[Not many, not many—ten.]
System 999 answered casually.
[H-how many?! Ten?!]
Yue Ling nearly lost control of her expression.
[For a female, that's already considered a very small number.]
Sensing Yue Ling's agitation, System 999 muttered defensively.
[Even if I live to a hundred years old, I wouldn't have ten people to seduce!]
Yue Ling was utterly speechless.
Ten targets meant ten husbands. Even a spinning top wouldn't rotate as fast as she'd have to.
[Oh—Host, I forgot to mention something important. The average lifespan of beastmen here is one hundred and fifty years. When you reach 100% affection with a seduction target, you gain an extra five years of life. That's fifteen years per beastman. Ten of them adds up to one hundred and fifty years total. Any additional years are a bonus from the main system. After all, high-quality, powerful male beastmen tend to live longer than females.]
Yue Ling: [...]
For the first time, she genuinely felt that this so-called life-extension romance system was wildly unreliable.
She didn't even have the energy to complain anymore.
System 999: Waaah, I'm wronged!
Can you really blame me? You never asked!
The animal-skin skirt fit her body far better than she had expected. Her entire exchange with System 999 had taken place in just a few fleeting moments.
The curtain was lifted.
Bai Ying's gaze fell squarely on the small female before him. The skirt hugged her frame neatly, yet only made her look even smaller. Her waist was so slim it could be encircled with one hand—narrower than his palm. If someone told him she was still an adolescent cub, he would have believed it without question.
One glance was enough to tell how poorly she must have been cared for in the past.
"It fits perfectly. Thank you, Bai Ying."
Under his unfiltered scrutiny, Yue Ling turned in place once, deliberately showing off his handiwork so he could admire it himself.
"Mm."
Bai Ying nodded. "I'll pour out the water. Stay here."
With long strides, he lifted the stone pot full of bathwater and carried it out of the cave.
Yue Ling watched his retreating figure, then crawled into her bed. The day had been exhausting beyond measure. Once she was fed and warm, sleep came quickly—her eyelids drooping almost the instant she lay down.
Just as she was about to drift off, Bai Ying returned once more, hauling in a massive stone slab and setting it inside the cave.
"You can't sleep on the ground. You'll get sick."
He had simply moved the stone bed from his own cave over to hers.
The commotion wasn't small. Quite a few beastmen saw Bai Ying carrying his stone bed straight into the cave of that so-called mad female.
What was this? Were they forming a mating bond?
No—she wouldn't be eligible for mating until next year.
Then… was Bai Ying becoming her guardian beast?
Strength truly was a miracle here. A stone bed that would take three or four grown men to move in the modern world was carried in by Bai Ying alone.
In his mind, the bed was useless to him anyway. Giving it to the little female made more sense.
Yue Ling was forced to get up again, though all she really did was stand there yawning while Bai Ying busied himself, spreading animal hides neatly over the stone bed.
"Thank you, Bai Ying. You really are an exceptionally good beastman."
She felt like she'd said "thank you" so many times today that she was about to wear the words out—but this stone bed solved a real problem. Sleeping on the damp ground long-term would have led to illness, maybe even rheumatism.
Seduction Target Number One truly exceeded her expectations.
If it weren't for the fact that she needed those extra decades of life, she honestly wouldn't mind spending her days with just Bai Ying alone. What she wanted was pure love—not a whole harem.
Once again thanked and praised, Bai Ying's pale, cool-toned face flushed faintly.
Yue Ling dove straight into bed, her head facing the cave entrance.
There were no undergarments in this world. With such a short skirt, every bend or movement made her nervous, constantly afraid of exposing herself. She really needed to sew herself a few pairs of underpants as soon as possible.
And with the cave entrance so wide open, she absolutely needed to add a door, too.
After pulling the animal hide over herself, she noticed Bai Ying was still standing by the bed.
"Hurry back," she urged. "You haven't even eaten yet!"
Being gently chased away like this made Bai Ying feel oddly uncomfortable, a faint irritation bubbling up inside him.
"Male beastmen don't need to eat every meal," he explained.
A single feeding could sustain a wolf beastman for one or two days—though the quantity consumed was several times that of a small female.
"Sleep. I'll stay here and guard you. This area is too remote—it's not safe."
Yue Ling clutched the edge of the animal hide, covering most of her face.
She'd been planning to sew underpants once he left!
Besides, the original owner of this body had lived here for over ten years, running around everywhere—nothing bad had ever happened!
[Host, he's worried about you. Seduction Target Number One is emotionally invested.]
System 999 scolded her in a tone of disappointed exasperation.
[I'm waiting to sew underwear! If he doesn't leave, tomorrow I'll have to—]
Yue Ling protested internally. Emotional investment was not her top priority right now. She urgently needed functional clothing.
Seeing Bai Ying so determined, she suppressed her thoughts and watched as he walked to the cave entrance and transformed into a massive silver wolf—nearly two meters tall and three meters long.
Moonlight bathed his thick, silver fur, lending him an aloof, solitary beauty—like a creature standing apart from the world.
When Yue Ling unexpectedly met his glowing green wolf eyes, she nearly jumped out of her skin and hurriedly buried herself under the animal hide.
If this were the modern world, this would be a full-blown demon spirit.
It was her first time seeing a beastman transform, and the shock left her utterly stunned.
Drowsiness gradually overtook her. Lying on the stone bed, half-asleep and hazy, she suddenly heard hurried footsteps and frantic shouting from outside the cave.
"Yue Ling—something's wrong! Something's wrong! Hurry, come take a look!"