KOH Chapter 510

Chapter 510 Everyone’s Angry, Hard To Offend

Everyone’s angry shouts soon starting filling the large hall.

Hexi merely coldly looked on, but didn’t speak. She looked like she was merely an observer that had nothing to do with the situation.

Suddenly, a slender youth squeezed out from the crowd. He stared Hexi down with a face full of killing intent, “I didn’t expect that my Nalan family’s Elder was actually killed by you. What hatred do you have with my Nalan family for you to so maliciously kill him?”

This youth seemed to be around the same age was Nalan Hexi.

His appearance was elegant and he even seemed to hold some resemblance to Nalan Zhengze.

And Jing Ling country’s Prince Shangguan Qi, who had been silently standing in the crowd all along, suddenly slowly walked up to this youth’s side. He patted his shoulder and tried placating him, “Ziyun, you can feel assured. Father Emperor will definitely get revenge for Third Brother and your Nalan family.”

Ziyun? Nalan Ziyun? It was the original Nalan Hexi’s twin “(younger) brother”. Hexi faced the youth, whose face really resembled Nalan Zhengze’s, and a gloomy light flashed through her eyes.

The Crown Prince faintly looked around and sneered, “This brute who completely lacks humanity was let off by us once. But everyone here won’t let him off a second time, isn’t that right?” 

Immediately, someone loudly agreed, “The Crown Prince is right, such a person can’t be let off.”

“Take his life for murdering someone! Take his life for murdering someone!”

Feng Yunjing, who had been silently sitting to the side the entire time, looked at the turbulent circumstances in the hall and a faint smile appeared on his lips.

This public trial had been suggested by Shen Sen himself and now it had escalated to this degree. Even if the Shen family was powerful, it was hard to offend everyone when they were angry. They definitely wouldn’t protect some insignificant martial artist who was just at Foundation Establishment stage if it was at th cost of their Qing Xia Sect’s reputation. Doing so would turn them into the public’s enemy.

And Xi Yue was destined to become an assassin. He would only be able to plead for asylum, there wouldn’t be another alternative.

Feng Yunjing’s gaze landed on Shen Sen, who was sitting opposite to him, and he faintly smiled, “Elder Shen, this public trial was first brought up by you. Now all the evidence has been laid out and the trial’s outcome has been determined, what other words does Elder Shen have to say now?”

Shen Sen’s face also became extremely unsightly.

He always felt this whole affair was odd, but now, everything was pointing toward Xi Yue. If he continued to protect Xi Yue, he was afraid that Qing Xia Sect would be pulled into the waters.

Although Shen Sen didn’t speak, Shen Qingchuo anxiously blurt out everything in her heart, “Your so-called evidence is all one-sided. You guys have so many people while Xi Yue is all alone, he definitely can’t out-speak you guys. If you guys are able to, then bring out decisive evidence!”

When Feng Lian Ying saw that they had gotten to this step and Shen Qingchuo was still defending him, her gaze toward Hexi became filled with even more hatred.

This shameless youth only goes around fooling around with people. Even if he seduced Yu gege, it’s whatever. Now, he actually was able to seduce Qing Xia Sect’s most beloved person. What was this sl** worth?

Feng Lian Ying deeply breathed in before painting on her most tender and friendly expression. She faced Shen Qingchuo and said, “Chuo’er meimei, the facts are all laid out here. You don’t need to believe such lies anymore.”

Without a second thought, Shen Qingchuo immediately replied, “Because Xi gongzi is a good person, he saved my life!”

Shen Qingchuo was still young and her mind was pure. She completely missed the fact that Feng Lian Ying was encouraging her to talk.

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KOH Chapter 509

Chapter 509 Kill Him!

The guard’s mouth hardened and he continued to say, “Once we got the antidote, naturally we assumed it was real, so we completely swallowed it. At the beginning, we somewhat improved. But, we never thought that bad symptoms would soon show up.”

“The Third Prince had the worst end of the stick. After swallowing the antidote, a long time passed before his entire body unexpectedly burst open and he turned into a puddle of watery blood.”

