In a daze, Su Yu felt as if she were in lava, burning hot.
“Hot…” she murmured, raising a hand to throw off the Beast Skin covering her.
But Shengqing, afraid she would get cold, had covered her with a winter bear’s hide, which was very thick and heavy.
Su Yu was burning with fever, her body devoid of strength and her hands weak.
She had just lifted the Beast Skin a little when—FLOP!—it fell right back on top of her.
Uncomfortable, Su Yu kicked her legs.
“So hot…
Shi Wei…
I don’t want this Beast Skin on me…”
Hearing her whimpering, Shengqing quickly put down the clothes he was making and hurried over to her.
The moment he reached her side and saw her flushed red cheeks, Shengqing’s expression changed instantly.
‘The little female is sick!’
The beginning of spring was the peak season for females to get sick.
Even though he had already used his Healing Ability to nourish her body once while she was unconscious…
…the little female’s body was too fragile, and she was pregnant.
In the end, she had inevitably developed a fever.
Shengqing’s gaze darkened slightly.
He stepped forward and placed his hand on her forehead.
A gentle green light rippled out, lightly blanketing Su Yu’s body.
The cool touch on her forehead made Su Yu involuntarily tilt her head up, dazedly pressing her cheek against his palm.
‘So comfortable…’
Soon, Su Yu was no longer satisfied with just her cheek being cooled.
She grabbed Shengqing’s hand and, with little effort, pulled his entire body toward her.
She used her hands and feet to clamber onto him, wrapping her arms around him in a tight hug.
Her scorching body finally found relief.
Su Yu nuzzled against the cool “ice block” and murmured, “So comfortable…”
Shengqing froze solid from head to tail.
His breathing grew erratic, and his cheeks became redder and redder.
‘Th-th-this…
this is the first time a female has ever held me so intimately!’
‘Not to mention, this little female…
she’s barely wearing any clothes!’
Shengqing’s face flushed beet red.
He was so shy that his first instinct was to run, but his body remained obediently on the stone bed, held by Su Yu, not daring to move an inch.
When the warm, soft woman in his arms once again nuzzled her cheek against his chest, Shengqing finally couldn’t take it anymore.
A flash of blue light, and a beautiful, iridescent blue giant python appeared in the cave.
Having lost her support, Su Yu’s body fell limply downward.
Just as she was about to fall back onto the stone bed, an iridescent blue tail coiled around her waist.
Upon touching her soft body, Shengqing’s movements became even gentler, more careful.
He tucked Su Yu completely into the Beast Skin.
Then, he lifted her, still wrapped in the Beast Skin, onto his own body.
His snake coils slowly enveloped her, and he placed his cool tail tip in her hands for her to hold, helping her cool down.
Unconsciously, Su Yu hugged the snake tail, her brow smoothed, and she fell into a deep sleep.
…
「The next day.」
Su Yu was woken by hunger.
She groggily opened her eyes and subconsciously called out, “Shi Wei…
I’m so hungry…”
“Your Beast Husband isn’t here.
I’m the Beastman from yesterday.
My name is Shengqing.” A gentle, deep voice spoke as Su Yu felt something wet touch her lips.
“I’ve prepared some food.
Have a bite.”
Hunger drove Su Yu to open her mouth and take a bite.
And then—
“BLECH!
BLECH!
BLECH!”
The taste of blood and a gamy stench shot straight to her head, making her spit it out without a second thought.
Shengqing helplessly caught what she’d spat out.
“Are you all right?”
He was a Snake Beast and had a natural aversion to fire.
And while he possessed inherited knowledge, he had never interacted with a female before.
The food he had prepared for Su Yu was raw meat.
He had even specifically saved the most tender piece of meat from his prey for her.
Su Yu lay weakly on the bed, murmuring in despair, “I can’t eat raw food.
It has to be cooked.”
After speaking, she felt she was being too much trouble for this kind-hearted Beastman and said guiltily, “Otherwise, you should just take me back to the Liaoshui Tribe.
My constitution is too weak.
I’ll be a huge bother to you.”
“No.
In your current condition, you’re not suited for a long journey,” Shengqing refused flatly, cleaning what Su Yu had spat from his hands.
He then helped her up from the stone bed, pressing a cup of water and a piece of fruit into her hands.
“Drink some water and eat this fruit to tide you over.
I’ll go start a fire and roast some meat for you.”
Su Yu nodded weakly.
“Okay.
I’m sorry for the trouble.”
Shengqing pressed his lips together in a shy smile.
“It’s no trouble when it’s for a female.”
Su Yu smiled back at him.
It was also at this moment that she realized her vision seemed to have cleared up a little.
Before, people were just large, blurry blobs of color to her.
After bonding with Shi Wei, the blobs gained edges, and she could barely tell if there was one Beastman or two in front of her.
But now, the blobs of color seemed a little sharper, the colors more vivid.
This discovery lifted Su Yu’s spirits a little, and she felt a thrill of excitement.
‘Does this mean that by the time I give birth, my eyesight will be mostly restored?’
‘I’m so sick of being practically blind.’
250’s smarmy voice rang out: [That’s right.
As long as you give birth, Host’s vision will be mostly restored.]
250: [And if Host completes the third task, your vision will be fully restored.]
‘What’s the third task?’
Su Yu was a bit lost.
Yesterday she had been frightened and was physically and mentally exhausted, so she hadn’t paid much attention.
When she pulled up the system screen to look, her vision instantly went black with rage.
She gritted her teeth.
“I’m pregnant and in the middle of nowhere!
How am I supposed to find a Beast Husband?
A Five-Star one, at that!”
250 matter-of-factly summoned an arrow pointing at Shengqing, who was busy in the cave: [Hey, what you’re looking for is right in front of you.]
Su Yu: “…”
The corner of her mouth twitched.
She gritted her teeth.
“You did this on purpose, didn’t you?”
The Beastman who saved her was Five Stars, and the mission it just issued happened to be for a Five-Star Beast Husband!
She would be damned if this wasn’t on purpose!
250’s voice was utterly innocent: [How could that be?]
[Oh, right!
Yesterday’s mission rewards have been distributed.
The Storage Ring has been placed on the Host’s middle finger, and the rest of the rewards are inside it.
We hope the Host will continue to work hard, complete more missions, and earn even richer rewards!]
After saying its piece, 250 quickly vanished.
It was afraid that if it stuck around any longer, Su Yu would find a way to drag it out of her head and flog its non-existent corpse.
Su Yu ground her teeth.
She took several vicious bites out of the fruit in her hand as if it were 250, only then did her anger subside a little.
By the time she finished the fruit, Shengqing had finished roasting the meat.
He called out, “Little female, the meat is ready.”
Su Yu answered and hurriedly threw off the Beast Skin, fumbling to get off the bed.
As she moved, she felt that the Beast Skin Skirt she was wearing was very light and soft.
And it was at this moment that Su Yu had a sudden realization.
When a Beastman shifts from beast form to human form, they are completely naked.
But she was now wearing a new Beast Skin Skirt.
It was self-evident who had put it on her.
‘Which means…’
‘During the time I was unconscious, Shengqing saw every inch of me…’