The Villainess Cannot Escape — Five Beast Husbands Chase Her Madly-Chapter 112: Big Fish Gets Scolded, Married for So Long and Still No Cub
Louis’s dark gaze coiled around Su Qiuqiu like a venomous snake, as if trying to see what kind of fur lay beneath its jumpsuit.
Before Su An’an could even react, Lan Cangming stepped in front of her, a frigid aura surging around him. "Watch where you’re looking."
"Apologies!"
Louis tugged at the corner of his mouth, lowering his eyes to hide the dark undercurrents swirling within them.
Su An’an gently patted Lan Cangming’s hand, signaling silently with her eyes.
’Don’t worry. Qiuqiu is acting perfectly normal. It hasn’t given anything away.’
Lan Cangming silently retreated behind Su An’an, his icy gaze still sweeping over Louis from time to time.
"Anan, when did you have a baby?"
Alita exclaimed as she shot to her feet, her cat-like eyes wide as she stared at Qiuqiu in Su An’an’s arms.
She frowned and said in confusion, "That’s not right! You don’t have a mouse-type Beast Husband. Could it be...?"
Her gaze slowly fell upon Lan Cangming, whose expression was as cold as ice.
The look in her eyes was as if she could see a suspicious green glow hovering over his head.
"Sister, don’t let your imagination run wild!"
Su An’an hurriedly explained, "Its name is Su Qiuqiu. It’s five years old. It’s a young female child I adopted on the Deserted Star."
"With a temper like yours, you’d take the initiative to adopt a child?"
Alita looked as if she had just heard something ridiculous.
"You used to say that little babies are walking trouble, and that you wanted to knock them out, hang them up, and dry them into jerky."
Terrified, Qiuqiu curled into a fluffy ball and looked pitifully at Su An’an.
"I absolutely never said that! Who couldn’t love a soft, fluffy little treasure?"
Su An’an quickly comforted Qiuqiu.
But the moment of being proven wrong came instantly.
"Your Highness, you did say that," Little Pink’s voice echoed in her sea of consciousness.
Little Pink opened a video in her sea of consciousness.
A chubby little bear baby was pitifully clinging to her wrist.
The next second, she picked it up by the scruff of its neck and tossed it into a pet swimming pool.
Su An’an’s head started to ache.
’The original owner has too much dirt on her, causing me to be proven wrong at every turn.’
’It really hurts!’
"But the way you’re holding that baby today does look somewhat motherly." 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
Alita opened her small, gold-threaded folding fan and covered her mouth, chuckling softly.
"The public eats up that whole ’gentle, kind, and loving’ act. If you start building up a persona as the Interstellar’s number one baby-doting fanatic, you can definitely turn the tables."
"I don’t need to build it. I already am a baby-doting fanatic."
Su An’an sat down with Qiuqiu in her arms and gave it a piece of pine cone cake.
Qiuqiu held the palm-sized pine cone cake and began to nibble on it obediently.
Jelena’s majestic gaze swept over Su An’an’s flat stomach, and she said in a deep voice:
"Adoption is one thing, but you need to get your own reproductive plans on the agenda. You’ve been married for so long, why isn’t there any news from your belly yet?"
"Anan, if you can get pregnant with a baby, those old geezers in the Cabinet would probably frame a Star Domain map with a gold border and send it to you."
Alita ate a small muffin and elegantly complained about the Cabinet elders:
"After all, in their eyes, a female’s fertility is far more convincing to the public than her administrative abilities."
"Mother Empress, we’ve been married for less than half a year. You can’t rush these things."
Su An’an forced herself to explain, complaining silently in her heart.
’Damn it, why is it that whether on Earth or Beast Star, married people can never escape the fate of being pressured to have kids?’
"How can you not be in a hurry? Females with high fertility have already had their second litter by now."
Queen Jelena couldn’t bring herself to scold her daughter, so she turned to Lan Cangming with a grim face. "What kind of Beast Husbands are you?"
"It is this subject’s dereliction of duty."
Lan Cangming placed his right fist over his heart and knelt on one knee to ask for the Queen’s forgiveness.
