Chapter 490: Chapter 491 “Let me get in bed…

“Husband, it hasn’t been three months yet!”

Struggling beneath Zhao Xiyan’s unusually fervent advances, Qi Yue managed to say a sentence.

“…Heh,” Zhao Xiyan laughed above her, the sound brimming with pleasure.

“What is Yueyue thinking? Your husband is merely enjoying the moment and has no intent of actually doing anything!”

Under his laugh, Qi Yue’s cheeks flushed with embarrassment.

“You clearly said you needed to catch your breath for a moment, yet here you are wanting to do this again…”

Zhao Xiyan laughed again, lying down beside her and stretching an arm to pull her into his embrace, leaning down to whisper in her ear.

“Yueyue… you must have been waiting anxiously too, right?”

Her face burning, Qi Yue tried to wriggle out of his hold, only to be embraced even tighter by Zhao Xiyan.

“Heh… not long now, just endure a few more days, I am here with you…”

“How dare you even say that…”

Qi Yue, bashfully incensed, pushed against the man with all her might.

“Alright, alright, your husband is at fault… Ah, be careful of the child…”

After a spell of playful tussling, Qi Yue eventually emerged victorious, sentencing Zhao Xiyan to sleep on the footstool.

However, the man was far from compliant, sitting on the footstool but his entire body seemed desperate to stick to her.

Qi Yue swatted away his reaching hand and asked with a stern face, “Tell me, what were you up to alone just now? Qingzhu said you went to the Nanyue Camp!?”

Seizing the opportunity, Zhao Xiyan grabbed her hand, a sly smile on his face.

“Let me onto the bed…”

“Husband, why must you be so clingy…”

“Mmm, clingy is good, keeps Yueyue from running away…”

“…”

Later on, Qi Yue often regretted recalling this scene from that night.

She had taken Zhao Xiyan for his usual, unhurried manner, and completely believed what he told her.

She honestly thought that when he had gone to the camp, he encountered Shen Gong, and the two fought a ferocious battle, resulting in the Elemental Analyzer being lost at sea.

She really believed that he had found Li Tianyi and had learned some details of the situation.

She had truly thought that Shen Gong was as she guessed, not a significant threat.

She had believed that with her plans in place, she could neutralize a great crisis as if it were nothing.

The next day, the thunderstorm continued unabated, with frightening bolts of lightning flashing across the sky above Gemidu City, seemingly tireless.

Combining the intelligence from Zhao Xiyan and Qingzhu, Qi Yue formulated a disintegration plan.

The said ‘disintegration’ was to eliminate Shen Gong’s operation before it could erupt.

The plan was simple: to stuff the pill Qi Yue had prepared into the mouths of the frogmen while they surfaced to breathe.

To ensure the operation went unnoticed, Qi Yue secured several speedboats, all designed in a stealthy black.

That evening, as the Nanyue Army’s tower ships dispatched the frogmen, Qi Yue simply raised her hand, and several fast boats appeared on the sea in front of her.

Having already shown Qi Yue the speedboats’ design in an inn room earlier, Qingzhu and the others were not surprised.

On the other hand, the members of the Black Feather Guard, temporarily called for the task, were so astonished they cried out.

“This… this this this… What’s going on here?”

The men couldn’t stop rubbing their eyes, wondering if they were seeing things, hallucinating?!

Fortunately, with the roar of the thunder and the brightness of the lightning, Qi Yue wasn’t worried about being overheard.

“You’re not seeing things; pretend you saw nothing, understand?”

The Black Feather Guard members hesitated and then promptly acknowledged in unison.

“We will heed the lord’s command!”

Although it was a pitch-dark, windy night, they were all martial artists with night vision and soon mastered how to operate the speedboats.

Under Qingzhu’s leadership, several black speedboats vanished on the sea like phantoms.

Looking out at the vast sea, Qi Yue couldn’t help feeling eager to try herself.

“Husband, shall we go too?”

Zhao Xiyan withdrew his gaze and tightened the cloak around her a bit more.

“Don’t even think about it!”

Qi Yue was instantly deflated under his piercing gaze.

“I’m just worried that they might not be up to the task!”

Zhao Xiyan snorted.

“Not up to the task? Yueyue, is there a misunderstanding about the Black Feather Guard’s abilities?”

Qi Yue, seeing that her objections were to no avail, had no choice but to try a different approach to persuade him.

“Husband, they will be busy for a long time; shall we just sit here and wait?”

“Then I’ll take you back, and after everything’s over, you can return to collect the speedboat.”

As he spoke, he had already stooped down to carry her.

Qi Yue’s intention had been to personally oversee and verify the effects of the medicine; how could she consent to leave? She immediately began to retreat.

But the beach was strewn with rocks, and as she stepped back, she nearly fell.

Fortunately, Zhao Xiyan was already on guard for such a move and quickly caught her.

Qi Yue was also a bit frightened and nestled in Zhao Xiyan’s embrace without a peep.

“Ah, what am I to do with you?” Zhao Xiyan sighed in her ear, “How can I have peace of mind this way?”

At that moment, Qi Yue did not understand that Zhao Xiyan’s concerns were about the impending separation between the two.

She keenly caught the tenderness in his words and immediately raised her proud little face.

“Then let’s go have a look! I want to see the waves with you at sea; it’ll be so romantic to remember in the future…”

Zhao Xiyan, already anxious over Qi Yue’s impending departure, felt a sudden tug in his heart at her words.

“Alright, alright, let’s go! I want to drive a speedboat too!”

Zhao Xiyan caught her restlessly fidgeting hands and looked at her intently.

“If you ride the speedboat, won’t you feel uncomfortable?”

“Not at all,” Qi Yue shook her head repeatedly, “I would feel uncomfortable if you didn’t let me go!”

Zhao Xiyan finally made up his mind and nodded.

“Alright, it would be good to have a look!”

Before Qi Yue could cheer, she immediately released a speedboat and beckoned Zhao Xiyan to get on board.

“Husband, quickly hold me and get on, we have to catch up to them!!”

Zhao Xiyan shook his head helplessly.

The little lady was so careless with herself; it was up to him to worry more.

The two, driving the speedboat, soon caught sight of Qingzhu and the others.

“Quick, quick, quick, get closer!”

Seeing the excitement on Qi Yue’s face as she waved her arms, Zhao Xiyan’s incredibly handsome face suddenly cracked.

“Keep shouting and we’re going back!”

Upon hearing this, Qi Yue immediately fell silent and withdrew her head back in.

“I will sit still, is that okay?”

Zhao Xiyan turned and secretly chuckled, slowing down the speed a little.

“Tidy your clothes.”

Qi Yue obediently complied, afraid that Zhao Xiyan might decide on a whim to return to shore.

At that moment, Qingzhu and the others ahead also stopped and were looking around.

Qi Yue hurriedly pulled out her telescope and, after just one glance, could no longer contain herself.

“Husband, there’s a frogman coming up; let’s get closer quickly!”

As the speedboat drew nearer, she saw clearly a frogman surfacing, pulling down the cloth over his face a bit to breath heavily.

“Just as I thought, this suit can breathe.”

She muttered to herself, her interest in this amphibious material growing even stronger.

Who knows what incredible things could be made from this material!

She saw through the telescope Qingzhu toss a medicinal pellet into the wide-open mouth of the frogman in the blink of an eye.

Qi Yue couldn’t help but cheer again.

“Well done!”