The men stood in the courtyard for a long time, smelling the scent from the room grow stronger and stronger.
They didn’t have to guess what the two of them were doing in there.
But what could they do? They couldn’t just barge in.
When Shen Yue finally opened the door, her neck was covered in red marks, and her lips were swollen and moist.
That was why they were so angry, so jealous they had lost all reason.
But now, hearing Shen Yue’s words, they all turned to look at Bai Chaosi. ’So it was him,’ they thought. ’He deliberately called us back to use us as his pawns.’
’How despicable!’
’But it was our fault, too, for being so stupid.’
’We deserved it. We deserved to be yelled at by Shen Yue.’
Bai Chaosi’s mouth fell open. For the first time, he saw genuine disgust in Shen Yue’s eyes.
He had thought that after all the times he had seduced her, after their passionate kisses and even their baring of souls—and bodies—that she must have developed some feelings for him.
But her merciless words and her icy gaze told him he had been wrong.
He had been far too conceited.
This time, he had truly angered her by touching on the one thing she cared about most.
’So she saw through my tricks all along.’
She would let him get away with harmless antics, and even seemed to enjoy them.
But the moment he crossed the line, she would retract all the affection that had given him that false hope.
He had never truly found a place in her heart.
From the very beginning, all she had ever cared about were the children.
The realization of how terribly wrong he had been hit Bai Chaosi all at once.
His face turned deathly pale and his Adam’s apple bobbed. In that instant, the confidence and pride he had built over decades came crashing down.
With Shen Yue, he tasted true failure for the very first time.
Mu Silin and the others watched Bai Chaosi’s face drain of all color. Though they were furious that the fox had used them, they were also terrified that Shen Yue might actually kick them all to the curb in her anger.
They understood completely now. This time, they had truly crossed a line.
She had been willing to spend time with them lately, and their relationship had been growing closer, but that didn’t mean they could take a mile when given an inch. It didn’t give them the right to be so insolent.
She already treated them so well. Just moments before, she had asked if they were hungry and what they wanted to eat, offering to cook for them.
Even when they gave her the cold shoulder, she had still asked them so patiently.
’Just think about it,’ they lamented internally. ’Where on the entire Beast World Continent would you find a female who would indulge her Beast Husbands like this, letting them throw tantrums at her again and again?’
But they just had to go and not appreciate it.
They’d thrown fits, tossed things around, and even scared the children.
Besides, as a female, she had the absolute right to choose the Beast Husbands she wanted. Who she was intimate with, who she mated with—it was all up to her.
They had no right to interfere whatsoever.
She never belonged to any single one of them to begin with.
Yet they had been so thoughtless, so unreasonable.
’Just how disappointed and angry must she have been to finally snap like that?’
Shen Yue looked at them.
"I’m not against you wanting to claim your children," she began. "Having you here these past few days has certainly kept the children and me safe. It’s given me time to think. Your purpose in coming here was always for the children. If you can raise them well and protect them, I’m actually willing to let go. You can take them with you, back to your own cities. After all, it’s extremely unsafe for them to stay with me."
Before she could even finish...
Mu Silin cried out in shock.
"Take them away? I never thought about taking my child from you!"
Ye Lüqi grew anxious, realizing the implication of her words.

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