Chapter 174: Eating a Little More Melon

Chapter 174: Chapter 174: Eating a Little More Melon

Bai Wanwan stood on her tiptoes and gave him a quick kiss back on the cheek, whispering, "I’ll come find you tonight."

A corner of Xin Feng’s mouth quirked up, his voice gentle. "Alright, I’ll be waiting for you."

Just then, a cub ran up to his feet, making a fuss. Xin Feng had no choice but to bend down and scoop the cub up. "Wanwan, I’ll go prepare some food for you."

"Okay, I’ll just watch the show for a while longer."

Her attention had already shifted back to Zhuo Ling and Jin Yi outside.

It wasn’t that she was a gossip, it was just that life in the Beast World was so dull, with far too few forms of entertainment.

Now that there was finally some fun, she wished she could press her ear right up against them to listen in.

She saw Zhuo Ling walk up to Jin Yi, their gazes meeting...

’Tsk tsk, talk about a smoldering gaze.’

At that moment, Zhuo Ling’s eyes were filled with tears, her voice trembling slightly. "Jin Yi, are you really going to treat me like this?"

Upon seeing her heartbroken expression, the coldness in Jin Yi’s eyes softened slightly.

"Zhuo Ling, that’s all in the past. I will guarantee your livelihood in the Golden Lion Tribe, but I really can’t give you anything else."

Zhuo Ling’s face instantly turned pale. She bit her lip, her voice catching with a sob. "But you once said... you would always like me..."

Jin Yi shook his head, his gaze calm yet distant. "That was a promise from our youth. You already have Beast Husbands. That’s all in the past."

Zhuo Ling wouldn’t let it go. "So you’re just going to be alone forever?"

Jin Yi hadn’t thought about this question. If he couldn’t find a female he wanted to spend his life with, then he would use everything he had to protect the Golden Lion Tribe.

"Zhuo Ling, it’s getting late. You should go back and rest." He clearly didn’t want to discuss this topic with her any further.

Seeing the distance and avoidance in Jin Yi’s eyes, Zhuo Ling controlled her emotions and forced a smile at him. "Fine. If you don’t want to see me right now, then I’ll leave."

Zhuo Ling turned around, about to leave in a huff.

In the end, Jin Yi’s heart softened a little. He instructed a nearby male, "Escort Zhuo Ling back to her residence."

When Zhuo Ling heard this, her heart sank.

She didn’t want to push him too hard, hoping to reawaken his feelings for her bit by bit.

But Zhuo Ling suddenly felt that the Jin Yi of today was more mature, giving her a sense that he was beyond her control.

She couldn’t help but turn back, only to see Jin Yi’s tall, slender figure in the moonlight.

He was walking away without any hesitation, his steps crisp and decisive.

Zhuo Ling felt a strong sense of unease, a feeling that the Jin Yi who had once loved her was slipping away, bit by bit.

’If she hadn’t wavered back when Jin Cang Clan Leader pressured her to take a mate, if she had insisted on being with Jin Yi, would things be different now?’

But back then, she hadn’t wanted to give up other males for Jin Yi.

Now she had four Beast Husbands, but all of them together couldn’t compare to a single Jin Yi.

She didn’t know if what she had done was right or wrong.

Just as she was about to leave, Zhuo Ling saw the flicker of light and shadow from a stone house in the distance.

The large tribes far from the forest had already learned to use fire.

Most beastmen in the Golden Lion Tribe still maintained their primitive eating habits, not eating cooked food, but they would start fires for light.

So in the Golden Lion Tribe, fire wasn’t a rare thing.

’But for that vacant stone house, the one belonging to Jin Yi, to be lit up with fire—that isn’t right!’

She immediately stopped in her tracks. "Is someone living there?"

"Yes, Female Zhuo Ling."

Zhuo Ling was astonished. Some time ago, she too had taken a liking to that spacious, vacant stone house. Especially after learning it was Jin Yi’s future residence, she had immediately wanted to have Jin Yi’s people arrange for her to live there.

But that male had said the Clan Leader forbids any beastman from living there, except for the Young Clan Leader and his future female.

Since it involved Jin Cang Clan Leader, Zhuo Ling didn’t dare make any more demands.

Whether she could even continue to live in the Golden Lion Tribe depended on Jin Cang Clan Leader’s mood.

She knew that Jin Cang Clan Leader would not accept her as Jin Yi’s female because of her status and fertility.

So she hadn’t brought it up again.

But she never expected that in just over ten days, a beastman had moved in there.

"That stone house... isn’t it reserved for Jin Yi? How could a beastman be living there?" Her tone held a hint of accusation.

The male coughed lightly and explained with some embarrassment, "The Clan Leader arranged it. He’s letting a few outsiders stay there temporarily."

"Outsiders?" Zhuo Ling’s expression instantly turned ugly. "Is it a female named Bai Wanwan?"

The male nodded. "Yes, that’s her."

A sense of crisis, stronger than any she had ever felt, washed over Zhuo Ling.

’Why would Jin Cang Clan Leader arrange for Bai Wanwan to live there?’

’Could it be that Jin Cang Clan Leader wants Jin Yi to become Bai Wanwan’s Beast Husband?’

Realizing this, Zhuo Ling panicked.

’Jin Yi loves me, I still have a chance!’

She stared in the direction of the stone house for a long time, her expression dark and unreadable.

"Female Zhuo Ling?"

Zhuo Ling snapped back to reality, her expression now composed. "Let’s go. It’s getting late, I’m going home."

Bai Wanwan had been enjoying the show, but it turned out the two of them didn’t embrace and kiss. The male named Jin Yi seemed to keep his distance from Zhuo Ling the whole time.

He even turned and left very quickly.

With the show over, Bai Wanwan was about to close the door when Zhuo Ling suddenly looked in her direction.

Her hand, resting on the door, paused. Through the crack in the door, she saw Zhuo Ling staring in her direction for at least five minutes.

’There’s no way Zhuo Ling knows I live here, right?’

’Even if she does, what is she looking at for five minutes?’

Just as she was wondering about this, Yan Lie’s head popped over.

He exuded the searing heat characteristic of a male.

The weather was gradually getting warmer, and his proximity made the surrounding air feel a little sultry.

"Wanwan, what are you looking at?"

He asked as he leaned in by the door to look with her.

"That female... is that Zhuo Ling?"

A relaxed smile had been on Yan Lie’s face, but the moment his gaze fell on Zhuo Ling in the distance, it vanished.

As if he had seen something filthy, Yan Lie closed the crack in the door and pulled Bai Wanwan’s hand. "What’s so interesting about her? Look at me instead..."

Bai Wanwan laughed and looked up at his bright, sunny face, raising her hands to cup his cheeks and rub them. "You’re right, she’s not as good-looking as you."

Coaxed by her words, Yan Lie’s smile returned. "That female is no good. Wanwan, you should stay away from her in the future."

’He’s probably traumatized from the last time Zhuo Ling used a thorn flower on him,’ Bai Wanwan thought.

"Okay, I’ll stay away from her."

’Although Zhuo Ling had never openly acted against her, her little schemes and tricks could only fool the females of this era, not me.’

As soon as she said it, Yan Lie pulled her into a hug, burying his face in the crook of her neck and taking a deep sniff. "Wanwan, you’re so good to me."

Bai Wanwan leaned in his embrace, a slight smile playing on her lips. "In that case, can you tell me how you cured the thorn flower poison last time?"

After she said this, a few images suddenly flashed through Yan Lie’s mind.

His cheeks and the roots of his ears instantly turned beet red.