T01 Star.
After a full day of training, Yun Shaoqi took a shower and collapsed straight onto his bed.
After briefly savoring the comfort of it, he switched on his light computer, intending to see whether there had been any major news from the Federation lately.
Before it could even finish booting up, however, a familiar figure barged into the dorm room.
The newcomer had short white hair, with several green strands falling over his forehead.
The corners of his long, narrow eyes tilted upward slightly, their sharp lines alluring. Yet the coldness in his black eyes suppressed that seductive air entirely.
Yun Shaoqi sprang upright and hurried over to greet him enthusiastically.
“Bro, what brings you here?”
X92 Star.
Yunyang spent the morning catching up on sleep and did not set off for home until after lunch, so it was nearly evening by the time she arrived.
The moment the villa doors opened, all three robot butlers came forward to greet her.
“Welcome home, Master.”
“Master, you have a package.”
The package mentioned by Butler No. 2 was the rosemary sent over by the antique botanical garden.
Yunyang unpacked it, then called her beast husbands over to find a place to plant the rosemary.
The botanical garden’s manager had sent along a care guide. Yunyang read it over and found that this antique plant required plenty of sunlight and preferred a well-ventilated environment.
In other words, it was unsuitable for indoor planting.
Yunyang soon had an idea. “Let’s plant it outside the front door.”
A pebble path ran in front of the villa, with artificial flowers and greenery lining both sides. She decided to clear away the artificial plants on the right and make room for the rosemary.
She marked out the area, while her six beast husbands got to work.
Before long, the rosemary had been planted outside the villa.
Anyone passing by could smell its distinctive fragrance.
Once they were done, Yunyang instructed Fu Shiyi to pick some of the tenderest leaves and stems from the tips, then handed them to Pei Wenye, who was on cooking duty that day.
“Pei Wenye, add a little of this when you stew the meat tonight.”
Pei Wenye had never used rosemary in cooking before. More precisely, there was no record anywhere in the Federation of this antique plant being edible.
Still, he trusted that his female master would not say such a thing without reason. He accepted it and went with Qin Mo to prepare dinner.
The manager had sent only five rosemary plants, but each was just like the ones Yunyang had seen at the antique botanical garden, standing five or six meters tall.
Using so much rosemary solely for cooking would be rather wasteful.
Yunyang thought for a moment, then her eyes lit up.
She rummaged through her space button and took out a square metal storage basket.
“Fu Shiyi, pick some more. This time, take the older stems and leaves.”
Fu Shiyi did as instructed and soon filled the basket. “Female master, what should we do with these?”
“Let’s go inside first.”
Yunyang had no intention of taking the basket herself. She turned and headed back into the villa.
Fu Shiyi followed her in with the basket, and the other three beast husbands entered as well.
The work should not all fall to one beast husband, so Yunyang had Rong Jin take it to dry.
The Federation’s drying machine was highly efficient. In barely ten minutes, an entire basket of rosemary had been reduced to less than one-fifth of its original volume.
Yunyang pinched some between her fingers. It had not been dried completely, so it would not crumble into powder at the slightest touch. This was the perfect state.
The dried rosemary was pushed in front of Fuyuan.
Yunyang opened her optical computer, quickly sketched out a design, and sent it to him. “Fuyuan, can you make something like this?”
Fuyuan opened the design she had sent and looked it over. “It’s very simple. How large does the female master need it to be?”
“About the size of a fist. Make several of them, then stuff these dried leaves inside.”
Yunyang intended to turn the rosemary into sachets.
The person in charge of the retro botanical garden had said that rosemary’s scent could alleviate the negative effects pollution had on males.
Her beast husbands all had very low pollution levels, so they did not need them—but her brother did.
Yunyang still worried about Yun Shaoqi, who was far away on Planet T01.
Besides Yun Shaoqi, she also planned to give some to Lulu and Sister Zhiwei.
Rosemary’s fragrance was not overpowering, and it could soothe one’s emotions. Carrying a sachet like this would do no harm and could only be beneficial.
She wanted to keep one for herself as well, and one for her mother...
Forget it. She did not have her mother’s address. She would make her another one after her mother returned from traveling.
Yunyang did not know how many sachets this small amount of rosemary would make, so she did not plan too much.
Fuyuan was very skilled at sewing sachets.
He used shark silk for the outer fabric, and before dinner, he had sewn all the dried rosemary into sachets.
Fuyuan had deliberately chosen bright, vivid colors. Even without any patterns on them, they looked lovely.
Yunyang added a little dye to each one as decoration, then washed her hands and ate dinner.
After dinner, she took out the Tide Spirit Amber she had brought back from Planet S28.
Yunyang looked expectantly at Fuyuan. “Can I just absorb this directly?”
Fuyuan gently took her hand and lowered his head to examine the piece of Tide Spirit Amber. Only then did he nod.
Yunyang had the robotic butler scan it as well. Once she had confirmed that it would not harm her, she held the Tide Spirit Amber and began absorbing it.
Its color gradually faded.
Once Yunyang had completely absorbed the energy within it, the Tide Spirit Amber turned into an ordinary, unremarkable black stone.
After Fuyuan confirmed that it had no other use, Yunyang did not ask the robotic butler to dispose of it. Instead, she put it back into her storage button.
Qin Mo looked at Yunyang with concern. “Female master, do you feel any discomfort?”
“No.” Yunyang even narrowed her eyes with a hint of enjoyment. “I feel very comfortable, but aside from that, I don’t feel anything else.”
It was also Fuyuan’s first time seeing a female absorb Tide Spirit Amber.
He was certain that the Tide Spirit Amber would not harm a female’s body or spiritual power, but he did not know exactly what effects it might have.
He could only cautiously suggest, “Female master, perhaps we should wait a little longer?”
Yunyang agreed. “I won’t choose anyone tonight. I’ll sleep by myself.”
Her six beast husbands: “...”
Fu Shiyi frowned slightly. “Female master, in case anything unexpected happens, someone should still stay with you tonight.”
That made sense.
Yunyang named someone directly. “Then you stay with me.”
Among her beast husbands, she trusted Fu Shiyi’s self-restraint the most.
“Female master, I’ll stay with you and Fu Shiyi,” Fuyuan said, taking Yunyang’s hand and placing it against his cheek. “If anything really happens, my ability may be useful.”
He was referring to the sound waves that could help Yunyang restore her spiritual power.
“Okay.”
Yunyang agreed as well.
They had just finished dinner, and she wasn’t planning on going to bed yet, so she switched on her light brain and chatted with You Lu and Chu Zhiwei for a while.
Perhaps the energy of the Xi Lingpo had begun to take effect. A wave of drowsiness washed over Yunyang, and as they talked, she gradually drifted off to sleep.
The six beast husbands massaging her were the first to notice that she had fallen asleep, and they immediately stopped.
Fu Shiyi bent down and carefully lifted Yunyang into his arms.
He gave the other rivals a slight nod before carrying Yunyang upstairs.
Fuyuan followed close behind.
The remaining four beast husbands went upstairs as well, but instead of returning to their own rooms, they shifted into their beast forms and stood guard outside Yunyang’s door.
