The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 92 Sunrise on the Sea
As Ling Chengen leaned against the haystack in thought, Bai Qingyu, lying beside him, had already fallen into a deep sleep.

When she came to her senses, she saw a clean and peaceful sleeping face.

Bai Qingyu's skin was very fair, even two shades lighter than hers. She probably hadn't had a proper rest in the past few days, so the dark circles under her eyes were particularly noticeable.

Ling Chengen leaned against the wall, looking up at the rays of sunlight streaming through the holes in the sky. His eyelids gradually grew heavy, and he closed them, tilting his head to the side as he quietly fell asleep.

Only when her breathing became regular and deep did Bai Qingyu, who was lying on the hay, open her eyes. She changed from sleeping on her side to lying on her back, with her head close to her legs, so that her sleeping face could be seen from below.

After those bright and focused eyes closed, her entire face, with its superior bone structure, softened. Her full, angular lips were gently pursed together, and her long hair slid down her shoulders, cascading over her chest and arms.

He slightly curled the corners of his mouth, slowly closed his eyes, but in his heart he was determined to win.

Although it was a bit late, he felt it wasn't too late, at least she hadn't developed any unusual feelings for other beastmen.

Even if he has to compete with other males, he will still be the one she favors the most.

……

When they woke up, it was already mid-afternoon. Both of them were still a little groggy and couldn't tell what time it was.

After Ling Chengen stepped out of the cave, he looked at the golden sun slowly setting on the west side of the plain and stretched lazily.

Bai Qingyu followed closely behind. As he bent down to come out of the cave, he caught a glimpse of her waist as she stretched out her body. He instinctively looked away, but quickly regained his composure and brought his gaze back.

To some extent, the Boshan Giant Tiger, though a large and ferocious beast, is also a feline.

Despite knowing Ling Chengen for so long, he rarely observed her languid side in her human form.

Today, I have the pleasure of meeting you.

After stretching, Ling Chengen had a contented expression on his face. He turned around and looked at Bai Qingyu, who was stuck at the entrance of the hole, and asked in confusion, "What are you doing?"

Bai Qingyu walked out of the cave and rearranged the grass that was blocking the entrance. She smiled and said, "It's rare to see you in such a good mood."

Ling Chengen: "I was naturally in a good mood after discovering such a large field of tree wheat."

"If the salt supply problem can be solved within this month, I should be happy for half a year."

Bai Qingyu sensed the joy and teasing in her tone and immediately transformed into her beast form: "There should still be a few beast hours before sunset. Let's go straight to the beach. We should be there before tomorrow morning."

"Are you sure you're okay traveling at night?"

Bai Qingyu looked down at her and smiled gently, "Isn't it you I have?"

His ability to see in the dark is indeed not very good, but Ling Chengen's night vision is excellent, and he also has a mental ability that can serve as a second pair of eyes, which can guide him and help him avoid obstacles.

Ling Chengen lightly leaped onto his broad back, and faced with his absolute trust, he calmly raised his hand and patted the back of his neck.

"Let's go then."

Bai Qingyu is very fast, especially after resting, her speed is even twice as fast as before.

Cranes can fly very high, and high altitudes mean a lower chance of encountering attackers.

Especially after sunset, travel is virtually unimpeded.

Before sunrise the next day, the two had already arrived in the eastern sea area.

Bai Qingyu landed atop the green mountain by the sea. After regaining his human form, he sat on a broad boulder at the summit to rest for a while. He patted the spot next to him and said, "Sit with me for a bit. We'll wait for the sunrise here, okay?"

Ling Chengen took out the previously grilled flying fish from his spatial storage and handed it to him: "Eat something first to replenish your energy."

"I didn't expect you to have such leisure time to bring me to see the sunrise?" Ling Chengen sat down beside him, took out a bamboo tube filled with water and handed it to him. "Have you been here before?"

Bai Qingyu took the flying fish skewered on the tree branch, accepted the bamboo tube handed to him, and let out a long sigh of relief: "No, but I've heard my father mention this place."

“Once we cranes find a mate, we spend almost all our time with them except when hunting. In addition, we have a strong ability to fly, so we often go to many places with our mates.”

“My father brought my mother here when we first got together. Our crane tribe also has a tradition of coming to the coast with our partners to watch the sunrise. As for why we have this tradition, I’m not quite sure. Maybe it’s because…it’s very romantic?” Bai Qingyu wasn’t quite sure either.

"I'll take you out sometime when I have the chance. I've already asked around with my father and the others about which place has the best scenery, which place has the sweetest fruit, and which place has the most delicious seafood..."

