Marrying the Soft-hearted Villain

Certain wolves thought they would never let their little wife know how soft, fluffy, and warm their tail was, but their body was always honest.

The evil wolf didn't dare move his tail too much, breathing lightly. Later, under the dual suppression of pain and demonic energy within his body, he maintained a slightly awkward posture, "incubating the egg" while enduring the pain and trying to repair his demon core.

Yuan Jue tried to absorb spiritual energy from the air as he had done before, but every time he successfully absorbed some, it was instantly devoured by the surging demonic energy within him.

He tried twice, but his demonic energy only increased, while his demonic power did not.

He didn't dare try again, only desperately using his demonic consciousness to suppress the demonic energy constantly surging from his bloodline. A sweet, metallic taste filled his throat.

The shattered demon core seemed to be more thoroughly broken than before. Yuan Jue vaguely realized a cruel fact—perhaps, he wouldn't recover. Perhaps, he wasn't a pure-blooded grey wolf; the demonic energy originated from his bloodline.

Because his body flowed with the filthy blood of a demon, no matter how much spiritual energy Ruan Qiuqiu infused, it couldn't eliminate the demonic energy.

Once he thought of this possibility, Yuan Jue even guessed that perhaps his unconscious devouring of the life force of surrounding creatures was also due to the demonic part of his bloodline acting up.

The thought disgusted him.

He gritted his teeth, extremely agitated. He couldn't control the shame, anger, and violence rising in his chest, even wanting to smash the stone bed with his tail.

But as soon as he moved, he touched a round egg, no longer as cold as before.

Ruan Qiuqiu had placed it on his tail.

Swallowing the bitter frustration, Yuan Jue's reddened, almost irrational eyes gradually returned to normal.

He didn't dare move, just waited quietly.

One second, two seconds… one minute, two minutes… five minutes… ten minutes.

Finally, light footsteps came from outside the "bridal chamber."

By the time Ruan Qiuqiu, shivering, finished bathing in the "storage room" and returned to the "main bedroom" wearing her last set of clean animal hide clothes, Mr. Evil Wolf had carefully warmed the egg.

Ruan Qiuqiu didn't know what kind of intense struggle he had just gone through. She just curved her lips and called out to Mr. Big Grey Wolf, "Husband? Are you awake?"

Drying her wet hair, she saw the wolf's ears twitch.

Mr. Big Grey Wolf, a poor actor, was indeed awake.

Ruan Qiuqiu walked in happily, thinking he would pretend to be unconscious as before, and she would play along. But unexpectedly, as she lifted the animal hide curtain and entered with the wooden basin, the wolf demon on the stone bed, whose face was not as handsome as usual, responded.

"Awake."

A low, husky voice, completely different from a woman's, sounded, drifting into Ruan Qiuqiu's ears, momentarily stunning her.

Her eyes widened, and the movement of lifting the curtain paused. She awkwardly remembered that her hair was still uncombed and she was a mess.

"You, you're awake…" Ruan Qiuqiu scratched her cheek, quickly recovering and letting the curtain fall. "I, I'm done washing."

Ruan Qiuqiu watched the wolf on the bed; his long eyelashes trembled, and his ears twitched. He seemed to want to sit up but didn't move.

Thinking he was in pain, Ruan Qiuqiu ignored her embarrassment, walked in, placed the wooden basin on the stone table, and said as gently as possible, "Are you uncomfortable anywhere?"

Yuan Jue was silent for two seconds, his ears folded. He opened his unfocused eyes, his brows furrowed, and seemed to expend a great deal of effort before saying, somewhat through gritted teeth, "Egg."

Ruan Qiuqiu "…………Ah??"

She was stunned for two seconds before suddenly remembering what she had done to the wolf's tail before going to bathe. Her face flushed, and she became extremely embarrassed.

Yuan Jue obviously didn't want to say it twice, just pursed his lips, not daring to move, maintaining a very stiff posture on the bed.

She felt amused and a little heartbroken. Just because she had put the egg on his tail, this wolf had been lying there so obediently?

Ruan Qiuqiu blinked rapidly, secretly glancing at the slightly pink tips of Mr. Big Grey Wolf's ears. She coughed lightly, walked towards the stone bed, and softly explained, "…I didn't do it on purpose, I'll take the egg off now."

