Oh No, Daddy Sent Me To The Beast World!-Chapter 21: Just let Feng Yiren go. If you do not want him, I will take him
Lin Huahua listened to those words, and her irritation rose again, because she hated the implication that her mates were lucky just because a female "had" them.
They were not objects.
They were not leftovers.
They were living beastmen with pride and feelings.
Lin Huahua stepped forward, and the crowd quieted because her aura changed.
She still looked cute, but her eyes carried the authority of a princess who had been raised to believe she was important, and even if she was not perfect, she did not tolerate disrespect.
"I never said I do not want my mates," Lin Huahua said clearly, because she wanted to crush that rumor instead of letting it linger. "If you are all assuming my feelings based on the past, then you are free to keep assuming, but your assumptions do not become truth."
Those words made many people stiffen.
Some tribe members looked embarrassed, because they realized they had been gossiping shamelessly.
Su Yanrong narrowed her eyes, because she did not like Lin Huahua sounding confident.
In the past this little rat had been scared to talk back because of Wei Ranshu, but now she speaks so freely. She even looks angry. Could it be that she really has come to her senses?
No no that’s impossible she must still love Wei Ranshu deeply she is probably doing all this to mess with me.
Lin Huahua continued, her voice calm but firm.
"They are mine," Lin Huahua said, and the word "mine" sounded sweet on her tongue, but it carried sharp possessiveness. "If you cannot understand what that means, I will explain it slowly. It means you do not look. It means you do not touch. It means you do not speak as if you can take."
Feng Yiren’s heart slammed into his ribs.
His fox ears twitched violently, and his tail puffed again, because his instincts reacted strongly to being claimed openly.
He felt something dangerous in his chest, something that made him want to pull Lin Huahua closer, something that made him want to turn and bite anyone who looked at her too long.
He even felt like pulling her closer in the moment and marking her in front of everyone.
He tried to control it, because he did not want to look too eager.
However, his body betrayed him, because his claws flexed, and his eyes turned darker.
Su Yanrong’s chest hurt.
She was jealous, but more than that, she was humiliated.
She had chased Feng Yiren, begged for his attention, and tried to lure him, but he never even gave her a second glance.
Meanwhile, Lin Huahua had treated him badly, yet he still looked at her like she was something precious.
Su Yanrong could not accept it.
So she changed tactics again, because vulture females were not strong with claws, but they were strong with poison.
She sneered, "You are acting tough for the crowd. Everyone remembers how you ran away for Wei Ranshu and almost died. Everyone remembers how you starved yourself for him. Because of you, he was punished. Are you acting like this to get his attention?"
The crowd stirred, because the memory was famous.
Lin Huahua’s expression shifted, but not into shame.
It shifted into disgust.
Because the truth was that Lin Huahua did not care about Wei Ranshu, and she hated that his name still clung to her identity like a stain.
That stupid people isn’t even as good looking as one of my males. How could I have been so blind in the past.
Just thinking about the way she had relentlessly pursued that weak ugly peacock made Lin annoyed to the core.
"I do not like him," Lin Huahua said simply, and her eyes were steady.
Su Yanrong blinked, stunned for a second.
Then she laughed sharply, because she did not believe it.
In her mind, she thought that Lin Huahua must be pretending, because the princess had chased Wei Ranshu for too long to suddenly stop.
Su Yanrong’s laugh sounded ugly, and her vulture expression looked smug. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
"You think anyone will believe you?" Su Yanrong asked, and she looked at the crowd like she wanted them to agree.
Lin Huahua smiled mischievously.
"I do not need you to believe me," Lin Huahua replied, because her pride was not dependent on Su Yanrong’s approval. "Your belief is not valuable."
That sentence hit Su Yanrong like a slap, because it was delivered sweetly, like Lin Huahua was casually swatting away trash.
Some tribe members almost laughed, because the princess sounded sassy in a new way.
Su Yanrong’s face twisted, and her pride screamed.
So she tried her final move, because she needed to regain control.
She pointed at Feng Yiren openly, her eyes greedy.
"Fine," Su Yanrong said, pretending generosity. "Since you want Wei Ranshu so bad, you can have him, because you are the princess and you can have any male you want. Just let Feng Yiren go. If you do not want him, I will take him."
Those words were a public challenge.
The crowd held its breath.
Because even if people gossiped about the princess’s mates, it was still taboo to openly challenge the princess like this.
Lin Huahua’s irritation spiked, but a different thought also flashed in her mind.
She remembered her reality again.
She remembered that she might return to her sci-fi world.
She remembered that the old placeholder could come back and torment these men again.
For a brief moment, Lin Huahua’s heart softened with guilt, because she did not want them to suffer, and she wondered if it would be kinder to let them go before she left.
That thought was brief, but it crossed her face for a second.
Feng Yiren saw it.
And Feng Yiren misinterpreted it.
Because his heart was trained by years of hurt to assume betrayal.
So in that second, he thought, she is considering giving me away.
His chest burned.
His fox ears flattened, his eyes darkened, and his jaw clenched so tight it looked painful.
Lin Huahua noticed his expression change, but she did not immediately understand why, because she was still thinking about the bigger problem of the simulation.
Then Feng Yiren spoke, and his voice cut through the air sharply.
