"Ah!"
Yulan screamed in fright.
Panicked, he fell backward and sank to his knees on the ground.
His delicate little face puckered into a tight little ball, his pretty, light brows slightly furrowed, and his long, upturned eyelashes trembled incessantly like the wet wings of a butterfly caught in the rain.
He was utterly terrified.
Pitiful yet adorable.
At the sight of this, the Silver Wolf felt the hunting desire in his heart grow even more restless and burning, to the point that the tips of his fangs tingled with an itch.
I want to bite him!
Right in front of everyone, the Silver Wolf once again stuck out his tongue and licked Yulan's face.
A massive wolf's head lowered like a dog seeking affection, nuzzling against Yulan's cheek and neck, sniffing around everywhere.Once everything was stained with his own scent, he buried his head right into the crook of Yulan's neck.
Yulan was scared to death.
Shivering uncontrollably.
Right before him were the powerful, robust, and sturdy legs of the Silver Giant Wolf, and ringing in his ears was the hot, heavy breathing of the giant beast.
Especially since the wolf's head was now resting directly on his shoulder.
Yulan felt as though his weak little shoulders could never bear such a heavy weight. He kept trying to shrink backward, but after the Silver Wolf impatiently reached out a paw and nudged him, he instantly quieted down, too terrified to move.
Even though his heart was gripped by extreme fear, Yulan still tremblingly reached out both hands.
Bearing firmly in mind the guard's instructions from just moments ago—that he must soothe Suxing Ye's emotions—he aimed the Palliative Serum at the Silver Wolf's neck to inject it.
He extended his slender arms and took the initiative to wrap them around the Silver Wolf's neck, as if embracing him.
All the while, the Silver Wolf's deep green, emotionless beastly pupils stared unblinkingly right at Yulan.
Frightening Yulan down to his very core, his face pale, yet still forcing himself to coax and cuddle with the Silver Wolf:
"Please don't bite me, okay?"
"Once I inject the Palliative Serum, you'll feel better."
"Be a good boy, alright?"
He sounded just like someone coaxing a young child.
A flash of disdain crossed the Silver Wolf's deep green beastly pupils, but the tail behind him was wagging happily in circles.
He deliberately opened his jaws toward Yulan, baring a mouthful of sharp fangs.Afterward, seeing Yulan was afraid, the Silver Giant Wolf reached out its tongue and gave the beautiful girl a fawning lick on the face.
This display was no different from a childish little boy in kindergarten.
Standing outside the iron cage, the group of guards found the scene almost too painful to watch. Was this really their handsome, heroic, aloof, and cold-blooded genius Major General?
Under the gaze of everyone, Yulan summoned her courage, pointed the tip of the Palliative Serum at the Silver Wolf's neck, and plunged it in. The deep blue liquid was slowly injected into the Silver Wolf’s body.
In less than half a minute, the injection was complete.
Yulan withdrew her hand, looking at the Silver Wolf before her with anticipation, waiting for it to transform back into its familiar human form.
However, to everyone's surprise, the Silver Wolf seemed to have treated the previous act as a game, and now that Yulan was done playing, it was his turn.
The Silver Wolf shook his body, his silver-white fur rippling in the air, and he took two steps back. Then, with the agility of a feline, he moved his powerful forelimbs and lunged straight toward Yulan.A scorching red tongue licked her face, and a massive head nudged and pressed against Yulan. As she reached out to stroke it, the entire wolf was visibly overjoyed.
Because the Palliative Serum had been successfully injected, Yulan mistakenly believed that the Silver Wolf had regained its senses, and she no longer feared being bitten by a mindless beast.
Faced with the furry Silver Wolf leaning into her embrace, she naturally accepted its affection with a beaming smile, her eyes curving into crescents. Heaven knows how much she loved furry things.
She reached out with her small hands to rub the Silver Wolf’s head and knead its ears.
"Wow! Your fur is so soft!"
"How are you so well-behaved? You let me touch your ears without a fuss."
"Hahaha, stop that! No more licking my face, and don't lick my hands either..."
