I was terrified! Raising a colossal star beast in the Beast Taming World

Chapter 270 Morning Grumpiness

"Youyou...youyou...youyou! Wake up! Something terrible has happened!"

Meng Yanqing's voice was like a fine needle, piercing through the crumbling starry sky and violently pulling Xue Youyou's consciousness out of the depths of her dream.

Xue Youyou opened her eyes and saw Meng Yanqing's magnified face so close to hers, almost touching the tip of her nose.

The boundless starry sea from her dream still lingered faintly on her retina, and the eyes of Su Xue Ji, who held the first light of the universe, were still clearly imprinted in her mind.

And her own voice—"The universe bears witness, I have always loved you deeply"—still resonates deep within our ears.

Then, all of that was shattered in one fell swoop by Meng Yanqing's anxious face.

Xue Youyou was stunned for three seconds.

In three seconds, her consciousness switched from a philosophical three-question sequence of "What exactly happened in that dream?", "Why did I shout that cringeworthy line at Su Xue Ji?", and "Is there someone else inside my body?", to a realistic three-question sequence of "What's the situation now?", "Who is this face in front of me?", and "What should I do?".

Then, she opened her beautiful eyes wide with anger, and without saying a word, she punched Meng Yanqing on the head.

"You bastard!"

"Ouch...it hurts..."

Meng Yanqing let out a muffled groan in pain, clutching her head and looking at Xue Youyou with a wronged expression.

However, at this moment, Xue Youyou's eyes seemed to want to devour someone.

Meng Yanqing froze for a moment, then subconsciously shrank back.

She had never realized Xue Youyou could be so grumpy in the morning. The usually smiling, composed, and seemingly in control Xue Youyou actually had this side to her.

What she didn't know was that Xue Youyou wished she could bury herself back under the covers and turn back time to just one minute ago.

That dream—the dream of the Snow Maiden with her frost-covered moon and snow-covered figure, the dream that turned her back into her past self, the dream that gave her the first chance to figure out the truth about her transmigration after arriving in this world—was shattered by that single word, "Youyou, wake up!"

Who knows if I'll be able to enter that dream again next time.

Xue Youyou's intuition told her that this encounter was no ordinary dream.

It was too real, unnaturally real. Ordinary dreams begin to crumble the moment you realize you're dreaming, but that dream didn't. The starry sky remained intact, the galaxies continued to rotate smoothly—something she could never have imagined.

Because people cannot imagine things they have never seen.

Frosty Sky Obscures the Moon, Su Xueji's gaze truly fell upon her, as if piercing through the barriers of time and space, truly "seeing" her.

That wasn't a dream.

It was a more fundamental kind of contact that she couldn't comprehend.

But Meng Yanqing interrupted it.

Of course, Xue Youyou was angry for only ten seconds.

Ten seconds later, she took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the regret and annoyance that was about to overflow from her chest.

She is an extremely calm person, always has been. For her, emotions are something to be controlled, not controlled.

Since this opportunity was missed due to unforeseen circumstances, there's no use in regretting it. The only thing to do now is to try to deduce as much "reality" as possible from the limited information already obtained from the dream.

Frosty Sky, Moon-veiled Princess Su Xue asked her, "Do you truly love me?"—This was by no means an ordinary question. Why would that supreme, dreamlike being, who had consumed countless galaxies over billions of years, care whether a mere human loved it? The question itself held some mystery that she had yet to fathom.

And why did she answer that way? That roar of pounding her chest and stamping her feet, that burning, almost manic emotion, that habit of blurting out "I"—it didn't seem like something she would do, nor something "Xue Youyou" would say. It was more like an instinct from this body, something she didn't yet understand, something deeply hidden within this body.

This thought sent a chill down her spine.

However, although Xue Youyou really wanted to go through all these clues quietly by herself right now, the reality in front of her told her not to think about it anymore.

She saw it.

Besides Meng Yanqing, Su Wanrou, Cui Yelan, Lu Yutang, and Luo Yan were all present.

Also, Lin Yueyao and her six teammates from Team Two, and Dean Lu Yuan, everyone was there.

Thirteen people surrounded her already small bed, making it completely packed.

Their eyes all fell on her, their expressions varied.

Xue Youyou felt that she was in a situation where she couldn't clear her name.

Oh no, it's all over. Now everyone will think she's grumpy in the morning.

She clearly doesn't have a bad temper when she wakes up; she's clearly a gentle and mild-mannered lady.

She considered morning grumpiness rude, inelegant, and unladylike, and she absolutely could not tolerate such a negative label sticking to her like a piece of chewing gum.

Her brain completed the crisis communication plan in 0.3 seconds.

"Um... come here for a second."

Xue Youyou waved to Meng Yanqing, who had taken a few steps back and was looking at her nervously.

Meng Yanqing thought Xue Youyou's morning grumpiness hadn't subsided and she was going to continue beating her, so she shrank back slightly and hesitated. But looking into Xue Youyou's eyes, which had softened again, she finally walked up to her with trepidation.

"Hoo... Eek—"

Before she could finish speaking, Xue Youyou reached out and pulled her into her arms. She raised her other hand and gently placed it on the spot on Meng Yanqing's forehead where she had been tapped, her fingertips softly circling and massaging it, the movement as gentle as smoothing a patch of spring water ruffled by the wind.

"I just had a nightmare."

Xue Youyou's voice was so gentle it could melt your heart: "I dreamt the world was surrounded by gophers, the ground was covered in them. I was just knocking gophers in my dream when you suddenly woke me up. I hadn't even distinguished between dream and reality when I opened my eyes, and I accidentally knocked you out as a gopher."

She looked down into Meng Yanqing's eyes, her gaze filled with sincere apology: "I'm sorry, does it still hurt?"

Meng Yanqing was stunned for a moment, then relaxed completely.

A knowing smile spread across her face, her eyes crinkling at the corners: "So that's how it is. Youyou, you really gave me a fright just now."

She reached out and pressed down on Xue Youyou's hand that was pressed against her forehead, gently grasping it before slowly letting go, holding it firmly in her palm: "It doesn't hurt anymore, it's gone."

Seeing this, Xue Youyou secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that her talent was indeed not limited to beast taming, but could also be fully competed in the acting world.

However, what Xue Youyou didn't know was that among the thirteen people present, only Meng Yanqing believed the nonsense she had made up on the spot.

Years later, based on the accounts of those who experienced it firsthand, this event was recorded verbatim in the biography of Xue Youyou, the legendary beast tamer of Yuelanzhou, with the title "A Morning Dominated by Groundhogs".

Historians regard it as a Hall of Fame anecdote that corroborates Snowy's cunning, grumpy, and slightly violent nature.