Di Xueyan enjoys her little role play as a little innocent rabbit so much. She looks at the emperor who is blankly staring at her, innocently, then she turns her line of sight to the general who is already drenched in blood from head to toe. She fakes a trembling body, though it looks like she overdone it as instead of looking scared, she looks like she is about to have a seizure.
Well, of course, that is in her point of view, but in the eyes of the people around her, she genuinely looks like a scared, sheltered, young lady who hasn't seen the viciousness of the world, yet.
" Wha - - what happened to him?!", she intentionally shouted, making her already trembling body trembled more. Her pitiful form is just so lovely in front of these egoistic and old perverts, igniting their instinct to protect.
Even the emperor looks moved at her pitiful acting.
' God, they look so convinced, if I am still on Earth right now, with this kind of acting skill, I am a hundred percent sure that if I'll perform in front of my classmates, they will surely record it and post it in social media where I will surely be bashed and become a ridiculous meme', Di Xueyan thought as she twitch her lips internally, of course without changing her pitiful facial expression.
" I - - I am sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt something", she continued acting while stuttering. Her eyes looks like tearing because of fear, making the emperor forget about the general for a moment.
" Come here little lass, you don't have to fear any one", the emperor coaxed her, looking strangely at the little girl in front of him.
Di Xueyan saw his disgusting reaction, turns her back and decided to run like a little scared bunny. The emperor's face darkens, he signals his shadow guards to chase her and take her back. Aside from preventing her from releasing the news of his maltreatment to the kingdom's general, he also prefered to just make her as his concubine than just directly killing her. Her beauty is so enchanting and one of a kind to be just killed.
Di Xueyan fakes a struggle as she is being held by two shadow guards, with tears in her face. They make her face the emperor forcefully, she weeps silently as she looks pitifully at the emperor who is a meter away from her. The shadow guards is forcing her to kneel in front of the old man, aheem, the emperor rather, but as a self loving ( arrogant and egoistic narcissist) person, she refuses to kneel. Why would she?
' Why am I enjoying myself though ?', she asked herself inwardly while trying to supress her laughter when she accidentally used a little force while struggling, making one of the man holding her hands stumbled for a good few steps. He looks at her with a baffled eyes, but she ignored it to prevent being caught. The shadow guard just shrugged it off as he thought that it is impossible for the girl to be more powerful than him as he can't even feel any spiritual flunctuation. Just how powerful she can be if she can really make him stumble for a few steps, but is still being pitiably held by them? He thought sarcastically. If only he knew how wrong he is.
Ever since she graced these cultivators with her amazing presence, she has been addicted in acting like a little caged innocent rabbit wherever she went. Aside from casually castrating men who disrespected her dignity as a human, she really enjoys honing her acting skills more.
She is very amused but got irritated when the shadow guards are forcing her to kneel again using brute force. She is about to drop her facade out of irritation and just blast them all, when she heard a loud 'bang' behind her.
She turns her head and saw that the already destroyed doorway became even more pathetic. The whole wall in front was blasted, alerting the emperor and his shadow guards. The emperor immediately shielded her behind his back.
She is about to revert to her cold face when she unconsciously met the general's eyes for a few seconds, scrutinizing her like she is more interesting than the people attacking them right now.
She faked a trembling body again as she looks at the general fearfully. This is the scene that Jin Linkai, together with his brothers and sisters in the pavilion, saw.
Their fierce yet cold face almost crumble as they stare at the pitiful looking demoness, called their president, shakes in fear as if she is about to witness a massacre. They all can't help but to twitch their lips, ' Just why the hell is she acting like a completely different person all the time?', they simultaneously thought.
There are times that she will act as just a curious passerby who happens to saw their battle with their enemies coincidentally, there are times that she acts like a pathetically beautiful vendor who just got implicated and there are also times when she looks like she is about to piss in fear as she looks at the scene before her whenever they bravely fought against their enemies in broad daylight. She always do something like this everytime they are about to exterminate their enemies, but damn, they just can't get used to it, alright?
Jin Linkai almost massage his temple as he looks at her pitiful face, but his face instantly darkens as he saw how she is clearly being protected by the emperor. They were just left behind for a few minutes but she already won the emperor's favor? He can't help but to shake his head lightly while suppressing a smirk.
The emperor saw the masked manager of the Sangre Pavilion as he strides in lazily as if the earlier incident has nothing to do with him.
" Sangre Pavilion, what is the meaning of this? Are you plotting a rebellion against the empire?", he asks righteously. He can't help but to curse inside his head, he knew that he is not a match from the unfathomable power of the Sangre Pavilion.
The Black Tortoise Kingdom has only knew that the only green leveled cultivators are the emperor and general Bai, but what they didn't know is that almost all of the shadow guards of the emperor are green leveled. But still, the emperor won't underestimate the people in front of him as some of them, specially those in front, doesn't have the air of a cultivator. It is either they didn't have cultivation or they are just more powerful than him. But he believes the latter, else why would the Pavillion accept them if they are ordinary people?
