Neither the Golden-Winged Roc Clan nor the Flood Dragon Clan was a common race.
Pei Wenye could just barely make do with a jade token carved with a snake.
But Fu Shiyi stared at the patterns that had absolutely nothing to do with his beast form and simply couldn’t choose.
After thinking for a long while, he separated the tokens carved with flying creatures from the box and arranged them one by one on the coffee table.
Then he took Yunyang’s hand and pressed it against his cheek, asking softly, “Mistress, will you choose one for me?”
As he spoke, the artificial dark-gold wolf ears on his head twitched lightly.
Pei Wenye: !
He immediately set aside the jade token with the snake pattern he had just taken out, then dug out all the other tokens carved with reptiles as well.
Pei Wenye took Yunyang’s other hand, and the artificial black cat tail behind him swayed.
“Mistress, will you choose one for me too?”
Qin Mo and the other two: …
That had been careless of them!
Yunyang also realized that there were no jade tokens bearing the patterns of a Golden-Winged Roc or a Flood Dragon in the box.
She nodded and agreed, then seriously helped Fu Shiyi and Pei Wenye choose.
She soon made up her mind.
The two beast husbands lowered their heads to look at the tokens in their hands—
As expected, Pei Wenye’s jade token bore a snake pattern.
Fu Shiyi’s token, meanwhile, was carved with a sparrow. It was a tiny little bird, completely unlike the imposing image of a Golden-Winged Roc.
But Fu Shiyi showed no sign of disliking it. Instead, he took Yunyang’s hand and rubbed his cheek against it again.
“Thank you, Mistress.”
Yunyang casually pinched one of his wolf ears.
Only after she withdrew her hand did Fu Shiyi put the remaining jade tokens back into the box.
Yunyang stored the box, tokens and all, in her spatial button. “All of you, place your tokens face down on the coffee table. Whoever I turn over tonight gets to accompany me.”
After saying this, she silently closed her eyes.
The five beast husbands immediately placed the tokens in their hands face down on the coffee table one after another.
Yunyang had no intention of peeking. Since they were drawing lots, it had to be fair and impartial. Otherwise, what would be the point?
The five beast husbands mixed up the tokens before calling out, “Mistress, you can choose now.”
Yunyang opened her eyes.
The five jade tokens were arranged neatly on the coffee table. Since they were all the same shape and size, she had no way of guessing what patterns were on their fronts.
She glanced at the five expectant beast husbands and reached out, preparing to turn over the first token.
A flicker of delight immediately appeared in someone’s eyes.
However, Yunyang’s hand soon moved to the next one.
Before the second person could celebrate, her hand moved to the third jade token.
Yunyang teased all five of her beast husbands in this manner.
She didn’t bother observing their reactions. After a brief pause, she decisively turned over the third jade token.
A lifelike tiger was carved into its front.
Qin Mo shot to his feet, his face filled with delight. “Mistress, it’s me, right?”
“It’s you.” Yunyang took the jade token with the tiger pattern.
She left the other four tokens where they were. They could continue drawing lots tomorrow.
After receiving confirmation, Qin Mo eagerly reached out and lifted Yunyang into his arms.
Yunyang lay lazily against him, not forgetting to remind him in a soft voice, “Take a bath first.”
Although they hadn’t gone out all day, bathing beforehand was still an indispensable part of the process.
“As you command, My Lady.”
Qin Mo carried her straight upstairs toward his own room.
The other four beast husbands watched the two of them leave before taking their own jade tokens back from the coffee table.
Since his true form was already covered in fur, Qin Mo removed the artificial beast ears and tail after returning to his room, replacing them with his own tiger ears and tail.
Yunyang liked them too.
Qin Mo had clearly figured out this little preference of hers. He kept his ears and tail out all night without putting them away.
His long tiger tail would occasionally cause mischief, brushing over her delicate skin.
Tiger fur wasn’t particularly soft—in fact, it was even somewhat coarse.
The places it brushed felt numb, as though a feline’s rough, barbed tongue had licked them.
Qin Mo had been holding himself back for far too long, and every time, he had to keep an eye on the time before stopping.
So after receiving Yunyang’s tacit permission, he occupied her entire night.
The next morning, he even pulled her aside for a private round of morning exercise.
Yunyang could only say that she was exhausted yet happy.
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Yunyang hadn’t assigned herself any work over the past few days.
She planned to rest for a while, then take a trip to Planet S28. After returning, she would go help out at the Purification Tower.
Purifying contamination for males could help raise her ability level, but advancement had to happen gradually. Only by balancing work and rest could she go farther in the future.
Put simply, she was being lazy. She wanted to lie low for a while.
The five beast husbands were overjoyed.
After all, if their Mistress had nothing important to do, it meant they could be a little more uninhibited.
Of course, they would only dare to do so with their Mistress’s permission.
If she strictly forbade them, they would rather take care of their needs themselves than force her.
Yunyang spent several days with her nights and days completely reversed.
After one full round of drawing lots, she announced that she would rest for a day and quite reasonably barred all five beast husbands from her room.
Once the Mistress gave an order, the five beast husbands had no choice but to obey.
Yunyang, who claimed she was going to rest, lay on her own bed and browsed the Star Network until midnight.
When You Lu opened her optical brain in the middle of the night, she discovered that Yunyang was still online.
She poked Yunyang through the chat window.
Yangyang, aren’t you sleeping?
The word “sleeping” carried a very suggestive double meaning.
Yunyang replied: I’m watching videos. I’ll go to sleep in a bit.
You Lu understood. It seemed that Yangyang’s beast husbands had fallen out of favor tonight.
She felt not the slightest bit of sympathy. In fact, she was even a little gleeful.
By the way, Yangyang, I heard Sister Zhiwei say that she’s on Planet X92 right now. I’m on my period these next couple of days and don’t feel like going anywhere. If you have time, could you invite her out to dinner for me? I’ll pay!
Although Chu Zhiwei lived on Central Star, she spent at least two-thirds of every year on other planets.
You Lu rarely found an opportunity to treat her to a meal.
This time, she finally had the chance, but it happened to coincide with her period, and she really didn’t want to go out.
Yunyang suddenly remembered the large amount of military merit from last time.
By the way, Lulu, Lord Zhiwei transferred a huge amount of military merit to me last time. I wanted to return it, but she enabled automatic rejection.
Yunyang had been keeping her days and nights upside down lately and hadn’t contacted Lulu much. That military merit was still sitting in her account.
You Lu was somewhat surprised, but she soon remembered mentioning the matter in passing during her last conversation with Chu Zhiwei.
Just keep it. Sister Zhiwei has more military merit than she can spend. She transfers it to people all the time. She’s sent me quite a few transfers before too.
If you really feel bad about it, just treat her to dinner a couple more times. She likes spicy food.
Yunyang: “…”
All right, yet another hobby she didn’t understand.
Still, she respected it!
Fine. I’ll see when she’s free and invite her over to my place for a meal.
Food from outside definitely couldn’t compare to what her own beast husbands cooked.
You Lu replied: Great. I’m going to bed. Yangyang, you should get some rest too.
After ending her conversation with You Lu, Yunyang immediately sent Chu Zhiwei an invitation.
When the owner of an optical brain was resting—or doing something else—the device automatically switched to Do Not Disturb mode, so Yunyang wasn’t worried about disturbing Chu Zhiwei.
But she hadn’t expected Chu Zhiwei to reply instantly.
Sure. I happen to be free tomorrow at noon. Would you mind if I brought my beast husbands along?
Um… I have quite a lot of beast husbands.
