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Ye Wanning gnawed on a chicken leg. The young boy, who usually kept his face carefully expressionless, actually looked reluctant to leave.

"No, we have to go, or that damned emperor will come after us again." Ye Qingchuan reached to pull them away. Before leaving, Ye Zhenzhen scattered a few Dizzying Talismans and knocked out everyone in the Imperial Kitchen. Then she and Ye Wanqing stuffed every tasty pastry and dish they could find into the Heaven-and-Earth Ring.

"Isn't this wrong? Gentlefolk shouldn't steal or rob, or accept food offered in contempt. My father will scold us if he finds out." Ye Wanning couldn't help speaking up as he watched their banditry.

Ye Zhenzhen popped a sweet pastry into his mouth to shut him up. "Kid, if you don't tell him, who's going to know?"

Chewing the delicious pastry, Ye Wanning promptly chose silence.

On the Flying Boat back, Ye Qingchuan, king of jealousy, began settling accounts again. First, he spent a good while stewing over the Human Race emperor, accusing Ye Zhenzhen of failing to observe Wifely Virtue. She should have made it clear she was married and kept her distance from the emperor.

"I did tell him I had a husband! I even told him I'd given birth to both these children, but he insisted on taking me back." Ye Zhenzhen sounded aggrieved. She really had told him. The Human Race emperor simply hadn't cared. How was that her fault?

"Then why didn't you refuse when he wanted to marry you? If I hadn't thrown the palace into chaos and taken you away in the confusion, would you really have married him tomorrow?" The more Ye Qingchuan spoke, the angrier he grew. Fury blazed in his Auspicious Phoenix Eyes.

"Of course not. I spotted you ages ago and