It was very strange.

Mo Yan’s body was perfectly fine. Yu An thought for a moment and concluded the problem must be in her mind.

She didn’t probe immediately. Instead, she removed her hand and placed it on Han Li’s wrist.

Her superpower coursed through Han Li’s entire body. Just like with Mo Yan, there was nothing wrong.

Looking at the dazed Han Li, Yu An suddenly remembered something.

Han Li had told her that Han Fengyun knew a form of hypnotism that could make people obey his commands.

The Maid had said she didn’t see Han Li often, and every time she did, he was just as dazed and unresponsive.

’Could Han Li have been hypnotized by Han Fengyun?’

Yu An had no experience with hypnosis and didn’t know if her superpower could counteract hypnotism.

After some thought, she decided to try it on Han Li first.

As the warm energy flowed into Han Li’s body, Yu An observed his expression contort in a struggle. His eyes cleared for an instant, only to be quickly filled with pain.

"It hurts! It hurts so much!"

Han Li clutched his head, slamming it against the stone table in agony. Before Yu An could pull her hand back, Mo Yan shot to her feet, shoved Yu An’s hand away, and pulled Han Li behind her protectively.

Her voice turned shrill, her eyes filled with rage. "You fiend! Don’t you hurt my Li’er!"

Yu An tried to explain, but Mo Yan wouldn’t listen. Or rather, she was so consumed with protecting her child that she couldn’t hear anything else.

When a Beastman suffers severe trauma, they will revert to their beast form for self-protection to slightly lessen the pain.

But even after turning into a Little Wolf pup, Han Li’s pain didn’t lessen in the slightest.

Mo Yan grew frantic. In her eyes, everyone here was a villain—a villain hurting her Zaizai!

A vicious glint in her eyes, she transformed into a giant white snake, coiled herself around Han Li, and tried to flee.

"Aunt!"

"My Lady!"

Both cried out in alarm and instinctively started to give chase.

With a wave of her hand, Yu An sent a vine to wrap around Mo Yan. Mo Yan struggled but couldn’t break free and could only let out threatening hisses.

"Calm down," Yu An said, pressing her hand on the snake’s head, her voice low. "I know you’re self-aware. I’m trying to heal Han Li!"

Mo Yan paused. Her struggles lessened until she stopped completely.

Mo Yan asked in confusion, "An’an, what’s wrong with my aunt?"

The Maid wanted to know as well. She watched Mo Yan nervously, terrified that something would happen to her.

"They don’t have any signs of injury. I suspect they’re under Han Fengyun’s hypnotism..."

Very few people knew that Han Fengyun possessed the power of hypnotism, but Yu An had no intention of hiding it for him and laid out all the details.

"Of course, you said Mo Yan has been injured before. It could just be that my skills aren’t refined enough to detect it."

Yu An said this to the Maid.

The Maid froze for a moment, then said hesitantly, "Actually... my lady was never injured."

"I’ve always attended to my lady personally. The only exception was that one time she was taken away by the City Lord. When she returned, she was... like this."

Mo Yan pressed, "Then do you know what happened?"

The Maid shook her head. "I don’t know the specifics. I just know that my lady used to dislike the City Lord, but after that incident, she became very dependent on him."

’She also knew something else, but she couldn’t speak of it. It was the City Lord’s most hidden secret, and it had to do with Han Li’s true parentage.’

’Everyone who knew about it was one of Han Fengyun’s trusted confidants; she was the only exception.’

’If she wasn’t the only person Mo Yan trusted after turning "foolish," Han Fengyun would have silenced her long ago.’

’The Young Master can’t contend with the City Lord right now. For the safety of her lady and the Young Master, she can’t reveal a single word!’

Mo Yan’s emotions gradually stabilized. She shifted back to her human form but refused to let go of the unconscious Han Li, holding him tightly.

"Heal me first," Mo Yan pleaded, her eyes rimmed with red. "I’m not afraid of the pain. You can test it on me first."

Yu An nodded lightly without a word. ’She was a mother, too. If their roles were reversed, she would have done the same thing.’

’In truth, Yu An didn’t know how to cure illnesses. Before gaining her superpower, her greatest talent had been cooking.’

’After gaining her superpower, she had relied on it to treat every ailment, big or small.’

A continuous stream of energy flowed into Mo Yan’s body. At first, it felt very comfortable, but slowly, that feeling turned to discomfort.

The longer it went on, the more pain she felt. If she weren’t holding Han Li, she would have been writhing on the ground in agony.

The Maid said nervously, "Miss, perhaps you should stop? My lady seems..."

"Continue. I’m fine."

Mo Yan felt the fog that had long clouded her mind begin to clear, and memories buried deep within started to surface.

Yu An estimated her remaining superpower, then nodded. "Alright. Just bear with it a little longer."

"An’an, stop."

Mo Yan said with concern, "You’re pregnant with a Zaizai. You can’t get too tired."

Mo Yan had wanted to recover completely in one go, but upon hearing what Mo Yan said, she quickly pushed Yu An’s hand away.

The clarity that had just begun to return to her mind was once again shrouded by "dark clouds," but she seemed a little less dazed than before.

"You have a Zaizai. You can’t overexert yourself."

Mo Yan said sternly, "You must protect your Zaizai, and protect yourself too."

Yu An said with a sigh of resignation, "My superpower isn’t depleted. Even if it was, it wouldn’t harm me or my Zaizai."

Mo Yan refused. "My aunt and Han Li are right here. They can be treated anytime."

’He had his own selfish reasons.’

’In truth, he didn’t know this younger aunt of his, Mo Yan, very well. The person closest to Mo Yan was his Female Mother.’

’It was because of their close friendship that his Female Mother had taken his Beast Father as her Beast Husband. As Yu An would put it, it was a case of a girl getting together with her best friend’s older brother, making Mo Yan both the best friend and the sister-in-law.’

’To him, this unfamiliar aunt, Mo Yan, was nowhere near as important as Yu An.’

’His initial excitement had simply been about fulfilling the last wishes of his Female Mother and Beast Father.’

"Alright, alright, I’ll listen to you."

"But," Yu An said hesitantly, "if your aunt and Han Li don’t go back, won’t Han Fengyun come looking for them?"

’Can we really take on the City Lord of Han Ling City, a local tyrant with absolute power here?’

The Maid thought of this as well and said nervously, "The City Lord is out on business today but will be back tonight. Why don’t we head back first and return when he’s not around?"

Yu An thought for a moment. "No, you two should stay here."

"Han Fengyun keeps such a close watch on your aunt. If you leave, he’ll find out through his men, even if he isn’t in Han Ling City himself."

The Maid thought about it and agreed. "My lady lives in a small courtyard in the eastern district, and the City Lord has indeed posted many guards there. The only reason we were able to come out this time was because they couldn’t win an argument against her."

She had promised to bring her lady back quickly; that was the only reason they had been allowed to leave.

"We’ve been out for a long time. The guards... they aren’t going to come looking for us, are they?"

The Maid was momentarily at a loss. But seeing the equally helpless Mo Yan, she forced herself to be calm.

"Miss Yu," the Maid, Mo Wei, said with a resolute gaze, "I beg you to shelter my lady and the young master. I’ll return to face my punishment. I’ll just say... I’ll say that my lady and the young master were abducted."

’I can point them in the wrong direction. That should buy some time.’

’If hypnotism is truly the reason my lady is like this, then even if it costs me my life, I will not let her fall into the City Lord’s hands again!’