Yunyang’s eyes lit up with delight. She tried hard to suppress her excitement and asked in a tiny voice, “Really?”
Pei Wenye took her wrist and gently lifted it, bringing the still-lively vine into her line of sight.
“This is Leon’s ability.”
As if it had heard Pei Wenye, the vine cheerfully wriggled again.
This time, Yunyang saw it clearly.
The words Leonardo had spoken from the starship behind them echoed in her mind. Could her other beast-husbands be there too?
Although Pei Wenye had stayed by her side these past few days, he was the only one with her.
They were in a completely unfamiliar place, and with so few familiar faces around her, she found it difficult to feel entirely at ease.
Besides… if not for the Black Flood Dragon’s extraordinary talents—even the tip of his tail counted—Yunyang felt she might genuinely have gotten bored.
If all her other beast-husbands had come, that would be even better.
Yunyang immediately looked at Nuo Xiao. “Nuo Xiao, the people on the starship behind us are people I know.”
Although she wasn’t in the cockpit, she had seen the jump just now perfectly clearly. Nuo Xiao had obviously been trying to shake off the starship behind them.
Hearing Yunyang’s words, Nuo Xiao immediately moved his hand away, abandoning his plan to make another jump.
Since the people on the starship were acquaintances of Lady Yunyang, there was no need to lose them.
He reduced the starship’s speed. Once the other vessel entered scanning range, he increased their speed again slightly.
On the starship behind them, Chen Yueli quickly noticed that the ship ahead no longer seemed intent on shaking them off.
It looked like Leon had successfully gotten in touch with their female master.
That Pei Wenye had actually tried to ditch them and monopolize their female master. Chen Yueli was definitely going to fight him later!
He grumbled inwardly, but his movements at the controls were anything but careless.
The two starships traveled one after the other for most of the day before finally catching sight of the blue planet.
Nuo Xiao’s spirits lifted. “Lady Yunyang, the planet ahead is Water Star, where the Black Flood Dragon tribe is located.”
Yunyang slowly opened her eyes, rose from Pei Wenye’s arms, and looked toward Water Star.
Water Star was almost entirely covered by a vast ocean. With the naked eye alone, it was nearly impossible to find any land.
Yunyang blinked slowly. “Is there somewhere we can land?”
The starship was too heavy to land on the surface of the water. It would only sink.
“There is. I’ve been here once before.”
Nuo Xiao changed course and flew around Water Star for half a circuit. He then locked onto the largest stretch of land on the planet and began a jump.
At that moment, Rong Jin had taken over as pilot of the starship behind them.
When he saw the starship ahead jump toward Water Star, he immediately followed.
Before long, the two starships landed on Water Star one after the other.
After spending three or four days inside the starship, Nuo Xiao felt uncomfortable all over. The moment they landed, he opened the hatch.
He really wanted to transform into his beast form and fly a few laps around the area, but then he remembered that his feathers had not grown back yet. He gave up on the idea and was the first to step out of the starship.
Yunyang had noticed long ago that the starship behind them had landed as well. Excited, she tugged Pei Wenye along and followed Nuo Xiao off the ship.
“It really is our female master!”
In the cockpit, Rong Jin was the first to spot Yunyang.
He tore off his safety harness and transformed into a red panda before the hatch had even fully opened, rushing outside.
The white tiger, frost wolf, little fox, little black panther, and little qilin followed close behind.
Their beast forms were faster than their human forms, and every one of the beast-husbands wanted to reach Yunyang first.
Fu Shiyi and Fuyuan remained in human form, but Fu Shiyi had the unfair advantage of his wind-based ability. He was still the first to reach Yunyang.
He stared at her for two seconds before reaching out and pulling her into his arms, hugging her tightly.
Nuo Xiao had just turned around after taking a few breaths of fresh air when he saw an unfamiliar male embracing Yunyang.
He instantly bristled.
What was Pei Wenye doing? How could he allow another male to take liberties with Lady Yunyang?
