jumped onto the hammock, and fell into a deep sleep.

The threat posed by the three people in his family combined was not as great as that posed by Yuheng alone.

However, the matter between Yuheng and Enen was already settled.

Although I knew they got along fairly well before, seeing them getting close and affectionate still made me feel very uncomfortable.

Bai Qingyu rolled over and lay on her side in the hammock, gently pressing her left hand against her chest, feeling a slight soreness.

His crane instincts made him want to be the only one to be his mate.

However, his partner's racial characteristics meant that his desire for exclusivity was impossible to achieve.

He knew he had to accept this reality, but the process... was really difficult.

……

The place where Yuheng usually fetches water for bathing is a very shallow stream.

He did not choose a larger river because the deeper and wider the water, the greater the danger in the water.

Yuheng was covered in mud. He walked from the cave to the stream. Many of the mud spots on his body had dried, and even his long hair was covered with clumps of yellow mud.

Jiaojiao slid off him and plunged into the stream, chasing away any aggressive fish, shrimp, or crabs nearby. Only then did Yuheng walk into the water wearing his clothes, tilting his head to dip his hair, which was pulled in front of him, into the stream, and slowly untying the light green rope that held his hair in place.

Ling Chengen tossed the bucket aside, the mud on his face drying into patches.

She didn't want to bathe with Yuheng in human form, so she directly plunged into the stream in beast form.

The deepest part of the stream was only one meter, so when she went down, the water didn't even touch the hair on her abdomen.

Ling Chengen lay directly in the water, and only after the turbid stream became clear did he bury his head in the water and rub the hardened mud off his face with his paws.

Yuheng stood three meters away from her, bent down to wash his hair, and when he looked up, he saw her ostrich-like appearance and couldn't help but laugh: "You think you can wash your hair clean like this?"

"If you want to take care of it, I'm happy to do it."

Ling Chengen looked annoyed and bared his teeth at him.

If it weren't for this jerk, would she have needed to soak her face in the stream to scrub it?
Yuheng swept all his wet hair behind him, stepped on the smooth pebbles, and walked step by step to her. He held her chin with one hand and lifted her head out of the water. With his right hand, he splashed the stream water and vigorously rubbed the areas she hadn't been able to clean in time.

Ling Chengen squinted slightly, afraid that the dirty water would get into his eyes, and let Yu Heng help him wash his face.

To be honest, there are some advantages to being in beast form.

In human form, everything is very convenient for me.

But in beast form, it's really comfortable to have someone serve you.

Although Yuheng had a strong grip, he must have intentionally controlled the force, so it felt really comfortable when he rubbed her fur.

Ling Chengen was drowsy from being rubbed, but Yu Heng reached out and pinched the soft flesh on his face, gritting his teeth and saying, "You're really something, are you really planning to sleep here?"

Ling Chengen stretched, then lay down on the pebbles in a lazy and elegant posture, purring comfortably for a couple of moments. He turned his head and rubbed his ear against his shoulder and cheek: "Give me a back rub, the pressure you used earlier was fine, thank you."

Yu Heng looked at her speechlessly: "..."

After a while, he rolled up his sleeves, and before he was even clean himself, he resigned himself to scrubbing and bathing the lazy giant tiger in front of him.

Ling Chengen's tail swished leisurely in the stream, occasionally splashing water and wetting Yuheng's hair and back.

Looking at her like this, Yuheng pointed to her paws: "Use this as a cushion, I'll sit for a while."

The water level was shallow for Ling Chengen in his beast form, but not so good for Yu Heng. If he sat directly in the water, it would go over his neck... Especially since Ling Chengen's tail had its own ideas and was always swaying and flicking in the water, causing the surface to sway quite a bit, it was easy for him to choke on a mouthful of bathwater.

Ling Chengen stretched out one of his hind legs so that he could sit on his lap, tilted his head and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Yuheng responded to her half-hearted thanks with a cold laugh.

"It's not hard work." "Just a tough life—"

Ling Chengen smiled and said, "It's just a back rub, and you're acting like this? Should I ask A-Yu to come and help you? You can go back and rest."

Yuheng reached out and ruffled her hair a few times, then said with a forced smile, "Do you want to die?"

He had almost finished rubbing this oversized plush toy, and now she suddenly remembered to ask that brat Bai Qingyu to pick the peaches.
Who are you trying to insult?!
Ling Chengen lowered his head, burying half his face in the stream, with his nose also submerged. Because air was leaking out of his nasal cavity, bubbles were rising in the water. When he ran out of air in his lungs, he would raise his head to breathe again, repeating this cycle to amuse himself.

She played by herself for quite a while before Yuheng finally let go and slumped against her side...

"Giving you a back rub is exhausting."

Yuheng lay on her soft body, his hands outstretched, quietly watching the sky at six or seven in the morning.

Blue sky, flying clouds, rising sun, morning breeze.

With a wingspan exceeding six or seven meters, these giant eagles become mere black dots when they take to the skies.

The sound of flowing water filled my ears.

