"Okay, don't ever hit me again then."
Saying that, Han grabbed Yue's hand as Yue stood up and escorted Han back into the place where they lived. Then he directly lay down on his bed.
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Meanwhile, on the other side, in Hao's bedchamber...
Hao was sitting on the bed while looking at his own fingernails, like he was thinking about something—something very important.
"He is way too arrogant for someone who looks so weak. And I know I have another personality too, which used to treat him well—but I'm not that personality. I'm not going to treat him well."
As Hao said that to himself, suddenly, he started having a headache.
That headache was unbearable because his main personality was trying to come out.
Hao tried hard, but he couldn't stop it. After 5 minutes, he was just sitting there, looking down.
When Hao finally looked up, he stared around at everything and then stood up from his bed, directly opened the door, and dashed out from there.
In the meantime, Yue had fallen asleep and was sleeping very soundly. Just then, his room's window opened.
As the window opened, cold air started to sweep into the room.
It gave Yue shivers, and he woke up—but didn't open his eyes—because he felt that someone had entered his room through the window.
But he didn't know who that person was. Was it an assassin or someone else?
That's why he remained lying there, to see what the person's purpose was.
And just then, that person took a step forward, and Yue felt someone sit down on the bed.
After sitting down, Yue felt that this person was about to touch him.
Yue was sure he was going to kill him, but still, he remained there. Because if he tried, the system would give a warning.
But just then, that person touched Yue's head and stroked his hair.
As they did, Yue snapped his eyes open and grabbed that person's hand, twisted it, and pushed him down from the bed.
And when Yue saw that person, his eyes widened—because that person was a black panther. And he had panther ears.
And a tail too. He couldn't understand what a panther was doing in his room. Did he come here to eat him?
"Who the hell are you, and what are you doing in my room? And that too in the middle of the night?"
That person slowly stood up while brushing the dust off his clothes and looked at Yue with a smiling face.
But Yue was not smiling at all. He was angry—he had been sleeping, and how dare that panther break into his room?
"Chill, Yue. It's me, Lee."
"Lee? Who's that now?"
"So you don't remember me? After all these years, I still remember you. And I came to you. To repay you. For helping me."
Yue didn't know who it was, but then the system told him who it was. In his childhood, the previous owner had helped a black panther cub who was going to die.
But he saved him. And as the cub got a little older, and saw how much Yue had helped him, he had fallen for him.
But after that day, Yue never went to meet him again. The black panther was waiting for him all that time.
"I'm sorry if I scared you, but please don't hate me. Please."
And at that exact moment, the door opened and Hao rushed inside.
And what he saw was a black panther man standing beside the bed—and on the bed, Yue was sitting in his pajamas.
Seeing that, Hao's eyes widened. He felt betrayed that Yue was calling another alpha man into his room in the middle of the night.
"What is this? Who is this man, little one?"
Hearing it, Yue understood that Hao's main personality had finally come.
But the scene Hao was seeing made it look like Yue was cheating on him, even though in reality, he wasn't. Yue had to fix this mess before it got worse.
"Wait a minute, Your Majesty—it's not what it looks like!"
Yue got off the bed and stepped toward Hao to explain to him, but then Lee suddenly came and wrapped his arm around Yue's shoulder.
"Yes, there is something between us. So divorce Yue right now, you psycho."
What Lee did and said only made the Emperor and Yue angrier. Yue pushed Lee away from himself because he had had enough now.
"What kind of bullshit are you spouting right now? I don't even know you. You broke into my room in the middle of the night—so why are you lying in front of my husband?"
Hao's heart fluttered as he heard Yue calling him "husband." And he smiled a little—but again hid that smile in despair, because he didn't want to show them he was happy.
Lee was standing there like a statue. He couldn't accept it. Yue had said something like this to him.
All his dreams, all his love, shattered to pieces when he heard Yue. His life goal was Yue.
He wanted to get married to him. He had even told everyone that Yue was his mate.
"No… You are my first love. You can't betray me like this…"
[ "Is this panther gone insane? Why is he behaving like this?"
"Boss, he's not some side character. He's a second male lead who never gets anything, no matter how great he is."
"No, if he tries, he can get anything—except me. Cuz I want to complete the mission, so of course I can't be with him."
"But that's the fate of second male leads. That's why all the readers always pity them."]
"Lee, did you forget you were a little cub when I saved you from everyone? Basically, I'm like a father figure to you," Yue said to Lee.
Lee's eyes widened after hearing that—because in Yue's words, there was logic.
"No… You are not my father. I love you… I love you so much."