Chapter 316: Arrogant, Proud, and Rude III
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“Are you Liu Yuchen?”
Just as Liu Yuchen felt distressed about Feng Ruqing, a bright and childlike voice came from the front.
He slightly lifted his head, and a gorgeous face came into view.
The young girl had bright eyes and white teeth. She was petite and slender, but the only drawback was that she was a little too short.
Liu Yuchen was shocked, but he came to his senses immediately.
This little girl was following the princess just now. Was she the new little servant of the princess’s manor?
“Liu Yuchen, let me warn you to not ever get close to our Xiao Qing.” Tang Yin lifted her chin and cocked her eyebrows. “Xiao Qing is mine. I will break your legs if you ever get close to her! ” 1
Liu Yuchen’s face was taut. He went quiet.
“Also, you were the one who did wrong first, she should divorce you, of course.” Tang Yin’s face was cold. “There are a whole lot of men and women out there who wanted to marry Xiao Qing, how dare you disappoint our Xiao Qing.”
Liu Yuchen remained in silence.
Feng Ruqing had turned into a beauty and had suddenly broken through to Spirit Warrior tier. It was true that she could attract a lot of men’s attention.
But the women who wanted to marry the princess… what was going on?
“Can you speak?” Tang Yin burst into anger as Liu Yuchen was ignoring her. “Are you dumb or what? If I ever see you again outside the princess’s manor, I will call Qian Ning to put you to death when she’s here!”
Tang Yin came from the Tang family, so it was natural for her to possess the arrogance and pride of the reclusive world. However, it was rare to see her being so arrogant and get tangled up with people.
She had done her best in showing a wealthy, arrogant lady’s temper to Liu Yuchen.
She could not bear seeing the guy who had disappointed Xiao Qing, peeking at Xiao Qing outside the princess’s manor at that moment.
The very sight of him made her angry!
“Is Her Highness… okay? How’s the emperor doing now?”
Liu Yuchen only started to speak after he had hesitated for quite a while.
“Of course Xiao Qing is happy… because I’m here with her. For uncle emperor’s condition, I will help her to find some spirit herbs and help to treat uncle emperor.” Tang Yin lifted her chin as she pointed at her right shoulder. “It’s me, Tang Yin, the one who has helped Xiao Qing find spirit herbs! I’m the one who accompanied her too!”
“Oh, by the way, little beauty Liu Li had told me before that Xiao Qing has taken a fancy to someone who is clean and clear. You had so many concubines before, and now another girl called Tan Shuangshuang lives in your house. What makes you think you are qualified to see our Xiao Qing?
Tang Yin stepped closer to Liu Yuchen. Her smile was arrogant, proud, and rude. “And I, Tang Yin, have never touched any man before in my life, I’m clean and clear!”
Although she had a fiancée before, they had never met each other before, right?
How could that count when they had never met before?
She was still qualified to stay in the princess’s manor.
The corners of Liu Yuchen’s lips twitched for a few times. He thought this girl was the new female servant in the princess’s manor. He could not imagine that… she was in such a relationship with Feng Ruqing.
Feng Ruqing had the state preceptor, then a gigolo from outside, now even a woman…
Didn’t that imply that he would be given a chance too?
Even if… he was only allowed to stay in the princess’s manor just like the other men, wasn’t it true?
“Why are you not leaving yet?” Tang Yin glared at Liu Yuchen. “You are far too worse than Qin Chen. You can’t even compare with Nan Xian or me. So, stop having your fantasy and get lost, please. If you dare to bother Xiao Qing again, please prepare your coffin in advance.”
Besides Feng Ruqing, it was no doubt that State Preceptor Nan Xian was the other best thing that existed in the world. However, Qin Chen was quite a good one too. The only person who could surpass Tang Yin was State Preceptor Nan Xian.
Chapter 317: Arrogant, Proud, and Rude IV
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However, Tang Yin still insisted that she was better than Qin Chen. Also, she had put her own ability on the same level as the state preceptor.
Liu Yuchen looked hesitant at first, but now his eyes were firm. “Tell the princess that, I, Liu Yuchen, will never give up.”
Feng Ruqing could accept and be with not only Qin Chen, but also a woman too. Perhaps he really had another chance to be with her.
Liu Yuchen turned around after he spoke.
He should make himself a better man because he could only attract her attention by doing so.
Tang Yin was shocked. How could that little lad still not give up after she had threatened him with many things?
‘How can there be such a shameless person? It is obvious that Xiao Qing does not like him, how can he still linger around!’
