Cang Yuan described the general appearance of the breath-concealing grass again, and Su Cha memorized every detail.
This breath-concealing grass looked somewhat like windbell grass.
Based on Cang Yuan’s description, Su Cha went to the back of the mountain several times but couldn’t find the so-called breath-concealing grass.
Since she couldn’t ask other beastmen for help, she had no choice but to give up.
She would have to wait until Cang Yuan’s legs healed to look for it together.
Yunxi was already gone.
Now, the clan members’ attitudes toward Su Cha had taken a complete one-eighty, allowing her to experience a life of leisure once more.
Under Su Cha’s care, Bai Jiaojiao recovered quickly enough to get out of bed.
Ever since she got well, she frequently dropped by Su Cha’s place to visit.
Despite Bai Jiaojiao having a gentle and delicate-sounding name, her speech and actions were anything but.
She was straightforward and carefree, cementing her status as the clan’s top gossip.
Case in point, Bai Jiaojiao was gossiping about Su Cha’s affairs again today.
“Sigh, tell me, why did you fall for a male like Cang Yuan?
He can’t lift or carry a thing, and he even needs a female like you to take care of him.”
Su Cha suffered in silence, unable to explain.
“Maybe it’s because he’s good-looking.”
“Good looks can’t put food on the table.
When choosing a male, you need to pick someone with a high rank who treats females well.
Besides, a Snake Beastman has to hibernate in the winter.
You really need to find a couple more males to protect you before Cang Yuan goes into hibernation.”
“I don’t want to find anyone else.
Is there anyone in the tribe better looking than Cang Yuan?”
Bai Jiaojiao was rendered speechless.
There really wasn’t.
Su Cha’s stubbornly unbothered attitude made Bai Jiaojiao roll her eyes.
Ultimately, the conversation fizzled out thanks to Su Cha’s knack for killing the topic.
In the distance, unnoticed by the two women, Cang Yuan lightly tapped his fingertips against his wheelchair’s armrest, his emerald green eyes profoundly dark and unreadable.
Under Su Cha’s guidance, salt as fine as white snow was quickly extracted.
The Clan Leader pinched the snow-white salt between his fingers, unable to suppress the joy in his eyes.
He earnestly invited Su Cha to accompany him to the gathering in half a month.
Su Cha also wanted to see what a gathering in the beast world was like, so she gladly agreed.
One day, Su Cha stood outside Cang Yuan’s door and called out to him a few times.
When he didn’t respond, she simply opened the door and walked in.
Cang Yuan lay quietly on the bed, but his lower half had transformed into a long snake tail.
The black scales were visibly rich in texture, adorned with silver and green patterns that made the tail look even more elegant and striking.
The slender tip of the tail trailed off the edge of the bed, drooping toward the floor.
Su Cha couldn’t help but wonder.
She wasn’t a veterinarian—was this tail healed or not?
“Cang Yuan?” Su Cha called out softly and carefully, but there was still no response.
Feeling concerned, she reached out to lift the tip of his tail back onto the bed to cover him up.
However, the moment her hand touched it, a sudden, tremendous force threw her violently to the ground.
Su Cha was speechless.
She wondered if she was fundamentally incompatible with this sick snake, doomed to get hurt every time she got close to him.
To make matters worse, the culprit showed zero realization of his mistake.
Instead, his eyes were icy as he angrily demanded, “Who allowed you to touch my tail?”
Su Cha’s temper flared up.
Remaining seated on the floor, she retorted coldly, “I called you to eat several times, and you didn’t answer.
I had good intentions and was only trying to check your condition.
And this is your attitude?”
Sparks of confrontation exploded in the air.
Neither of them said another word.
One on the bed and one on the floor, they simply locked eyes in a tense standoff.
Just as Su Cha was about to get up and accept her bad luck, two cold, emotionless words drifted over from behind her.
“I’m sorry.”
This apology stunned Su Cha for a moment.
To think the arrogant villain actually took the initiative to apologize to her.
Giving him an odd look, she softened her tone as well.
“I was in the wrong too.
I shouldn’t have touched your tail without your permission.”
Fortunately, the fall hadn’t been too severe; only her butt hurt a little.