His white Marshal’s uniform, combined with his ramrod-straight back, made him look like a cold pine tree on a snowy mountain peak, one that never thaws.
"Mother Empress, you see? I told you these Five Great Beast Husbands have nothing but combat power. They don’t know how to be considerate to their Female Master at all."
Alita glanced at Lan Cangming, snapping open her gold-threaded folding fan with a PA to cover her mouth.
"From the moment he came in until now, his face has been darker than the bottom of a pot. He doesn’t show even basic gentleness toward Anan."
"It’s no wonder my sister’s been married for so long with no news from her belly."
Lan Cangming’s figure stiffened slightly, and his head hung even lower.
His long eyelashes cast fragmented shadows beneath his eyes, and his usually rigid shoulder line actually revealed a hint of helplessness.
Su An’an’s heart immediately ached for him.
’Even though the ice-block fish was annoying when he rejected me, I still couldn’t bear to see the Big Fish get scolded in public.’
Just as Su An’an was about to speak up for Lan Cangming, Little Pink quickly reminded her:
"Your Highness! Now is not the time to plead for him. Her Majesty the Queen is furious right now. The more you protect him, the more she’ll dig in her heels!"
"This is classic Interstellar mother-in-law/daughter-in-law logic."
"And look at the Second Princess’s attitude. Isn’t she just like a sister-in-law looking for trouble?"
Su An’an glanced at the majestic Queen Jelena and the fault-finding Alita.
’Isn’t this a classic scene from a rich-family-infighting drama?’
Lan Cangming, who was being criticized for having been married for so long without even laying an egg, stood in the center with his head bowed.
His crisp military uniform somehow gave off the tragic air of an aggrieved young wife.
"Lan Cangming, go back and copy the *Imperial Husband’s Code* thirty times."
Queen Jelena drank her black tea gracefully, finally letting Lan Cangming off the hook.
"From now on, remember your place as a Beast Husband!"
"This subject obeys." Lan Cangming nodded in agreement, rose, and slowly stepped back to Su An’an’s side.
Suddenly, a soft hand quietly took hold of his palm.
Su An’an squeezed his palm firmly, as if to say: ’You’ve been wronged!’
A warmth suddenly surged in Lan Cangming’s chest.
But at that moment, the Beast Core in his sea of consciousness flared with a sharp, stinging pain, as if it had been clawed.
His fingers twitched, but instead, he gripped Su An’an’s hand even tighter.
’He wanted to make this gentle warmth linger in his palm for longer.’
"Anan, the reason I summoned you to the palace this time is to discuss the matter of your ennoblement."
When Jelena looked at Su An’an, the coldness in her eyes melted into tenderness.
"You have performed exceptionally well recently and have been promoted to a High-level Female. You are worthy of the title of Duke."
"Thank you, Mother Empress!"
Su An’an curtsied, but her gaze unconsciously drifted toward her second sister, Alita, afraid that she might be upset.
After all, her younger sister was about to be made a Duke, while she, the older sister, was still a Princess with no title.
"Of course our Anan is worthy of the title of Duke!"
Alita raised her chin proudly, her eyes filled with unconcealed favoritism as she looked at Su An’an.
"Never mind Duke, even if you were to be made Queen, your sister would support it with both hands!"
"Ahem, ahem, ahem!"
Empress Jelena suddenly let out a few soft coughs, her blue eyes glancing sideways at her tactless second daughter.
’My old bones aren’t even cold yet, and she’s already thinking about letting her younger sister take the throne?’
"Second Sister, don’t flatter me. I can’t even get a handle on managing a Star Zone’s affairs. Being a Duke is already making me nervous enough."
Su An’an quickly tried to smooth things over.
What she said wasn’t entirely out of modesty.
’As a cannon fodder character in the book who doesn’t even survive past Chapter three, I haven’t even cleared the main quest of staying alive. How could I dare to covet the throne?’
"Anan, stop being so modest. You’re so smart and so cute, you should at least be given an S-level Star Zone to manage."
Alita’s cat-like eyes sparkled as she looked at Su An’an.
She didn’t care about all that. In her mind, her little sister simply deserved the best.