There were also the chirping sounds of small insects hiding in the grass.

The croaking of frogs and cicadas went on and on.

And the shallow stream fish that were bold yet cautious, touching his ankles and hair with their mouths.

He slowly closed his thin eyelids, his breathing gradually becoming long and even, and suddenly whispered, "Ling Chengen—"

Ling Chengen glanced back at him without saying anything, but patiently waited for him to continue.

After a long while, she heard his very soft voice.

"The Northern Beast Plains... are really wonderful."

Ling Chengen suddenly chuckled, hooking his tail around the boy's calf to make sure he wouldn't slip into the water and drown. He then lowered his head and rested his chin on his front paws, responding a beat late: "Good taste."

Yuheng took a deep breath, letting the golden light fall on her eyelids and face, feeling warm and at ease.

He had lived for over twenty years, and his most profound memories were all from the Kamishōmoriya Valley in the South Beast Plain.

About my father, about my mother, about myself.

For him, memories are mostly of pain and numbness.

He knew he had to try to live, to live well.

So he carved out a path to survival on his own.

Driven by instinct, they fled north.

But along the way, he had no goal or direction, only confusion and uncertainty.

All the cruel experiences in the first half of my life seemed like a long test.

At that moment, he suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of ease and freedom.

Also, don't worry.

That's really strange.

She was clearly still an immature female, yet she could give him this strange feeling.

Yuheng opened her eyes again and gently tugged at the short hair on her body with her fingertips: "I suddenly have a profound realization."

"Ok?"

"I always feel like the Beast God was guiding me to the North, and that's how I met you..."

Ling Chengen rolled his eyes at him and said speechlessly, "Don't think of the Beast God so highly. He's busy, he doesn't have time to be your life mentor."

Yuheng laughed heartily, and after he was tired of laughing, he said seriously, "You're right."

"The Beast God has no time to care about me."

He found his partner through a combination of skill and luck.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the Beast God, not even a single blue crystal shell!
"I'm really tired, and I really don't want to move." Yuheng closed his eyes again, turned his head slightly, and rubbed his face against the almost dry fur on her back. "Carry me back."

Ling Chengen didn't speak, and quietly lay in the water for a while longer. He felt the frustration and restlessness brought on by the fighting all night gradually subside after the cool stream water washed over him. His body, which had been somewhat exhausted, regained some strength, and his tense mind also relaxed.

After she recovered, Yuheng was half-submerged in the stream, his upper body resting against her waist, and he had fallen into a deep sleep.

Ling Chengen wrapped his tail around his body and gently placed him on his back. He then lowered his head, filled a bucket with water, and walked calmly toward the cave.

The sun had already risen, and the plains, lacking sufficient shade from trees, were rapidly heating up, turning into a furnace.

When Ling Chengen brought Yu Heng back to the cave, they were almost completely dry.

The cave was quiet. Bai Qingyu lay on the outermost hammock and fell into a deep sleep.

Shi Ruoan sat by the stone bed, watching over Shi Panxing, who had fallen into a deep sleep. Her eyelids drooped, and she looked as if she were asleep as well.

Ling Chengen was about to lead Yu Heng inside when he suddenly heard footsteps.

She turned her head and saw Chang Tianchen, who was parting the grass with one hand and dragging his fresh prey with the other.

Chang Tianchen looked up and paused for a moment, staring blankly at her back for a brief moment before shifting his gaze from Yu Heng and asking in a softer tone, "Are you hungry?"

Ling Chengen stared at him for a while, his eyes still showing some wariness.

That gaze sent a shiver down his spine, but Chang Tianchen pretended not to notice and said as usual, "Take him inside to rest. I'll take care of the prey. But... could I borrow some of your seasonings?"

Without saying a word, Ling Chengen took out the seasonings from his spatial storage and placed them in front of him.

Then, without any response, he led Yuheng into the cave.

After hanging Yuheng on another hammock, she returned to human form, turned her head to look in the direction of the cave entrance, and couldn't help but purse her lips tightly, her expression slightly complicated.

There were only two hammocks inside the cave, which were made by Yuheng at the beginning.

Yuheng is now asleep from exhaustion due to excessive exertion.

Bai Qingyu also led them all the way back from the Southern Beast Plains. He stayed up all night again last night, and his physical strength and superpowers were greatly depleted in order to suppress Shi Panxing.

Ling Chengen didn't want to wake them, so he turned around and walked out.

But as he passed by Bai Qingyu, his wrist was suddenly grabbed from behind.

Bai Qingyu's eyelids were deeply creased, indicating that she hadn't slept well, and her eyes weren't as bright as usual. He jumped off the hammock, grabbed her waist with both hands, and lifted her up to sit on the hammock, his voice slightly muffled and hoarse.

"You can sleep here. I'll go prepare some bamboo beds so everyone can rest."

Ling Chengen sat in the hammock, quietly watching the sweat bead on his nose, and reached out to touch his earlobe: "Did you hear what Yuheng said back then?"