Chapter 160

The end of the dinner party concluded with Luka's deflection. Qiao Suisui, worried about the wolf tooth, hurried back, and Zongfang and Ka'er left with her. Laiboli's goal was not achieved, so he stayed behind and called out to Luka.

"Sikesaisi, I thought you and I were at least on the same side."

Luka looked at him blandly and said, "From the beginning, I have had, and only have, one side, and that is her side."

Laiboli sneered, "I don't know about others, but we grew up together. You can fool the others, but you can't fool me. You are also very uneasy now, aren't you?"

Luka was silent. He couldn't deny it; even this uneasiness was growing day by day, especially after seeing Anubis. He could fully understand why Sui Sui would be especially protective of him. That young man had an indescribable resilience, and just a few words could make people feel his sincerity.

Laiboli spun the wine glass in his hand and said, "You anticipated that she would make up with Zongfang after returning from the Southern Battlefield this time, but you didn't guess that Ka'er would follow, right?"

Luka's light pupils became deep. He looked back at Laiboli blandly and said, "As long as she likes it, I have no opinion."

"Then she is about to become my Empress, and I presume you should have no opinion on that either."

Upon hearing this, Luka's pupils shrank violently, and his expression was momentarily frozen.

Laiboli rose from his seat. When he stopped beside him, his gaze looked straight ahead, his eyes shining with the determination to win.

"I will order people to hold the ceremony as soon as possible. Out of respect, I am telling you in advance."

Luka took a long time to find his voice and asked, "Did she agree?"

Laiboli smiled and said, "She agreed personally." After saying that, he strode past Luka.

If she were still like before, not agreeing to be any man's mate, perhaps the balance in Luka's heart could still be maintained. The large top floor was left with only the elongated shadows on the ground to keep him company.

Laiboli didn't tell him that before setting off from the Southern Battlefield, he had used Zongfang's release order as a trade to get Qiao Suisui to agree to mate with him.

He knelt on one knee, took out a dark blue velvet box, and opened it. Inside was a diamond ring the size of a pigeon egg, exquisitely crafted and quite stylish; one look and you could tell a lot of thought had been put into it. This was a ring he had personally designed and ordered the top team to make.

"Sui Sui, I have kept this ring for a long time. Originally, I thought I could keep waiting, but now it seems I can't..."

Laiboli looked up, the tenderness in his eyes mixed with anxiety, looking straight into her eyes.

"Marry me, can you? I will use everything I have to treat you well."

Qiao Suisui was a bit dazed by Laiboli's sudden decision. She wanted to pull him up, but Laiboli insisted on kneeling in front of her.

"I know what I'm doing is despicable, but there are no rules in love." He took out the ring and put it on her middle finger, coaxing, "Marry me, be my Empress, so that Zongfang can also be freed from the Southern Battlefield. I promise you, as long as you like, he can always stay with you in the Huangting."

Qiao Suisui hesitated and wanted to retract her hand, but Laiboli grabbed her first and said, "And Sikesaisi, if you are with Zongfang, can he tolerate Sikesaisi? If you go back to Sotelan with him, what will happen to Sikesaisi? What will happen to the children?"

"But I don't want to mate with anyone... and Luka will definitely be sad if he finds out..."

Clearly, he was her first man.

Laiboli coaxed softly, "Don't worry, I already discussed it with him before I came. And after our ceremony, you can also register with him; I will absolutely have no opinion."

Qiao Suisui asked hesitantly, "He already knows?"

"Yes, I came to bring you back this time, not him. Doesn't that just happen to show his attitude?" Seeing a trace of disappointment in her eyes, Laiboli suppressed his heartache and said with a smile, "Sui Sui, I grew up with Sikesaisi and know him very well. As long as you are well, he doesn't care. And this is the best way to handle it for now. After we go back, nothing will change. If you like living in the Huangting, you can stay here; if you want to go anywhere, you can go. I will never restrict you. Here, Sikesaisi and I will always be your backing, and the children can also get the best education."

Seeing that Qiao Suisui was still hesitating, he added a heavy blow.

"Do you want to keep dragging us along like this?"

Qiao Suisui's back stiffened. The guilt caused by Ka'er's matter was hooked out by this sentence. She had actually always been self-condemning. Although the rule of this world was that females could have multiple mates, the training and education she had received for over a decade were constantly reminding her—

You are a slut.

What you are doing is wrong.

You cannot have so much beauty and happiness at the same time.

You shouldn't keep so many people hanging just because you want to be loved.

Even if she had cultivated to a very selfish and hard-hearted degree, she couldn't avoid such a voice running out of her thoughts, because that was the collective subconscious given to women by the past society.

Laiboli's words made her feel like she had thorns on her back. She gripped the ring, and the hard cut of the diamond made her palm ache.

"... I agree."

It was just a ceremony; nothing would change. Qiao Suisui comforted herself in her heart.

Laiboli happily hugged her tightly, and the two embraced neck-to-neck. It was just that of the two embracing, one was ecstatic, and one was lost. — Qiao Suisui hurriedly returned to her palace and rummaged through the luggage she had brought back. Generally, she put such important things in the system's storage grid, but the storage grid was full, and she was afraid that Zongfang would see it and get angry if she put it in the space, so she had hidden it well in a box.

When Ka'er walked in and saw the things on the floor thrown in a mess, he resignedly picked them up for her one by one. Qiao Suisui threw them in front, and he picked them up behind.

"Found it!"

She opened the box, saw the wolf tooth was intact, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Ka'er tidied up her things and muttered from the side, his words full of sourness: "What would happen if it were really lost? Just grab a dog passing by, knock out one of its teeth, do you believe I could still command the Wolf Clan and be all-powerful?"

"You can command without a dog tooth; the most powerful thing about you is this mouth."

"Not convinced?"

Ka'er caught her and kissed her fiercely, deliberately whispering in her ear, "Do you believe this mouth of mine can make you cry and beg me to stop?"

Qiao Suisui's face instantly heated up several degrees. She pushed against his solid abdominal muscles, pushing the man away only for him to stick back on, push away and stick back on.

She scolded him coquettishly with a red face, "I think you're also a dog, a dog-skin plaster."

Ka'er chuckled a few times, his hands holding her not letting go at all.

"Actually, it's no different, both have fur, do you want to touch it?"

(End of chapter)