Healing S-Class Beasts Made Me the Empire's Treasure
Chapter 213 - 192: The Raging Fire of Jealousy and Resentment
"This isn’t the place to talk. Let’s get on the starship first."
Confirming that Yu Lan was okay and hadn’t been mistreated in any way while with Qi Jingshen, the men all breathed a collective sigh of relief.
But this wasn’t their territory. To be precise, this was Qi Jingshen’s territory now.
To Huo Zhanting and the others, who didn’t know the inside story, Qi Jingshen’s recent actions were shrouded in mystery.
The sooner they could leave, the better.
’What if that man suddenly goes crazy and tries to snatch Yu Lan away again?’
Huo Zhanting made the suggestion, and Pei Shiyi and the others nodded in quick succession.
Carefully protecting Yu Lan, they hurried toward the starship.
「Three minutes later.」
The starship bearing the First Legion’s insignia lifted off, gradually shrinking to a small dot in Qi Jingshen’s vision.
The man with black hair and green eyes looked up, quietly watching the scene unfold.
A sense of desolation, as if he had lost something important, swirled within him, leaving an empty feeling in his heart.
His large hands, hanging by his sides, clenched into tight fists.
He thought, ’Once I’ve dealt with the situation on Chaos Star, I will definitely go to Central Star to find Yu Lan.’
As for what he would do after finding her? Qi Jingshen hadn’t figured that out yet.
「Aboard the First Legion’s starship.」
The moment they boarded the starship, Pei Shiyi eagerly pulled Yu Lan into his arms.
"Lanlan, I missed you so much."
Unlike Huo Zhanting and the others, he didn’t possess immense power and weaponry on Central Star, able to summon a large force for a grid search with a single command.
Deep Sea Star was too far from Central Star.
Not to mention, Deep Sea Star and Central Star had been hostile in the past, and everyone from Deep Sea Star harbored a certain resentment toward living on Central Star.
So, naturally, he hadn’t bothered to plant spies on Central Star for emergencies.
But when something actually happened and he found he had no one to command, a deep sense of panic bloomed in Pei Shiyi’s heart.
’If something really had happened to Yu Lan, wouldn’t he be partly to blame?’
’If he had legions of his own people on Central Star to help, wouldn’t the chances of finding her have been so much higher?’
Pei Shiyi’s eyes turned red.
A crystal-clear teardrop slid from the corner of his eye, instantly transforming into a lustrous little pearl that landed in Yu Lan’s palm.
Beside them, Sheng Yiqing was also looking at Yu Lan with red-rimmed eyes.
"Lanlan, we all missed you so much."
Pei Shiyi felt helpless and lost, as did Sheng Yiqing, who had married from a distant star.
Behind Pei Shiyi and Sheng Yiqing, Huo Zhanting, Su Xingye, Li Yucheng, and Jun Lin Yuan also had red-rimmed eyes and exhausted expressions.
The longing and worry, delayed until now, rushed in like a frantic tide.
In the face of such emotions, even the most powerful men would be overwhelmed, their hearts aching with a stifling pain.
Only the little female’s soft embraces and sweet kisses, confirming her return to their arms, could dispel it all.
It descended like a storm—scorching, searing, and filled with a longing so intense it could destroy everything.
Her breath was stolen.
The thin air in her lungs gradually vanished. The feeling of being kissed to the point of suffocation made her scalp tingle. As if she were drowning, she desperately gripped the powerful, lean arms clamped around her waist.
She awaited, craved, the fresh oxygen passed to her during the occasional breaks.
’They’re crazy!’
’They’ve really gone mad!’
The pretty little female’s bright, almond-shaped eyes—clearer than the finest gems—were now filled with a dazed, teary haze.
Crystal-clear tears streamed continuously from the corners of her eyes.
Her smooth, snow-white forehead was covered in a fine sheen of sweat. Her delicate eyelids, the pert tip of her nose, and her lustrous cheeks were all flushed a deep crimson.
"Lanlan, come back to us."
Su Xingye planted a tender kiss amidst Yu Lan’s hair.
The temperature in the air rose.
Inside the sealed room, the light fragrance emanating from Yu Lan grew richer and more intense, intoxicating the senses and stirring waves of passion.
At that moment, inside the room, the men, some standing and some sitting, were all flushed and visibly overcome with surging desire.
Yu Lan, cradled in Su Xingye’s arms, took several long seconds to recover before she seemed to understand what he had said.
Her voice was hoarse as she said:
"Next time... don’t do that again."
Even the root of her tongue was numb from being kissed so fiercely.
’It was just too much.’
The pretty little female didn’t know how alluring she was at that moment—verbally refusing them, yet her body was so exhausted that she could only tremble lightly in Su Xingye’s arms.
The sight made the men’s gazes darken a little more.
Their Adam’s apples bobbed as they suppressed the wild thoughts in their minds.
In the air, only Su Xingye’s voice could be heard:
"Lanlan, you still haven’t told us if you were the one who bit Qi Jingshen’s neck."
For anyone, the carotid artery in the neck is a supremely vulnerable and guarded area.
No large predator would expose its weakness to an enemy. Anyone who dared to provoke it so recklessly would be courting death.
Unless...
Su Xingye lowered his gaze, his eyes resting quietly on Yu Lan’s face, waiting for her to speak.
’Lanlan is hiding something from us.’
As 3S-level top-tier males who had grown up with an elite education, they had encountered countless demons, monsters, and people with ulterior motives.
Being vigilant, guarded, and subconsciously analyzing every word someone said had become second nature.
The moment Yu Lan first spoke, the exceptionally perceptive men had already detected her deliberate concealment.
’Why is she hiding things from us?’
’What kind of little secret could Lanlan and Qi Jingshen possibly have?’
’What on earth did Qi Jingshen whisper in Lanlan’s ear before he left?’
Jealousy and resentment welled up in their hearts.
Driving them mad.
Meanwhile, Yu Lan, lying in Su Xingye’s arms, felt her eyelashes tremble. She hadn’t expected Su Xingye and the others to be so observant.
They had seen through her attempt to hide things in a single glance.
But how could she bring herself to talk about something like that?
While Huo Zhanting and the others were searching the world for her, she had been slapping, whipping, and kicking Qi Jingshen nonstop.
’It’s too weird.’
It was originally just to vent her anger, but if she said it out loud, it would inexplicably take on a strange connotation.
If Shen Zueran were here, the man might have thoughtfully given Yu Lan an easy way out.
But she was facing Huo Zhanting, Su Xingye, and the others.
Each one was more possessive than the last, wanting to know absolutely everything about her, from top to bottom, inside and out.
Yu Lan pursed her lips. ’This is the only way.’
"That was when he showed up and kidnapped me. I bit him in the chaos, trying to break free."
"It didn’t work, though."
"Oh, right, can you help me look into something?"
"The truth about the Qi Family’s massacre eighteen years ago."
Yu Lan had a gut feeling that there was more to the story.
If the teetering Empire made an enemy of another major power, it would be the common people who suffered in the end.
Clearly, Yu Lan’s answer was not enough to satisfy the men’s desire to know.
Her attempt to change the subject was so clumsy.