Chapter 29 Who's making a fuss?

Chapter 29 Who's making a fuss?

"Ah—! Help! This beast is going to eat people!"

"Your Highness! Your Highness, save me!"

Tang Wan's screams, growing louder and louder, were like a demonic sound, piercing through layers of courtyard walls and heading straight into the study in the main courtyard.

"..."

Pei Yunjing, who was resting with his eyes closed in his study, suddenly felt a vein throb on his forehead.

The silk handkerchief in his hand was instantly crushed into powder.

【Quarrel. 】

【It's noisy. 】

That shrill, hysterical soprano voice, to his overloaded ears, was like someone tearing his brain apart with a rusty saw.

My head is splitting with pain.

Pei Yunjing suddenly opened his eyes, his narrow phoenix eyes instantly filled with scarlet blood vessels, and his eyes surged with a ferocity and killing intent that could destroy the world.

He picked up the still-unpolished black dagger from the table, moved with lightning speed, and strode towards the garden, his body shrouded in frost.

He wanted to see which fool dared to wail and howl in his mansion.

...

Inside the garden.

Tang Wan lay sprawled in the muddy ground, reeking of urine, waving her hands in despair.

Just then, a figure in black, exuding a suffocating sense of oppression, appeared in front of the moon gate.

The man's long hair was unbound, his black robe fluttered, and he held a gleaming dagger in his hand. His handsome, godlike face was now so gloomy that it seemed as if water could drip from it.

"Your Highness...?"

Tang Wan's screams stopped abruptly.

She stared blankly at Pei Yunjing. Even in this extremely disheveled state, with excrement and urine all over her body, she was still momentarily stunned by the man's beauty.

This is Regent Pei Yunjing!

He's even more handsome and imposing than rumored!

The next second, Tang Wan, as if grasping at a straw, disregarded her current inhuman and ghostly appearance and desperately crawled towards Pei Yunjing, crying her eyes out (although her face was covered in mud):

"Your Highness! Your Highness, save me!"

"This beast hurt me! It bit me like a madman! My clothes... my legs..."

While crying, Tang Wan pointed maliciously at Tang Li, who was standing to the side looking "terrified," and shrieked as she complained:

"And my sister! It was her! She deliberately harmed me! She was jealous that I looked good in red, so she deliberately let the tiger bite me! Your Highness, you must do justice for me!"

She was certain that as long as Pei Yunjing saw her in such a miserable state, he would take pity on her and punish that vicious illegitimate daughter!

Pei Yunjing stopped and stood five steps away from her.

He didn't speak, but lowered his eyes and coldly surveyed the lump on the ground.

In his view—

First, there's the visual impact.

The tattered dress was bright red.

This highly saturated red was like a burning fire in his eyes, stinging his eyeballs.

Secondly, there is auditory torment.

The woman's voice was shrill and piercing; every cry was like a steel needle stabbing into the eardrum.

Finally, the sense of smell is destroyed.

The overpowering, nauseating scent of lilies mixed with the fresh, hot smell of urine, and the lingering stench of a tiger...

This is practically a biological gas bomb!

Pei Yunjing's face visibly turned green.

He held his breath, his stomach churning, his knuckles turning white as he gripped the dagger, his killing intent surging to the brink.

dirty.

chaos.

Smelly.

This was his only assessment of Tang Wan.

He averted his gaze in disgust, his eyes landing on Tang Li, who stood a few steps away, as if searching for a safe haven.

The girl, dressed in faded, plain-colored old clothes, stood quietly against the wall, neither crying nor making a fuss.

Although it looks a bit shabby, its light colors are pleasing to the eye.

Moreover, as the distance closed, a faint, refreshing herbal scent wafted over from her, instantly dispelling the suffocating stench of urine.

Pei Yunjing took a deep breath, and the feeling that his head was about to explode finally eased.

He ignored Tang Wan on the ground and walked straight to Tang Li.

Tang Li lowered her head, looking like a frightened young wife.

Pei Yunjing's gaze swept over her, finally settling on her cuff.

The area was covered in dirt and wrinkled from being pushed by Tang Wan earlier.

"..."

Pei Yunjing frowned.

His medicinal ingredients were contaminated.

"Can't even stop a piece of trash?"

Pei Yunjing spoke coldly, his tone full of disdain and displeasure, devoid of any warmth, as if he were reprimanding a faulty tool:

"Are you dead? If someone pushes you, can't you dodge? You're useless."

Tangli shrank her neck, but her heart was filled with joy.

Well said!

This shows that the madman's current anger is entirely directed at the person on the ground.

"Your Highness, please forgive me..." Tang Li whispered, "My sister is a distinguished guest and the eldest daughter of the family. I... I dare not stop her."

"Distinguished guest?"

Pei Yunjing let out a sneer, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world.

He finally turned around and looked at Tang Wan on the ground once more.

This time, his gaze was no longer fixed on people, but rather on a pile of non-recyclable garbage.

"Your Highness..."

Tang Wan froze, terrified by his icy gaze, and tried to explain, "I am the legitimate daughter of the Minister's family... I specially wore this red dress to see you, because I heard you like it..."

"like?"

Pei Yunjing interrupted her, his voice chilling to the bone, each word seeming to be squeezed out from between his teeth:

"Did I say that...?"

He used the back of his dagger to pick up a piece of red cloth from the ground with disgust:

"In the Regent's Palace, no one can be seen with blood."

"It's blinding."

Tang Wan's face turned deathly pale instantly, and her lips trembled as she was unable to speak.

“And…” Pei Yunjing took a step back, covering his mouth and nose with his sleeve, his brows furrowed tightly, “You stink.”

"The noise is giving me a headache, and the stench is making me nauseous."

Pei Yunjing lost his last bit of patience.

He doesn't need to hear any background information, nor does he care who is right or wrong.

Anything that makes him feel uncomfortable has no reason to exist.

"Someone come here."

He gave the order coldly, his voice echoing throughout the garden:

"You have both disturbed the princess and defiled my territory..."

Pei Yunjing looked down at the despairing Tang Wan and delivered his final verdict:

"Break her legs."

"Throw him out of the mansion, along with his tattered clothes."

"Throw it far away, don't dirty the gate of the Prince's mansion."

Several black-armored guards appeared instantly, expressionless, and dragged the still screaming Tang Wan and the unconscious Wang Shi away like dead dogs.

"No! Your Highness! Spare me! I'm from the Minister's residence... Ah—!!!"

With a crisp crack of bone breaking, the screams abruptly ceased.

Pei Yunjing didn't even glance at her, but turned to Tang Li, tossing her the dusty dagger he was holding, his tone harsh:

"Wipe it clean."

"Also, if you let this filth into your house again, you and she can both get out."