"Okay," Yin Ji agreed.

The large white tiger began to run forward swiftly, but his white tail remained wrapped around Jiang Zheyu’s waist, showing no intention of letting go.

Jiang Zheyu sat on the large white tiger’s back, feeling a draft beneath her grass skirt. With every bound the tiger took, a gust of wind blew past.

She was sitting directly on his fluffy back with nothing in between.

The sensation was incredibly awkward and shameful.

And as the great tiger ran, the firm muscles of his back seemed to ripple with the rhythm of his gait.

Jiang Zheyu felt a wave of heat spreading through her legs. She didn’t know if it was because the big tiger’s skin was naturally warm, or if it was from the blush burning on her own face.

This was just too embarrassing.

While Jiang Zheyu was burning with embarrassment, Yin Ji’s nosebleed, far from stopping, was getting even worse because of the female’s delicate skin pressed against his back.

A fire raged within him. He really wanted to have tiger cubs.

Meanwhile, Jiang Zheyu couldn’t spare a thought for the white tail wrapped around her waist.

She silently adjusted her sitting position.

After a moment, she tucked her legs under her, settling into a more ladylike posture.

This posture felt much better.

Once she had adjusted her position, Jiang Zheyu’s attention returned to the white tail wrapped around her waist.

’Why does this tail feel like it’s getting tighter around my waist?’

"Yin Ji, you can retract your tail now," Jiang Zheyu said after a moment of silence, finally speaking up.

"I’m worried you’ll fall off. It’s better if I use my tail to hold you steady," Yin Ji replied in a deadpan tone, though his voice was a little hoarse.

Jiang Zheyu was speechless.

She didn’t even believe that excuse herself.

Jiang Zheyu fell silent for a moment, then decided to clear the air.

"Um, Yin Ji, you don’t have to call me Female Master. I’m really grateful you saved me, but this whole thing about offering yourself to me... It’s not appropriate right now." Jiang Zheyu chose her words carefully before slowly continuing, "Besides, we’ve known each other for less than a day. I’m thankful you saved me, and when I go home, I’ll give you any reward you want. There’s no need to be so fixated on becoming my Beast Husband."

The air was quiet for a while. Just when Jiang Zheyu thought Yin Ji wasn’t going to respond, she heard his muffled voice.

"But according to the rules of our continent, the moment I took you in, I had already accepted you as my Female Master. If you abandon me, I’ll become a stray beast. A Beastman can only have one Female Master. Once that Female Master abandons him, he will never be accepted by other females or tribes again." Yin Ji’s voice sounded somewhat desolate. "If I had known you felt this way, then I can only blame myself for bringing you back and ruining my own life."

He added, his voice extremely dejected, "It’s fine. It’s fine if you don’t accept me. It just means I’ll become a stray beast. I’ll probably just die somewhere out there, and no one will even be around to bury my body."

Jiang Zheyu was completely stunned as she listened to Yin Ji’s long speech, unable to process it all.

She spoke awkwardly, "It can’t be as serious as you’re making it sound, can it?"

"How is it not that serious? When you get back to the tribe, you can ask the other females and you’ll know if I’m telling the truth," Yin Ji said, his voice still muffled. "When I brought you back, I couldn’t just let a strange female enter the tribe. The only way was to say I was your Beast Husband."

He added, "Back then, to bring you into the tribe, I had to say you were my Female Master. So, Grandma Witch Doctor has already carved the Beast Mate mark on us. Look, do you see a white tiger totem on your arm? I have one on my arm too. This is the Beast Mate mark. It’s a mark of eternal loyalty."

Listening to his long explanation, Jiang Zheyu’s head started to buzz.

’Wait, how did I wake up with a husband I didn’t even ask for?’

"Those are your rules here, not ours," Jiang Zheyu said hurriedly. "Where I’m from, a Male Beastman can marry another female. As long as his Female Master lets him go, the Male Beastman has the right to choose again."

"But those are *your* rules. You’re in our territory now, so you have to follow our rules," Yin Ji said slowly. "Why can’t you accept me? What’s wrong with me? Did I do something wrong?"

Jiang Zheyu quickly replied, "Of course there’s nothing wrong with you."

But then she added, "Do you know what the outside world is like?"

"You mean the place where you originally lived, right?" Yin Ji responded. "Is it some kind of hidden tribe?"

"No, I told you," Jiang Zheyu said quietly. ’Anyway, once we leave this planet, the Imperial Capital Star will definitely discover its existence. They’ll probably lead this planet back to a life of high technology... which is probably just another life of toil.’ "This place is actually just a tiny planet in the universe. There are many, many planets like this one out there. The place I live is another planet called the Imperial Capital Star."

"Is that so?" Yin Ji murmured. "So that thing that crashed... that’s what you use to fly high up in the sky?"

"Yes, that’s right. It’s called a Starship. It can travel through the universe and go to any planet," Jiang Zheyu confirmed. "But because the Zerg Mother has awakened, a lot of signals have been cut off, which is why we’ve lost contact."

A glint flickered in Yin Ji’s eyes. ’Does this mean that if the Zerg Mother isn’t destroyed, the little female will have to stay on this planet forever?’

"The Zerg Mother has indeed awakened," Yin Ji affirmed.

"Which planet is the Zerg Mother even on? I have to take it down," Jiang Zheyu muttered to herself.

Yin Ji paused. The little female was a visitor from another planet, so she didn’t know that the Zerg Mother was actually on their world.

They knew about the Zerg Mother because, naturally, they had seen it.

It was just that this Zerg Mother was enormous and very difficult to kill. Its nest was also teeming with zerglings. Generally, they lived and let live—or rather, neither side could do anything to the other. But if they ever did cross paths, both would try to kill the other.

This Zerg Mother had been on the planet for a very long time; it was only now that it was about to awaken.

And they were destined to fight a battle against it.