The first few claims the guard laid down already caused everyone to go into an uproar, but his final sentence caused everyone to dissolve into a state of complete shock.

“Moreover, the Third Prince wasn’t the only one to die there.” The guard turned around to look at the distant crowd and heavily said, “On the day, many of the martial artists, from the large sects, also ate Xi gongzi’s antidote and died. I only personally know that Nalan family’s Nalan Yanming alongside Murong family’s Murong Zhangfeng and Murong Hai died.”

“We originally had a hard time escaping the fate of turning into watery blood, but fortunately, the Ice Lotus Fairy and the Feng family’s people hurried over. In this pressing time, they quickly treated us, saving our lives.”

Once the guard’s words were out, everyone present immediately flared up.

They never thought that this little Foundation Establishment stage martial artist would be able to use poison and kill so many people

Not only was Jin Ling Country’s Third Prince among one of the victims, but so were many influential families’ elders.

Great distress and anger flooded Feng Lian Ying’s face as she looked at Hexi. With a heavy voice she said, “Xi gongzi, on that day, when we ran into each other at Water Moon Realm, didn’t I advise you?”

“You don’t have any of the skills of a doctor. Even if you have a few minor methods, you shouldn’t diagnose illnesses and you definitely shouldn’t carelessly prescribe medicine. Who would’ve thought that not only did you not listen, but you also harmed so many people in the process?”

“And when I rushed to Hundred Herb Mist, you actually attempted to block me, stating that your way of healing was the right way. If you weren’t so selfish, you wouldn’t have killed the Third Prince and so many other innocent people.”

By now, Feng Lian Ying’s eyes had already turned red, “Xi gongzi, you’re also a doctor. Don’t you know that every life is precious? That each sick person has their own family and friends? If their friends and family knew they died by your hands, they would feel extremely sad and hurt ah!”

“I’m just regretful that I didn’t arrive earlier and wasn’t firm enough. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have hurt so many lives!”

The hall’s atmosphere had been very tense since the beginning. Now, after Feng Lian Ying’s perfect performance, everyone’s emotions were nearly at the bursting point.

Especially for those that were apart of sects and influential families that sent their members to the Sealed Dragon Domain. They all fixed their angered gazes at Hexi, practically burning a hole through her.

“I never thought that this youth who seems to put on airs would actually turn out to be so malicious. This type of person simply doesn’t deserve to live in this world anymore.”

“Exactly, how come you guys didn’t just directly kill this person on the spot that day? Surprisingly, you actually let him run around for so long. The Ice Lotus Fairy is truly too kindhearted!”

“My Xian He Sect’s people entered Sealed Dragon Domain and never returned. They were most likely harmed by him!”

“Obviously he doesn’t even have a doctor’s rank, yet he actually dares to pretend and detoxify others. Now that he’s harmed others’ lives, don’t tell me that a debt of blood can’t be paid in blood?”

“Such an utterly heartless person should be thrown into a magic beast pit and die without a burial place.”

“Kill him! Kill him! Let’s take revenge for those who’ve died under this quack!!”

Translator Note the Feng family makes my blood boil 😤

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ATBPY Chapter 8

Chapter 8 Teasing

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The top of the large, magnificent bed was in complete disorder. A white clothed female sat atop it, pointing her two slender jade-like legs high up and swaying them back and forth. In her hands, she held an odd pen as she wrote and calculated things down on the account book in her lap. Discarded, crumpled pieces of paper surrounded her as she worked. Fu Hanmei entered the room only to be greeted by the disorderly scene. Her heart was filled with helplessness. Originally she thought she had been noticed by Master and would be trained. But she never thought she was only called to become the Young Miss’ servant girl. Although this wasn’t considered to be a humiliating outcome, she still couldn’t quiet the unwillingness in her heart. She didn’t want to be a boring servant girl. She wanted to accomplish things, not pass her life by in such a dull manner.

