Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle
Chapter 401: The Embarrassed Zi Ran, Decides to Stay! (Seeking Follow-up Reads)

Chapter 401: Chapter 401: The Embarrassed Zi Ran, Decides to Stay! (Seeking Follow-up Reads)

"Letting Ziran leave was the most sensible choice."

"It’s not like you can’t see each other again in the future, just let her go and keep everyone safe."

"Right now, you still didn’t have enough power to go up against the Hidden Holy Race and the Hidden Imperial Race."

Yunxi’s delicate, cool face even showed a hint of anxiety.

Just now, she didn’t want Ziran to stay out of selfishness, but now she considered the bigger picture and had to let Ziran go.

Xiao Ye’s eyes shone like a starry sky, and he said, "We’ll deal with whatever comes our way."

"Sister Yunxi, there’s no need to be so afraid, let’s go into the Bronze Hall first."

A portal appeared, and the two of them entered the Bronze Hall.

The Bronze Hall’s tower floated outside in the void.

Inside the tower, at the top of the tenth floor.

A beautiful figure in a purple skirt paced restlessly near the altar; her delicate face was full of worry.

"So, this is inside the Bronze Hall... Looks like Xiao Ye didn’t plan to let me go. Does he want me to go back and be the bride, to have the wedding?"

"Tomorrow, the people of the Hidden Zi Family’s Holy Race would come to take me back."

"If they knew I was getting married, they would definitely cause a scene at the wedding. They might even kill the groom for the sake of my reputation and chastity!"

"After all, I’m already engaged to the Young Master of the Hidden Superpower, the Shangguan Imperial Race."

Right then, Xiao Ye and Yunxi appeared behind her.

Xiao Ye spoke up and asked, "Sister Ziran, do you feel any sense of belonging to that so-called Hidden Zi Family?"

Ziran gave a bitter laugh and said, "After I awakened my template at 18, I came to the Mortal Realm and stayed there for fifteen hundred years. I never went back. As for the Hidden Zi Family, the only memories I truly remembered were my parents—everything else had long since faded away."

"There’s really no sense of belonging."

"Well, then that’s it. Why go back? There’s no reason to!" Xiao Ye said firmly.

"We’ll deal with whatever comes our way! With Elder Tang as our umbrella, I don’t believe the Hidden Imperial Race would directly send the most powerful Quasi-Emperor to capture you."

"As long as it’s not the most powerful Quasi-Emperor Realm, Elder Tang should be able to handle it."

"Ah, jeez..." Ziran sighed, feeling that everything she had just said was pointless.

"Anyway, I’m not allowing you to go, I’m not letting you leave. Get it, Ziran!" Xiao Ye said with unwavering resolve.

Yunxi suddenly remembered something and asked coldly, "Ziran, were the Hidden Races the ones that captured my and Xiaobing’s parents back then?"

"Since you’ve guessed, there’s nothing left to hide." Ziran admitted, "That’s right, the ones who took your parents were the Hidden Imperial Race, the Shangguan Imperial Race."

In Yunxi’s cold, beautiful eyes, fiery flames raged as she demanded, "Why did they take my parents?"

Ziran thought back and answered uncertainly, "I’m not really sure about the details, but I do know they were taken as test subjects. The survival rate was less than one in a thousand."

"Boom!" Yunxi’s aura erupted violently, "So you’re saying, my parents are already dead?"

"The Hidden Imperial Race, they deserved to die, damn it!"

She and Yun Bing had been born in a small faction, and their parents were both in the Great Venerable Realm. Not long after they had awakened their templates, their parents were taken away, then the Yun Family faction was attacked by enemies, falling apart completely.

*If they hadn’t listened to Ziran’s advice and joined Modu Academy, sheltered by the Dean, they would have died back then.*

*It was at Modu Academy that they met the ’Child Empress,’ bathed and slept together, became closer, sisters, and best friends, laying a solid foundation for a deep friendship.*

Ziran patted her shoulder, saying, "Back then, Xiaobing wanted to find your parents, but they couldn’t be found. We were so weak then, we couldn’t even enter the Rule Domain, so I locked Xiaobing up to keep her from getting into trouble."

