After marrying the fierce god, her handsome young husband was pampered to the extreme.

The boy stopped beside the giant snake, reached out his well-defined knuckles and tapped the snake's scales, and the giant snake bowed its head and retreated.

Pearl squatted on the spot, holding her head, her little legs trembling violently, looking almost pitiful.

The boy walked to his side and gently stroked Pearl's back, saying, "Pearl."

Pearl thought she was about to be eaten, but then she suddenly heard Zhao Duo's voice.

He pitifully raised his head, and the instant he saw Zhao Duo, he asked in a soft, low voice, "Am I already dead?"

Zhao Duo didn't say anything, but picked the person up and carried them horizontally.

Pearl gasped and wrapped her arms around the boy's neck.

He then realized that he had not been eaten by the giant snake, and had even found Zhao Duo by a twist of fate!

Pearl was still a little scared and huddled in the boy's arms, even though the silver ornaments on the boy's body were making him a little uncomfortable.

"Zhao Duo... I've been looking for you for so long," Pearl said, sounding aggrieved, hoping the boy would comfort her, but she didn't receive a reply for a long time.

"Zhao Duo?"

"Xin Hui?"

"Atu Nasinhui?!"

No matter what he said, Zhao Duo did not respond.

Pearl was both angry and aggrieved, so she simply stopped talking and thought angrily: I don't want to talk to this jerk anymore!

Zhao Duo carried the person to a temporary wooden cabin in the mountains.

Pearl was put on the crib, but she was still very sullen.

He deliberately kicked his boots around and turned his back to Zhao Duo while wrapped in a quilt.

Zhao Duo picked up the boots that Pearl had kicked around and straightened them.

He went out for a while, and when he came back, he had a bowl of meat porridge in his hand.

"Pearl, come and have something to eat."

Pearl had smelled the aroma of the meat porridge long ago. Although he was still feeling very wronged, he was really hungry.

So he deliberately made a fierce expression, expecting Zhao Duo to coax him, but when he turned around, he only saw a lonely bowl of meat porridge.

Zhao Duo went out again.

Pearl sullenly gulped down the meat porridge, waiting for him to finish eating so she could settle accounts with "someone"!

After finishing the hot porridge, Pearl finally felt like she had come back to life.

He wiped his mouth with his sleeve and saw Zhao Duo bring in a basin of hot water.

Zhao Duo didn't say anything, but wrung out a hot towel and wiped Pearl's face.

"Are you full?" Zhao Duo asked.

I was ignoring him for a while, and now I'm only just thinking about him.

Pearl thought angrily: I'm not going to talk to this jerk!

He wrapped himself in the blankets and curled up on the small bed to continue sulking.

Zhao Duo sat on the edge of the bed, and just as Pearl was lost in thought, he suddenly grabbed her ankle, pulled her over, and held her on his lap.

Pearl was about to speak when she felt a hard slap on the butt.

It hurt, but it was even more humiliating.

After he realized what had happened, his emotions, which had been tense all day, suddenly exploded.

Feeling wronged, scared, terrified...

He broke down in tears, his voice broken and somewhat mournful.

Zhao Duo hardened his heart and did not coax him.

If Pearl hadn't happened to walk into the snake's den today, he would surely have died tonight.

The true terror of Mount Tsukimi only becomes apparent after nightfall.

Even the medicine bell he gave Pearl was useless; those terrifying things were so bad that even he might not have survived if he had encountered them.

Pearl cried her heart out, and Zhao Duo finally softened.

Pearl just misses him too much, and he knows that.

"Don't cry, be good." Zhao Duo picked up Pearl and gently kissed away the tears on her cheeks.

Pearl kept wiping her face, pushing him away forcefully, and pounding her clenched fists on Zhao Duo again and again.

It hurt, but Zhao Duo could bear it and let Pearl vent her anger.

In the end, Pearl bit Zhao Duo's neck with great force, breaking the skin and blood slowly flowing down the boy's neck.

Pearl calmed down only after seeing the blood.

His eyes were red, and his whole body was trembling slightly.

Zhao Duo held Pearl in his arms, seemingly oblivious to the pain in his neck, and gently wiped away her tears.

"It's dangerous in the mountains," Zhao Duo said. "Son, I'm afraid something will happen to you."

Pearl struggled to climb out of the boy's arms and burrowed into the blankets, leaving Zhao Duo with only a cold, indifferent back view.

"Does it hurt?" Zhao Duo stroked Zhenzhu's waist. "I was angry at you for being so foolish; it was my mistake. Zhenzhu, I'll let you hit me back, okay?"

Although Pearl stopped crying, he was still sobbing after crying for a while.

He didn't want to talk; he felt incredibly wronged.

Zhao Duo sighed softly, "I said in the letter that I would try my best to visit you before your coming-of-age ceremony, and I wasn't just making excuses."

Pearl covered her ears.

"I told you before that I had to find the Evening Primrose before I turned eighteen, or I would die. Do you remember?" Zhao Duo's voice was low. "This is the final deadline. This ordeal isn't what I wanted; I just wanted to live..."

The Artuna family's mastery of insect-based Gu techniques grants them extraordinary abilities, and this is the price they pay.

"Once I find the moon primrose, I can come find you."

"My dear, you really scared me to death just now. You appeared at Tsukimiyama without a word. I feel a chill just thinking about the dangers you might have encountered."

I didn't mean to be mean to you.

"I just..." care about you too much.

Zhao Duo couldn't bring himself to say it.

He lay down beside Pearl, fully clothed, and said, "I'll take you down the mountain tomorrow."

Pearl closed her eyes, but for some reason, she suddenly remembered the bite he had just taken.

He suddenly sat up and, by the dim candlelight, saw that Zhao Duo's neck was still bleeding.

He just lay down like that, completely ignoring the condition of his wound and not bandaging it.

Pearl took out a handkerchief from her bosom and threw it at Zhao Duo's neck without saying a word. She then rolled up the quilt again and wrapped herself up.

Zhao Duo didn't move.

With so many silver ornaments on him, any movement he makes will definitely make a sound.

But Pearl only heard breathing.

He immediately realized that the bastard still hadn't bandaged his wound!

He sat up again, puffing out his cheeks, and pressed one hand against the boy's neck.

Zhao Duo pulled him close and gently kissed his cheek. "I was wrong."

Pearl glared at him, then noticed the red stains on the boy's collar, and all her anger vanished.

"Where's the medicine?" Pearl asked.

Zhao Duo shook his head. "There's no medicine here."

"Don't move your head." Pearl lay on top of the boy, covering the wound with a silk handkerchief.

Zhao Duo knew he wasn't angry anymore, so he breathed a sigh of relief and chuckled, "Okay."

Neither of them spoke for a long time before Pearl finally said, "Your silver necklace is digging into me."

"I'm sorry." Zhao Duo held Zhenzhu's waist carefully, preventing him from falling. "Could you help me get it off?"

Pearl roughly removed all the silver jewelry from the boy's body, muttering, "What's the point of a man like you wearing so much jewelry!"

The bracelet and necklace were one thing, but there was also a tiny silver ring hanging from her left ear. I wonder what kind of fetish that was!

He didn't wear that many.