Beauty and the Beasts

Amidst the nervous atmosphere, the temperature in the room rose. Bai Qingqing felt as if she was scooped up from water, and her sweat-drenched face looked pale as white paper. Not even a hint of color could be seen on her lips, making it seem as if she had just come out from a black and white painting.

Bai Qingqing kept on crying out agonizingly amidst the intense pain. She looked a lot more horrible than Muir had seen her when she was giving birth to the leopard cubs. She also looked more pitiful than Curtis had seen when she was laying snake eggs for her first birth. This caused the hearts of both males to feel especially heavy.

The pain gradually moved downward, and Bai Qingqing knew that it must be an egg. She had no idea if it was because her birth canal hadn’t opened up as she wasn’t due to give birth yet, or if bird eggs were bigger. The egg was blocked at a certain spot in her body.

She twisted her body, the biological tears flowing out from her eyes blurring her vision, making it hard for her to see. She decided to just close her eyes and let out another agonizing cry.

As her voice came out, Bai Qingqing finally felt something slipping out from her body, and her pale face revealed a hint of a smile.

Curtis and Muir sensed something, and they both looked between her legs. Curtis flipped the blankets up and saw a bloody egg between his mate’s long and fair legs.

It was a white-shelled egg almost double the size of the snake eggs from the other time. It was oval-shaped, and its thickness was comparable to the size of a male’s fist, its length twice its thickness.

No wonder she had such great difficulty laying it. Turned out the eggs this time around were too big.

Curtis thought calmly, not feeling pleased at all. He took a look and then covered her with the blanket.

However, Muir was astonished. This was his… baby bird? A child that shared the same blood as him and Qingqing?

It wasn’t until his vision was blocked that Muir drew himself out from his indescribable touched state. He then looked towards Bai Qingqing nervously as well.

Tears kept on flowing out from the corner of her eyes, expressing her pain. However, she continued with the childbirth, with the eggs slipping out from her body one after another. After ten of them came out, it finally stopped.

Her stomach was as big as before, but the number of eggs laid was double the previous time. It’d be natural even if the number was half the previous time.

If it was possible, Curtis really wanted to split these eggs into two, turning them into 20 so that Snow could lay them comfortably.

“It doesn’t hurt anymore?” Muir asked anxiously after seeing that she had stopped moaning for a while now.

After resting on the bed for a while and recovering some of her energy, she nodded weakly.

Muir embraced Bai Qingqing tightly, his tensed-up face rubbing against her tender face. His voice sounded hoarse as he said, “You finally don’t hurt anymore.”

Of course, it still hurt. Until now, Bai Qingqing’s stomach still felt a throbbing pain. The aftereffect was greater than when she had given birth to An’an. At least, after she gave birth to An’an, by the time she woke up, it was already the next day and the pain had already become weaker.

“I want… I want to take a look at the eggs,” Bai Qingqing said weakly.

Only then did Muir let go of her, put his hand under the blanket, then dug out two big eggs that were still wet and bloodied.

“These are our eggs.” Muir’s eyes started to tear up as he turned his head to kiss one of the eggs. However, his gaze didn’t move away from her face.

His face immediately had blood on it. At the thought of how it was something that had come out from that part of her body, Bai Qingqing couldn’t bear to look at it. She raised a trembling hand, wanting to wipe off the stains on the corners of Muir’s lips. However, her arm dropped weakly.

Muir immediately grabbed her hand and placed it on his face. As he rubbed his face against his mate’s soft and weak hand, he felt extremely satisfied both physically and mentally.

Bai Qingqing smiled weakly, relaxed, then sank into unconsciousness.