Su Qinglan’s eyes widened instantly.
"Bai Ling is also pregnant?"
But unfortunately...
Lin Muyu’s brain was currently too busy being complaining to process that one very important word... also. She completely ignored it.
Instead, she grabbed Su Qinglan’s arm and started shaking it slightly like an aggrieved child.
"Why are you all so impatient?!"
Her voice was full of pure and dramatic injustice.
"I worked so hard, okay? SO hard! Just to compete with you so that our cubs would be born around the same time and would become playmates!"
She puffed her cheeks even more, looking like an angry little squirrel.
"And now what?! I just finished giving birth to my first litter! I haven’t even properly rested yet!"
She pointed in the direction of Bai Ling’s house again, as if filing a formal complaint.
"And that girl is already pregnant again!"
Lin Muyu sucked in a deep breath and declared loudly, "Is she trying to build an entire tribe by herself?!"
A few nearby females couldn’t help but laugh. But Lin Muyu was not done.
"Oh, I see how it is," she continued, narrowing her eyes suspiciously. "Next thing you know, she’ll have ten cubs running around calling her ’Mother’ all at once. Then what? She’ll become tribe leader just by population advantage!"
Su Qinglan almost choked trying to hold back her laughter.
Lin Muyu, however, was still muttering non-stop like an angry little kettle about to boil over.
"Honestly, why did she get pregnant so fast? Does she not know how to rest? Does her mate not know how to rest?!"
Su Qinglan’s left eye twitched slightly. Her lips pressed together. Her expression became... a little complicated.
If this little ancestor finds out that I am also pregnant...
She glanced sideways at Lin Muyu, who was still grumbling with full energy.
...will she kill me?
She quickly made a firm decision in her heart. Better not tell her for now.
Su Qinglan forced a calm smile onto her face, nodding lightly as if she had heard nothing dangerous at all.
Still, deep down, she felt genuinely happy.
Bai Ling was pregnant again. That meant more cubs... more life... more joy in the tribe.
But...definitely not telling her right now. Not unless she wanted to witness a real-life emotional explosion.
Su Qinglan quietly looked up at the sky for a second. "Beast God... please protect me when she finds out in the future."
Just as Lin Muyu was still muttering angrily about "unfair life" and "overachieving mothers".
Smack!
Lin Muyu froze instantly, her whole body stiffening in shock.
Slowly, very slowly, she turned her head back, one hand covering the back of her head as her eyes narrowed dangerously.
"Who dares to smack me?!" she shouted, full of righteous fury.
"Are you tired of living? Do you want to go see the Underworld Lord today?!" She rolled up her sleeves dramatically, ready to fight anyone who had dared to strike her.
But the moment she saw who was standing behind her, her voice died instantly, like a candle blown out in the wind.
If childbirth continued again and again without proper rest, wouldn’t it slowly take a toll? Su Qinglan’s brows furrowed slightly as she fell into deep thought.
This... was actually a problem.
Meanwhile, Lin Muyu was still being scolded.
"Health?!" Grandma Lin huffed dismissively.
"Females of the beast world have always given birth like this! What nonsense are you thinking about now?" Lin Muyu puffed her cheeks again, but this time she didn’t dare shout back. She just muttered under her breath, "Still... too many cubs at once is tiring..."
Grandma Lin immediately raised her hand again, prompting Lin Muyu to squeak and duck quickly. "Okay okay! I won’t say anything! Don’t hit me!"
The surrounding fox tribe burst into loud laughter at the scene.
Even Su Qinglan couldn’t help but smile. But deep inside her mind, a completely different thought was forming.
Maybe... she should create something. Something that could help control continuous pregnancies.
But then another thought hit her like lightning, and her expression froze slightly. Wait... if she really told everyone that they shouldn’t keep having cubs so frequently... would she get beaten by the entire tribe?
Su Qinglan slowly looked around. Everywhere she looked, she saw females lovingly holding their cubs and males proudly carrying their children, their faces full of happy smiles and joyful laughter.
In this world, cubs were everything...they were rare, precious, and considered the greatest blessing.
If she suddenly stood up and said, "Let’s reduce childbirth..." she could almost imagine the scene: Grandma Lin chasing her with a stick, Lin Muyu shouting "Traitor!" and the entire tribe surrounding her like an angry mob.
Her lips twitched. Yes... she would definitely get beaten.
She immediately straightened her expression and looked as innocent as possible, as if she had never thought of such a dangerous idea. Let’s... think about it slowly.
But she also has another mission, which is to provide proper education that beastmen and females need in this world.
She is not asking them to stop completely; they just need to take precautions and allow time between each birth.

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