Yunyang found it strange. “Why are all your hands red?”
Xuan Yu revealed his wolf ears and crouched in front of her, looking up at her with an aggrieved expression. “Female master, I beat up Weizhuo last night. Will you be angry with me?”
He had deliberately made sure his female master noticed.
A bounty hunter was supposed to do things without leaving his name behind. But that wasn’t what a female master’s beast husband was supposed to do.
“You beat up Weizhuo?”
Yunyang tilted her head and looked at her other beast husbands. “You did too?”
At that, all the beast husbands crouched down in front of her in unison and lowered their heads, as if afraid Yunyang would punish them for it.
That was as good as an admission.
Yunyang fell into thought.
With beastmen’s formidable physical strength, just how hard had her beast husbands punched for their own fists to become red?
Had Weizhuo really not been beaten to death?
Forget it. Her beast husbands probably wouldn’t do anything that violated Federation law, and she hadn’t heard anyone from the neighboring residential district say that Weizhuo was dead.
Yunyang stopped worrying about whether Weizhuo was alive or dead. After pinching Xuan Yu’s wolf ear, she gently shook her head.
“You were standing up for me. How could I blame you?”
She wasn’t the kind of female master who couldn’t tell right from wrong.
“Female master is the best.” Xuan Yu’s ears twitched as he cautiously rested his head on Yunyang’s lap.
The other beast husbands moved closer as well. They pressed tightly against Yunyang, their eyes filled with undisguised delight.
At that moment, the optical computer on Yunyang’s wrist vibrated.
She opened the light screen and saw that the message was from Yun Conglan.
【Yangyang, since it’s an invitation from the Empress, let’s move to Central Star.】
【Your father, I, and your uncles are still away. You can move there with your beast husbands first. Don’t wait for us.】
Yun Conglan had no objections to moving to Central Star. After all, her daughter had S-rank spiritual power. An S-rank female ought to live on the most prosperous Central Star in the Federation!
Since Yun Conglan wasn’t against the move, Yunyang stopped agonizing over it.
Living on Central Star would certainly be more convenient than living on X92 Star. The only troublesome part was moving.
Fortunately, she had eight beast husbands and three robot stewards, so she wouldn’t need to lift a finger throughout the entire process.
After making her decision, Yunyang first sent a reply to Si Zhao.
Although Si Zhao had left in a hurry before, she had applied to add Yunyang as a friend on her optical computer not long afterward.
Yunyang had accepted the Empress’s friend request the moment she saw it.
Si Zhao had then extended the invitation again through the optical computer.
Since Yunyang had now decided to move to Central Star, she naturally had to inform the Empress first.
As the Empress of the Federation, Si Zhao was extremely busy, but she still found time to reply to Yunyang.
【All right. I’ll have the Female Protection Association arrange a new villa for you. If there’s a residential district you like, you can tell them as well.】
By then, the other three beast husbands had also hurried to finish preparing breakfast.
Yunyang replied to Si Zhao first, then announced the move to Central Star to her eight beast husbands before the meal.
Rong Jin was the first to speak. “Wherever female master goes, I’ll go!”
Xuan Yu refused to be outdone and immediately followed. “Female master can move wherever she wants. I’ll follow you no matter where you go.”
The other beast husbands voiced their agreement one after another.
To them, as long as they could stay by Yunyang’s side, they didn’t care where they went.
Yunyang had known her beast husbands would react this way, but she loved hearing such sweet words all the same.
Satisfied, she began to eat.
For Yunyang, who often replaced breakfast with colorful nutrient supplements, the breakfast prepared by Qin Mo and the other two beast husbands was incredibly lavish.
After eating and drinking her fill, she lazed around for a little while before going out with her beast husbands for a walk.
Rosemary brought back from S28 Star had been planted right by the entrance. Yunyang paused when she caught its distinctive scent.
She reminded her eight beast husbands, “Remember to bring these along when we move.”
This was valuable stuff. They absolutely couldn’t forget it.
The eight beast husbands nodded silently, committing it to memory.
As for the artificial trees, artificial flowers, and other plants, there would only be more of them in the residential districts on Central Star, so Yunyang wasn’t particularly interested in taking them.
After strolling around for quite some time, Qin Mo asked, “Female master, are you still going to the Purification Tower today?”
“Yes. I have something to discuss with Mr. Lao Wei.”
Lao Wei had always been the one managing the official website for purification appointments. Even if she moved to Central Star, Yunyang had no intention of finding someone to replace him.
However, she needed to discuss with Lao Wei whether the overseer of the Central Star Purification Tower could also be granted access to manage the website.
She remembered that the overseer of the Central Star Purification Tower was called…
Before Yunyang could recall his name, someone with a bruised and battered face suddenly entered her field of vision.
Only then did she realize that, without noticing, she had wandered back near the entrance of the residential district.
An unfamiliar man stood outside the entrance—
Oh, no.
Yunyang narrowed her eyes and took a closer look. The man with the swollen, bruised face wasn’t a stranger at all. He was Weizhuo, whom she had seen just last night.
At that moment, Weizhuo’s face was swollen into the shape of a pig’s head, covered in large patches of bruising. No wonder she hadn’t recognized him at first glance.
Seeing Weizhuo in that state, Yunyang could already imagine how viciously her eight beast husbands had beaten him.
But she certainly wasn’t going to blame her own beast husbands.
She shifted her gaze away from Weizhuo, making no attempt to greet him.
Weizhuo, however, struggled to open his mouth. “Yunyang…”
As he spoke, he cautiously glanced at the eight beast husbands behind her.
Although nine people had beaten him last night, he was certain that these eight had to be among them!
Only after seeing that none of the eight had any reaction did he continue. “I’m going to the T05 frontier star.”
The T05 frontier star was the station of the Federation’s Third Army.
Yunyang was puzzled for a moment, then quickly remembered that Weizhuo’s father had once been a squad leader in the Third Army.
That was good. Going to a frontier star to serve the Federation could be considered his best option.
Seeing how indifferent her reaction was, Weizhuo found it difficult to believe.
He had deliberately skipped the treatment center that day because he wanted Yunyang to see the bruises covering his body.
In the past, Yunyang had been heartbroken whenever he suffered even the smallest cut. Yet now, after he had been beaten this badly, she didn’t react at all.
Did she really no longer like him?
Weizhuo looked at Yunyang’s eight beast husbands again, instinctively comparing himself with them.
Though he was deeply unwilling to admit it, he still realized a cruel fact—
In terms of physique and appearance, he couldn’t compare to any of them.
In terms of ability rank, he was even farther behind.
As for his genetic compatibility with Yunyang, it had been only fifty percent from the very beginning.
If not for his mother’s close friendship with Auntie Yun, he probably would never have had any chance of becoming Yunyang’s fiancé.
Yet he had always believed that his mother had forced the arrangement on him and had never cherished it. In the end, he had driven Yunyang to unilaterally dissolve their engagement.
Weizhuo had never regretted anything as much as he did now.
After the engagement was dissolved, he had trouble finding a female master at all, while Yunyang had gained several beast husbands who were far superior to him.
What on earth had he been thinking before?
Weizhuo didn’t understand.
Yunyang had no obligation to explain any of this to Weizhuo. Her gaze had lingered on him only briefly at the beginning, and afterward, nothing he said could make her stop walking.
Although the man was indeed rather disgusting—breaking off their engagement, only to shamelessly come crawling back and ask to reconcile—he hadn’t done anything truly heinous.
Going to the frontier star to serve the Federation was the best destination for him.
She and Weizhuo had long since gone their separate ways.
There was no point wasting her emotions on someone who no longer mattered.
