Chapter 222: Second Chapter 222: Leng Xiu

The male had intended to bite, to make his female curb that infuriating thought of hers, but he didn't expect that he had underestimated A Li's temptation toward him.

"A Xiao, stop."

Forced into a lip‑to‑tooth entanglement, Yun Li noticed Leng Xiao's bodily change and raised her hand to grab the male's hair.

But Leng Xiao was in the heat of the moment; he wasn't so easy to leave his female.

This guy!

Yun Li, kissed by him, could barely catch her breath; just as she, unable to bear it any longer and about to grab Leng Xiao's hair to shoulder‑throw him, heard Leng Xiu's voice.

"A Xiao, you've gone too far."

Leng Xiu seized his younger brother's nape and pulled him back, then looked at the Yun Li who was trying to suppress her anger and said, "I'll teach him a lesson; A Li, just watch from the side."

After speaking, he dragged Leng Xiao toward the outside.

But Leng Xiao would not be dragged out like that; he said calmly, "Let go!"

He knew his older brother was displeased to see him close with A Li, but he was A Li's Beast Husband, so his closeness was natural.

Leng Xiu's gaze remained calm as he looked at him, but his hand did not let go.

"Just now I didn't block you; A Li should have spoken up."

Does he even know when to stop? Even if he's aroused toward A Li, it still depends on whether A Li consents.

Leng Xiao heard this and looked at his female, but saw Yun Li, whose face had still been smiling, now radiating displeasure all over.

"If it happens again, you'll have to sleep under the bed every day."

She can only watch, not eat.

Leng Xiao's gaze toward the female instantly showed a hint of grievance, but before he could act pitiful and lower his head to admit fault, his older brother yanked him.

"Leng Xiu! Let go of me!"

Seeing his older brother interrupt his apology, Leng Xiao got frantic, "I know I was wrong, let go quickly."

"You only realize you're wrong after you've done it; if I don't give you a proper lesson now, you'll keep repeating it."

Of course, Leng Xiu wants to beat him today, partly because he can't stand Leng Xiao constantly using such tricks to soften Yun Li.

And also worried that more males are gathering around Yun Li; if Leng Xiao's behavior happens to coincide with A Li's bad mood, wouldn't he be dragged into trouble by his own younger brother?

But Leng Xiao had no idea about his brother's thoughts; when his brother tossed him out the door, he was still thinking his brother must have taken the wrong medicine today or something.

After all, when he did this before, he only symbolically stopped it, lectured, and occasionally had to share the bed under the floor with him.

"I'm asking, brother, did something go wrong today, and Cai thought of coming to vent on me?"

Otherwise Mu Qing is right here; even if someone needs a lesson, it should be the First Beast Husband's job.

Leng Xiu pinched his fingers, looked at Leng Xiao and said, "He may be him, but I'm your brother; I can't just watch you err and do nothing."

Before he finished speaking, he threw a punch.

Leng Xiao, initially bracing for his brother's anger, saw his brother actually come, reached out and grabbed his fist, then immediately countered.

He doesn't care what happened today; since he wants to fight, they'll fight, and any other matters can wait until after the fight.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Accompanied by the sounds of fists hitting flesh and heavy objects thudding outside, Yun Li, who had thought the two would just tussle outside and return, instantly frowned.

Just as she was about to go out and look, Mu Qing walked over and stopped her.

"Let them fight; nothing will happen."

Moreover, Leng Xiao really does need to be properly dealt with.

Mu Qing feels that his past secret actions of dealing with Leng Xiao have always stayed on his mind.

Now, Leng Xiu's inexplicable sense of crisis, wanting to keep Leng Xiao in line, makes him quite pleased.

In this household, things can't stay unchanged forever; if Leng Xiao continues as before, the family will eventually see something like Ke Si happen again—using the female head's affection for him to arbitrarily sway her decisions, completely ignoring the female head's dilemma caught between them.

This time Ke Si is one thing, because that guy truly can't accept a female‑led household like theirs, but what if a male who could accept such a family came along?

Leng Xiao, to keep the males he dislikes from entering, causes a ruckus with A Li; in the end, who gets hurt isn't them but the female heads.

"A Xiu, what's wrong today?"

Yun Li, seeing Mu Qing come to stop her, didn't insist on going to the doorway to peek.

While learning from Gong Mei and the others how females handle such family conflicts, the first thing she learned is to unconditionally trust the First Beast Husband she chose; even if male conflicts arise in front of the female, one must not ignore his opinion or rashly intervene while the First Beast Husband is present.

Otherwise, it's easy to cause misunderstandings among other males; for example, if the female is dissatisfied with her First Beast Husband, then when such incidents recur, the First Beast Husband's attempts to manage them will be obstructed.

Thus the female is forced to meddle in male affairs, and later trusting the First Beast Husband to keep the household in order becomes increasingly difficult.

"I'm not sure either."

Mu Qing doesn't state his speculation outright to Yun Li, but gently mentions Leng Xiao's past actions, "Perhaps Leng Xiu thinks Leng Xiao went too far in some matters."

Yun Li blinks in confusion, thinking, "Did A Xiao's forced kiss in front of A Xiu anger him?"

But this isn't the first time; A Xiao is a beast‑person who never behaves obediently in such matters; although A Xiu used to show jealousy over it, actual fights with A Xiao were few, far fewer than the times Yun Li used this to make Leng Xiao turn into a beast at night as a meat cushion for her.

Seeing that the female seemed not to have thought of Ke Si, Mu Qing paused a moment, then asked, "Regarding that Ke Si incident, are you really okay?"

Yun Li's face shows puzzlement, "Do you think I'd be sad because Ke Si refused to form a Mate Bond with me?"

But besides a bit of disappointment, she seems more to blame Ke Si.

After all, in this world a female having multiple husbands is taken for granted, and because Yun Li was diagnosed with a heart condition in her youth and was doted on by her family, she's frankly a bit selfish.

If she's selfish, she'll readily accept anything good for herself.

If males are forcibly assigned and the female has little autonomy in a polyhusband setup, she certainly wouldn't adapt so quickly.

Thus, Yun Li sometimes still feels that after Ke Si slept with her, he seemed at a loss.