After sending all three runaway youngsters back to their families, Xie Jianyu returned to Fuxi Palace.
Ye Penglai came to visit an hour later. The man kowtowed again and again while begging for Xie Jianyu's forgiveness.
"Your Majesty, I swear on my old life that I will never disappoint you again. I shall make sure to punish all three of them accordingly!"
"No need," Xie Jianyu disagreed.
"All Wen Xiangxiang wanted to do was draw. She ran away because she had a miscommunication within her family."
In fact, "the love of her life" was none other than art.
"As for Duan Ruiyang and Sun Mingqi..."
Xie Jianyu paused to think.
What was the punishment for debauchery between an alpha and an omega?
The lightest penalty was kneeling in front of their ancestral halls for a certain amount of days.
The worst was execution.
Then what if said debauched act happened between two alphas, with no consequences whatsoever?
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