Today's third update: Chapter 2791! 3/4!
Repaying kindness with enmity?
Yanran knew that if A Li had not deliberately protected her, she would have been dead beyond saving.
A Li's strength left her breathless and made her feel an unprecedented sense of defeat.
Now that he could not move and was at her mercy, all she had to do was seize this chance to finish him off, removing a major threat from this battle against the Cat Race.
Her gaze gradually turned ruthless. Yanran snorted coldly, swooped down, and yanked A Li up.
Her right hand transformed into cat claws gleaming with a chilling light, aimed directly at A Li's heart.
But just as she was about to strike, she saw A Li's ragged breathing and unfocused eyes. All the ruthlessness in her gaze immediately receded like a tide.
She hesitated again and again, raising and lowering her claws, but in the end, she simply could not bring herself to do it.
"I lost this time, but I won't kill you because you protected me earlier. Next time, though, I'll definitely beat you."
The spectators outside only saw A Li's figure kicked into the air amid the dust. Then, a wisp of green smoke drifted away as Yanran, apparently unharmed, returned to the Cat Race camp.
Yet after merely glancing at the state of her own side, Yanran felt her vision go dark.
"I... have betrayed Master's trust!"
Looking at the formation that had been torn to pieces, and the Huang Race members charging through it as though no one was there under the Twelve Kirin Scions' lead, Yanran knew that she had suffered a crushing defeat in this encirclement battle.
Hesitation only bred disaster. Yanran decisively ordered, "Sound the retreat!"
The Cat Race members retreated like a receding