But now.. She lowly sighed and crouched down to pick up the pieces of discarded paper and put them in the trash bin. She blinked her flattering eyes and swept them across the room. But, she noticed that in the Young Miss’ hands seemed to be an accounting book for De Zhao’s thirty sixth year. De Zhao’s thirty sixth year wasn’t this year was it? How come the Young Miss had such an important accounting book? Not only that, she was drawing doodles on it! Was it that the Young Miss didn’t know this accounting book’s significance and was just playing around? In that case, wouldn’t that mean that one year of Master’s hard work had been wasted just like that?

Thinking up to here, Fu Hanmei couldn’t bring herself to care about the line between master and servant. She quickly stepped forward and attempted to grab the book out of Gu Weiyi’s hand. Then, she angrily reprimand her. “Does Young Miss know what this is? This is the accounting book Master exhaustively spent one year doing! How can Young Miss be so insensible and draw randomly on the pages? This servant knows that Master dotes upon Young Miss and would never get angry at you, but he certainly hopes that Young Miss will appreciate his labors! To complete this accounting book is a very laborious task ah!”

Narrowing her large, charming eyes, Gu Weiyi stared at her and coldly answered, “So Meimei actually cares about Ge like so ah. I didn’t know!” Gu Weiyi felt somewhat angry and upset. Had she misread her? This Fu Hanmei also likes gege but she just hid it even deeper?

Even though she was talented, women who were fond of gege couldn’t be left by her side. Women ah, they were always easily jealous. She didn’t want to leave a ticking time bomb by her side. One mistake and she would die without an intact corpse.

Fu Hanmei’s face turned red at her accusations, “Young Miss is too anxious, this servant doesn’t care for Master. Rather, this servant cares for this book. Young Miss is knowledgeable. This accounting book holds the works of Wei Residence’s thousand subordinates’ shop fronts and their painstaking nights worth of work. If Young Miss ruins the accounting book, Young Miss will have also spoiled countless hours of hard work!”

So it’s like so ah. Sure enough, it was just a foolish woman, it seems like she had really over thought it. Gu Weiyi faintly smiled with a somewhat teasing look on her face. She threw the accounting book in her hand toward Fu Hanei and jokingly said, “Then look and tell me whether or not I’m spoiling others’ hard work.”

Fu Hanmei doubtfully took the book and looked at it. At the top, she saw a dense block of incomprehensible characters scribbled across it. But as her gaze traveled further down, these characters became less and less. Could it be that Young Miss was illiterate?

Gu Weiyi saw Fu Hanmei’s confused face and suddenly realized.. She used Arabic numerals and simplified Chinese when accounting. Ancient people definitely wouldn’t understand what was written. Vexed, she slapped her head for forgetting. Gu Weiyi then went over and grabbed the accounting book back. Sigh, forget it. Sooner or later she had to teach her this so she could have the ability to do these things herself.

“Come over here.” Toward the dim witted woman, she curled her finger to indicate for her to draw closer. Then, Gu Weiyi took her self-made lead pencil and drew eleven Arabic numerals, “0-10” on the paper. Afterward, she wrote down the corresponding traditional Chinese characters. Gu Weiyi handed it over to her, indicating for her to take a look. Then she explained, “In the future, when you write in the accounting books, I don’t want you to use those complicated old characters. Just use these digits I wrote down, do you understand?”

When Fu Hanmei saw these digits, immense joy flooded into her eyes. These simple yet mysterious digits ensured that Wei Residence wouldn’t suffer any losses if this book was ever lost. These digits were too mysterious, Fu Hanmei felt excited just by looking at them. So it turned out that Young Miss wasn’t illiterate ah, it was just that Wei Residence’s accounting books were too precious. Who knew which genius thought up such digits for accounting. After thinking about it for a moment, Fu Hanmei concluded that it must’ve been Wei Residence’s Master.

“I’ll give you a day’s time to memorize it alright?”

“Yes Young Miss! This servant definitely can.” Looking at Fu Hanmei’s determined appearance, Gu Weiyi flattened her lips. This person was really a fool.

