What could Gu Weilan say?
That she had heard she matched with twelve beast husbands, took a glance at the matching system, and didn’t bother to read each beast husband’s profile?
After all, the matching system clearly stated that the law required males and females matched by the Beast God System to have three mandatory dates. If they felt they weren’t a good fit, they could apply to dissolve the match.
So why would she specifically study the species and profiles of twelve matched males? Wouldn’t it be the same to just see them when they met?
After all, she only managed to trick her way into getting these twelve beast husbands thanks to Pomegranate Seed altering her fertility! When she checked earlier, her fertility had only been altered for three seconds. Upon matching with these twelve beast husbands, Gu Weilan figured that these males would most likely ask to dissolve the match anyway! So why bother memorizing their details?
But at the end of the day, it was indeed her fault for not fully reading the profiles, which led to her having no idea that the two little Qilins were actually her matched partners. She had even asked someone where to buy them and how to feed them...
It was a bit insulting to people... or rather, beastmen.
"I’m sorry," Gu Weilan apologized very sincerely.
Zhan Ci looked somewhat astonished. He hurriedly stood up and bowed. "I didn’t mean to accuse the female Gu Weilan. I am very sorry."
Gu Weilan felt a bit strange. The interstellar beast world really was generally quite respectful toward females! Zhan Ci’s terrified and reverent look made it seem as if he had never seen a female apologize before.
Zhan Ci had indeed rarely seen a female be so humble. A female who would apologize... in his more than one hundred and twenty years of life, he had only ever seen two females apologize.
The first was Zhan Heng and Xie Jing’s mother, and she only apologized when she angered Zhan Ci’s former Lord of the Qilin Clan—who was Zhan Heng and Xie Jing’s father. The second was the female Gu Weilan.
As for other females, let alone saying something presumptuous to a male, they wouldn’t even apologize if they sold their own beast husband or were caught cheating with another male by their beast husband.
Gu Weilan turned on her Light Brain, found Xie Jing’s name among her matched beast husbands, and clicked on the application to dissolve the match. Then she looked at Zhan Ci. "I’ve already clicked to dissolve the match with Xie Jing. Is there anything else you need me to do?"
Zhan Ci took a safe out of his Space Button and opened it with a CLICK. It was filled with Fifth-rank Light Element Star Cores. There was an entire box of them, each the size of a quail egg. Gu Weilan didn’t even dare to imagine how many there were.
She wondered if they were trying to harvest her kidneys...
Seeing Gu Weilan’s somewhat forced smile, Zhan Ci hurriedly explained, "I have transferred a planet to you. It is a compensation payment from my master, the male Xie Jing, for dissolving the match with you."
How much?!
"Pomegranate Seed, I will never say there’s anything wrong with you altering my fertility again... This is a real way to get rich!" Gu Weilan said.
The system sighed. "Is there a possibility that Seeding wanted you to scoop these high-quality males into your bowl and have them use the Incubation Pod to birth high-quality cubs, so you could exchange them for items to improve your aptitude?"
"But what benefit do you get, Seeding?" Gu Weilan didn’t quite understand. This whole thing sounded completely beneficial to her!
As someone who had survived the Apocalypse, she immediately became vigilant. Anyone who had lived through the Apocalypse knew one truth: there was no such thing as a free lunch in this world!
"The Heavenly Dao of this world made a deal with our Good Pregnancy System, asking us to find beastmen to reproduce the extinct bloodlines of the interstellar beast world. The Heavenly Dao will then settle the payment by giving us a wisp of world origin. Of course, this is a top-tier item for a system," the system said without hiding anything from Gu Weilan. It was best to lay everything out in the open so they could develop and win together.
Gu Weilan finally felt much more at ease.
Meanwhile, seeing Gu Weilan blanking out, Zhan Ci asked, "If you feel it is not enough..."
Gu Weilan waved her hand. "As a beastman, one shouldn’t be too greedy. This is already a lot... May I ask which planet it is?"
Zhan Ci opened the holographic projection on his Light Brain and pointed at Star ZY617, which was very far from Star zg9527. "Resource 617 Star is a planet abundant in mineral resources. You don’t have to manage anything; you can just sit back and wait for the annual dividends. It generates about thirty billion Star Coins a year. However, it can only be mined for another three years before its mineral resources are depleted."
Gu Weilan couldn’t help but cover her kidneys. Who would give hundreds of billions in compensation just for rejecting an engagement?
However, Gu Weilan silently moved her hand away. She felt that even if her kidneys were made of pure gold, they probably wouldn’t sell for hundreds of billions...
She looked at Zhan Ci. "Do you have another request you haven’t mentioned yet?"
Zhan Ci nodded, looking a bit embarrassed. "There is another thing. We have observed that the female Gu Weilan’s Beast Rank upgrades very quickly. You’ve also seen that my two masters are having some problems. They need a female of at least the Fifth Rank to soothe their Spiritual Seas."
He pushed the safe forward. "Inside are Fifth-rank Light Element Star Cores. If you can break through to the Fifth Rank within half a year and are willing to help my two masters soothe their Spiritual Seas ten times, we will pay you extra Star Coins as a reward in addition to these Star Cores. Do you think this is acceptable?
"The reason I brought up dissolving the match first before telling you about this is that I don’t want to take advantage of you. Some clans would do this: they first have their matched unmarried Female Master help calm the frenzy values in the males’ Spiritual Seas, and after the female works hard to help, they demand to dissolve the match under the pretext of her low fertility.
"But our Qilin Clan would never do something so despicable. I put the dissolution of the match upfront because I didn’t want the female Gu Weilan to misunderstand. Moreover, every time my masters receive your soothing, they will pay you separately. We will absolutely not let you work for free!"
Gu Weilan grinned and waved her hand. "Hey—why are you talking like a stranger!" As she spoke, she closed the safe and pulled it toward herself.
"During this period, my two masters and I will temporarily reside here with you," Zhan Ci said.
Just then, a CHA-CHING sound of gold coins ringing out came from Gu Weilan’s Star Pay.
"This is our monthly rent. Is this acceptable? If it’s not enough..."
Gu Weilan looked at her Light Brain. Oh my God! This string of zeroes—she hadn’t even seen so many zeroes all at once in Chengdu in her previous life!
"It’s enough, it’s enough. Actually, this house was assigned to me for free by the academy." Gu Weilan felt a bit embarrassed, as if she were taking huge advantage of someone else for nothing.
Zhan Ci nodded. "We know. But since the academy assigned it to the female Gu Weilan, its ownership temporarily belongs to you. It is only right that we pay rent to live here!"
Gu Weilan nodded. That made sense. Just like how someone could obtain free first-hand information through their own abilities and then sell that information to those in need. That was also a skill, wasn’t it?
Holding the safe, Gu Weilan said to Zhan Ci, "I’m going to absorb the Star Cores as quickly as possible. Make yourselves at home."
Gu Weilan acted immediately. She wanted to upgrade her Beast Rank to the Fifth Rank as soon as possible and soothe Xie Jing’s frenzy value! No one could delay her money-making progress!
She hurried to the lawn behind the villa, absorbing the Fifth-rank Star Cores while basking in the sun.
Four days later, Gu Weilan arrived in Xie Jing’s bedroom and placed her finger right in the center of the red Qilin’s forehead.
"I’m going to start now!"