Clumsy Beast, Keep Your Paws Off Chapter 722: I Thought You Wanted Me to Kiss You!

While waiting on the frozen riverbank for the cubs to bring back Hu Yan or Han Jue, Su Qinglan and Xuan Long stood quietly in the crisp afternoon air.

Suddenly, a faint, muffled rustling sound drifted through the chilly air.

Su Qinglan’s ears immediately perked up. She turned her head, blinking in surprise, and looked back at Xuan Long.

"Is someone else out here?" she whispered, gesturing towards a thick cluster of snow-covered boulders and frozen bushes just a short distance down the riverbank.

Xuan Long’s dark eyes narrowed slightly as he scanned the area, but seeing no immediate danger to his female, his gaze quickly returned to her face.

He didn’t really care who else was in the forest, as long as he could stay close to his petite female.

Driven by pure curiosity, Su Qinglan took soft, quiet steps towards the direction of the noise, crouching slightly behind a large rock. Xuan Long silently followed her like a tall, protective shadow.

When Su Qinglan peeked around the side of the boulder, her eyes instantly lit up and began to twinkle with absolute delight. She quickly raised a hand to cover her mouth to suppress a sudden giggle.

Right there in the snow, completely hidden from the main path, were two familiar figures. It was none other than her carefree little sister, Lan Yue, and a tall, fine-looking young beastman!

Looking closely at his defining features, Su Qinglan felt a strong sense of familiarity.

’Wait, isn’t that Tu Yelang? The rabbit beastman from the rabbit tribe?’ she realised, her inner matchmaker instantly waking up.

The atmosphere between the two young people was incredibly chaotic.

Just a second ago, Lan Yue had been aggressively pulled into a sudden, clumsy kiss. Her eyes had widened to the size of saucers, and her entire face instantly flushed a violent, burning red.

Pushing against his chest, she immediately yanked herself away from him, panting for air as she stared at the young rabbit-beastman in utter shock.

"You! What on earth do you think you are doing?!" Lan Yue squeaked, her voice cracking with embarrassment as she furiously wiped her mouth.

"I only agreed to come out and eat grilled fish with you today! When did I give you permission to just kiss me?!"

Tu Yelang stood there in the snow, looking completely bewildered. His long, fluffy rabbit ears twitched nervously, dropping slightly against his silver-white hair.

He scratched his cheek, looking at her blushing, angry figure with a genuinely confused expression.

"But... you literally asked me to kiss you just a minute ago," Tu Yelang muttered, his voice full of clumsy innocence.

Lan Yue felt like her brain was short-circuiting. "What?! When did I ever ask you to do that? Are you out of your mind?!"

The truth was, Tu Yelang had completely and utterly misunderstood the situation.

Earlier, while they were preparing the firewood to grill the fish, a little bit of dark charcoal paste had accidentally smudged onto the corner of Lan Yue’s soft lips.

Not realising it, Lan Yue had turned her face towards him, pointed a finger at her mouth, and casually asked, "Hey, is there something on my lips?"

To a normal person, she was obviously asking him to check for dirt.

But to the simple-minded, clumsy, and secretly hopeful Tu Yelang, those words sounded like a blatant, romantic invitation! He thought she was modernly hinting that she liked him and wanted him to kiss the smudge away!

In the beast world, females were incredibly precious and rare.

Tu Yelang was already nineteen years old and turning twenty soon, which meant he was officially an adult male who desperately needed to find a female to form a family.

He knew that if a female accepted a male, the male had to be completely proactive.

Most importantly, he liked Lan Yue; she is a good female and didn’t mind becoming her beast husband at all! If he could bring a beautiful female like Lan Yue home, his older sister would definitely be so happy she would throw a festival.

So, when she had pointed to her lips, he hadn’t hesitated for a single second. He had leaned straight in and bravely removed the smudge with his own mouth!

But now, looking at the furious, red-faced Lan Yue shouting at him, Tu Yelang’s simple rabbit brain started to panic.

’Man... am I actually stupid?’ he thought to himself in despair. ’Did I totally read the signals wrong?’

"You... you pointed at your mouth and asked if something was there!" Tu Yelang explained frantically, his cheeks flushing pink as he gestured wildly with his long, bony fingers.

"In our tribe, when a female does that to a male, it means she wants a kiss to seal the bond! How was I supposed to know you just had dirt on your face?!"

Lan Yue wanted to literally dig a hole in the snow and bury herself alive. "That was ash! Ash, you big, foolish rabbit! I wanted you to tell me to wipe it off, not eat it!"

As she raged at the clumsy rabbit, Lan Yue instinctively turned her head to the side out of sheer embarrassment.

But the moment her eyes shifted, they met a pair of highly amused, teasing eyes peeking out from right behind a nearby boulder.

Su Qinglan was standing there, wiggling her eyebrows at her little sister with a massive, wicked smirk on her face, while Xuan Long stood silently behind her, watching the entire spectacle like a stone statue.

The moment Lan Yue realised her eldest sister had witnessed the entire embarrassing, clumsy kiss from start to finish, she felt like the absolute sky had fallen directly onto her head.

"...Sister?" Lan Yue squeaked, her voice cracking.

Su Qinglan smiled brightly, her face practically glowing with pure amusement.

Before Lan Yue could launch into a panicked explanation, Su Qinglan immediately placed one delicate finger over her own lips.

"Shh."

Her eyes curved into beautiful, mischievous crescents. She quietly winked at her exploding little sister, her shoulders shaking with suppressed laughter.

"I’m leaving," Su Qinglan said with a heavy, teasing tone, waving her hand casually. "I didn’t see a single thing. Not a thing!"

Without waiting for Lan Yue to explode, she turned around and quietly pulled Xuan Long away by his arm, leaving the clearing with light, cheerful steps.