freenovelworld Chapter 203 Hickey
Chapter 203 Hickey
Fan Qingyin and Lin Yi, who were sitting at the dining table, saw Jiang Yu walk in at the same time. Lin Yi spoke first: "Xiao Yu, why are you up? I thought you could sleep a little longer. You were sleeping so soundly when I got up, you didn't react at all."
Fan Qingyin also said, "Yi said he would come to get you breakfast, but we happened to have some things to talk about, so we were a little delayed. We should have asked him to send the breakfast back to you first."
"It's okay~" Jiang Yu walked over to Fan Qingyin's side and asked, "Qingyin, how are you feeling today? Are you feeling any better?"
"Yes, it's getting better every day. It won't be long before it's fully recovered." Fan Qingyin smiled gently and pulled out a chair beside her. "Xiaoyu, sit down. What would you like to eat? Let the kitchen make it."
Jiang Yu sat down and replied with a smile, "That's good. There's no need to make anything special. I'll just eat whatever's served this morning. Have you finished eating?"
Lin Yi, who was originally sitting opposite Fan Qingyin, saw this scene and thought to himself that Fan Qingyin was too quick. He immediately got up and sat on the other side of Jiang Yu. "Qingyin has finished eating, but I haven't eaten yet. I was planning to take it back to the room to eat with you, but let's eat some now."
"There's a sweet soup with spirit mushrooms, small soup dumplings made from roasted beast meat, small breads sprinkled with spices, some sausages and ham, and milk and milk pudding. Would you like some of everything?" There were also some fruits and chopped vegetables on the table. Fan Qingyin picked out some of Jiang Yu's usual favorites, put them on a plate, and handed them to her while patiently explaining.
"Take some of everything. I'll finish whatever Xiaoyu can't eat." Lin Yi waved his hand. "Take more of those little soup dumplings. They're really delicious. You can't even get them in the Ocean Empire."
The Susu Beast is a small animal that lives in the ice and snow. It is covered with snow-white fur and has a long, transparent bony tail. It is timid by nature, but its meat is delicious and it has a strong reproductive capacity. It is a common meat on the Aurora Empire's dining table.
"So what are you talking about?" Jiang Yu asked curiously, glancing at Fan Qingyin and then at Lin Yi.
Lin Yi and Fan Qingyin exchanged a glance, both tacitly agreeing not to bring up the previous topic in front of Jiang Yu. So Fan Qingyin spoke first: "It's like this, we were discussing returning to the territory in a while. There are too many things piling up, and Yi has been away from the legion for too long. There are indeed many things that need to be resolved, so we sat down to discuss it."
“That’s right,” Lin Yi agreed.
"I see." Jiang Yu didn't have any doubts after hearing this, but she felt that the two of them had a heavy burden on their shoulders. She silently made up her mind to devote more time and energy to helping Qingyin handle the affairs of the territory and to do her best.
Jiang Yu lowered her head to eat fruit, her hair falling down. Fan Qingyin reached out to help her tuck her hair behind her ear, but her eyes changed in an instant. There was a clear hickey on Jiang Yu's neck behind her ear.
Fan Qingyin gently pulled open the collar behind Jiang Yu's neck, revealing a dense array of hickeys extending downwards, many of which were quite dark, enough to evoke the intense atmosphere of the previous night.
Fan Qingyin's eyes were filled with coldness, her bloodshot eyes filled with murderous intent as she looked at Lin Yi with anger and warning. How dare he leave these marks on Xiao Yu? He must have hurt her terribly.
Lin Yi felt a little guilty. When he woke up in the morning, he was terrified to see Jiang Yu covered in mottled marks. Recalling his outrageous and rampant behavior the night before, he wanted to slap himself. Now, seeing Fan Qingyin's murderous gaze, for the first time, he felt guilty and avoided her eyes, sitting there obediently.
Fan Qingyin subtly withdrew her hand. Jiang Yu was still eating and didn't notice the exchange between the two. Fan Qingyin looked at her with heartache and said, "Xiao Yu, let's go to my room later. I'll apply the medicine for you."
"?" Jiang Yu's mouth was full of delicious little fruits, and she didn't understand why he was applying medicine to her for a moment. She stared at him blankly for a while, and only when she noticed that Fan Qingyin's gaze was on her neck with some heartache did she suddenly realize what was going on.
"Ah...no need, no need." Jiang Yu quickly chewed and swallowed the food in her mouth before waving her hands in refusal.
Qingyin is always incredibly gentle. When she saw the marks Lin Yi had made while she was applying the medicine, the two of them were bound to fight. What if Qingyin got so angry that she wouldn't let Yi go home?
She was so distressed just by seeing a few marks on his neck; she couldn't let Qingyin see them all. She wouldn't underestimate Qingyin's fighting strength just because he was a gentle divine messenger.
Jiang Yu first took a sip of milk to calm herself down, then handed a cup to Fan Qingyin, thinking he should have a sip to calm his nerves. Fan Qingyin immediately looked at her with a helpless expression and said, "Xiao Yu, you can't spoil him like this."
She shot Lin Yi a disapproving look again, but thankfully it had softened considerably: "You have no sense of proportion."
While eating, Jiang Yu brought up a topic she had been thinking about for a long time. She felt that the moment was perfect. Qingyin and Yi were both people she cherished in her heart, and they loved her with all their hearts. Therefore, it was her duty to give them a reassuring promise.
"How do we obtain the Empire's Fertility Fruit?" Jiang Yu asked.
Fan Qingyin's eyes went blank for a moment after being hit by the question. Lin Yi, who was drinking soup, choked when he heard it, and then his fingers tightened involuntarily.
"What's wrong, Xiaoyu? Why did you suddenly ask this?" Fan Qingyin put down her cup without giving a direct answer.
"I remember I can receive the Fertility Fruit three times. I'm wondering, if I were to have a child for you two, how should I arrange things? I knew before that I only had one chance to choose for myself, right?"
Jiang Yu was puzzled. In fact, according to the rules, the population was decreasing year by year, which was obviously unreasonable. If it was necessary to rely on fertility fruit to give birth to offspring, then why were women only allowed three opportunities to give birth?
Admittedly, she doesn't yearn for childbirth based on her own considerations, since multiple pregnancies inevitably cause irreversible damage to a woman's body. However, requiring women to have five partners is indeed very unfair to men who cannot have offspring.
Most importantly, women are already scarce, and the number of newborn women is decreasing. If this continues, won't humanity become extinct?
Lin Yi's eyes widened. What did Xiao Yu just say? She wanted to have children for both of them? He couldn't have heard wrong, could he? Even including Mo Ya, Xiao Yu still had two vacant partner positions. How could she possibly decide on the right to have children so early?
Questioning, then ecstasy.
Xiaoyu loves him, and she wants to have his offspring.
“Yes. Xiaoyu, you can only decide once to bear children for the partner you like the most. After that, it will depend on the Empire’s evaluation.” Fan Qingyin knew that Jiang Yu had doubts about such rules. In fact, many people were protesting and struggling, not understanding why the Empire had set such a cold and harsh rule, only thinking that it was to protect women’s supreme rights.
If he hadn't touched the core of this world's divine power, he probably wouldn't have known the truth. His eyes held a hint of despair and pity; now was clearly not the right time to tell Xiaoyu these things.
So he could only explain: "You can submit your own decision whenever you want, but the Empire's evaluation will only begin after you have selected all your partners."