Gu Zhiwei burst into the clearing a second later, glowing with holy rage. "UNHAND HER, YOU BRUTE! I SHALL SMITE YOU!"
Hu Yanlie looked at the shrieking golden retriever. He looked back at the tiny, dead-eyed girl who had just kicked him with the force of a battering ram.
The Beast Lord's feral brain short-circuited.
"...She is fierce," Yanlie muttered, a primal blush spreading across his scarred cheeks. He reached into the boar's carcass, ripped out the glowing core, and dropped it into Ji'an's hand. "Take it. You have earned my respect, fierce female. We shall wrestle again!"
Yanlie bounded away into the jungle, his heart captured by the blunt-force trauma of her rejection.
"Two," Transmigrator Ji'an counted, shaking her head as she marched through the dark corridor. "That's two of the Vanguard boys who have imprinted on the hollow shell of a trauma victim. This timeline is literally just a collection of horrible dating choices."
