Clumsy Beast, Keep Your Paws Off Chapter 786: No One Can Take Their Baby Away

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Previously on Clumsy Beast, Keep Your Paws Off...
Xiao Yi had gone missing, causing immense panic and a frantic search by An Mo and Su Qinglan. An Mo found Xiao Yi at the Flying Heavenly Tiger Estate, but discovered the cub had been found and healed by Sheng Rulan and Chi Jiayu after eating a scent-masking fruit. The misunderstanding was cleared, and An Mo, reunited with Xiao Yi, departed to find Su Qinglan, who was still in a standoff with the Tiger Clan guards.

Now, carrying the lost cub tightly in his arms, An Mo burst through the outer barriers and landed gracefully in front of the anxious crowd.

Outside the gates, the atmosphere had been thick with suffocating tension.

Su Qinglan stood at the front, her chest heaving, her eyes wild with an edge of absolute madness.

Beside her, Xuan Long, Han Jue, Rong Ye, Shi Feng, and Hu Yan were all standing with dark, terrifying expressions, ready to level the mountain if their son wasn’t found!

The moment An Mo’s figure emerged, Su Qinglan’s eyes instantly locked onto the small, chubby figure resting in his hand.

"Xiao Yi!" Su Qinglan gasped out, her voice filled with pure emotion.

Seeing his mother standing there, Xiao Yi’s big golden eyes flooded with tears in a fraction of a second. Forgotten was all the brave, cheerful front he had put on earlier!

"MOMMY—!" Xiao Yi sobbed out at the top of his lungs.

He wriggled out of An Mo’s arms and launched his chubby little body forward, leaping straight into Su Qinglan’s open arms!

Su Qinglan dropped to her knees on the stone ground, catching the small fluffball and burying her face in his neck.

Xiao Yi wrapped his plump arms around her neck as tightly as he could, bursting into a loud, frantic cry.

Even though he wasn’t hurt anymore, and even though the pretty sister had healed his bloody paws and fed him delicious meat, the sheer terror of that cold, lonely night in the dark mountains came crashing back all at once!

The silence, the dark monsters, and the fear of never seeing his family again overwhelmed his little baby heart. He buried his face in her shoulder, big fat tears soaking through her clothes as he cried his heart out.

Su Qinglan felt an agonizing ache twist deep inside her chest. Her eyes turned red as she held her baby close, her hands trembling as she stroked his head, his back, and his soft ears.

"I’m here, baby... Mommy is right here," Su Qinglan whispered continuously, pressing soft, desperate kisses all over his wet cheeks, forehead, and nose.

"Don’t cry, Xiao Yi... Mommy has got you. You’re safe now."

An Mo watched them silently from the side. He hadn’t even noticed any injuries on the cub because Sheng Rulan had already used her healing skills to completely erase every scratch from his small paws before he woke up.

Seeing the baby crying so pitifully in Su Qinglan’s arms, the last lingering trace of tension on An Mo’s face finally melted away.

Standing just behind Su Qinglan, Hu Yan was completely frozen.

His muscular frame was rigid, and his sharp, fierce tiger eyes were filled with immense sorrow. If anyone looked closely, they would see that his eyes were heavily rimmed with red.

As Xiao Yi’s father beast, no one had suffered more mental torture over the past day than Hu Yan.

The sudden disappearance of his eldest tiger cub had completely thrown him into an abyss of despair and self-blame!

He had searched every mountain cave, torn through sharp thickets, and nearly gone insane with worry, dreading the worst possibilities.

Now, seeing his chubby little son alive, safe, and crying loudly in Su Qinglan’s embrace, the heavy stone crushing Hu Yan’s heart finally shattered.

An overwhelming breath of relief escaped his lips.

Unable to hold back his surging emotions for another second, Hu Yan stepped forward with long strides.

He dropped to his knees right beside Su Qinglan, extending his long, powerful arms to wrap tightly around both his mate and their crying son at the same time, pulling them into his thick, warm chest!

"You silly little brat..." Hu Yan choked out, his voice thick, raspy, and trembling with a mixture of immense love and lingering fear.

He pulled Xiao Yi’s small head back slightly, chiding his cub with a stern yet tearful look.

"Where on earth did you wander off to?! Do you have any idea how terrified your mother and I were?! You almost worried us to death!"

Xiao Yi hiccuped loudly, his little mouth trembling as he reached his chubby hands out to pat Hu Yan’s tear-stained face.

"Father Beast... Xiao Yi was wrong... Xiao Yi won’t run away after sweet fruits ever again..."

Hearing his innocent, weeping confession, Hu Yan couldn’t even keep up his stern expression. He pressed his forehead gently against his son’s small head, letting out a soft, emotional laugh as he tightened his embrace around his small family.

Xuan Long, Rong Ye, Han Jue, and Shi Feng all stepped up behind them, surrounded by the quieted Tiger Clan guards.

Looking at the safe, chubby little cub finally back in Su Qinglan’s arms, every single beast husband breathed a long, collective sigh of relief as the suffocating dark clouds hovering over them finally began to clear away.

Sheng Rulan, her brother Sheng Yuan, and her beast husband Chi Jiayu quietly approached from the inner grounds to check on the situation.

Chi Jiayu had taken his massive, majestic white tiger form, carrying Sheng Rulan securely on his back. With a low, reverberating roar that echoed through the clouds, he leaped down from the upper ledges and landed gracefully a respectful distance away from Su Qinglan’s family.

Beside them, Sheng Yuan hovered quietly in the air on his golden wings, watching the scene unfold below with a complex gaze.

Seeing the emotional reunion between the mother, the tiger father, and the sobbing cub, Sheng Yuan let out a long, silent sigh of relief.

He was incredibly thankful that neither he nor his sister had blurted out their initial thoughts about keeping the cub in the Flying Heavenly Tiger Estate to be raised by the clan.

Looking at the sheer, terrifying aura radiating from the female and the fiercely protective, murderous gazes of the powerful beast husbands surrounding her...

Sheng Yuan knew with absolute certainty that if they had dared to suggest taking the baby away, this family would not have hesitated to tear their entire estate to shreds!

It was abundantly clear that Su Qinglan was deeply attached to her child. She held Xiao Yi as if he were her entire world, kissing his tear-stained face again and again, refusing to let go for even a single second.