Free Web NovelChapter 51: Chapter 49: I’ll Sleep With You Tonight
Ye Yuan’s light-blue pupils slowly lit up. ’Does my wife not hate me?’
At her side, Yue Ying glared unhappily at Su Mo, who was in his arms. ’This fickle woman!’
’How is my face in any way inferior to that stinky fish’s!’
The hand wrapped around Su Mo’s waist tightened uncontrollably.
Su Mo sensed something was wrong and tilted her head to look at him, only to see the fox smiling with incredible gentleness.
"Wife, are you now starting to feel that having us as your Beast Husbands is an incredible blessing?"
Su Mo instinctively shivered, then struggled to break free from his vise-like grip.
’Damn you, you stinky fox, taking advantage of me again!’
’What kind of joke is this? No matter how handsome they are, it doesn’t change the fact that they’re the villains! I’m not some love-addled fool! There are plenty of good Beast Husbands in the world; I absolutely can’t end up with the villains...’
Su Mo looked up to see Yue Ying gritting his teeth, a strained smile on his face as he stared at her.
’This little heartless thing is going to make me explode with rage one day!’
Cang Lan listened with a forlorn expression. ’What’s a villain? Is my wife disgusted with me?’
Across from them, Ye Yuan looked even more wounded.
His light-blue pupils welled up with shimmering tears. He gave Su Mo a pitiful, aggrieved look, as if the tears would spill over at any moment.
’That’s strange, why are all three of them looking at me so strangely all of a sudden? I didn’t say a thing! What’s going on?’ freeweɓnovel.cøm
’Is this fish going to cry? Seeing his pitiful little face makes me want to make him cry for real. It would definitely be more interesting~ No, no, that’s a rather evil thought. Stop! He’s a villain. If I made him cry, he could turn around and take my life...’
Ye Yuan pursed his handsome lips as tears welled in his eyes... ’It seems my wife really doesn’t want me.’
As the most handsome Mermaid under the sea, he had suffered a tremendous blow...
’I’m going to cry. I really, really want to cry.’ frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
But his elders had told him that a Beast Husband must not cry easily... Ye Yuan bit his lip, desperately holding back his tears.
Su Mo stared at him without blinking, feeling a strange sense of anticipation.
’I heard that a Mermaid’s tears turn into pearls... If that’s true, then after I break off the engagement, I’ll find another Mermaid Beast Husband and sell his tears for cash. How perfect would that be!’
PLOP. PLOP.
Ye Yuan couldn’t hold back any longer. Tears streamed down his face, instantly turning into small, white, perfectly round pearls as they hit the ground.
Ye Yuan felt incredibly aggrieved. ’Does my wife really despise me so much?’
Su Mo’s eyes widened as she stared in disbelief at the little pearls on the floor.
’So Mermaid tears really do turn into pearls?! The quality is amazing! These are worth money!’
With that thought, she squatted down and started gathering them.
’Whoa, he can even cry pink pearls! If I take these to the System’s Item Shop, I’m going to make a fortune! I can’t pick them all up, there’s just no end to them!!!’
Watching the woman in front of him, Ye Yuan’s tears fell faster and faster. The noble Mermaid prince had instantly become a pitiful little crybaby.
Ever since he was young, he had been the most noble Beastman under the sea, Little Yu. Everyone said that when he grew up, he would marry a wife who would hold him in the palm of her hand and cherish him.
But... he had been despised by his wife. So completely and utterly despised.
In his wife’s eyes, even the tears he cried were more important than he, her Beast Husband.
Waaaah...
Ye Yuan grew even more depressed. His poor fish-heart was completely shattered.
Cang Lan’s heart was also in tatters, leaving him in no mood to comfort Ye Yuan.
Being despised by his wife was no small matter. His pride had been grievously wounded...
Yue Ying, on the other hand, fanned himself with a look of pure delight.
He sometimes hated his wife’s sharp tongue, which could wound people without a second thought. But right now? He found it rather wonderful!
That fragile-hearted Mermaid, Ye Yuan, had probably never witnessed this side of their wife before. It was good for him to experience it.
And if he backed off because of the difficulty, all the better.
As Su Mo continued gathering pearls, she realized something was off. She looked up at Ye Yuan, who was squatting to one side and whimpering incessantly.
’Why is he crying even harder now? Wait, why did he even start crying out of the blue? Who bullied him???’
Suddenly, Ye Yuan’s tears came to an abrupt stop.
Su Mo looked at his slightly reddened eyes, blinked, then gave a stiff, forced smile.
Pointing to the things she held, she asked, "You... you don’t mind if I take these, do you?"
Ye Yuan’s eyes instantly misted over again, and it looked as though he was about to start crying once more.
Su Mo frowned and snapped, "Don’t cry!"
Ye Yuan forced back the tears that were about to fall, looking at her with an aggrieved expression.
His Mermaid father had told him that for a Beast Husband, the number one rule is to obey his wife.
Su Mo frowned, a flicker of confusion in her eyes.
’Who in the world upset this little crybaby? His eyes are all swollen from crying. He looks so pitiful...’
’Oh, forget it. I guess I should comfort him a little.’
