Future Beast World: Becoming A Pampered Beauty-Chapter 281 - 220: You Believe an Outsider, but Not Me?

Chapter 281: Chapter 220: You Believe an Outsider, but Not Me?

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Sang Luo’s vision blurred. She had no idea where she’d been taken. It was pitch-black, as if she’d been buried underground, and she could barely breathe.

Wisps of intangible black mist coiled like venomous snakes, wrapping around her limbs. Some of the mist even tried to bore into her ears and mouth... ’Damn it!’

Sang Luo cursed under her breath. With a swift slash of her hand, a blade of firelight appeared and severed all the black mist.

The black mist at her feet formed a quagmire, pulling her down like a magnet. Even using her Talent Power, she couldn’t break free and could only feel her body sinking bit by bit.

A long, powerful hand suddenly appeared and yanked her out of the quagmire. It was too dark to see who it was. She nearly cried out, but in the next second, the man covered her mouth with his hand.

"Save your strength. Don’t open your mouth. This Demonic Qi is laced with a miasmic poison."

A familiar, low, and coolly bewitching voice spoke.

’It’s Fei Yuan!’

’To think the one who came to save me would be him.’

Fei Yuan grabbed her head, buried it in his chest, and shot toward the exit above.

The instant they left, a pillar of fire erupted behind them, blasting the depths of the altar into ruins.

Fei Yuan escaped with Sang Luo in his arms and returned to the surface, but he didn’t let her go.

He reached out and pinched her chin. His dark phoenix eyes had lost their usual warm, teasing glint and were now staring at her intently.

"You’ve been hiding for so long. Have you had enough?"

Sang Luo felt an inexplicable shiver under his gaze. Hearing his rhetorical question, a surge of anger flared up in her heart. "Who’s been hiding from you? You think way too highly of yourself!"

She shoved him hard.

"Let go! Don’t hold my waist, you’re squeezing me so tight my stomach hurts!"

The man’s grip was powerful, yet she easily pushed him away. Sang Luo turned, but before she could take two steps, he grabbed her hand and pulled her back into his arms.

"Fei Yuan! You—"

Fei Yuan lowered his head and kissed her, forcing all her harsh words back down her throat.

He gripped her waist with both hands, pressing her against a tree and kissing her with a frenzy that was impossible to resist, as if trying to make up for all the lost tenderness of the past days.

Sang Luo could barely breathe from his kisses, her hands resting weakly against his chest. But when she remembered the bastardly things he’d done, her dazed eyes flared with shame and anger.

She viciously bit his tongue until it bled. Only then did Fei Yuan step back and release her.

Sang Luo’s chest heaved with anger. She stormed off, putting as much distance between them as possible.

She didn’t forget to survey her surroundings—an abandoned altar.

Fei Yuan’s gaze lingered on her darkly. He touched his lip, savoring the taste, and followed her step for step.

Neither of them spoke for a long time.

"...How did you find me?" Sang Luo couldn’t hold back any longer and spoke first. "I obviously erased the tracking mark you left on me."

"I left more than just one tracking mark on you," Fei Yuan said, his voice lazy. "The Qiankun Bag, the Space Ring, the Space Bracelet... which one of those doesn’t have a tracking mark I left behind?"

"..." ’I was careless!’

"Come back with me." Fei Yuan stepped forward and took her hand. "The Marquis Mansion isn’t safe anymore. It’s better to keep you by my side. At least I’ll have peace of mind if I can see you."

"I have no desire to see you being all lovey-dovey with some other female."

Fei Yuan watched her for a moment, a hint of a smile gradually appearing in his handsome dark eyes. "Jealous?"

Sang Luo glared at him irritably. ’Like hell I’m jealous!’

Fei Yuan reached out and pinched her cheek. It was puffed out, like he was kneading dough. "Luo’er, you said with your own mouth that you don’t love me. I didn’t realize you could still get jealous."

Sang Luo slapped his hand away and strode forward. "I’m in no mood for your teasing!"

