Beastman Forcefully Raising a Wife

Edited by Squid

The red merman evenly swam along the water surface while carrying Shu Jintian under his armpit. It was a little strenuous for the little snake to follow and it fell behind a ways before shaking its tail and catching up. It was only when a dark-coloured hill appeared over the horizon that the merman sped up, swimming over to it. It was only a moment but the distance from the little snake grew again.

Although the little snake was male, it was young after all. Seeing the distance to female father grow bigger, he did his best to chase after him, yet was unable to close the gap at all. In the vast blue water, female father and that man’s figure was turning smaller and darker, and soon disappeared.

Father! The little snake spat out his tongue and chased after them. Up ahead was an island; that male should be bringing female father ashore ba!

The little snake dragged his beaten body and crawled ashore, panting, and searched everywhere for female father.

The island was full of very unfamiliar scents, making the little snake both panicked and excited. Little snake crawled back and forth on the ground, carefully distinguishing female father’s scent, wanting to search for him by following the scent. But he was now both tired and drowsy, and was unable to focus, so he couldn’t find father no matter what.

The little snake was extremely scared. Where was female father kidnapped to?

After a long search with no results, the little snake was thoroughly spent, and negligently found a corner with fertile weeds before falling asleep peacefully. Let’s sleep first ba, we’ll continue searching tomorrow!

The sky was already bright, to the point that it was stabbing the eyes. Even with one’s eyes closed, the piercing sunlight couldn’t be concealed. The various bird cries were also exceptionally noisy, and seemed to be echoing in his ears, covering the nearby sounds of crashing waves.

“Hanyu~ Little snake…” Shu Jintian’s eyes were tightly shut, and he kept mumbling and crying out. His eyes were rapidly darting, as if immersed in a nightmare.

【You’re awake?】

Seeing that the female finally have a reaction, the merman crawled out of the pile of water plants in delight. He didn’t even have the mind to clean up the few water plants stuck in his hair. Hu! Even thought he was dead ne; he finally wakes after being unconscious for so long. 

Once Shu Jintian heard a language like the liger beast’s, he suddenly opened his eyes.

Just as he opened his eyes, sunlight shone into them. Shu Jintian shed some tears involuntarily, his vision a little blurry. He could only see a human figure with long, red hair who was bowing his head and looking at him.

“Wu~ Who are you?” Shu Jintian’s throat was a little hoarse, and once he spoke, he felt a dull ache in his chest and coughed in pain.

The sunlight was a little harsh and Shu Jintian blinked uncomfortably before he could see the person before him clearly. Although just hearing the voice made it obvious that it wasn’t that vile beastman, Shu Jintian was still stunned by this person’s exceptionally exquisite face.

This person had an exceedingly beautiful face, his features were well-defined and his skin was fair. His neither thick nor thin lips were cherry red, and his upturned nose was tall and straight, followed by a pair of rather large eyes. The corner of his eyes were slightly upturned and his irises were a slightly transparent red with long and curly eyelashes of a similar shade. He was very good-looking, but he didn’t appear flirtatious.

The most flamboyant feature was his head of long fiery red hair, draped on his body in curls like seaweed. He had a perfect human torso, yet his lower body was a red fishtail, the flowing fishtail resting on the ground.

Was this a merman? Shu Jintian thought of how this world already had two types of creatures that could become people, then the existence of mermans was also pretty common ba!

He was now in a messy grass pile, and beside this place was a brook. He couldn’t see the figure of little snake or Shu Hanyu, making him feel very uneasy.

How were they? Hanyu definitely would be able to beat that beastman, but what about his wounds? And the little snake? He seemed to have seen the little snake jump down with him.

“Who are you? Cough cough~ You- have you seen anyone else? Cough cough…” As Shu Jintian spoke, he kept coughing. His lungs ached from the coughs. He only felt a little better when he coughed out a small mouthful of salty seawater.

The merman watched the female cough painfully and didn’t know what to do. He raised his hands and then put them down, hesitantly in a tangle for a while. Finally, he patted Shu Jintian’s back gently.

【Are you alright? You definitely drank a lot of water yesterday; you’ll be fine after coughing it out. 】

The red merman was a little uneasy. Although he had seen many females, this was his first time having such close contact with one. Although this female didn’t look good at all, and could barely be considered having proper facial features. After all, he also had a nose and eyes.

In the beastman mainland, if the Spiritual Snake clan’s appearance were blessed by heavens, then the merman clan were spoiled by heavens. For the merman clan, each fish’s appearance was absolutely the perfect existence. mermans even utilised their bright-coloured and beautiful body to attract their target of admiration. But the merman clans lived in the depths of the blue water, so beastmen of the merman clan were very rarely seen.

Shu Jintian instinctively avoided the stranger merman’s touch, but the movement caused his body’s pain to ring out and he directly fell into the merman’s embrace.

“Ngh!” There was a pain in his chest like he was being repeatedly hammered, and Shu Jintian whimpered with furrowed brows.

The red merman instantly stiffened and nearly pushed Shu Jintian away.

“Ah! My bad.” Shu Jintian recovered and hastily withdrew from the merman’s embrace.

The merman could not understand Shu Jintian’s words, his face a little heated. He changed the topic and said, 【What are you saying? Why can’t I understand at all? Is this you guys’ language?】

The merman’s words also sounded like obscure language to Shu Jintian. Shu Jintian couldn’t get the answer he wanted, and didn’t want to waste time on him, so he laboriously propped his body up and prepared to leave. It was better to find the little snake and Hanyu ba; he didn’t know where they were, but they were probably looking for him ba!

