The Villainess Cannot Escape — Five Beast Husbands Chase Her Madly-Chapter 125: The Handsome, Powerful, and Tragic Fox
Little Pink closed the message from the Royal Family Cabinet and said,
[Your Highness, the military has approved the funds and is begging Big Fish to come back. He only has four days of leave left. After accompanying you to the Mad Beast Institute, he has to return to the Mermaid Fleet.]
[Then I have to master my Mermaid Abilities while he’s still here for the next few days.]
Su An’an dried her hair, put on a white lab coat, and entered the Alchemy Room.
The green Big Mouth Whiskers floated out from behind her head and began creating the Blood Frenzy Pill.
[Your Highness, if you eat fox meat next, I wonder what ability you’ll awaken?]
Little Pink cupped its round face, its eyes turning into little hearts.
Su An’an froze. An image of the fox’s face, so enchanting it could charm all living things, flashed before her eyes.
A lazy, handsome youth saying "Let’s get a divorce" in an ice-cold tone.
"A Beast Husband who’s always talking about divorce... you think I’d want to take a bite out of him?"
She rolled her eyes and tossed the Centella into the Extraction Instrument. "Besides, the one he likes is Jiu Su, not me."
Even though she knew she was Jiu Su, she couldn’t help but grind her teeth when she remembered the light in Fei Zhao’s eyes whenever he mentioned Jiu Su.
[Your Highness, I originally thought Fei Zhao was just a promiscuous, social-climbing fox, but after looking into some files, I discovered he had his reasons.]
Little Pink suddenly brought up an encrypted file.
The yellowed cover was printed with "Red Fox Fei Zhao Investigation Record," and the signature was the gilded seal of the Business Alliance.
As the holographic projection expanded, the Extraction Instrument in Su An’an’s hands suddenly fell to the floor.
A twelve-year-old Fei Zhao had a sinister look in his eyes. Blood was still dripping from his young fingertips, and beneath his blade lay his half-brother.
[The data shows that he spent eight years slaughtering the brothers who betrayed him and his Female Mother, and he also poisoned the High Priest.]
Little Pink’s voice was unusually somber as a series of bloody images flashed across the Light Screen:
[His methods included, but were not limited to, luring them to their deaths with Spirit Plants, poison contamination...]
"Wait!"
Su An’an pressed her throbbing temples. "He was only twelve years old back then! How could he possibly—"
[By relying on the Fox Clan’s Forbidden Medicine, ’Blood Spirit Grass.’]
Little Pink displayed an anatomical diagram of the herb. Its scarlet veins looked just like the bloodshot vessels in Fei Zhao’s eyes:
[It stimulates one’s potential in the short term but causes irreversible damage to the genetic chain.]
[When you severed his nine tails back then, you actually accelerated his genetic collapse.]
’So he’s in such a hurry to divorce me because he wants to find Jiu Su for Life Extension?’
Su An’an stared at the red liquid in the Extraction Instrument, her feelings a tangled mess.
’If it were her, she would also choose the Holy Female who could save her life. But when she recalled how Fei Zhao would always turn his face away whenever he mentioned divorce, her chest tightened inexplicably.’
"But he hasn’t contacted Jiu Su recently..."
[Because he doesn’t want to live anymore.]
Little Pink solemnly opened a medical diagnosis report:
[The latest psychological evaluation shows that Fei Zhao’s self-destructive tendency index has reached 99%.] 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
"Why?"
Su An’an looked up in surprise, only to see the photo of the twelve-year-old Fei Zhao in the projection.
Beneath the ferocity in the boy’s eyes, there was a hint of loneliness she found familiar.
[Because he’s fallen in love with you.]
Little Pink said excitedly:
[But because of his childhood trauma, he has pathologically linked true love with destruction.]
[His Female Mother, as the Holy Female of the Red Fox Clan, refused to mate with any other Beast Husbands after giving birth to twelve S Level male beasts because she had fallen in love with a Gray Fox.]
[To establish his authority, the Red Fox High Priest had Fei Zhao’s half-brothers torture and kill the Gray Fox, then orchestrated a plot to have his Female Mother demoted to a Wasted Female.]
