Shaya, You Set Me Up!

"Shaya! Shaya, get out here..."

"Stella is a slave I bought from the lower world..."

"You damned bastard, hurry up and give Stella back to me!"

Just as Stella collapsed to her knees before Shaya, staring at his imposing expression and unsure what to do, a stream of curses suddenly rang out from the gates outside the Figarland family estate.

"Uh..."

Upon hearing the voice from outside the gates of the Figarland villa relentlessly cursing at Shaya, Stella's body immediately began to tremble unnaturally, as though she were having a stress reaction! Clearly, the person outside had left a severe psychological shadow deep within Stella's heart.

"Stella, your master has come to call you back."

Shaya set down his wineglass and leaned down slightly. Looking at the delicate-looking, disheveled blonde beauty kneeling before him, he spoke softly in a low, magnetic voice.

"I..."

At Shaya's words, the unease in Stella's eyes deepened.

To be honest, when Stella saw Shaya, she had felt a trace of relief...

If she were to spend her future with a handsome man like the one before her, perhaps it would not be so bad?!

Ever since Stella had become a slave, she had known that she would be bought by someone sooner or later, that the day would come when she became someone else's exclusive slave!

Thus, she had long since stopped holding any expectations for her future.

"Do you want to go back?"

Shaya looked at Stella and continued to ask.

"I..."

After hearing Shaya's words, a glimmer of hope immediately flashed through Stella's eyes...

If she had a choice, Stella naturally did not want to serve that man outside, a bloated pig of a man who, judging by his appearance, was not even worthy of being called human...

Even as a slave, she wanted to find a handsome and attractive master!

But did she, a slave, really have a chance to choose right now?

"My time is precious. I'll give you three seconds to answer me!" Shaya looked at Stella, not giving her any chance to think further as he began counting down on his own. "Three, two, one..."

"I don't want to! I don't want to go back!"

Listening to Shaya's countdown, Stella could no longer care whether Shaya was merely toying with her, whether he would give her a pitiful sliver of hope after she made her choice only to throw her back out and return her to that pig outside, personally crushing her hopes.

At the very least, right now, she wanted to make a choice for her own future.

"Very good. Then from this moment on, everything you have belongs to me..."

Shaya seemed immensely pleased with Stella's answer. A faint smile appeared on his face as he rose from his seat and walked straight over to Stella, who was kneeling on the ground. With one hand, he gently pulled her up, then took her delicate hand and led her toward the gates of the Figarland villa, giving her no room to resist.

"..."

Stella was startled by Shaya's actions. When she saw the direction in which he was leading her, despair began to fill her expression, and she thought, As expected, this Celestial Dragon is no different from the others! They only want to toy with my feelings, to see the expression on my face after I gain hope. In the end, he'll still hand me over...

At that moment, it seemed as though Stella's eyes could no longer see any light.

Before Stella could think any further, Shaya had already led her to the gates of the Figarland villa. After pushing them open, he saw a brown-haired man dressed in bloated Celestial Dragon attire, with a bubble of snot hanging from his nose and a twisted, ugly expression...

The man was naturally Saint Puer Mingze, the Celestial Dragon who had bought Stella from the gray slave market in the lower world.

"Hehehe, Shaya, you finally brought Stella out..."

"As long as you return Stella to me, I won't pursue what happened today!"

As he spoke, Puer Mingze moved to take Stella away from Shaya's side.

"Wait..." Before Puer Mingze could successfully take Stella away, Shaya extended a hand first, blocking the space between Stella and Puer Mingze. Looking at Puer Mingze, who resembled a pig, he asked, "What proof do you have that Stella was bought by you?"

"Proof? I need proof for that?"

Puer Mingze looked at Shaya in confusion.

"Heh! Of course you need proof..." Shaya sneered and said coldly to Puer Mingze, "Otherwise, if other families from the Holy Land come later and say that Stella was clearly bought by them from the lower world, and demand that our Figarland family hand Stella over, what am I supposed to do?"

"That's true!"

Puer Mingze froze for a moment. Then he took a deep breath and sucked the green snot running beneath his nose back into his nostrils before looking at the attendants behind him and asking, "Hey! Hurry up and bring out the proof that I bought Stella from the slave market in the lower world!"

"Yes, Saint Puer Mingze."

After hearing Puer Mingze's words, the Celestial Dragon attendants behind him, all dressed in black suits, immediately took out a slave purchase certificate issued by the Sabaody Archipelago Slave Market from the briefcases they carried and handed it to Puer Mingze.

"Shaya, look! This is the proof!"

Puer Mingze waved the certificate in his hand, looking at Shaya smugly as he showed it off.

"Let me see it..."

Shaya held out his hand toward Puer Mingze as he spoke.

"Here!"

Without thinking much of it, Puer Mingze handed it directly to Shaya.

"Do you have any other proof?"

Shaya casually glanced at the certificate in his hand, then coldly questioned Pur Mingze's attendants.

"Reporting to Saint Shaya, there are no other certificates."

The attendants did not dare hesitate or falsify anything, and immediately answered.

"Then that's fine!"

Having received the answer he wanted, Shaya crossed out Pur Mingze's name in the owner field of the slave certificate right in front of everyone, then signed his own name in the blank space.

"You lot, open your eyes wide and take a good look!"

"It's written clearly in black and white on this Sabaody Archipelago Slave Market certificate!"

"Stella was clearly purchased by me personally from the slave market in the lower world! She has absolutely nothing to do with your master, Pur Mingze..."

Holding the certificate in one hand and Stella's hand in the other, Shaya spoke coldly to Pur Mingze before him.

"You..."

Pur Mingze was utterly dumbfounded by Shaya's move!

His mouth hung half-open, his eyes wide as he stared at Shaya in shock and disbelief.

Only after a long while did he slowly close his mouth, then roar at Shaya, "Shaya! You actually set me up!!"

Clearly, the Celestial Dragons were not as foolish as they appeared. Whenever their interests were involved, they could display a rare bit of shrewdness.

"Now that you've figured out who Stella belongs to, you can get lost!"

Shaya gave Pur Mingze no chance to say another word. He took Stella and the slave contract for himself, then calmly shut the gates of his villa in front of Pur Mingze and his attendants.