97: Xuan Jin was thrilled.

"Nan Zhisui!"

The Xuan Se Cold-Blooded Snake Beastman suddenly appeared in front of Nan Zhisui.

His powerful presence forced Nan Zhisui to focus her attention on him.

Lan Xing stepped forward and blocked Nan Zhisui, facing the Cold-Blooded Snake Beastman head-on.

"What do you want to do to Sister?!" Lan Xing asked in a low voice.

This Cold-Blooded Snake Beastman before him—even if he was a Seven-Striped Beast King, he still couldn't bully the female master!

In the families of the Beast World, although Females were the dominant ones and most Males were very obedient to them...

...there were still some Males with very strong personalities.

With many Males around, it was common for them to engage in Male Competition, fighting, and causing trouble within the Family.

"Wow," Xie said, propping his chin up to watch the show. "This is getting good."

The Cold-Blooded Snake Beastman's expression turned cold. He looked at the nearby beastmen, then at Nan Zhisui, and finally calmed down to look at Lan Xing.

Then, with his back to all the Scorpion Beastmen, the golden totem on the Cold-Blooded Snake Beastman's chest lit up.

A totem—a mate totem.

After a Female and a Male entered a mate contract, both would have a totem of the other on their bodies.

Interestingly, the more they loved each other at the time of the contract, the closer the mate totem would be to the heart.

If they didn't love each other, the mate totem could appear anywhere on the body.

For example, Nan Zhisui's snake-shaped totem was on her calf. This proved just how much she disliked Xuan Jin when they mated.

But Xuan Jin's totem... The Xuan Se Cold-Blooded Snake Beastman suddenly scooped up Nan Zhisui and left, while Lan Xing stood frozen, forgetting to stop him.

Strange... do Cold-Blooded Snake Beastmen even have hearts?

That Cold-Blooded Snake Beastman's mate totem was actually right over his heart?!

This turn of events was quite unexpected. Xie asked the merman in confusion, "Merman Prince, why did you just let that snake take your female master away? That's a Cold-Blooded Snake Beastman."

Lan Xing had allowed the snake to snatch the female master away in a moment of surprise, and he was now fuming inwardly.

However, thinking of the position of that mate totem, Lan Xing felt the snake probably wouldn't hurt Nan Zhisui.

Ignoring Xie, having obtained the information he wanted, he turned away coldly and said, "Let's go, back to the ocean!"

The mermen jumped into the sea with one splash after another... Xuan Jin moved like lightning with Nan Zhisui.

Nan Zhisui was furious. "Let me go!! Xuan Jin, let me go!!!"

From Nan Zhisui's arms, the Little Blue Snake Beastman poked his head out and bit Xuan Jin hard in anger!

"Siss!" Stinky Snake, let go of my Godmother!

Xuan Jin lowered his eyes slightly, looking at the Little Female struggling in his arms and the Little Blue Snake biting him.

How interesting.

Xuan Jin arrived at a scenic cliff where a large river cascaded down to form a waterfall.

With his snake tail hooked around a tree, he leaned his upper body out leisurely, carrying Nan Zhisui.

Nan Zhisui looked down—holy crap, it was a bottomless abyss!!!

She was scared to death!

She instinctively clung to Xuan Jin with both her hands and feet.

The Cold-Blooded Snake Beastman slowly let go with one hand.

"Xuan Jin!!! What are you doing? You're scaring me on purpose, aren't you!!!"

"I only scared you once! I wasn't actually going to cut the totem!"

Nan Zhisui was about to cry from fear. "Is it necessary to take revenge on me like this? Is it necessary to scare me like this?"

The Cold-Blooded Snake Beastman slowly let go with his second hand.

"Aaaaaah!" Nan Zhisui clung to Xuan Jin with all her limbs, holding him extremely tight, her body pressed against his muscles.

Little Snake Yang wanted to save her; he hooked his tail around her wrist, his body searching for a point of leverage but finding none.

