Chapter 19: You Don’t Want Others Mocking You for Having No Wife, Do You? (Please Bookmark and Keep Reading~)

Successfully taking away Justice Minister—perhaps now he should be called Justice Resigned—Gu Sihui proposed to take her leave.

There’s a saying that one’s own doghouse is better than a golden or silver nest; a traveler’s heart should leap like an arrow at the thought of returning home. Yet some say the joys and sorrows of the world do not resonate with each other.

Gu Sihui only found the beastmen unbearably noisy.

“Leave with me first!”

Outside the ancient castle, Ying Nian tugged at Gu Sihui’s left hand.

“Why should I? Come with me!”

Shao Feichen gripped Gu Sihui’s right hand. The two stared fiercely at each other, panting heavily, their heated breaths on either side of her. Gu Sihui felt like a steamed bun trapped in a bamboo steamer—squashed helplessly from both sides.

Justice Resigned and Teng Qu clutched their legs, their intense gazes impossible to ignore.

Gu Sihui could no longer bear it. Seizing the moment when Shao Feichen and Ying Nian were off guard, she jumped up, spreading her feet wide and stepping precisely on each of their feet—one on the left, one on the right.

“Ow!”

“Ah!”

Painful cries rang out, and Gu Sihui finally regained control of her arms.

Rubbing the soreness from where she was pulled, she met the beastmen’s hostile gazes and firmly declared, “We go home first.”

“Why go home? We need to handle the paperwork at the Nurturing Tower first,” Shao Feichen objected.

“Hmph.” Gu Sihui sneered coldly, adopting the air of a venomous villainess: “Because the initiative to divorce is in my hands! I don’t want to go to the Nurturing Tower now—I just want to go home. If you can kill me, then let’s perish together.”

Having said that, Gu Sihui flopped onto the ground, giving up completely.

Shao Feichen: …

Ying Nian: …

Teng Qu: …

Justice Resigned: …

Silence—a deathly silence—spread through the air.

Justice Resigned sneered, glanced at the others, and said, “I’m not playing with you anymore. I’m going back to sleep.”

He closed his eyes, then opened them again to reveal a pair of gentle, moist eyes.

Gu Sihui lifted her eyelids slightly, looking up hesitantly: “Justice… Minister?”

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“Huìhuì.” Justice Minister whispered softly, his dark, wet eyes looking at her innocently. After a long moment, he smiled: “Thank you for coming to save me.”

Gu Sihui was struck by the purity of his smile, and her heart suddenly softened, tinged with a touch of bitterness.

Villainesses are truly detestable—how could she have been willing to sell off such a pitiable soul?

Inwardly, Gu Sihui harshly condemned the villainess, then sat cross-legged and began to reason—no, to persuade.

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“Little dog, kneel down, I need to say something to you,” she said, tilting her head to look at Shao Feichen, unaware of her slip of the tongue.

“Who are you calling a dog?” Shao Feichen snapped angrily, then snapped again: “Who do you want to kneel?”

“Ahem.”

Feeling guilty, Gu Sihui corrected herself: “You misheard. I meant sit down. If you stand, I have to look up, and that’s inconvenient.”

Shao Feichen scrutinized her, snorted coldly, and squatted down where he stood. “You want me to sit, I’ll sit. But I won’t! If I listen to you, I lose face!”

Fine, better to squat than to look up.

Gu Sihui, ever democratic, reached out and pinched his ear: “Listen, I’m making this up for you. We can’t divorce now.”

Before Shao Feichen could get riled up, Gu Sihui purred at him like stroking a dog’s head: “I know you want to get angry, but hold on, listen to my story.

“Why can’t we divorce? It’s for your own good!

“First, after divorce, you’ll have no wife!

“Others have wives, but you don’t—what if they laugh at you?”

Gu Sihui spoke as if baring her heart to Shao Feichen, painting a grand, rosy picture: “A low-level pup like you, leaving your wife at such a young age, you won’t live well alone.

“Look at Du Zhuo—why does he level up so fast? Because he has a wife.”

Du Zhuo was a wolfman following Bai Nanyan, and also Shao Feichen’s rival.

They used to live in the same forest, with similar levels. Shao Feichen could occasionally beat Du Zhuo down, but after Du Zhuo married Bai Nanyan and, with her help, extended his time in the Freita Mountain Range, his level gradually surpassed Shao Feichen’s.

The villainess, hating these beastmen, forbade them from entering Freita Mountain Range to hunt strange beasts and zombies for leveling up.

“Heh, as if you’re willing to let us go to Freita Mountain Range to level up,” Ying Nian suddenly interjected after a long silence.

Teng Qu also looked at Gu Sihui, his eyes showing a flicker of hope.

Gu Sihui knew why Teng Qu was excited—because Teng Qu was no ordinary python but one burdened with a blood feud.

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Because Teng Qu was born with black hair and black eyes, the python tribe despised him, believing he was an ill omen and intended to kill him to offer to the Beast God for forgiveness.

His parents hid him to protect him, but eventually the tribe leader Teng Feng found them.

Teng Qu knew Teng Feng didn’t want to kill him because of an ill omen; it was pure spite because Teng Qu’s talent surpassed his own son, and he resented Teng Qu’s father’s stronger abilities.

If it weren’t for Teng Qu being the son of the previous tribe leader and his father’s lack of ambition for power, Teng Feng would never have become leader.

Even now, despite holding the position, Teng Feng still heard gossip that he was unworthy and should voluntarily give up the leadership to Teng Qu’s father.

Teng Feng hated the family so much that he was willing to cooperate with the natural enemy, the Devouring Python Ants, to destroy them.

Teng Qu watched helplessly as his parents were devoured by countless Devouring Python Ants, leaving only massive skeletons in the valley pit.

Among the villainess’s beastmen, Teng Qu was the most eager for power.

Pythons are naturally non-venomous, but Teng Qu was the only poisonous python. No one knew how he achieved this, but Gu Sihui, having read the original story, did.

After witnessing his parents’ deaths, Teng Qu sought greater power and ventured into the tribe’s forbidden land—the Valley of Death.

He survived near-death experiences multiple times; his bones and flesh were almost entirely destroyed and rebuilt, finally achieving a rebirth and becoming the only python on the Beast God Continent bearing lethal poison.

Teng Feng was too strong for him to overcome for now, but Teng Qu did not spare the Devouring Python Ants who had killed his parents despite their low rank and strength in numbers.

He used himself as bait, continuously luring the ants to bite and attack him.

The ants thought they would feast every meal but were instead poisoned and died off in batches.

Teng Qu thought he was acting stealthily but was discovered by Teng Feng.

At that time, Teng Qu was badly wounded, barely alive, and Teng Feng didn’t even need to lift a hand—just a kick could crush him.

In the nick of time, the villainess was born, and the Nurturing Tower forcibly summoned Teng Qu to her side.

So, strictly speaking, the villainess actually saved Teng Qu’s life.

This was why, despite the villainess tearing off Teng Qu’s scales, leaving him covered in wounds, and forbidding him from appearing above ground, Teng Qu still harbored a sliver of tolerance for her.

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“I know what you’re thinking. I can take you to Freita Mountain Range,” Gu Sihui said steadily, fixing her gaze on Teng Qu like the snake in a myth tempting Adam and Eve with a poisoned apple, lips curved in a crimson smile: “Husbands, you wouldn’t want others to laugh at you for having no wives, right?”