Yulan held the Silver Wolf, dodging its affectionate advances from time to time. She then turned her head, looking toward Huo Zhanting outside the iron cage with a burning gaze, and asked, "When will Suxing Ye return to his human form?""Should we wait a little longer?"
Presumably, once Suxing Ye turned back into human form, he would no longer let her cuddle and pet him.
Huo Zhanting did not answer.
His face remained completely expressionless, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.
In reality, however, a massive storm was raging inside Huo Zhanting's heart.
Normally, the moment a Palliative Serum was injected into a male beast, it would take effect instantly, allowing him to resume human form.
Yet Suxing Ye was still in his beast form.
The only possible explanation was that the Palliative Serum had failed.
Then why had the Silver Wolf's frenzy stopped?
Huo Zhanting's gaze shifted to Yulan, who was currently sitting inside the iron cage, playing on top of the Silver Wolf's massive head. A strange look flashed through his golden eyes.
The next second, the Silver Wolf—who had just been rolling around in front of Yulan, making the pretty girl's eyes curve into smiling crescents—suddenly shuddered all over. Then, its body slowly shrank, transforming into the striking figure of a sharp and handsome young man.
It was none other than Suxing Ye.
The man lay on the floor with his eyes closed, his forehead smooth, brows fierce and starry, bridge of the nose high and straight, and pale red thin lips tightly pressed together.
Compared to Huo Zhanting's majestic presence and intimidatingly severe aura, Suxing Ye's features were much softer.
Yulan breathed a sigh of relief, her gaze quickly sweeping across Suxing Ye's face before she scrambled up from the ground and crawled out of the iron cage.
She ran over to Huo Zhanting, twiddling her fingers as she looked up at the man:
"Is he going to be alright now?"
"When will he wake up?"
Huo Zhanting's gaze swept past Yulan, his exceptionally sharp golden eyes catching the slight tremor in the fingertips of the man lying in the iron cage behind her.
He let out a cold snort in his heart.
As an SSS-grade male beast, he actually resorted to acting cute, currying favor, and wagging his tail to beg for affection in front of a female. Now that he was awake, he was naturally too embarrassed to face her.
Not to mention, this imperial arranged marriage was something they had both stubbornly resisted all along.
"He's fine. He'll wake up soon."
Huo Zhanting did not expose Suxing Ye on the spot, sparing some face for his subordinate.
"That's good, that's good."
Yulan patted her chest.
As long as Suxing Ye was fine, everything was okay.
From now on, as long as she behaved herself and didn't court death, relying on her current identity as a princess, she should be able to live very well in this world and would certainly not meet the same end as the original owner.
Right at that moment, the villa's butler rushed over in a panic.
"This is bad, this is bad."
"Princess Louisa has brought a crowd of people along with reporters from the Interstellar Daily."
"They're blocking the front entrance right now. Princess, you had better go take a look."
"What? What is Louisa doing here?"
Yulan's mind was filled with bewilderment.
She even brought the media? Could she possibly be the center of some huge news?
Ah!
Come to think of it, the original owner had truly suffered a miserable fate. She was originally the Queen's only daughter and the next heir to the throne.
Yet she had gotten lost at the age of five due to a royal conspiracy, and Queen Belina subsequently lost her fertility, leading her to adopt Princess Louisa, the daughter of her twin sister, Prince Esa.
Meanwhile, the original owner, upon being found, had lost her healing powers, becoming practically a useless female. Retaining only the title of princess, she was completely cut off from any hope of ascending the throne.
At the very end of the original plotline, Louisa had indeed lived up to expectations by becoming the new Queen.
Just as Yulan reached the front entrance, she saw the villa doors being shoved open from the outside.
Louisa's voice rang out from outside, "Lanlan, I simply cannot bear to watch Suxing Ye bleed and fight as an empire hero, only to be reduced to a wild beast because of your selfishness."
"Even though a female cannot soothe another person's male, you lack healing powers and cannot form a bond with Major General Suxing Ye."
"I promise I will only provide him with regular palliatives from now on. In name, he will still be your male beast."
"I am not going to steal your male beast from you!"
For a female to be incapable of soothing her own male beast—
And to have another female step in to help—this was nothing short of blatant humiliation.
Yulan clenched her fists.