Gentle Beast Novel Chapter 56

Gentle Beast Chapter 56

“. . .”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u rembered saying that she wasn’t ready yet and she felt guilty, scrambling to hide from sight.

Ryan looked askance at her who looked back at him and said, “The clansn say you went to the swamp?”

The swampland was the border with the wolf race.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u nodded honestly.

“What did you go to do?” Ryan walked over to Jǐ Xiǎo ??u and leaned over to look at the soft little face she had just washed.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u hesitated. She didn’t know whether to tell him that she had t Holden or not. She thoguht for a while and said nothing, “I. . . I went to test the new gunpowder. The swamp there is suitable for observing the gunpowder’s power.”

Ryan was silent for a mont then asked, “What else?”

There was. . .

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u pursed her lips and shook her head firmly, “No.”

Ryan’s blue eyes were dark, and he drew closer to Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s neck. The tip of his nose brushed her neck and he reminded her, “Next ti you lie to , wash off the scent of other n on you.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s face was pale white and her eyes big.

She that his nose was sensitive, but she hadn’t expected it to be this sensitive. She had washed it several tis, how could he still sll it?

“I’m sorry, Ryan. . .” Jǐ Xiǎo ??u saw his face looked bad and anxiously reached out to grab his hand, “I didn’t an to lie to you.”

She had subconsciously thought that he might be even more unhappy if she told the truth.

“Holden didn’t do anything to . He wanted to bring

back to the wolves, but I used the explosives to scare him off,” Jǐ Xiǎo ??u replied.

Ryan frowned slightly, “Explosive?”

Speaking of that, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s eyes were bright, “Yes, I developed a powerful explosive that can crush a large stone. . . You know, where I’m from, dynamite is a very powerful weapon and used in the military. It can even destroy a city or nation. . .”

“Don’t use this kind of thing in front of others,” Ryan interrupted Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s words and, after a while, added, “Unless I am not with you.”

Compared to bows, spears and stone axes, explosives were indeed a mighty weapon, but they were not sothing that belonged in this era.

If the other races discovered the power of this weapon, it wouldn’t be a good thing for Jǐ Xiǎo ??u.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u also knew that was true. Her initial purpose was just to defend herself, so she obediently nodded.

*

She thought this incident had co to an end. She didn’t expect that three days later, the wolves would visit the leopards.

Not for offense, but it appeared to be showing off.

That was rare. Who didn’t know that the wolf leader coveted the leopard territory? That he thought about capturing the leopards every day.

The weasel and the chicken at new years?*

*An idiom aning: beware of suspicious folk bearing gifts, they are sure to bear ill-intentions.

Were up to no good, right?

Despite this, Elder Berson still looked into it and saw what it was all about.

——The wolves hadn’t co for the territory this ti, but for their chief’s female.

They wanted to exchange Jǐ Xiǎo ??u with twenty females.

Elder Berson stared deeply at the leopard chief and said, “I need to speak with the Chief first.”

Even if the leopards lacked females, they didn’t dare hand over their females. After changing the family laws last ti, no race didn’t know how important that female was to the chief.

After Elder Berson conveyed this matter to Ryan, Ryan raised his eyelids and sent back a blank expression:

“Tell them to get out at once.”

Elder Berson looked to the side at Jǐ Xiǎo ??u, hesitated, then added, “The wolves say if you don’t agree, they can increase twenty to fifty females.”

Fifty females, that wasn’t a small number, enough to solve many of the males without spouses!

To exchange a female with fifty, he had to admit it was really awkward and the conditions were too tempting.

Ryan looked at Elder Berson and folded his long legs, “So?”

Berson looked Ryan in the eyes, “So I think we could talk to the wolf race. . .”

“What do you want to discuss?” Ryan narrowed his eyes, “Even if we can bring in those fifty female wolves, can the elders rest assured that they can nurture our offspring? The struggle between the leopards and wolves cannot be solved so easily with these females.”

Elder Berson patted his forehead, sobering himself. Why hadn’t he thought of that!

Wouldn’t accepting those fifty females be a threat to their race? Who knew if those females would suddenly bite the leopards one day?

Elder Berson said, “Chief is right. I will lead the tribe to drive them back.”

After Elder Berson left, Ryan looked down at the little one that had buried her head in the corner, trying to diminish her sense of presence.

