Lu Zhi knelt beside Quan Xiu as usual, slowly grinding ink.
After about the ti it takes for half an incense stick to burn, she could no longer suppress her thoughts. A soft, slender hand slowly reached for a certain part of his lower body as she cooed with desire, "My lord~ Lu Zhi wants to bear you a biological child. Please, my lord, give one."
Quan Xiu seized her by the wrist. "Don’t forget your place," he said coolly.
Lu Zhi bit her lip and twisted her yearning body, an agonizing fire burning through her both physically and ntally. "My lord, you haven’t touched once since you disappeared for several months and returned. Have you lost interest in my body...?" ’It used to be so easy for to ignite his passion.’
Quan Xiu flung her hand away, his eyes icy. "You overestimate yourself. With your level of talent, you are not worthy of bearing my child."
Lu Zhi stumbled and fell to the floor in a pathetic heap. She saw a flash of killing intent in his eyes, and it was like a bucket of ice water had been dumped over her head, instantly extinguishing the desire within her. "I-I’m sorry, Lord Quan Xiu! I overstepped. I will take good care of the Young Master, I will be a good mother to him."
"You are no longer of use. Leave the Prince Mansion tomorrow."
"What?" Lu Zhi was stunned. "Has the Young Master found a new ’mother’? Is it that new female who arrived today?"
Quan Xiu looked away from her and continued reviewing the docunts in his hand. "Who gave you that sachet you’re wearing?"
Previously, Little Qi had liked having Lu Zhi attend to him personally, and Quan Xiu hadn’t thought much of it. To him, Lu Zhi was no different from any other personal servant. If his son truly liked her as a Beast Mother, he could have married her and kept her in the mansion. But after hearing what Little Qi said last ti, he sensed sothing was wrong. He had his n investigate thoroughly and uncovered the truth.
Lu Zhi’s face paled slightly, but she forced a smile. "What sachet is my lord referring to? I’m fond of fragrances and always wear a few sachets when I go out. They’re all just ordinary ones I buy, or gifts from friends..."
"I don’t like wasting ti on dead people."
Lu Zhi’s legs suddenly gave out. "Spare , my lord! I have nothing! The sachet was... it was given to by the Old Beast King!"
"Hand it over."
Lu Zhi quickly handed over the sachet hidden at her waist.
After identifying the ingredients inside, a violent glint flashed in Quan Xiu’s long eyes. It was a type of hallucinogenic Spirit Grass, Snake Fragrance Grass. It had a powerful alluring effect on Snake Clan Beastn, and young snake cubs, in particular, had no resistance to it. Prolonged exposure could even lead to addiction in the young, making it possible to control them with it in the future.
The Old Beast King of the Soaring Snake Clan was naturally suspicious and had never trusted Quan Xiu, his adopted son. Quan Xiu had taken a sword for him in the forbidden lands last ti, which had finally made the old king lower his guard.
’To think the Old Beast King had this trick hidden up his sleeve, trying to control completely through my own heir!’
Quan Xiu tossed the sachet into the brazier, burning it to ashes.
Lu Zhi’s face was as pale as paper.
"Get out."
...
「In the middle of the night.」
After finishing his docunts, Quan Xiu appeared by the bed.
He looked at Sang Luo, who was fast asleep on the bed. She was still in her day clothes, curled up slightly. She didn’t seem to be sleeping peacefully. Half the blanket had fallen to the floor, leaving only her stomach covered.
Little Qi had been let out of his cage and was also curled into a ball, sleeping soundly on her chest. He was never usually this peaceful.
’These two... they really do look like a mother and son.’
The corners of Quan Xiu’s lips curved into a faint smile, a smile he himself didn’t even notice.
He had sent soone to investigate her background.
Sang Luo...
’The na seems sowhat familiar...’
When he gently ford the na with his lips, it was as if faint ripples spread through his soul. Whenever he saw her, he found it difficult to keep his emotions calm.
Last ti, she had called him Caesar...
’Was that my na before?’
When he awoke from the darkness, he had no mory of his past. There were only two blood-related offspring with him in that space, which ant he must have had a relationship with a female. Could that female be her?
’Is she a lost mory of mine?’
The man sat on the edge of the bed and tucked Sang Luo and the Little Snake in. Though he had no mories of her, his body responded with an instinctual pleasure.
"Mmm..." Sang Luo frowned and humd softly, showing signs of waking.
He hurriedly left again.
anwhile, after leaving the study, Lu Zhi had spent the entire night in fear.
In that mont, Quan Xiu had truly wanted to kill her.
But as an inside agent, she bore a mark placed on her by the Old Beast King. If she died, the Old Beast King would imdiately sense it. That was the only reason she had escaped with her life barely intact.
But there was no guarantee how long that life would last.
’I can’t stay in the Prince Mansion any longer.’
Before she left, Lu Zhi didn’t want to let Sang Luo, the one who had ruined her plans, get off easy.
Early the next morning, Lu Zhi sent a trusted male servant to inform Sang Luo that Lord Quan Xiu had summoned her to the Underground Palace Cold Cave for a eting.
The male servant said in surprise, "But isn’t that place..."
All the servants who had been in the Prince Mansion for a long ti knew that beneath it lay the Underground Palace Cold Cave. Entry was strictly forbidden to anyone but Lord Quan Xiu. No outsider who had ever gone in had co out alive, earning it the na of the forbidden grounds.
Sang Luo was in the courtyard with Little Qi, sunbathing.
The sun made Little Qi drowsy. He coiled up lazily, draping the tip of his tail over his head to block the glaring light.
Young cubs are the sleepiest.
Sang Luo took Little Qi back to his room. Just as she ca out and turned around, a Beastman ca to report that Lord Quan Xiu had sothing to discuss with her.
Thinking Quan Xiu wanted to discuss sothing important, Sang Luo didn’t ask any questions and followed him to the rear courtyard.
...
「The Underground Palace Cold Cave.」
The temperature here was not low. What looked like a pool of solid ice was, upon closer inspection, filled with a shockingly vast number of Crystal Cores.
In the center of the "ice pool" was a platform, slightly concave in the middle. Within the depression rested a Beast Egg half the size of a human head, its shell marked with a ring of dim, purple patterns.
The patterns were faint and grayish, with almost no energy fluctuations left.
The top of the Beast Egg was also slightly damaged.
Quan Xiu stood before the stone platform, his mood heavy as he gazed at the white egg that had yet to hatch.
Most of the Beast Crystals he had obtained over the years had been used to try and hatch this Beast Egg. But the egg stubbornly refused to hatch, and the life force within it was growing weaker and weaker...
When he had awakened over a year ago, only these two children were with him.
He didn’t know what had happened before, but both children had been in poor condition. Little Qi had already hatched when he awoke, but it was obvious he had been born prematurely due to so trauma. He was unconscious and so weak he was on the verge of death. Quan Xiu had expended countless amounts of Divine Soul Power and energy just to keep him alive. Little Qi had only awoken from his deep sleep half a year ago, but his body had shown no further issues since and he was growing up healthy.
Only this damaged white egg had yet to break its shell.
He had an obsession: he wanted to hatch it as soon as possible to show it to soone.
’If it’s stillborn, she will be heartbroken.’
But he could no longer feel any signs of life in this egg...
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