Chapter 16 Shut up, don't disturb this king

Chapter 16 Shut up, don't disturb this king

The deathly silence in the study was broken.

Liu Changqing slumped to the ground, staring at the parchment that had fallen from the sole of his boot, his face ashen.

"Your Highness...Your Highness, please hear my explanation! It's...it's a setup! I truly don't know why this thing was in the boot! It must have been that beast..."

He tried to argue his case and shift the blame onto Da Bai.

"explain?"

Pei Yunjing didn't even glance at him, but casually raised his hand and lightly flicked the thin parchment with his fingertips.

"Besides the nauseating smell of salted fish, there is also a peculiar scent of ink in this picture."

Pei Yunjing's voice was soft, yet it carried a chilling edge: "That is the 'pine soot ink' used exclusively in my study. And only you would habitually add borneol when grinding this ink."

"Mr. Liu, you've served me for ten years, and you've even forgotten such a small detail?"

Liu Changqing froze, his last shred of hope shattered.

He suddenly stopped trembling and instead revealed a ferocious smile. He pulled a dagger from his sleeve and, instead of committing suicide, rushed towards Tang Li, who was closest to him!

Since I can't survive, I'll take someone down with me!

"Witch! You're the one who ruined me!"

Tang Li's pupils contracted sharply, and the poisoned dagger appeared infinitely larger in her eyes.

However, even faster than the dagger was a streak of dark light.

"bass--!"

Tang Li only felt a blur before her eyes, and didn't even see how Pei Yunjing drew his sword.

The next second.

"Pfft."

The sound of a sharp blade cutting into flesh was dull yet clear.

Liu Changqing's forward-rushing body froze in mid-air, the dagger stopping three inches from Tang Li's nose, unable to go any further.

Immediately afterwards, a head rolled off the body without warning, right before Tang Li's horrified eyes.

Blood gushed out like a fountain, exploding in the air into a scarlet flower that splattered all over the ground.

The head rolled around a few times before finally stopping right at Tang Li's feet.

Those unseeing eyes were staring intently at her.

"..."

Tang Li froze completely.

This was the first time in her two lifetimes that she had faced such close-up and such brutal killing.

The strong smell of blood instantly entered her nasal cavity, stimulating her nerves.

The visual shock left her mind blank, and her stomach churned instantly.

After extreme fear comes physical collapse.

"ah--"

Tang Li opened her mouth wide, the air in her lungs compressed violently, and a high-decibel scream that could pierce eardrums was about to burst out of her throat!

At the same time, a strong urge to vomit surged up her throat, and she was about to throw up!

Just as the scream was about to erupt and the filth was about to gush out—

A cold, long hand, still carrying a faint scent of blood, suddenly reached out from behind, mercilessly and brutally—

They covered her eyes and mouth tightly!

"Ugh!!!"

Tangli's back slammed hard into a chest as hard as iron.

The hand was incredibly strong, gripping half of her face like an iron clamp, forcibly silencing all her screams and fear.

There was no gentle comfort, no pity of "don't look".

Only extreme impatience and irritability.

Pei Yunjing stood behind her, his brows furrowed tightly.

He didn't frown when Liu Changqing died, but the moment this woman opened her mouth to scream, he felt like the string in his brain was about to snap.

It's noisy.

If he let her scream, his head would explode.

and……

Pei Yunjing lowered his eyes, looking at the pale-faced woman in his arms whose throat was still moving, and a trace of undisguised disgust flashed in his eyes.

If he were to let her vomit in his study... the stench would probably make him want to kill her too.

"Shut up."

Pei Yunjing lowered his head, his lips close to her ear, his voice as cold as if it were wrapped in ice, carrying a strong warning:

"Stop it for me."

"If you dare to utter a sound, I will rip out your tongue."

Tangli trembled violently in his arms, tears welling up instantly and wetting his palms.

Pei Yunjing didn't loosen his grip; instead, he pressed his hand even harder against her mouth, his tone chillingly cold:

"If you dare to vomit here..."

He sneered and cruelly added, "You will swallow that filth back to me, bite by bite."

Tang Li froze at the disgusting and terrifying words, and the urge to vomit that had risen to her throat was forcibly suppressed.

She clenched her teeth and nodded frantically, indicating that she would absolutely not scream or vomit.

...

A moment later.

The black-armored guards swiftly dragged away the corpse, rolled up the blood-stained carpet, and quickly replaced it with a new one. They even lit a strong ambergris incense to mask the smell of blood.

Until the study was tidy again.

Pei Yunjing suddenly released his grip on Tang Li as if throwing away trash.

"Huff... huff..."

Tang Li's legs went weak, and she almost fell to the ground. She held onto the corner of the table, panting heavily, her face as white as a ghost.

Pei Yunjing picked up a damp cloth from the maid's tray and slowly wiped the hand that had just covered Tangli's mouth.

He wiped it very carefully, as if he had just touched something extremely dirty.

After wiping her, he casually tossed the handkerchief into the wastebasket, glanced down at the still trembling Tangli, and looked down at her with nothing but mockery, showing no pity whatsoever.

"You're scared out of your wits?"

Pei Yunjing sat back in his armchair, picked up the defense map again, and spoke in a chillingly indifferent tone:

"Useless."

In his view, it was nothing more than the death of a traitor.

This level of gore is less than one ten-thousandth of what was seen on the northern battlefield.

This woman is so timid, how will she become his medicine ingredient in the future?

Tangli lowered her head, her nails digging deep into her flesh.

She did not refute, nor did she dare to refute.

The slight unease that had arisen in her heart because of his earlier "rescue" had now been completely extinguished by this bucket of cold water.

yes.

What is she thinking?

This is a ruthless, insane regent who kills without blinking an eye.

He covered her eyes, simply because he thought she was being noisy.

He covered her mouth, simply because he thought she was dirty.

"Since you're not dead, go back and rest."

Pei Yunjing seemed somewhat disheartened by what had just happened. He waved his hand impatiently, as if shooing away an annoying fly.

"Don't bother me tonight. You smell like cold sweat, it's awful."

"...Yes, Your Highness."

Tang Li lowered her eyes, concealing the fear and scheming within them.

She bowed, turned and left the study.

The moment she stepped out of the courtyard gate, a gust of cold wind hit her, and Tang Li realized that her back was already soaked with sweat.

She glanced back at the imposing and imposing main hall of the Regent's Palace, which resembled the gaping maw of a giant beast, and the last shred of naive fantasy in her heart was shattered.

There was no affection by this man's side, only survival.

To survive, she had to become more useful and more composed.