Ruan "Mantis Shrimp" Qiuqiu said she didn't do it on purpose, but she actually did. She was mischievous, taking advantage of the snail-grey-wolf's inexplicable docility, deliberately tugging on his tail as she picked up the egg.

Her slightly warm fingertips touched his tail, and the electric sensation from before surged again.

A faint blush rose on Yuan Jue's cheeks, and the tips of his ears became even redder. His whole body trembled violently, and he almost couldn't help but make some embarrassing wolf sounds.

Seeing him tremble, Ruan Qiuqiu thought his curled tail was hurting him, and instantly felt truly remorseful. "…Does your tail hurt when it's curled?"

A certain wolf, who wasn't in pain at all but was very worried about whether his tail had passed the test, "…"

As she spoke, Ruan Qiuqiu very gently straightened Mr. Big Grey Wolf's curled, fluffy tail.

Now, she felt him tremble even more.

Ruan Qiuqiu didn't dare touch his tail again. Looking up, she saw a thin layer of sweat on the evil wolf's forehead. Perhaps due to the "pain," his brows were tightly furrowed, and his lips were pale. She instantly felt even more guilty and apologetic. "I'm sorry…"

Yuan Jue, whose whole body was faintly burning because of her, "…………"

But he couldn't directly ask Ruan Qiuqiu, "Whose tail is softer and warmer, mine or the snail-grey-wolf's?" So he could only silently calm his sour and racing heart, slowly propping himself up on his arms, trying to sit up.

Mr. Big Grey Wolf tried hard to overcome the pain and sit up, but Ruan Qiuqiu, seeing his soft black hair draped over his bare back, the beautiful butterfly bones and ferocious scars on his broad back, felt her cheeks flush.

She placed the egg on the stone table, picked up the animal hide clothes she had made for him, which had been washed and were almost dry, and said in a slightly unnatural voice, "Husband, put on your clothes."

Yuan Jue "…"

He had forgotten that he was still a naked wolf.

The tips of Yuan Jue's pink ears became even pinker, faintly turning red.

Male demons were mostly rough. Although he always dressed properly, no demon or human had ever seen him half-naked.

But in front of Ruan Qiuqiu, he always forgot to wear clothes and kept thinking about being a rogue.

Yuan Jue opened his eyes and, enduring the excruciating pain of his maimed limbs rubbing against the stone, sat up little by little.

He tightly pursed his lips, not allowing himself to make any embarrassing sounds due to the pain. He just slowly turned his head in the direction of Ruan Qiuqiu's voice and slowly extended his arm, wanting to take the animal hide clothes she handed him.

Looking at the evil wolf's obviously misdirected, unfocused gaze, and his tentatively outstretched arm, Ruan Qiuqiu felt a pang in her heart. Unable to bear just standing there and waiting, she placed the animal hide clothes in his hand, following the direction of his groping palm.

As his large palm touched the soft animal hide, Ruan Qiuqiu clearly felt that Mr. Evil Wolf's furrowed brows relaxed slightly.

Yuan Jue was trembling all over from the pain, but he still tried to straighten his back in front of his little wife. Controlling his voice, which was trembling from the pain, he said "Thank you" to Ruan Qiuqiu in the wrong direction.

Seeing him slightly open his eyes, his lips tightly pursed, his large palm fumbling with the animal hide clothes, seemingly searching for a way to put them on, she really wanted to help him.

But remembering his pride when he insisted on feigning unconsciousness while vomiting blood that day, and the "thank you" just now, she took a deep breath and held back.

"You're welcome. I, I'll go out and get some snow…" Ruan Qiuqiu turned around and left the cave with the wooden basin.

Hearing the footsteps gradually fade away, Yuan Jue suddenly bent over.

He gasped silently twice before realizing that something warm and liquid was slowly flowing down his back and maimed limbs.

It was blood.

Thick blood mixed with pus.

It seemed to remind him of how unbearable he was.

Just sitting up and putting on clothes by himself was so painful that he almost lost consciousness and couldn't do anything.

He even soiled the animal hide.

She was already working so hard, but he couldn't help with anything.