Ling Chengen listened to him speak slowly, resting her cheek on her hand and watching him quietly.

If he hadn't met her, he would definitely have had a very fulfilling life.

However, she couldn't bring herself to fall for an eighteen-year-old orc for the time being.

She sighed softly to herself. Maybe she could wait two more years and then she would be able to integrate more completely into this world and no longer be affected by that awkward feeling in her heart.

Twenty years old is just right, not too young, so that she doesn't feel like an old cow eating young grass.

Moreover, her body had only just reached adulthood at that time.

So there's no need to rush.

Bai Qingyu turned her head and found her staring at her. Her ears turned slightly red. She held the flying fish in her hand to her mouth: "Want to have some?"

Ling Chengen shook his head: "I'm not hungry, I ate on the way."

It was quite boring to be on Bai Qingyu's back, so she naturally didn't skimp on her food.

It must be said that Bai Qingyu's carefully selected food is indeed top-notch in taste.

The flying fish were so tender and delicious. Some of them were grilled without salt or seasoning, and the taste was so wonderful that it made her mouth water.

Bai Qingyu didn't withdraw her hand, but looked at her expectantly with bright eyes: "Just one bite."

Seeing that he was too persistent, Ling Chengen lowered his head and took a bite on the back of the fish. This kind of freshwater flying fish has very few bones, so one bite is full of fish meat.

Bai Qingyu withdrew his hand after seeing her eat, and said with a smile, "From now on, you'll be the first to eat any prey I hunt."

Ling Chengen said speechlessly, "Aren't you being a little too clingy?"

Bai Qingyu slowly ate the remaining fish, saying matter-of-factly, "You're my partner, isn't this what I should do?"

Ling Chengen tried to correct his incorrect statement: "We are not partners yet."

Bai Qingyu turned to look at her in shock: "You promised me that you would hold a marriage ceremony with me when we get back. You're not thinking of going back on your word, are you?"

"One should not be so untrustworthy."

Ling Chengen rubbed his forehead and sighed, "When I became a couple with Chongzhen and the others, we didn't hold any kind of ceremony."

Bai Qingyu narrowed his eyes slightly, placed one hand between the two of them, leaned close to her face, forcing her to lean back and stiffen her body.

"You kissed me." "That's something only partners should do."

"Besides, they don't have a marriage ceremony, that's because they're incompetent. I got you to agree to a marriage ceremony through my own abilities, so why can't I have one just because they didn't?"

"Besides, aren't they the spoils of war that your father earned for you?"

Why should spoils of war require a grand mating ceremony?

"Although I took the initiative to woo you, my situation is clearly different from theirs, isn't it?"

"Yes, you can't do this to me."

Bai Qingyu looked at the tip of her nose and the way her gaze shifted slightly due to guilt. She had already made up her mind and naturally revealed a wronged expression. Her voice carried a hint of seduction: "Or do you think I'm not worthy of a marriage ceremony?"

Ling Chengen was exasperated. Seeing Bai Qingyu getting closer and closer, he reached out and touched Bai Qingyu's forehead to stop him from getting any closer. His tone was somewhat helpless: "You can talk, but don't get so close!"

She was really wrong.

She had thought Bai Qingyu was the kind of person who was more restrained and arrogant, but it turned out that this person was no different from Chang Tianchen, who liked to take advantage of her.

The key is that she can't actually do what she did with Chang Tianchen and just throw him away.

Chang Tianchen was aggressive and relentlessly challenged her bottom line, while Bai Qingyu was...

Bai Qingyu removed the fingers that were pressed against his forehead, lowered his head and pecked the corner of her lips. He watched as she instinctively frowned, but did not try to test or challenge her bottom line any further.

"Evened out."

Bai Qingyu distanced herself from her and, before she could get angry, diverted her attention: "The sun is about to rise."

Ling Chengen raised his hand to touch the corner of his lips, first glancing at his smug, secretly amused expression, and finally staring expressionlessly at the line of red on the horizon directly in front of him.

The two sat side by side, quietly watching the entire sunrise over the sea. Only when the sun had completely risen above the horizon and people began to move on the distant beach did they prepare to leave from the mountaintop.

Little Huang Tong rolled and bounced around in Ling Chengen's mental domain, excitedly saying, "Ahhh, this crane is too good! It can actually understand your psychology, test your bottom line little by little, and even steal a kiss from you!"

"No way, I'm about to become his fan."

"An eighteen-year-old youth, full of vigor and vitality, was actually able to control his behavior..."

Ling Chengen said with a headache, "That's enough, or I won't let you out next time."

Xiao Huang immediately sealed himself off, but he was still too excited to contain himself.