Ye Yuan’s eyes lit up, and he blinked his watery eyes at her.
Su Mo redeemed a bag of milk candy from her System Space and took out a few pieces.
She grabbed Ye Yuan’s hand, placed the candies in it, and said with a smile, "Eat my milk candies, and no more crying, okay?"
Ye Yuan stared in pleasant surprise at the strange treats in his palm. ’These are called milk candies?’
Seeing him staring blankly, Su Mo unwrapped one and handed it to him.
Ye Yuan took it and popped it in his mouth. His eyes widened in delight as he nodded.
At the side, Cang Lan frowned and held out a hand to Su Mo. "I want one."
Su Mo gave him a few.
Seeing this, Yue Ying frowned, leaned in close, and opened his mouth. "Wife, feed me!"
Instantly, two other pairs of expectant eyes snapped toward her.
Su Mo: "..."
’What’s with that look in their eyes? Don’t tell me they’re all waiting for me to feed them?!’
’Damn fox, you’re always making trouble for me!!!’
Su Mo turned and stuffed a few unwrapped milk candies into Yue Ying’s mouth.
’I hope this shameless fox chokes!’
Yue Ying cheerfully spat out the candies, then calmly unwrapped one and ate it.
"It’s sweeter when my wife feeds it to me!"
"..."
Su Mo thought he must be insane. Wasn’t that just a blatant lie?
She looked at Ye Yuan across from her and asked as gently as she could, "Was there anything else?"
’I absolutely cannot provoke this little crybaby. Once he starts crying, he never stops... It’s kind of heartbreaking.’
Ye Yuan gave her a gentle look, then handed over a bag that had been on the floor. "Wife, this is a gift I prepared for you."
Su Mo’s eyes lit up, and she took it happily. "Oh, thank you!"
She opened the bag to take a look. Inside was a top-grade coral specimen... a beautiful Mermaid Scale...
Su Mo stared at the pile of things and frowned. ’What is all this? A pile of junk. Why didn’t he give me a giant Luminous Pearl? So stingy!’
Nearby, Yue Ying’s fanning hand paused.
Cang Lan froze in the middle of chewing his candy.
A trace of sorrow reappeared in Ye Yuan’s light-blue pupils. The tears that had just vanished instantly threatened to return.
’That scale was his Heart Protection Scale, but my wife...’
’Waaaaah, I’m being despised again.’
When Su Mo looked up, she saw Ye Yuan staring at her with tear-filled eyes.
’You’ve got to be kidding me, is he going to cry again? Thank goodness we’re not actually married, or I’d be stuck consoling this little crybaby every single day. How come the book never said this fish was such a crybaby?!’
Suddenly, Ye Yuan sniffled, suppressing the tears welling in his eyes.
He forced a smile and looked at Su Mo.
’My wife doesn’t like Beastmen who cry, so I won’t cry anymore... Even though I still really want to cry, I can hold it in!’
Su Mo sighed to herself, then pulled two more milk candies from her pocket and offered them to him.
She coaxed in a low voice, "Don’t cry anymore, okay? If you keep crying, you won’t get any more of these."
"Okay!"
The Mermaid’s gloomy expression instantly brightened.
Su Mo breathed a sigh of relief.
’He’s a little crybaby, but at least he’s easy to appease.’
She smiled and said, "If there’s nothing else, you can head back now. Be good."
Ye Yuan’s eyes sparkled as he stared at her and nodded.
As he was about to leave, he seemed to remember something and said, "I’ll bring my wife a Luminous Pearl next time."
Su Mo’s eyes lit up. "Okay, okay!"
’He might cry a little too much, but he’s quite sensible, isn’t he? Good fish!’
Ye Yuan left happily, feeling the candies in his pocket, so excited that his mermaid tail almost popped out.
Yue Ying glanced at the fish’s triumphant retreating back, then at his wife beside him, whose eyes screamed, "I’m going to be rich!"
He snorted. "This morning, I told my wife that I’d do her a favor, and she would reward me later."
"Huh?"
Su Mo couldn’t recall. ’Did that happen?’
’Something isn’t right. The fox is definitely up to no good.’
She instinctively wanted to refuse.
Yue Ying raised an eyebrow. "You’re not allowed to refuse! Refuse, and I’ll add ten more rewards!"
Su Mo flinched and asked, "...So, what reward do you want to give me?"
’He doesn’t also want Ye Yuan’s Luminous Pearl, does he? If he dares to try and steal my money, I’ll fight him to the death!’
Yue Ying’s long, narrow fox eyes narrowed as he said languidly, "I’ll sleep with you tonight."
"Oh."
Su Mo breathed a sigh of relief. At least he wasn’t trying to steal her Luminous Pearl.
But after a moment’s thought, she realized something was wrong.
’He’ll sleep with me?’
’What does he mean, sleep with me?!’
"Ah, wait, you can’t—!"
Before she could finish, the fox pulled her into his arms and covered her mouth.
He leaned close to her ear and whispered, "My dear wife, there’s no need to get so excited. If you make a scene, people will laugh at us."
"Don’t be afraid. The first time is always awkward, but it gets better with practice. We’ll get used to it after sleeping together a few times."
Su Mo: "!!!"