Yuan Jue's eyes instantly darkened, the corners of his eyes turning red. He gritted his teeth hard.

—When Ruan Qiuqiu returned, Mr. Evil Wolf had already put on his clothes and was leaning against the stone wall.

Hearing the movement, he turned his head, his slightly narrow, upturned phoenix eyes sweeping over her vaguely. His lips were paler than before.

This was the first time Ruan Qiuqiu had faced the "awake" Mr. Big Grey Wolf. Meeting his grey-blue eyes, she realized clearly for the first time—her snail-grey-wolf, Mr. Husband, was truly blind.

His expression was calm, even somewhat indifferent. The previously pink tips of his ears were no longer pink.

But Ruan Qiuqiu felt that he looked so distant, so sad.

Ruan Qiuqiu's eyes stung. She forced herself to speak in a cheerful tone, "Today, I dug a trap in the snow. Although I didn't catch any prey, I luckily found an egg in it…"

The air in the "bedroom" was slightly warmer than outside. Ruan Qiuqiu kept talking as she worked.

She talked a lot, omitting the part about being nitpicked by those foolish wolf demons from the Flame Wolf Tribe today, and only talking about happy things as much as possible.

"Xiaoyu, the little boy who visited the cave today, told me there's wild ginseng in the forest…"

When talking about Grandpa Mo's family, she even joked, "I guess Mo Cat must like to eat fish and catnip…"

But although she said a lot, the wolf didn't respond.

Ruan Qiuqiu gradually felt sad. She put the beaten eggs into the stone pot and turned around, only to find that the wolf had fainted at some point.

He closed his eyes tightly, his lips moving as if he was saying something. The black spots on his handsome face began to spread again.

Ruan Qiuqiu's heart sank. She walked to the stone bed, intending to infuse him with some spiritual energy.

She got closer and heard his weak voice.

He said, "Are you cold?"

Are you cold?

You must be very cold.

Ruan Qiuqiu was stunned for several seconds before realizing what the wolf was saying.

Her eyes suddenly heated up—this silly wolf's memory seemed to be stuck on her saying that she had walked a long way in the heavy snow, the wind was strong, and she had eaten a lot of snow.

She had only casually mentioned that it was difficult to walk in the heavy snow.

Ruan Qiuqiu knew he couldn't see, but she still shook her head. "I'm not cold."

"Mr. Food Reserve, I'm not cold."

She repeated it several times before the wolf seemed reassured and fainted.

Ruan Qiuqiu felt both amused and helpless. She held the demon core in her hand, intending to infuse spiritual energy into his body as usual.

Actually, she vaguely felt something was strange—her ability had advanced, and the healing water droplets she condensed every day were much more numerous than before.

According to the healing effect the water droplets had on him when they first met, the snail-grey-wolf should have been better after so many days.

But the demonic energy in his body hadn't decreased, but instead increased.

So much so that she could barely suppress it.

—Could it be that this demonic energy wasn't due to an external demon's attack, but existed within Mr. Evil Wolf himself?

—Could it be that he couldn't recover?

As soon as this thought arose, Ruan Qiuqiu immediately rejected it.

No, it must be that her current spiritual energy wasn't enough. If she had spirit stones, he would definitely recover.

Ruan Qiuqiu bit her lip and infused spiritual energy into his body as usual.

But this time, it was very different.

The demonic energy didn't avoid her spiritual energy as before, but instead intertwined with it.

The moment the demonic energy and spiritual energy touched, Ruan Qiuqiu felt her vision darken, and a sharp pain shot through her left leg, as if it had been sawed off below the knee.

In addition, bursts of pain spread through her back and abdomen, and an even more unbearable hunger, dozens of times worse than before, gnawed at her stomach.

Ruan Qiuqiu almost fainted from the pain.

She instantly lost her balance and fell to the side of the stone bed.

She felt warm blood flowing from her aching back and seemingly severed left leg, wave after wave, painful to the point of suffocation.

Only after the demonic energy entangled with her spiritual energy was cleared did Ruan Qiuqiu gradually regain her vision. The hunger pangs in her stomach eased, the feeling returned to her left leg, and the bleeding on her back seemed to have stopped.

