Chapter 274: Bai Wanwan, What’s Wrong With You?

Chapter 274: Chapter 274: Bai Wanwan, What’s Wrong With You?

Jin Yi’s handsome face flushed crimson. He turned his head aside, trying to pull her clothes back up.

But because he didn’t dare to look, his hand touched the wrong place—a soft, plush expanse...

He snatched his hand back as if he’d been electrocuted.

In her daze, Bai Wanwan rolled over and bumped into Jin Yi.

She burrowed directly into his arms, her slender, fair hands fumbling at the animal hide he wore.

Jin Yi’s Adam’s apple bobbed uncontrollably.

He quickly reached out and grabbed her restless hands, which were trying to untie the knot of his clothing.

"Bai Wanwan, what’s wrong with you?"

The words had barely left his mouth when Bai Wanwan pressed herself against him. The female’s soft body was flush against his, her hot breath fanning across his neck.

"Help me," her voice was cloyingly sweet, something he’d never heard before, and her eyes were hazy. "I feel so awful."

A fiery heat began to boil in his blood, and desire sparked in his heart.

’But he knew he couldn’t.’

With a bit of effort, he tried to pull the female off him.

But Bai Wanwan only clung tighter, nuzzling her face against his neck and rubbing open a large section of his animal hide tunic.

The moment the female’s warm lips pressed against his skin, Jin Yi’s pupils contracted.

As one of the tribe’s most outstanding Warriors, he had never retreated even when facing a stampede of crazed beasts, yet now he was being forced back step by step by a petite female.

His back was pressed against the cold stone wall, with nowhere left to retreat.

But Bai Wanwan scrambled to sit in his lap, cupped his face, and kissed him.

He immediately raised his hands, gripping her shoulders to push her away.

But her sweet scent was like an intoxicating poison, and his hands seemed to lose all their strength.

He found himself lost in her advances.

Her mind a chaotic mess, Bai Wanwan subconsciously treated this feeling as another "emotional exchange" with her Beast Husbands.

She was dissatisfied that the male today wasn’t as enthusiastic as usual.

She bit down hard on his lip as if to punish him.

"Bai Wanwan, snap out of it! I’m not your Beast Husband," Jin Yi tried to rouse her.

But Bai Wanwan acted as if she hadn’t heard him, her fingertips tracing the contours of his abs.

Jin Yi sucked in a sharp breath, his muscles tensing all over.

’Reason told him he should push her away immediately, but his body betrayed his will.’

Her kisses grew gentle again, eroding his rationality bit by bit until he wanted to give in and sink into the feeling.

Her clothes were already a mess, loosened by her own frantic tugging.

With a few more tugs, she tore off Jin Yi’s animal hide.

When Jin Yi felt her press against him without reservation, his entire being seemed to ignite.

Losing control, he raised a hand to cup the back of Bai Wanwan’s head, turning the tables as he pinned her against the rock wall and deepened the kiss.

The female eagerly responded, her hands tangling in his thick hair.

Jin Yi could smell her unique scent, mingled with the cloying sweetness of thorn flower, making his head spin.

He didn’t know how long it lasted before he finally seized her wandering hands.

Panting, he clawed back a sliver of his reason.

The female’s eyes were hazy, and she looked at him with a hint of confusion.

Her beautiful face was more gorgeous than the most delicate flower of the warm season.

She raised her hands, wanting to pull him into another embrace.

Jin Yi finally came to his senses. ’I let my guard down for just a moment and nearly mated with her.’

He glanced at their clothes; they were almost all scattered on the ground.

After regaining some of his composure, Jin Yi quickly realized something was wrong.

Bai Wanwan didn’t seem to have a fever. Instead, it was like she had been poisoned by thorn flower.

The female was still throwing herself at him. Unable to use too much force, Jin Yi could only wrap one arm around her slender waist to keep her from slamming into the nearby wall.

He took a deep breath, trying to control his impulses.

He couldn’t let anything happen while Bai Wanwan wasn’t in her right mind.

’The very thought that she might one day look at him with disgust made his heart ache as if it were frozen solid.’