*Ziran still felt she had done the right thing back then. Even if she could do it over, she’d make the same choice.*

"You did the right thing." After a long moment, Yunxi finally suppressed her anger.

"Xiao Ye, help me upgrade my template. I want to raise my Realm quickly and avenge myself against the Hidden Imperial Race!"

"They took my and Xiaobing’s parents, put our Yun Family in crisis, destroyed our clan—I want that so-called Hidden Imperial Race wiped out, all of them buried with my parents and my family!"

*Those enemies—she and Xiaobing had pretty much eliminated them after becoming Supremes, but only now did she learn the ones who took their parents were the Hidden Imperial Race, the Shangguan Imperial Race.*

Xiao Ye rubbed his forehead. He already realized the Hidden Imperial Race, the Shangguan Imperial Race, was his next must-face enemy.

*Not only was Ziran the fiancée of the Shangguan Imperial Race’s Young Master, but also Yun Bing and Sister Yunxi had a vendetta of extermination—he couldn’t avoid becoming their enemy.*

"Sister Yunxi, I promise you, after the wedding is over, I’ll upgrade your template." he answered.

Yunxi’s beautiful eyes brightened with joy, "Thank you, Xiao Ye."

Xiao Ye waved his hand, "What are you thanking me for? We’re family."

Ziran puffed out her cheeks angrily, put her hands on her hips, and said, "Xiao Ye, you already took my first time—even though we’re not married yet, I’m yours for life. And you haven’t even helped me upgrade my template yet!"

Xiao Ye pinched her dainty face and smiled, "Once we’re bonded by contract, I’ll help you upgrade your template. C’mon, let’s go back. Whatever comes, we face together—I won’t let you bear it alone."

"Try not to worry too much either. Me and that arrogant little girl both had Talent Skills relating to time; we can foresee the future. If a crisis is coming, we can prepare for it early."

"If a disaster comes that we really can’t handle, worst case scenario, everyone hides in the Bronze Hall, flee across the universe, leave Blue Star, and wait until we’re strong enough to return for revenge."

"Anyway, Sister Ziran, there’s no way I’m letting you go!"

"As for your so-called family mission? That family, which you feel no belonging to, forced a Creation Rule Fragment Crystal into your body when you awakened your template. When you upgraded to the Saint Realm, you suffered backlash—if I hadn’t helped out, your foundation would’ve been destroyed, or worse, your body would’ve exploded and died. Basically, your family almost killed you!"

"So what’s the ****ing point of going back to them?"

"Your parents? If they still cared about you, they would’ve never forced you to do shit you hated!"

Ziran stood dumbstruck, completely floored by what he said.

Yunxi changed her mind at this point too, coldly saying, "Yeah, Ziran, you can’t go back. If you do, you’ll have to marry that Young Master of the Imperial Race. The Shangguan Imperial Race—one day, I’ll destroy them. I don’t consent to you joining their family."

"You say you won’t marry if you go back, but once you’re back, it’s not up to you!"

Ziran’s face froze. That was exactly how it was.

*If she really went back, would saying she wouldn’t marry the Imperial Race Young Master mean anything? No way.*

When Xiao Ye heard that, anger flashed across his face. He said, "Sister Ziran, I’ll use the Bronze Hall to bind you, so you can’t leave my area for ten thousand miles. Otherwise, you’ll be forcibly pulled back into the Bronze Hall."

"Hmph, it’s a damn good thing I didn’t let you go—otherwise, next time I saw you, you’d probably already have three kids with that Imperial brat!"

"By then, even if you still felt something for me, I’d have lost you for good. Even if I wiped out Shangguan Imperial Race, you’d be asking me to be the dad, to raise his kids for him or something!"

"I..." Ziran scratched her head awkwardly, "I never planned to betray you, never even thought about it, really."

"I belong to you alone—not just my body, but my heart too."

"Alright, don’t be mad, Xiao Ye. I’ve decided—I won’t go back, and I’ll never leave you guys."

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