$256 for Once, Stay with Me

The next day, when Gu Mengmeng woke up in Elvis' arms, it was already noon.

Leia arranged for everyone to hunt, and then demonstrated cooking skills, and asked each family to send the most savvy one to learn how to grill meat.

Males don't have to eat every day, and usually one meal can last for several days. And they eat more rudely, so they all solve it directly in the wild when hunting, and then bring back the better meat for the females to eat. So in the end, 18 females gathered around a fire, watching their partners grill meat for them.

Those who can get close to the females are all first partners, except Elvis.

Gu Mengmeng turned around and secretly looked at Elvis, thinking that he was a little pitiful. Others gathered together in large families, but Elvis was alone sitting next to seven or eight packages, holding a horn in his hand, carefully carving and polishing it with his claws. Focused like... an autistic child.

Gu Mengmeng frowned and said, "You guys eat first, I'm not hungry."

Just as she was about to stand up and go find Elvis, she was grabbed by Leia's wrist. Leia was sitting by the campfire, holding a branch for grilling meat in one hand and holding Gu Mengmeng's wrist with the other hand. She looked up at her and said, "Just once, stay with me..."

Gu Mengmeng looked at Leia and then at Elvis. Elvis had heard the movement here and stopped his hand and turned to look here. After a moment of silence, Elvis lowered his head and continued to carve the horns, as if he acquiesced to Gu Mengmeng staying with Leia.

But Leia suddenly let go, lowered his head, and smiled bitterly, "I can't compare to him after all. He always thinks about you, but I always make things difficult for you... In the end, I am too selfish."

Gu Mengmeng sighed and finally sat down.

Lea looked at Gu Mengmeng in astonishment, and then smiled like a child.

Gu Mengmeng pointed at the barbecue on the fire and said, "I want to put chili and honey on it! Two layers, two layers!"

Lea nodded, the corners of her lips were always upturned, and there was a hint of blur in her eyes.

Gu Mengmeng leaned slightly on Leia's shoulder, holding a bowl of honey water in her hand and drinking it in small sips.

Perhaps, in the eyes of others, this is just a pet competing with the first partner for favor, and the first partner generously doesn't care about him. But Gu Mengmeng knows how strong Leia was during his time in Soder. Even if his heart was made of stone, it would probably be ground into dust by the past, not to mention that he was just a vixen.

He needs warmth, comfort, and a sustenance that supports him and allows him to breathe.

He knew better than anyone that even if he was sitting next to Gu Mengmeng and grilling meat for other females with other females as their first partners, his identity would never become Elvis. He would always be the "self-proclaimed" pet, Leia. Gu Mengmeng never acknowledged his identity as a pet, except when she defended him in front of outsiders.

But even if it was just a dream, he was eager to grasp this illusory happiness.

Just once, let him take care of her openly like a partner, just once...

Many females didn't understand why, and when they saw Gu Mengmeng eating barbecue with chili, they followed her. The result was predictable... The males were in a mess, trying to learn from Gu Mengmeng to get a bowl to hold water, but how could they make a stone bowl in time? So they turned into beasts, carrying their own females on their backs and desperately ran towards the water source.