Chapter 223 - The Harsh Cold Air (1/2)

Sound asleep, Bai Qingqing’s face was flushed, and there were tender leaves hanging by the corners of her lips. She looked peaceful. Parker removed the leaves by the corners of her mouth and adjusted the animal skin covering over her, before lowering his head and licking her lips. “So obedient.”

When Bai Qingqing woke up, she felt a hot breath falling upon her face as she breathed. It felt itchy, as though a feather was grazing her face. Murmuring, she reached out and tried to shove it away from her face, then instantly felt a prickly and hot tongue licking her face.

“Ooh—” Bai Qingqing shrunk back her head and opened her eyes slightly. “Parker?”

The world before her eyes was strikingly white. Bai Qingqing was dazed for a moment before she slowly started recalling that she and Parker had come out into the mountains.

Ignoring Bai Qingqing’s struggle, Parker kept licking her face. Of course, he did so very gently. He still remembered Bai Qingqing’s face had turned red the first time he licked her.

“What are you doing?” Bai Qingqing stretched lazily.

“Roar!” Parker licked even more enthusiastically now.

When he was done filling the bamboo basket with bamboo shoots, he discovered that Bai Qingqing’s originally flushed face had turned snow-white, and there was now even a layer of frost over it. Stunned by the sight, he quickly transformed into his beast form to lick Bai Qingqing’s face, and it took quite a while before she turned warm again. He then placed his tummy lightly over Bai Qingqing’s face.

When Bai Qingqing woke up, she felt the fur on her face—the soft fur from Parker’s tummy.

“Are you done digging the shoots? Why didn’t you call me?” Bai Qingqing’s face crumpled, feeling her skin dry and tight from the wind, so much so it hurt. She quickly covered her face with the animal skin.

Parker transformed into a human and pulled her into his arms. “I’ll never bring you out on a snowy day again. You nearly turned to ice just now.”

“Surely not? Why didn’t I feel anything?” Bai Qingqing touched her face with a confused look. She merely felt that her face hurt a little. However, she did realize that she wasn’t suitable to go out during this season. Without a moisturizer, her skin couldn’t tolerate this cold and harsh weather.

Seems like the roughness of the females’ skin here had a scientific explanation to it—it’d be shocking for a fragile species to grow beautifully under such harsh conditions.