Pei Fangying’s nine beast husbands had never expected Yunyang to be so direct.
For the past few months, none of them had dared mention this matter in front of their female master, afraid of provoking her temper.
Yet the moment Lady Yunyang arrived, she had asked everything they were not supposed to bring up.
The nine beast husbands nervously glanced at Pei Fangying.
Would their female master be angry?
Pei Fangying was not angry, but neither did she answer the question.
The atmosphere grew tense.
Just then, a voice rang out from outside the villa, breaking the tension.
“I’d like to know that too.”
Pei Fangying and her nine beast husbands turned toward the voice.
Yunyang also glanced over.
The Pei family villa was spacious enough, but there were so many people that after inviting Yunyang inside, Pei Fangying had not asked the robot butler to close the door.
Thus, the person outside entered Yunyang’s and the Pei family’s line of sight without warning.
It was a familiar face.
“Felicity?”
Pei Fangying rose in surprise and went to greet her. The nine beast husbands followed.
Although Felicity and Yunyang were both the female masters of her sons, Pei Fangying was noticeably more cordial toward Felicity.
“Auntie Pei, you don’t need to concern yourself with me.” Felicity smiled politely. “I’d also like to hear what Lady Yunyang’s beast husbands did wrong.”
In the Federation, there were only mother-daughter relationships, not mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships.
Apart from one’s biological mother, females were ranked entirely according to the strength of their spiritual power.
Felicity and Pei Fangying were both A-ranked, but Pei Fangying was much older, so Felicity was willing to address her respectfully as Auntie.
She followed Pei Fangying into the villa and sat in the seat closest to Yunyang.
Since they were in someone else’s home, the six beast husbands did not sit beside Yunyang. Instead, they stood in a row behind her.
Pei Fangying had not deliberately tried to make small talk either, so before Felicity arrived, the seat beside Yunyang had remained empty.
Yunyang glanced at the beast husbands behind Felicity.
It was obvious that Felicity had not brought all her beast husbands with her today. Only four males stood behind her, and Pei Qingyang was not among them.
Yunyang withdrew her gaze and continued with the subject at hand.
Felicity also watched Pei Fangying with curiosity.
The expression on Pei Fangying’s face had grown noticeably colder. Rather than answer directly, she looked toward Pei Wenye.
“Do I need to personally tell the two ladies what you did?”
She was telling Pei Wenye to explain it himself.
Yunyang had just been about to pick up her teacup, but upon hearing this, she set it back down.
The porcelain cup made a faint clink against the coffee table.
The sound was not loud, but it was enough for everyone present to hear.
Yunyang lifted her eyes slightly. “Pei family head, if I were only going to believe A-Ye’s side of the story, I wouldn’t have come here today.”
Questioning her beast husband in front of her was no different from slapping her in the face.
Pei Wenye had been about to speak, but he silently closed his mouth instead, his heart overflowing with emotion.
His female master was standing up for him in front of his mother.
His female master was so kind.
Pei Fangying was momentarily left speechless, and her expression became somewhat unpleasant.
But she could not accuse Yunyang of being in the wrong, so she quickly composed herself.
“These family matters should not have been made public,” Pei Fangying said politely. “But since Lady Yunyang wishes to know, I won’t hide it from you.”
With that, she ordered one of her beast husbands, “Wilder, find that detailed record.”
Wilder did not hesitate.
Although he felt deeply sorry for what had happened to his youngest son, in his eyes, a female master’s orders could not be disobeyed.
He opened his wrist-brain and quickly found the document Pei Fangying had mentioned. He enlarged the holographic display and presented it before Yunyang and Felicity.
It was a transaction record. The item being traded was a one-third ownership stake in the Pei family’s mineral veins.
Yunyang only glanced over the data before looking toward the bottom.
The signature at the end belonged to Pei Wenye.
A hint of coldness appeared in Pei Fangying’s eyes. “Lady Yunyang may not understand what you’re looking at. This is a transaction record—the evidence that Pei Wenye sold the ownership of the mineral veins without authorization.”
Yunyang: “…”
It wasn’t that she couldn’t understand it. She simply hadn’t wanted to read it carefully.
After being exploited by an inhuman boss in her previous life, she had practically become an all-around professional, all right?
If not for that, she would never have wanted to stay home scrolling through her phone after work or on her days off.
“Condemning A-Ye based solely on a transaction record is a rather biased judgment on the Pei family head’s part.”
“Besides, there’s no genetic seal from A-Ye on this record.”
Federation electronic seals were linked to their holders’ genes, and the seal’s pattern was derived from a transformation of the holder’s genetic sequence number.
Signatures could be forged, but genetic seals absolutely could not be replicated.
Even if such technology existed, replicating one was forbidden under Federation law.
Whenever a fake genetic seal appeared, the wrist-brain would automatically detect and report it, and designated personnel would investigate immediately.
Pei Fangying did not think there was anything wrong with what she had done. “Since he sold it without authorization, naturally he wouldn’t leave behind evidence such as a genetic seal. His brother went to great lengths to obtain this record.”
Pei Qingyang went to great lengths to obtain it?
He had gone to great lengths to fabricate it, more like.
Without concrete evidence, Yunyang merely muttered that to herself and did not say it aloud.
She looked at the record again and raised another question. “Pei family head, if A-Ye sold it privately, then there should have been a buyer.”
The transaction record did not contain any information about the buyer.
“Is the buyer important?”
In Pei Fangying’s opinion, this transaction record alone was enough to convict Pei Wenye.
The one-third ownership stake in the mineral veins was something she had given Pei Wenye when she had planned to name him her heir.
At the time, only he had been authorized to sell it privately.
Yet Pei Wenye had betrayed her expectations.
Yunyang countered, “Isn’t it important?”
“Auntie Pei, Lady Yunyang is right. A single transaction record isn’t enough to convict him directly.”
Felicity also spoke up.
The last time she had questioned Qingyang, he had deliberately changed the subject. She had already sensed that there was more to the matter.
That was also why she had not brought Qingyang with her today.
Yunyang was a little surprised.
Pei Fangying had said that Pei Qingyang was the one who had exposed Pei Wenye, yet Felicity had not taken Pei Qingyang’s side out of bias?
Pei Fangying was somewhat puzzled as well.
But since both Yunyang and Felicity had said so, she could not be bothered to argue further. She simply ordered one of her beast husbands to contact the buyer from that transaction.
She understood now. Lady Yunyang had come today specifically to stand up for Pei Wenye.
Fine. It was not as though there were no witnesses. Since Lady Yunyang wanted to meet the buyer, she would let her.
Naturally, Wilder was the one to contact him.
“Female master, he won’t be able to arrive at Planet S28 until this afternoon.”
Pei Fangying nodded, then raised her hand to check the time.
“Lady Yunyang, Felicity, it’s getting late. Why don’t you stay for lunch?”
Felicity instinctively looked at Yunyang.
Yunyang did not refuse. To prevent anything from happening to the buyer, it was naturally better for her to remain at the Pei residence and wait.
“Sure.”
With Felicity joining them, several more dishes had to be added to lunch.
Fortunately, Pei Fangying had nine beast husbands, and they helped one another. It took them only half an hour to bring all the dishes to the dining table.