“Why hasn’t Qian Ning return yet? No, I will teach him some lessons even if Qian Ning is not around. I want him to give no more attention and have fantasy toward the girl who doesn’t belong to him!” Tang Yin gritted her teeth resentfully.
Suddenly, she saw a young man standing in front of the manor on her way back to the princess’s manor.
He was holding the hand of a fair and delicate loli.
The loli had a small scar on her face. Just like a baby doll, she had that petite figure that was cute and sweet.
“It’s you!” Tang Yin’s eyes popped wide open.
Wasn’t… wasn’t he the young man who had followed the uncle and chased after her that day?
Could it be that he was here to kill her?
“Brother,” Nalan Dai’er tugged Nalan Jing’s sleeves. Her cute and big eyes blinked as she said, “She’s that little beauty who has crashed and broken our General Manor’s door that day.”
General… General Manor?
Tang Yin’s face froze.
She and Qian Ning had accidentally crashed into the door when they were busy chasing the thief the other day. They were in a rush, so they did not notice the plaque on the door but only the door number.
The person who had chased after her that day was Xiao Qing’s uncle?
Nalan Jing looked at Tang Yin coldly. “You live in the princess’s manor?”
Tang Yin grinned. “We don’t live in the same house if we are not family. My cousin, I didn’t know that I had broken our family’s door, I’ll pay for it. How much is it? I will return it back to you.”
Nalan Jing had nothing in reply.
‘Who is her cousin?
‘Why is she speaking as if the people from General Manor are stingy? Did we come for her money?
‘And… who the hell is a family member to this crazy woman?’
Nalan Jing’s face seemed pinched as he asked, “What’s your relationship with Qing’er?”
“I belong to Xiao Qing. Xiao Qing said it herself when we were in the Forest of Spirit Beasts.”
Tang Yin lifted her chin proudly.
Nalan Jing remained in silence for quite a while before he continued, “Don’t you soil my cousin’s reputation.”
Tang Yin became anxious. “Cousin, you have no right to take away my freedom in the princess’s manor! You have no right to separate Xiao Qing and me! At least, Xiao Qing recognized me herself, not like that shameless Liu Yuchen, who is still annoying Xiao Qing. Moreover, he mentioned… that he will never give up.”
It was annoying, but still, Nalan Jing had to keep smiling.
He looked calm but he could feel the anger as if there were flames burning all around him.
“Did he really say that?”
‘That damned Liu Yuchen! He was the one who had disappointed Cousin at first, how could he be so bold to pester her again?
‘If Cousin had really wanted to marry someone, it was better to marry any other woman than to marry Liu Yuchen again!’
Tang Yin looked around, and suddenly, the corners of her lips lifted as she showed her cute tiger teeth. It was spooky.
“Cousin, I want to teach Liu Yuchen a lesson. Do you want to tag along?”
“Okay.”
Nalan Jing agreed without any hesitation.
He would never let Liu Yuchen seduce his cousin again!
Tang Yin squealed excitedly. She rushed in front of Nalan Jing and grabbed him by his arm.
Nalan Jing was stunned so he turned his head away awkwardly. However, he still did not pull away from Tang Yin.
Chapter 318: What’s Good about Nan Xian?
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During the night.
Like a fiery dragon, a big fire broke out and wiped out the chancellor’s manor in a blink of an eye.
Luckily, there were no injuries or damage as the people inside the building had run and escaped quickly enough.
However, that fire was like the wrath of heaven. Even though there were no injuries or damages, no matter how hard they were trying to put off the fire, the fire only started to die out when the whole manor was burnt down.
The news spread through the entire imperial city the next morning.
“Have you guys heard about last night? The chancellor’s manor has done too many bad deeds and was punished by heaven. Now, they deserve it for what they’ve done.”
“I saw Liu Yuchen wandering outside the princess’s manor yesterday, and then that happened last night. I bet heaven could not bear looking at them too, so heaven has set the fire on their manor.”
“What’s more. All the ladies from different manors had a gathering yesterday. Lady Liu even claimed that the princess is her daughter-in-law. The princess’s reputation has totally changed after that welcoming dinner that was held in the imperial palace the other night. Every young master from different manors wants to marry her so badly even if she’s a deserted wife.”
Feng Ruqing had not only reached Spirit Warrior tier, but also, the spirit herbs that she offered to the ministers had made a lot of people envious. Now, a lot of people in the imperial city wanted to marry her.
Why would she go back to Liu Yuchen who had almost caused her death?
It seemed like the fire had blazed the chancellor’s manor because the people inside were coveting her.
In the meantime not far away, Tang Yin, who was to blame for the fire, stood in front of a wonton stall. She smiled as she heard their noisy discussions. However, her smile went stiff and turned angry when she heard the last sentence.