But she wouldn’t bother with her at the moment. She should focus on accounting again. If she could finish this accounting book sooner, when gege came home, they could all relax a bit more. She could settle a lot of matters on her own. She didn’t want them to work so hard. In any case, when she did these things in the past, the thing she did the most was precisely calculating bills and money making. For her, this was a piece of cake.

. . .

By the time she finished accounting, it was nearly nightfall. Gu Weiyi stood up and stretched. She turned and saw Fu Hanmei, who was still at the nearby desk, immersed in memorizing the digits and she shook her head. She had also instructed gege to give these digits to Xiaoran. Xiaoran had only taken an hour to memorize them. But Fu Hanmei, that fool, had taken an entire afternoon and still hadn’t finished. Perhaps she had expected too in too little for this amount of time. After all, not all ancient people were as smart as gege and Xiaoran. But, if it continued like this, she considered whether she should just keep her as a personal maid. Although she was a little dumb, it was still fun to bully a beautiful woman. It was really unfitting of her lovely face ah. Why was Fu Hanmei’s brain so stupid? Gu Weiyi smiled. She was truly an interesting individual.

“Have you finished memorizing them Meimei?” Gu Weiyi’s voice was teasing as she deliberately used a higher tone when saying “Meimei”. She watched with satisfaction as the opposite party’s face showed embarrassment and unwillingness.

“Young Miss, may you please not call this servant that?”

Han Fumei felt her forehead was dotted with cold sweat. Why was Young Miss so mean? She often saw a devious smile appear on that angel-looking face. When she saw that, her heart couldn’t help but tremor for she knew that the Young Miss was going to mess with her. She knew that she was a little foolish and her reactions were a little slow, which was why she was constantly teased by the Young Miss. But she had no other alternative. What could she do? The Young Miss was the master. What was she to do, blame her responsibilities and the Master? Moreover, she wasn’t such a petty person.

“Since Meimei doesn’t like when I call her this ah, I’ll just call you Hanhan!” Pretending not to see Fu Hanmei’s expression, Gu Weiyi continued messing with her.

A helpless expression appeared on Fu Hanmei’s charming face. She bent her head and lowly sighed, “As you say. This servant has already memorized them, does Young Miss have any other instructions?”

Facing toward a pile of accounting books on a desk, Gu Weiyi instructed, “Take a look at those tonight. If you don’t understand, come find me tomorrow.”

Climbing out of the bed with bare feet, Gu Weiyi continued instructing, “I want to take a bath, go prepare one for me. I’m going to go to the lotus flower pond to rest, bring me there first.”

“Yes.” Walking in front of Gu Weiyi, Fu Hanmei took out a pair of fur boots from her bosom and bent down, simply putting Gu Weiyi’s feet in them. Her tone was harsh as she said, “Young Miss, it’s cold out, how can you be barefooted? What if you freeze?”

Smiling, Gu Weiyi accepted her good intentions. In fact, underneath the entire building was a boiler. The floor wasn’t even cold, it could even be described as warm. When did Gu Weiyi ever use shoes when she was inside ah? But, looking down at those boots, she noted that they must be newly made. She couldn’t bring herself to reject the fool’s kind intentions toward herself. This fool’s character wasn’t that bad. It was unfortunate that that charming face was even prettier than her own face. Gu Weiyi still felt somewhat shaky in her heart. That was a woman ah. Charming, alluring, and shapely, all of which described Fu Hanmei. What a pity. As for herself, she was like a child. Everywhere on her body was small. How unfortuate ah!

She opened her arms, indicating for Fu Hanmei to carry her. Honestly speaking, for her to allow Fu Hanmei to carry her was a privilege in itself. When did she, Gu Weiyi, ever allow a stranger to come close or even to touch her ah? She actually had mysophobia, but gege and Cutie were exceptions.

Already understanding how lazy her family’s Young Miss was, Fu Hanmei directly bent her waist. Gu Weiyi didn’t hesitate and quickly clamored onto her back, wrapping her arms around her neck. The feeling of exquisite skin touching her and hot air breathing on her neck caused Fu Hanmei’s cheeks to turn red for some unknown reason. She faced in front of her, not allowing the person behind her to sense her abnormality. 

