After marrying the fierce god, her handsome young husband was pampered to the extreme.

The white snake coiled at the bottom of the dark cave, surrounded only by a few fluorite stones emitting a faint light.

This white snake was enormous; its head alone was ten feet wide, and its tail was coiled into a ball. It was currently resting with its eyes closed.

Pearl touched the white snake's scales, while still tightly gripping Zhao Duo's hand, perfectly demonstrating what it means to be both incompetent and playful.

"Wow, it's so cool and refreshing, like touching jade." Pearl was enjoying touching it when suddenly the white snake opened its vertical pupils.

The golden beast eyes were incredibly oppressive. Pearl swallowed hard and hurriedly moved behind Zhao Duo with small, shuffling steps.

Zhao Duo bowed to the white snake, "Ancestor, this is a pearl."

The white snake flicked its tongue, and its enormous head tilted slightly.

Pearl, who was hiding behind Zhao Duo, shivered. He cautiously peeked out and whispered, "Greetings, Ancestor... Ancestor."

Zhao Duo chuckled to himself.

Pearl snapped angrily, "What are you laughing at!"

"It's nothing." Zhao Duo squeezed the little boy's hand and comforted him, "Don't be afraid, sweetie."

"I, I'm not afraid at all," Pearl retorted stubbornly. "I'm the bravest person in the world."

Zhao Duo didn't expose him, but simply asked, "Would you like to touch it again?"

Pearl quickly shook her head, "No, no."

Hearing Zhao Duo chuckle, Pearl kicked him, "Stop laughing!"

"Want to go play on the ancestor's head?"

Pearl's head was practically flying off her hands. "No, no!"

This is too terrifying; Pearl is completely too scared.

"Did they go out?"

"Mmm!" Pearl mustered her courage and waved to the White Snake. "Goodbye, Ancestor."

After the two emerged from the snake cave, they went to see the butterflies in the valley before descending the mountain.

None of them mentioned Artuya, as if his death were insignificant.

In Zhao Duo's mind, Pearl was just an innocent and naive young girl, easily frightened. Moreover, this matter might be related to Prince Cheng, so he chose to remain silent.

Although he didn't have much contact with Artuya, they still knew each other somewhat as peers. He was extremely vengeful; while not cruel, he was still a ruthless person.

Although the matter was not yet clear, Zhao Duo could guess some of the truth. He guessed that the person was holding a grudge against Pearl from the previous mountain god worship ceremony and wanted to take action against him.

In the end, he not only failed to harm others but also harmed himself, and he doesn't deserve any sympathy.

Pearl felt that since her father had done it, it was no different from what he had done. After all, Atuya was practically Zhao Duo's clansman, and she didn't want this matter to affect her relationship with Zhao Duo.

Neither of them knew the other's concerns, which could be described as a unique kind of tacit understanding.

The southwest side courtyard of Lin Si's residence.

Lin Nian's eyes widened. He hurriedly ran to close the door, extremely cautious.

Artuya went missing, and her family searched for her everywhere, practically turning the Five Poison Fortress upside down.

Although Lin Nian didn't go out today, she still heard about what happened outside from the servants.

Just now, the man casually said that he killed Artuya, which terrified Lin Nian.

"Why did you kill him?" Lin Nian asked.

"He's planning to harm our Pearl," Yin Cheng said. "I'm not a saint. Knowing he wants to hurt my son, would I let him go?"

Lin Nian asked in confusion, "How did our Pearl offend him?"

"You'll have to ask Huang Mao for that."

Lin Nian thought for a moment and asked, "This Atuya isn't going to be Pearl's love rival, is she? So she wants to kill Pearl herself... What's that word again? It's the word from your previous world."

Yin Cheng: "Higher position?"

"Yes! Does he want to kill our Pearl and take over for himself?"

"That's pretty much it. Anyway, they didn't have any good intentions. They wanted to disfigure our Pearl, subject her to public criticism, and then kill her with the poison."

Lin Nian angrily said, "Then he deserves it! Why should our Pearl suffer this undeserved disaster for no reason?"

"That's right."

Pearl is kind, but he is not.

Do you really think he wasted two or three decades on the northern frontier?

Lin Nian calmed herself down and asked again, "Did you do it cleanly? Will it come back to you?"

"It's only a matter of time."

Lin Nian was speechless. "What do you mean by 'sooner or later'?"

That bastard! He's not composed when he should be, and he's as steady as a mountain when he shouldn't be!

Yin Cheng said, "The Atu family is considered a prominent family in the southwest. The locals certainly wouldn't offend Atuya, let alone lay a hand on him."

Lin Nian suddenly realized, "So once they realize Atuya is dead, they'll eventually trace it back to the outsiders. Our family is the most capable of killing Atuya silently, so we'll definitely be their target..."

"That's right."

Lin Nian slapped the man's arm. "What do you mean 'right'? Hurry up and think of a solution! I don't want this to cause any rift between Xin Hui and Zhen Zhu."

"What kind of estrangement could there be between them? Huang Mao and Atuya are not related at all, at most they are half of the same clan." Yin Cheng pulled his wife to sit on his lap. "Wife, all the tribes in the southwest depend on Huang Mao's family for survival, so Huang Mao can be considered half a clansman with anyone."

Lin Nian: "...That seems to make sense."

"I told Zhao Lang's husband about this," Yin Cheng said. "Zhao Lang's husband said that if they still don't behave after one of them dies, he'll wipe out their whole family."

Lin Nian: "..." No, shouldn't Qian Yuan, as the head of the family, be doing her best to maintain good relations between the various tribes?

Why are you even going so far as to try and wipe them out completely?!

Lin Nian still had concerns, "What if they really come knocking on our door? We can't just kill their whole family, can we?"

Yin Cheng said, "They have no evidence, at most they can only gossip behind people's backs."

Lin Nian breathed a sigh of relief. "Was the body disposed of?"

"Of course." Yin Cheng was extremely surprised. "Wife, when did you become so bold?"

Lin Nian pouted, "I'm not telling you."

Yin Cheng reminisced about the past, when his wife was still his little darling who would hide behind him when she saw the guards interrogating him with charcoal fire. Now, she could tell him how to dispose of a corpse without batting an eye.

"My wife is brave and fearless," Yin Cheng said. "It's been so long since I kissed my wife, come here and give me a kiss."

Lin Nian rolled her eyes. "Then who was that jerk who pinned me down and kissed me for ages last night?"

Yin Cheng shamelessly replied, "I don't know, I don't recognize, and I don't understand."

"You're a father of two, and you still can't behave properly. Let go, stop pinching my flesh."

"I didn't pinch, it was more like rubbing." Yin Cheng lied through his teeth, his large hands behaving very dishonestly.

The two were just getting intimate when suddenly the door creaked open.

"Dad! I found a huge longhorn beetle!" Yuanbao pushed open the door, holding a black beetle. He immediately saw his father's murderous look and his shy, blushing little dad on his father's lap.

Yuanbao immediately withdrew his big, silly grin, silently stepped out of the room, and then closed the door with one hand.

Because he was holding a black beetle in his other hand.