As soon as Cang Yuan woke up, he saw the female’s gaze glued to his face.
Although he knew the person in front of him had saved him, it still made a wave of disgust rise within him, just like many times before.
Cang Yuan suppressed the disgust in his eyes to the deepest depths and asked coldly, “Did it work?”
Su Cha was peeking—no!
She was openly staring at the handsome man, and getting caught made her feel a bit awkward.
Although Cang Yuan tried to hide it, she didn’t miss that fleeting look of disgust.
She thought, “Heh, it seems he is quite good at pretending normally.
This is the true nature of the ultimate villain—gloomy, ruthless, misogynistic, and misanthropic.”
Su Cha rubbed her nose and replied with equal coldness, “Yes.
For the next two days, you can only lie in bed.
No large movements.
You can only get out of bed once the wound is healed.
Just call me if you need anything.”
After speaking, she left the room.
Cang Yuan acutely sensed that Su Cha’s mood was slightly different, but he couldn’t pinpoint exactly what had changed.
The previous Su Cha could cleverly and confidently handle all sorts of troubles, managing everything in the house in perfect order.
Sometimes, she was as lazy as a cat, capable of basking in the sun in the courtyard for half the day.
She treated everyone coldly, only occasionally offering a polite, token smile.
That kind of smile was merely superficial, nowhere near as genuine as the faint smile she wore while sunbathing.
Too lazy to think much about it, Cang Yuan slightly shifted his body to lean half-upright against the bed.
His leg still ached faintly, but compared to the pain he had long grown accustomed to, it had lessened significantly.
When he saw his thigh, stitched up so cleanly that the original, hideous wound was barely visible, even he—usually so composed—couldn’t help but let his pupils contract slightly.
His injury had been caused by a direct gore from the horn of an adult Three-Horned Dragon Beast.
He still clearly remembered how his flesh had been torn open.
Although his recovery ability was good and he cleaned it regularly, making it less terrifying than before, this female had actually managed to restore the surface skin of his leg to almost normal.
Without looking closely, the traces were unnoticeable.
He wondered how she had managed to do it.
When Su Cha entered again, she carried a bowl of medicine and a bowl of mouth-watering, fragrant porridge.
She first handed the medicine to Cang Yuan, and only after seeing him drink it did she pass over the piping hot shredded chicken and vegetable porridge.
Cang Yuan glanced at Su Cha’s still-cold expression and took the porridge.
Su Cha left without a word, and Cang Yuan drank the porridge in silence.
The porridge she made was different from what he cooked.
Su Cha always managed to make any kind of food incredibly delicious—the saltiness was just right, carrying the umami of the chicken broth and the crisp freshness of the vegetables.
Outside the door, Su Cha let out a breath and shook her head, wondering what she was so worried about.
He was the villain, after all.
She had already done everything she could, and Cang Yuan had promised to grant her one condition.
Even Mu Beichen had been derailed from the original plot because of her meddling, so she could definitely change her own predetermined fate.
In two days, Yunxi would leave the tribe and return to the Fox Clan to claim the throne and her “fiancé,” the third male lead of the original book—a pure, innocent, and adorable little fox.
The original author had arranged several beast husbands for the female lead, Yunxi, each with his own unique traits, and all of them were incredibly powerful and handsome.
This sweet, younger-brother type belonged to the Fire Fox Clan, a relatively high-status lineage within the Fox Clan.
His name was Chi Yue, and he was Tu Yunxi’s arranged marriage partner from childhood.
Within the Fox Clan, there were two direct royal lineages.
One was the female lead’s Nine-tailed White Fox lineage, and the other was Chi Yue’s Fire Fox Clan.
The innate talents of these two lineages could be excellently inherited by the next generation.
The Nine-tailed White Foxes in particular were exceptional.
Regardless of whether they were male or female, they were born as Second-stage Beastmen.
