“You little slut, you dare come back? I’ll kill you—”
The moment he saw Huang Yaning, Sheng Mingjian, who was lying on the bed, was so enraged it looked like he wanted to eat her alive.
And when Huang Yaning saw Sheng Mingjian, the anger and killing intent inside her instantly erupted like a volcano.
She quickly stepped forward and slapped him right across the face.
The crisp sound echoed throughout the entire courtyard.
A deep, red handprint appeared on Sheng Mingjian’s face.
“I, will, kill, you—”
Sheng Mingjian spoke each word with the expression of a vengeful ghost.
Huang Yaning used both hands, going all out.
Smack—
Smack—
Smack—
Smack—
Smack—
Smack—
While hitting him, she asked, “You call me a little slut?”
“We share the same blood. If I’m a little slut, what does that make you?”
“A piece of trash like you deserves to be called ‘big brother’?”
“Do you even deserve to live?”
“Beast!”
“Monster!”
“You should have been drowned the moment you were born!”
The slaps kept coming, one after another. Sheng Mingjian had no way to fight back. His already injured face looked even more horrifying.
He struggled, trying to resist, but he underestimated his injuries. In a moment of carelessness, he fell off the bed onto the floor, then let out a miserable, blood-curdling scream.
To Huang Yaning, that scream was music to her ears.
She blew on her hot, numb palms and sat down without a care.
Huang Yaning didn’t know exactly what injuries Sheng Mingjian had, but that didn’t stop her from enjoying his pathetic, wretched state.
“Guards—”
“Guards—”
Sheng Mingjian propped himself up on his elbows and roared toward the outside.
“Save your energy,” Huang Yaning kindly told him. “The few people you had left, you already scared them away. Everyone else is too beaten to even get up.”
She actually caught a flicker of panic in Sheng Mingjian’s eyes. Was he afraid?
Was Sheng Mingjian scared that Sheng Yong might find out something?
Her eyes glinted. She turned and said to Qingtian,
“Go find Gao Shan and Jing Xing.”
Soon, the two mothers found Gao Shan and Jing Xing. They had just been through Sheng Yong’s brutal torture — their faces were pale, and they were covered in blood.
As the two mothers dragged them over, big drops of cold sweat rolled down their foreheads.
They lay on the ground like crawling insects, begging for mercy with hoarse voices.
“Seventh Miss… please spare us…”
Spare them?
Huang Yaning almost wanted to laugh.
If she spared others, who would spare her?
If it weren’t for Minmin, her innocence would have been destroyed by now, and she might even be dead.
Just earlier, if it hadn’t been for Xian Jie’er, the princess, and Fourth Brother, she would have died too.
“Talk!”
“What exactly happened to your master?”
“What did he do to wrong me?”
Gao Shan and Jing Xing were considered loyal to Sheng Mingjian, so they kept their mouths shut.
“Since you won’t talk, there’s no use keeping you—”
“Beat them to death.”
Beat. Them. To. Death.
Those three words sounded light and casual, but to Gao Shan and Jing Xing, they were like the scythe of the Grim Reaper.
They were terrified out of their wits. They cried and begged for mercy, while also pleading with Sheng Mingjian to save them.
“Let them go!”
“If you dare hurt them, I will never forgive you!”
Sheng Mingjian started making threats, but there was anxiety and fear in his eyes.
“Sheng Mingjian, you really think highly of yourself!”
“Don’t you get it yet? It’s not about whether you’re willing to forgive me. It’s about me not letting you off!”
As soon as Huang Yaning finished speaking, her face turned ice-cold. Her whole body radiated killing intent as she spat out one word:
“Beat them—”
The servants at Haitang Yard had long received Seventh Miss’s orders: as long as they followed her commands today, they would get their freedom papers plus a generous reward!
If they didn’t know where to go afterward, they could work as free people at Seventh Miss’s manor or shops and continue earning wages!
Such an incredible stroke of luck had fallen into their laps, so of course they had to seize the chance!
