CHAPTER 121: CHAPTER 113 THE ABANDONED SONG JI_1

Song Ji, who was being choked by the snake Beastman, spat out a mouthful of blood and ground his teeth. "You’re talking nonsense! How could I possibly want the Silver Wolf Tribe to die?!"

The snake Beastman’s icy hand tightened its grip. Song Ji’s face turned a deep shade of red.

The atmosphere was tense.

At that moment, the Silver Wolf Beastmen suddenly didn’t know who to support.

Si Yan said coldly, "Is that so? Then what about this sealed cave and the volcano? Priest Song Ji, the volcano is already active. If you don’t lift the barrier, no one can get out. Do you want us all to die together?!"

Song Ji glanced sideways at the barrier sealing the cave entrance and suddenly burst into wild laughter.

"HAHAHA, HAHAHA! Yes, I want you all to die!!"

A trace of pity appeared in Yin Xiu’s eyes. "Song Ji!"

Song Ji’s gaze was icy and desolate. "Let’s all die! All of us!"

"Nonsense!!"

"Why would you do this?!" the Silver Wolf Beastmen roared one after another.

Song Ji chuckled disdainfully. "As a male abandoned by a female, I hate. I deeply hate. All these years, I’ve been without a home, my heart drifting, drifting everywhere."

"Yin Xiu!! It’s because of your sister, Yin Wei—she abandoned me!!!"

Song Ji’s voice was filled with hatred. "She abandoned me! She abandoned me!!! Do you know how pathetic a male abandoned by a female can be? No, you don’t!!!"

As the snake Beastman tightened his grip on Song Ji’s neck, Song Ji suddenly coughed twice more. "Females, so remarkable! Heh, truly remarkable!"

"Mother!" Yin Qiu said anxiously.

"Song Ji." Yin Xiu closed her eyes; she understood everything now. "So it’s true. Your return to the Silver Wolf Tribe was for revenge."

Song Ji sneered. "Worth it, completely worth it. Only I can disable this barrier. All of you will accompany me in death!"

"Bah!" Dongchi raged, "Who wants to accompany you in death!"

Dongchi and Nan Mo stood beside Si Yan. Dongchi explained, "Mother, after a male and female become mates, if the female abandons the male, it can deal him a fatal blow. He might die from severe injuries, or if he survives, his heart will become adrift, and he’ll grow extremely irritable."

Yin Xiu’s face went pale. She said sternly, "So, Song Ji, you want everyone to die? Even your own biological daughter, you want her to die with you, is that it?"

Song Ji was taken aback. "What are you talking about?"

"No, I won’t listen to you! I won’t listen! Whatever you say now is a lie. Once the volcano erupts, everyone will die! We will all die together!"

Yin Xiu took a deep breath. "I didn’t want to tell you. That day, I saw you return, dejected, with no spark of life in your eyes. So, I had everyone lie to you. I thought that as long as you believed my elder sister was still alive, you wouldn’t choose death so easily. That’s why I said she abandoned you and left the Silver Wolf Tribe."

Song Ji couldn’t help but listen, shocked. "What do you mean ’believed’? What do you mean I ’believed’ she abandoned me?!! What does ’believed’ mean?! Speak! Say it quickly!!!"

Yin Xiu’s eyes were filled with sorrow as she continued, "Song Ji, don’t you understand yet? My elder sister, Yin Wei... never abandoned you. She... she passed away."

"What did you say!!"

That year, Song Ji was still young. He was the Zheng Xiong of Yin Wei, the eldest daughter of the Silver Wolf Tribe’s chief.

Yin Wei was still young and had not yet partnered with other males, meaning Song Ji was her only male.

That year, Song Ji received a mission from the tribe. Leading a team of Silver Wolf Beastmen, he left the tribe to search for salt.

But just as he had overcome countless difficulties and finally found the salt, preparing to return joyously, Song Ji suddenly felt an agonizing pain in his heart, as if it were being cleaved by a knife.

He survived through extreme hardship.

He felt the mate bond break; he had been abandoned.

In the forest, he howled in agony.

Yin Xiu said, "You don’t know that when you left the tribe, my elder sister was already pregnant."

Her voice carried a hint of desolation.

"The child inside her... was a female."

"A female..." Song Ji suddenly understood something.

Yin Xiu continued, "You are a Priest, so you should also know that when a female gives birth to another female, it’s a life-or-death ordeal."

"My elder sister, she died during a difficult childbirth trying to bring Yin Qiu into the world. Your mate bond broke that very day."

"What are you saying? What are you saying!!!"

Suddenly, Song Ji remembered that his mate bond had indeed broken around two months after he had left the tribe.

The timing matched.

"No, I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it!!!"

Yin Qiu was also stunned. "Mother, are you saying... Priest Song Ji is actually my dad?"

Yin Xiu said, "My elder sister was calling out your name with her dying breath, hoping to see you one last time..."

Yin Xiu half-closed her eyes. "She didn’t abandon you; she just didn’t have the strength to be with you anymore. You loved her so much back then. I was afraid you would follow my elder sister in death, so I lied and told you she had just gone out."

Song Ji suddenly laughed.

"She didn’t abandon me?"

"No," Yin Xiu said.

"No. No, no? You’re telling the truth??!"

Si Yan gave the snake Beastman a look, and the snake Beastman threw Song Ji to the ground.

He touched his face, a wave of panic washing over him. "I’m so ugly now, so hideous. How can I go see her? Yin Xiu, how can I face her? I’m so ugly."

As he spoke, the male suddenly wept.

The Silver Wolf Tribe: their lives devoted to a single love.

Although Song Ji was clearly not a Silver Wolf, just a grey wolf, his devoted heart was no different from that of a Silver Wolf.

If told the truth, he would want to die of grief alongside the female.

Song Ji laughed, a touch of madness in his voice. "She didn’t abandon me! She didn’t!!"

Then, he cried out loud, "Xiu, your elder sister is dead! She’s dead, she’s dead..."

"She must be so lonely. I must go to be with her; she must be so lonely."

"I’m so ugly, my face! Why am I so ugly? How can I go see her?"

Yin Qiu’s heart ached. She called out to Yin Xiu, "Mother," before quickly running to Song Ji.

"Dad? Daddy?"

Song Ji abruptly lifted his head.

The young female before him indeed shared some of his features, though she mostly took after her mother. Why hadn’t he recognized her all this time?

"Ah Qiu, you’re so beautiful."

Song Ji had completely believed Yin Xiu’s words.

He stood up. "Child, your dad hasn’t taken care of you for even a day. Dad is sorry to you, sorry to your mother."

"Dad absolutely can’t let anything happen to you. How could I ever face your mother?"

Song Ji turned around, the frail male walking towards the barrier.

He extended his sharp claws and sliced open his own hand.

"I can’t let Wei’er’s child, the child she fought so hard to bring into this world, die here!"

He was so frail, yet he stood so erect.

"The volcano is about to erupt. Child, Dad was wrong. You must stay safe..."