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Posted by Harry, Released on November 22, 2025

Chapter – 21

Plague…

Today, Su Qianyi had heard in the tribe that Li Qingqing had gotten a really good treasure—putting meat in it made it smell incredibly delicious—so she came to take a look.

Unexpectedly, she was caught red-handed. But she wasn’t even embarrassed.

However, Li Qingqing’s aura was increasingly like Li Yue’s, and Su Qianyi instinctively took a few steps back.

“Li Qingqing, what makes you think you can surpass me? Isn’t it just luck that you were born into Li Yue’s belly?” she said, unwilling to accept it. Why should this happen to her!

Li Qingqing picked up the iron pot that had fallen to the ground. “Su Qianyi, you’d better not provoke me again. Do you really think I’m still useless?”

With that, she threw a fireball at her.

Immediately, Su Qianyi’s fur and hair caught fire, giving off a foul burnt smell.

She screamed in pain; as an Earth-element user, she had no way to extinguish the flames.

It wasn’t until Li Qingqing deemed that she had been taught a proper lesson that she sprayed water on her, putting out the fire.

Su Qianyi lay on the ground, feeling as if she had narrowly escaped a disaster. She looked up at Li Qingqing, her eyes full of fear and hatred.

“Li Qingqing, what did you do? How did you suddenly gain so many powers overnight?”

“It’s getting late. Why aren’t you going back to your beast husband? Don’t know if seeing you like this will make him dislike you…”

Su Qianyi touched her burnt hair, gritted her teeth, and got up from the ground. “Just wait, Li Qingqing. I’ll make you pay sooner or later.”

With that, she ran out of Li Qingqing’s cave.

Li Qingqing climbed back into bed and said to the system, “Check the affection levels of the beast husbands.”

System:
Ling Mo affection: 25
Feng Nu: 25
Xiao Ziye: -35
Chi Lin: 10
Bai Yuan: 20

Li Qingqing stroked her chin. Xiao Ziye’s affection value was like a tractor climbing a hill—always fluctuating. The others were all rising steadily.

Especially Bai Yuan—she remembered that it had been -20 before, but now it had increased so much.

While thinking about how to proceed with her romance strategy, she heard movement at the cave entrance again.

She thought it would be Su Qianyi returning. “Are you done? What are you doing here again?”

But the response was a sickly, disappointed voice: “Sorry, Qingqing. Father just wanted to come see you.”

Li Qingqing turned and saw a man who resembled Chi Lin, but his red-streaked white hair made him look particularly old.

His lips were pale, and his unhealthy appearance made it clear he wasn’t well.

In the original owner’s memory, this was her father, Chi Chenyan—Chi Lin’s uncle.

Chi Chenyan also had a hard life and was not favored by Li Yue. If it weren’t for the original owner’s father, he would have been dismissed long ago.

The original owner wasn’t close to him either, even thinking his friendliness was just to gain Li Yue’s favor.

Li Qingqing immediately jumped up from the bed.

“Father, what’s wrong?”

Hearing her call him ‘Father,’ Chi Chenyan froze. This was the first time his daughter had addressed him like this as an adult.

Tears welled up in his eyes. “It’s nothing. I just wanted to come see you.”

Chi Chenyan’s body was weak; as he walked toward Li Qingqing, his steps were unsteady. Several times, she worried he might fall.

Li Qingqing quickly stepped forward to support him. “Father, your body isn’t well. Why come out in the wind?”

Her words, warm and caring, were something he had never heard from his daughter. Chi Chenyan was momentarily at a loss for how to respond.

“Qingqing, you’re grown up now. One day you’ll help your mother with the tribe’s affairs,” he said, patting her hand with pride.

After this brief contact, Li Qingqing felt that Chi Chenyan was a gentle man and posed no threat—after all, his body was frail.

He must have been extremely handsome in his youth, just like Chi Lin.

She really couldn’t understand why Li Yue disliked him so much.

From afar, Chi Chenyan saw the fire in the cave and the disheveled appearance of Su Qianyi coming out. “Was that fire caused by Chi Lin?”

Li Qingqing didn’t have time to answer before he continued: “Chi Lin is a good boy. I always tell him to treat you well…”

“Now that you understand more, you should also treat people kindly. I’ve tasted the bitterness of being away from your mother’s tribe. I regret letting my nephew go through the same path I did—it was my fault…”

Hearing this, Li Qingqing finally understood that it was Chi Chenyan’s plan for Chi Lin to marry into the Silver Tiger Tribe.

She wondered why Li Yue would allow her only daughter to marry his nephew while despising Chi Chenyan so much.

“I know,” she replied seriously.

“Cough… cough…” He suddenly began to cough violently, covering his mouth with his hand, turning away so she wouldn’t be disgusted.

When he stopped coughing, his back stiffened. Li Qingqing realized something was wrong and went around him to see his hands covered in blood.

It must have come from his coughing. Li Qingqing froze. “Father… what is this?”

He waved his hand as if to say it was nothing. “It’s just an old problem.”

In the original world, she had been an orphan who lost both parents. Here, she didn’t want to lose anyone.

Li Qingqing used her Wood-element power, enveloping Chi Chenyan in a green light while he looked on in shock.

[Host, Chi Chenyan has contracted the plague. Your current power level L1 cannot cure it and you risk infection.]

Hearing this, Li Qingqing stepped back, her hands stopping mid-use of her powers.

“This is Wood-element power? How did you get it?” Chi Chenyan asked, feeling better under the effect of the green glow.

“Father, have you been going out frequently these days?”

He shook his head. “I usually stay in the cave. Meals are delivered by your mother’s people. Today I came out to see you; the sun made me a bit uncomfortable.”

Thinking of Li Yue, his eyes softened.

Li Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief. Not many people had contact with him, so the disease hadn’t spread through the tribe yet.

“Father, you must not leave the cave these days. If someone brings food, leave it at the entrance. Do not let them enter,” she instructed seriously.

Chi Chenyan didn’t fully understand but nodded, seeing her earnest expression.

“Father, go home for today. Remember what I said!”

“Okay.”

Watching Chi Chenyan leave, his frail back fading into the distance, Li Qingqing felt a pang of sadness.

She immediately wrapped herself in a layer of her powers to prevent infection.

Then she thought of the person who delivered meals to Chi Chenyan daily. That person was likely already infected.

She set off under the moonlight toward Li Yue’s tree cave.

At that moment, she ran into Su Qianyi, whose hair still bore scorch marks, probably from being disciplined.

Her gaze seemed to say: “You’re in for it now.”

As soon as Li Qingqing entered, Li Yue’s eyes were filled with impatience. “Why did you maliciously set fire and burn Qianyi’s hair like that?”

Li Qingqing didn’t have time to explain and went straight to the point: “Mother, who has been delivering meals to my father every day?”

“You’ve seen Chi Chenyan again?” Li Yue’s frown deepened.