“Co here,” Ryan lowered his voice.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u shrank her shoulders and pretended not to hear it.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u had no idea that Holden still had such a hand. He wanted to exchange her with the wolf females? What was he thinking?

She clearly rejected him that day!

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u didn’t move, so Ryan simply picked her up and set her face-to-face on his leg, raising her chin. “It seems my female is very popular. Everyone wants to steal her from .”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u felt it was wrong and could not utter a reply.

“Tell , what relationship do you have with Holden?” asked Ryan, his tone seemingly casual, but his eyes looked at her with little ease.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u shook her head under Ryan’s dangerous eyes and said righteously, “I have nothing to do with him.”

Ryan raised his eyes eyebrows slightly, “Isn’t there? There was no relationship, but he was willing to use fifty females to exchange for you.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s waist was held in Ryan’s palm and he tightened it a little. She frowned, “Really. . . I’m not lying to you. I’m not familiar with him, and I don’t know why he wants to bring

back with him.”

Here, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u suddenly rembered that she was experinting with gunpowder in front of Holden. At the ti, he’d expressed clear interest and asked her how to make it.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u told Ryan what she thought, “. . . He probably wanted

to teach their race how to make explosives.”

Ryan loosened his hand on her and put a cynical smile on his lips, “To want to use my female for the benefit of his race, that Holden is sothing else.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u grabbed RYan’s arm and raised watery eyes, “Ryan, will you give

to the wolves?”

There was no sense of security at all.

Even if Ryan expressed it both physically and linguistically, but she was a female and Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was very clear about the temptation that fifty females were to the leopards. After all, even Elder Berson was shaken.

Ryan lifted her little face and covered her pink lips, deliberately scaring her, “Maybe if you refuse to accept , I’ll also be disheartened.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u: “. . .”

As he said it, Ryan shifted downward with his claws and pressed her through the cloth, “Are you ready?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u fluttered, softening, and fell into his arms. Unexpectedly, her face was blushing, “Yeah. . .”

The sound was soft and tender, like a layer of honey, sweat but waxy.

Ryan’s eyes were dark and the fingers at her abdon couldn’t help but use a little force, feeling her trembling even more.

Realizing that she wasn’t unresponsive to him, he lifted her by the waist and shifted to the bed.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u hurriedly stopped him, “No, wait, Ryan. I’m not ready.”

Ryan kept carrying her to the bed.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u stretched out her feet to push at his belly, “You forget what you promised

that day? You promised not to touch

until I was prepared.”

“You just reacted,” Ryan said.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s face quickly flushed red with blood, “That’s not the sa. . .”

How could physiological response and psychological preparation compare?

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u spent a great deal of effort to clearly explain the difference between the two and discourage Ryan’s actions.

Ryan bit Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s lips and squeezed out a dissatisfied voice from his throat, “No more than three tis. This sentence was passed down by you humans.”

“I don’t want this to happen a third ti,” Ryan said.

*

Since the wolf’s request to exchange for females was rejected by the leopards, there was no movent for a few days.

Then, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was cleaning up and found the stone that Winter had brought back from Pat’s grandson. At the ti, she hadn’t understand what the aning of it ant. After a few days, she couldn’t find where it was.

Then she thought for a mont. Since it was Pat’s relic, it was useless to her and more significant to Pat’s grandson.

To find it after all this ti, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u couldn’t find anywhere else to place it so she put it on the third shelf of the cabinet in the bedroom.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u just set it down when the door was slamd open and a leopard ca in, “Chief!”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u walked to the door and tried to communicate using the leopard language, “Ryan went to the back of the mountains.”

The male saw only Jǐ Xiǎo ??u at ho and bowed, turning to leave, “Then I’ll go look for the Chief.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u saw he looked worried and suddenly asked, “What’s the matter for you to look for Ryan?”

The male didn’t try to deceive Jǐ Xiǎo ??u, “Laurence ca back and threatened to challenge the Chief’s position. He’s looking for the Chief everywhere!”

What?!

Hearing the na “Laurence”, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u froze.

That na had left her with too deep a shadow, probably one unable to forget in this lifeti.

Black panther with amber eyes, cold as ice and snow, and the sharp claws that pierced her skin.

Wasn’t he dead already??