A guess formed in Ruan Qiuqiu's mind. She stood up, looked at Mr. Evil Wolf with his eyes tightly closed, and slowly lifted the animal hide.

Seeing the slowly bleeding wound on his maimed limb, Ruan Qiuqiu's heart clenched.

As if to confirm something, she carefully supported his shoulder and reached out to probe his back.

It was also wet.

Now, even if she was slow-witted, she roughly understood that the moment her spiritual energy came into contact with the demonic energy in Mr. Big Grey Wolf's body, she experienced his current condition.

It was even more serious than she had imagined.

What surprised her most was the hunger originating from his stomach.

She had thought that feeding him meat every day would at least prevent him from being so hungry.

But she had overlooked the fact that he was a wolf demon.

The half a jin or one jin of meat she fed him every day couldn't possibly fill him up.

But he had never complained.

He hadn't stolen food, nor had he secretly eaten her.

After all, although she teased Mr. Big Grey Wolf as her food reserve, she herself, to some unscrupulous demons, was actually quite a tasty meal.

She didn't know he was so hungry.

Ruan Qiuqiu looked at the egg custard cooking in the stone pot and then at the rabbit she had caught today. Without hesitation, she decided that no matter what, she would feed the wolf until he was full today.

She had heard from Mo Bohe today that there were fish in the small river near the forest. In the past, Mo Cat often caught fish to improve their meals during winter.

As for food, she would hunt more tomorrow.

Ruan Qiuqiu didn't hesitate any longer. She absorbed the last of the spiritual energy from the demon core and used it to stop the bleeding for Mr. Big Grey Wolf and suppress the demonic energy within him.

This time, because she infused a lot of spiritual energy, the demonic energy didn't entangle with hers again, so Ruan Qiuqiu didn't experience Mr. Big Grey Wolf's condition again.

The aroma of egg custard gradually filled the warming cave, and Mr. Food Reserve's injuries seemed to have stabilized.

With the crisis over, Ruan Qiuqiu prepared the best meal they had had in ten days.

The egg custard was warm, and the rabbit meat was delicious. For the first time, Ruan Qiuqiu allowed herself to eat her fill.

She settled the wolf, lay on the stone bed, thought for a moment, and slowly took Mr. Big Grey Wolf's hand.

Drawing out a wisp of spiritual energy, she sent it into his body, actively entangling a strand of demonic energy.

She thought, if she could feel Mr. Big Grey Wolf's pain, perhaps he could also feel her warm, healthy body and her full stomach.

…

The snow was still falling, but not as heavily as before.

In the Wind Lion Tribe, Lu Ziran held a roasted wild boar leg, using a bone knife to slice pieces into Rou Yuerao's wooden bowl.

Rou Yuerao, acting coquettishly, clung to his arm. "I really can't eat anymore."

She felt that ever since Lu Ziran returned from hunting last time, he had been even better to her, and their relationship had become even closer. Although they weren't officially together, they had been nestled together during the snowy days.

She didn't know that Lu Ziran had "dreamed" of many things about the future, nor did she know that he was so good to her just in case. She unilaterally attributed all of this to Ruan Qiuqiu's departure.

"It's roasted well, eat a little more." A smile appeared on Lu Ziran's handsome and gentle face.

"I'll get fat if I eat any more!" Rou Yuerao pouted. "This wild boar leg is too oily, let's just throw it away."

Hearing her careless tone, even though he liked her very much, Lu Ziran's tone became a little displeased. "Food is precious in winter. If you don't eat it, I'll give it to another demon."

"Alright, alright, I'll eat a little more." Seeing his displeasure, Rou Yuerao softened her tone. "Then feed me."

Lu Ziran sighed and indulged her. After feeding her a bite, he hesitated and said, "I'm going to the Flame Wolf Tribe tomorrow."

He had been thinking about the beast tide these past few days.

Although he knew about the danger in advance, Lu Ziran, who had become very reliant on that "dream," didn't want to avoid it prematurely.

He worried that if he did something significantly different from the "dream," it would change his future of becoming the Demon King.

His deepening relationship with Rou Yuerao wasn't a problem; she was his future Demon Queen after all.

However, he wanted to confirm whether Ruan Qiuqiu was still alive.

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