Dai Mubai Coveted Huo Yun'er, Zhu Zhuqing Decided to Live for Herself

Well, after learning Huo Yun'er's identity,

he had specifically rushed over when she and the Child of Destiny were being bullied by the Duke Mansion's vicious servants.

He stepped forward and "rescued" them.

He even pretended not to know their identities at all, acting as though he had merely drawn his blade to help when he saw injustice.

Only afterward did he learn who they were through questioning.

Then he flew into a rage.

"Who was it? Who let you bully my younger brother and my aunt?"

"Servants bullying their masters? This is outright rebellion!"

"I'm telling you, from today onward, if anyone dares lay even a finger on this mother and son again—"

"I'll skin him alive..."

Dai Mubai loudly berated the band of vile servants.

"Young Master, but the Duchess..." The lead servant hesitated, worried that the White Tiger Duchess would hold him accountable.

Dai Mubai said nothing. Right in front of Huo Yun'er and Dai Yuhao, he walked up to the man who had spoken.

Two yellow, two purple, and one black soul ring flashed into existence.

Having instantly completed White Tiger Possession, he fiercely slapped out with both tiger paws, striking the servant squarely on the forehead.

Smack— It sounded like a watermelon bursting apart.

The next second, the servant's head exploded. Blood, skull fragments, and brain matter scattered across the ground.

Huo Yun'er had never seen such a bloody scene. Her body had already been at its limit, and she had also suffered a brutal beating.

Overwhelmed by fright, she screamed and fainted.

Dai Yuhao cried out in panic, repeatedly shouting, "Mom, don't leave me!" But with his tiny body, how could he possibly support an adult like Huo Yun'er?

Fortunately, Dai Mubai reacted quickly and caught her.

It would have been fine if he had not held her. The moment he did, something happened.

The instant he caught Huo Yun'er, his lower half stirred.

At that moment, the way Dai Mubai looked at Huo Yun'er changed.

Only then did he realize that Huo Yun'er was truly beautiful. She had a figure, she had a pretty face... Even though her body was spent, her face pale, and cold sweat beaded over her skin,

to Dai Mubai, who had spent ten thousand years in the God Realm without experiencing anything fresh, those were all added attractions.

A few strands of hair at her forehead and temples clung together. She truly looked both pure and alluring.

"Although she's not as pretty as Zhuqing, and her figure is a little worse, she's still a great beauty. How could that useless Dai Hao simply abandon her? What a waste of resources..."

The moment this thought surfaced, Dai Mubai was startled by himself.

Wait, why not?

He had no blood relation to this woman.

Merely being the Child of Destiny's elder brother and benefactor was not secure enough.

After all, he himself was not someone who repaid kindness or treated his brothers with respect.

But if he could become Dai Yuhao's stepfather and marry Huo Yun'er,

then when Dai Yuhao ascended to the God Realm, if he brought Huo Yun'er with him, wouldn't he definitely bring Dai Mubai along too?

At this thought, Dai Mubai did not dare delay. He scooped Huo Yun'er into a princess carry and declared loudly:

"You lot, hurry up and summon the mansion's physicians, healing-type soul masters, and food-type soul masters. Bring them all here!"

"I'm telling you, if anything happens to my aunt, that man just now will be your fate."

"Yuhao, let's go."

After saying this, Dai Mubai carried Huo Yun'er toward his residence, while also calling for Huo Yuhao.

A boy and a girl happened to pass nearby. Seeing this scene, they stopped in their tracks.

They both looked around ten years old.

The boy had center-parted golden hair, and his features somewhat resembled Dai Yueheng's.

The girl possessed a pair of heterochromatic eyes. Though still young, she already had quite a developed figure.

Her expression was simply rather cold,

and the coldness on her face came from within, a pure and pristine coldness.

There was not even a trace of life in her differently colored eyes, clashing somewhat with her exceptionally beautiful face.

Her limbs were slender and well-proportioned, and she exuded a deathly chill that was difficult for others to endure.

