Chapter 50: Chapter 50: Discovering the Secret of the Spider Ring

"You’re going to the Snow Country?!" The assistant had no idea what had gotten into his boss, but he steeled himself and said, "But it’s almost October. The Snow Country is far to the north, and the cold might affect you."

Li Chenlin’s serpentine eyes swept over him with a cold glare.

The assistant felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. He immediately straightened his posture, lowered his head, and avoided his boss’s gaze. "Yes, President Li. I’ll make the arrangements immediately."

Li Chenlin said, "Sign this year’s arms deal with the powers in the Snow Country. As for the jewelry and mining rights, those still go to the Southern Country people."

The assistant nodded. "Understood."

*

After the two little ones finished leveling up, Lu Tingyan took the mother and her two children back to the restaurant on the mountaintop.

Along the way, Bai Su kept her head lowered submissively. Her two cute, drooping rabbit ears flopped at her sides. Her face was fair, her features delicate. With her eyes cast down, the tiny, bluish-purple veins on her thin eyelids were clearly visible.

’A female this fragile and delicate should be cherished and protected.’

’He knew how hard it was for her, yet he’d let her raise the children all alone on this mountain. Damn him for that.’

The anger Lu Tingyan had felt last night after she contradicted him had vanished completely. His heart was now filled with nothing but tenderness and compassion for her.

Under the circumstances, there was no way she could open the restaurant today.

Bai Su posted an update on her streaming channel, announcing that the restaurant would be closed for maintenance starting today and would not be open for the next three days.

Lu Tingyan reassured her, "Don’t worry. They’ll be fine once they wake up. It’s normal for Little Beastmen after they break through a Level. They go through a long period of lethargy."

"I went through the same thing when I was little."

Bai Su looked at him. "The doctor said that during their formative years, young ones need a father to teach them skills and the combat abilities necessary for survival."

’She hadn’t considered this before, always assuming these children were just like the ones she knew in her past life.’

’She had completely forgotten that this was the Beast World.’

’For a male to make his way in the Beast World, combat ability was paramount. Everything else was secondary.’

’Without a father to train them from a young age, Little Beastmen had to struggle and work many times harder to master survival skills on their own.’

’Her idea of keeping the children by her side was too naive.’

Lu Tingyan ruffled her hair. "Leave them to me. You just focus on doing what you want to do, okay?"

Bai Su froze. "You’re willing to let me keep the restaurant open?"

Lu Tingyan chuckled softly. "What choice do I have? I’ve committed my life to one little rabbit. All that matters is your happiness."

It would be a lie to say Bai Su wasn’t moved.

Lu Tingyan’s concession had taken her by surprise.

It was only today at the hospital, after overhearing the gossip, that she finally understood the rules of marriage in this world.

If a female like her went out to work and run a restaurant, it was a blatant public declaration that her Beast Husband was a useless failure.

It was tantamount to grinding her Beast Husband’s face into the dirt and inviting everyone to mock and criticize him.

Most males wouldn’t be able to accept it, let alone Lu Tingyan, the Federation Leader.

But he had actually compromised for her sake.

A sweet feeling blossomed in Bai Su’s heart. She couldn’t resist cupping his face and planting a quick kiss on him. "You keep an eye on them," she whispered. "I’ll go make you something delicious!"

Lu Tingyan’s eyes darkened. He grabbed the little rabbit as she tried to escape, held the back of her head, and deepened the kiss.

Bai Su gave him a light punch on the chest, warning him not to take it too far.

After all, the two little ones were still fast asleep nearby, which made her feel a little shy.

With all the morning’s commotion, they hadn’t even had lunch.

Bai Su went into the kitchen and deftly began to cook.

The System’s voice suddenly chimed in her mind. ’Host, the other two male leads are about to make their appearance.’

Bai Su froze for a second. ’So soon?’

’Yes,’ the System replied.

’Which two?’

’Yelias, the White Spider Beastman from the Lanton Family, and Li Chenlin, the Snake Beastman who controls the Li Family’s criminal enterprise.’

The System seemed to ponder for a moment before adding, ’Be careful. These two don’t have a very good impression of you, so don’t let your guard down.’

Descriptions of the two men from the novel immediately surfaced in Bai Su’s mind.

Snakes were lustful by nature and could go into heat anytime, anywhere.

After falling in love with Bai Xue at first sight, he’d quickly entered a honeymoon phase, ready to go into heat at a moment’s notice.

Sometimes it was in the office, other times during a video conference—Li Chenlin would always find a way to corner her.

Sometimes it was behind a reef at the beach, with the waves crashing against them.

Sometimes it was in front of a floor-to-ceiling window.

What left the deepest impression on Bai Su was the time Li Chenlin, in the throes of his heat, dragged the heroine into a phone booth on a bustling street.

The phone booth had one-way glass. You could see out, but no one could see in.

She had been completely stunned when she read that description.

The phone booth had no lock or latch, so a passerby could have pushed the door open at any moment and discovered them.

Furthermore, since the one-way glass acted as a mirror on the outside, passersby would often glance at it or even stop to check their reflection.

The tension the heroine must have felt, making eye contact with passersby, seemed to leap off the page and into her own mind.

So much so that whenever she thought of the name Li Chenlin, her mind would go straight to the gutter.

Bai Su couldn’t help but press a hand to her forehead.

And don’t even get her started on Yelias...

If Li Chenlin’s thing was going into heat at any moment, Yelias was basically the novel’s designated master of kink.

His true form was a spider, and the silk he produced had powerful empathic properties. He had a great appreciation for art, and that included the art of sex.

When he bound someone with his silk, he could transmit his five senses through the strands, and he could also use them to convey his own sensations to his partner.

When he was with the heroine, his favorite thing was to use his silk to transmit his sensations to her, allowing her to experience what both of them were feeling simultaneously.

Even just reading the text, she felt like the heroine was going to be driven insane by his games.

The most classic example she recalled was his love for playing interrogation games.

When interrogating a prisoner, he would wrap silk threads around five or six of their vital points, then present the ends of those threads to them.

He would make the prisoner draw one of the threads at random.

They might draw the thread connected to their neck and have their throat slit.

They might draw the one connected to their waist and be sliced in two.

Or perhaps they would draw the one attached to their eye and have it plucked out by the silk.

But when he used this method on the heroine, the threads weren’t connected to vital points, but to sensitive ones.

Each time the heroine chose a different thread, it would trigger a new "surprise."

She remembered the most twisted scene, where he gathered the silk threads wrapped all over the heroine’s body to form a hammered dulcimer.

The other end of each "string" was tied to a different spot all over her body.

By the time Yelias had finished playing a piece on this "dulcimer," the heroine had already... visited nirvana several times over, the little fireworks over her head about to explode into oblivion.

Hiss...

Bai Su shook her head, trying to clear the smutty garbage from her mind.

Suddenly, her gaze fell upon the ring on her finger.

The Bixie ring that Grandpa Yarco had given her was in the shape of a little White Spider.

’Wait a minute!’ 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

A sudden realization struck Bai Su.

Grandpa Yarco was from the Lanton Family, and Yelias was from the Lanton Family too.

She finally understood why the ring had looked so familiar when he gave it to her!

’Isn’t this the ring that was supposed to end up on the heroine’s finger in the original story?!’

Bai Su’s mind descended into chaos, filled with the image of the heroine bound by Yelias’s silk into the shape of a Russian chandelier.

Hiss...