Chapter 239: Chapter 216: Lanlan, Am I Dreaming?
Under the Golden Lion’s relentless pursuit, Ye Moyun was forced to pick up his pace.
He tore forward at a maddening pace.
He launched himself into a powerful leap.
Their figures appeared together in the sky above the Desolate Star.
"Sorry, Princess Yu Lan!"
In the next instant,
Yu Lan felt the large hand that had been clamped firmly around her waist suddenly release her.
Ye Moyun shot off on his own, vanishing without a trace.
Leaving Yu Lan to plummet toward the ground at an incredible speed.
If Huo Zhanting didn’t spot her in time and catch her before she hit the ground, she would truly be finished.
Yu Lan opened her mouth to shout a warning to Huo Zhanting.
But the moment she did, her mouth filled with the roar of the wind.
The rapid descent made every muscle in her body seize up.
The air was viciously squeezed from her lungs, as if it had vanished in an instant.
’So this is what it’s like. You really can’t scream at a time like this.’
Meanwhile,
the Golden Lion chasing relentlessly after Ye Moyun saw him toss something away.
He assumed it was an attempt to lighten his load and escape faster.
He let out a heavy snort of contempt.
He paid it no mind, averting his gaze to continue his desperate pursuit of Ye Moyun.
But in that fleeting glance as he looked away,
Huo Zhanting’s excellent eyesight caught something. The falling object... it looked just like Yu Lan.
It was a familiarity etched into the very depths of his soul.
He would recognize her even if she were turned to ash.
In that instant,
he knew.
It was her.
It was really her.
It was his Female Master.
Not some toy, and certainly not something deliberately made to deceive him.
That was his Female Master.
And at that moment,
Yu Lan was falling toward a ten-thousand-meter-deep chasm.
The Golden Lion erupted with incredible speed in that instant.
A series of sonic booms cracked through the air.
The next moment,
as she was still falling, Yu Lan was pulled tightly into Huo Zhanting’s arms.
"Is it you?"
"Lanlan, is it you?"
The man’s hoarse, strained voice was thick with uncertainty.
He had been so sure he could never be mistaken.
But now that the moment was here, he found himself hesitating.
Love makes the confident feel inferior.
"It’s me."
Yu Lan reached out and hugged Huo Zhanting, her arms wrapping tightly around his powerful waist.
"It’s me."
"I’m not dead."
"I’m sorry for making you all worry."
Yu Lan’s voice was thick with apology.
She didn’t have to think hard to know that during her absence,
Huo Zhanting, Shen Zueran, and the others must have been in great pain.
Only those who love you will feel such grief and pain when you are hurt or gone.
"Don’t apologize, don’t apologize."
Hearing Yu Lan apologize, Huo Zhanting instantly panicked.
His large hands cupped Yu Lan’s face.
His thumbs wiped away the tears streaming down his beautiful female’s face.
Even as tears continued to stream down his own cheeks.
’Am I dreaming?’
The female before him seemed so fragile, as if she could dissolve into a cloud and drift away on the wind at any moment.
’If this really is a dream...’
’It’s truly the most beautiful dream in the world.’
"It’s not a dream."
Yu Lan almost instantly understood what Huo Zhanting was thinking.
She stood on her tiptoes.
The next second,
she pressed her lips to Huo Zhanting’s.
She tentatively explored his trembling lips.
His anxiety and pain needed the comfort of a soft, sweet, intimate kiss.
The moment their lips and tongues met,
his anxious heart finally settled back into his chest.
But what followed close behind
was a rage that had been suppressed to its absolute limit.
Huo Zhanting was no fool.
Just seeing Ye Moyun and Yu Lan together, he knew the Star Thieves’ raid on White Sand Star was no accident.
He suspected that Yu Lan and Ye Moyun had planned it together.
But they had planned it and told them nothing.
Leaving them to worry, suffer, and be tormented day and night.
How could Huo Zhanting tolerate that?
He couldn’t bear to punish her harshly, yet he was afraid she would dare to do something like this again.
Not to mention his own anxiety and pain during this time.
All his emotions coalesced into a single knot,
desperately in need of an outlet.
Huo Zhanting’s hand shot out, his large fingers gripping the back of Yu Lan’s head in an undeniable hold.
What followed
was a barrage of kisses, falling like a torrential storm.
Hard and fierce!
He kissed her until her legs went weak, causing her to slide downward.
But the man’s powerful, unyielding arm was welded to her waist,
allowing her no escape.
When the kiss finally ended,
half an hour had passed.
Yu Lan was completely dazed.
Her legs were too weak to support her, and she could only be held in Huo Zhanting’s dominant, possessive embrace.
Her beautiful face was flushed crimson, and the corners of her eyes were tinged with a few helpless tears.
Her cupid’s bow had been thoroughly cherished by his mouth, leaving her lips slightly swollen and a tempting, decadent red.
’My beautiful wife, in my arms!’
Having relieved his anxiety by kissing her fiercely for half an hour,
Huo Zhanting’s reason returned, and he once again adopted his calm, good-natured demeanor:
"Tell me, what was your plan from the beginning."
"How do you need me and Shen Zueran to cooperate?"
"Can I call them over now?"
’We’re all Lanlan’s Beast Husbands.’
’Before, Huo Zhanting would have wished for Yu Lan to only tell him her secrets.’
’After all, he would be sure to handle anything she entrusted to him perfectly.’
’As for the others, the farther they stayed away, the better.’
But now...
After this period of working together, Huo Zhanting had reined in his possessiveness somewhat.
Shen Zueran and Li Yucheng’s love for Yu Lan was no less than his.
During this time, everyone had been in extreme pain.
If possible, Huo Zhanting didn’t want to hide the fact that Yu Lan was still alive from them.
Besides,
he might not be able to hide it from them anyway.
The keen observational skills of a top-tier 3S-level individual were not to be underestimated.
And that was to say nothing of Shen Zueran, who was as shrewd as they come.
Sure enough,
when Yu Lan heard Huo Zhanting’s questions, she nodded:
"Yes, you can have them come over."
"Be careful. Don’t let anyone else find out."
After speaking, she quickly explained to Huo Zhanting why she had chosen to fake her death.
"I suspect Belina has connections to the Dark Force."
"But she’s always watching me. Trying to investigate her while she’s watching my every move is next to impossible."
"Coincidentally, she sent Ye Moyun to kill me, and Ye Moyun suggested that I could fake my death to get away, then find you all and investigate her properly."
Just as she finished speaking,
Ye Moyun, who was hiding in the shadows, slowly walked out from behind a rock.
He raised his hand and greeted Huo Zhanting:
"Hi!"
"Hello there!"
"There was a tiny little hiccup at a critical moment, but the end result is good."
"Right now on Central Star, Belina is already having the Chief Ceremony Officer select an auspicious date to have Louisa take power. She’d never in a million years guess that Yu Lan is still alive."
’Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.’
’Now that Belina has let her guard down, investigating her will be much easier.’
’So how could my and Yu Lan’s plan not be considered a success?’
’Aside from Huo Zhanting and the others being a little heartbroken, that is.’
’But hey, it made the act more convincing.’
Ye Moyun thought matter-of-factly, but before he could even get close, a punch from Huo Zhanting sent him sprawling to the ground.
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