Walking over to the front door, Fu Hanmei felt a strange breath. It was unfamiliar, heavy, and not human-like. As she was still puzzling over this, she saw a round white ball hurling toward her. On guard, she took a step back and was able to clearly see a full-grown white tiger lunging at her. She merely saw its mouth wide open as it was directly lunging at her and Young Miss.

“Young Miss, be careful!”

Using qinggong, she quickly stepped back and put Gu Weiyi on the stone chair behind her. She then turned around to come face-to-face with the white tiger, shielding Gu Weiyi behind her. Heavens ah, how could such a fierce animal suddenly appear? It was even a full-grown white tiger! How could she make this situation in favor of herself? After all, Fu Hanmei knew her own weight. If she was directly pitted against this white tiger, she had no chance of winning. But, her current circumstances left no room for her to cower.

“Young Miss, in a moment, I’ll lead it away. You must remember to run, do you understand me?!” Fu Hanmei warned, her face solemn. She didn’t turn around, missing the teasing appearance of Gu Weiyi behind her.

This fool. Did she not think about where she was? How could a ferocious, man-eating beast appear in her Wei Residence building? Did she think her building was a joke? But, this fool was really so cute when she was overprotective. She cast a glance at Cutie, telling her not to overdo it. The intelligent spirit animal was obviously able to grasp Gu Weiyi’s plan. Unexpectedly, the same crafty gleam in Gu Weiyi’s eyes flashed across it’s amber eyes.

The power beasts’ face was terrifying as it’s enormous figure lunged forward. Fu Hanmei’s figure moved, but the keen tiger was still able to make a tear in her clothes. Soon after, the next several times, she was luckily able to dodge. She secretly let out a loose breath, but she didn’t realize that this was actually the white tiger “throwing the game”.

If Cutie truly wanted to see her dead, she would’ve been dead a long time ago. When Cutie saw Fu Hanmei always dodging, her amber eyes rolled. She turned her body and pounced at Gu Weiyi instead.

When she saw this, Fu Hanmei was filled with great terror. There was no time for her to think as she quickly dashed over and jumped on Gu Weiyi, shielding her with her own body. During this moment, Fu Hanmei felt that she could barely breathe! She just tightly shut her eyes. As long as the person she was shielding was fine, she didn’t need to think too much about anything else. But after a long time passed, she didn’t feel any of the pain she expected. Just as she was puzzling over this, she heard the sound of a woman’s light laughter sound out from beside her.

“That’s enough, get up.” Gu Weiyi smiled, extremely happy. This fool could be considered to have passed her test. For her to be able to unselfishly sacrifice her life, even if it was just because of her loyalty toward her Master, was already a very admirable trait and deeply appreciated by Gu Weiyi. Fu Hanmei was someone worthy to be viewed as trustworthy by her! She shouldn’t be a second Qing Yi. She knew that Qing Yi had betrayed her, even if it was because of love, that love was too blind. So now, she wanted someone who could sacrifice their life without the slightest hesitation without questioning or disobeying her. 

Doubtful eyes drifted over and saw Gu Weiyi intimately stroking that white tiger and that white tiger fawningingly rubbing it’s immense body on Gu Weiyi. Seeing this, she suddenly understood everything. Unprecedented anger filled Fu Hanmei’s heart at this moment. Disappointment flashed through her eyes, her tone turned ice cold, and ridicule filled her face as she laid her eyes on Gu Weiyi.

“Young Miss, is there a need to sound out this servant this way? As a subordinate, this servant always remembers her role! Or is it that Young Miss thinks that playing tricks on this servant is very good? This servant is also a person, not Young Miss’ toy for Young Miss to play with when she is bored!”

Knowing her wrongs, Gu Weiyi straightened her expression and sincerely apologized, “Meimei, I know that my probing you out hurt your feelings. But you also need to understand that trust can’t be given out to so easily. I’m sure you know of Wei Residence’s importance. You should also know that its secrets can’t be leaked out into the world. I have no other choice but to be cautious. But I never treated you as a toy to be made fun of. The one who always thought of herself as a subordinate.”

