Chapter 17: Congratulations, Host—Your Heat Has Arrived
System: “Yes, right now, immediately, on the spot.
Friendly reminder: the approach to Xao Zhan and Zi Ye is the same—mate and produce offspring. So easy. All roads lead to Rome, host—don’t get sidetracked.”
Luo Luo almost shouted in shock: “Xiao Bai, what kind of words are these?!”
The system didn’t understand: “Mating is completely normal in the beast world. Countless beasts are mating every second of every day. Host… you don’t know how? Never mated before?”
“Host, surely you can’t really not know, right?”
After asking several times in a row, Luo Luo chose to play dead.
Seeing her remain silent, the system let out a bell-like laugh: “Hahaha, this is killing me!”
Luo Luo replied irritably: “What’s so funny? I’m not an animal—why would I mate every day?”
System: “Host, don’t forget—you’re a cat beastman. The essence of a beastman is still a beast.
Ahem, ahem, ahem… if you really don’t know how to mate, I can help you.”
Luo Luo raised her eyes and asked: “Oh? You even have a video playback function?”
System: “I have hormone pills. Once you take them, you’ll instinctively want to mate.”
Luo Luo said firmly: “No, I refuse.”
Her expression kept changing, all of which Zi Ye noticed.
He asked, “What bad idea are you plotting now?”
Xao Zhan snorted coldly: “Probably thinking of how to escape.”
Luo Luo had agreed to go to the arena. At first, he was surprised; now, he realized she was likely just trying to buy time to heal Chi Yao.
Chi Yao had grown new horns, increasing his combat ability significantly.
He reasonably suspected that she intended to have Chi Yao help her escape.
“Evil female, I will watch you without eating or sleeping. Don’t think you can escape from under my nose,” Xao Zhan warned.
Luo Luo couldn’t stay mad at the handsome guy. Her gaze unconsciously drifted to his waist.
The system immediately popped up: “Host, want a hormone pill? One free pill. Take it and you can sleep with the handsome guy and have babies.”
Luo Luo glanced at Zi Ye and Xao Zhan, who were constantly watching her, then looked at Chi Yao frolicking around.
She had so many handsome guys around her—all three so different, yet each so tempting.
But she had never done something like that before, and in her heart, she was still afraid.
“Where are you looking, you pervert?” Xao Zhan quietly held down his beast fur. This time, he wouldn’t let anything slip—last time, he had been careless.
He had thought she had changed, but now, seeing her greedy gaze, he knew she was still the same pleasure-seeking, mischievous female who didn’t treat her beastmates seriously.
Luo Luo never thought that even a well-behaved girl like her would one day be called a pervert.
She pouted: “Who told you to wear so little?”
Handsome, scantily dressed, with his butt nearly exposed—wasn’t this basically seducing her?
“You… shameless!”
Luo Luo watched his lips move. Even though she knew Xao Zhan was scolding her, she felt secretly pleased.
Handsome guys scolding people always looked so good; beneath the blustered expression hid a soft heart.
Perfect for pouncing on, then punishing severely.
Pfft, pfft—what was she thinking? Luo Luo shook her head hard, trying to throw out those inappropriate thoughts.
She quickly changed the topic: “Xao Zhan, why has your fur turned yellow?”
“None of your business, fake concern,” Xao Zhan replied.
In her memories, Luo Luo had always been like this—every time she beat him, she’d reward him with two sweet dates.
But before, she had used mating as a reward; now, she merely offered meaningless verbal concern.
Even worse than before.
Zi Ye suddenly spoke: “He’s sick.”
“Huh? Sick? Let me see.”
Luo Luo hurried over to Xao Zhan, intent on inspecting him without asking.
Her hand reached out to touch his fur—round, elastic, and soft.
Only then did she realize it was Xao Zhan’s butt.
“Ah… um, sorry.”
Luo Luo blushed, scolding herself internally: it’s just touching a handsome guy’s butt, what’s the big deal?
“Luo Luo, pull yourself together. He’s your beastmate—your man!”
Her mind was chaotic, and her body couldn’t help heating up.
As luck would have it, Zi Ye and Chi Yao had seen her little “handywork.”
For a moment, the atmosphere among the four was tense, awkwardly so.
A’Cang and A’Jin had been playing nearby. Seeing the sudden stillness, they immediately ran over.
“Papa, what’s wrong?”
“Papa, why are you mad again?”
Zi Ye looked grim, and the two cubs were anxious.
But their questions made it hard for Zi Ye to respond.
“Go play,” he said lazily.
“Okay!” The two cubs obediently left, continuing to dig holes and play.
Once the cubs were gone, Zi Ye looked at Luo Luo with a “I knew it” expression: “A dog can’t change its habit of eating shit.”
Even knowing she was this kind of person, he still felt frustrated and annoyed.
These past two days, she had actively cooked and even saved Chi Yao—he thought she had changed a bit.
But in the end, he had overestimated her.
Zi Ye leapt onto a tall tree, disappearing into the layered leaves.
Chi Yao wailed: “Mistress, do you not love me anymore?”
Luo Luo tilted her head in confusion: “Of course not! I love you the most.”
“Love isn’t the same as affection. Poor Niu Niu, no one loves me.”
“Uh…”
Xao Zhan rolled his eyes, watching the two of them flaunt their affection in front of him and started to leave.
Luo Luo stopped him: “You… aren’t feeling well? Maybe I can help.”
“If you die early, that would help me a lot,” Xao Zhan replied, not intending to tell her. He wasn’t stupid—she wasn’t exactly trustworthy, and if she knew, she might try to manipulate him.
What should have been a four-person battlefield now had only Chi Yao left asking: “Mistress, do you love me or not?”
Luo Luo, being the playful athletic type, found him too easy to tease—she didn’t even rush to appease him.
She just watched him, eyes red, asking over and over.
Each time more anxious, each time more tense.
Finally, seeing him about to break down, Luo Luo said: “Love is such an abstract thing—you can’t prove it or hold onto it. Just cherish the present.”
After saying this, she felt like a jerk—neither rejecting nor initiating, slippery with words, definitely not a good cat.
She stood up: “I’ll go get something to eat. For lunch we’ll…”
Halfway through her sentence, she suddenly felt a rush of heat up her spine straight to her brain.
Looking at Chi Yao’s massive chest muscles, she almost wanted to do him right then and there.
Realizing something was wrong, she hurriedly summoned the system.
“Xiao Bai, get out here!”
System: “I’m here, host. What’s wrong?”
“You bad system! Did you drug me? That hormone pill… now I just want to sleep with a man!”
Luo Luo placed one hand on her beast skirt, wanting to rip it off and throw it far away.
Her other hand pressed down hard: no, you don’t want to—you don’t want to do that.
The system checked the calendar: “Congratulations, host—your heat has arrived.”
“Hea… heat… what the hell?!”
“Heat—every animal experiences it. You’re no exception. Lasts three days. Have fun!”
Luo Luo felt as if struck by a thunderbolt—terrified. She was in heat, and it would last three whole days.
Her whole body burned, and seeing Chi Yao felt like looking at a clear spring. She couldn’t wait and pounced on him.
“Mmm~”
Chi Yao’s mouth was pried open by her, cat-tongue with barbs lashing wildly.
Chi Yao, excited, pulled her into a heated kiss. He had planned to kiss her for hours, but Luo Luo immediately began unfastening his beast fur.
“Hurry, I can’t take it, do it now!”
She nearly roared, wishing she could devour Chi Yao immediately.
