Chapter 49: Tonight I Stay With You to Sleep

Ye Yuan's light‑blue pupils lit up a bit; it seems Wife Master doesn't dislike him?

Yue Ying beside him glared displeased at Su Mo in his arms, that fickle woman!

What on earth is his face lacking compared to that stinky fish!

The hand that embraces Su Mo's waist tightened uncontrollably.

Su Mo sensed something was off, turned her head to glance at him, and saw that fox smiling with a face full of tenderness.

"Does Wife Master now think that having a few Beast Husbands like us is a tremendous blessing?"

Su Mo involuntarily flinched, then struggled to break free from his grip.

【Damn stinky fox, taking advantage of Auntie again!】

【What kind of international joke is he making? No matter how good‑looking his face is, it can't change the fact that they're villains! This girl is not some love‑brain! There are plenty of good Beast Husbands in the world; villains are absolutely off‑limits…】

Su Mo lifted her gaze and saw Yue Ying gritting his teeth, a half‑smile, half‑snarl, looking at her.

He will eventually be infuriated beyond measure by this heartless little one!

Cang Lan listened with a forlorn expression, "What are villains? Is Wife Master rejecting him?"

Opposite, Ye Yuan wore an even more wounded expression.

His light‑blue pupils were filled with watery tears, looking at Su Mo with a pitiful expression, as if a tear would fall any second.

【Strange, why did the three of their gazes suddenly seem off? I clearly didn't say anything! What's going on?】

【This fish isn't going to cry, is he? Seeing his pitiful little look makes me want to make him cry right now; he'd be even more interesting when he cries~ No, no, that's a bit evil of me~ Stop! He's a villain; if I make him cry, he'll turn around and want my life…】

Ye Yuan pursed his handsome lips, tears flickering in his eyes… Wife Master really seems not to want him.

As the most handsome merman of the sea, he suffered a huge blow…

He wants to cry, really wants to cry.

But the elders at home say that as a Beast Husband, one must not shed tears easily… Ye Yuan bit his lip, forcing back the tears.

Su Mo stared at him without blinking, inexplicably feeling a bit hopeful.

【I heard that a merman's tears turn into pearls? If that's true, after breaking the engagement, I'll find a merman Beast Husband and sell the pearls from his tears~ How wonderful!】

"Pat‑pat‑pat"…

Ye Yuan could no longer control it; tears fell one by one, instantly turning into small, white, round pearls that struck the ground.

Ye Yuan felt extremely aggrieved; does Wife Master really despise him that much?

Su Mo widened her eyes, looking at the tiny pearls on the ground in disbelief.

【So merman tears really do become pearls?! What a perfect quality! They can be sold for money!】

Thinking that way, she crouched down and began picking them up.

【Wow, they can even cry out pink pearls! Take them to the System Real Mall, Auntie will be rolling in wealth! Can't pick them all, literally can't finish!!!】

Ye Yuan looked at the person before him, tears falling more and more; the noble merman prince instantly became a pitiful little crybaby.

Since childhood he was the most noble beastmen little fish of the sea, and when he grew up, they all said he would surely marry a Wife Master who would hold him in the palm of her hand.

But… but he was actually rejected by Wife Master, and rejected so thoroughly.

Even his fallen tears, in Wife Master's eyes, are more important than he, the Beast Husband, himself.

Ugh…

Ye Yuan became even more depressed, his fish heart shattered completely.

Cang Lan's heart was also riddled with countless wounds, having no mood at all to comfort Ye Yuan.

Being rejected by Wife Master is no good; his pride suffered a huge wound…

On the contrary, Yue Ying, fanning himself, smiled with a face full of joy.

Although he sometimes really dislikes Wife Master's mouth, which can unintentionally hurt people, now he actually thinks it's quite nice!

Ye Yuan, that fragile‑hearted merman, probably hasn't yet experienced such a Wife Lord (Honorable), so letting him see it would be good.

If he could know when to back off, that would be even better.

Su Mo, while picking, noticed something off, lifted her gaze toward the whimpering Ye Yuan crouched beside her.

【Why is he crying even harder now? No, why did he just start crying out of the blue? Who bullied him???】

Suddenly, Ye Yuan's tears stopped with a snap.

Su Mo looked at his slightly reddened eye sockets, blinked, then stiffly tugged at the corner of his mouth.

Pointing at the thing in her arms, she asked, "You… don't mind if I pick them up, do you?"

Ye Yuan's eyes instantly swirled with a mist again, and it seemed he was about to cry once more.

Su Mo frowned and scolded, "No more crying!"

Ye Yuan's about‑to‑fall tears were forcibly held back, and he looked at her with a pitiful expression.

The merman's father once said that, as a Beast Husband, the foremost duty is to obey Wife Master.

Su Mo frowned, a hint of confusion flashing in her eyes.

