Chapter 395: Chewing raw meat, eating people alive!

Good thing?

What good thing?

Zhui Yu and the others hurriedly hid in the dark upon hearing this, not daring to listen further.

But their hearts were pounding wildly, fearing that Duan Rongshi and Li Qingluo had been provoked and grown estranged.

Duan Rongshi's force shifted instantly, and he grabbed Zongzheng Wuhen's throat in one grip.

His eyes were already filled with killing intent.

"Oh? Then why don't you say what good thing it is?"

"If you dare utter a single false word, Zongzheng Wuhen, which tooth do you plan to start pulling out?"

Zongzheng Wuhen didn't believe he would actually do that.

After all, I am the Sixth Prince of Great Chu.

But Duan Rongshi's force was so great I could barely breathe.

He could only slap the stone railing in protest.

After Duan Rongshi kicked him away, he rolled on the ground and let out a series of cold laughs.

"What are you pretending? Duan Rongshi, do you really dare to kill me?"

Duan Rongshi: "Why don't you try?"

"Anyway, once you're dead, no one will know you died by my hand."

"It's just a corpse—burn it with fire, and in DaLiang who would care whether you'd ever been here?"

Zongzheng Wuhen: "Zongzheng Yuer will find out!"

"She will surely return to Great Chu to seek justice for me!"

"Duan Rongshi, your personal grudge will surely provoke war between the two states, and you will go down in history as a heinous sinner!"

Duan Rongshi: "Isn't it just that Great Chu wants the Pei family's military manual, waiting for a day to wage war on DaLiang?"

Zongzheng Wuhen's face showed doubt upon hearing this.

"What Pei family military manual?"

Obviously he had no idea.

Li Qingluo couldn't help but sneer: "Interesting. Zuliya is actually not of one mind with you."

"He's been stirring up trouble behind the DaLiang crown prince and Princess Qinyu, driving the entire Pei family to the brink of extinction, yet you don't even know what he wants?"

"Looks like all the factions in Great Chu also have their own hidden agendas."

Zongzheng Wuhen crossed his legs, appearing calm and composed.

"Don't spout those cold remarks here."

"Li Qingluo, the taste of this poison flaring up isn't pleasant, is it?"

"Although you do have some looks, with that incurable poison on your body, even if you marry and have children, what kind of monster would they be? Aren't you afraid?"

"And what about that unspeakable incident between you and the prince—how much tolerance and genuine feeling can Duan Rongshi still have for you?"

Before Duan Rongshi could make another move, Li Qingluo stepped forward herself: "What's the big deal?"

"It's just that when I posed as a turtle-slave, I gave you a scrub."

"Speaking of which, the body of the mighty Chu state's Sixth Prince is truly disappointing to behold."

"Especially that part… tsk, can you even bear offspring?"

Zongzheng Wuhen's expression cracked again upon hearing this.

He pointed at Li Qingluo, fuming: "Are you even a lady?!"

"So brazen and vulgar!"

"Simply, simply despicable!"

"The prince was clearly wearing undershorts that day—what could you possibly see clearly?"

"Full of slander!"

"Duan Rongshi, could you even stand a woman like this? What exactly is your taste?"

Duan Rongshi: "What's it to you?"

Though he said that, Duan Rongshi's face had already blackened like a pot bottom.

"Zongzheng Wuhen, I'm sparing your life temporarily, but not out of kindness."

"If you provoke me again…"

Duan Rongshi looked toward the darkness behind him: "Someone, break his two fingers."

Zongzheng Wuhen stared in disbelief: "You dare!"

"Duan Rongshi, you dare cut off the prince's fingers—someday I will personally take your head!"

Duan Rongshi: "I also don't intend to let you live long."

Having said that, two attendants had already opened the door and entered.

Having long been drugged with a substance that temporarily nullified his martial arts, Zongzheng Wuhen could only scream as he was pinned down; in the instant the swift blade fell, his left ring and little fingers snapped off and flew onto the mud.

Zongzheng Wuhen clutched his hand and rolled on the ground, shouting.

Li Qingluo merely stared coldly.

She felt a bit relieved inside, but it was still far from enough.

She bent over to look at Zongzheng Wuhen.

"You want me to lose everything and become your puppet."

"Now it's your turn."

Having said that, the two of them no longer paid him any mind and walked toward the inner room.

Zhui Yu had already thrown a chicken in front of Zuoliya.

And the iron chain in Zuoliya's mouth was also pulled out.

Upon smelling the scent, Zuoliya seized the chicken and bit it.

He didn't care that his mouth was full of feathers, nor that the chicken was still alive.

The chicken was soon covered in blood from Zuoliya's gnawing; Zuoliya seemed to expend all his remaining strength, and in the tearing the chicken's neck snapped, its head falling to the ground.

The raw meat was hard to tear, so she pulled it apart with force.

But soon she lay on the ground and began to vomit.

Even the chicken feathers, raw meat, and black blood she had just swallowed were vomited out together.

Then she lay on the ground, frantically searching and howling in pain.

Duan Rongshi waved his hand again, and this time a middle-aged man was brought forward.

Leng Dian: "Your Highness, this death-row inmate is a beast who raped and murdered sixteen women."

"Shall we test him?"

Duan Rongshi raised his chin, and the death-row inmate, with his mouth plugged, was thrown in.

Zuoliya soon smelled the scent nearby, within arm's reach.

She was like a starving beast making its last desperate lunge before dying of hunger, she pounced onto the man and bit him.

