Chapter 462 - 459: I’ll Let You Off for Today

Chapter 462: Chapter 459: I’ll Let You Off for Today

An unknown amount of time passed before Hua Han slowly stirred, waking from a warm, comfortable darkness.

The excruciating pain in his body had miraculously vanished, replaced by a gentle, nourishing sensation.

What was even more unbelievable was the sweet fragrance that had haunted his dreams now lingering at the tip of his nose. And there seemed to be a soft arm wrapped around his waist...

He snapped his beautiful fox eyes open, and the first thing he saw was Bai Wanwan’s serene, sleeping face.

’His beloved female is actually lying beside him, sleeping with her arm around him?’

An immense wave of joy instantly overwhelmed him. Forgetting his injuries completely, he excitedly pulled Bai Wanwan into a tight embrace!

"Mmph..." Startled awake by his sudden strength, Bai Wanwan groggily patted his sturdy arm. "Let go... I can’t breathe..."

"Never!" Hua Han was like a petulant child, burying his face in the crook of her neck and greedily drinking in her scent. His voice was muffled. "If I let go... I don’t know if I’ll ever get the chance to hold you again..."

Bai Wanwan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at his childish antics, and most of her sleepiness vanished.

Looking at the handsome face so close to hers, she sighed helplessly and gave him a gentle push. "Silly, of course you’ll have a chance."

"What?" Hua Han froze. He snapped his head up, his beautiful fox eyes wide and round, filled with a mixture of disbelieving ecstasy and caution, as if afraid he’d misheard.

"Wanwan? What... What did you just say?"

"I said," Bai Wanwan began, suppressing a laugh and deliberately putting on a stern face, "you should change back to your original form first. Let me check your wounds and see how they’re healing."

"Not that line! The one before! The one where you agreed!" Hua Han pressed urgently.

"Then you have to obediently change back first," Bai Wanwan insisted.

"Okay! Okay! I’ll listen to Wanwan!" Like a child who’d just been given candy, Hua Han immediately and unhesitatingly reverted to his fox form.

Though he was covered in scars, his fox eyes were astonishingly bright. He stared at Bai Wanwan without blinking, full of boundless hope. "Wanwan, hurry up and say it! Say it again!"

Seeing this fox before her, so excited he looked ready to jump for joy over a single sentence, the last trace of hesitation in Bai Wanwan’s heart melted into a soft ripple.

She reached out and gently tapped his damp nose, repeating clearly, with a hint of a doting smile, "I said, you can stay for as long as you want."

"Wanwan!" His fox eyes instantly widened to their limit, a brilliant light exploding within them. His voice trembled with overwhelming surprise. "You... Are you saying you agree to let me be your Beast Husband? Really?"

"Mhm." Bai Wanwan smiled and gave a firm nod.

"AWOO!" An enormous wave of joy instantly overwhelmed Hua Han.

He couldn’t hold it in any longer. He leaped up from the ground and spun around in place several times, his nine fluffy tails whipping around like a pinwheel!

"Hey!" With a swift motion, Bai Wanwan pushed him back down onto the soft animal hide padding, both exasperated and amused. "Your wounds haven’t fully healed yet! Stop moving around, let me see if you’ve torn them open!"

Hua Han caught on immediately. He at once put on a look of extreme weakness and agony, flopping down with a whimper. "Ow, Wanwan... I think my back really does hurt a little. And here, this hurts too..."

As he cried out "weakly," he secretly peeked at Bai Wanwan’s reaction from the corner of his eye.

Bai Wanwan looked at the wounds on his back, which were clearly already scabbed over and even beginning to grow pink new flesh. Then she looked at his over-the-top "gravely injured" performance and couldn’t help but smile, though she didn’t call out the cunning yet adorable fox.

In the shadows by the cave entrance, Yan Lie leaned against the rock wall with his arms crossed, silently taking in the sweet and tender scene inside.

He couldn’t help but let out a nearly inaudible snort. ’That fox is such an actor!’

Because Hua Han had been so severely injured while protecting Bai Wanwan, the other male Beast Husbands all recognized the significance of his actions.

Although deep down they all felt an instinctual resistance and competitiveness about Hua Han officially joining them in "sharing" Wanwan, for now, they all silently chose to suppress those feelings.

With Bai Wanwan personally taking care of Hua Han, the other males had no opportunity to spend time alone with her.

After finally coaxing Hua Han to sleep, Bai Wanwan hurried out of the cave to relieve herself.

Snowflakes drifted outside, and the air was freezing, but she was unwilling to relieve herself inside the cave as her Beast Husbands had suggested.

That was just too gross.

They might not think it stinks, but she certainly did!

Just as she finished her business and was adjusting her Beast Skin Skirt, a cold yet flexible force suddenly coiled gently around her waist.

She let out a soft cry as her body was instantly lifted several inches off the ground.

"Zhu Xiu?" She turned her head to meet a pair of snake pupils that looked exceptionally deep and dark in the faint light of the snow.

Zhu Xiu’s enormous snake head drew close, his cold, forked tongue flicking lightly across her cheek and sending a shiver through her.

"Come with me."

His Talent Power dispelled the biting cold of the wind and snow. Coiling around her, Zhu Xiu slid silently and swiftly into the depths of the dense coniferous forest beside them.

She felt safe because it was Zhu Xiu. Besides, she had been feeling cooped up in the cave all day and was happy for a chance to see the primordial scenery.

Beside an ancient, giant fir tree so thick it would take several people to encircle it, Zhu Xiu swept away the snow and carefully placed her on a sturdy, horizontal branch.

A flash of silver light, and the cold Snake Scales receded. In his human form, Zhu Xiu opened his arms and pulled her tightly into his embrace.

His kiss was urgent and restrained, prying open her lips to plunder her breath wantonly, as if he wanted to crush her entirely within his cold embrace.

Bai Wanwan was kissed until she was nearly breathless, her body growing soft under his control.

His rough palms had a scorching heat; even with the wind and snow all around, she didn’t feel the slightest bit cold.

Zhu Xiu shifted to the side, completely shielding her within the branches of the giant tree.

His palm traced up her delicate waistline, and everywhere it touched, a searing tremor followed.

The intermingling sensations of ice and fire on her skin nearly made her lose herself.

However, just as Bai Wanwan thought things were about to go further, Zhu Xiu’s movements suddenly stopped.

He was panting, his forehead pressed against hers. His vertical pupils churned with unfulfilled desire, which he was forcibly suppressing.

"It’s cold out here," he said, his voice even hoarser and deeper than usual, tinged with a hint of annoyance. "I’ll let you off the hook for today."

He kissed her slightly swollen lips again, then smoothly transformed back into his snake form, coiled around her, and swiftly returned her to the relative warmth of the cave.

Her cheeks flushed and her breathing still a little unsteady, Bai Wanwan walked into the inner part of the cave. Just as she was about to take a sip of water to compose herself, a fiery embrace enveloped her from behind.

She keenly identified the scent of the male behind her.

It was Yan Lie!

He carried the scent of blood from a recent hunt and a vigorous heat, like a small stove.