Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Si Yan’s stomach was already rumbling.
Having decided to wait for her cubs to return before eating, Si Yan tried to distract herself.
In her previous life, amidst raging flames, she held a knife to his neck, the firelight reflecting off her, making her look like a demon.
Her own brother wanted her dead, so she took him and his base to hell with her!
Thinking of this, Si Yan chuckled softly.
Forget it, it’s all in the past, why think about it?
She leaned against the wall, beginning to recall the plot of this world.
According to the original story, the original Si Yan must have done many heinous things, and her four cubs practically hated her.
Especially after she sold her eldest and second eldest for two animal hides, the third and fourth eldest never gave her a kind look again.
So, there was a reason why the two cubs had been so hostile towards her earlier.
Si Yan felt a headache coming on. She told herself she needed to be patient.
But as she waited and waited, the moon rose, and the cubs still hadn’t returned, so Si Yan started to get anxious.
She stood up and hurriedly left the cave, searching everywhere for Xi Qing and Bei Ji.
Could something have happened to them?
They’re villains, after all; surely nothing could have happened to them now?
No, not necessarily… villains always seem to have a lot of hardships in their childhood. Could something really have happened to them? The more she thought about it, the more anxious she became. Si Yan went outside and loudly called out the two cubs’ names.
Not long after, the two cubs emerged from behind the trees.
To be honest, Si Yan wasn’t afraid of anything, but she was actually afraid of snakes.
Now, the two little cubs were in the form of five-year-old human children, and if she didn’t imagine them as snakes, Si Yan didn’t think she was afraid of them.
With half her face obscured by long hair, Xi Qing said impatiently, “You naughty female, what are you yelling about?”
Si Yan felt both angry and helpless. Relieved, she retorted angrily, “You little brats, where have you been? I’ve prepared the food and have been waiting for you for ages!”
Bei Ji said, “We’re not little brats, we’re little snake cubs! You naughty female, I know you don’t like us, you don’t have to say it every day!”
Xi Qing turned and asked, “What’s a little rabbit?”
Bei Ji: “I don’t know.”
Si Yan, drawing on her knowledge from the original story, said, “A little rabbit is a long-eared beast.”
“Oh.” Xi Qing said coldly, head down. “We just saw a long-eared beast that had crashed into a tree trunk and died in the woods.”
Si Yan’s eyes lit up slightly. “Where’s the long-eared beast?”
Xi Qing shrugged. “We didn’t bring it back.”
Then, Xi Qing looked up at her. “Do you want it? If you do, we’ll take you to get it.”
Si Yan immediately said, “Yes, long-eared beasts are delicious! Their fur is also very useful!”
Xi Qing said, “Then come with us.”
Si Yan looked at the sky. The sun had already set, and the moon had risen. Fortunately, the moonlight was bright enough to see the ground clearly.
“Okay.”
Xi Qing and Bei Ji led the way. Bei Ji whispered to Xi Qing, “Third Brother, where is the long-eared beast that crashed into a tree trunk?”
Xi Qing whispered, “Don’t talk. I’m going to teach this bad female a lesson.”
As Si Yan walked through the woods, she felt increasingly uneasy. It seemed like she was going deeper and deeper into the woods. More importantly, she didn’t know this place very well, and if she continued, she might not be able to find her way back.
Without navigation, she was terrible with directions. And unfortunately, there really was no navigation in this world.
“Xi Qing, Bei Ji, shall we go back?” Si Yan said.
Just then, Xi Qing suddenly turned around, his blue snake eyes bulging, and he flicked his small forked tongue: “Alright. You naughty female, we’re going back first.”
Si Yan was terrified of snakes!
The instant Xi Qing suddenly revealed his snake eyes and forked tongue, Si Yan felt her blood run cold from head to toe; she was so frightened she couldn’t move!
A snake! It was a snake!! It was a snake!!!
With a whooshing sound, Si Yan came to her senses and found that Xi Qing and Bei Ji were gone!
She stood coldly in the wind, stiffly thinking: How could she have believed the story of a rabbit running into a tree stump, actually believing that a rabbit had died in the woods?!
She was clearly, clearly left in the woods by those two snake cubs; she was clearly being teased and bullied!!!
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Xi Qing and Bei Ji transformed into two small pythons, one blue and one white, moving with incredible speed in their serpentine forms. They quickly returned to the cave.
Back inside, Xi Qing couldn’t help but burst into laughter. “That female, that stupid female! She’s going to be in big trouble tonight! I don’t believe this directionally challenged woman can find her way back!”
Bei Ji tugged at Xi Qing, who laughed until tears streamed down his face. Bei Ji then tugged at Xi Qing again: “Third Brother, look, did we go back to the wrong place?”
Xi Qing finally suppressed his laughter and looked up. The cave was clean and refreshing; the stench was gone, and there was even a pretty wildflower stuck in a small stone trough.
They had lived here for several years; it was impossible for them to mistake their own home. But why was the house so clean today?
Bei Ji saw a stone slab and a large pot on a large rock in the cave. A fire was still burning under the pot, which contained a pot of soup.
Three semi-circular wooden shells, resembling coconut shells, sat on the stone, as if someone was waiting for them to return to eat and drink together.
Bei Ji recalled the ugly female’s earlier words, “I’ve prepared the food, we’ve been waiting for you for a long time!” He looked at Xi Qing: “Third Brother, could this really be the ugly female’s cooking?”
Xi Qing’s expression was indifferent: “What is she trying to do? She definitely has ill intentions!”
Bei Ji sat down at the stone table, picked up a potato and ate it, then his eyes lit up: “Third Brother, you should try it, it’s really delicious!”
Xi Qing’s stomach rumbled. They were cold-blooded snake-beastmen, and male cubs at that; as long as they had raw meat to eat, they could live well.
But unexpectedly, this lazy and wicked female would actually turn food into a dish.
Xi Qing, full of questions, ate with Bei Ji. Except for the initial discomfort from burning the snake-beastmen’s mouths when drinking the soup, the two cubs were quickly and completely conquered by the deliciousness.
Xi Qing still felt something was off: “Bei Ji, that wicked female actually cleaned and cooked? What is she trying to do?”
Bei Ji shook his head: “I don’t know, whatever, let’s eat first.”
Suddenly, Xi Qing put down his small round bowl and said angrily: “Is she trying to sell us out too?!”
Bei Ji looked up at Xi Qing.
Snakes reproduce rapidly, but the anaconda clan, being so large, reproduces less.
In the beast world, giving birth to multiple offspring at once is perfectly normal. The four brothers were born in the same litter, hatching around the same time, so their ages are roughly the same.
Dong Chi and Nan Mo, the same age as them, had already been sold off by Si Yan.
Xi Qing: “She definitely wants to sell us too! She’s never liked me, and she’s sold me before. If it weren’t for… if my face weren’t ruined and I couldn’t fetch a good price, I would have been sold long ago!”
Xi Qing’s face was contorted with rage. Beneath his long, blue hair, half his face bore horrific burn scars.
Cold-blooded snake-beastmen were unwelcome everywhere, even their own mothers didn’t care about them.
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