51. A heart full of malice

  "Master, save me!" Cui'er heard Xiahou Lü's delighted voice and immediately turned her head, like a drowning person grasping at the straw of salvation, running wildly with a terrified expression. However, she had only taken a few steps when she suddenly stopped in her tracks, realizing that the direction she was running in didn't have the man who could save her life. All she saw was the dark night and Xiahou Lü standing in front of her, holding scissors and wearing a sinister smile on his face.

  "Want to run? Xiaobei, you dare to run?" Xiahou Lü laughed with a twisted face, lifting her foot and kicking hard on Cui'er's knee, forcing the already terrified Cui'er to fall to the ground. As Cui'er cried out in pain, she ruthlessly stepped on Cui'er's left cheek, trampling Cui'er like an object underfoot, grinning savagely. "This princess was just pretending to call her own Yu Lang, Xiaobei, you actually reacted so excitedly, indeed you are coveting this princess's Yu Lang!"

  "You must have said something bad about me to Yulang, or he wouldn't be ignoring me for so many days! You little beast!" Xiahou Lü's face twisted in a scowl as she spoke, her voice shrill and menacing. Her foot pressed down even harder, causing Cuier's nose to bleed. "You think you can stay by Yulang's side? Don't you know your own status? I'll ruin you right now, just watch me! You'll never be able to seduce my Yulang again!"

  Xiahou Lun scolded in a shrill voice, bent down and grabbed Cui'er's already disheveled hair, pulling it outward with force, as if he wanted to tear that handful of hair out of Cui'er's head before he was satisfied. The pain on her scalp tore at Cui'er's heart, forcing her to let out a heartbreaking cry: "Ah——"

  Xiahou Ruo seemed to have not heard Cui'er's terrified and painful cries, his hands and feet exerting even more force, the smile in his eyes becoming even more sinister and venomous, as only Cui'er's cries pierced through the night air and echoed throughout the entire courtyard.

  The scalp's tearing pain and the attitude of being trampled underfoot like a beast by Xiahou Ru stimulated Cuier's spirit of resistance. The desire to protect herself made her forget that the one who was handling her was her master. She saw her waving her hands, hitting Xiahou Ru's hands and feet. Xiahou Ru seemed not to have expected that Cuier would dare to resist. When her hand was scratched by Cuier's sharp fingernails, she was slightly stunned. Then, she lifted her foot and trampled heavily on Cuier's face again and again, with a terrifying rage: "You lowly thing, how dare you resist!?"

  Xiahou Dun's eyes narrowed, and with a burst of strength, he tore the hair from Cui'er's head, along with some scalp, leaving her screaming in agony. Cui'er immediately fainted from the pain.

  "Hah——hah——" Xiahou Dun looked at the handful of hair with scalp still dripping with blood, laughing intermittently, laughing to the point of being out of breath. "This princess has lost her hair, none of you Ba people will have hair either!"

  Xiahou Ruo threw away the hair in her hand, squatted down, and used a sharp pair of scissors to cut off Cui'er's long hair one by one until she was satisfied with a smile. Then, she moved the scissors to Cui'er's face and sneered menacingly: "You little concubine, you seduced my Yu Lang, now you have to pay the price! Just like I ruined that concubine Bai Liu Li, I will ruin you too!"

  Her hand rose, the scissors fell, amidst Ci's body and her despairing cries, the sharp scissors opened one gash after another on her face. Occasionally, a drop of blood would spurt onto Xia Houlu's hand, making her laugh out loud like a blooming flower, "Hehe... how beautiful..."

  "Xu Er." Just as Xia Hou Xu was intently carving on Cui Er's face, a gentle and pleasant male voice came from behind her, causing her hand to suddenly stop in its tracks. Even Cui Er, who had been tortured to the point of being unrecognizable, felt a glimmer of hope at the sound of this heavenly music.

  Xiahou Ruo mechanically turned his head, looking at Yu Shiyuan who was walking out of the darkness. He hastily hid the scissors behind his back, suddenly like a child who had done something wrong, his eyes tightly locked onto Yu Shiyuan, as if afraid that Yu Shiyuan would suddenly disappear. He took two steps in Yu Shiyuan's direction, looking awkward and shy, saying: "Yu Lang!"

