Beastman Forcefully Raising a Wife

Chapter 9: Source of Fire

When Shu Jintian woke up, he discovered that he had returned to the snake cave. The big snake was curled up on the grass pile and was coiled up in a disk. And he was right in the centre of the snake disk, tightly surrounded. The snake’s head was leaning on his shoulder, his green eyes hazy, seeming to have fallen asleep.

Shu Jintian looked around and realised that the fruit tree atop the cliff yesterday had surprisingly been brought back by the big snake as well. There were several red, egg-sized fruits growing on top.

“Cough cough!”

Shu Jintian’s lungs were extremely painful, and he thought to himself that perhaps he had injured his internal organs yesterday.

He moved a little stiffly and Shu Hanyu immediately opened his transparent eyelids, coldly watching him.

“I got up to eat something; you don’t have a complaint against that, right?!”

When Shu Jintian opened his mouth, he felt his lungs ache faintly, which made it a little difficult for him to speak.

Shu Hanyu relaxed his vigilance against the female when he heard this and lazily loosened his body to release the female. Then he looked for a comfortable sleeping posture and tiredly dozed off.

Shu Jintian quickly crawled out of the snake circle and discreetly patted his body that had been encircled by the snake. He crouched by the fruit branch and smacked his lips. He hadn’t eaten anything for the past two days and his body was somewhat weak and strengthless.

He picked a thoroughly red fruit and had a big bite. The fruit had an ample amount of water content, but was more sour than sweet. It was possibly because it grew in a place abundant with water, and so the sweetness was diluted ba, Shu Jintian thought boredly.

Shu Hanyu lazily took a peek at the female. Seeing that the female was fine, he closed his eyes and rested. His dive yesterday had impacted and hurt his internal organs, and he had to take a good rest to recover.

Shu Jintian ate a few sour fruits and a surge of acid rose in his belly, causing him to become hungrier.

But in this damned place, he couldn’t even go out to look for food, so he couldn’t help but feel a little despondent

He recalled being born in a large, wealthy family. Though he had not received much fatherly love, he had been brought up in superior life conditions. When had he ever suffered hardship and humiliation?

In his mind, he silently recited: The person who the heavens bestow a great responsibility must first suffer bitter feelings, toil one’s muscle and bones, starve until one is skin and bones, suffer until one has nothing... There’s always a rainbow after the storm. En~ Hope he doesn’t directly catch a cold.

Shu Jintian leaned against the cavern wall. It was a little cold with his sleeveless shirt and so he picked up the comforter on the floor and wrapped it around him. He looked for a grass pile far away from the big snake and sat there.

The sunlight scattered from the cavern hole looked very warm and formed a distinct contrast against the gloomy and cold cavern. Shu Jintian was a little upset about his impetuous and rude behaviour from before. He failed his escape this time and caused the big snake to raise his guard against him, and it wouldn’t be that easy to lie to him next time.

When he woke up again, the sky had already turned dark and his stomach was growling constantly. He had been awoken from his hunger.

At some unknown point in time, his body had been coiled around by the snake. The bulky snake body heavily pressed against his abdomen, undulating with the rise and fall of his breathing.