Seven Cubs, Seven Fathers, Zero Days Off

Chapter 20: Chapter 20: Males Like That Should Be Drowned With Stones and Skinned

So beautiful.

Si Muye stared, dumbfounded, at the person in his arms.

It had only been a single night, yet the woman in his arms seemed to have completely transformed.

The dark spots on her face had faded significantly, and even her dusky skin had lightened by several shades. Her pretty, delicate features were now clearly visible on her small, palm-sized face.

Before, when her face was dark and covered in pockmarks, she had no looks to speak of. Her features were hidden beneath that dark, mottled skin, making them indistinct and easy to ignore completely.

Si Muye froze, unable to tear his eyes away from her.

Shen Yue saw him staring blankly, having forgotten to let go of her.

”Am I soft?”

Still in a daze, Si Muye blurted out:

”Yes, soft...”

The words had barely left his lips before he snapped back to reality. His face flushed red as he helped her stand steady.

”No, A Yue, I... I...”

His words caught in his throat. He didn’t know where to look, too embarrassed to figure out how to explain himself.

He didn’t want her to think he was taking advantage of her.

’But she really is so soft, and her waist is so slender,’ he thought. ’I just want to keep holding her like this forever.’

Shen Yue couldn’t help but laugh. ’What an innocent big bear,’ she thought, ’he can’t even get his words out straight.’

Just then, Dabao and Er Bao, who had woken up at some point, came running out.

”Wow, female mother, you’re so pretty!”

”Female mother is so beautiful...”

The two little ones’ big eyes blinked rapidly, almost staring themselves into a stupor.

Shen Yue lowered her head and gathered the two little ones into her arms.

”Is it really that dramatic?”

She glanced at Si Muye, a questioning look in her eyes.

Si Muye’s face was red and his heart was pounding. He didn’t dare to look her directly in the eyes.

He just gave a slight cough. ”Yes... very beautiful.”

Shen Yue was a little puzzled. It was only the first day. Although she had guessed that the spots and melanin on her face had probably faded a bit, she didn’t think it would be enough to leave Si Muye and the two little ones completely stunned.

’Could it be that the original owner’s looks were that stunning?’

The two little ones nodded nonstop.

”Female mother is really, really pretty!”

”It’s not an exaggeration at all! We’re telling the truth! Female mother is the prettiest female mother in the whole world!”

Children don’t lie; they say what they see and what they think. This, in turn, made Shen Yue a little curious about her own appearance.

She couldn’t help but carry the two little ones over to the nearby water reservoir and look down.

The clear surface of the water reflected her image.

She couldn’t help but freeze. This face... this...

’Isn’t this my own face?’

’The original Shen Yue looks exactly like me?’

’How is that possible?’

The face in the water was charming and magnificent. Although her complexion was still a bit dark and dull, her exquisite, stunning features were exceptionally eye-catching.

Her large eyes sparkled with life, seeming to ripple like water with every glance. A single red tear-mole at the corner of her eye was especially alluring. She had a small, perky nose and vermilion lips as red as cherries. Even though her skin hadn’t fully recovered and the spots hadn’t completely faded, nothing could hide her breathtakingly beautiful features.

This face, and this signature red tear-mole... she couldn’t be more familiar with them.

Dabao and Er Bao also craned their necks to look at the water’s surface.

”Wow! Female mother is so pretty!”

”Er Bao didn’t lie, did I? Female mother is the prettiest!”

Right now, however, Shen Yue had no time to admire her own appearance. She was too busy trying to understand why the original owner of this body, in this Beast World, looked exactly like her.

It was just too much of a coincidence.

Meanwhile, Mu Silin, who was hiding in the shadows, was already frozen in place, his eyes filled with astonishment and shock.

The subordinate next to him was also staring, dumbstruck, and couldn’t snap out of it for a long time.

After a long moment, the subordinate finally sucked in a sharp breath and found his voice.

”General, is... is that Miss Shen Yue?”

