Beauty and the Beasts

And if the male insisted, the female had no right to reject copulating with them. However, very few males would do this, for their happiness for the rest of their lives were at stake.

 Bai Qingqing felt helpless. So she could only accept two husbands?

 Although Cortis had forced it on her, his genuine feelings did move her. If he hadn’t brought her to the forest, the two of them would perhaps live happily ever after in the City of Beastmen. She really wasn’t planning on getting another husband to satisfy her emotional needs.

 Today, she had a vague taste of what it felt like to be caught in a dilemma. She felt as though she had transmigrated to the ancient times into the body of a government official with several wives and concubines.

 So strange.

 A snake came swimming back from the river. The ground was scorched by the sun, and when his body pressed upon it, it made “chi” sounds, leaving behind a thick and long wet trail.

 Previously when Cortis was brought into the house by Parker, everyone saw that, so this time no beastmen came to surround him.

 “You’re back.” Bai Qingqing stood up, turned her head, and said to Parker, “Can you lend him an animal skin skirt?”

 

That animal skin skirt Cortis wore when he came had burst when he transformed into his beast form to beat up Parker. The house wasn’t big enough, and there was a fire in the center, so Cortis’s beast form was easily burned by the fire.

 “No way!” Parker refused immediately.

 “Sss!” Cortis also flicked out his tongue at the same time, repulsed by the idea, his red eyes filled with disdain.

 Bai Qingqing could only let it rest.

 Cortis transformed his upper body into a human form. Because his body size had shrunk, the water on his body splashed to the ground instantly. Striding in those long legs of his, he walked into the house.

 Parker sprung up and circled his arms around Bai Qingqing’s waist, shifting her away.

 Abominable. The snake beastman actually has two. In the future, when we copulate, he will have one more chance than me.

 It suddenly struck him. Is this the reason why the snake beastmen don’t live in the village? Did they incur the wrath of other beastmen because of this and so are ostracized?

 If that’s the case, that’s great!

 Cortis picked up his skirt and turned his head to look towards the bedroom. After a moment’s hesitation, he still entered nonetheless.

 

Parker quickly followed him in. Pointing at the pile of grass, he declared. “Qingqing and I sleep on that pile of grass. If you wish to sleep on the grass, go pluck it yourself.”

 It wasn’t Cortis’s intention to occupy Parker’s nest. He asked, “Do you have a fishbone?”

 Parker found a thick fishbone needle from his wooden case and tossed it to Cortis, standing about ten steps away from him.

 Cortis accurately caught it, then walked to a corner and sat down. He plucked a strand of hair and began mending his clothes.

 Bai Qingqing, who was standing in the central room, held a hand to her forehead. The sense of having several wives and concubines was getting stronger and stronger.

 She started clearing up the mess in the house. All that was left of the barbecued meat was the bone structure, and it wasn’t heavy. However, she had just lifted it up when someone seized it from her.

 “Qingqing, how can you be doing this? It’s all that snake’s fault. Else, I would long have tidied up the house.” Parker took the animal bone structure from her with one hand, then said, “These are not chores that a female should be doing. Qingqing, you go play with the bamboos and let me take care of tidying up.”

 Play with bamboo…

 She was inventing stuff here, alright? Perhaps she could even benefit the beastman world!

 Frustrated, Bai Qingqing murmured, “I’m a girl, not a disabled.”

 With no television and phone, she was bored to death. Now, she was not even allowed to do something to kill her boredom.

 Parker went out with the animal bones. There was a rubbish pit outside each and every house for them to dispose of their food garbage. The beastmen would burn the garbage regularly, then pour it outside the City of Beastmen.