Arc 6: Chapter 23 (end)
The sunset afterglow dyed the thick clouds a vibrant red, and the whole world seemed to be trapped underneath a gorgeous glow.
As Lin Yuan cooked rice, the fragrance spread and many passing beastmen wondered curiously what kind of food this little female was making that smelled this good.
Yue had gone out hunting for meat. Lin Yuan planned to cook a fancy, rich plate of fried rice with a bowl of hotpot on the side. Instead of making the soup base himself, he pestered 521 to buy a box from the system mall.
Thinking of its future nephew, 521 could only agree. After buying the hotpot soup base, it then went and complained to the baby bulge about his father’s favoritism towards his husband.
When Yue came back, he was carrying a dead boar on his shoulder, and the bamboo basket on his back was filled to the brim with fish, shrimp, vegetables, and several bird eggs.
After processing all of the raw ingredients, Lin Yuan dropped the shrimp into the pan and stir-fried it until it was pink, and then used the leftover oil to fry the eggs.
He poured oil into the pan again, and fried the sliced sausages and diced meat until almost fully cooked, and then the previously scrambled eggs, fried rice, and leafy greens were mixed in and stir-fried together.
The moment the lard sizzled in the pan, nearby beastmen seemed to be hooked by the scent and couldn’t walk away. The fragrance only became stronger and stronger as Lin Yuan cooked.
“What is this little female doing? Why does it smell so good?”
“Gulp. I’ve never smelled food this fragrant before!”
The beastmen of Creek Forest Tribe also came over. When they heard Lin Yuan say that he was cooking rice, everyone was looking forward to eating it when the tribe’s rice matured.
There were a lot of ingredients in the pot, and it was inconvenient for Lin Yuan to move with his pregnant belly, so he asked Yue to stir-fry the pan while he prepared another pot to make the hotpot.
The smell of fried rice was already mouth-watering, but it couldn’t compare to hotpot.
The hotpot base from the system mall wasn’t as simple as the one Lin Yuan made before. Once the soup boiled, the numbing spicy and savory aroma rushed out in fragrant waves of steam.
The Creek Forest Tribe beastmen only thought that today’s hotpot smelled better than usual, and they looked on with envy. Only the priest and the chief got a bowl of fried rice and a bowl of boar meat cooked in the hotpot soup.
Yue filled a bowl with rice and sat down next to the hotpot to eat. Yue fished out the cooked slices of meat from the hotpot broth and ate it with a mouthful of fried rice. He found that today’s food was much tastier than before, his little female was really awesome!
The beastmen around didn’t expect that a slave could eat such delicious smelling food and they felt unfair in an instant.
Someone said directly: “As a slave, how can you eat this food? Just wait for the Beast God will punish you!”
Hearing the accusation, Yue was very calm, and even expressionless. The Beast God didn’t punish him when he killed the robbers before, and now he was just eating some good food, what could happen? He looked up at the accusing beastmen and the fire illuminated his sharp features: “Who are you? Are you my master, or the Beast God?”
The beastmen didn’t expect Yue to talk back and suddenly choked on his words: “I… I’m not your master, but you are a slave. Slaves aren’t worthy to eat this food.”
Yue’s eyes chilled and he smiled mockingly: “Yes, I’m a slave. But whether or not I deserve to eat this food is not up to you. Only my master has the final say.”
He looked over at his little female. His Sui Sui was also looking at him, golden eyes sparkling, beautiful, and well-behaved.
Yue gave a soft smile, and his low voice carried an indescribable tone of teasing: “Master, what do you think?”
It wasn’t the first time Yue had called Lin Yuan maste’, but for some reason, this time it sent a weak electric current through his body. Lin Yuan was almost certain that his husband was flirting with him and his ears reddened. He said awkwardly: “...All of my food is yours.”
Yue seemed to have gotten support. He turned to the beastman and said lazily: “You heard him. My master allowed me to eat this food. I must obey my master’s orders.”
