Life feels bleak.

After Shi Shen sulked for a while, he still couldn't stop thinking about Xi Lu inside, so he went back to the cave.

When he heard the suppressed cry, Shi Shen panicked and carefully turned her shoulders over, "Why are you crying? Do you have a headache?"

Seeing her tears, he frowned slightly.

I don't want her to cry.

Xi Lu held back her tears and said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to go home."

There was a cry in her voice.

Shi Shen pursed his lips.

She really couldn't go back, but he would still take her where she wanted to go.

If she could go back, he would follow her.

Seeing his silent expression, Xi Lu was afraid to speak and they just looked at each other in silence.

Shi Shen took his hand back and sat next to her, "What if I really can't come back?"

"Then cry for a while, and then accept your fate." Xi Lu sat up, wrapped his arms around his legs, and rested his chin on his knees. "People usually succumb to reality."

Just like, no matter how unwilling she was to believe that her parents had left, didn't she accept it in the end?

Without the love of mom and dad, it’s impossible to be pampered.

She can't go back, but she can't just kill herself by hitting her head against a wall, right?

Shi Shen sat with her quietly.

Xi Lu calmed down and asked, "Are you an orc living alone?"

"Well, one. I go back to see my beast mother occasionally."

Because there were always females in the tribe who came to his cave and asked him to be their male. He didn't like them and found them annoying, so he ran away and lived on his own.

"So what kind of orc are you?"

"White Tiger."

"Beastman, do you mean the beastman I understand? You can turn into a white tiger, and those wolves can also turn into humans?"

"Well, I forgot to tell you that the orcs here can't understand what you say."

Xi Lu was surprised, "Then why can you understand it?"

Her initial guess was correct, she really couldn't understand what they were saying.

Shi Shen didn't answer.

The sky outside gradually darkened, and finally the world became pitch black.

"There are three seasons here: dry season, rainy season and cold season. Now is the end of the dry season and the rainy season is coming. The moon will not come out tonight."

Xi Lu felt a little cold and touched his arm, which was cold.

Shi Shen looked at her movements and took the animal skin to cover her.

Now that the sun has just set, it feels cold in the cave. How is she going to survive the cold season?

Xi Lu looked up.

Shi Shen met her eyes and said, "I don't want to hear thank you. You've said it many times today."

"Oh, how do you say thank you here?" She gathered the hide.

Shi Shen moved his mouth.

Xi Lu blinked, "It's not difficult to learn."

He moved the animal skins off the ground, made another path, and moved the fire closer to the bed.

Xi Lu watched him busying himself, "Do all male orcs take care of females?"

From her perspective, Shi Shen is the ideal boyfriend.

"Well, I learned this from my father and other male orcs who were in pairs when I was a cub." Shi Shen turned to look at her, "Is it warmer now?"

"Um."

“It will be even colder in the winter.”

"That's why I want to go home. You have your way of life, and I have mine. Just like the meat you grilled before, I couldn't even bite it."

Shi Shen added the branches nearby to the fire, and the flames burned with crackling sounds.

Seeing that he was silent again, Xi Lu stopped talking and roasted the fire quietly, but felt a little bored. "Shi Shen, can you tell me about the tribe in the forest?"

"You're going to other tribes?" Shi Shen stared at her.