Fei Yuan followed slowly again, but he wasn’t as brazen as before. He kept a distance of several meters from her. "Come back to the Imperial Palace with me. I’ll arrange for Le Xia to live in the West Wing, the furthest place from you. I guarantee you’ll never have to see her."

"Doesn’t the great Phoenix Emperor get tired of running between two females every day?" Sang Luo stopped but didn’t turn around. "Your Majesty needn’t go to such trouble. I won’t be returning to the Phoenix Palace. Le Xia ruined her own face to save you. You’d better not treat her poorly."

"Is that what she told you?" Fei Yuan frowned. "What if I told you the injury on her face has nothing to do with me? Back then, she took advantage of my favor to eliminate many of her opponents in secret. One time, she tried to get rid of a female consort who had a feud with her father’s clan. It backfired spectacularly and she ended up injuring her own face. Would you believe me?"

Sang Luo said nothing and kept walking.

Fei Yuan teleported to her side and pulled her into a tight embrace, his voice low and suppressed. "You believe whatever outsiders tell you. Why won’t you listen to my explanation? Why won’t you believe me?"

"I don’t want to hear it." Sang Luo gave him a serious look. "A Male Beast’s mouth is a deceiving ghost. Has Your Majesty never heard that saying?

"..."

"And another one: explanations are cover-ups, cover-ups are the truth, and the truth is that you’re being dishonest!"

She was always so sharp-tongued.

Fei Yuan sighed softly. "Luo’er is right. You can’t trust a smooth-talking Male Beast. You have to look at what he actually does."

His emotions were complicated, his voice deep. "But if you count every single thing I’ve done for you, can you still not see my true feelings? A few instigating words from an outsider are enough to make you resent me so much?"

Sang Luo didn’t refute that. Whether for her sake or for the child in her belly, Fei Yuan had definitely given no less than any of her other Beast Husbands—in fact, he had given far more...

To win her favor, he had sacrificed a Nirvana Life to save a strange Male Beast who had no connection to him. That was the most moving thing of all...

As for what Le Xia had said about Fei Yuan sacrificing a Nirvana Life for her, Sang Luo had used her Eye of Judgment at the time and knew she was lying. That female was a complete liar; not a single word from her mouth was true. She just wanted to provoke Sang Luo into leaving the Phoenix Palace.

But knowing that was one thing. It was also true that Fei Yuan’s subsequent actions had failed to give her the sense of security she needed to raise a child.

"That’s because Your Majesty gave others the opportunity. If you had truly made me feel like I could rely on you, why would I ever believe anyone else?"

"My Male Servants all say that females are the best at turning the tables and blaming the victim. It turns out to be true."

Sang Luo glared at him. "It’s obviously Your Majesty who isn’t chaste. You’re..."

"Second-hand goods," Fei Yuan finished for her.

"You... you heard me?" Sang Luo pressed her lips together in surprise.

The last time she entered the palace, she had used her spiritual power and seen that Fei Yuan wasn’t in Yangxin Hall. The one lying on the bed was another, unfamiliar young King Beast—Le Xia’s lover.

He should have been in seclusion, practicing Alchemy.

"The entire Imperial Palace is full of my people. Is there anything I wouldn’t know?"

"Then did you know that Le Xia was cheating on you?"

"I know. She needs to absorb a sufficient amount of Primordial Yang to heal the poison injury on her face." Fei Yuan, however, was focused on her. He asked, "But did you cheat on me behind my back?"

Sang Luo’s face flushed, but her words were merciless. "You’re second-hand goods. Who gave you the right to ask me that?"

"You can only blame Little Luoruo for being born too late, and me for not meeting you sooner. I couldn’t have spent hundreds of years as a lonely bachelor. If I’d never had any romantic experiences at all, I’d be a stone, not a person." Fei Yuan’s voice was low and raspy. "A Male Beast who has lived for a thousand years and still lies to you about being inexperienced... now that’s the kind of bad male who’s truly trying to deceive you."