Chapter 68: I do not know about any female who does not want her males, but I want mine
The moment Lin Huahua asked Ya Yun why she was the one picking fruits for herself if she did not have a male, the duck woman felt as if somebody had walked over and slapped her right across the face in broad daylight.
Her fingers tightened around the basket handle at once, and although she tried to keep her expression soft and pitiful, the anger in her chest had already begun bubbling up like hot water in a pot.
This was because Lin Huahua’s question, even though it came from genuine curiosity, sounded like a very sharp insult in the beast world.
It was not as if Ya Yun had no males chasing after her.
She had many.
Too many, in fact.
But the problem was that most of them were not good enough for her taste. They were males without stripes, or one-striped beastmen at best, and although some of them were handsome enough, what use was handsomeness if a male could not hunt rare prey, carry heavy beasts back on his shoulders, or stand proudly in front of stronger clans without shaking in fear? In the beast world, power mattered. Strength mattered. Stripes mattered. A female who could attract powerful males would naturally hold her head higher than one surrounded only by weak ones.
So yes, Ya Yun had suitors. Plenty. She just did not want any of them.
She was simply very greedy.
She wanted the strong ones.
The handsome ones.
The males with broad chests, powerful arms, and enough stripes to make other people nervous. That was why she had kept circling around Hu Baiyu and the others for so long. Even if she could not get all of them, getting even one would be enough to raise her standing by a lot.
Yet now the rat princess had asked that question so directly.
Ya Yun’s smile almost cracked, but she still held it in place and answered in a soft tone, "Princess misunderstands. It is not that I do not have suitors. It is only that I have not found anyone suitable yet."
Lin Huahua blinked.
On her side, she really had only been curious. Yesterday and today, she had already noticed that females in this world were surrounded by males so often that it seemed to be a normal law of nature. If a female sweated, a male was already there with water. If she looked tired, someone would crouch and offer to carry her. If she wanted fruit, somebody had likely already climbed a tree before she finished her sentence. Even single women seemed to have males hovering somewhere nearby trying to be useful. So when she saw Ya Yun picking fruits herself, of course she found it strange.
But Ya Yun heard no innocence in that question at all.
To her, it sounded like mockery.
And because she was already jealous and frustrated, she could not help letting a little of her meaning spill out.
She lowered her eyes, adjusted her basket, and said in a faintly wistful voice, "Not every female is as lucky as Princess. Some of us still have to wait for the right males. Of course, if there are males somewhere who are not truly wanted, then another female would naturally be very happy to cherish them properly."
Ya Yun’s voice stayed soft and sweet on the outside, but inside her chest the anger bubbled hotter because the rat princess was standing there looking so small and soft and clueless, her white rat ears perked up in genuine confusion, her fluffy tail giving one little curious swish, and yet every word from her mouth felt like it was mocking Ya Yun for not having strong males of her own.
At first, Lin Huahua did not understand.
She just stared at Ya Yun and wondered why this woman was speaking in circles like a snake wearing perfume.
Then a second later, her little brain caught up.
Oh.
Oh!
This woman was talking about her males.
This bitch.
Lin Huahua’s little white rat ears lifted sharply in offense, and her fluffy white tail gave one hard, indignant flick behind her that almost knocked against a nearby bush, because even though she had been planning to find good females for her males later, the moment another woman tried to reach out greedy hands toward them she suddenly felt a warm, stubborn fire in her chest that made her want to puff up like a tiny angry dumpling and declare that no one else was allowed to even look at her deer or her lion or her fox.
The funny part was that if someone asked her yesterday whether she intended to find good females for those males one day, she would say yes very quickly. Yet right now, hearing another woman hinting that she would gladly take them away made Lin Huahua feel such sudden possessiveness that even she herself was startled by it.
The feeling rose so fast that it almost made her want to laugh.
How shameless.
She was literally the one planning to find them proper females later, but the moment another woman reached greedy hands in their direction, she instantly wanted to bare her tiny white rat teeth and bite somebody.
So Lin Huahua smiled in a way that made Ya Yun suddenly feel a little uneasy.
Then the little rat princess said, "I do not know about any female who does not want her males, but I want mine."
The words fell clearly into the air.
Mu Qingyi’s breath almost stopped.
Hu Baiyu’s whole body went rigid.
Even the morning breeze seemed to pause for a moment.
Lin Huahua, however, was not done.
She lifted her chin a little more, looked straight at Ya Yun, and said with complete certainty, "And these males belong to me and me alone."
Ya Yun’s face changed instantly.
Shock.
Real shock.
She stared at Lin Huahua as if she had just heard a dead person begin singing in broad daylight.
The rat princess wanted her males?
The rat princess, who had abused them, humiliated them, and treated them worse than some people treated dogs?
That rat princess?
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