Yunyang tilted her head back slightly.
Their breaths mingled, growing hot and heavy.
Feeling Qin Mo's excitement, she gasped between kisses: "Sh-shower first..."
That was her bottom line.
Absolutely no starting without a shower!
Qin Mo held her tightly, struggling to restrain himself. It took a while before he managed to suppress his urges and carry her to the bathroom.
Yunyang took the opportunity to look around Qin Mo's room.
Perhaps because he came from the Federal Army, everything in Qin Mo's room was arranged in perfect order—no less neat than Fu Shiyi's place.
Except...
That neatness wouldn't last much longer.
Yunyang suspected the Federation had done this on purpose. Every room in her villa had an oversized bathtub, spacious enough for two people without feeling cramped.
It made you feel like you'd be wasting the tub if you didn't do something in it.
Anyway, Qin Mo certainly thought so.
He carefully bathed Yunyang, then scrubbed himself clean, and then he couldn't hold back anymore.
After the tub was filled with fresh water, Yunyang found herself in a scorching embrace.
The Tiger Cub's body temperature ran higher than both the wolf cub's and Dapeng's.
Yunyang jolted from the heat, water splashing everywhere with her movements.
Even though they were in a hard-walled tub, none of her beast-husbands ever let Yunyang bump into anything.
...
During a brief intermission, Yunyang lay wearily in Qin Mo's arms.
She knew perfectly well that Qin Mo wouldn't stop there, so after being wrapped in a bathrobe and carried out of the bathroom, she whispered in his ear.
"Qin Mo, control yourself tonight!"
She didn't want to pass out in the middle of things again.
"...My mate, I'll try."
Qin Mo's promise was as reliable as thin air.
Before losing consciousness, Yunyang bit down on his neck, venting with all her strength.
But this Tiger Cub had skin thick as leather—she even tasted blood, yet Qin Mo didn't so much as frown.
Damn him!
·
After a full night's sleep, Yunyang was back to her lively self.
She checked the time and saw it wasn't even eleven yet.
Qin Mo wasn't in the room, but her comm had several messages.
From Qin Mo: [My mate, I'm going to prepare lunch.]
From Lao Wei: [Esteemed Yunyang, today's purification slots have been released. Two A-rank ability users secured them, with contamination levels between 70 and 90.]
And one from the Federal Bank.
One transfer from Rong Jin, another from Leo.
Leo, Commander of the 1st Federal Army, also heir to one of the three major galactic clusters—the wealthiest family in the X Cluster.
His transfer wasn't just astronomical. It was beyond astronomical.
In short, it was more than all the federal credits Yunyang had received from her four beast-husbands combined.
Yunyang felt she'd gotten quite conceited.
Looking at Leo's transfer, she could already maintain a certain level of composure.
Leo had also attached a message: [Esteemed Yunyang, thank you for agreeing to visit the 1st Army base, and for helping purify my contamination. This is a small token of gratitude. I hope you won't think little of it.]
Yunyang: "..."
Who in the world would turn down a fortune?!
She first replied to Leo: [Since it's Commander Leo's kind gesture, I'll accept it.]
Then to Lao Wei: [Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Lao Wei. I will arrive at the Purification Tower promptly at 4 PM.]
After that, she added Rong Jin to her contact group with her beast-husbands and sent a message.
[I'm awake.]
Though her energy was restored, she felt lazy and didn't want to wash up or change on her own.
As for which of her four beast-husbands would come—that was their problem.
Five minutes later, someone arrived.
It was Qin Mo.
As he helped her wash up, Qin Mo couldn't resist pulling her into another kiss.
He'd already broken his promise last night, so he didn't do anything more than that. After the kiss ended, he lowered his head, trying to leave a mark on Yunyang's neck like Fu Shiyi had done.
Yunyang raised her leg to block him, her foot pressing against the male's pectoral muscle.
"I don't want to wear high-collared clothes."
The hickeys from yesterday had finally faded. She didn't want another one.
She didn't know if others liked them, but aside from especially cold winters, she really hated covering up her neck.
"Fine."
Qin Mo reluctantly gave up on imitating Fu Shiyi, silently noting this detail for future reference, and began picking out today's outfit for Yunyang.
He chose a style similar to what Yunyang had worn a few days ago—slightly formal but not too stuffy.
Yunyang approved of his taste and allowed Qin Mo to carry her downstairs.
From after lunch until 4 PM, Yunyang stayed home absorbing bug cores.
Her four beast-husbands surrounded her.
One massaged her shoulders, one kneaded her legs, one handed her water, and one fed her fruit.
Yunyang scrolled through the StarNet and accidentally stumbled upon a topic about herself.
She'd had Lao Wei open half of her purification slots to the public, and Lao Wei had applied to the Federation for a new official website specifically for her.
Lao Wei submitted the application last night; by this morning, the website was up and open to all beast-kin in the Federation.
At 10 AM, Lao Wei released the first batch of purification slots—only two.
Even though the website appeared out of nowhere, the slots were snapped up in less than two seconds.
The male who got a slot couldn't believe it himself and posted it to the StarNet, asking netizens to help him confirm—which promptly caused an uproar.
[Fake. Don't believe it, OP. I'll go and verify for you.]
[Fake. I didn't get any notification. Might be a bug-race trap—send me your coordinates and I'll go protect you.]
[A free slot with Yunyang without spending a cent? Really? I don't believe it.]
Replies piled up layer after layer, driving the topic's popularity through the roof and successfully letting every beast-kin in the Federation know about this new website.
So the ones who'd thought they had an information advantage and were sure they could score a slot the next day started panicking.
[Are you out of your mind? Hardly anyone knew about it before. Now that you've posted this, you've added tens of thousands of competitors for tomorrow.]
[Tens of thousands? Try more. This is Yunyang's purification slot—every single male in the Federation would kill to get one.]
[AAAHHH! If I don't get a slot tomorrow, it's your fault!]
The male who'd started the thread was enjoying the chaos, replying to every comment one by one.
Yunyang found it thoroughly entertaining.
Sure enough, no matter how far technology advanced, comment sections like this were always the most fun.
She scrolled through this thread, glanced at that livestream, and time flew by.
Her four beast-husbands remembered she'd said she needed to be at the Purification Tower at 4 PM, so before long, Fu Shiyi reminded her: "My mate, it's 3:30. Should we head out?"
As he spoke, he held out his hand under Yunyang's chin.
"So soon?"
Yunyang checked the time—indeed, 3:32.
She quickly spat out the fruit peel she'd been chewing, and Fu Shiyi caught it.
Fu Shiyi handed the peel to the robot housekeeper for disposal, then washed his hands in the kitchen and followed Yunyang out.
At 3:56, the airship arrived outside the Purification Tower.
Seeing the extra beast-kin behind her, Lao Wei was surprised, but then found it reasonable.
Exactly. Yunyang should have plenty of beast-husbands.
Ten or eight would be just the baseline.
Meanwhile, the young supervisor inside the purification tower scrutinized Rong Jin with a critical eye.