【Who on earth has upset this little crybaby? His eyes are all swollen from crying, it's so pitiful~】

【Fine, fine, let's coax him~】

Ye Yuan's eyes brightened, his watery pupils blinking as he looked at her.

Su Mo exchanged a pack of milk candies from System Space, then took out a few.

She took Ye Yuan's hand and handed it over, squinting and smiling, "If you eat my milk candy, you may not cry anymore~"

Ye Yuan looked at the novel trinket in his palm with surprise, "This is called milk candy?"

Su Mo saw his dumb stare, so she peeled one and handed it to him.

Ye Yuan took it, put it in his mouth, then widened his eyes in delight and nodded.

Cang Lan, standing nearby, frowned and extended a hand toward Su Mo, "I want one."

Su Mo handed him a few more.

Yue Ying saw this, frowned, leaned over and said, "Wife Master, hey!"

In an instant, two other expectant gazes swept over.

Su Mo: "……"

【What kind of look is that? They're all waiting for me to feed them, aren't they?!】

【Dead Fox, always causing trouble for me!!!】

Su Mo turned and shoved a few unpeeled milk candies into Yue Ying's mouth.

【Suffocate this shameless fox already!】

Yue Ying cheerfully spat out the candy, then peeled one himself and ate it.

"Wife Master feeds only sweet things!"

"……"

Su Mo thought he was probably crazy; wasn't he just blatantly lying?

She glanced at Ye Yuan opposite her and asked as gently as possible, "Do you have anything else?"

【Must never provoke this little crybaby; when they cry it's endless… oddly heartbreaking.】

Ye Yuan gave her a gentle look, then handed over the bundle on the ground, "Wife Master, this is a gift prepared for you."

Su Mo's eyes lit up, and she happily took it, "Oh, thank you~"

She opened the bag and saw a top‑grade coral specimen… beautiful mermaid scales…

Su Mo stared at the pile, frowned, 【What the heck, a bunch of junk, why not give me a huge Night Bright Pearl? Stingy!】

Beside her, Yue Ying's hand that was fanning stopped.

Cang Lan froze while chewing the milk candy.

Ye Yuan's light‑blue pupils again showed a hint of sorrow, the tears that had just vanished resurfacing in an instant.

That scale was his protective heart‑scale, but Wife Master…

sob sob, rejected again.

Su Mo lifted her gaze and saw Ye Yuan's watery eyes looking at her.

【No way, crying again? Luckily we're not married, otherwise Auntie would have to coax this little crybaby every day. How come the book never said this fish is a little crybaby?!】

Suddenly, Ye Yuan hiccuped and concealed the tears in his eyes.

He squinted, forced a smile toward Su Mo.

Wife Master doesn't like crying Beastmen, so he shouldn't cry anymore…

Even though he still wants to cry, he can hold it back!

Su Mo sighed quietly, then pulled out two milk candies from her pocket and handed them over.

She coaxed softly, "Stop crying, okay? If you cry again I won't give you any more~"

"Hmm!"

The mermaid's previously gloomy expression instantly brightened.

Su Mo exhaled a sigh of relief.

【Even though he's a little crybaby, he's still easy to coax.】

She squinted and said, "It's fine, you go back first, be good~"

Ye Yuan's eyes shone as he stared at her and nodded.

When about to leave, he remembered something and said, "Next time bring a Night Bright Pearl for Wife Master."

Su Mo's eyes lit up, "Alright, alright!"

【He does cry a bit, but he's quite sensible, good fish!】

Ye Yuan walked away happily, feeling the candy in his pocket, so excited he almost showed his mermaid tail.

Yue Ying glanced at the fish's smug back, then at the Wife Master beside him whose eyes read "want to get rich".

He snorted, "I already told Wife Master this morning, I'll do you a favor, and later give you a reward."

"Hm?"

Su Mo couldn't recall, "Is that really a thing?"

Something's off, the fox definitely has no good intentions.

She instinctively wanted to refuse.

Yue Ying raised an eyebrow, "No refusing! If you refuse, the reward increases by ten!"

Su Mo tucked her neck back and asked, "…so, what reward do you want to give me?"

【He must also want Ye Yuan's Night Bright Pearl, right? If he dares to snatch this girl's money, I'll fight him to the death!】

Yue Ying's narrow fox eyes narrowed, and he said leisurely, "Tonight I'll sleep with you."

"Oh."

Su Mo exhaled, glad it wasn't about stealing her Night Bright Pearl.

Upon further thought, it still felt off.

He sleeps with her?

Sleep what?!

"Ah, uh, can't…"—!

Before he could finish, a fox grabbed him into its arms and covered his mouth.

He leaned toward her ear and said softly, "Wife Master doesn't need to be so agitated; if it becomes widely known, people will laugh at us."

"Don't be afraid, once is unfamiliar, twice is familiar; the more you sleep together, the more accustomed you'll become."

Su Mo: "!!!"