When she finally gnawed onto the man's neck, fresh blood spurted out instantly.

She opened her mouth and lunged forward, sucking fiercely.

Li Qingluo retreated step by step, her face deathly pale.

Until Duan Rongshi grabbed her in an embrace.

"Luo'er?"

Li Qingluo closed her eyes.

"Your Highness, when I lose control, am I like this too?"

Duan Rongshi: "Of course not."

"You're well-behaved; each time you only need two or three bites to fall asleep."

Li Qingluo gave a bitter smile: "Your Highness, you don't need to lie to me."

"What's the difference between me and her?"

"We're both beasts."

She could not bear this blow, turned and hurried out.

Although she had long known what she had become, Li Qingluo still felt bitter beyond measure.

By the time Duan Rongshi found her, she was standing at the cliff's edge, blowing in the wind, already calmed down.

Duan Rongshi: "What are you thinking about?"

Li Qingluo: "When the elderly Marquis Pei just turned into a monster, we all blamed him, wondering why he didn't simply kill himself instead of living on and harming so many women's lives."

"But when it comes to me, I actually can't bear to die."

Taking a deep breath, Li Qingluo turned to look at Duan Rongshi: "Your Highness, please promise me."

"If one day, before I fully truly become a monster, before I harm an innocent person's life, before I even fail to uphold the last vestige of my humanity… please kill me yourself."

Duan Rongshi's face was already overcast with gloom.

He flatly refused: "Absolutely impossible! Don't even think about it!"

Li Qingluo: "Your Highness, you surely know in your heart, this matter…"

Duan Rongshi wouldn't let her finish at all.

He grabbed her arms and shoulders tightly: "What do you want to say?"

"Let this king personally kill you?"

"Li Qingluo, why are you so cruel?"

"This king has already lost his mother; must I personally kill you to fulfill my fate!?"

"This king absolutely will not allow you to leave him again."

"Even if you drain his blood dry, you must die together with him. Understand?"

Li Qingluo was held tightly in his embrace.

She struggled momentarily but couldn't move, so she could only obediently let him hold her.

She gazed blankly ahead.

Yet she had to raise her arms and lightly return his embrace.

She knew she could no longer bear to leave him…

Duan Rongshi's voice suddenly gained a hint of pity.

"Besides, you haven't even seen this king's body, yet you first looked at Zongzheng Wuhen's."

"Li Qingluo, you have let this king down."

Li Qingluo:?

"Your Highness, can such a thing also provoke jealousy?"

"Moreover, he clearly knows in his heart exactly which nobleman's naked body he first saw."

She blushed, unwilling to speak plainly.

"Your Highness, I really don't remember anything."

"However, this heart, battered and mended many times, now aches again like a needle prick."

"Zongzheng Wuhen ultimately spoke a single true sentence."

She has contracted this poison; will the child she bears in the future be like that butterfly…… a monster that from the womb carries a bloodlust disease?

She was afraid.

She was truly afraid.

"Your Highness, we…… let's not get married for now?"

"Before this poison in my body has no cure, let us not get married, okay?"

Duan Rongshi: "Not good."

"What difference does it make whether we have a child or not?"

"I, the prince, also have no claim to the throne."

Li Qingluo's wounded heart was thus easily healed again by him.

Zulya quickly regained consciousness.

Upon seeing that the person before her was a bloody, mangled corpse that she herself had bitten to death, she clutched her head and let out an anguished scream.

"No…… no……"

"This wasn't done by me, I really didn't do it!"

"Li Qingluo, Duan Rongshi——"

"You two killed me——kill me, please!"

Saying this, she was about to throw herself against the pillar, but Zhui Yu grabbed the iron chain with one hand and jerked her hard, throwing her to the ground.

Zhui Yu: "Want to die?"

"Death is indeed easy. But if you don't hand over the antidote, we'll make it so you cannot live nor die."

"Next time, we won't even give you a living person like this."

"Or let you gnaw on a live beast, how about that?"

Zulya lay on the ground, feeling nauseous, yet this time she couldn't vomit no matter what.

She burst into tears: "I was wrong……"

"I really was wrong……"

"This medicine has no antidote, truly no antidote."

"If there were, wouldn't I still want to live?"

"I shouldn't have provoked these two people who are more ruthless and cruel in heart and means than I; I have now realized my mistake, can't you spare me?"

"Or let me go out, I'll go make the antidote…… yes, I'll go make the antidote!"

Leng Dian: "Do you think we'll believe what you say?"

"Since you still want to endure, then continue to taste the flavor of being hung up for another seven days."

Saying this, they grabbed the iron chain and yanked her to the stone rail, seizing her hair.

Zulya let out an anguished scream——

Soon, Duan Rongshi received news that Zulya had been hung up again.

Duan Rongshi, who was waiting in the small courtyard for Li Qingluo to rest, merely gave a faint 'mm' in response.

Since Zulya had spent five years refining this poison,

Even though there is currently no antidote, she is absolutely the person most familiar with this poison.

So, she definitely still has something undisclosed.

Now Dong Siyuan, Qin Ling, and Luo Shenyi each hold one remaining dose of the poison.

Hope they can, according to the properties of this medicine, quickly concoct an antidote.

Otherwise, his Luo'er would not be at ease marrying into the Prince Su's mansion.

The guards of the Prince Su's mansion suddenly came to report: "Your Highness, the Emperor summons you to return to the city and enter the palace for an audience."