Most females of the Fox Clan were quite beautiful, making them the ideal partners that many male Beastmen pursued.
Mo Ze didn’t go back with Yunxi.
By the time Yunxi returned, three months would have passed, and by then, with the help of the Fox Clan, she would have successfully advanced to the fourth stage.
Later that afternoon, Lu Ming’s family came over with a large pile of sugarcane.
This time, Su Cha didn’t let any other Beastmen into the house; she only had Lu Ming carry everything inside.
Because of what happened yesterday, the amount of sugarcane today was several times larger than before, and she spent over a dozen shell crystals on it.
Afterward, she familiarly invited the Beastmen who had previously helped her repair the courtyard wall to come over and help extract the sugarcane juice.
The last two times they repaired the wall, Xiong Da and Xiong Er had made a reservation with her: if her family ever needed help with anything in the future, she should call them first.
The two Bear Beastmen were very capable and had honest, good-natured temperaments, so Su Cha had agreed.
Storing the extra sugarcane in her spatial dimension, Su Cha prepared to process a portion of it first.
Sugar did not exist in this beast world.
There was honey, but the yield was extremely low, and only a few wealthy Beastmen could afford it.
Following the method Su Cha taught them, Xiong Da and Xiong Er washed the sugarcanes one by one and extracted the juice.
Su Cha took a taste—it was sweet and delicious.
She filled a bamboo cup with it, planning to let Cang Yuan try some.
Even while lying in bed, Cang Yuan wasn’t idle.
He had found some animal skins from somewhere and was busy sewing them together.
Su Cha’s mouth twitched.
It did not fit the image of an ultimate villain at all.
However, Su Cha knew that females in the beast world were delicate and precious figures.
They didn’t need to do chores like sewing animal skins or cooking; there were plenty of males willing to help.
“Try this and see if you like it,” Su Cha said, handing the cup over.
Her eyes unconsciously glanced at his long legs covered by a tiger skin.
Out of her occupational habit as a doctor, her mouth moved faster than her brain.
“Do you need me to help you change your pants?”
As soon as the words left her mouth, Su Cha wanted to slap herself, wondering why she even cared about that!
“COUGH COUGH!” Cang Yuan had just taken a sip and choked on Su Cha’s words.
His face turned a bit red from holding back his coughs.
After a long while, two suppressed words squeezed out of his throat.
“No.
Need.”
Relieved, Su Cha maintained a serious expression and continued, “Oh, alright then.
Just rest like this for today.
I’ll check your wound tomorrow.” Then, without waiting for Cang Yuan to answer, she quickly walked out.
Watching Su Cha flee as if she were terrified he would actually make her change his pants if she lingered a second longer, Cang Yuan’s face darkened.
He thought, “What is so good about sweet root tree juice?
Only females like this kind of cloying stuff.”
He was just about to put down the cup in his hand when he felt something wasn’t quite right.
He ended up picking it back up and drinking it all, not wasting a single drop.
After half a day’s work, Xiong Da and Xiong Er had extracted the juice from dozens of sugarcanes and stored it in wooden barrels.
Su Cha poured some into a few bamboo tubes and placed them in her spatial dimension.
The flow of time inside her space was slower; something that could only be stored for one day outside could last for ten days inside.
After giving them fifteen beast coins each along with a cup of sugarcane juice, Su Cha sent them back.
Boiling the rest into brown sugar required some experience, so she needed to handle it herself.
Su Cha stored the remaining sugarcane juice in her space and decided to use one barrel first to test the boiling process.
Boiling sugar was a lengthy process.
It was so tedious that Su Cha began to consider whether she should also cooperate with the Clan Leader on the sucrose business and have him find someone to do it for her.
About two hours later, the pale yellow sugarcane juice had been boiled into a burnt golden color, and the entire barrel of juice had reduced to a tenth of its original volume.
Only then did Su Cha pour it into the animal skin molds she had prepared earlier, setting it aside to cool.