Poisoned by the thorn flower and finding no relief, Bai Wanwan continuously tested his endurance.

But even with his beloved female in his arms, Jin Yi used his immense willpower to dress her again.

He held the struggling female in his arms and whispered, "Wanwan, I don’t want you to hate me."

’Even if they might never become mates, he hoped that when she thought of him in the future, she wouldn’t feel disgust or revulsion.’

Just then, a sound came from outside.

Jin Yi’s expression tightened.

He wanted to get up and check on the situation, but Bai Wanwan clung to him like an octopus, rubbing against him incessantly.

He could only hold her and hide behind a boulder to peek outside.

With a single glance, he saw three males walking toward them.

It was Bai Wanwan’s Beast Husbands.

’He knew it was time to return her to her rightful owners. He had never possessed her, and she did not belong to him.’

Zhu Xiu and Xin Feng precisely located the mountain crevice.

Zhu Xiu entered first. When he saw Bai Wanwan in Jin Yi’s arms, crimson began to churn in his eyes.

Jin Yi also knew that the way they were holding each other looked far too intimate.

He immediately explained, "Bai Wanwan seems to have been poisoned by thorn flower. I suspect Xiong Zong did it when I wasn’t looking."

"Thorn flower?"

Yan Lie immediately stepped forward, his face etched with worry as he checked her condition.

Knowing he had no claim to her, Jin Yi could only hand the soft female in his arms over.

Afraid of dropping her, Yan Lie carefully gathered her into his own embrace.

Bai Wanwan was already lost in a daze of passion and immediately nuzzled into Yan Lie’s neck...

Yan Lie was already defenseless against Bai Wanwan; just being held and touched by her was enough.

His face flushed crimson. "Wanwan, just endure it a little longer. We’ll help you soon."

With no Clan Witch present, there was only one solution.

Zhu Xiu took a deep breath. Instead of taking Wanwan from Yan Lie’s arms, he said to Jin Yi, "Young Clan Leader, come outside with us. I have some questions for you."

With that, Zhu Xiu turned and left.

Xin Feng looked at Jin Yi. "Regardless, thank you for saving Wanwan for the second time."

Jin Yi tried to curve his lips into a smile, but it felt bitter. "She only suffered this ordeal because of me."

Xin Feng didn’t know the whole story, so he just nodded. "Let’s go outside and talk then."

Right now, Wanwan needed the thorn flower poison neutralized, but they also needed to understand the dangers they were facing.

"Xin Feng..." Yan Lie called out to him.

Xin Feng turned back to see Yan Lie’s brow furrowed, his fists clenched.

"What is it?"

"You... you help Wanwan with the thorn flower," he said, about to get up and leave.

But as he passed Xin Feng, he was stopped.

"If it were me, I might have been just as careless. Wanwan is fine now. You don’t need to blame yourself."

After saying that, Xin Feng turned and left.

Yan Lie stood frozen in place until Bai Wanwan whimpered uncomfortably from the ground.

Only then did he hurry back to her side, hugging her tightly, his heart filled with guilt as he responded to her restlessness and tried to soothe her.

"Wanwan, I’m sorry. Don’t worry, I’ll neutralize the thorn flower’s poison for you right away."

Yan Lie picked her up and carried her deeper inside. He took off her clothes and his own animal hide, spreading them on the ground.

With a sweep of his long arm, he pulled the female forcefully into his embrace.

Outside the crevice, the three males stood in a triangle formation.

"The Bear Clan did this. They were originally after me and my clan. Wanwan got dragged into this because of me."

The feud between the Bear Clan and the Golden Lion Clan wasn’t born overnight; it was the result of decades, even centuries, of accumulated grievances.

"You saved Wanwan, but this also happened because of you. In the future... please, Young Clan Leader, keep your distance from Wanwan. I don’t want something like this to happen again."

That was what Jin Yi had planned to do anyway. A bitter smile touched his lips. "Don’t worry. I know what to do."

Just as he spoke, a commotion arose in the distance. Xiong Zong had arrived with other Bear Clan Beastmen.

The black bear at the front laughed triumphantly. "Ha! Jin Yi, you’re not getting away this time!"