Chapter 6

Not only Huo Bujue, but everyone was surprised when the seemingly delicate young man suddenly attacked. By the time everyone reacted, they heard Mu Sheng’s pig-like screams.

“Ahhhh! What… what are you doing?! Let go quickly!!”

In Mu Sheng’s eyes was madness after despair, like the final bloom of a blood lotus in ice.

No matter how many servants beat him with clubs, he wouldn’t let go.

Until Huo Bujue screamed: “Your brother is still alive, your brother is still alive!”

After hearing this, the madness in Mu Sheng’s eyes dissipated greatly. People took advantage of his momentary daze to separate Mu Sheng and Huo Bujue.

Mu Sheng was originally the son of an official family, his mother being a remonstrance official.

Although the current Emperor was not a tyrant, she had a weak and timid personality.

Although Fengxi Country was vast and resourceful, due to continuous droughts in recent years, especially at the borders, it caused crop failures. Many civilians couldn’t feed themselves, and the foreign tribes on the grasslands were even worse off.

So every autumn, foreign tribes would form groups to plunder the border civilians.

At first, they tested the waters by stealing a little, but later, seeing the current Emperor’s inaction, they became increasingly rampant. In the past two years, it had even evolved into a custom.

Every year they would come to Fengxi Country to plunder. The civilians of Fengxi Country were displaced and abused, while the foreigners ate their fill.

Even when things had reached this point of being trampled on, the current Emperor not only didn’t retaliate but repeatedly paid compensation and retreated.

For such a great country to be bullied to this extent was simply ridiculous.

Many court officials couldn’t stand it anymore, those who could request war did so, those who could remonstrate did so.

Mu Sheng’s mother, as a remonstrance official, was one of them.

Seeing that no matter how she advised the Emperor, it was to no avail, she finally remonstrated with her life.

She died by hitting her head in the Golden Hall.

Mu Sheng’s mother’s blood covered the Golden Hall, but what it exchanged for was not the Emperor’s change of heart, but imperial anger.

The Mu family, loyal for generations, was instead accused of the crime of disobedience.

Overnight, the whole family was confiscated and exiled, with women becoming slaves for generations and men becoming courtesans.

The Mu family women were all made slaves, while the men were made official courtesans.

Mu Sheng, due to his stunning appearance, through a twist of fate, was imperially bestowed to the original owner.

Accompanying him was his younger brother, only seven years old, who was also demoted to an official courtesan.

However, because Mu Yu was too young, he had always been in the position of an attendant by Mu Sheng’s side.

At that time, there was also a four-year-old younger brother who was demoted to an official courtesan along with Mu Sheng.

Originally, everything seemed to be developing in a good direction, but little did they know it was actually the beginning of a nightmare.

When Mu Sheng first came to the prince’s mansion, he hadn’t even seen the face of the Worthy Prince, but was noticed by Huo Bujue, who came to the prince’s mansion to freeload.

If it were ordinary people who saw a beauty imperially bestowed to the prince, no matter how much they liked them, they would generally stay away.

But since the Huo family produced a Huo Zhengfu, they became increasingly arrogant, treating everything in the prince’s mansion as their own private property, and Huo Bujue was even more so.

As soon as she saw Mu Sheng, she started harassing him. The people in the prince’s mansion, due to the close relationship between the Male Empress and this elder sister, and considering the prince’s attitude towards the Male Empress, couldn’t intervene for the moment and could only allow Huo Bujue to harass Mu Sheng.

Mu Yu had a deep bond with his brother, how could he watch his brother being publicly harassed like this?

He immediately ran out to stop Huo Bujue, but was kicked hard in the chest by Huo Bujue, his life hanging in the balance.

At this moment, the Male Empress, who heard the commotion, arrived.

Seeing her brother come, Huo Bujue quickly accused Mu Sheng first, saying that Mu Sheng had tried to seduce her and wanted to kill her when he failed, claiming that Mu Sheng was a troublemaker, and if he really entered the prince’s mansion, who knows what kind of trouble he would cause.

Although what she said was absurd, it was extremely provocative.

If it were someone else, they definitely wouldn’t believe her words, after all, which man would be so stupid as to come to the prince’s mansion and try to seduce other women in broad daylight as soon as he arrived?

But the Male Empress actually believed this nonsense, and without even asking, directly sent the person to a brothel.

Mu Sheng was sent to a brothel by the Male Empress.

Brothels are places that are used to currying favor with the powerful and following trends.

Once Mu Sheng was sent there, the humiliation he suffered goes without saying.

If it were just these… he could endure, but what made him break down was that Huo Bujue came to the brothel to provoke him and told him the news that his younger brother had died…

After hearing the news, Mu Sheng lost all hope, and now seeing Huo Bujue, he naturally thought of mutual destruction.

However, now suddenly hearing that his younger brother was still alive, whether true or false, he inevitably lost his composure, which allowed Huo Bujue to break free.

In the end, he didn’t bite Huo Bujue’s vital point.

After breaking free, she was both shocked and angry. She directly kicked Mu Sheng.

Mu Sheng was slammed against the golden cage door, his clothes in complete disarray, exposing large patches of snow-white skin and the torture marks beneath the skin.

