Sea World of Beasts: The Sinful Mermaid - She's a Heartthrob

Chapter 112 Bloodstained Past
Chao Sheng smiled and explained to him, "They are not orcs from the polar seas."

"They are three little orcs from somewhere else."

"The three sea hare beastmen were all brightly colored."

"They happened to enter the polar waters and couldn't find food. A female who had some connection with me sent them to steal my things in exchange for food."

When Gu Xian heard about the foreign beastmen, he paused for a barely perceptible moment, his eyes darkening as if recalling some unpleasant memories.

A moment later, he came to his senses and nodded slightly. "Huh? What did you come to steal?"

“It’s Bai Ni’s dowry.” Chao Sheng thought of the treasures piled on the rocks. Although she felt that no one in the polar sea would dare to steal them, and no beastman would have the ability to steal them.

But after what happened with the three little orcs, she still felt lingering fear. If an orc really stole her, she would be disgusted.

No!

It seems she needs to put some things on her agenda.

“When Bai Ni married me, she brought many treasures, including various pearls, gems, and gauze dresses. They couldn’t all fit inside the cave, so they had to be placed outside and covered with seaweed.”

Gu Xian recalled for a moment, then thought of the craggy seaweed in front of the ice cave and sighed, "No wonder..."

He always felt that the seaweed patch was strange, but he never thought about it in this direction.

Upon hearing this, Bai Ni curled his lips into a smug smile and glanced at Gu Xian provocatively, "If you marry Sheng Sheng, you have to have the best dowry."

"Sheng Sheng isn't someone who deserves just any dowry!"

"Ow!"

Chao Sheng gave Bai Ni a strange look, and secretly pinched Bai Ni's muscular waist hard. Why is Bai Ni being so obedient today!

His speech is like a bomb, leaving people completely baffled.

dowry?

Gu Xian savored those two words twice, his blood-red eyes deepening. Yes, male beastmen need a dowry to marry female beastmen.

Male orcs with elders and tribes have their dowries prepared by the tribe and elders; otherwise, they have to prepare them themselves.

As for Gu Xian... of course, he can only prepare it himself.

He was lucky to escape that tribe alive; how could he expect them to prepare a dowry for him?

He lowered his eyes, looking lost and dejected, a sense of powerlessness slowly welling up inside him.

I couldn't help but think of those rumors I'd overheard somewhere.

A male's dowry determines his future status in a female's heart.

The larger the dowry, the more it proves that the male is powerful and has orcs backing him up, so the female will naturally value him more.

A male who doesn't bring any dowry will never get married.

Gu Xian clenched his fists secretly. No, he would definitely raise enough dowry!

He won't let females look down on him because of this.

He calmly raised his head, looking intently at Bai Ni, and said, "Okay, I understand."

"Thanks for your reminder."

"?" Bai Ni stared wide-eyed in disbelief, then turned away angrily. Who asked him for thanks?
He was trying to discourage a beastman like him who had nothing, okay?

“Speaking of which,” Chao Sheng said softly, her probing gaze falling on Gu Xian. She remembered that Gu Xian seemed to be an outsider beastman as well. “Gu Xian, you seem to be a beastman from another sea area as well.”

"You might even know these three orcs."

Chao Sheng said, half-jokingly and half-seriously.

She had seen Gu Xian's beast form before; it was also brightly colored, so it was possible that it really did come from the same place.

Gu Xian stiffened his lips, his eyes momentarily blank, "I don't think so."

He guiltily looked away, not daring to meet Chao Sheng's gaze.

No, we're not from the same place.

Because, well, all the beastmen from his area were dead. Bai Ni pricked up his ears, ready to listen carefully to the beastman's origins, but Gu Xian avoided the topic, which puzzled Bai Ni.

He took the initiative, saying, "You haven't even seen it yet, how do you know it isn't?"

"By the way, which sea do you belong to, you beastman?"

"Are they tribal orcs or wandering orcs?"

“Those three little brats seem to have been to quite a few seas; you might have actually met them before.”

Bai Ni said this half-jokingly, not caring at all whether he had met Gu Xian and those three brats or not.

He just wanted to know where this guy came from.

He wouldn't allow these orcs of unknown origin to touch Sheng Sheng so casually.

Chao Sheng listened and was immediately intrigued. With a faint smile in her eyes, she asked, "Yes, I've known you for so long, and I've never heard you mention these things before."

"I..." Gu Xian was unusually at a loss for how to deal with this situation.

His long red hair fell down without him noticing, obscuring his vision.

But he didn't pull his hair back at all, as if only this closed and dim world could give him a little sense of security.

He didn't want to talk about those things.

But he didn't want to deceive the females.

He pursed his lips in a conflicted manner, a hint of vulnerability flashing across his pale and delicate face. His octopus-like brain began to work, and in just a few moments, he came up with a win-win strategy.

“I used to belong to a tribe.”

"But the orcs from that tribe treated me badly."

"The females in the tribe have a very high status and often beat, scold, and humiliate the male orcs."

"However, I was young at the time, and although I was beaten and scolded, I could endure it."

"Later, an accident happened in the tribe, and I was injured, so I ran away."

"And then I ended up here by chance."

After Gu Xian finished speaking, his gaze quickly fell down, his heart filled with trepidation.

Those dark and suffocating memories surfaced in my mind.

"Haha, don't worry, when you come of age, I'll be the first to enjoy you!"

"Oh, you've leveled up again? All that effort to level up just to seduce the leader, is it? Hahaha, you think you're worthy?!"

"I'll beat you to death! You dare try to compete with us for our affections?!"

"Come here! You're always making that face, what's wrong with giving me a kiss?"

"You're not coming, huh? Fine! Bring me my straw whip!"

"Ouch! Ouch! That hurts!"

Later... a splash of blood washed away his unbearable memories.

The octopus was born alone, but he longed for a group, so he joined a tribe, only to learn a profound lesson.

Now, his only wish is to marry a good female as a male orc.

Fortunately, he has found a female he is willing to marry.

After Gu Xian finished speaking, there was a long silence.

Chao Sheng sighed softly, her eyes filled with deep sympathy as she looked at Gu Xian. "I'm sorry, I didn't know..."

She recalled the various bruises she found on Gu Xian's body when they first met, which must have been left over from his former tribe.

The hostility on Bai Ni's face subsided, and a hint of fierceness reappeared on his handsome face.

Although he disliked Gu Xian, as a male orc, he was more aware of his unspoken intentions.

I'm afraid his past life was much more difficult than these few words.