[In exchange for the Blood Spirit Grass to extend his life, she voluntarily entered the female cave to pacify the male beasts, continuing until she was completely spent.]
A yellowed medical record flashed on the projection.
[Wasted Female ID 897xx], Cause of Death: Rupture and failure of the reproductive cavity.
"Wait! [Wasted Female ID 897xx] was his mother?"
Su An’an had seen the file on this Wasted Female before.
The records showed that she had endured the female cave for three years before finally being executed after her life force was spent.
She never imagined that such a tragic Wasted Female was actually Fei Zhao’s mother.
Enduring that hellish female cave to the very last moment, all to get Blood Spirit Grass for Fei Zhao.
[Yes. Fei Zhao didn’t know about the sacrifice she had made for him until his mother was executed and thrown out of the female cave.]
[To this day, he still believes he is the root of his mother’s tragedy.]
Little Pink pulled up the medical records:
[So when he realized his feelings for you, he chose to push you away with a divorce.]
[Your Highness, his genetic collapse has already entered the third stage. He has one month to live, at most.]
Little Pink burst into tears, wailing:
[Please save him! He’s even more starved for love than Poison Dragon and Big Fish!]
"I will save him!"
A fiery light ignited in Su An’an’s eyes as she asked, "Where is the fox now?"
[His last signal was locked onto the Northern Black Star. A magnetic storm caused a loss of communication.]
Little Pink’s Light Screen displayed a Star Map of Black Star:
[However, with your current authority as a Princess, you cannot dispatch an Interstellar fleet into a high-risk zone.]
’The Black Star plotline is my greatest crisis, and also the final challenge I must face.’
Black Star is a lawless zone, and only a Duke of the Beast Clan is qualified to apply for jurisdiction over it as a fief.
And the pacification activity at the Mad Beast Institute in three days is the Royal Family Cabinet’s final assessment of her.
"I’m going to become a Duke."
Su An’an said, her voice firm and decisive, "Add the Northern Black Star to the scope of my fief application."
[As you command! The Blood Spirit Grass has been stored. After Qiuqiu improves it, we can place it in your body to be nurtured for three days. Then it can be used to save the fox.]
Little Pink’s tentacles turned into fluorescent arrows, waving frantically:
[When you go to save the fox wearing a Duke’s coronet, you’ll be the coolest person in the entire galaxy!]
"As soon as the mission at the Mad Beast Institute is over, initiate the fief application process immediately."
Su An’an used her last bit of Energy to finish the Alchemy for the Blood Frenzy Pill. As she turned and walked toward the rooftop pool, her legs were still trembling.
Lan Cangming was resting. His silver-blue caudal fin traced faint blue patterns of light in the pool. When he saw her, he immediately swam over. "You should be resting."
"Starting today, I’m doubling my training."
Su An’an jumped into the water. Her pink mermaid tail splashed, its scales glinting with a stubborn light under the moon.
"Your heart rate was just off the charts..."
Lan Cangming didn’t get to finish before Su An’an cut him off. "I need to get stronger."
"I have to be strong enough to win my title in three days, and strong enough to pull the fox out of Black Star."
Lan Cangming froze. "You know the fox went to Black Star?"
"Yes! And I have to save him!"
A fiery flame rose in Su An’an’s eyes.
Lan Cangming remembered how Su An’an had disregarded the danger to establish a spiritual link with him and learn from the *Mermaid Love Treasure Book*.
He suddenly smiled, his caudal fin steadily supporting her sinking waist. "Alright. First, let’s practice water control. Use your mermaid tail and wrap it around my fin."
「Three in the morning.」
Su An’an lay limp in Lan Cangming’s arms, looking at her own dull pink tail—a sign of overusing her mermaid Energy.
Lan Cangming wiped the water droplets from her body. "Go sleep for two hours now. After dawn, we’ll practice endurance in your mermaid form."
"But I can still..."
Before Su An’an could finish, Lan Cangming was already carrying her toward the edge of the pool. "If you want to save him, you first have to learn to take care of yourself. That’s an order, Your Highness—the future Duke."