“Forget it, I’ll go look for them myself ba! Thanks for taking care of me.” Shu Jintian spent a lot of effort to speak, then couldn’t help coughing.

The merman kept a hand on Shu Jintian’s body and disapprovingly said, 【You’re injured; don’t move about. I’ll support you. Right, my name is &~**^%.】

The merman emphasised on his name. Afraid that Shu Jintian wouldn’t be able to understand, the merman pointed at himself and then said his name once.

“What?” Even if the merman had spoken slow enough, Shu Jintian still couldn’t fully decipher his pronunciation.

“Hong~ Zao? Your name?” Shu Jintian said uncertainly. He could only hear the two most obvious sounds, which was the words ‘Hong’ and ‘Zao’.

Merman Hong Yao supported his forehead with a hand.

【It’s &~**^%.】 the merman patiently taught.

“Hong~~~ Zao.”

【&~**^%.】

“Hong Zao!” Shu Jintian’s tone became impatient. He still had to find Hanyu and little snake ne, so he was disinclined to bother with this guy. But this merman was mostly red all over, so he was quite like a Hong Zao.

The merman Hong Zao helplessly sighed and defeatedly said, 【Fine, Hong Zao it is; it’s more or less the same. What’s your name?】

The merman pointed at Shu Jintian and asked. Shu Jintian easily understood his meaning.

“Shu Jintian!”

Shu Jintian glanced at the merman called Hong Zao impatiently. If it weren’t for the merman saving him, he wouldn’t even tell him his name.

If it were in normal times, he might want to make friends with a merman when he saw one, but he didn’t know where Shu Hanyu and the little snake were. He didn’t have any interest in making friends at all and could only think about finding them as soon as possible.

【Shu~ Jintian?】The merman repeated. Not only was his pronunciation clear, he even learnt Shu Jintian’s tone.

Shu Jintian was a little startled. Were all the people here language geniuses? The big snake learnt fast, and this merman called Hong Zao also learnt very fast. However, this person had nothing to do with him, so Shu Jintian no longer bothered with the merman and staggered upright while holding his chest.

【I told you not to move!】The merman was a little annoyed that Shu Jintian was this uncaring of his own body, and tugged Shu Jintian’s arm.

A faint rustle came from the forest, followed by a hiss.

The little snake had only slept for a short while before being awakened by itchiness. His whole body was feeling all crunchy and itchy, making him unable to help but want to find something to rub against. But female father hadn’t been found yet and the little snake dare not delay any further, rubbing against the ground while looking for female father. When he reached this place, female father’s scent grew richer.

Female father! The little snake’s eyes brightened. Seeing that this person was pulling and tugging female father again, he was very angry, and swiftly dashed towards them.

Shu Jintian’s body paused and he turned his head back in disbelief only to see the little snake slithering towards him with a swaying tail. Shu Jintian’s body stiffened and his legs unconsciously took a step forward.

The little snake that was approaching him suddenly flew up, his overly long body tumbling in the air and forming an arc before finally landing on the grass with a patter.

It turned out to be that the merman raised his tail and flung the little snake out.

“Little snake! What are you doing?” Shu Jintian glared at the merman angrily before staggering to the little snake with hands clutching his chest.

The merman inwardly said: Damn it! Yesterday he threw too casually. Now he was used to tossing aside the little Spiritual Snake when seeing him. Shu Jintian was a Spiritual Snake; he would definitely be mad ba!

The little snake was dizzy and twisting and turning on the ground; his body was both itchy and numb.

“Little snake, what’s wrong? Does it hurt from the fall?” Shu Jintian was at a complete loss and cupped the little snake’s head with his hands, speaking in distress.

Seeing female father come over, the little snake’s twisting instantly grew even more enthusiastic. He kept hissing, and he didn’t forget to gently rub his head against Shu Jintian’s head, appearing extremely aggrieved.

【Cough, he’s still okay ba!】The merman was a little embarrassed, both hands braced against the ground as he laid on his stomach to look at the little snake.

“Get out!” Shu Jintian angrily punched the merman’s exquisite face. But the heavily injured Shu Jintian didn’t have much strength and his punch was weak and powerless. It didn’t cause any harm or pain to the other, which made Shu Jintian even angrier, and he fiercely said, “If little snake has any accidents, I definitely won’t let you off!”

The little snake’s twisting body paused and it seized Shu Jintian’s inattention to give the merman a proud look.

The merman was suddenly punched by Shu Jintian and couldn’t help becoming stupefied. Ugly ass! Why so fierce? There must be no males that want him.

The merman stared at Shu Jintian stupidly until he received a little snake’s provocative eyes again.

【There can’t be anything wrong with him. I even tossed him yesterday… ahem! Look, isn’t he perfectly fine now?】The merman suddenly changed the topic  and gestured with his eyes at Shu Jintian to look at the little snake.

The little snake hastily twisted up again, but this rubbing didn’t stop again. He had previously resisted for a very long time to find female father, but now his body was getting increasingly itchy.

The adult arm-thick body kept rubbing against the ground, already tossing up some of the dirt, but it still couldn’t stop the itchiness on the little snake’s body. So itchy, it’s really so itchy ah!

Shu Jintian was already a little curious as to how the little snake became so weak. Understanding the look in the merman’s eyes, he glared at him again before turning back to look at the little snake.

“Little snake, what’s wrong?” Shu Jintian saw the little snake frantically drilling into the ground, appearing like it didn’t hurt yet did.

Along with the little snake’s rubbing, his snake skin began creasing somewhat. Shu Jintian suddenly came to a realisation and placated him, “Don’t be scared, little snake, you’re probably about to molt!”

The little snake nodded to indicate that he understood, then continuously twisted his body on the spot.