Chapter 420 (2/2)

Everyone else was stumped. Was Tigress really the fearsome warrior they thought she was, or was she just another girl-next-door?

“Master, you still haven’t explained how arrived at their place,” Tigress asked after a while, still in his embrace.

“I asked your people about you but they wanted to avenge Taeya, they said she was kidnapped before, to be a slave. So, they wanted to take me away to learn more about Taeya’s past. So I thought, ‘If I let them take me away, maybe they’ll take me to Tigress.’ Alas, I met you and Athena,” explained Ye Lang.

“......”

You let them catch you to meet me? That’s only something Ye Lang can think of. Tigress shook her head, not knowing what to say.

No wonder he could free himself from the ropes and move so freely. He was using this as an opportunity to meet her. Now Athena and Taiya understood that Ye Lang had practically delivered himself to them.

“Tai Ya… she is also called Tai Ya?” asked Tigress after Ye Lang’s explanation.

“I guess so… it seems like a coincidence,” replied Ye Lang, frankly.

“I’m Taeya! The characters are different!” quipped Taeya.

“After you met up with them, you assumed that she was me. With that, they decided to take advantage of the situation and use you as leverage against me. In the middle of that, you even helped them out with the war games and planning. You must think this is just a huge war game, isn’t it?” prodded Tigress on a hunch.

“That’s right. The enemy’s strategies are so similar to mine, it’s so weird!” replied Ye Lang, who had no clue that Tigress was the ‘enemy’ he was talking about.

“That’s because I’m the enemy, dummy! I knew it was you helping them with their tactics! You’re so stupid you didn’t know which side you were helping...” Tigress was disappointed. She had worked so hard on her battle tactics only to have Ye Lang ruin it for her.

But her disappointment was only momentary, she couldn’t bring herself to blame Ye Lang.

“How would I know they were talking about you? Had I known you were involved with this, I’d come over and help you beat them immediately…” Ye Lang stood by Tigress, which in the process made Athena and Taeya look like the enemies.

“......”

Athena and Taeya were speechless. It was true, after all, that they had manipulated and used Ye Lang, so it made sense that they looked like the bad guys.

“That’s enough, I don’t want you to be involved in this anymore,” insisted Tigress. Although she was delighted that Ye Lang expressed interest in helping her, she didn’t want him to be involved in this tussle any longer.

In her eyes, Ye Lang was an altruist, one who merely wished for a happy and peaceful life for himself. Everything else, especially matters related to war and conflict, were not his priority.

If he had met Tigress first instead of Taeya, he would be peacefully sipping tea with the rest of the Tigre clan instead of being dragged into this war.

Is this the difference between us and her? She only wants the best for him, anything but trouble and conflict, but we, on the other hand, manipulated and used him…