Yunyang had the nagging feeling that she had forgotten something.
But today had been far too exhausting. She had drained her mental power twice, and her head was so foggy that she couldn’t remember a thing.
Her eight beast husbands could tell she wasn’t doing well. It was also getting too late to go back and cook, so they simply took the meals they had prepared earlier out of their food-preserving space pendants.
“Female Lord, have something to eat first.”
Yunyang nodded and invited You Lu and her beast husbands to eat with them.
Whenever they had nothing else to do, Rong Jin and Pei Wenye loved making food, afraid that one day they might end up somewhere without the means to cook. As a result, their food-preserving space pendant was always packed with dishes they had made.
It certainly came in handy now.
After they finished eating, the flying vessel arrived near their residential district.
With some food in her stomach, Yunyang had regained a little energy, but she still curled up in Fu Shiyi’s arms, unwilling to move.
The other beast husbands wanted to help as well, but Fu Shiyi had very deliberately revealed his sparrow jade token.
He was the only one who hadn’t been chosen this round. If the female lord was going to choose someone tonight, it would definitely be him. Even if she didn’t choose anyone, he still had every reason to attend to her.
The seven rivals could only give up competing.
Forget it. Fu Shiyi had been unlucky enough. They would let him have this one.
You Lu was in much the same condition. Even while eating, she had let Yu Wenxu feed her from start to finish.
Purifying an SSS-rank ability user was simply too much for the two of them, even working together.
If only Sister Zhiwei were here.
At that thought, You Lu’s eyes lit up. “Yangyang, Sister Zhiwei will be back tomorrow. How about we skip the Purification Tower?”
Although she and Yangyang had only just had a break, an SSS-rank ability user had appeared today. They had already worked so hard. What was wrong with taking a day off tomorrow?
The fact that she wasn’t taking ten days or half a month off was already generous enough!
Yunyang had never been particularly diligent to begin with. Otherwise, she wouldn’t normally leave everything to her beast husbands.
The sisters immediately agreed.
“Qin Mo, inform Mr. Jenkins that tomorrow’s purification slots are canceled.”
“All right.” Qin Mo nodded and immediately contacted Mr. Jenkins.
After waving goodbye to You Lu, Yunyang returned home with her beast husbands.
At the Purification Tower, Mr. Jenkins promptly replied to the message:
[No problem. Please get plenty of rest, Lady Yunyang.]
At the same time, he didn’t forget to send his regards to the two ladies.
Once he had taken care of all the social niceties, Mr. Jenkins contacted Wu Zhengming again.
On the light screen, Wu Zhengming’s slightly aged face looked tired, but his eyes were sharp and alert.
“Hurry up, Old Jenkins! Let me see how that Zhuonian kid is doing!”
“I’m already in the elevator. What are you in such a rush for? Anyone who didn’t know better would think that Zhuonian kid was your son.” Mr. Jenkins laughed as he teased him.
Wu Zhengming wasn’t offended in the slightest. “If I could raise such an outstanding son, my ancestors would be smiling down from heaven.”
He wished Zhuonian were his son too, but unfortunately, that was nothing more than wishful thinking.
Cang Zhuonian was being held on the seventy-eighth floor. The elevator arrived in just a few seconds, so Mr. Jenkins didn’t continue the subject with Wu Zhengming.
Keeping the communication channel open, he walked all the way to the holding room.
The several wardens stationed outside immediately saluted.
“Warden!”
Wu Zhengming’s teasing voice came through the light screen. “Well, Old Jenkins, look at you. You’ve got an even grander entrance than I do now.”
“What? Those little brats aren’t showing you enough respect these days?” Mr. Jenkins played along readily. “Just wait. I’ll apply to the Federation and have them all transferred to the Purification Tower. Then they can help you discipline those disrespectful brats.”
“Get lost!”
As the two old friends joked and laughed, the door to the purification room opened.
Seeing the qilin still in his enormous beast form, Mr. Jenkins froze for a moment before turning to look at the wardens.
“You didn’t inject this kid with a suppressant?”
The warden on the left replied, “Warden, he refused to cooperate.”
“Hey, what’s gotten into this little brat?”
Mr. Jenkins was puzzled. Zhuonian had always been well-behaved in the past. Why was he even refusing a suppressant injection today?
Was he afraid of pain?
That couldn’t be it. Zhuonian should have been used to suppressant injections long ago.
Wu Zhengming had heard that too. He immediately scowled and began lecturing Cang Zhuonian. “You little punk! I haven’t even settled the score with you for sneaking onto the battlefield, and now you’re refusing to cooperate? Hurry up and take the suppressant!”
As soon as he began speaking, Mr. Jenkins quietly enlarged the light screen so that Cang Zhuonian could look up and see their beloved commander.
Wu Zhengming continued scolding him for quite some time. He was genuinely furious.
An SSS-rank ability user without a female lord already had highly unstable contamination levels, yet this kid had insisted on going to the battlefield to help.
If Lady Yunyang and Lady You Lu hadn’t happened to be at the Purification Tower today, he might already have turned into a mindless beast.
Now that his contamination level had finally been brought down, the kid was refusing to cooperate with the suppressant injection?
What, did he think he could fly?
Wu Zhengming was the sort who never stopped talking once he got started.
In the end, Mr. Jenkins had to risk getting yelled at himself and persuade him a couple of times before Wu Zhengming finally shut up, still grumbling.
Mr. Jenkins hurriedly took a tube of suppressant out of his space pendant and held it out as he approached.
“Hurry, Zhuonian. Inject it already, or your commander’s going to start lecturing you again.”
Wu Zhengming: “…”
Couldn’t Old Jenkins watch what he said when the person in question was listening?
Cang Zhuonian still didn’t move. He stubbornly kept staring outside the holding room.
Seeing his reaction, Mr. Jenkins and Wu Zhengming exchanged a look and quickly realized that something was off.
Wu Zhengming wasn’t angry anymore. Instead, he asked with concern, “Zhuonian, what’s wrong?”
The qilin shifted his massive head. He hadn’t wanted to speak, but when he remembered how talkative his commander was, he answered anyway.
“Lady Yunyang told me to wait until her mental power recovered. She said she would come back and purify me again.”
Mr. Jenkins and Wu Zhengming were both old hands. They understood at once.
The boy had fallen for Lady Yunyang.
However…
Although he didn’t want to dampen Cang Zhuonian’s spirits, Mr. Jenkins was honest with him.
“Lady Yunyang was exhausted today. She’s already gone home with her beast husbands.”
The qilin lying on the floor instantly widened his eyes.
“But she promised me…”
Mr. Jenkins: “…”
This kid had only met Lady Yunyang for the first time, and he was already pining for her?
Hadn’t he considered that she might not even be interested in him?
Though he thought that privately, Mr. Jenkins still comforted him. “Before you, both ladies performed a group purification, and Lady Yunyang also carried out individual purifications for two SSS-rank ability users. It took far too much out of her.”
“But since Lady Yunyang promised you, she’ll definitely come back once she’s rested.”
“Now go ahead and use the suppressant. Lady Yunyang surely won’t like you looking like this big brute.”
That struck a nerve with Cang Zhuonian.
He drooped his head and nodded, exposing his soft neck so that Mr. Jenkins could inject him with the suppressant.
Only then did Mr. Jenkins and Wu Zhengming finally breathe a sigh of relief as they watched Cang Zhuonian return to human form.