Nan Zhisui shouted in terror, "You are my beast husband! If I die, you're finished too!"

"Dying together isn't bad either." Xuan Jin looked down at her.

"Xuan Jin, you lunatic!"

"Being a bit crazy is fine. It's better than being abandoned."

Nan Zhisui was truly terrified. Her body trembled slightly as she buried her head in his shoulder.

"No, I don't want to die. I don't want to die..."

"Are you still going to break off our mate relationship in the future?" the Cold-Blooded Snake Beastman asked calmly.

Nan Zhisui's fluffy head shook in his arms.

His dark eyes stared at her head, and his heart felt a tickle.

His long arms tightened slightly, wanting to pull her up, but his mischievous streak took over. He kept his arms loosely around her as if protecting her, but he didn't actually pull her in for a long time.

The Male's voice was low and magnetic, and if one listened closely, there was a hint of gentle indulgence. "If you ever threaten me with cutting the mate totem again, do you know what will happen?"

Nan Zhisui's fluffy head shook in his arms. After shaking, she paused.

Then, her fluffy head quickly nodded in his arms.

"I won't. I know I can't do that," she said muffledly.

In this world, the mate contract gave Females the power of life and death over Males.

Nan Zhisui had always felt this kind of power was too unfair.

So she never intended to actually use it.

If Xuan Jin hadn't been so difficult to manage and insisted on bullying Lan Xing, Nan Zhisui wouldn't have planned to use the termination of their mate relationship to threaten him.

The Cold-Blooded Snake Beastman's eyes narrowed slightly.

Now she was clinging to him with all her limbs, holding on extremely tight. She listened to everything he said and was incredibly well-behaved.

Xuan Jin admitted, he felt great.

"Xuan Jin, I can't hold on anymore. I really can't..." Nan Zhisui whimpered pitifully.

Xuan Jin was a Snake Beastman, and his body was naturally slippery. It was very taxing for her to hold onto him, and she had been hanging there for so long!

Just as Nan Zhisui's arm strength was about to give out, the Cold-Blooded Snake Beastman's long arm swept around her, pulling her into his embrace.

He was very strong, as if he wanted to embed her into his own body.

Xuan Jin flipped her over, changing her from hanging to lying on top of him, while his position remained high up.

A steep cliff with a bottomless abyss below.

Nan Zhisui was about to say she wanted to get down when Xuan Jin made a shushing gesture.

"Don't talk, I'm sleepy."

Nan Zhisui: "..."

Xuan Jin spread his arms and pillowed his head on his hands. He actually closed his eyes and began to sleep.

Nan Zhisui hugged him and lay on his chest. She looked to the left—steep cliff. She looked to the right—steep cliff.

She looked back—no way to get across.

Waaaah... she was afraid of heights, she really was!

She could only hug Xuan Jin even tighter, pressing her entire body against him.

After Little Snake Yang realized his Scum Dad seemed to only be scaring his Godmother and didn't actually intend to hurt her, he found a spot to curl up.

He looked at Xuan Jin and then at Nan Zhisui with a complicated expression.

He recognized him; he really was his Scum Dad.

But Godmother... if Godmother and Scum Dad were in a mate relationship, could Godmother be his biological mother?

Little Snake Yang's little heart thumped, but he buried his head in a bit of self-deprecation.

Did Godmother not want him back then because she looked down on him for being a little cripple?

Was it because he wasn't good enough that they both didn't want him?

Nan Zhisui was originally hugging Xuan Jin, not daring to move.

But Xuan Jin was in a pose with his arms open and hands pillowed behind him.

She inevitably saw his armpits.

And so... Nan Zhisui, who was terrified in mid-air and had nothing else to do, began to study Xuan Jin's armpit hair.

Everyone should have experienced how uninhibited Xing's writing is by now.

In the book about Si Yan, I repeatedly wrote about pooping.

So looking at armpit hair in this book is really nothing... *cough cough*.

...By the way, let me promote another one of my completed books.