Chapter 4

Zi Li watches with uncertainty as the imperial guards escorted several palace maidservants with ashen look in their faces when they walked in. He really couldn’t make sense of what game the emperor is playing!

“Xiao Jin Yu, do you still remember these people?” Hong Xu looks at him and asked.

Zi Li’s eyes swept across them, and felt that they indeed seemed a bit familliar. But he just couldn’t pin point who they are exactly.

“Hehe, then can you remember her as well?” Hong Xu walked towards a palace maidservant and lifted her face to show Zi Li.

“Eh! Isn’t this that maid servant that curses me out last time?” Zi Li’s heart can’t help but thump.

“Are you thinking of punis.h.i.+ng them?” There’s a bit of uneasy look in his eyes as he turned towards this man that seemed to be always emanating a dark and brutal demeanor.

“They made Our Xiao Jin Yu upset, so We our taking revenge for you. That should cheer you up!”

“Don’t tell me you’re going to kill them?”

“Hehe, Xiao Jin Yu, killing people is a simple and boring thing. People often can’t enjoy and learn from the experience once they are killed at once! So We won’t kill them that easily!”

What a terrifying logic! I didn’t know he was that kind of maniac who would get excited watching other people suffering and shouting blood curling screams!

Cold s.h.i.+ver run down Zi Li’s spines as he looked at this man before him.

Hong Xu gestured with his eyes, and the imperial guards heeded and towed the palace servants to the small courtyard outside. The alarmed servants that was kneeling on the ground steps aside at once and kneels again with their head bowed.

He didn’t know when they started setting up rows of trestle, but he saw those imperial guards tying up those grieving and wailing palace servants until he could no longer distinguished whose hands and feet belonged to after being tied to the trestle.

A dark ambience was lingering above their heads that had been hanged down. No one could dare to breath under the appalling atmosphere.

Zi Li saw the servant tasked for handing down torture about to commence their duty. He  pulled Hong Xu at once and pleadingly asked: “W-ww-wait, wait! They aren’t murderers nor arsonists, why do you have to administer torture just like that? Something like this is inhumane!”

Yes, he may have gotten considerably upset because of that palace maidservant’s words, but he never wanted to have them killed nor get his revenge in this way!

“Xiao Jin Yu will never have to be afraid, now that you have Us!” Hong Xu ignored Zi Li’s plea. He wrapped his arm around Zi Li’s shoulder and heedlessly gave his orders, “cut off the conceited tongue of these lowly slaves first!”

“No! Don’t do it!” Zi Li shouted at the top of his lungs, “you shouldn’t do this, she’s just a young small girl! I didn’t mind her arrogance towards me that much so let her and everyone else go, okay?”

Being closely stared at by that pair of hawk like eyes, Zi Li felt that he couldn’t control the slight tremor in his body. Hong Xu appeared to be pleased with his reaction, as he looked at him with faint gentle gaze and said: “Since the victim himself is very lenient to everyone and is refusing to dispute, then We will not imposed force more than necessary. However, that presumptuous lowly slave will not be pardoned! Servants, strike her with fifty lashes, then flog her a hundred times, the rest of them ibe hundred lashes.”

“Yes, your majesty!”

The guard that was used to this unrolled the long barbed whip with ease. Then he swung his arm upwards and ruthlessly brandished the whip down to that figure that couldn’t move out of way.

“Ahh—-!”

Surges of miserable cry and cracking sounds of the whip in the air hitting the flesh with a crisp noise echoed throughout the area and was particularly sharp and ear-piercing.

Zi Li’s eyes widened in shock and his complexion paled watching the b.l.o.o.d.y scene unfold before his very eyes. He only realizes now that Hong Xu never intended to let them off. His plea for leniency gave nothing more than postpone the time of their torture for a little bit.

“You’re majesty, she’s not breathing!” One of the guards cupped his hands and reported.

“How useless, could only take around twenty las.h.i.+ng!” Hong Xu half-heartedly ordered, “take her down.”

The cold s.h.i.+ver traveled throughout his body when Zi Li saw that girl alive just a while ago turned into a mangled corpse. He was incapable of saving them and could only watch helplessly as they suffered each and every deadly strike of the las.h.i.+ng.

The cruel torture continued, but the miserable screams was already quieting down.The thick scent of blood was also gradually filling the air. The moment these ‘one hundred lashes’ was over, and the final strike of the guards had landed, the air became suffocating!

A moment of peace on that scene appears to have an ambience of deathly stillness shrouding it, making the all the people present stiffened and lose their courage to make even the slightest movement.

“Are you afraid Xiao Jin Yu? You must understand that We will never do the same thing to you. Unless, you do something that will be unforgivable for Us. If something like that happened, ” Hong Xu lifted Zi Li’s chin up and planted a light kiss on the corner of his lips, “We’re not sure how to punish you! That’s why, Xiao Jin Yu, make sure that you wouldn’t make it difficult for Us.”

Bonbon wanted to say:

Hong Xu gives me the creeps in this chapter like Ruo Yan from FYJT…

For those who might not remember, the maid was the lady who trash talked Zi Li and causes him to vomit blood out of extreme anger~

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