Shen Miao didn't think much of it when she cried, but now that the kids are surrounding her and asking her questions, she feels a little embarrassed.

She turned her back, her voice a little hoarse, "It's nothing, Mother just had a nightmare and was frightened. You all go back to sleep, be good, cover yourselves with the animal skins so you don't get cold."

"Okay, sure." Da Bao led the kids back into the house.

Shen Miao breathed a sigh of relief and was just about to lie down when she was suddenly startled to see a dark figure standing in the doorway. She was so frightened that she almost screamed.

The figure stepped into the house, revealing a handsome face.

Shen Miao then realized it was Qing Chen. She patted her chest, still shaken, and said, "What are you doing? You scared me to death! What are you doing standing there?"

Qingchen showed no remorse whatsoever. He approached, looked down at Shen Miao, and asked, "Were you frightened?"

"Of course, if I stand at your door while you're sleeping, you'll scream in fright too." Shen Miao rolled her eyes.

Qingchen didn't respond to her question, but instead asked, "Were you frightened by the fish-beastmen?"

Shen Miao was taken aback, pursed her lips, and remained silent.

Qingchen didn't receive a reply, but he didn't mind. He sat down by the stone bed and said calmly, "Go to sleep."

"What are you going to do?" Shen Miao asked, puzzled. It couldn't be what she thought, could it?

Qingchen said calmly, "I'll stay here and wait until you fall asleep before I leave."

Shen Miao casually said, "Then why don't you come up and sleep with me?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she realized she had said the wrong thing.

Qingchen flew over with a cold look in his eyes, then closed his eyes without saying a word.

Shen Miao shrank her neck, not daring to say anything more, closed her eyes, and began to drift off to sleep.

Perhaps because Qingchen was by her side, Shen Miao fell asleep quickly this time, and no strange things appeared in her dreams. She slept soundly until dawn.

The next day, another incident occurred in the tribe: the raven orcs who had left earlier returned, and in a very disheveled state.

It is said that both of his legs were broken and he crawled back.

When the orcs in the tribe talked about this, they were filled with helplessness and sympathy, shaking their heads and saying, "If only they had known this would happen, they wouldn't have done it in the first place."

It's worth noting how resolute the Raven Orcs were when they first mentioned leaving the tribe; they were determined to die in battle rather than give up.

His actions deeply hurt the hearts of the beastmen in the tribe.

So this time, no one accepted him anymore, even though he looked terrible.

The orcs blocked the entrance to the tribe, rebuking the raven orc, "You are no longer an orc of our tribe. Please leave here immediately, or we will treat you as an enemy."

“We’re all from the same tribe, why be so heartless?” The raven orc sat on a wooden plank, using it as a support to slowly make his way back to the tribe.

Because of the harsh weather and lack of proper food and rest, the raven orc looked extremely miserable. He was so thin that he was just skin and bones, and his already ugly face was now even more unsightly.

One of the orcs, upon hearing his words, angrily said, "When you left, you said you didn't want to be our companions anymore, but now you say we're from the same tribe. You've said everything you want."

“Exactly,” someone echoed the orc. “Our tribe isn’t so easy to infiltrate. When you left, didn’t you say you were going to marry a Bloodworm orc? Why didn’t you go?”

The raven orc's lips twitched, as if it had heard something terrible. Its body visibly shrank, and fear was evident in its eyes.

Seeing his condition, everyone sensed something was wrong and pressed him for an answer: "How did you break your leg? Didn't you go to the Bloodworm Clan?"

The raven orc lowered his head, thinking to himself, "Where did I not go? My legs were broken by the bloodworm orcs."

The story goes back to the day the Raven Orcs left the tribe.

The raven orc bid farewell to Shen Miao and arrived at the Bloodworm tribe full of anticipation, but they wouldn't let him in. After the raven orc explained his purpose, the orcs even mocked him.

But somehow, after laughing at him for a while, they let him in.

After the raven orc left, the bloodworm orc behind him chuckled and said, "So ugly, yet he dares to come to our bloodworm clan to ask for a wife. Just wait and see, his end will be terrible."

"Let's go see what's going on."

The raven orc found the bloodworm female he had his eye on and explained that he had left the tribe to find her. However, the female was not happy and pushed him away quickly.

At this moment, the female animal's parents returned.

After learning the situation, the female animal's parents coldly asked him to leave, saying that their female animal would never marry him.

The raven-beastman pleaded earnestly, expressing his sincerity, but his female parents grew impatient and threatened to break his legs if he didn't leave.

On the first day, the raven orcs returned empty-handed.

He didn't give up. He waited outside the Bloodworm tribe, hoping the female beast would come out and be with him. The female beast was initially quite polite to him, but he scared her off after he had done it several times. She would even avoid him when she went out to gather food.

Later, when the female beast's parents learned that the raven beastman was still harassing their female beast, they were furious. They broke the raven beastman's legs and left him outside the tribe to fend for himself.

The raven-orc endured the pain of his broken leg, still fantasizing that a female orc would come to him. But he waited and waited, until it was too late, and finally despaired.

With nowhere to go and a broken leg, he didn't want to die in the wild, so he displayed amazing perseverance and crawled back to his tribe using only his hands.

Looking at his bloodied and mangled hands, the raven orc felt that he was truly the stupidest orc in the world.

After this experience, he finally realized that this was his home.

The raven orc swallowed his pride and begged desperately.

“Impossible. Once you leave the tribe, you’re no longer a member of the tribe’s orcs. You can go wherever you want, but this place is no longer your home.” The tribe’s orcs said firmly.

The raven orc began to play the victim, saying that he had broken his leg and injured his hand, and that if they didn't take him in, he would surely die out there.

"Then let them die out there, since they're no longer orcs of our tribe anyway," one orc muttered.

Upon hearing this, the raven orc was deeply shaken. He even forgot to play the victim and simply prostrated himself on the ground, desperately kowtowing and begging. Soon, his forehead was broken and covered in blood.

Several children also came to watch the commotion. Upon seeing this scene, Xiao Sibao looked up and asked Chen Miao, "Mommy, Uncle Crow is in such a miserable state. Can we take him in for a while and then send him away once he recovers?"

Shen Miao lowered her head and looked at Xiao Sibao. "Xiao Sibao, do you think we should take in Uncle Crow?"

"That's right, doesn't Mother always say that life is above all else? Uncle Crow hasn't committed any heinous crime, so I think we should give him a chance," Little Sibao analyzed earnestly.