Chapter 205: Falling Out

"I'm fine."

After Leng Xiao brought Yun Li to sit in a secluded spot and she had a good cry, she felt much better once the pent-up frustration in her heart had been released.

Only, leaning against her male's chest, she seriously reflected on her interactions with Ke Si over the past two days. After a long while, she finally sat up straight and said to Leng Xiao:

"About what happened just now, remember to explain things clearly to A Qing when you go back. Tell him that my Mate Bond with Ke Si probably isn't happening, and let him discuss with Axuan how to handle the aftermath of this matter.

Don't let the fact that Ke Si and I had a falling out affect the normal alliance between the two tribes..."

Yun Li spoke while rubbing her forehead with a bit of a headache, as if no matter what, this matter couldn't help but have some negative impact on the alliance between the two tribes.

After all, Ke Si's status in the Youbuluo was extraordinary. Not only was he the chief's own younger brother, he was also a highly respected Witch Doctor of the tribe.

"Enough! A Li!"

Seeing his female still having the mind to consider these trivial matters at a time like this, Leng Xiao's heart suddenly began to ache in spasms for reasons he couldn't understand.

He held Yun Li tightly and said, "This isn't something you should worry about right now."

She had just been crying—how could she suddenly start considering the consequences of falling out with Ke Si as if nothing had happened?

Leng Xiao had originally thought he would be happy to hear that his female couldn't form a Mate Bond with Ke Si, but that wasn't the case at all, because he couldn't bear to see his female putting herself through such difficulty.

"The matter with Ke Si, my brother and I will handle it well. Originally, things between you and him didn't need to escalate to this point. It was because my brother and I kept interfering that today's situation arose.

So the rest will be handled by my brother and me. You don't need to overthink it.

If you feel hurt because of Ke Si's matter, if you feel very wronged, then today you don't need to worry about anything at all—after all, you still have us, don't you?"

Yun Li was stunned by Leng Xiao's words. Would she be sad because she couldn't be with Ke Si?

Don't be ridiculous—his temperament was so awful. Even though being with him made her feel secure, even though she had been moved by the tenderness and consideration he inadvertently revealed, even though she had...

But as for her reasons for considering a Mate Bond with him, didn't she know how much of it was truly from her own heart?

Yun Li didn't understand where Leng Xiao's worry for her came from. She thought he was just momentarily panicked from seeing her cry so miserably earlier, which was why he said those things.

"I'm not very sad."

She wrapped her arms around the male's back, her voice carrying a trace of weariness and dejection as she said, "I'm just annoyed that Ke Si can never sit down and talk with me properly. I don't like a male who won't listen to reason.

It's just that if I break things off with him, I worry the alliance between the two tribes will be affected because of it.

If Ke Si weren't so petty, I don't think I'd have to worry about so much."

Listening to his female open her heart to him, the male didn't feel much gratification. Instead, a trace of bitterness began to well up inside him.

Every sentence she spoke was about Ke Si's faults, yet every sentence also revealed her understanding of Ke Si.

If she didn't have even a bit of genuine affection, given A Li's temperament, she wouldn't take the initiative to understand someone.

But since things had come to this, all Leng Xiao could do was comfort his female.

"Mm, I understand. Actually, in your heart, you still want to have a proper talk with Ke Si, right?"

Yun Li buried her head in his neck and said with a smile, "Given what I said yesterday and today, with his temperament, he probably won't want to talk to me anymore. So there's no need for us to trouble ourselves over this matter.

Just don't be too soft on him if you and A Xiu go see him again because of me."

Hearing this, Leng Xiao said nothing, stroking his female's back absently.

Yun Li felt a bit drowsy from his gentle movements, but she still remembered she had important matters to attend to today. So after staying in the male's embrace for a while longer, she was about to stand up.

"I still have matters to attend to—I need to go find He and the others. If you have nothing to do, go home first."

"My brother is at home today, and the little ones are being looked after, so wherever you want to go now, I'll go with you."

Leng Xiao was worried about her condition, so of course he wouldn't go back so soon.

Yun Li couldn't do anything about him. Seeing he insisted on following, she could only let him come along.

……

The Priest of You took a turn around the tribe but didn't see the beastman he was supposed to see. Instead, he was invited by the chief and Priest of the Silver Eagle Tribe to sit and chat for a long time.

By the time he returned to his temporary quarters in the Silver Eagle Tribe in the evening, he heard Chang Yue tell him about Ke Si's abnormal behavior after returning.

"Not forming a Mate Bond with Yun Li anymore? So does he plan to abandon his little ones too?"

The Priest of You hadn't expected such a situation to arise. He asked Chang Yue whether he knew what had made Ke Si give up his plan to form a Mate Bond with Yun Li.

But Chang Yue only shook his head. "Maybe he ran into Yun Li's two Beast Husbands again today."

Although this was only Chang Yue's own guess, after hearing it, the Priest of You still managed to guess a bit of the reason why Ke Si wanted to give up forming a Mate Bond with Yun Li.

"So that's how it is."

Unable to accept that the female he liked had other males in her heart?

For a male like Ke Si, whose possessiveness over what belonged to him was extremely strong, after testing the waters once or twice, he would probably only arrive at an answer he couldn't endure.

A expression full of mockery and tinged with schadenfreude flashed across the Priest of You's face. The suffering he had endured before, other males would now have to endure too—and he had even fallen harder.

At least he could receive his female's undivided affection, but... that was all there was to it.

How unfair!

When the Priest of You reached the door of Ke Si's dwelling, a bold and eager notion suddenly sprang to mind.

Why not... find a way to abduct him to the Youbuluo.

That would also conveniently spare his female from fixating on Yun Li. By then, the person would already be in the Youbuluo, and as a smart beastman, she wouldn't be so rigidly loyal to the Silver Eagle Tribe as to defy them.

Inside the dwelling, Ke Si had long since reverted to his serpent form. After destroying everything in the room, he filled this already not-very-large room with the bulk of his beast body.

So when the Priest of You tried to push the door open and enter directly, he found that the door wouldn't open at all, and when he called out, no one answered. Finally, his patience exhausted, he slapped his palm against the heavy wooden door.

Crack—

As the wooden door shattered, the dwelling seemed to emit the sounds of cracks spreading through it.

The Priest of You, not understanding what was going on, saw that the wooden door hadn't completely shattered and was still stubbornly holding upright before his eyes.

He reached out his hand and delivered another palm strike.

Now the entire dwelling collapsed.

Ke Si reverted to human form before the dwelling became a pile of ruins. He was already extremely irritable and frustrated because Yun Li had no genuine feelings for him at all—who knew that someone would come looking for trouble at a time like this.

"Are you asking to die! Don't think that just because You Ruo protects you, I wouldn't dare touch you!"

Ke Si's relationship with his sister wasn't as good as outsiders thought it was. It was just that their strength was evenly matched, and You Ruo had male protectors like the Priest watching over him, so he wouldn't go out of his way to pick a fight with their whole family for no reason.

But this time, Priest You had truly provoked Ke Si to the point where he didn't want to give him any face at all.