After Pampering Her 5 Beast Husbands, the Villainess Struck It Rich

Chapter 68: Chapter 68: Schemed Against!

At this thought, Bai Zhi grew excited!

She had thought it was all over for her, but things had taken an unexpected turn!

To confirm something, Hu Yan said, "Turn on the 360-degree wide-angle view. Let me see."

The leader of the kidnappers assumed he was just trying to confirm the truth of what he’d just said, so he activated the wide-angle view.

The moment he did, the perspective instantly expanded to show Hu Yan the entire room.

He took a careful look and said, "Where’s the room she was tied up in? Show me."

The kidnapper walked to the room where Bai Zhi had been held. As the door opened, Bai Zhi quickly moved aside to avoid being bumped into.

Bai Zhi had heard everything Hu Yan just said and knew he must be staring intently at this room right now.

If she made too large a movement, she wouldn’t attract Hu Yan’s attention, but rather that of the beastmen. And yet, she had to give Hu Yan some kind of hint.

Just then, after glancing around the empty room, Hu Yan suddenly spoke, his voice a little higher than usual, "Are you sure this is the room she was kept in? It’s a sealed room with few places to hide, let alone any windows."

Bai Zhi understood the hint in Hu Yan’s words. She allowed a tiny section of the rope binding her feet to peek out from her Invisibility Device and into a shadow. She wasn’t sure if Hu Yan would be able to see it, but the others certainly wouldn’t notice something in such a concealed spot.

But if her earlier guess was correct, Hu Yan should be able to spot this tiny anomaly.

Sure enough, right after he finished speaking, Hu Yan spotted a small section of rope in a shadowy corner that hadn’t been there before.

For a moment, Hu Yan’s pupils constricted, and he couldn’t stop his fingertips from tightening. But this subtle reaction went unnoticed by everyone; not even Yue Junxiao and Yan Yichen saw it.

Having confirmed that Bai Zhi was indeed invisible and therefore in no immediate danger, Hu Yan’s expression suddenly turned cold. "You’re the one who had her kidnapped and then lost her! If we can’t find her, you can wait for a summons from the Female Alliance!"

With that, Hu Yan turned to leave.

Yun Xi whipped her head around to face Hu Yan, her voice sharp with anxiety as she cried out, "What do you mean? Bai Zhi ran off on her own! It’s not like I told her to!"

Yue Junxiao, not knowing that Hu Yan had already located Bai Zhi, roared, "If you hadn’t kidnapped our Wife-Master, how could she have disappeared?! I won’t let this go until you hand her over!"

He delivered his threat, then turned and followed Hu Yan and the others out.

Since they couldn’t find her here, they had no choice but to think of another plan.

Yun Xi shouted, "Don’t you dare leave! What about the evidence? You haven’t shown it to me yet!"

Hearing her, Hu Yan paused. He tilted his head slightly and said coolly, "I only said I’d let you confirm the evidence. I never specified *which* evidence. However, the video of you contacting the kidnappers just now... I could show you that. Would you like to see it?"

Hearing this, Yun Xi froze. "What do you mean?"

Hu Yan gave her an indifferent glance. "It means, don’t let me ever find you causing trouble for Bai Zhi again. As for how to deal with you, we’ll let our Wife-Master decide when she returns."

But that one emotionless glance sent a chill through Yun Xi’s entire body.

Because she realized she’d been played!

Hu Yan and his group had no evidence at all, but she had just personally handed him proof of her own guilt!

This was all a scheme orchestrated by that beastman, Hu Yan!

From the very beginning, he’d had the hot-tempered Yue Junxiao speak first, deliberately creating the illusion that they were desperate to find Bai Zhi. It was also meant to make her think they had only just learned of the kidnapping and rushed back, implying they might even be punished for it later.

It made her believe she had the upper hand. So, even though their sudden appearance was startling, she remained calm and was able to respond to Hu Yan with composure.

But in reality, she had already fallen into Hu Yan’s trap!

Next, Hu Yan revealed, step by step, that they had returned early because they’d found a flaw in the arrangements made by her Beast Husband.

This planted a seed in her subconscious: they had come back with evidence.

Hu Yan had even anticipated her counter-threats, stationing Lang Qiu and Sang Mo outside in advance to give the impression that they had come fully prepared for anything.

Finally, when Hu Yan proposed they look at the evidence, he specifically used a word like "confirm"!

Because he had no so-called evidence at all!

Confirm what, when there was no evidence? Confirm that he had no proof to begin with?!!

While she was contacting the kidnappers, everyone’s attention was on the video call. But in that moment, Hu Yan had the quiet, unobtrusive Yan Yichen—who had been standing silently in the background—record her conversation with the kidnappers. He had secured hard proof that she had hired someone to abduct Bai Zhi!

In other words, Hu Yan had orchestrated this entire thing just to get his hands on proof that she had kidnapped Bai Zhi!

And, at the same time, he could get a definitive update on Bai Zhi’s status from her!

The only thing none of them had expected was that Bai Zhi had actually vanished!

But other than that, everything—every single detail—had been flawlessly predicted by Hu Yan!

He had even calculated her reactions!

’This beastman... he’s terrifying!’

She had underestimated him.

She had originally thought that by stalling Hu Yan’s group, she would have time to get rid of Bai Zhi and solve the problem for good. She never expected they would rush back so quickly and turn her own scheme against her!

Suddenly, Yun Xi couldn’t understand it anymore. Were Hu Yan and the others doing this for their own sakes, or did they genuinely want to save Bai Zhi?

If it was for their own sakes, then even though she was upset that her plan to get rid of Bai Zhi had failed, she could at least take comfort in the fact that Bai Zhi was now missing and in trouble, too.

But if they truly wanted to save Bai Zhi—if they had sensed she was in danger and rushed back specifically to rescue her—then today was a total and utter loss for her.

But clearly, Hu Yan wasn’t going to answer that question for her. They had already left.

Yan Yichen asked, "What now? Our Wife-Master isn’t on that Starship anymore. Where do we go to find her?"

Without breaking his stride, Hu Yan replied with a question of his own, "Who says she isn’t?"

Yue Junxiao, who had been looking dejected, snapped his head up at Hu Yan’s words and asked urgently, "What do you mean?! Didn’t we just see that the room was empty? They said they couldn’t find her either."

Instead of answering, Hu Yan countered with another question: "Just because they couldn’t find her, it means she’s not on the Starship?"

Yue Junxiao’s eyes widened in astonishment. "So you’re saying our Wife-Master is on that Starship, and in that very room?!"

Yan Yichen was just as shocked. He had also seen that the room was completely empty!

Hu Yan nodded. "Yes. I don’t know what method our Wife-Master used to prevent them from seeing her, but I am certain she is still in that room on that Starship. All we need to do now is figure out a way to make the Starship land and bring her back."