She had just finished dealing with Liu Yuchen, now another bastard is coveting her Xiao Qing?
Were they all shameless? A bunch of fools to even daydream!
Nalan Jing was sitting opposite of Feng Ruqing. He first saw the young lady’s grin which soon turned into anger. Then, she bit the chopstick with her little teeth ferociously. She looked vicious.
It was as if… that chopstick was her enemy.
Nalan Jing was confused. How could a person’s expression change so fast?
“Cousin,” Tang Yin looked fierce. “After all, you are Xiao Qing’s cousin. Those people are vying for Xiao Qing, don’t you want to do something?”
Nalan Jing paused and said nothing for a while before he continued.
“Inside the imperial city, every high official and their children have concubines. None of them are good enough to be with my cousin.”
One person for one’s whole life. That was the principle that General Manor held all the time. Nalan Jing’s grandfather did not marry any woman after his grandmother. Also, his father had no concubine. Back then, consent was given to Nalan Jing’s uncle to marry his aunt because he had promised that he would only take care and love her, no matter how many women there were in the imperial city.
That was the reason why his grandfather had consented to entrust his aunt to him.
Therefore, only a person who had no wife or a concubine before could marry his cousin.
All the wealthy nobles from the imperial city could not meet the criteria. So, of course, they could not be her husband.
“Cousin, you are right. But what if those people want to bother Xiao Qing?”
Nalan Jing knitted his eyebrows in hatred and said, “My grandfather would break their damn legs!”
Tang Yin was relieved after hearing those words. She gritted her teeth and asked, “Do you know there’s a guy named Nan Xian who is pestering Xiao Qing too?”
Nalan Jing’s face froze. He lowered his head and contemplated for quite a moment. “This… grandfather can’t beat him!”
Tang Yin’s face darkened immediately.
She had no idea what was so good about Nan Xian, and why would Xiao Qing speak of him every day.
It was she who was on Xiao Qing’s side all the time.
Chapter 319: Spirit Beasts Besieged Long Ao Kingdom I
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“Cousin, I’ll leave first. I have something to do.”
She was feeling so angry as if there was a fire burning inside her stomach, but she could not get to Nan Xian and fight with him. All she could do was to vent her anger on the high officials.
Nalan Jing stared dumbfoundedly at Tang Yin as she left in a hurry. He could not understand why she was angry…
***
In Long Ao Kingdom.
There were singing and dance shows all around. Emperor Shen Wu was surrounded by beauties. He looked on with a lustful smile.
He raised and pulled one of the beauties into his arms, and violently kissed her cheek.
The girl lowered her head shyly. She blushed as she looked at Shen Wu in a shy and timid way.
As Shen Wu looked at her expression, he tore her clothes into pieces and pressed himself against her body fiercely.
Such a scene was typical to the people in Long Ao Kingdom. It was not something surprising to see.
Suddenly…
A rushing figure came inside the hall. “Your Majesty, Your Majesty, something bad is happening!”
Just as Shen Wu pressed his body against the girl, a voice suddenly spoke. Just like a basin of cold water, the voice put off the flame in his heart.
He turned around and looked at the guard reluctantly. He was fierce. “What’s the matter?”
“Your… Your Majesty, all the envoy that we sent to Liu Yun Kingdom were killed. Prince Shen Yue is imprisoned as well.”
“What?”
Shen Wu swung his arm.
The girl rolled from his body and fell off from his strength. She fell on the ground and knocked her head on the table nearby which caused blood to ooze out.
She did not make any sound but tried to get up from the ground. She stayed away in fear—the shyness in her eyes had been replaced with horror.
Shen Wu had not looked at her since then. He quickly came down from the bed and asked furiously, “What did you say just now? Liu Yun Kingdom has imprisoned Yue’er? How dare they do this?”
Going to Liu Yun Kingdom was a journey of revenge for what had happened before. So, he had sent three Spirit Warriors for the journey.
It should be a victory with three Spirit Warriors.
How could… Liu Yun Kingdom that did not have Nalan Yan anymore dare to do such a crappy thing!
“Send me someone and help me announce this to the world: If Liu Yun Kingdom doesn’t let go of Prince Shen Yue and send Feng Ruqing here as a hostage, I will destroy Liu Yun Kingdom!”
Feng Ruqing—a useless, fat, and ugly woman, but she was the daughter of Feng Tianyu and Nalan Yan.
Back in those years, Nalan Yan had gone on a killing spree in Long Ao Kingdom just because she wanted to protect some vermin. She had even forced his eldest son to death, which was a memory that had made him suffer an unbearable humiliation.
