Chapter 84: I am your princess, and you will seize him!
Mu Qingyi got to her first and caught one wrist gently but firmly. Hu Baiyu caught her other arm and held it close to his chest, his expression both worried and fiercely supportive.
Feng Yiren, still full of evil satisfaction and half-laughing inside, moved behind her and caught her by the waist before she could launch herself forward again.
Lin Huahua struggled.
Actually struggled.
Her ears were up, her tail was bristling, and her pale little face had gone pink from anger.
"Let me go!" she cried. "Let me beat him! He deserves it!"
Wei Ranshu, who had already been slapped twice, one by fish and one by hand, now looked like he had finally realized this was not romance.
This was disaster.
But Lin Huahua was not done.
Not even close.
She kept glaring at him over her males’ arms and started spitting out every grievance that had built up in her chest.
"Because of you, I neglected my males!" she shouted. "Because of you, I ignored them, I hit them, I humiliated them, I let them suffer, I sent one of them away, and I acted like a fool every single day! All because of your stupid face and your even stupider words!"
Every sentence that left her mouth made the males behind her go still in a different way.
Because yes, they had always known she did those things.
But they had never heard her say it like this.
They had never heard her admit it so openly.
And the worst part was that the more she spoke, the more obvious it became that Wei Ranshu had known exactly how much influence he had over the old Lin Huahua and had done nothing to stop it.
Mu Qingyi’s eyes darkened.
Hu Baiyu’s jaw tightened so much that the muscles in it visibly moved.
Even Feng Yiren, who usually liked saying the cruel thing just because he could, became very quiet for one second.
Wei Ranshu’s own face was changing rapidly now.
At first he had still looked shocked.
Then angry.
Now he looked cornered.
Still, because he was who he was, he refused to lose face properly.
So he lifted his head and said, "You are the one who chose to do all of that. No one forced you. You are only acting like this because you know you still love me, and now you are trying to keep your males too."
For one second, the whole crowd thought they understood.
Or rather, they thought this had finally struck the right spot and Lin Huahua would fall silent because the peacock had spoken some terrible truth.
Even her males went tense again.
Because that fear still existed in them.
That old wound still existed in them.
The fear that maybe, just maybe, she really would turn back and choose that peacock again.
Then Lin Huahua suddenly went still.
Very still.
So still that Feng Yiren stopped smirking, Mu Qingyi loosened his hold slightly, and Hu Baiyu looked at her carefully.
Lin Huahua’s mind, however, was moving very fast now.
She was the princess of this tribe.
The apple of the Rat King’s eye.
The spoiled daughter of a ruler, not only in her old world but in this world too.
Why was she struggling to hit this man herself like some silly little female with no backing?
Why was she doing all the work?
At that moment, something sharp and smart flashed across her mind, and before anyone could guess what she was about to do, Lin Huahua lifted her chin and shouted, "Seize him!"
The surrounding males froze.
Then looked at one another.
Then looked at her.
Wei Ranshu’s expression changed first.
For the first time since walking over here, real fear entered his eyes.
Because this was different.
This was very different.
Lin Huahua, seeing that no one had moved yet, glared at the surrounding males and said with the full authority of someone who had never once in her life been taught how to ask twice nicely, "I am your princess, and you will seize him!"
That worked.
Immediately.
The hesitation vanished.
Before her own males could even fully move, two nearby wolf beastmen and one bear beastman lunged first, and within seconds Wei Ranshu had been forced to his knees with his arms pinned behind him.
Now he understood.
Oh no.
This was bad.
This was very, very bad.
The smugness drained from his face all at once.
Su Yanrong, however, was still stupid.
Or maybe she was too angry and too proud to stay quiet, which in the end was the same thing.
Seeing Wei Ranshu on his knees and her whole plan falling apart in front of her, the vulture woman stepped forward and lifted her chin.
"Lin Huahua! Just because you are the princess does not mean you can do something so unjust..."
Lin Huahua did not even let her finish.
She turned, looked at Su Yanrong, remembered in one flash that this was the same bitch who kept eyeing Feng Yiren, and said coldly, "Seize her too."
That froze everyone again.
Because Wei Ranshu was a male.
A stupid male.
A kneel-him-down-and-punish-him type of male.
But Su Yanrong was still a female.
And no matter how disliked she was, no male wanted to be the first one to put his hands on a female and drag her down.
Lin Huahua noticed the hesitation immediately.
Then she understood why.
Because she was a female.
Fine.
"Then I want two females to seize her," Lin Huahua said sharply.
Now Su Yanrong’s males finally became tense.
Very tense.
The air around them changed at once, because even though they hated seeing their female stir trouble, they were still her males, and the instinct to protect her rose immediately. But the moment they saw the way Lin Huahua’s own males were staring at them, all three of them swallowed whatever words had risen into their throats.
Because behind Lin Huahua stood two three-striped beastmen and one two-striped fox beastman, all of them protective, all of them angry, and all of them looking like they were just waiting for a reason.
So Su Yanrong’s males could only stand there with tight faces and helpless anger, unable to move, unable to speak, and unable to save her from the consequences of her own mouth.
Then, before anyone else could decide what to do, movement came from the side.
Not one woman.
Three.
Three females stepped out from the watching crowd, and the moment Lin Huahua saw their faces, she paused because they looked strangely familiar.
One of them even lifted her hand right away and said with bright eager eyes, "I will do it! I will do it for you!".
