Chapter 43: Si Muye Left Wilderness Mountain and Returned to the Royal City?

Chapter 43: Chapter 43: Si Muye Left Wilderness Mountain and Returned to the Royal City?

Si Muye froze.

Seeing the wicked smile on his face, a horrified thought struck him:

"What did you do to her?"

’Did something happen to A Yue?’

Seeing his reaction, Helian knew his guess was correct. It seemed his third brother truly cared about that female.

Good thing he had split his forces and sent men to capture the little female. Judging by the time, they should have succeeded by now.

A triumphant look appeared on his face:

"What could I possibly do to her? I’ve always been one to cherish beautiful things. I’m just looking after her for a while on your behalf, Third Brother. It all depends on what you’re willing to offer in exchange!"

The moment he heard this, Si Muye instantly released his spiritual power, trying to locate Shen Yue.

However, he detected countless males with High-level Spiritual Power gathered on a mountain several kilometers away.

’Could those be the men Helian sent?’

His heart sank. That location was not far from their cave.

’It’s all my fault. I got tied up with this group and didn’t realize A Yue was in danger in time!!’

Enraged, Si Muye lunged forward and grabbed Helian by the throat.

"If you dare touch her, believe me, I’ll kill you right now!"

Helian gasped for breath, but a crazed smile burst forth in his eyes:

"Third Brother, if... if you kill me now, you’ll never see her again. Besides, your Father and female mother are in my hands now, too. If I don’t make it back, your Father and female mother will also... surely die."

Si Muye’s body went rigid. His eyes turned bloodshot, as if his greatest weakness had been brutally exploited.

He snarled:

"What did you do to them?"

Helian struggled to breathe, his feet already dangling off the ground, but the smug look on his face didn’t fade in the slightest:

"...Ha, take a guess..."

Si Muye’s chest tightened. His dark brown eyes glared savagely at Helian, his knuckles white as he squeezed.

He wanted so badly.

To just choke him to death.

But...

A Yue, and his Father and female mother...

He took a deep breath and violently threw Helian to the ground.

Helian fell into a sitting position, gasping for air.

He knew it. With these two bargaining chips, even if he couldn’t kill Si Muye today, he could still restrain him and turn the tables.

He laughed sinisterly.

But...

...when Si Muye dragged him to that mountain, he couldn’t laugh anymore.

All thirteen men he had sent were dead on the spot.

One was still breathing, but just barely!

’How is this possible?’

’Who did this?’

His eyes widened, and he froze in place.

How could one little female kill over a dozen of the Ancient Bear Family’s finest warriors?

Horrified, he grabbed the man on the ground who was still faintly breathing:

"Speak! Who did this? What happened?"

The man was shaken awake and abruptly spat out a mouthful of blood:

"First Young Master, someone... someone ambushed us... That woman... that woman got away!"

Before he could finish, the man took his last breath.

Si Muye instantly breathed a sigh of relief.

’A Yue is safe.’

’Does this mean someone was secretly protecting A Yue?’

’Who could it be?’

’No, I have to get back to the cave and see that A Yue is safe with my own eyes.’

With that thought, he was about to rush toward the cave.

But then—

"Third Young Master!"

A familiar voice made Si Muye stop in his tracks.

He whipped his head around and saw a familiar face from the past, running toward him with a group of men!

...

Meanwhile, Huang Ziyue finished listening to his subordinate’s report.

He raised an eyebrow. "So, Si Muye has left Wilderness Mountain and returned to the Royal City?"

His subordinate nodded. "Yes."

Huang Ziyue looked down at Shen Yue, who was about to walk back to the riverbank, and the corner of his mouth curled up:

"That woman is probably going to be heartbroken!"

His subordinate’s mouth twitched:

"Great Emperor Master, this is the perfect opportunity! Si Muye left in such a hurry he didn’t even say goodbye to Miss A Yue. You must seize this chance!"

Huang Ziyue’s brow furrowed slightly. ’Seize the chance?’

