Chapter 189: This Face Is Hers, This Beastman Is Hers Too
The rain outside started pattering down.
The wind hadn’t stopped yet, blowing the raindrops to fall even faster. In just a moment, the ground at the house doorway was splashed with a puddle.
To the right of the house doorway, Su Ran had hung up a small stone platform after changing the door, which could be used to place an oil lamp.
At this moment, she brought over an oil lamp, placed it on the stone platform, then took out an animal hide raincoat and put it on. Afterward, she hugged a few pieces of wood, ran to the front of the stove outside, stuffed the pieces of wood inside, and quickly ran back.
Just then, the sound of wings flapping came. Before she could react, a joyful voice came from above her head: “Ran Ran!”
The next second, she was embraced in a familiar embrace.
“Gray!”
Su Ran looked up in surprise and pulled off the raincoat hood she was wearing on her head.
Gray’s eyes shone brightly in the night, green and clear.
He held Su Ran in his arms, and the smile on his face, illuminated by the oil lamp at the house doorway, appeared gentle and brilliant!
It made one feel utterly reassured.
“Ran Ran, the fire will go out soon, woo~”
The beastmen hadn’t waited for the fire to completely go out before returning; instead, after discovering that the rain was getting heavier, they had returned to the settlement.
Because from the look of this downpour, facing such a torrential rain, the fire couldn’t possibly not go out!
Moreover, most importantly, in the beastmen settlement, there were always beastmen who had experienced wildfires, and they had early experience with this.
It was just that some beastmen were lucky and encountered relatively small fires.
Either the place where the fire started had sparse vegetation, burning slowly, allowing the beastmen to quickly extinguish it, or the beastmen timely dug a firebreak, stopping the spread of the fire.
Or, like today, it was just right that rainwater extinguished it.
But those unlucky beastmen had to, like the beastmen who later joined the settlement, find a new residence again.
And at this time, the settlement they were in was undoubtedly extremely lucky!
The location of the fire was far from the settlement. It was discovered by the beastmen before the fire had grown too large, and finally, just after the fire started burning, this heavy rain came.
Su Ran’s hair was already soaked by the rainwater, the water seeping down through her collar. The raincoat was as good as not wearing it.
But at this moment, she didn’t care at all. She tiptoed and hooked her arms around Gray’s neck, kissing him in the rain. The scalding heat from Gray’s body due to excitement penetrated through the animal hide raincoat, through her inner layer of clothes, still warm.
Both of their bodies were already drenched. Su Ran even didn’t know if the water on her face was rainwater or tears.
It was the first time she had been so afraid.
Even when she suddenly arrived in this strange world and faced these beastmen with strange appearances, she hadn’t been so afraid!
It was also the first time she realized that facing this world, she was actually so insignificant! Her little cleverness was worth nothing at all in the face of these crises!
And what she feared most was losing Gray in this sudden disaster.
Even when Gray had sent her back and just left, she had regretted it!
She should have stayed by Gray’s side. If something happened to him so close to the fire line, at least she could think of a way at the first moment.
She had even thought that if something really happened to Gray, perhaps she wouldn’t be able to survive alone in this world anymore!
Gray was now to her not just family or companion; he had become her spiritual pillar for surviving in this world where she was the only one alone.
In just a few short seconds, Su Ran’s mind raced with many thoughts, but Gray quickly reacted. His kissing posture didn’t change, but he scooped Su Ran up by the waist and moved two steps back inside the house.
Feeling Su Ran trembling slightly, not knowing if from cold or fear, he tightened his embrace around her: “Ran Ran, it’s okay now, woo~ Don’t be afraid, woo~”
Su Ran hadn’t expected that at a time like this, her reaction would be so intense.
She even couldn’t control her emotions a bit, as if she had tear incontinence, tears uncontrollably flowing from her eyes.
Finally, until Gray stripped off her wet clothes, wiped the rainwater clean, and changed her into a new set of clothes, did she stop crying. But her brain was still immersed in an indescribable emotion and couldn’t extricate itself.
But she still forced herself to perk up. After feeling a bit better, she first went to serve the food from the kitchen.
Then Gray also put on a raincoat and first delivered the extra prepared food to several nearby beastmen households door-to-door before coming back to prepare dinner with Su Ran.
Su Ran took two towels, first wiped Gray’s hair with one, then changed to a new towel and wrapped it around Gray’s head to prevent catching a cold.
Gray was a bit unwilling to have it wrapped, but seeing Su Ran’s eyes red and swollen from crying, he ultimately silently flicked his tail and didn’t refuse.
After wrapping his hair, Su Ran used the towel to wipe the water stains on his wings before pulling him to sit on the heated brick bed to start eating.
The rain outside seemed a bit heavier than just now, but the wind had already stopped.
Raindrops hitting the animal hide window cloth made a pattering sound, yet it made one feel utterly reassured.
At this time, Su Ran was completely unconcerned.
With such heavy rain, if that fire didn’t go out, it would really be a fantastical event!
Tonight was a sleepless night. Outside, the rain poured heavily, all things silent, everyone returned home.
The sound of rain drilled in through the window cracks. Su Ran nestled in Gray’s embrace, tilting her head up, breathing the fresh air outside the nest.
The heartbeat in her chest was pounding bang bang bang, as if trying to jump out all the fright and worry of the day.
The sound of rain covered the faint noises inside the house. The accumulated water flow quickly flowed down the roof along the gaps between seashells, smashing pits on the ground.
Su Ran only remembered that before falling asleep, the fine and dense rain sound by her ear never stopped, until she drifted off in a daze.
And the next day early in the morning, she still woke up to the fine rain sound, but at this time, the rain sound was obviously much smaller.
She lay in the nest listening to the sounds outside. After a while, she noticed that a thick and sturdy arm was still draped over her waist.
She carefully turned over. The werewolf behind her, sensing her movement in his sleep, suddenly changed the arm draped on her waist to reaching out and hugging her.
Gray was sleeping very soundly.
Normally at such times, he would open his eyes to look at her before sleeping again. It seemed yesterday really exhausted him.
……
No, it should be that yesterday digging the firebreak, plus him *** all night, that’s what exhausted him!
Su Ran chuckled lightly, her fingertip gently touching the werewolf’s thick light brown eyelashes, then sliding down, lightly tracing his eyebrows, eyes, nose bridge, and thin lips.
She then curved her lips into a smile.
This face was hers, this beastman was also hers…
