I Am the Only Fertile Woman in the Game-Chapter 45 Rebellion

Two girls arrived at Leberli’s residence and found no one there. They asked the patrolling guards and servants, but none could clarify His Highness’s whereabouts.

Isabella said, "No way, did he sneak off?"

Qiao Suisui gently pushed open the door, surveyed Leberli’s room, and summoned a servant to ask when it had been cleaned.

"Hey, what are you looking at? Why don’t we go in and wait for him?"

"He probably hasn’t come back for two or three days."

"How do you know?"

"It’s too clean here, without any signs of life."

Isabella disagreed, "You heard it just now, didn’t you? The servant cleaned up this morning. Isn’t that normal?"

Qiao Suisui shook her head and picked up a glass turned upside down on the table to show her. "Would a servant also wipe the fingerprints off the glass?"

Isabella was taken aback, and while holding it, she scrutinized the body of the glass and then inspected the other glasses on the tray—she couldn’t see a single fingerprint.

"I asked just now. The servant said that when he came in the morning, Ash was not here. He just cleaned briefly, and the bedding is still as it was yesterday, which means he didn’t come back. If these glasses weren’t wiped by a servant, then who did? What happened here that required every trace to be meticulously erased?"

Isabella hissed and clutched her head. "No, no, it feels like my brain is growing a brain."

Qiao Suisui then opened the wardrobe, and Isabella hurriedly followed, mimicking her actions and after a while couldn’t help but ask, "What’s wrong, what have you discovered now?"

"The last time I saw Ash was the day he left the Imperial Court with Lanze. The outfit he wore then is not in the closet now."

"Ah!"

Isabella suddenly exclaimed as if enlightened.

She knew this all too well—the Royal Family stipulated that it was a significant breach of etiquette to wear the same clothes at repetitive events or when meeting the same people again.

"So he hasn’t come back since!"

Qiao Suisui nodded, "He probably hasn’t been back since the day I left."

"Where has he gone then? Could he have been secretly punished by father? But that’s not right, father has been unconscious."

Qiao Suisui didn’t respond to Isabella’s incessant speculative analysis. She hurried out to find someone to ask what had happened during the days she was away, but just as she was leaving, she bumped into a sturdy chest.

"Brother!"

Qiao Suisui rubbed her forehead and saw Isabella behind her flinging herself into the arms of the man in front like a little magpie.

It turned out to be Gorba III’s eldest son, Neo Leberli.

He was a large man, stronger than Ruka, with broad shoulders, making Isabella in his arms appear even more petite. His skin was evidently tanned from years in the sun, and he was dressed in the royal ceremonial attire, appearing dignified yet aloof.

The imposing man stood at the doorway, first slowly raising his hand to symbolically touch Isabella’s head, and then his gaze settled on Qiao Suisui.

"What are you doing here?"

"Ah, Qiao Suisui and I came to find our cousin. Have you seen him?"

Neo didn’t answer, but stepped aside at the door, signaling for Qiao Suisui to come out.

"Go back. Don’t wander around."

Having said that, he lifted his chin as a signal to a squad of guards. Qiao Suisui and Isabella were immediately surrounded by guards from both sides, the leading male making a ’please’ gesture with his head bowed.

Qiao Suisui didn’t move. Isabella, sensing something was off, whispered, "Has something happened?"

Neo still showed no expression, speaking, "Father is seriously ill, the Imperial Court needs to be under martial law. You all stay within your own palaces and try not to go out often."

"But I also want to see Father..."

"Isabella."

Merely uttering Isabella’s name softly, the girl dared not continue. Qiao Suisui could tell from just a few words that the usually arrogant princess was both dependent on and respectful of her older brother, and therefore willing to obey him.

It was also evident from the guards’ reactions that Neo’s authority was significant in the Imperial Court, but why hadn’t Gorba III chosen him as his successor, instead passing it to Lanze?

She lowered her eyes to hide the thoughts at the back of her mind and silently followed the guards out.

Behind her, Neo’s gaze lingered on her retreating figure for a long time, devoid of warmth.

That night, the entire Imperial Court fell into an unprecedented silence, making everything that seemed normal appear unusual.

Qiao Suisui checked on the three cubs and seeing them well cared for, felt slightly relieved. However, Ruka, who visited her every day, had not come that night. Even when busy, he always made time; Qiao Suisui concluded from the current situation that Ruka didn’t fail to come because he didn’t want to but because he simply couldn’t.

She always had an intuition that something was about to happen.

When it was nearly time to sleep, a sneaky figure slipped through her palace door. Qiao Suisui lay on the bed motionless, though she had already taken out her reward, the Water Element Dagger, from the system’s storage space, ready to defend herself if necessary.

Suddenly, she felt a depression on the bed – clearly, someone had crept up on the edge. She turned and stabbed fiercely at the dark figure, only to hear ’Zzzzt—’.

"Don’t kill me!"

Isabella shivered under a slashed blanket. She wrapped herself up like a ghost, exposing only a face with features squeezed together.

"It’s me, it’s me!"

"Why are you here?"

"I... I’m scared and wanted to sleep with you... Can I?"

Qiao Suisui put the dagger back in the storage compartment and patted the space beside her, saying, "Come up."

The two girls accompanied each other in the dark night, chatting softly for a while before gradually falling asleep.

That night Qiao Suisui did not sleep soundly, probably because her mind was laden with many questions, causing her to be in a state between sleep and wakefulness. Isabella slept restlessly, turning and tossing so much that she ended up horizontal on the bed. Fortunately, the bed was big enough that Qiao Suisui wasn’t pushed off.

The next morning.

Ruka arrived.

He first glanced at the cubs snoring softly, then quickly walked to the inner room, completely ignoring Isabella beside him, and picked up Qiao Suisui to carry her out.

She was a light sleeper and woke up immediately, her voice somewhat hoarse.

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"Ruka..."

"Did I wake you?" he kissed her and said softly, "You can sleep some more on the way."

"Where are we going?"

While helping her get dressed, he fetched an incubator to put the three little lion cubs inside.

"Leberli has rebelled; it will soon be unsafe here, I’m taking you to our family’s residence."

The family residence he referred to is the Sikoses Family’s residence. Previously she had stayed at Lego Palace, which was Ruka’s personal residence, while the family residence was where all members of the Sikoses Family dwelled, as the Lion Beastmen naturally prefer to live in groups.

"Wait." Qiao Suisui grabbed his arm, looking up to ask, "Ash has rebelled? Are you sure?"

Ruka nodded gravely, crouching down to talk to her, "Last night, he mobilized the Sun’s private army to engage Neo in a positional battle, I saw him commanding on the battleship with my own eyes. He has now garnered the support of more than half of the major families. I don’t know how he did it, but according to father, Leberli has also offered him an olive branch. But the Sikoses Family will never betray Auslan’s Sun, and since the Sun is still Gorba III, we will not stand on Leberli’s side."