Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 340 - 223: So It Was Him and the Difference Between Being Single and Taken

Chapter 340: Chapter 223: So It Was Him and the Difference Between Being Single and Taken

Realizing a certain snake was in a bad mood, An Jin thought for a moment and decided it was best to come clean.

"I’ve told you about him before," she said, blinking. Her fingers came to rest on his face, gently smoothing his furrowed brow. "It’s Ze Sheng, the one who gave me the Blood Crystal. He’s a really nice person."

"Heh, so it’s *him*..."

Mi Yin scoffed, a dark glint in his eyes.

’I thought he’d be some old male, but I didn’t expect him to be so young... I heard he has a mate? If he has a mate, how could he be fawning all over someone else’s?’

He suppressed his inner scorn and hugged An Jin tighter. His thin lips brushed against her ear as he whispered with heavy emphasis, "You’re mine. No one else is allowed to have their eyes on you, or I’ll get angry."

A snake’s icy breath washed over her neck, and goosebumps instantly broke out across An Jin’s skin. Even after living together for so long, she still couldn’t suppress her body’s instinctive fear of the cold-blooded creature.

Her fingers twitched. Suppressing the shiver in her chest, she looked up at him.

"What are you letting your mind run away with now?"

Mi Yin’s gaze, both sorrowful and dangerous, landed on her.

An Jin wrapped her arms around his long, elegant neck and met his scarlet eyes. She let out a soft sigh, trying to comfort the volatile snake before her. "Of course I’m yours. Don’t get so jealous all the time. I have your mate mark, don’t I?"

"..." That just made him even more upset.

"Well, who told you to bond with me so early?" An Jin couldn’t help but laugh. "If you had just waited a little longer, it wouldn’t be in this spot."

"I know." That was why he had been able to come to terms with it. Still, he couldn’t help but feel a pang of regret whenever he remembered.

Back then, as an unloved Wandering Beast, his only wish was to successfully find a mate and not be abandoned. He didn’t care if he was the first mate or the last.

’But things were different now. A person’s desires are never truly satisfied. After becoming her mate, he wanted to be her *first* mate.’

’And after becoming her first mate, he greedily wanted his mark to be on her chest, right over her heart, a constant testament to her affection for him.’

"Where are we? It looks like we’re on a different continent..." After they left the forest, An Jin looked around. The surrounding plains, jungles, and mountains were completely unfamiliar.

Even the vegetation was different from back home—sparse and desolate.

"The wastelands of the Northeast Continent," Mi Yin said with certainty. Though he had never been here, the memories passed down through generations quickly provided him with the answer.

An Jin spent a few Gold Coins in her mental system to pull up a continental map and navigation. The moment she confirmed their location and the direction home, her spirits plummeted.

’We’re more than halfway across the entire continent.’

And the massive Aisala River cut right through the middle.

It was the true mother river for the Beastmen of this continent, the cradle of all its major civilizations. Three of the four Royal Cities were built along the resource-rich basins of the Aisala River.

Of course, none of that mattered. For the two of them, the most daunting part was this—the Aisala River basin stretched for nearly ten thousand kilometers from east to west, and its widest point was several thousand kilometers across.

Although she and Mi Yin could both fly now, they were both strictly entry-level.

Flying across more than half a continent in one go was more than their bodies could handle.

They would have to travel in stages, resting as they made their way back.

"Do you know the way back?" An Jin asked.

Mi Yin nodded. He glanced around before his eyes came back to rest on her face. "It’s not perfectly clear, since I’ve never been here before. But my body’s homing instinct can help me find my way back to my birthplace or a place I’ve lived for a long time."

"Good." An Jin readily shut down the navigation in her mental system.

’This thing automatically deducts ten Gold Coins from my account every hour. Since I have Mi Yin, I might as well turn it off.’

Mi Yin led her onward, alternating between flying and walking for half a day until the sky began to darken.

An Jin yawned, her exhaustion and weakness plain to see. She had used up too much energy in the Illusion Realm and had been injured on top of that. The long journey without any rest was becoming too much for her body to bear.

Mi Yin found a relatively spacious and clean-looking cave. He nonchalantly used his tail as a broom, sweeping the entire floor clear of the dead branches, dry grass, and stones that littered it.

Once the cave was completely clean and he had rubbed his scent into every last crevice, he finally settled her inside.

"We’ll rest here for the night."

Mi Yin frowned as he glanced around the humble, crude cave. He coiled his tail around a pile of reasonably clean hay, brought it over, and spread it out for her. Then he leaned down and gave her a kiss. "I’m going to find something to eat. I’ll stay close and be back soon."

It was as if the two of them had gone back to the moment they first met. A hint of nostalgia flickered in Mi Yin’s expression.

’It’s been a while since I’ve slept on a pile of hay.’ An Jin stretched out on the soft mound of grass, finding the experience surprisingly novel after so long.

’The only problems were that the ground was too damp, and there were tiny, unseen bugs that made your skin itch if you stayed too long.’

"Go on, come back soon. Just catch whatever you can find that’s edible." Survival in the wild meant you couldn’t be too picky.

In just a short while, the sound of something massive slithering across the ground echoed from outside. A beautiful snake head poked into the cave, tongue flicking, followed by a long, thick, black-and-red tail that looked like a train passing through a tunnel.

The latter half of the tail was coiled tightly around a very dead wild boar.

Strangely, An Jin didn’t smell the slightest unpleasant scent of blood this time, only the clean smell of fresh water.

She smiled, her gaze falling on Mi Yin’s tail, which had been washed so clean it was smooth and gleaming. "Did you go for a swim in the river?"

The snake’s scales were indeed more vibrant and distinct than before he’d left. There wasn’t a single grain of sand between them, let alone any splatters of blood from the hunt.

In his relaxed, languid state, he didn’t look like he’d gone hunting at all. It was more like he’d returned from a leisurely outing.

"HISS~"

The Red Snake nudged its head into her palm, then rested it on her lap and went still. From behind, the very tip of its long, slender tail quietly coiled around her slim waist.

He flicked his crimson tongue. "I remembered that you don’t like the smell."

’After a hunt, he’d be splattered with blood. He’d look filthy, and his scent would be tainted.’

The difference between having a mate and not having one was clear in moments like this.

If he were still the bachelor snake of his past, he wouldn’t have bothered with such trivial things. But now that he had a mate, the very first thing Mi Yin did after a hunt was plunge into the river, using the current and sand to scrub himself clean several times before daring to appear before her.

There was a pile of dry firewood in the corner of the cave, but An Jin hadn’t brought a flint.

A flame sparked to life on Mi Yin’s fingertip. He flicked it into the pile of wood, and a fire immediately roared to life.

"?!?!" An Jin whipped her head around to stare at him in astonishment.

’When did this snake learn a new trick?’