The emperor clenched his teeth. He is extremely smug with the knowledge that he is the most powerful man in the whole empire, but now, he can't be so sure. He can't deny the fact that it is clearly the man who is walking lazily towards him right now.
Some say that the manager of the pavilion is the owner while some say he isn't. But no matter what, his power is something that will literally blind anyone.
How would he know that he is extremely wrong though? That the most powerful one is the girl hiding fearfully behind him?
Jin Linkai laughs at the Emperor's absurdity. Plotting a rebellion huh?
" You are extremely wrong your royal highness", he lazily yawn as he stops three meters away from the emperor.
" I'm here for revenge", he calmly said as he took off his mask.
The emperor gasped in astonishment. How would he know that his sister's little brat is still alive! He personally saw and burned his corpse
He wouldn't have imagined that a little lass had tricked him into believing that the tree trunk that he burned to ashes is his nephew. And even if he did, he wouldn't even entertain such thoughts as he never even knows in the first place that there is an ancient illusory skill that is strong enough that it will last for months, the more powerful the caster is. Not only that, it won't only copy the corpse's form but also its foul rotting smell.
The emperor can't think straightly right at this moment.
" Kai'er it's good that you're alive! And you are even a respectable manager of a mysterious power now!", the emperor laugh boisterously, making the people around him looks at him as if he sprouted two heads.
Jin Linkai stares at him blankly, he already let go of the fact that they are family.
" Little nephew, if you want, you can become a prince of first rank if you'll come back. Wouldn't the Sangre Pavilion becomes more powerful then if it will have the backing of our kingdom?", he said with a straight face. As if saying that it is the pavilion's greatest honor instead of the other way around. Even his shadow guards can't believe that he can spew such degree of shamelessness out of his mouth.
The cold faces of the Sangre Pavilion's members cracked, even Di Xueyan looks at him as if he grew insane.
' Who needs your shabby kingdom's backing?', she scolded his shameless attitude in her brain.
" Old bastard, I think you have forgotten how you unjustly killed my family with an unfounded suspicion", Jin Linkai smirks lazily but the rage in his eyes is betraying his nonchalance.
" You even killed your blood sister as if she is a stranger!", he closed his eyes for a second as he remembers how his mother died a very painful death, just for her to testify against her husband, in which she will only answer with
' I'll rather die!'.
" The past is the past. Why would we bother about dead people if we are living our present life perfectly without them? You should be thankful to me 'cause if I haven't done what I have done before, you wouldn't be in your current position right now. You' ll remain as a little young master who knew nothing about the world", the emperor tried to coax him, as his greed made him overlook the murderous gleam in his nephew's eyes.
Everyone around can't believe his shamelessness. The members of the pavilion are already too riled up that all they wanted to do is to rip the thick faced emperor apart. They can't help but to sympathise Jin Linkai. Just how can a family member acts like this?
But they aren't too shocked because almost all of them were more or less have been in a little bit same type of situation before.
" Oh? So you're saying that their lives are worthless then?", Jin Linkai's smirk became more malicious as time went by.
" Yes, of course they are!", the emperor said with such seriousness. Jin Linkai close his eyes, as he doesn't want anyone to know that his heart is being painfully ripped right now as he listens to the man who spoiled him to death when he was still a child. Their fond memories together made him hate his uncle even more.
Jin Linkai made a hand signal. No one but Di Xueyan saw the little tremors as he wave his hand, expressing his reluctance in doing what he is about to do. Immediately, a strong looking man arrives in a blink of an eye in between him and the emperor, while holding a squirming person whose head is covered, in his shoulder like a sack. He bows to Jin Linkai and made the person he is carrying a while ago kneels in frotn of him.
The man instantly vanish, making the emperor stunned as he can't even see the man's movement as he just looks like he vanish in front of them. How can a mere green leveled cultivator saw through it though? The emperor is now pensively thinking just how powerful Sangre Pavilion is? Now, he can't contain his excitement as he already foresee the bountiful future he will have if ever he will have the power of Sangre Pavilion in the palm of his hand! He refused to admit that the Sangre Pavilion is not his nephews power. The other emperors of the different kingdoms will surely envy him to death!
His thoughts are disturbed with a choked whining in front of him. His eyes widened as he saw a kneeling young man with a cloth in his mouth while a very sharp blade is pressing in his neck. The emperor can even see his reflection in the body of the sword. He feels like choking in his own saliva as he slowly digest the scene before him.
" Their lives are worthless right? Then I guess, his life is worthless too", Jin Linkai's last bit of conscience got snapped when he saw the undisguised greed in the emperor's eyes when he saw Li'er, the one who brought the young master in front of them a while ago, one of Di Xueyan's trusted guard.
The emperor's face became pale as he saw how Jin Linkai mindlessly slice the head of the youth before him, without even a tinge of remorse can be seen in his eyes.
" Nooooo!!!! My sonnnn!", the emperor's shout reverberated across the room.
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