The beastman felt that Lin Yuan was crazy and couldn’t believe it: “Little female, has your brain gone bad? You actually let a slaveー”
Lin Yuan didn’t want to hear a stranger say bad things about his husband and interrupted irritably: “You’re so annoying, why do you keep talking while others are eating? Yes! My brain is bad and I let my slave eat good food, I let my slave mark me, what does it have to do with you? Can you just get lost!”
The eyes that looked at Lin Yuan turned into contempt. “He actually let a slave mark him. This little female is dirty.”
“This little female looks like this, only a slave is willing to mark him, how pitiful.”
“I’ve never seen a female who is willing to be marked by a slave and get pregnant with his cub. Shamelss.”
Yue heard the clamor of insults and contempt at his Sui Sui and his face darkened instantly. The anger and murderous thoughts at the bottom of his heart were ready to erupt.
It was very easy for him to kill all of these beastmen.
But now was not the time.
Lin Yuan didn’t care about these voices at all. He said sarcastically: “Yes, yes, yes, I’m dirty. You all better stay away from me, otherwise my dirtiness will infect you all.”
The beastman didn’t have the interest to continue to argue, and he turned around and left. But the onlookers still didn’t want to leave, after all, the red soup still smelled good.
Lin Yuan was too lazy to pay attention to these beastmen. He concentrated on eating and feeding his husband.
After two hours, Yue put down his bowl. Lin Yuan smiled and pecked Yue’s particularly red lips: “Full?”
The onlookers saw this scene and criticized Lin Yuan in their hearts that this little female had no eyesight and had to choose a slave over a normal male.
Yue was stunned by the soft touch on his lips. He stared at the smiling little female silently and then got up and cleaned the dishes as usual.
After he was done, Yue no longer hid as before and walked over to Lin Yuan and directly picked him up.
Lin Yuan hugged the man’s neck and stroked the protruding Adam’s apple. His voice was soft and clingy: “You didn’t let me hold you in the afternoon but now you can? You’re so troublesome~”
Yue leaned over and touched their foreheads, making their breaths intertwine: “I won’t in the future. I’ll do whatever Sui Sui wants me to do, as long as Sui Sui is happy.”
Lin Yuan bit the man’s lips gently and laughed: “I’m very happy.”
Carrying the small and soft little female in his arms, Yue felt as if his entire body had been filled with warmth little by little since the first night they met.
The little female’s warmth chased away the cold and pain from those days and nights of hunger and death.
He was sure now, he was never a slave.
【Di! Congrats host, the villain’s blackening value has decreased to 3%.】
【Di! The villain’s blackening value has decreased to 0% and has been successfully cleared. Congrats on completing the task.】
Lin Yuan originally thought that Yue’s blackening value would only be cleared after he got rid of his slave status, so he completely stunned when heard the system prompt at this time.
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Before the Beast God Festival, beastmen from various tribes would exchange goods with each other, naturally creating a market. Lin Yuan didn’t care about the disdainful eyes from others and took his husband here and there to exchange things.
The news that a little female was marked by a slave and even pregnant with his cubs soon spread among the tribes, in addition, this little female could make delicious food that they had never seen before.
These days, wherever Lin Yuan cooked, there were many onlookers watching with envious eyes.
Unknowingly, this news spread all the way to the high priest. One day, the priest suddenly found Lin Yuan and said helplessly: “Yuan, the High Priest refuses to remove Yue’s slave status, saying that as a slave he is not qualified to mark females and angered the Beast God, so he can never atone and become an ordinary beastman.”
Lin Yuan was a little worried. After he told Yue this, he hugged the man tightly and kissed him soothingly: “It’ll be okay, Yue, don’t worry…”
Yue’s arm around Lin Yuan’s waist tightened and he skillfully responded to the little female’s kiss. He had long expected things to not be so easy. He hooked the tip of the soft tongue and teased it, saying: “Sui Sui, I want to mark you, really really want to…”
Lin Yuan stared at Yue’s burning eyes and made sure that Yue wasn’t putting on a strong act. Looking left and right, he couldn’t see any worry at all.