Nuo Xiao angrily stepped forward and tried to pull Fu Shiyi away, but at that moment, he heard Fu Shiyi murmur, “Female master, I was so worried about you.”
Nuo Xiao froze.
Yunyang allowed Fu Shiyi to hold her. She knew that being sent away by the wormhole right in front of her beast-husbands must have left a deep shadow in their hearts.
She didn’t mind, but the others were unwilling to let Fu Shiyi monopolize her attention.
Rong Jin had been the fastest to run after him, yet he was still a step too late. He transformed back into human form and drooped his ears. “Female master, I was worried about you too.”
The other beast-husbands also gradually returned to human form and gathered around Yunyang.
Qin Mo deliberately squeezed Fu Shiyi aside, then took Yunyang’s hand and examined her from head to toe.
“Female master, are you hurt? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?”
“Female master, you’ve lost weight.” Xuan Yu pushed his way in, his face full of concern. “Did Pei Wenye fail to take good care of you?”
Leonardo withdrew the vine from Yunyang’s wrist, while his nine fluffy tails secretly curled around her.
Fuyuan and Cang Zhuonian were pushed to the outside of the crowd, but they still called out “Female master” one after another.
Chen Yueli saw that he couldn’t compete with the other beast-husbands. Since Yunyang was clearly unharmed, he turned his attention to Pei Wenye, who had likewise been squeezed out of the circle.
“You’ve got some nerve, Pei Wenye! Fine, you didn’t want us to see our female master, but you actually mistreated her too!”
He lunged forward, his fist flying toward Pei Wenye’s face.
Yunyang immediately called out, “Chen Yueli, stop!”
Chen Yueli’s fist halted less than an inch from Pei Wenye’s face.
He gritted his teeth angrily, but ultimately did not bring it down.
Pei Wenye felt he had been dragged into this for no reason. “When did I ever not want you to see our female master?”
He admitted that Yunyang had lost weight. After all, she and he had spent a week inside the wormhole without a drop of water.
Afterward, worried that her stomach would not be able to handle it, he had deliberately controlled her recovery and slowly reintroduced food. That was why she still had not returned to her previous weight.
But he had absolutely never intended to keep his rivals from seeing her.
The outer star systems were completely unfamiliar territory to both him and Yunyang. He had actually wished for his rivals to be there. Only with all of them present could they protect Yunyang properly.
He did want to monopolize her, but he would never do so under circumstances like these.
“You didn’t?” Chen Yueli clearly didn’t believe him. “Then why were you flying so fast just now? Dare to say you weren’t trying to shake us off?”
Pei Wenye fell silent.
Nuo Xiao, who understood what was being said, fell silent as well.
Yunyang was the one who explained, “Nuo Xiao was piloting the starship just now. He thought you were people from the Black Flood Dragon tribe.”
Nuo Xiao?
The moment the eight beast-husbands heard an unfamiliar name from Yunyang, they instantly became wary and began searching for the stranger’s whereabouts.
Nuo Xiao felt as though he were about to die.
He had originally assumed that Lady Yunyang had only one beast-husband: Pei Wenye.
If Pei Wenye was the old chief of the Black Flood Dragon tribe, Nuo Xiao could expose Pei Wenye’s true nature and then take the opportunity to offer himself as Lady Yunyang’s bedmate.
Even if Pei Wenye wasn’t the old chief, Nuo Xiao would still have a chance to become Lady Yunyang’s second beast-husband.
But it turned out that Lady Yunyang already had nine beast-husbands!
All nine were S-rank or even higher-ranked ability users, outstanding figures in any tribe.
It seemed he had no chance of becoming Lady Yunyang’s beast-husband.
Nuo Xiao felt miserable, completely oblivious to the unfriendly looks from the other eight.
Seeing his reaction, the others quickly understood that this Nuo Xiao was not their female master’s tenth beast-husband.
The beast-husbands were reassured, and only then did they turn their attention to the unfamiliar terms in what Yunyang had just said.