They were none other than the White Tiger Duke Mansion's Second Young Master, Dai Huabin, and the Nether Duke Mansion's legitimate daughter, Zhu Lu.

Zhu Lu had come today because her mother had brought her to arrange a marriage alliance with the Dai Clan.

Of course, this was not mandatory.

After all, the Dai Clan was no longer the Dai Clan it had been ten thousand years ago.

It had fallen from the Star Luo Imperial Family to the White Tiger Duke.

Meanwhile, the Zhu Clan remained prosperous, even more prosperous than it had been ten thousand years ago.

The current Star Luo Imperial Family, the Xu Clan, had granted the Duke of Nether a high position in order to win over the Zhu Clan.

The hereditary Prime Minister of the Star Luo Empire.

The Dai Clan commanded the military, while the Zhu Clan governed the state.

The two clans were now equals.

The marriage alliance was more about the Dai Clan courting the Zhu Clan and the Zhu Clan investing in the Dai Clan.

As the legitimate daughter, Zhu Lu had no shortage of potential marriage partners.

If she wished, she could even become the Crown Princess of the Star Luo Empire.

For that very reason, Dai Huabin remained quite courteous toward Zhu Lu.

He hoped to raise his standing within the Dai Clan through marriage to her, compete for the White Tiger Duke's inheritance,

and perhaps even ascend the throne of the Star Luo Empire in the future.

Seeing Dai Yueheng casually kill his mother's trusted servant for the sake of a lowly woman, Dai Huabin was absolutely delighted inside.

But on the surface, he put on an expression of heartfelt pain.

"Zhu Lu, that is my eldest brother, Dai Yueheng."

"He really should not have done that. Killing servants in the mansion so casually is simply unacceptable."

Zhu Lu ignored him, though disappointment was impossible to conceal in her eyes.

It was disappointment in both Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng.

Because she was not actually Zhu Lu, but Zhu Zhuqing.

She, too, had been "reborn."

She had been reborn into the body of Zhu Lu, the Zhu Clan's legitimate daughter.

But unlike Dai Mubai, Ning Rongrong, Tang San, and Xiao Wu,

when she had first been reborn and learned of her current identity, she had felt neither panic nor fear of the unknown.

All she felt was relief and liberation.

In her previous life, she had defeated her elder sister and surpassed even her own ambitions, becoming the God of Speed, more honored than the Empress of the Star Luo Empire.

Yet she had left behind far too many regrets.

Because she had no choice, she gave up her moonlight, Brother San, and had no choice but to throw herself into Dai Mubai's arms.

Now that she had another life, she had the chance to make her own choices.

Naturally, she wanted to live once for herself.

Of course, if that were all, she would still have been uneasy.

The reason she was so fearless was that she had left behind the God of Speed's inheritance within the Zhu Clan.

It was simply that over the past ten thousand years, not a single one of the Zhu Clan's many descendants had caught her eye.

Of course, part of it was also that she had been unwilling to relinquish her Godhood.

And the reason she had agreed to come to the Dai Clan was naturally not for the marriage alliance.

She merely wanted to see her descendants ten thousand years later.

Instead, she was deeply disappointed in both brothers.

She was disappointed in Dai Huabin because ten thousand years had passed, and the Dai Clan had long ceased to be the imperial family.

Why had they still not changed their vile habit of brothers competing and slaughtering one another?

Ever since she arrived at the White Tiger Duke Mansion, Dai Huabin had hardly missed a single chance to attack his elder brother.

Whenever he had the chance, he would say this was wrong with his brother and that was bad about him.

Yet he always put on an air of righteousness.

It was truly disappointing beyond measure.

At the same time, his elder brother Dai Yueheng was no good either.

As a woman—a very beautiful woman with an absolutely stunning figure—

in the Douluo Continent of the past, no matter where she went, men would watch her with lewd and disgusting gazes.

Thus, she was extremely sensitive to such looks.

Just now, Dai Yueheng had not been standing up for that mother and son at all.

He had clearly been lusting after that woman's beauty.