“This servant doesn’t dare…”

“It’s just that,” Gu Weiyi interrupted her and continued saying, “It’s you who always speaks of herself as a servant. Is even a subordinate unwilling to attend upon me?”

Having been exposed of her true feelings, Han Fumei felt amazed, but still attempted to weakly explain, “No, it’s not that. This servant…”

“Fu Hanmei, before you dream about getting my respect, shouldn’t you learn to respect yourself first? When I chose you, I didn’t choose you to be a subordinate. I wanted an assistant capable of contributing to Wei Residence! Why do you think I kept you by my side? What is knowing your shortcomings worth? You clearly want to prove yourself, but you’re too cowardly to. You have a brain, yet you’re always half a beat behind because you doubt yourself too much. You need to feel more confident in your own judgements! How come you want others to recognize you when you can’t even recognize yourself?”

After Fu Hanmei heard Gu Weiyi’s strict questions, her heart was thrown into chaos. Such a profound analyzation.. That woman actually directly exposed the restlessness and anxiety she buried deep into her heart. So much so that she didn’t even realize she held herself so lowly. At this moment, her brain was at a loss. But it was extremely clear to her that she had to face everything.

“Go prepare my bath for me. Remember, don’t disappoint me.” Gu Weiyi climbed onto Cutie’s back and they both slowly walked away, leaving behind an expressionless and unmoving Fu Hanmei, who was deep in thought.

If one wanted to receive recognition from others, they had to first recognize themselves ah! Did she have such low confidence? Yes ah. It was funny that in the end, she had been seen through by another when she herself didn’t even know that she was being cheated ah!

Then could she give the things she wanted?

Possibly.

. . .

The piping hot bath was large enough to be called a small lake. There was a luxurious marble board, renowned artists’ paintings, and red gauze faintly moved about, creating a hazy scene. This bath was probably just as luxurious, if not more than the emperor’s. In fact, there were even rose petals floating around on top of the bath, a luxury even the emperor couldn’t afford! Just how rich was Wei Residence? It was too scary to think about. How much money Wei Residence had was a secret, a secret nobody knew. Just exactly how much power it had behind it was also unknown!

From the lightly fragranced bath, a figure emerged, made hazy by a red muslin screen. Correcting her train of thought, Fu Hanmei let loose a breath and drew near the emerging figure. She should choose and face it, right? Young Miss wasn’t the ignorant woman she first that she was. Her intelligence and farsightedness was something she had never even thought possible. She would obey, be sincere, and devote all her loyalty to her. From now on, her body and soul was the Young Miss’. This was the outcome Young Miss wanted right?

“Young Miss, I…”

Fu Hanmei lifted up the muslin and looked up, but instantly stiffened. The slender woman’s clothes had all been taken off, exposing her white, jade-like flesh underneath. And under the contrasting light, her skin shone like a jewel. Her inky black hair draped over her shoulders and scattered down her back, exposing her delicate shoulder and slender legs. When she heard her name called, she turned her exquisite face around, exposing her steam-reddened cheeks. 

By this point, Fu Hanmei’s face was as red as a tomato. She was completely embarrassed by her own thoughts as she turned her head around and stuttered, “Young… Young Miss… This servant calls upon… You… To take a bath.”

Gu Weiyi saw Fu Hanmei hiding behind the muslin, as if she had just seen something inappropriate and Gu Weiyi smiled. They were both women. What was there to be afraid or embarrassed of? But, this was still the first time her body had been seen by anyone other than gege. When she thought about it again, having such a charming woman attend to her was a type of pleasure in itself ah! Honestly speaking, she had never bathed herself before because these things were usually done by gege. All she needed to do was lie down and rest for a bit. Although bathing was technically a simple task, toward someone who had always been waited upon, it was difficult ah.

Walking near the bath, Gu Weiyi lifted her head, showing a mischevious smile on her face.

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