Chapter 73 - "The Guards Retaliate"

Mo Ye pursed his lips, then looked over at Liu Rushuang with a troubled look in his eyes. "Milady, I have some men who can be sent," he said calmly.

Liu Rushuang's eyes lit up and turned to Mo Ye who looked pale in the face. "Then, I must trouble you Clan Master Mo Ye," she said with an uneasy smile.

There was a hint of avoidance in Mo Ye's devilish eyes. "It's no trouble," he said flatly, before turning his head.

Although the clan leader was ruthless and heartless, she wasn't a bad person.

He liked girls like the clan leader!

Liu Rushuang smiled a little awkwardly. Was she too harsh on clan master Mo Ye today?

After the meal, everyone respectively returned to their own Houses in good spirits.

Liu Rushuang headed back to her chambers and sent people to the Medical House to collect ointment.

Having passed layers of muslin curtains, she saw Qing'Er asleep upon the lounge chair and couldn't help but smile. That little slob.

Then, she gently picked up Qing'Er, put her down on the big bed and pulled the covers.

Qing'Er pursed her lips and continued sleeping.

Liu Rushuang grinned helplessly. When they were at the minister's manor, she never saw Qing'Er sleep so well. As soon as she arrived at Blood Feast, she let her guard down.

It wasn't completely dark outside yet and Liu Rushuang couldn't fall asleep, so she sat reading in a chair. She didn't actually go to sleep until very late.

Thinking about future life in the canyon, a smile formed in the corner of her mouth.

If she could live like this from here on out, that wouldn't be too bad.

...

Meanwhile...

The Beiming political marriage procession reached an inn in the evening.

Ouyang Yaoyi was angry and exhausted. She looked back at the two guards once again and said threateningly, "You can let go of me now, right? If you dont, I'll defnitely have your entire families killed when we get back."

The two strong guards had impatient looks on their rugged faces. The Third Princess really was a lot of trouble, as she was quickly turning them deaf throughout the journey. Every so often, she would threaten to kill them, hack them into eight pieces, turn them into mincemeat, dismember them by horse, chop them up into a pulp, and slaughter their entire family or whatever.

She never thought about who ordered her to be shackled all the way back to the Capital – it was was the Emperor! That tyrant whose imperial officers would tremble at the sight of.

All in all, the two imperial guards developed a strong impression of Ouyang Yaoyi's unruly, bossy, and unreasonable attitude.

Since they were going to die either way, it wasn't half bad to torture this wretched woman.

So, when they reached the inn, they took the opportunity to kneel before Ouyang Yaoyi when the Emperor waited outside.

"Third Princess, I beg you forgive us. I have a mother of eighty years old and a child of just three, who rely on me to take care of them. Killing me would mean killing them. I beg you show some mercy!" Wailed one of the guards.

The other guard also quickly kowtowed. "I beg you, Third Princess, please have mercy. We were just following the Emperor's orders. You can't blame us!" he wailed.

Han Moze and Han Moxi suddenly looked back.

"I never imagined that this Third Princess would be so ruthless to actually not even show innocent guards mercy," Han Moxi said with a cold smirk.

Han Moze's sinister gaze averted towards Ouyang Yaoyi, whose face looked completely fierce, and his hands clenched. If she weren't the princess of Nanli, he would have absolutely sentenced a vicious woman like her to be struck to death by a wooden stick.

Han Moxi looked over at Han Moze and let out a helpless sigh, as he rode over to Ouyang Yaoyi. The Third Princess won't have a good future, but he was delighted with that. He didn't have the slightest good feeling towards such a woman who would sadistically kill servants at will.

"Don't beg her. Get up," said Han Moze with a deep voice, as he walked up to Ouyang Yaoyi.

The two guards got what they wanted. They were ecstatic but they didn't dare show it, and hurriedly kowtowed. "Thank you, your majesty. Thank you, your majesty for helping us get justice!" They cried, before they got up and respectfully stood to one side.

Chapter 74 - "The Princess Who Seeked Death"

Ouyang Yaoyi felt suddenly flustered. Till now, she still hadn't quite figured out why the two guards started kneeling and begging her.

She looked at the ominous aura in Han Moze's face with fear in her heart.

But she didn't do anything wrong! She just wanted to kill those two servants who treated her with desrespect. That's all!!

"You want to kill these two guards?" Han Moze said with a chilling voice.

Ouyang Yaoyi looked into Han Moze's eyes with infatuation and flushed cheeks. "Yes, your majesty. These two guards disrespected me. Naturally, I can kill them," she said matter-of-factly.

Han Moze gritted his teeth. "Were you not aware that they only treated you that way because they were following my orders?" He said with a cold scoff.

Ouyang Yaoyi pursed her lips and replied with a sweet voice. "I don't care. Besides, they were also in the wrong and they're only just servants. There's no use for them, so they may as well be killed."

Han Moze violently gritted his teeth, as his face turned increasingly wicked. "Gag Ouyang Yaoyi and don't let her speak again. Detain her back to the Capital. Just don't let her starve to death," he ordered with a chilling voice.

"Yes, your majesty!" Exclaimed the two guards, as they were secretly happy on the inside. Since the Emperor stood up for them, what did there to fear?

Third Princess, just you wait! We're going to teach you that it isn't so easy to bully imperial guards.

"Your majesty, I'm not wrong! Why must you treat me like this?" Wailed Ouyang Yaoyi immediately when saw that Han Moze was about to turn and leave after giving his order.

Han Moze grunted coldly, then left to join Han Moxi in the guest room for some rest.

The two guards let out a sinister chuckle, then walked over to Ouyang Yaoyi and firmly detained her.

"You... You dare?! I will definitely kill you both... mmhmm..." Ouyang Yaoyi hurriedly resisted in fear. However, the two guards now didn't care about her threats, as the Emperor said that all they have to do is keep Ouyang Yaoyi alive. With that, they threw courtesy out the window and quickly grabbed a rag to gag Ouyang Yaoyi's mouth.

"Ohhh... ah..." Ouyang Yaoyi's brows furrowed and her eyes burned with fury. These two guards actually dared to pull out a rag and gag her. She wanted to curse at someone but she couldn't speak.

The two guards chuckled. The taste of their body cloth must be great.

Whilst Ouyang Yaoyi resisted, she was detained in firewood storage shed.

Ouyang Yaoyi didn't go along with it and tried her hardest to struggle out of it. "Grr... argh... mhmm..." she muffled with her throat.

The slender and slightly older guard smiled. "Third Princess, we wanted to treat you well, but you can't tell right from wrong and wanted to kill us both. That's where you went wrong. Although we may come from lowly backgroundsp, we are brave. If other people wanted to kill us, we would definitely fight our hardest to resist, so don't blame us. If you must place blame, then blame yourself for not knowing how to treat people," he said.

The younger guard echoed his sentiment with a crisp voice. "That's right. This is the first person I've met who's so bossy, unruly, and malicious. I heard that you once tortured a general's daughter and an imperial concubine to death. Tsk tsk, you sure have got some guts. Even if their backgrounds weren't as noble as yours, you can't kill innocent people at will. I heard the girls were only six and nine years old."

With a coarse voice, the older guard continued, "I've heard about this too. After that happened, the Emperor of Nanli still pampered her and never criticised her. Later, that general was exiled and that imperial concubine with no background died mysteriously. It really gives people the creeps just hearing about it."