Chapter – 22
Drool Tears…
But Li Yue still felt she was lying and even lost her temper over it. “Li Qingqing, why do you always evade responsibility like this? How will you ever earn the tribe’s trust? How will you take my place?”
“You really won’t believe me? Fine, you dislike my father and don’t care about his life, but what about the lives of everyone in the tribe? This is a plague!”
She spoke passionately and loudly, but Li Yue only swept a cold glance over her. “Still refusing to admit your fault? You insist on lying?”
Li Qingqing found communicating with her utterly exhausting. “Su Qianyi sneaked into my cave in the middle of the night to steal my things. Wasn’t I right to teach her a lesson?”
“I don’t care what I was like before, but today, I haven’t lied once! If you trust Su Qianyi so much, why don’t you just make her your daughter instead?”
Li Qingqing couldn’t understand why, after their seemingly mother-daughter bonding during the day, Li Yue was now believing Su Qianyi’s provocations in less than half a day.
After saying that, she turned to leave, but Li Yue stopped her with a shout.
“Confinement!” Li Yue roared. “Li Qingqing, you are confined for one month! You are not to leave your cave!”
Li Qingqing’s steps hesitated for just a moment before she continued walking. “Whatever.”
It wasn’t until Li Qingqing left that Li Yue’s emotions slowly calmed down. Remembering Li Qingqing’s claim that Chi Chenyan had coughed up blood, she couldn’t help but worry.
“Ah Qi.”
Someone outside heard the call and immediately entered. “Chief.”
“Go check on Chi Chenyan for me… see how he really is now.”
Ah Qi received the order and didn’t dare delay.
Even though Li Yue’s residence and Chi Chenyan’s cave were far apartâone on the east side of the tribe, the other on the westâhe managed to get there in less than half an hour.
“Chi Chenyan?” Ah Qi called out several times into the cave but received no response.
Just as he was about to step inside to investigate, a sound finally came from within. “Is that Ah Qi? It’s not convenient for me right now. If you have something, say it from outside.”
Ah Qi stopped in his tracks. “The chief heard you haven’t been well these past few days and sent me to ask if it’s true?”
Chi Chenyan didn’t want Li Yue to worry, so he suppressed a cough and replied, “No, everything’s been fine these days.”
“That’s good then. I’ll go back and report immediately!”
Only when the footsteps outside the cave faded away did Chi Chenyan burst into another fit of violent coughing, once again coughing up a handful of blood.
His face was now pale, as if critically ill and unlikely to last more than a few days.
When Ah Qi returned to report, he repeated what Chi Chenyan had told him. “Chief, that’s how it is. I didn’t notice anything unusual.”
Hearing this, Li Yue felt relieved, but her dissatisfaction with Li Qingqing grew even stronger. “Ah Qi, tell me, have I been too lenient with her?”
“Miss Qingqing really does need stricter discipline. She should learn properly from Miss Qianyi.” As Ah Qi answered, a cold glint flashed in his eyes.
Li Yue nodded in agreement. “Qianyi truly is a good child. Relay my order: send people to strictly guard Li Qingqing’s cave. Confine her for a month to teach her a lesson.”
“Yes.” As soon as Ah Qi stepped out, a pair of arms wrapped around his waist.
He turned his head to meet Su Qianyi’s excited face. “How did it go?”
Ah Qi hurriedly covered her mouth and whispered, “Keep your voice down.”
He pulled Su Qianyi to a secluded spot, unable to resist any longer, his hands roaming from her waist upwards.
Su Qianyi let out a few soft moans before pushing him away.
Ah Qi, now aroused, panted, “The chief has confined Li Qingqing for a month…”
Before he could finish, Su Qianyi丝ĺ¨ĺťä˝äťçĺ´, silencing him with an inviting kiss.
Su Qianyi allowed his hands to wander over her body, but as she leaned against him, a look of disgust appeared on her face.
“Qian…yi, will you really marry me… once you become chief?” His voice trembled along with his body.
“Of course, how could I lie to you?” Even as she said this, she thought to herself that his skills were really not up to par, all show and no substance,ćŻä¸ä¸ her other beast husbands.
Li Qingqing had originally planned to rest in her cave today and go to the Xuanming Forest tomorrow to search for the spirit stone.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she returned to her cave, a group of people arrived and surrounded it tightly.
Upon asking, she learned it was all on Li Yue’s orders.
In the original host’s memory, Li Yue’s previous confinements were always just a formality to appease the tribe’s anger, but this time she was serious.
“Teleportation door! Teleport me directly there!”
[The teleportation door can only be used for map areas you have not set foot in within this world.]
Hearing this, she looked dejectedly outside the cave.
Li Qingqing counted: six large men stood guard at the entrance, more in number than her own beast husbands.
“System, calculate the probability of me successfully forcing my way out?”
[See the one directly opposite the cave entrance? That’s Mo Li. Look at those muscles. One of him is enough to beat ten of you.]
“I see him.” Indeed, he was full of muscles, and his pectorals were also… As she looked, sad tears uncontrollably drooled from her mouth.
However, she couldn’t find anyone named ‘Mo Li’ in the original host’s memories. Then again, if the original host knew there was such a hunk, how could she have let him be?
[Host, can you be a bit more serious? This concerns lives!]
“Speaking of which, doesn’t the tribe have a witch doctor? Can the witch doctor cure him?”
[The witch doctor? His abilities seem about the same as yours. He can make Chi Chenyan die comfortably, that’s about it.]
Li Qingqing: “…”
[Side Quest Activated: Upgrade Wood Element Ability to L3 to help cure Chi Chenyan’s illness. Mysterious reward available.]
[This is to motivate you.]
The system really underestimated her. Whether it was a quest or not, whether there was a reward or not, she would still do her utmost to save him.
“If forcing my way out won’t work, then I can only rely on wit.”
Li Qingqing forced herself to stay awake until midnight. Finally, someone outside spoke.
“Finally got my turn to stay in a cave with my wife this month, and I run into this crap!”
“Why don’t you go back first? I’ll keep watch here,” Mo Li said calmly.
The man looked at the other three on the ground, already fast asleep and snoring, then looked at Mo Li. “Ah, Mo Li, you’re truly a good brother. Don’t worry, I’ll definitely have your future sister-in-law find you a good match.”
“Thank you, then.”
The talking stopped. That person had probably left. Li Qingqing didn’t dare make a single sound of footsteps.
She slowly moved to the cave entrance and saw that three men were already sound asleep, occasionally snoring. But Mo Li stood straight as a pine tree, showing no signs of sleeping.
“Damn, this guy has so much energy? Staying up late, staying up late… I hope all his tiger fur falls out,” Li Qingqing muttered under her breath.
But she forgot that Silver Tigers have exceptionally sharp hearing. Mo Li heard every word she just said.
Mo Li turned to look at her. The night was too dark, only their eyes shone brightly.
Li Qingqing had no time to hesitate. She decided to go for broke, using her wood element ability to bind him entirely with vines. “Sorry! I’ll come back to apologize properly later!”