This is truly an eye-opening experience! The little bird's successful courtship has finally given it hope of completing its mission.

Hopefully, the little bird will keep up its good work and win over this cold-hearted and aloof bad woman. It would be great if it could help him have triplets!
Seeing that it had stopped screaming, Ling Chengen reminded it, "Being paired with Bai Qingyu is a done deal. Why don't you ask for an advance on the mission rewards and tell me the location of the salt mines on the Beast Plains, or a safe way to purify salt?"

The system immediately changed its previous frivolous demeanor and said seriously, "Advance payments are not allowed."

"You have a long history of cheating. You've done plenty of things like taking advance mission rewards and then backing out at the last minute in your past life! If I fall for your tricks again, then my system is the most, most, most, most stupid AI in the entire universe!"

Ling Chengen touched the tip of his nose and sighed helplessly.

Never mind, I can just ask it for the reward after we've formed a pair.

Ling Chengen felt no remorse whatsoever for the various ways he had tricked the emperor in his past life.

After all, who wants to be an NPC in the apocalypse?
Especially the NPCs who will be sent sooner or later to protect the deeply emotional and tragic love story of the love-obsessed male and female protagonists!

……

"Those are Shanna beastmen over there, shall we go take a look?"

Bai Qingyu stood on a tree branch, turning her head to look at Ling Chengen, who was lost in thought beside her, wondering what she was thinking.

Are the Shanna people a sea tribe?

Ling Chengen was unfamiliar with this race, so he did not make a decision immediately.

Bai Qingyu shook his head: "The Shanna tribe is the offspring of the sea tribe and the land beastmen."

"The Shanna tribe includes sea-dwelling beastmen, land-dwelling beastmen, and amphibious beastmen. They should be considered a special race sandwiched between sea-dwelling and inland beastmen."

"The Shanna tribe has a small population and is one of the very few races that are allowed to hunt in the sea by the sea tribes."

"They seem to have the ability to distinguish between sea beasts and sea creature beastmen, which is why they were accepted by the sea creatures in a friendly manner."

However, the inland orcs are different; they can't accurately distinguish between sea creatures and sea beasts, so they often accidentally kill sea creatures...

It's also possible that it wasn't an accidental killing; some races deliberately hunted sea creatures, which eventually led to their expulsion from the sea creatures, who then forbade any outside groups from approaching the vast sea area.

However, there is no need to delve into who was right and who was wrong in the racial feuds of a thousand years ago.

If they want to solve the salt problem and no longer be subject to the tribes in the south, they may really need to try to deal with the sea people.

The sea is vast and abundant.

If we can gain the approval of the sea creatures and befriend them, we can also solve part of the problem of the shortage of supplies during the cold season.

"Do the Shanna tribe hate our inland orcs?" Ling Chengen was more concerned about this question.

Bai Qingyu frowned and said, "This... is hard to say."

“Some of the Shanna tribe beastmen are quite friendly, while others are very extreme. Even the land-dwelling beastmen within the Shanna tribe are discriminated against by these other beastmen.”

"Therefore, the Shanna orcs are scattered in the coastal areas, and the entire tribe does not gather together."

Bai Qingyu stared intently at the seaside. The early-rising Shanna tribe beastmen had already appeared on the beach, waiting for the morning tide to recede so they could start beachcombing.

"The Shan Na tribe in this area should all have relatively small animal forms, so they should be relatively easy to get along with."

Bai Qingyu recalled for a moment: "Last year during the cold season, due to the shortage of supplies and the thick ice on the major lakes, Hanshan had no choice but to send a hunting team to the coast to discuss with the Shanna tribe about fishing and hunting in the near sea. However, in order to avoid accidentally harming the sea creatures, we wanted to rely on the Shanna tribe's ability to distinguish them, and we promised to give them one-third of the catch as a reward."

"At first, we asked several small tribes of the Shanna people, but none of them were willing to help us. They even secretly framed us, which almost led to the sea creatures in the deep sea attacking us."

"In the end, some smaller Shanna orcs agreed to help, and we avoided the orcs in this area and went hunting in the Arctic Ocean region further north, which barely solved part of the food shortage crisis."

However, because they had wasted too much time on the long hunt, when the hunting party returned to the tribe with their prey, many orcs still chose to drag their old and sick bodies and walk alone into the cold wilderness of the beast plains.

“I can take you to those mountain beastmen who helped our tribe before.”

Bai Qingyu was also afraid of getting into a conflict with the Shanna tribe here. There were only two of them, and if the other side had any bad intentions and incited the nearby tribesmen who hated the land-walking beastmen, their situation would become very dangerous.

(End of this chapter)