A faint blush rose on Lu Liufeng’s pale face, and his amber eyes shimmered softly under the sunlight reflecting off the snow.
This was the first time his female master had ever praised him.
For a moment, he worked even harder.
Jiang Xi didn’t notice the change in him.
Because—if she wanted this household to live a little better—there were simply too many things that needed to be done!!!
After washing the beast pelts, she went with Lu Liufeng to the riverbank to dig up mud.
Lu Liufeng didn’t understand at first, but once he saw the female master plastering the mud on the outer wooden walls, he immediately understood her intention.
The little sweetness that had just bloomed in his heart instantly vanished without a trace.
The female master would rather repair the house than let him warm her at night.
Lu Liufeng spread the wings behind him and shifted into his half-beast form.
He snatched the beast-skin bag full of wet mud and spoke seriously:
“Female master, I’ll handle the outer wall. Please take a rest.”
Jiang Xi thought about it and agreed—because she had plenty of other things to do.
For example, turning the wild grapes into wine.
Fortunately, if her home lacked everything else, it certainly didn’t lack stone pots—there were many, dug straight from the ground.
She washed grapes in the yard, and whenever she lifted her head, she could see Lu Liufeng flapping his wings, hovering in the air while plastering the upper walls with mud.
But Jiang Xi couldn’t help feeling something was off.
His wings… looked a lot smaller.
Could he really enlarge and shrink them at will?
She remembered that Lu Liufeng had said beast-form was forbidden in the tribe, so this mini version of functional beast-form must be allowed.
However, after watching a while, Jiang Xi noticed more differences.
Because the wings weren’t big enough, Lu Liufeng couldn’t fly very high, and after a short while in the air, he had to land and rest.
Jiang Xi’s gaze was too intense—even Lu Liufeng felt it.
He turned around, his face flushing again.
“Female master, what’s wrong?”
With his long black hair cascading over his shoulders, gentle refined features, and wings slightly open behind him—when he glanced sideways, he looked like a crane in the snow.
Jiang Xi snapped back to her senses.
Getting caught staring secretly was mortifying.
“N-nothing, I just thought you were really amazing.”
The corners of Lu Liufeng’s lips lifted slightly—his mood instantly brightening again.
The female master praised him again.
“Female master is amazing too.”
Jiang Xi mumbled a vague “mm-hmm” twice.
She really didn’t want to continue this awkward mutual-compliment session, so she hurriedly carried the washed grapes into the fire-room, placing them on clean straw mats to drain.
Then, she took half of the potatoes stored in a beast-skin sack outside, washed them, and prepared to make potato starch.
The one female and one beastman in the yard worked with clear division of labor—each doing their part.
A young beastman came to find Lu Liufeng, and when he saw Jiang Xi actually working, he was so shocked his jaw nearly hit the ground.
For a moment, he didn’t know whether to be shocked—or to be jealous.
So Jiang Xi’s viciousness only applied to outsiders, huh?
On the inside, she was this good? She even voluntarily helped her beastmen with chores?
Well no wonder!
No wonder both Lu Liufeng and Mu Ling, even if beaten bloody, still defended their female master.
Turns out their female master treated her own people and outsiders like two completely different species!!!
The young beastman’s gaze burned so much that Jiang Xi subconsciously lifted her head.
This time, instead of fleeing like before, the large beastman outside grinned at her with a mouthful of big white teeth.
Jiang Xi: “…”
Didn’t look very smart.
She lowered her head again and continued washing potatoes.
Lu Liufeng noticed the beastman at the fence and asked, “Luan Niu, what is it?”
The burly young bull-tribe beastman looked at him and quickly spoke.
“Lu Liufeng, the chief asked me to check if you’re free tomorrow. He wants to gather the aerial-type beastmen to go to the Hot River Valley to transport food. Five contribution points.”
Lu Liufeng instinctively glanced toward his female master by the water.
But she didn’t look back.
He thought for a moment and said, “I’m not sure yet. Come tell me again before departure tomorrow.”
Luan Niu agreed, but couldn’t resist glancing again at Jiang Xi by the water.
Though she was a bit ugly and a bit vicious toward others…
A female master who treated her beastmen so well was truly rare!
Luan Niu waved frantically at Lu Liufeng, motioning him to come over.
Lu Liufeng didn’t understand, but still walked over.
Keeping his voice low from outside the fence, Luan Niu asked:
“Lu Liufeng, what kind of beastmen does your female master like?”
Lu Liufeng looked at the bulky bull-tribe beastman in front of him and rejected him politely.
“My female master doesn’t like your type.”
Luan Niu scratched his head. “Then what type does she like?”
Lu Liufeng calmly replied, face completely unflustered:
“My type.”
Luan Niu immediately felt the pressure.
Lu Liufeng was second only to Yi Yuexi as the most popular beastman in the tribe.
Handsome, gentle, strong ability—and an aerial beastman.
After thinking it over, Luan Niu didn’t give up. Even if he wasn’t suitable, if his younger brother could marry in, that was also good! And the chief said the food Jiang Xi found was actually edible!
“I have a younger brother who hasn’t married yet, he’s a bird-tribe, sings really well—lots of females in the tribe want to marry him. Do you think your female master would like him?”
Lu Liufeng: “…”
“Absolutely not.”
Though discouraged, Luan Niu still didn’t give up. He went home and told his bird-tribe brother everything.
The younger brother was so angry his feathers puffed up.
“I would rather DIE than marry that vicious female!”
If Jiang Xi knew, she would only say: Don’t flatter yourself.
Lu Liufeng only applied mud to the female master’s house—he didn’t touch his own.
After finishing, he cleaned the mud off himself and then went to help his female master pound the potatoes for starch.
At dusk, Mu Ling returned carrying a huge bundle of bamboo.
His beast-fur clothing was half-undone, exposing one side of his muscular upper body. When he saw the mud-coated house in the yard, he froze.
Even with his slow brain, he could guess the reason.
As the female master’s beastman, not providing warmth for her was truly disgraceful.
Forgetting his vow last night to never “offer himself,” he dropped the bamboo and pushed open the fire-room door.
“Female master, sleep in my room tonight.”
Inside, Jiang Xi and Lu Liufeng were squeezing and pounding potatoes to extract the starch.
The sudden voice startled Jiang Xi—but Lu Liufeng’s eyes narrowed, sensing danger.
Mu Ling stood there half-bare, offering himself with sheer seduction.
“I’m wolf-tribe. My fur is thick. Sleeping under my belly in winter is very warm.”
Lu Liufeng pressed his lips together, refusing to back down.
“Female master, I’m warm too.”
Jiang Xi looked at Mu Ling, then at Lu Liufeng.
Completely confused.
Why were both of them asking her to sleep with them after requesting divorce?
Weren’t they previously screaming that they’d rather die than sleep with her?
How had it only been a few days—and they’d become… so casual?!