Cang Yuan looked down at his tail, obscuring his expression from Su Cha’s view.
She probed tentatively, “Can your tail transform back?
I don’t know how to treat a beast form.”
Acknowledging with a grunt, Cang Yuan obediently shifted his tail back into a pair of long, straight legs.
Su Cha naturally stepped forward to examine them.
A moment later, she said with a hint of surprise, “They’re already healed?
That was so fast.
Try getting out of bed and walking.”
It had only been half a month since she performed the surgery on him—a full half-month shorter than she had anticipated.
She had to admit, his recovery speed was truly incredible.
Cang Yuan didn’t seem surprised that his legs had healed.
A natural gift resided in his bloodline, allowing his wounds to recover rapidly.
Of course, the price was that he needed to enter a meditative state similar to hibernation during this period, rendering him completely unaware of his surroundings.
Su Cha had touched his tail right as he was regaining his senses; he had only pushed her away as a conditioned reflex.
Looking at her eyes burning with anger as she said she was merely concerned about him, he felt for the very first time that he might have made a mistake.
After repeatedly testing and confirming that Cang Yuan had fully recovered, Su Cha looked down at her own left hand, now wrapped in white cloth, and fell into silence.
When the beastmen in the tribe learned that Cang Yuan’s leg injury had healed, their admiration for Su Cha only grew.
An injury that even the Witch Doctor claimed was untreatable had actually been cured by a small female like Su Cha.
The Witch Doctor was so furious she nearly burst a blood vessel, but the Clan Leader sent someone over to relay a message: he would soon take Su Cha to the Central City to obtain her official authorization.
The Witch Doctor knew this was the Clan Leader’s thinly veiled warning.
As a result, her expression was incredibly sour while treating patients that day.
She looked so grim that she terrified the beastmen into thinking their days were numbered, making them seriously debate whether they should go to Su Cha for a second opinion later.
Meanwhile, unable to tolerate Bai Jiaojiao’s incessant chattering any longer, Su Cha had Cang Yuan take her out to look for breath-concealing grass the very next day.
Cang Yuan had searched the back of the mountain previously.
For some unknown reason, the patch of breath-concealing grass there had been picked completely clean.
Finding Su Cha too much of a burden to travel with on foot, Cang Yuan simply shifted into his beast form to carry her.
Although Su Cha had long known that Cang Yuan’s beast form was a snake, seeing the colossal creature before her still scared her into a daze.
“HISS~” You’re afraid of snakes?
Cang Yuan flicked his scarlet tongue at her, snapping Su Cha out of her stupor.
Only then did she take a good look at the snake in front of her.
It had a streamlined appearance with two slight protrusions on its head.
Its body was a glossy, pure black, embellished with interlacing silver and green patterns.
It was genuinely beautiful, like a work of art, exuding an aura that was both icy and domineering.
She had only ever seen a snake this massive through CGI in TV shows.
Cang Yuan’s inquiry was entirely ignored by Su Cha.
She couldn’t understand him at all and merely took the hiss as him urging her to hurry up.
Wrapped securely in his snake tail, Su Cha was effortlessly carried out of the tribe.
Normally, the tribe didn’t allow female beastmen to venture out alone, but it was fine as long as they were accompanied by a male.
Cang Yuan moved at an incredible speed.
The biting wind whipped against Su Cha’s face, stinging her skin.
Her hair had probably already turned into a rat’s nest.
Su Cha continuously reminded herself not to expect the villain to be gentle.
Soon enough, Cang Yuan brought Su Cha to a small lake in the Wu Luo Forest.
The Wu Luo Forest was extremely dangerous, but since Cang Yuan was a Sixth-rank Beastman, there was no real threat.
The moment he released his aura, no ordinary wild beasts dared to approach.
The air in the beast world was pristine, completely free from the severe industrial pollution of the modern era.
The lake was so crystal clear that she could see the fish and stones resting at the bottom.
The water displayed a healthy, vibrant shade of green—not the murky green of algae, but a natural hue reflected from the surrounding trees and the aquatic plants rooted in the lakebed.
It was truly beautiful.
Cang Yuan slithered to the water’s edge and harvested a plant that resembled windbell grass, which bore translucent fruits.