Framing

"Mm~~~"

Yun Ying picked up a bite of food and slowly swallowed it. Her handsome crimson eyes casually glanced at Hun Yan, who sat restlessly before her.

"So, you judged at the time that you could not defeat Xiao Yan, and in order to preserve your younger sisters' lives, you ignored our orders and fled. Is that right?"

"Yes."

Hun Yan nodded tremblingly, already imagining countless ways Yun Ying might punish her.

To put it bluntly, for disobeying orders on her own this time, Yun Ying would have been merciful even if she directly erased the sisters from existence.

Yun Ying held her wine cup, her scarlet eyes faintly flickering.

From her observations of Hun Yan and the other two over the past two years, Yun Ying had come to a clear conclusion about them.

Hun Yan and the other two had been doing everything in their power to stay alive, no matter what methods they had to use. Yet that did not mean they feared death. They truly enjoyed their already hopeless lives, living every day as though it were their last.

However, that had been before.

After she handed Hun Wu over to them, the three of them had clearly changed.

Because of Hun Wu's existence, the three had become more afraid of death than before.

Although this was indeed the development she had anticipated, it had undoubtedly exceeded Yun Ying's expectations.

(Hmph~ This is rather interesting~)

A faint smile appeared in Yun Ying's eyes as she casually glanced at Hun Yan before her.

The three of them really resembled her former self.

They had likewise been born into that Law of the Jungle clan, likewise suffered bullying in their youth, and likewise done every inhumane thing possible in order to survive within the clan.

It was only