Chapter 126: Ji Chen Who Went Blind

"It was I who misspoke."

Even the female herself said that; what else could Leng Xiu do but bow his head to his younger brother and say, "These past few days you've indeed worked hard because of me."

Hmph.

Leng Xiao, ungrateful, kept humming, "You say I'm incompetent, as if you still treat me as a cub."

Leng Xiu: …… He's already a male who acts as a father, yet still a cub.

He sighed helplessly, "When did I ever treat you as a cub?"

Leng Xiao sneered, "Then what's that look you give me each time? No matter what I do, you always look uneasy."

Leng Xiu didn't deny that he indeed felt that way; whatever he does, he can never fully trust him to act alone.

I'm indeed uneasy about you, that's true, but I never treat you as a cub. You're now a fatherly beastman, and no matter what I do I won't see you as an underage cub, yet after all these years your temperament still loves impulse, doing whatever comes to mind.

There are some matters I won't let you do without watching, because I'm afraid you'll act recklessly.

Heh, no matter how you put it, you just think I'm unreliable.

Leng Xiao's face was full of displeasure as he said, "You always claim I act impulsively, doing whatever I think of. What about you? How are you any better than me?"

Every time you want to do something, you have to calculate everything, wanting this and that, and you're not even afraid that one day A Li will discover your true nature…"

At this point, Leng Xiao suddenly remembered Yun Li was right there, paused unconsciously, but quickly tried to say something, only to be cut off by Leng Xiu.

"What nonsense are you spouting, what true nature of mine? Are you trying to get me to tell A Li what you did to the cubs you were caring for?"

When the cubs sometimes fell asleep, he, having just eaten his fill, would still bother to see how big the little brother who watches the cubs was; he would just look, then touch and pinch, waking the cubs directly, and afterward the cubs would hide from him.

Besides that, he would grab a cub's tail, deliberately prevent the cub from going out, making the cub so anxious that tears streamed down.

Once, Leng Xiu even saw him take jerky to coax the third‑old to beat other cubs, tossing the fighting cubs into the air…

Leng Xiao coughed sharply, hurriedly saying to his brother, "Bro, what are you saying? I've clearly taken good care of them."

Leng Xiu shot him a glance, giving a "figure it out yourself" look; if he truly cared for them, why would he feel guilty now?

Yun Li looped her arm with Leng Xiao's, her gaze drifting between the two for a moment before she smiled brightly and asked:

"What true nature? Leng Xiu, is there anything about you that I don't know?"

Leng Xiu pretended to feel suddenly ill, coughing twice, "A Li, I don't know what A Xiao is talking about. But he…"

He wore a half‑said, half‑unsaid expression; at that moment, seeing his brother still trying to point the spear at himself, Leng Xiao couldn't help but let out a cold laugh, "A Li, let me tell you, my brother was once drugged by a female; do you know what happened afterward?"

"Leng Xiao!"

Leng Xiu immediately called him by full name.

Leng Xiao glared at him, ignoring him, then looked at Yun Li, who was indeed curious about Leng Xiu's past, and promptly asked, "What happened next?"

"Later, my brother obviously didn't sleep with that female, but the next day, while no one was watching, he abducted the person and also drugged that female."

He then tossed the person into a corner, where the Tribe's Patrol Team saw it; the female's appearance then, *tch tch*!

Leng Xiao didn't even want to mention that after his brother pulled this stunt, the female almost didn't wake up before she started spitting blood; even if she didn't, that year the female's life was terrible, and only after she later became pregnant and gave birth to cubs did the incident finally get turned over.

"I think I remember that too."

Mu Qing pondered for a moment beside them, then spoke.

He recounted the events of that year to Yun Li in full detail.

Yun Li looked at Leng Xiu with a surprised gaze, causing Leng Xiu's complexion to tighten.

But unexpectedly the female didn't get angry; instead she asked again about what Leng Xiu had done when he mentioned Leng Xiao taking cubs.

Now Leng Xiao became nervous; he hurriedly tried to bring up his brother's past deeds as a diversion, but Leng Xiu gave him a thin, unamused glance and then listed all the childish actions he performed while taking cubs.

Yun Li, smiling after listening, without hesitation gave Leng Xiao a hard squeeze, "For the next two nights, you'll continue to take care of the cubs."

Otherwise she'd fear dreaming about this at night and would kick him out of bed.

Leng Xiao was struck like a bolt from a clear sky.

Hearing that, Mu Qing subtly curled his lips.

…

On the other side, a sharp slap sound rang out.

Slap!

Ji Chen's face twisted to the side at once, but looking at the furious Miduo before him, he simply raised his hand to pat the half of his face that had been slapped and laughed.

"What, only now do you feel regret? Too bad, it's already too late."

Slap!

Another slap came down, making Ji Chen's two sides of the face now symmetrical.

When Miduo tried to deliver a third slap, Ji Chen grabbed her hand, preventing the slap from landing on his face, and instead forcefully threw her away.

"If you keep disobeying like this, watch out for your A Chang, and the other beastmen around you will suffer."

"How dare you!"

Hearing Ji Chen say that, Miduo, angry, raised her hand again to strike his face.

But Ji Chen only smiled at her, a smile that made Miduo's heart shiver.

Her hand could no longer swing; she could only stare fixedly at the male she'd grown up with, finding him both unfamiliar and terrifying.

She didn't know who had injured his eye, leaving the other eye essentially useless, so that the once‑handsome, gentle male now seemed like a beastman, exuding a grim, terrifying aura, far scarier than any wandering beastman she'd ever seen.

"What on earth do you want to do?"

Who exactly is that powerful wandering beastman, why does Ji Chen know him, and what did they do to A Chang?

Ji Chen listened to Miduo's question, chuckled oddly twice, and upon seeing the unabashed disgust in her eyes, his gaze instantly darkened.

"What do I want? Of course I want the beastman I've become to die, oh no, I should say I want him to suffer a fate worse than death."

Ji Chen never expected that at that moment, Leng Xiu could still find a chance to counterattack him; he shouldn't have been watching for amusement, seeing him deliberately avoid certain instantly fatal weak points to protect the cubs, only to later have his own opportunity seized, destroying one of his eyes and an arm.

The ruined eye now can only see a dim glimmer, better off not having it at all; his right arm has been useless for several days, with no strength left.

This makes Ji Chen inevitably hate Leng Xiu, also hate Yun Li and Ji Xuan; if it weren't for them, how could they have become the way they are today.