Heh.

’The day has come when I, Huang Ziyue, have to ’seize a chance’?’

’Besides, do I even have a chance?’

’I was caught red-handed trying to steal a child. The moment I show my face, that little cub will definitely rat me out. What chance would I have to get close to that woman?!’

’Given how fiercely she was cursing and throwing things at me just now, she’d probably chase me for kilometers just to rip out my Dragon Tendons.’

And, most importantly...

This woman is very likely that ugly female from the Duke Mansion.

The very person his entire clan clamored to successfully break off their engagement with!

’A double whammy. There’s no solution right now!’

But his subordinate continued:

"From how hastily Si Muye left, I’d say there’s an eighty percent chance the Black Panther Royal Family was pulling strings behind the scenes. Otherwise, how could the Ancient Bear Family’s men have arrived so quickly? Great Emperor Master, it’s obvious that Black Panther has already started competing for her favor! You can’t lose to that Black Panther!"

Miss A Yue’s fertility is so strong. She might have the legendary SSS+ fertility constitution, something seen once in a century.

Plus, she’s so beautiful, she can cook, and she’s so loving and kind. She’s perfect.

Things are finally looking up for our Flood Dragon Clan. If the Great Emperor Master had a Female Master like her, it would be a blessing worthy of the ancestral temple!!

But the most crucial thing right now is that the Great Emperor Master is on Miss A Yue’s bad side. Winning her affection will probably be harder for him than for others, so he’ll have to put in ten times the effort!

The subordinate tried to reassure himself. ’Good thing Miss A Yue probably didn’t see the Great Emperor Master, right? Maybe that rock just happened to hit him by coincidence!’

Huang Ziyue, standing nearby, knew better.

’After all, Er Bao has the blood of the Black Panther Royal Family. He must be the cub of whoever was lurking in the shadows.’

’Probably for the same reasons as me, that person from the Black Panther Royal Family doesn’t dare to show himself. But he’s quite skilled at causing trouble from behind the scenes.’

’With Si Muye around, things were indeed difficult.’

’Now that he’s gone, it’s advantageous for me. At least one nuisance is out of the way.’

’But asking me to compete for her favor? That’s just absurd!’

’I’m only doing this for my son!’

Thinking of this, he spoke:

"Go investigate Shen Yue of the Duke Mansion!"

He had to confirm this to prepare for bringing his son back in the future.

The subordinate froze for a moment, then blurted out:

"Why investigate that ugly female?"

’Has the Great Emperor Master gone mad?’ the subordinate thought. ’Ignoring the dazzling Miss A Yue right in front of him to investigate that ugly female he already broke his engagement with.’

But then—

Huang Ziyue shot him a look and dropped a bombshell:

"She is very likely the ’ugly female’ you’re talking about!"

The subordinate was instantly dumbfounded.

’What? Miss A Yue is that ugly female??’

’How is that possible?’

Shen Yue had found Sanbao, and the feeling of having him back made her unwilling to put the little one down the entire way.

She carried him all the way back to the riverbank.

When Dabao and the other little cubs saw that Shen Yue had successfully found Sanbao, they were overjoyed.

But then they saw Sanbao had reverted to his beast form and froze.

"So this is what Sanbao’s beast form looks like!"

"Wow, Sanbao has pitch-black scales! None of us have those."

"Sanbao’s tail is so long. Can we use it as a swing?"

"Sanbao’s even blacker than Er Bao!"

The little cubs asked all sorts of strange questions, but Sanbao just stared at them blankly.

Seeing that none of them were scared, Shen Yue breathed a sigh of relief internally.

She had been worried that when she returned, the other cubs would be frightened by Sanbao’s appearance and say something to upset him.

Sanbao had already been through a scare and had over-exhausted his spiritual power. If he were upset any further, his speech impediment would likely become even more severe.

He might not even be able to speak a single word.

’I only just heard him call me ’female mother’ today,’ she thought. ’I want to keep hearing it.’