Chapter 49

Chapter 49: Having Babies—Sister Was Serious!

“I just turned eighteen,” Su Yan said. “Can I still go?”

The Divine Beast Academy sounded like a place full of talented males—exactly the kind of place where fate and bloodlines clashed and winners were made.

Song Sui looked her over, doubt flickering. With her slim frame, she didn’t look fully grown. “You’re eighteen?”

Su Yan nodded. “Yes.”

Bai Kai Xin blurted, “But the Divine Beast Academy is basically all male. There aren’t any female students.”

“Why?” Su Yan asked.

Bai Kai Xin opened his mouth, then shut it again. Truth might anger her, and lies were poison he’d already swallowed too much of.

Song Sui chuckled. “Even if females have talent, it’s usually low. They can’t pass the entrance exam.”

Instead of discouraging Su Yan, it lit something in her eyes—bright and stubborn.

“If I insist on going,” she asked, “is there a way in?”

Song Sui looked from Bai Kai Xin to Su Yan. “There is.”

“Say it.”

Song Sui said, “This kid has Yellow-rank wind talent. Not high, not low. If he performs normally, he has a good chance of being admitted. Once he gets in, if he pays the academy a sponsorship fee, he can bring one attendant. If you enter as his attendant—”

“Done,” Su Yan said, slapping the table once. “That’s the plan.”

Both men startled at her decisiveness.

Bai Kai Xin felt like he was trapped in a dream. He’d kidnapped a female off the roadside to pay a debt, and somehow his fate had turned on its head.

He’d thought his life was finished—that sooner or later the casino’s thugs would beat him to death.

Now, in the carriage, he kept pinching his own face just to make sure he was awake.

Su Yan leaned against the carriage wall, watching him with faint amusement. Then she patted his shoulder. “Listen. On the surface, I’m your attendant.”

“I understand,” Bai Kai Xin said quickly, hand raised as if taking an oath. “I’ll never order you around. You’re my master. From now on, my life is yours.”

“You don’t have to go that far,” Su Yan said, exasperated. “Just act the part in public. Don’t make it obvious.”

“Yes, yes. Everything Sister Su says.”

Su Yan sat cross-legged and peered through the window at the distant forest line. “What’s that place?”

“The Tianyuan Beast Forest,” Bai Kai Xin said. “Second-ranked beast forest on the Beast World Continent. It borders Senyu, which ranks third.”

“The Senyu Beast Forest…”

Su Yan thought of her first child—the Golden-Eyed Black Leopard Beast cub.

“Do you know the Golden-Eyed Black Leopard Beast?” she asked.

Bai Kai Xin blinked. “That’s nobility in the Imperial Capital.”

“Oh?” A thin thread of feeling tugged in Su Yan’s chest. “How noble?”

“One of the top ten Beast Clans in the East District. I heard the clan chief of the Golden-Eyed Black Panther Clan has Heaven-rank talent, and he’s already cultivated to the peak.”

Su Yan nodded thoughtfully. “That’s impressive.”

Impressive enough to be worthy of fathering her child. But she already had a cub from that bloodline—she wasn’t about to provoke that clan again.

Bai Kai Xin had been holding a question back for too long. Finally he blurted, “Sister Su… why do you want to go to the Divine Beast Academy?”

Su Yan didn’t bother dressing it up. “To see the geniuses of the Beast World Continent. And maybe hook one.”

Her goal was simple. Find a high-talent male. Have children.

Bai Kai Xin stared at her, stunned.

After a long moment, he managed, “That… how is that even possible?”

“Why wouldn’t it be?” Su Yan said lightly. “I’m not lacking in ‘conditions.’” Then she gave him a sharp look. “When we get there, help me ask around. Scout some high-talent males—preferably handsome.”

Bai Kai Xin went blank, as if his mind had simply stopped.

This Sister… she was serious.

After three days of travel, the carriage finally reached the Imperial Capital, its streets louder, wider, and more crowded than anything Su Yan had seen in the West District.

Ever since Su Yan had confessed her true purpose, Bai Kai Xin had tried to talk her out of it at every opportunity.

“Don’t provoke those high-talent male students,” he warned. “You won’t even know how you died.”

Most talent came from inheritance. Mutations were rare and didn’t count for much in the grand scheme.

High-talent males were almost all born into great Beast Clans—like the Golden-Eyed Black Leopard Beast line she’d mentioned.

The young men who entered the Divine Beast Academy were usually direct heirs. The females meant for them would be carefully chosen—matching status, strong talent, and fertility beyond high-grade.

A nobody from Mouse Clan like Su Yan wouldn’t even be considered.

If she dared reach for those heirs, she wouldn’t get away unscathed.

“Sister Su,” Bai Kai Xin pleaded, “listen to Little Lackey just once. Please give up that idea.”

Su Yan didn’t even blink. “What’s good to eat in the Imperial Capital? Introduce me.”

Bai Kai Xin’s mouth opened, then closed. Food was his weakness too.

“There’s a bun people call ‘Imperial Capital’s No. 1,’” he said reluctantly. “You should try it.”

“Then let’s go eat buns.”

They asked around and drove the carriage to the bun shop.

Unlucky. By the time they arrived, the buns were sold out. The air still smelled faintly of steam and flour, like a promise snatched away.

Su Yan’s disappointment was plain.

Bai Kai Xin was about to speak when someone stepped forward and offered her a paper bag. “Want some?”

Su Yan’s gaze landed first on the hand holding the bag—long fingers, jade-white skin, beautifully shaped. The sight pulled her attention like a hook.

Her eyes slid upward.

A tall young man stood there in white robes threaded with gold. Pale blue hair spilled down his back like water, and his eyes were an icy, transparent blue. His features were so perfect they looked carved.

“You…” Su Yan blinked, lashes fluttering. “What’s your talent?”

The young man’s lips curved faintly, amused. “Do you still want the buns?”

“If your talent is good,” Su Yan said, sweeping her gaze over him with open appraisal, “I can give you buns too.”

Bai Kai Xin went pale.

He grabbed Su Yan and yanked her away—while still snatching the paper bag from the young man’s hand. “Thank you, Young Master Rong.”

He dragged her into a more hidden corner before hissing, “Are you crazy?”

Su Yan raised her chin. “No. I’m perfectly normal. My instincts say he’s a very good male.”

Bai Kai Xin sucked in a breath. “His name is Rong Wu. Earth-rank water talent.”

Su Yan’s eyes lit. “That’s excellent. You know him?”

“How would I know an heir of Rong Family?” Bai Kai Xin said, voice strained. “But his blue eyes and blue hair are famous.”

“He’s handsome too,” Su Yan mused. “The kind your memory can’t forget.”

“Stop thinking about it,” Bai Kai Xin said quickly. He pulled a bun from the paper bag and shoved it toward her. “Are you eating or not?”

Su Yan took the bun, still thoughtful. “Is he studying at the Divine Beast Academy?”