Those wounds crisscrossed, shocking to the eye.

It was hard to imagine what kind of person would be so heartless as to use such vicious instruments on a young man.

Even those who frequently visited brothels were shocked to see these injuries.

But in the end, out of respect for Huo Bujue’s face, they didn’t say much, but various subtle glances were cast upon the two.

Huo Bujue was already angry from being attacked, and now being looked at like this made her feel like she had lost all face. Covering the wound on her neck, she slapped Mu Sheng hard across the face and said with a twisted expression:

“Yes, your brother isn’t dead, but this lady will make that little beast wish he were dead!”

When Mu Sheng saw Huo Bujue escape, a flash of disappointment appeared in his eyes, but he hid it well.

Upon hearing Huo Bujue’s words, pain and killing intent flashed in his eyes, but in the end, all of this returned to silence, carefully hidden.

Suddenly, Mu Sheng seemed to regret his defiance, a tear rolling down his cheek, truly a pitiful sight.

He kept kowtowing while crying and begging, “This slave was blinded and couldn’t see the lady’s kindness. Now this slave will listen to everything the lady says, just begging the lady to spare my younger brother.”

With his pleading actions, Mu Sheng unconsciously gradually closed the distance between himself and Huo Bujue.

Ever since the Male Empress married into the prince’s mansion, Huo Bujue had always gotten whatever she wanted, but suddenly encountering a Mu Sheng who said no to her, she naturally felt like she had lost face.

But she never expected that the person she had been trying to tame for so long would suddenly submit, and a feeling of omnipotence instantly arose in her heart.

However, this satisfaction was not enough, she wanted more.

Huo Bujue spat directly onto Mu Sheng’s face, her face full of smugness and viciousness:

“That little bastard who has a father but no father to raise him, I’ve already ordered people to cut out his tongue, chop off his hands and feet and put them in a jar. If you serve this lady satisfactorily, I might give him back to you. Perhaps seeing his ghostly appearance might make you eat a couple more bowls of rice.”

Human swine was an extreme punishment that had long been abolished in Fengxi Country. When the people around heard that Huo Bujue had actually used such an extreme punishment on a young child to force a young man, even those in the brothel who had seen it all showed looks of reluctance.

Mu Sheng’s face was full of fear as he said, “How could you do this to Yu’er?!”

Imperceptibly, the distance between the two was gradually closing.

Huo Bujue said mockingly, “You should have expected this day when you said no to me back then.”

Huo Bujue originally wanted to see regret on Mu Sheng’s face, but after she finished speaking, she saw a strange smile appear on Mu Sheng’s face.

Before Huo Bujue could react to what was happening, she saw Mu Sheng suddenly lunge forward, unhesitatingly stabbing the hairpin he had hidden in his panic towards Huo Bujue’s heart.

Jiang Lingyu had rushed to the brothel as fast as she could, and as soon as she arrived, she heard the news that Huo Bujue had bought Mu Sheng. Before she could feel relieved that the person bestowed by the Emperor hadn’t fallen into outside hands, she witnessed this scene.

Jiang Lingyu’s reason told her that at such a dangerous moment, she should stay far away.

But her body seemed to still retain the original owner’s feelings, despicably defying common sense, wanting to substitute herself when seeing Huo family members in danger.

Before Jiang Lingyu’s brain could react, her body had already rushed out, pulling Huo Bujue behind her.

Just as Jiang Lingyu pulled the person behind her, she felt someone push her out.

Jiang Lingyu turned her head in shock and anger, only to find that the person who pushed her was actually Huo Bujue?!!

Jiang Lingyu was already in a hurry when she ran over, and her legs weren’t good. Now being pushed, she lost her balance and directly crashed towards that sharp hairpin.

As that hairpin was about to pierce Jiang Lingyu’s heart, because the distance between the two was too close, even if others wanted to save her, they couldn’t make it in time.

Jiang Lingyu looked at the hairpin getting closer and closer to her, at the unwavering killing intent in Mu Sheng’s eyes, and felt like a thousand alpacas were running through her mind.

She had been on the brink of death twice in less than half a day since she transmigrated, and if she was stabbed this time, she might have to report to the King of Hell early, becoming the transmigrator with the shortest transmigration time.

But at this moment, Jiang Lingyu felt that the originally unstoppable young man opposite her hesitated in his hand movement.

The other party actually changed the trajectory of the hairpin, only lightly grazing past Jiang Lingyu’s heart, and finally pressing it against his own neck.

A voice, though with a slight tremor but extremely firm, came to her ears:

“I want to see my brother!”

Whether alive or dead.

Jiang Lingyu, who had just barely returned from the gates of hell, heard this request and couldn’t help but feel relieved.

She was now at least the Worthy Prince, if the other party’s request was to kill innocent people, it would be more difficult to handle, but just to see someone.

This was simply too easy.

But before Jiang Lingyu could speak, that idiot Huo Bujue suddenly jumped out and shouted:

“Sister-in-law, you absolutely can’t agree to him!”

As soon as Huo Bujue’s voice fell, Jiang Lingyu felt a pain in her neck…

It seemed… she was bleeding…

The total word count of this book is: 322,805 words