Mu Silin also found it hard to believe his own eyes, but the person below was indeed Shen Yue. How could this woman have suddenly become so beautiful in just one night?

’Were the dark spots on her face before just an illusion?’

’How on earth did she do it?’

At that moment, Si Muye, down below, voiced the very question on his mind.

”A Yue... your face? Before, how could...?”

He was afraid that asking directly would touch a sore spot.

Shen Yue’s eyes shifted, and her expression immediately became aggrieved.

”Sigh! It’s a long story.”

Si Muye looked at her, waiting for her to elaborate.

Seeing this, she shrugged and said with a perfectly straight face:

”Before, my family arranged for me to marry seven Beast Husbands. I didn’t fancy any of them, so I came up with a way to make myself ugly. Who knew that those seven were just a bunch of shallow, heartless scumbags who only cared about looks? They were more cowardly than mice. The moment they heard I was hideous, they got scared and all ran to call off the engagement. So, I took the opportunity to dump the whole lot of them!”

Mu Silin: ”...”

’What?’

’She deliberately made herself ugly?’

’And they... were dumped?’

The subordinate next to him looked like he had just heard the most shocking gossip, his eyes wide as he turned to ask:

”General, did that really happen...?”

’How am I supposed to know if that happened...?’

’What part of me did she not fancy? What did she dislike?’

’Was it because the other six were so terrible that she didn’t fancy them, and I got dragged down with them?’

”Also, Miss Shen Yue mentioned ’scumbag.’ What does that mean?” the subordinate asked, eager to learn.

Mu Silin’s expression was grim. ’Scumbag?’

He wanted to know what it meant, too.

It certainly didn’t sound like a compliment.

After listening, Si Muye, acting as their mouthpiece as expected, asked the question for them:

”’Scumbag’? A Yue, what does that mean?”

Shen Yue explained, ”It means a man who’s rotten to the core—shedding skin, fur, and dregs. He’s disloyal to his Female Master, falls for anyone he sees, is fickle, and doesn’t uphold a husband’s virtues. He’s the type to eat from his bowl while eyeing what’s in the pot. A man like that should be skinned alive and turned into a fur coat. Anyway, I can’t stand them. I wouldn’t take one even if he were given to me for free!”

Listening to this, Si Muye more or less understood.

He said angrily,

”A Yue, you’re right, you can’t have a male like that. I can’t believe your former arranged Beast Husbands were like that, being unfaithful to you! Males like that should be drowned with stones, skinned, and punished by the Beast God. You did the right thing by breaking off the engagement with them. Such males deserve to be unwanted and stay single for life.”

Mu Silin: ”...”

’Fine, fine. So I’m disloyal to my Female Master and fall for anyone I see.’

’I deserve to be skinned... deserve to be drowned with stones...’

He suddenly felt a phantom ache in every single one of his hair follicles.

The corner of his subordinate’s mouth twitched as he looked at him.

”General, so that’s what ’scumbag’ means. In that case, you...”

Mu Silin’s face darkened. ”What about me? When have I ever been unfaithful to my Female Master, fallen for anyone I see, or failed to uphold a husband’s virtues?”

The subordinate choked for a moment, then spoke the plain truth:

”While you may not have fallen for anyone you see or failed to uphold a husband’s virtues, General, you did, as Miss Shen Yue said, get scared off by her appearance back then. You clamored to break off the engagement, and you’d rather run off to Beastification City to endure the mating heat than marry Miss Shen Yue...”

Struck where it hurt by his own subordinate, Mu Silin was momentarily speechless.

After a long pause, he looked down at the woman with the pure, brilliant smile and seethed.

”That damn woman... she actually dared to create such a deception to trick me...”

’She turned me into the ’scumbag’ she described.’

And the worst part was, he had actually fallen for it.

Luckily, he hadn’t agreed to the Duke Mansion’s request to break the engagement that day. Otherwise, he would have truly fallen into this wicked woman’s trap.

’And she even dared to say she didn’t fancy me, that she didn’t like me?’