A daughter pays for what her mother did! Or else, he would not let Liu Yun Kingdom be in peace!
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty, something bad is happening!”
Another voice rushed inside as he had just finished his words.
The guard rushed in, went on his four limbs, and crawled into the palace. He staggered to his feet as his voice trembled. “The spirit beasts are coming! The spirit beasts are coming!”
“Spirit beasts are coming?” Shen Wu frowned and humped, coldly. “They come at just the right time. We of Liu Yun Kingdom need some new spirit beasts at the moment. If they dare to come, they will have no luck returning!”
Spirit beasts besieged the kingdom. Such an incident was not the first time in Liu Yun Kingdom. It was all a small battle, nothing special.
“But… but… the spirit beast that is leading the troop is a Tier-5 spirit beast, Your Majesty!”The guard almost cried.
That was a Tier-5 spirit beast! The whole Liu Yun Kingdom did not have the power to fight that spirit beast. How could the emperor wish to capture and tame the Tier-5 spirit beast?
Chapter 320: Spirit Beasts Besieged Long Ao Kingdom II
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Shen Wu’s face froze. He looked panicked and swallowed his saliva hard.
“Five… Tier-5 spirit beast?”
Tier-5 spirit beast from the Forest of Spirit Beasts. They usually stayed inside the forest, didn’t they?
Oh, except there was a Tier-5 three-striped tiger that had appeared at the borders of the Forest of Spirit Beasts and Long Ao Kingdom several months ago.
That three-striped tiger did not do anything harmful to anyone. With a paper in its mouth, all it did was to show that paper to anyone it came across. It had forced the people to bring it everything that was listed on the paper.
Other than that, Tier-5 spirit beasts rarely left the Forest of Spirit Beasts, or else they would provoke and make the king of beasts angry.
But he had nothing against Tier-5 spirit beasts. Why would the spirit beasts come and attack them?
“Your Majesty!”
Another panicked voice came.
Since then, the voices started to sound frightening to Shen Wu. As he heard the voice, his legs were trembling, and he almost fell down.
“Your Majesty, something bad is happening!” The guard rushed forward and cried. “The spirit beasts have invaded our palace. Your Majesty should quickly escape! ”
The palace was peaceful with singing and dance shows just now but it had suddenly turned into a chaotic place. All the beauties who were singing and dancing had fled. Just like a flying bird, they flew off as they were afraid that they might become the food of the spirit beasts.
Shen Wu’s legs were trembling. He firmly gripped onto the back of the chair next to him to keep himself steady.
His face was drained of all of its arrogance.
“GO!” He gritted his teeth firmly and forced himself to be steady. He strode away from the palace.
***
It was a big mess inside the palace. The peaceful night had been interrupted with endless screaming and shrieking.
Not far away, like a king, a three-striped tiger stood in front of a troop of spirit beasts.
It looked arrogant, contemptuous, and scornful.
It was as if it was looking at its courtier.
Shen Wu noticed that arrogant three-striped tiger as soon as he reached there.
The three-striped tiger looked more like a king compared to him. Standing high above and ruling the world.
The momentum and vigor of the three-striped tiger had made Shen Wu feel terribly small. He clenched his fists so tight as that feeling was very annoying, and it had made him look pale too.
“Shen Wu!”
Suddenly, a cold voice pierced through the night air and into Shen Wu’s ear.
Shen Wu’s eyes landed on the girl dressed in a green robe.
The girl looked on calmly with her cold eyes. Just like a pine, she stood tall under the night sky.
“You are…” The pupils in Shen Wu’s eyes contracted as his breath got heavier. “Tang Zi?”
‘Tang Zi, the girl who had followed Nalan Yan many years ago, why is she here?
‘Or the spirit beasts…
‘Has this got something to do with Tang Zi?’
Tang Zi smiled coolly. “Looks like you haven’t forgotten me yet. Today, at the command of our princess, we are here to destroy your Long Ao Kingdom.”
“Princess? Does she mean… Feng Rushuang?” Shen Wu asked in a deep voice. His eyes seemed cold.
He had heard before that Feng Ruqing had given all the women of the Iron-Blooded army to Feng Rushuang. The only thing was that the Iron-Blooded army had barely done anything in those years. He thought that the women were reluctant to submit to other people.
It was hard to believe that the troop that Nalan Yan had formed had finally fallen into someone else’s hand.
Perhaps, that was the so-called karma!
Shen Wu wanted to lift his face to the sky and laugh out loud.
‘Nalan Yan, what’s the point of being so strong? You have delivered such a useless daughter. Even the most significant achievement in your whole life would have been taken away by others in the end.’