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Chapter 5

Wife Master, Please Love Me~

Hearing those words, she immediately fought back the urge to have a nosebleed.

Did this damned snake think the river was his personal bathhouse?

“Brother Ziye, I didn’t know you were bathing here~” Li Qingqing forced down her disgust and said sweetly.

In truth, she only wanted to smash his seven-inch weak point to pieces.

【Ding! Xiao Ziye’s favorability –10】

Li Qingqing froze. That trick had worked just fine during the day!

“Stop calling me ‘brother’ over and over. If you don’t find it disgusting, I do!” Xiao Ziye was infamous for his sharp tongue and impossible temper.

Seeing that the act no longer worked, Li Qingqing stopped pretending to be polite. “This riverbank doesn’t belong to you alone. It’s a public resource. Ever heard of that?”

Xiao Ziye truly didn’t understand what “public resource” meant. To him, she was just talking nonsense again.

“You’re really good at twisting words!” he snapped, no longer wanting to argue, and moved to walk past her toward his cave.

“Public resource means this river belongs to the whole tribe,” she reasoned, blocking his way. “Everyone can wash their clothes or bathe here. Why can’t I?”

As she spoke, she summoned vines from her wood-type ability and wrapped them around his wrist, refusing to let him leave.

Xiao Ziye glanced down at the vine coiling around his arm.

“So I was right. The power you used at the river earlier—it’s wood-type ability.”

He stepped closer, towering over her. “Where did you get that? Weren’t you supposed to be useless?”

Li Qingqing cursed inwardly. Damn it, she had forgotten—

The original host was a natural-born good-for-nothing with no powers at all!

“It’s exactly because of people like you who looked down on me that I worked hard and finally awakened my power!” she declared dramatically.

Xiao Ziye watched her quietly, then said flatly, “Impossible. A waste like you could train until death and never gain an ability.”

Li Qingqing suddenly remembered that the beast world worshipped the Beast God.

“Fine, I’ll tell you the truth,” she whispered mysteriously. “Actually, I was chosen by the Beast God. He visits me in my dreams every night and teaches me abilities!”

That should be believable, right?

But Xiao Ziye actually laughed out loud. “If you’re going to make up stories, at least make them sound decent. I’ve never believed in any Beast God. Maybe that trick would work on Ling Mo.”

So even in this world, there were atheists?!

Out of one in a million chances, she had to meet one today!

“Believe it or not, powers don’t just appear out of thin air,” she huffed and turned away, focusing on scrubbing the remaining beast hide instead of him.

The vine binding his wrist faded. But surprisingly, he didn’t leave.

Watching her seriously washing the hide, Xiao Ziye murmured, “You really have changed. Before, after hurting someone, you wouldn’t bother to save them. Washing beast hides? You’d never do that.”

The original owner truly had been vile. Li Qingqing had only been here a single day, but the stories she’d heard about the former her were enough to get someone executed eight hundred times over in her old world.

“Do you remember?” His voice turned cold. “When you were little, you were scared of the scales on my snake form. So you tore them off—one by one.”

Li Qingqing froze. That memory didn’t exist in the original’s mind at all.

Did the original body just forget her own cruelty?

No wonder Ziye’s hatred toward her was higher than anyone else’s.

Her hands stopped moving.

She stood up and looked at him seriously. “I’m sorry. I’m really, really sorry.”

Li Qingqing had read plenty of transmigration novels before—where the heroine would end up inside a villainess’s body and face everyone’s hatred.

Back then, she never understood why those heroines bothered to apologize. It wasn’t their fault, right?

But now, she finally got it.

Saying sorry might not fix things, but it could at least ease a wounded heart.

Xiao Ziye had only brought up that memory to expose her hypocrisy.

He’d mentioned it countless times before, and every time she’d brushed it off with, “Did I? I don’t remember.”

But now, she said: “I’m sorry. I’m really sorry.”

The sincerity in her eyes didn’t look fake.

“You should be sorry,” he said coldly, “but I don’t forgive you.”

Then he turned and left, leaving Li Qingqing standing there in silence.

She knelt again to continue washing hides, muttering under her breath, “The original really was into domestic violence, huh.”

【That’s what I told you—she hurt Ziye too deeply~】

“So it was real hurt, not just emotional,” she sighed.

When she finished, the river calmed—smooth and mirror-like.

Looking at her reflection, Li Qingqing murmured, “The original owner was this beautiful, and still everyone hated her.”

【System thinks inner beauty like yours is the real beauty.】

The system congratulated itself for the perfect compliment, only for her to glare at it.

“Inner beauty? Are you saying I’m not beautiful on the outside?”

【…I’ll shut up now.】

Li Qingqing laughed. Sometimes, this system was actually kind of cute.

She carried the washed hides back and hung them to dry on a tree near her cave.

Just as she was about to study farming techniques, her stomach growled loudly.

She entered her ability space and pulled out a pack of reward spicy turkey noodles.

Just as she was about to open it, a horrifying thought struck her—

She didn’t have a pot!

Drooping her head, she trudged back into the cave, resigning herself to going hungry for the night. She’d figure out food tomorrow.

But as soon as she entered, she caught the rich smell of meat.

Her eyes landed on a large slab of boar meat laid on the stone table.

“Where did this come from? It wasn’t here when I left.”

【It was brought by Ling Xiaotuan and Ling Xiaoyu!】

Li Qingqing’s heart warmed. Those two kids were so sweet!

She exchanged two fruits for the whole slab of pork.

Without hesitation, she grabbed a stone knife and began processing the hide.

She opened her palm—flames flared from her hand, roasting the meat until the air filled with the mouthwatering aroma of cooked pork.

Taking a big bite, she let out a satisfied sigh. After an entire day without food, it was heavenly.

Once she was full, she carefully stored the leftovers.

“I’ve decided,” she said firmly. “From now on, I’m done slacking. I’m going to conquer them seriously!”

【Clap clap clap! The system applauds you!】

Li Qingqing took out her “Complete Survival Guide for Transmigrators” and began studying diligently.

It was incredibly detailed—from planting seeds to managing irrigation projects.

【Host, shouldn’t you be studying how to win over your husbands instead?】

While reading the section on how to make an iron pot, Li Qingqing answered with deep conviction,

“System, once I become powerful and rise to chief, they’ll fall for me naturally.”

【Why would they love you just because you’re the chief?】

Li Qingqing was already daydreaming—picturing herself as tribal leader, her beast husbands kneeling obediently before her.

One by one, they’d say in unison:

“Wife Master, please love us~”

She smirked. “Don’t love me? Then I’ll make them love me!”