My husband is too wild, I need to go home and find my mom.

Chapter 200 Don't blame yourself for other people's mistakes

As soon as she moved, Yao woke up and asked softly, "Xiao Ni, are you awake? How are you feeling?"

Linni looked up at him and met his eyes, which shone with golden light and seemed to be the only light in the cave: "Yao, I'm hungry."

Yao asked softly, "Do you eat snakes?"

Eat snakes? —Because Night is a snake-beastman, they have never caught snakes for her to eat (not even eagles and tigers, they only eat them outside), Linni asked hesitantly, "You mean that black snake-beastman?"

"Hmm." Yao explained softly, "I'm willing to go into the water to catch fish, but I'm worried about your safety."

Linni's stomach rumbled. Although she was starving, she still said, "Do you think you can spear the fish with a spear?" Even though the black snake beastman was now a dead snake, he could still transform into human form, and she couldn't accept eating people.

"it is good."

The two stood up. Yao dug a stone from the cave wall, smoothed it, and then heated it with a flame before saying to Lin Ni, "Sit on this stone and wait for me. I'll be back soon."

“Okay.” Linni nodded and sat down on the warm, flat stone. Yao extinguished his flames, and the cave returned to complete darkness. Linni then said, “Light a fire for me; it’s too dark in here.”

“Okay.” Yao lit a fire on the ground in front of her, then added worriedly, “If there is any danger, you must immediately activate my partner mark, and I will appear by your side.”

Linni nodded again: "I understand."

Yao observed the small pool, which appeared to be less than ten square meters in size, for a moment, then jumped in. Who would have thought that this tiny pool was actually bottomless and connected to several intricate hidden passages?

Linni hugged her body and looked around. The brown scorpion's nearly roasted corpse lay by the small pool, while the black snake was cornered by Yao on the other side of the burrow. Seeing the corpses of these two wandering orcs, Linni belatedly realized that she and Yao had actually done *that* kind of thing in this place! "Damn it, I was terrified!" she thought. At that moment, she felt like a pervert! "What was I thinking?" -- Actually, she hadn't thought about anything, nor dared to think about anything; she just needed a crazy way to vent.

With a splash, Yao emerged from the water again, holding only a few seashells in his hands. He said apologetically to Lin Ni, "I couldn't catch any fish in the water, so I could only pick up a few seashells. You can eat these first."

Linni smiled reassuringly at him, "It's alright, it's great that you can dive." It's really tough on him to go into the water to find food, being a fire-attribute bird.

Yao opened and processed the seashells by the pool, discovering that they contained pearls—tiny champagne-gold pearls the size of red beans. Linni, watching from the side, exclaimed in delight, "Yao, there are such beautiful little pearls here!"

Yao looked at Lin Ni with affection and said, "If you like it, I'll put it on for you and wear it around your neck in a bit."

"Hmm!" Linni nodded, then looked at the empty cave: besides a few patches of moss by the pool, there were only the corpses of two wandering orcs, not even a single branch. If Yao hadn't been able to start a fire with his bare hands, she would have had to eat raw food. She couldn't help but ask, "What are we going to wear?"

Yao had already cooked the shellfish. He placed the cooked shellfish on the ground and said, "I have a way." As he spoke, he made a small bowl out of the shellfish and handed it to Lin Ni: "You eat first."

Linni was incredibly hungry and thirsty, so she unceremoniously took the small fork and began to eat. Yao went back into the water and found a few more seashells, cooked them, and placed them in front of Linni. Then he used the seashells to sharpen a tiny needle, plucked a hair from his own head, and picked up Linni's dress, which had been torn into six pieces by the black snake beastman, and sewed it back together. Watching Yao sew, Linni's eyes welled up with tears again. She moved closer to Yao and held the seashell meat to his mouth: "Yao, have some too."

Yao took the food from her hand and ate it, then said, "You eat it yourself. It's been a whole night and a day. You must be starving."

Linni said, "You too." He'd been flying all night!

Yao sewed clothes by the firelight, while Linni ate beside him, taking a bite herself and then feeding him: "Yao, will Ye and the others be able to find us?"

Yao said, "Ye should still be looking for you in the waterways. He knows your direction and should have come looking for you a long time ago. He hasn't found you yet because there are several layers of these caves, so he can't find you for the time being."

Linni nodded and asked, "Should I gently touch my partner's mark to let them know I'm okay?"

Yao nodded: "Sure."

Linni closed her eyes and sensed the companion seals of Night, White, and Flame on her left shoulder. Then, she channeled her power and gently touched them, hoping they would understand her meaning. After doing so, she asked Yao, "You came through the companion seals? Can you return to the companion seals at any time?"

Yao smiled and shook his head: "I can't go back to the mark for now, but as long as you stimulate the partner mark, I can appear by your side through the mark."

Linni looked at him with bright eyes: "Wow, that's amazing! Is it possible for all first partners, or is it just you?"

Yao said, "Only I should be able to do it."

Linni: That's right, we can't all just disappear like streaks of light! You're the boss of this world, you're the best!

After the two finished eating the shellfish, Yao also helped her sew up her clothes. He first washed the newly sewn skirt in water, dried it over a fire, and then helped Lin Ni put it on.

After Lin Ni put it on, she felt the dress had shrunk a size; it was a bit tight, perfectly outlining her S-shaped figure. Yao's needlework skills were surprisingly good; it was rare that he could sew such dense stitches even with a strand of hair. Anyone who didn't know better would think that was the design.

Finally, she didn't have to go around in a bikini anymore. Lin Ni happily kissed Yao: "Yao, thank you!"

Yao hugged her tightly: "Don't thank me. It was clearly my fault for not protecting you! I made you suffer so much. It was all my negligence."

Linni hugged him back: "How can you blame yourself? You've all done enough. Don't blame yourself for other people's mistakes. There are just too many bad people."

Yao kissed her forehead: "No, if I stayed by your side every step of the way, you wouldn't have been captured by the wandering orcs."

Lin Ni remembered falling into that hole with A-Zhi, and then remembered that A-Zhi seemed to have been bitten by a crocodile: "Yao, A-Zhi, I saw him being bitten by the crocodile beastman..."

Yao pursed his lips before saying, "I rescued him. He was badly injured, but he'll recover eventually."

Lin Ni let out a long breath: "It's good that you're alive, it's good that you're alive!"