“...”
Lin Yuan looked down at his round stomach. The fetus was six months old now, and it would probably be okay?
“Then… you be gentle…”
Doing it slowly was like torturing people. Lin Yuan was brought to tears and begged weakly next to the man’s ear: “Faster… faster…”
It was rare for Yue to convince his little female and he naturally wanted to enjoy it and drag it out for as long as possible. He didn’t listen to Lin Yuan’s words and turned this mark into a long torment.
The next morning, Lin Yuan was so angry he bit him several times to vent.
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After the festival, the Creek Forest Tribe acquired over a dozen new slaves. Yue often took the group of slaves out on hunts and they brought a lot of prey back for the tribe. Now, the Creek Forest Tribe had no shortage of food.
A few months later, Lin Yuan gave birth to a little male cub who looked just like Yue. The cub was like a white dumpling, plump and cute.
Every day, 521 couldn’t be separated at all from its little nephew.
After giving birth, Lin Yuan rested in bed for over a month, and he gained a layer of weight. He was originally thin and skinny, but now with rosy lips and healthy flush, he looked even more beautiful.
One morning, Yue handed the baby over to the priest and carried Lin Yuan into the forest on his back with the slaves following them.
They went deep into the forest to a remote location, where towering trees had been uprooted and piled up in a heap.
Yue placed Lin Yuan down on a stump. He cupped his little female’s tender cheek with his cool hand and whispered: “Sui Sui, I listened to you and thought of a way to become a god.”
He looked back and the dozen or so slaves seemed to have received a signal, and all of them turned into their beast forms, each terrifying giant beasts.
Yue was the last one to transform. The giant black serpent seemed to be able to cover the sun, and it bowed its head in front of Lin Yuan, willingly offering its eternal loyalty.
Lin Yuan reached out and patted the scales on Yue’s head and said softly: “Don’t get hurt, and don’t be afraid.”
Lin Yuan didn’t participate in the next Beast God Festival, and Yue didn’t want him to participate either, so he stayed in the tribe, farming and raising their child.
Three months later, the rest of the tribe returned and Yue’s mark was gone, and the marks on other slaves were gone too.
They were now called a different title: the descendents of the Beast God.
Lin Yuan didn’t ask Yue what happened, instead, the priest explained the ins and outs to him.
At the Beast God Festival, many dinosaurs suddenly attacked, and it was Yue and the slaves who saved everyone. Afterwards, the high priest from the Beast God Temple declared that Yue and the slaves weren’t incarnations of demons at all, it was the temple who had violated the Beast God’s will. In truth, they were actually the descendants of the Beast God.
That night, after coaxing their baby to sleep, Lin Yuan jumped onto the body of the descendent of the Beast God and kissed him passionately.
Yue hugged Lin Yuan carefully and the two of them fell back onto the bed. They rolled from the head of the bed to the end, and then from the end to the head.
They couldn’t bear to separate from each for even a minute. After not seeing each other for three months, they only wanted to cling and entangle with each other.
Lin Yuan rubbed Yue’s chin with kitten-like licks and said aggrievedly: “I missed you so much…”
Yue couldn’t control himself and kissed his little female deeply. He paused for a breath and said slowly: “Now, even if Lin awakens as a giant snake, there’s no need to worry. He would be a divine descendent, and he’ll never have to be afraid of winter like I did…”
Their baby was named Lin, taking Lin Yuan’s surname.
Hearing Yue’s words, Lin Yuan hummed softly and wrapped his legs around the man’s waist.
In the midst of the intense rhythm, Lin Yuan thought of something and chuckled softly and said hoarsely: “Descendent… of the gods, am I… am I committing blasphemy right now?”
Yue was aroused by this sentence and his desire burned even stronger. He breathed heavily into Lin Yuan’s ear and replied: “No… It’s me. I’m serving my master, my god…”
His little female, his master, his god, his everything…