Seven Cubs, Seven Fathers, Zero Days Off

Chapter 140: Chapter 140: How Unbelievable, He’d Actually Waited Long Enough?

Liu Bao also looked at Bai Chaosi, who stood pale-faced at the door. Terrified, he turned to Shen Yue.

”Female mother, Liu Bao didn’t make you angry. Don’t make Liu Bao go with him. Liu Bao only wants to be with you, female mother.”

They had heard everything from the doorway just now.

They heard their female mother say she was going to let these men take them away, one by one. They didn’t want that.

They wouldn’t go anywhere. They only wanted their female mother.

Listening to them, Shen Yue’s heart ached.

She immediately crouched down, and the little ones all rushed into her arms.

Shen Yue held her little cubs, especially Liu Bao. ’It seems he heard all the harsh things I just said to Bai Chaosi,’ she thought.

She quickly explained:

”Good boy, Liu Bao. Of course you didn’t make your female mother angry. How could I ever be angry with you? I won’t let you go. I won’t let any of my babies leave me!”

”Just now, I was just heartbroken for my babies. After all, those uncles scared you. So I was teaching those rude men a lesson, so that they’ll be polite grown-ups in the future. When you scare someone, you have to say you’re sorry. You can’t just throw a tantrum, and you can’t throw things around to frighten my babies! That’s wrong.”

Hearing this, the little cubs finally relaxed.

They all said obediently:

”It’s okay, female mother. Dabao already made his little brothers and sisters dry themselves off!”

”Mhm, Wubao is all dry now. Wubao dried himself off!”

”And Er Bao! Er Bao was very good and even helped Sanbao dry off!”

”And Si Bao! Si Bao went and picked up the broken shovel. Look, female mother! Even though Si Bao is sad that it broke, we can still play with it!”

”Mhm, we can play with it even if it’s broken. Don’t be sad, female mother. Liu Bao isn’t sad either.”

The group of grown men standing outside the door listened, their hearts filled with guilt.

They weren’t even as mature as their own children, who had only recently hatched.

Shen Yue had originally found that iron shovel for the little ones to play with. They loved playing in the mud, but just moments ago, Mu Silin had been using it to stir the mud and had snapped it!

One could only imagine how the little ones felt, watching him break their favorite toy right before their eyes.

Right now, Mu Silin felt so ashamed he wished the earth would swallow him whole.

Lan Cangyue felt even worse. The bucket of water he’d been holding had splashed almost entirely on the children. The little ones had been subjected to his anger for no reason at all.

He could still remember the hurt in their eyes.

’Damn me to hell!’

Listening to them, Shen Yue’s heart felt heavy and sore. Her Angel Babies. They hadn’t done anything wrong, yet they were frightened for no reason, had their toy broken for no reason, and had to endure someone else’s foul temper.

Yet they were so warm and so understanding that they were comforting her in return, trying to ease her worries.

’So how could I ever bear to let such wonderful children be wronged? How could my heart not ache for them?’

She just wanted to give them all the love in the world.

Shen Yue wrapped her arms around the little ones.

”Okay, your female mother isn’t sad. I just think my babies are so good and so understanding. I’m so happy.”

She couldn’t help but kiss each of the little ones on the forehead.

”Having you, female mother, makes Dabao happy too.”

”Mhm, Xi Xi is happy too.”

”Er Bao too. Being with you, female mother, makes Er Bao happy every day.”

Warmth flooded Shen Yue’s heart again. She ruffled the little ones’ hair and looked at the broken shovel.

”But don’t play with this shovel anymore. You could poke your hands.”

”After we eat, I’ll get you a new one to play with, okay?”

The little ones, nestled in her arms, nodded happily.

”We get a new one? Yay!”

”Okay, Dabao understands!”

’I took this shovel from my dimensional space before. If I just toss it back in, it should repair itself.’

’And if it can’t be repaired, I’ll definitely find a way to get them a new one.’

She remembered it all too well. When she was little, her parents would fight and smash everything in the house.

They had ripped apart her beloved teddy bear and scattered her favorite building blocks across the floor in pieces.

She had cried and screamed:

”Why is Daddy throwing my toys away!”

”Daddy, don’t throw my toys away!”

But no matter how she cried and screamed, she couldn’t save her favorite teddy bear.

The hurt and fear from that time had haunted her for many nights. She would never let her children experience the same thing.

At that moment, the men at the door could only watch on, consumed by guilt.

This was especially true for Mu Silin, Lan Cangyue, and Ye Lüqi.

They suddenly felt so pathetic.

Pathetic to the point that they weren’t worth even her little finger.

No wonder the children didn’t like them. What right did they have to come here, swearing to claim the children as their own? What exceptional qualities did they possess that could possibly make Shen Yue fall for men as pathetic as them?

Was it just their family backgrounds, their looks, their self-proclaimed charm?

Before meeting Shen Yue, they had considered these things to be their most prized assets—the very qualities that made females swoon over them.

But now, they realized all of it was worthless.

What truly made someone captivating, what made you submit to them, was the charm of their character that radiated from the inside out.

It was her mind, her way of handling things, her entire worldview, and the richness of her heart.

In that moment, they finally understood. If they wanted to stand by Shen Yue’s side, to become her Beast Husbands and lifelong partners, they still weren’t good enough.

They weren’t worthy.

Shen Yue’s furious outburst had finally managed to humble these proud men.

They began to calm down and seriously reflect on their relationship with her and the children.

Bai Chaosi disappeared for an entire day; no one knew where he went.

After Bai Chaosi left, Ye Lüqi and the other two began trying to apologize to the children.

Mu Silin even carved a wooden shovel on the spot as a gift of apology, but the little cubs’ attitude toward him was right back to square one.

The loving-father image they had worked so hard to maintain had completely collapsed because of this incident.

Huang Ziyue, on the other hand, was the only one unaffected by the incident.

「At this time, in a forest not far from the bamboo house.」

Wu Huo was utterly shocked.

”Great Emperor Master, you’re going to resume the search for the Gobi from all those years ago?”

”That’s right.”

”But...”

Wu Huo paused.

His voice was filled with disbelief.

”But... it’s been nearly five hundred years since that incident.”

Huang Ziyue’s expression was icy, his gaze darkening slightly.

’Yes, five hundred years.’

’Who could have imagined it? He had already given up, convinced it had all been a dream. But then today, five hundred years later, Shen Yue had so suddenly, so unexpectedly, brought up the Gobi.’

’And then she had stood right in front of him and told him herself that she was the little girl in red from five hundred years ago!’

’In that moment, he had even forgotten to breathe.’

’He couldn’t hear a single sound in the world.’

’No one knew that the girl in red, that Gobi, had been the unresolved obsession knotted in his heart for five hundred years.’

’And his nightmare.’

’So.’

’When he’d said he had waited five hundred years for her, it was the truth.’

’He hadn’t lied to her.’

’It wasn’t a joke.’

’He really had waited five hundred years for her.’

’How incredible was it that his wait was finally over?’

’And she was that girl in red.’

’No one could possibly know what this meant to him!’