Eclipse of the Heart: The Alpha’s Forbidden Mate

"Where is it now?" Li Ge quickly asked, taking advantage of the man's more agreeable mood.

Li Ge's question caused a strange expression to flash across Ling Mo's face. However, Li Ge, eager to know the wolf's whereabouts, didn't notice it. After a moment, the man's deep voice carried an ambiguous tone: "You'll see it tonight."

Ling Mo's words relieved Li Ge. Although the wolf had tried to kill her multiple times, she didn't blame it. It was a naturally ferocious beast.

Ling Mo's answer lifted Li Ge's spirits. She quickly plucked a blade of grass. The grass in this place was as sharp as a knife. Holding the blade in one hand, she gently took one of the spirit mink's legs, softly comforting it, "Xiao Hei, it won't hurt."

The leaf grazed its leg, and the spirit mink flinched, quickly licking the drop of blood. Li Ge then cut her own wrist, mixing the two bloods together and handing it to Ling Mo, who had been watching her actions with cold eyes.

He hadn't expected the antidote to be so simple. After drinking the mixture, Ling Mo's eyes, which had been darkening, slowly regained clarity, and the wounds on his hand miraculously healed quickly. Ling Mo raised his eyebrows. It seemed the blood of this man and mink were both excellent antidotes. He had originally intended to kill the woman, but considering the countless wounds on his body and the place he was heading, Ling Mo thought this person could still be useful. He said without room for refusal, "Before we leave the forest, you are not to leave my side."

Since she wasn't familiar with the area anyway, Li Ge considered it for a moment and nodded in agreement.

"Gurgle…" A sound broke the silence, an embarrassing one.

Li Ge touched her stomach. She hadn't eaten for a day and a night, her face flushed with embarrassment. Her gaze drifted around, avoiding the man opposite her.

Ling Mo was startled and didn't say anything, turning to leave.

The man didn't laugh at her. Li Ge stuck her tongue out at his receding back, stretched her legs, and felt she could stand. With great effort, she barely managed to stand up. If she didn't want to die here, she needed to find something to eat.

Watching his owner stumble, Xiao Hei wisely jumped down and followed Li Ge, keeping pace with her. Not only was his owner hungry, but he hadn't eaten in a long time either.

Slowly walking in the direction the man had disappeared, she hadn't taken a few steps when faint footsteps came. Li Ge looked up and saw the man holding a wild rabbit. Watching the rabbit twitch in his hands, a small hole in its chest gushing with blood, Li Ge was taken aback.

As if knowing what she was thinking, Ling Mo said coldly, "If you don't want to starve, put away your sentimental compassion."

He finished speaking and threw the dead rabbit at Li Ge's feet. "Go clean it up."

Ignoring the woman's aggrieved eyes, Ling Mo found a shady spot under a tree and sat down, closing his eyes to rest. The pain of the transformation had exhausted him. Coupled with the poison from the mink, he was now utterly exhausted. If he didn't have a strong physique, he would have already died deep in this forest.

Suppressing the urge to vomit, Li Ge picked up the rabbit. The man was right. This wasn't her home. Without her master's occasional supplies from the mountain, or her own vegetables, she would eventually starve to death if she didn't learn to adapt.

"Xiao Hei, take me to the river," Li Ge said to the spirit mink squatting obediently at her feet.

The spirit mink was sensitive to the jungle. It could tell where there was water with just a sniff.

Xiao Hei nodded like a human, touched its nose to the ground, then looked at Li Ge and turned to run. Li Ge followed closely behind.

As expected, a small lake appeared a few hundred meters away.

Squatting by the lake, Li Ge looked at her reflection in the water. Although the person in the water had mud smeared all over her face, how could she not recognize the face she had looked at for twenty years?

She had been bitten by a bear in a fatal spot and should have died, but why was she here unharmed?

"You're wasting time staring at your face when you should be washing your hands," Ling Mo's familiar cold voice sounded behind her.

She didn't know why, but despite being exhausted, he couldn't fall asleep. Lying in the shade of the tree, his mind kept involuntarily flashing back to the aggrieved little face, and his feet uncontrollably moved towards the direction where that slender figure had disappeared.

Accustomed to the man's cold tone, Li Ge rolled her eyes and began to clean the cold rabbit.

Watching the woman's angry but helpless expression, a barely perceptible arc appeared at the corner of Ling Mo's mouth.

After cleaning the rabbit, Li Ge stood by the lake, feeling awkward. After a moment, she stammered, "I… I don't know how to roast it."

She had basically been a vegetarian before, only eating meat when her master forced her to eat some deliciously cooked dishes. Li Ge rarely touched these bloody things.

She didn't expect the man to ease her embarrassment. Li Ge held the clean rabbit and looked at him expectantly, her eyes gradually filling with grievance. Ling Mo looked at those eyes, which were as red as the rabbit, and silently cursed. He strode over to her, snatched the rabbit from her hand, and turned to leave.

He wasn't as cold as he seemed. Li Ge smiled.

Finally, the two of them worked together to complete the task of roasting the rabbit. Rubbing her full belly, Li Ge's eyes turned into crescents. "You're really good at this."

Li Ge's flattering words didn't receive any response from Ling Mo. She wasn't used to it, after all, she had always liked chatting with animals who didn't talk.

"What country are you from? Why are you alone in this deep forest?" Li Ge continued to ask.

After a long silence, just when Li Ge thought she wouldn't get an answer, a magnetic voice sounded, "Chaofeng Country."

"Ah?" Li Ge looked at Ling Mo in confusion, wondering if she had heard wrong.

Li Ge's surprised expression puzzled Ling Mo. Was it so strange that he was from Chaofeng? He patiently repeated, "This King is the Azure Wing King of Chaofeng."

"Chaofeng? Azure Wing King?" Li Ge asked incredulously again.

Could it be that she was thinking what she thought?

She urgently asked, "Do you know a country called the Republic of China?"

"You're joking? Currently, there are only Chaofeng, Linjun, and Lanhán. This King has never heard of your so-called Republic," Ling Mo glanced at the woman's pale face and said indifferently.

Li Ge shook her head repeatedly, staring into the man's eyes, trying to see a hint of a joke, but the man's deep eyes showed no fluctuation. This confirmed Li Ge's self-deception.

Cold sweat dripped down her face. Li Ge desperately asked, "What year is it now?"