Volume One, Chapter 11: Letting Go of the Child

“Who are you? How dare you trespass on the colonel’s estate?”

Faced with the dean’s threatening tone, He Kun showed no fear. Instead, he crossed his arms and leaned against the wall, watching the scene unfold with amusement.

“You don’t need to bother with me. Continue.”

The dean had never encountered anyone like this before—someone who broke into another’s estate without stealing or causing harm was highly suspicious. He kept his wits about him and immediately pressed the button on his wrist.

As the dean, his life was important too. Except while at the hospital, where he didn’t need a bodyguard, at all other times one was necessary.

The button he pressed was a call for his bodyguards to come to his aid immediately.

Miss Meng was inside, about to give birth. He couldn’t alert them to the dangerous situation outside; it would only complicate her delivery.

Just as he was thinking of her, a maid’s joyful cry rang out from the room.

“It’s born! The young lady has given birth!”

“But... it’s an egg. Shouldn’t it be... an eagle like the colonel?” The maid was puzzled but refrained from finishing her thought.

Before the dean could react, the man behind him vanished.

The maid inside was startled—since when had someone appeared beside her?

“Who are you...?” she began, but her words were cut off as her neck was snapped.

Meng Yuan was shocked when she saw this. She tried to get up to check, hoping it was all a nightmare. Unfortunately, her body was weak. Though the system blocked her pain, she still lacked the strength.

It seemed... there was still something in her belly.

After laying another egg, she completely lost consciousness.

Blood from the maid still stained He Kun’s hands, but his attention was fixed on the two eggs on the delivery bed.

He could clearly feel that the two eggs were connected to his own bloodline.

Indeed, these were his children. That foolish female had not deceived him.

What shocked him most was that as a member of the cobra clan, cursed by the Beast God, they could only lay one egg per birth. That was why the cobra clan was exceptionally rare and mostly noble.

He stared at the two snake eggs in his hands, his face betraying his astonishment.

A bullet whizzed past his cheek. Luckily, He Kun hadn’t been completely lost in his shock; otherwise, he would have been shot in the head by now.

“Put down the children,” came the voice of Reisde from afar.

His flying car was descending slowly.

The door opened, revealing a man with an expressionless face, though his tone conveyed urgency through mental projection.

He Kun smirked. “Reisde, always steady as an old dog, I never thought you’d be worried over a woman. Truly shocking.”

“Female childbirth, especially with your cobra bloodline, no one could remain so calm.”

“Is that really so?” Though He Kun smiled, his eyes were filled with killing intent.

He tried to place the two snake eggs into his spatial ring, but just as he moved, Reisde’s men attacked from the other side.

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