Chapter 106: Bloody Past

Bloody Past

Chaosheng smiled and explained to him, "They aren't Beastmen from the Polar Sea."

"They are three little Beastmen who came from elsewhere."

"They are three sea hare Beastmen, and their colors are all very vibrant."

"They happened to enter the Polar Sea and couldn't find food, so a Female Beastman with whom I have some connection asked them to come steal my things so they could trade them with her for food."

Upon hearing about the outsider Beastmen, Guxian froze for an imperceptible moment, his eyes turning dark and heavy as if recalling some unpleasant memories.

After a moment, he regained his composure and nodded slightly, "Oh? What did they come to steal from you?"

"It was Baini's dowry." Chaosheng thought of those treasures piled on the rocks, though she felt that no one in the Polar Sea had the guts to come steal them, nor did any Beastman have the ability to make off with them.

Yet, after the incident with the three little Beastmen, she still felt a lingering fear; if a Beastman really did manage to steal them, she would be furious to the point of vomiting.

No!

It seemed she had to put some things on her agenda.

"When Baini married me, he brought many treasures, all kinds of pearls, gemstones, and gauze robes; the Ice Cave couldn't hold them all, so they had to be kept outside, covered with seaweed."

Guxian recalled it lightly, thinking of the abrupt patch of seaweed in front of the Ice Cave, and sighed; no wonder...

He had always felt that patch of seaweed was strange, but he had never thought in this direction.

Hearing this, Baini proudly curled his lips and looked at Guxian provocatively, "To marry Sheng, one must have the best dowry."

"Sheng is not someone just any dowry is worthy of!"

"Awoo!"

Chaosheng looked at Baini strangely and secretly gave Baini's firm, muscular waist a hard pinch; why was Baini acting so strange today!

He was speaking as if he had eaten gunpowder, leaving people confused.

Dowry?

Guxian held the word in his mouth and savored it twice, his blood-red eyes deepening; yes, for a Male Beastman to marry a Female Beastman, a dowry was required.

A Male Beastman with elders and a Tribe would have his dowry prepared by the Tribe and his elders; if he had neither, then the Male Beastman could only prepare it himself.

And Guxian... naturally could only prepare it himself.

It was already a miracle he had escaped that Tribe alive; how could he expect them to prepare a dowry for him?

He lowered his eyes in despair, a sense of powerlessness slowly welling up in his heart.

He couldn't help but think of those rumors he had heard somewhere.

A male's dowry determined his future status in the heart of the female.

The more dowry, the more it proved the male had strength and Beastmen backing him, and the female would naturally value him more.

A male without any dowry at all simply couldn't get married.

Guxian clenched his fists secretly; no, he would absolutely gather enough dowry!

He would not let the female look down on him because of this.

He looked up calmly, his gaze fixed deeply on Baini, "Alright, I understand."

"Thank you for the reminder."

"?" Baini widened his eyes in disbelief, then irritably looked away; who wanted his thanks?

He was trying to make a Beastman like him, who had nothing, retreat in the face of difficulty, okay?

"Speaking of which," Chaosheng said softly, her probing gaze falling on Guxian, as she remembered that Guxian also seemed to be an outsider Beastman, "Guxian, you also seem to be a Beastman from another sea area."

"Perhaps you even know these three Beastmen."

Chaosheng said, half-joking and half-serious.

She had seen Guxian's beast form, which was also of the vibrant-colored variety; it was possible they were from the same place.

Guxian stiffened his lips, his eyes stalling, "I... don't think so."

He guiltily shifted his gaze, not daring to meet Chaosheng's eyes.

It couldn't be, they couldn't be from the same place as him.

Because, the Beastmen from his place were all dead.

Baini pricked up his ears, ready to listen carefully to this Beastman's background, but Guxian avoided the topic, which made Baini very annoyed.

He took the initiative to attack, "You haven't even seen them yet, how do you know it's not?"

"Which sea area are you from anyway!"

"Are you a Beastman with a Tribe or a Wandering Orc?"

"Those three little brats seem to have been to quite a few sea areas; maybe you really have met before."

Baini said, half-truthfully; he didn't care at all whether Guxian had met those three brats.

He just wanted to know this guy's background.

He would not allow such an unknown Beastman to approach Sheng at will.

Listening to this, Chaosheng also became interested, her eyes filled with a light smile as she began to ask, "That's right, I've known you for so long, yet I've never heard you mention these things."

"I..." Guxian rarely found himself at a loss for how to handle this situation.

His long red hair fell down unknowingly, blocking his vision.

Yet he didn't brush the hair back at all, as if only this closed-off, dim world could give him a little sense of security.

He didn't want to talk about those things.

But he also didn't want to lie to the female.

He pursed his lips in conflict, a flash of fragility crossing his pale, beautiful face; his developed octopus brain began to work, and in just a few moments, he had thought of a strategy that would satisfy both sides.

"I used to have a Tribe."

"But the Beastmen of that Tribe were not good to me."

"In the tribe, the status of females is very high, and they often beat, scold, and humiliate the Male Beastmen."

"However, I was young at the time, and although I took some beatings and scoldings, I could endure it."

"Later, an accident happened in the tribe, and I was injured too, so I ran away."

"And then I accidentally came here."

After Guxian finished speaking, his gaze quickly dropped, his heart filled with trepidation.

Those dark, suffocating memories surfaced in his mind.

"Haha, don't be in such a rush; when you come of age, I'll be the first to enjoy you!"

"Oh my, you leveled up again? You aren't working so hard to level up just to seduce the Leader, are you? Hahaha, do you even deserve to?!"

"Beat you to death, still trying to compete for favor with us?!"

"Come here! Putting on that look all day, what's wrong with letting me kiss you?"

"Not coming over, are you? Fine! Bring me my grass whip!"

"Ah! Ah! So painful!"

Later... a sea of blood washed away these unbearable memories of his.

An octopus is lonely from birth, but he craved a group, so he joined a tribe, only to receive a lesson he would never forget.

Now, the only thing he longs for is to marry a good female as a Male Beastman.

Fortunately, he has already found the female he is willing to marry.

After Guxian finished speaking, there was a long silence.

Chaosheng sighed softly, and the look in her eyes as she gazed at Guxian carried deep sympathy, "I'm sorry, I didn't know..."

She recalled the various bruises she had discovered on Guxian's body when they first met, which must have been left behind in his former tribe.

The hostility on Baini's face also subsided, though a trace of ferocity still flickered across his handsome face.

Although he did not like Guxian, as a Male Beastman, he could better perceive the things he had left unsaid.

I fear his life back then was far more difficult than these few light words suggest.