  However, Xiahou Ruo, who was excited and happy, did not see the thick disgust in Yu Shiyuan's eyes.

  Xiahou Ruo and Bai Liuli both regarded Yu Shizhen as their deeply loved one, but they showed completely different attitudes in front of him. Bai Liuli was notorious for her bad temper and evil deeds, and she treated everyone with cruelty and no mercy, even when facing the person she loved, Yu Shizhen, her attitude was only slightly softer. Her care for Yu Shizhen was mostly reflected in her actions.

  But Xiahou Ruo was different, she was a woman who was ruthless and poisonous to the bone, beating and scolding palace maids and eunuchs was a common occurrence, all the palace maids and eunuchs were afraid of her. She was only slightly smarter than Bai Lianlian, and she never gave others the opportunity to spread rumors about her bad behavior, so almost no one in the folk knew her true nature. In front of Yu Shiyuan, she was even more gentle and soft-spoken, perhaps she really liked Yu Shiyuan too much, so every time she saw him, she would blush and become shy, her voice as soft as a swallow's chirp, this was something that Bai Lianlian had never done in front of Yu Shiyuan.

  Yu Shuran knew that Xiahou Lian's bones were more ruthless than Bai Liuli, but for his future, he was willing to marry such a hypocritical woman. Women had always been tools in his eyes, and using the princess who could bring him great benefits and devotedly love him as a tool didn't make him feel like he was losing anything. Moreover, she was a beautiful and obedient woman who was pleasing to the eye, no matter what aspect, it was easy to use her, and everything about her was delightful.

  Yu Shi Ran did not expect that Xia Hou Lian would become so ugly in just a few short days, ugly to the point of making him nauseous, and unwilling to set foot in this other courtyard.

  At this moment, in Yu Shiyan's eyes, Xia Houluo was as ugly as a toad. If it weren't for the fact that she still had some use for him, he would never set foot in this place where she existed again.

  "Master, save me, save me!" Cui'er looked at Yu Shi Ran, her body trembling violently as she struggled to crawl towards him, pleading, "Master, I'm Cui'er, I am yours..."

  Cui'er's words stopped abruptly as her hand barely touched Yu Shiyan's shoe tip, her eyes wide open and staring at Yu Shiyan, her breath caught in incredulity, for a dagger had somehow appeared lodged in her throat!

  Yesterday, I was just stroking her face and praising how beautiful she looked, telling her to take good care of the princess, and that after a few days, I would take her as my concubine... how could it be possible that she killed her...

  Yu Shiyan glanced at Cui'er, who was dead at his feet, with disgust. He threw away the leather sheath that held a dagger in his hand and walked to Xia Houlu's side. He pulled her hand over and gently drew the already shy and speechless Xia Houlu into his arms. He said softly, "Since it was this maid who made Lu'er unhappy, I'll take care of her for Lu'er. Are you satisfied now?"

  "Yu... Yu Lang..." Yu Shiyuan's gentle and warm embrace made Xia Houlu blush, because she had always belonged to Yu Shiyuan in her heart but had never truly gotten close to him. It was precisely for this reason that she hated Bai Liuli, who could often appear by Yu Shiyuan's side.

  "Is Xiao'er still satisfied?" Yu Shiran gently held Xiaohou Luo, and when she saw her sparse hair on her scalp, she almost vomited, but still softly repeated the question that Xiaohou didn't answer.

  "Yu Lang made it for Xia Hou Lü, and she's very satisfied." Xia Hou Lü raised her hands boldly and wrapped them around Yu Shi Ran's waist, leaning her face into his chest, speaking softly, but didn't notice Yu Shi Ran's sudden stiffness due to nausea.

  "Would Nanshouer be willing to help me with something?" Yu Shiran slowly and imperceptibly pushed Xia Houluo away.

  "Xu'er is willing." Xiahou Xu'er, who was infatuated with Yu Shiyan to the point of being dizzy and confused, forgot everything for a moment, her eyes only had him, her lover, and she responded without thinking.

  Yu Shiyan curled up his lips and smiled, this is exactly what he wanted, a obedient tool, a useful tool.

  In the darkness, a low, almost inaudible cold laugh sounded, Xiahou Lian did not hear it, but Yu Shiyuan with deep internal strength heard it clearly.

  Digression

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