Pregnant Bunny, Obsessed Beast Husbands

Yu Zhizhi followed the attendant. ’During the day,’ she thought, ’the Duke didn’t seem to pay my situation any mind.’

She had thought she would be spending the next few days with the other members of the Rabbit Clan.

They returned to the Snake Clan’s residence within the Royal Palace. Yu Zhizhi had stayed here when she first arrived. At the moment, the rest of the Snake Clan were still in the banquet hall, leaving the entire courtyard quiet and secluded.

Inside the reception hall, only a single, dim lamp was lit.

The Duke’s personal attendant, Billy, stood outside the door, a smile on his face. "Ms. Zhi Zhi, Mr. Yu Ling, please come in."

A lone figure was seated in the dim reception hall.

The Duke’s gaze fell on the young female who entered the room first. She looked like she had been drinking, a faint blush coloring her cheeks.

Following closely behind her was the cat from the Land of Prophecy.

The young man from the Cat Clan wore a feline mask, though the upward curve of his lips was faintly visible beneath it.

"Duke," he said, giving a slight bow.

Outside the door, Billy couldn’t help but steal another glance at the young man.

The Land of Prophecy was a great distance from the Valoran Empire.

They had crossed the vast ocean just to reach Varolan’s Imperial City.

This young man, Yu Ling, was the most promising Young Master from the Land of Prophecy. Whether or not he had awakened his Power of Prophecy, he was destined to be the sole Prophet on this continent.

This had been determined from the moment he was born.

"You’ve had a long and arduous journey," the Duke said, sitting in his chair with his hands tucked into his sleeves. His golden, slitted pupils were fixed intently on the young man from the Cat Clan.

"It was no trouble," Zero replied with a smile.

The Duke asked, "Have you brought it?"

The young man from the Cat Clan produced a silver coin from within his robes.

He stepped forward and placed the silver coin on the table.

Yu Zhizhi glanced over—

Compared to the silver coin Zero had given her before, this one looked ancient, like currency from a bygone era.

...Huh?

’Wait, the Duke and Zero know each other?’

Yu Zhizhi belatedly realized that they seemed to know one another.

The young man from the Cat Clan took two steps back to stand with Yu Zhizhi. "This is the silver coin Lady Sophia used for her prophecy," he explained. "To recreate the vision she saw, we need not only the Power of Prophecy, but also the ruby ring she always carried."

The Duke glanced impassively at the silver coin on the table. It bore some resemblance to the one in his memory.

"In the days to come, I will need your strength again."

Zero gave a slight nod. "The honor is all mine."

The tension in Yu Zhizhi’s shoulders slowly eased. She had thought the Duke would...

’This is for the best, though.’

She couldn’t stop a smile from gracing her lips.

The young man from the Cat Clan turned his head to look at her. As if sensing his gaze, Yu Zhizhi looked up and returned his smile.

A chilling gaze shot out from directly in front of them, and Yu Zhizhi felt a cold prickle on the back of her neck.

She looked over, baffled, only to see the Duke in the dim light, head bowed as he studied the Divination Silver Coin in his hand. Perhaps that feeling just now had been her imagination.

A small black snake slithered out from behind the Duke, coming to rest on his shoulder.

"It’s getting late, so I shall take my leave," the young man from the Cat Clan said with a smile.

"Billy, see him out."

"Yes, Duke."

The attendant at the door stepped forward and gestured for him to proceed.

Yu Zhizhi turned to leave as well. "Well, I’ll be heading back, too~"

"Little Amon has been fussing and crying for days because he hasn’t seen you. I brought him here. He’s in the inner room, go see him."

Yu Zhizhi stopped in her tracks.

"He’s here? Oh, that’s perfect. We can continue his healing treatments."

As the young man from the Cat Clan reached the door, he glanced back one last time.

The Rabbit Clan female was walking slowly toward the Duke. The content of their conversation sounded like a married couple of many years, discussing their child as if no one else was in the room.

The smile at the corners of his mouth slowly faded.

Zero averted his gaze and followed the Duke’s personal attendant, walking slowly away from the Snake Clan’s residence.

As he walked, he recalled the rumors from the outside world—

The Snake Clan of the Valoran Empire does not intermarry with other clans.

And though a Rabbit Clan female lived in the Duke Mansion, the Duke was said to be indifferent toward her.

But what he had seen with his own eyes today...

’How is it so different from the rumors?’

The moment he entered the room, he had sensed a familiar aura from the Duke. It only lasted for an instant before being concealed by the spring night’s breeze.

’At least, in that moment,’ Zero thought, ’the Duke had wanted to kill me.’

’If I hadn’t brought the Divination Silver Coin used by Lady Sophia, I might have ended up as a corpse in a foreign land.’

’And was all of this because of the Rabbit Clan Lady?’

’If so, how could that be called indifference? This was clearly...’

The young man from the Cat Clan slowly stopped walking. He stood outside the Snake Clan’s residence, gazing at the white moonlight blanketing the ground, and did not move for a long time.

Yu Zhizhi went into the inner room.

Sure enough, Little Amon was there.

He was asleep, his soft, white body curled up in a warm nest inside a bamboo basket, snoring lightly.

Yu Zhizhi moved very gently so as not to wake Little Amon. She slowly used her Evolution Skill, healing his Golden Beast Bone.

The Duke had appeared at the doorway at some unknown point. He watched the young female sit by the table, concentrating on healing the Little White Snake.

Just as he had guessed, Yu Meng’s recovery was indeed related to an Evolution Ability.

He had never asked about it because he wanted to see when this little rabbit would tell him on her own.

And yet—

Today, during the test, she had voluntarily stepped onto the Crystal Detection Platform for the sake of another male beastman.

The Duke had been in a foul mood all day. While everyone else was cheering, he had stood apart from the crowd, watching from afar as his little rabbit stood with the young man from the Cat Clan, her face wreathed in smiles, her eyes curving into little crescents.

’Was she really that happy?’

’Did she really like him that much?’

"Tell me," the Duke asked softly, "when did you two meet?"

His tongue flicked past his fangs as his golden, slitted pupils locked onto the flesh of the young female’s nape.

Yu Zhizhi didn’t know how to answer...

She could only leave out the Divine Hall and give a vague answer. "Just... a while ago. We met a while ago."

She sounded less and less confident with each word.

’But what can I do?’ she fretted. ’When I joined the Divine Hall, I signed an agreement not to tell outsiders anything about the Divine Hall Illusion Realm.’

"Did you go to the Hughes family looking for a cat for him?" the Duke continued to press.

’The young female was clearly hiding a lot.’

’How did she meet that cat from the Land of Prophecy? In the Moon Rising Territory? And after she came back, did she miss him so much that she had to find a similar-looking Cat Clan youth to take into her chambers, to keep her company day and night?’

Heh.

"I never would have guessed," he sneered. "That your feelings for him run so deep."

The more the Duke thought about it, the angrier he became, grinding his molars so hard they nearly cracked.

’When that sand cat female made her claim, this little female must have been in a complete panic. So worried, so afraid her precious wildcat would be snatched away.’

’Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, she was even willing to risk the public humiliation of not having advanced, just to challenge an SS-Level female.’

"You like him? How much do you like him? Is having him as a mere Steward not enough? Why not take him as a Pet? Or better yet, just make him a Beast Husband. You still haven’t decided on your First Beast Husband, have you? I think this cat is a perfect fit. Why don’t you go to His Majesty the King tomorrow and have him arrange the marriage?"

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