After all, the young master had bad intentions toward Seventh Miss today, and those two lackeys by his side were no good either.
So soon, the sound of wooden boards striking flesh filled the yard.
Gao Shan and Jing Xing had already been severely tortured. When they were thrown back into their room earlier, they felt incredibly lucky.
They knew the master had spared their lives, so they forced themselves to take life-saving medicine.
As Sheng Mingjian’s trusted men, they had plenty of good medicine on hand.
But they never expected Seventh Miss to suddenly storm over and order them beaten to death!
At first, they managed to endure. But then they realized their master couldn’t save them, and no one was coming to stop Seventh Miss from carrying out her orders…
They were utterly terrified.
In the end, the instinct to survive won out. “Seventh Miss, this servant is willing to talk…”
Gao Shan spoke first, and Jing Xing quickly agreed as well.
“Shut up, you two dogs—” Sheng Mingjian was furious. “If you say one word, I’ll skin you alive!”
The anxiety and fear on Sheng Mingjian’s face only excited Huang Yaning even more.
She licked her lips, vaguely aware that she was acting a bit twisted right now. But so what?
Smiling, she looked at the two bloodied figures outside — more air leaving them than entering — and raised her hand. The mothers immediately stopped their work.
By then, Sheng Mingjian was roaring and trying to crawl outside. Maybe because of the beating he’d just taken, or because his emotions were running too high and his movements were too rough, his wounds had reopened.
Earlier, while lying in bed, he’d only been wearing a thin undershirt.
Now, blood seeped through the fabric.
The bloodstains were around his buttocks…
Then suddenly, a foul stench filled the room — like someone had lost control of their bowels and soiled themselves.
If you sniffed carefully, the source of the stench was clearly Sheng Mingjian on the floor.
The room fell so silent you could hear a pin drop.
Sheng Mingjian’s eyes were wide open, his body trembling, frozen stiff.
He looked furious beyond words, but also like he’d been deeply frightened and was trapped in overwhelming terror…
As for Huang Yaning, when she first noticed the blood on Sheng Mingjian’s clothes, she froze for a moment.
Then she thought back to what Sheng Mingjian had tried to do to her that day, and how today he’d lost all reason and desperately wanted to kill her…
And then she smelled the stench coming from Sheng Mingjian.
It all clicked. She understood exactly what had happened to Sheng Mingjian.
She threw her head back and laughed.
“Hahaha… hahaha…”
“Sheng Mingjian, this is your retribution!”
She laughed so hard she doubled over.
She laughed until her hair bun came loose, until tears streamed down her face…
For a moment, there was a hint of deep sorrow in her laughter — so much so that you couldn’t tell if she was laughing or crying.
The two masters — one seemed frozen in shock, the other like she’d lost her mind.
The servants didn’t dare look too closely. They all lowered their heads.
Huang Yaning laughed for a long time. Finally, she wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and looked at the dazed Sheng Mingjian.
“Big Brother, you’ve been master and servants for so long. Since it’s their final journey, you should see them off properly —”
“Two of you, help my big brother over to those two men. Let him send his trusted men on their way.”
With that, two mothers mustered their courage, lifted Sheng Mingjian up, and placed him in front of Gao Shan and Jing Xing.
Throughout it all, Sheng Mingjian looked like he’d lost his soul.
Huang Yaning then turned her gaze to Gao Shan and Jing Xing and spoke.
“Everyone has to pay the price for the wrongs they’ve done.”
“Go on. If you blame anyone, blame yourselves for following the wrong master.”
The mothers wielding the boards knew this time the young lady truly wanted these two dead. Their strikes no longer held back, each one slamming down with full force.
After just five or six blows, Gao Shan and Jing Xing took their last breaths, hatred in their eyes, under the watchful gaze of Sheng Mingjian.
Just then, sounds came from the entrance.
Huang Yaning looked up and saw Sheng Mingzhu and Sheng Mingbo, their mouths gagged and their bodies tightly bound.
She smiled, a bright, radiant smile.
Perfect. Everyone’s here. The real show can begin.
