Qin Rumeng's eyes blazed with towering anger, her chest heaving heavily.
"Qin Xiao, even if you kneel and apologize, I will absolutely never forgive you!"
"Today, I will punish you severely!"
With that said, she lashed the purple whip right at Qin Xiao's face!
Qin Xiao neither hid nor dodged, allowing the long purple whip to strike him.
There was even a faint, mocking smile on his face.
That smile inexplicably made Qin Rumeng's blood run cold.
Crack!
Qin Xiao grabbed the long whip with one hand and gave it a vicious pull!
Qin Rumeng was jerked forward, stumbling right toward him!
Then, Qin Xiao took a half-step back and gathered strength in his fist!
Bang!
He punched Qin Rumeng squarely in the abdomen!
Qin Rumeng let out a miserable shriek. Clutching her stomach, her body flew through the air in an arc before crashing heavily onto the ground!
"Pfft..."
She spewed a large mouthful of blood, dyeing her robes red. Her face turned deathly pale; clearly, she was severely injured!
"I need your forgiveness? What the hell do you think you are!"
Qin Xiao looked down condescendingly at Qin Rumeng on the ground.
His cold, stern face revealed a playful smile.
Lying on the ground and spitting blood, Qin Rumeng met Qin Xiao's gaze and completely froze, as if forgetting the pain in her body.
How dare he!
How dare Qin Xiao hit her!
Normally, she was the only one who got to bully Qin Xiao.
Whip after whip, she would lash Qin Xiao until he was forced to admit his mistakes and apologize.
Even if she was in the wrong, even if she was being unreasonable, she would still whip him to vent her anger.
But now?
How had everything completely changed!
Meeting his gaze, Qin Rumeng felt that his eyes were incredibly unfamiliar.
It seemed... he lacked the usual caution he had when facing her, as well as the bond of familial affection...
"Argh!"
The physical pain quickly swept through her entire body.
Qin Rumeng groaned in agony, her eyes brimming with fury.
She looked at Qin Xiao in disbelief, wanting to see a hint of guilt or remorse in his eyes.
Unfortunately... there was none!
Qin Xiao's gaze remained ice-cold, completely undisturbed.
It was as if he were looking at a dog, a stray dog that had lost its home.
This version of Qin Xiao made her heart tremble.
It felt as though she was about to lose her most precious possession.
To cover up the unease in her heart.
"Qin Xiao!"
She roared hysterically, her voice hoarse.
"I am your older sister! How dare you hit me!"
"A wild dog like you deserved to be abandoned by our mother! You deserved to fight for food with stray dogs and beggars!"
"We never should have recognized you and brought you back. You only deserve to be left outside to fend for yourself and die!"
With red eyes, she screamed and cursed at Qin Xiao with all her might.
Expressionless, Qin Xiao cracked his wrists, bent down slightly, and grabbed Qin Rumeng by her hair.
"Screw you!"
He raised his hand and, with a loud smack, viciously slapped Qin Rumeng across the face.
Qin Rumeng's cheek immediately swelled up red, five finger marks clearly visible.
"You think I wanted to come back? What a load of bullshit!"
"I conquered this Great Qin empire myself! If it weren't for me, you'd fucking still be the princess of a fallen nation!"
"Anyone else can disrespect me! But when you see me, you must speak to me with your head bowed!"
With one hand gripping Qin Rumeng's hair, Qin Xiao used his other hand to wildly slap her across the mouth!
"If you don't know how to speak, I will teach you!"
Smack! Smack! Smack!
Qin Xiao moved so fast that his swings practically generated gusts of wind. After several heavy slaps, Qin Rumeng's head instantly swelled up, and blood seeped from the corners of her mouth.
Qin Rumeng struggled painfully, trying to break free from Qin Xiao's iron grip.
Unfortunately, her struggles were futile.
Qin Xiao kept hitting and hitting, slapping Qin Rumeng until she saw stars and her head spun.
"Pfft!"
A mouthful of blood sprayed out.
Teeth fell to the ground along with the blood.
Beaten until she vomited blood, Qin Rumeng let out whimpering sounds.
"Wu wu wu..."
A line of humiliating, clear tears slid from the corner of her eyes.
One tooth, two teeth, eight teeth...
Until every single tooth in her mouth had been knocked out!
Qin Rumeng's mouth swelled up enormously, turning into sausage lips.
She passed out, only to be slapped awake no less than ten times.
The more Qin Xiao slapped her, the better he felt.
He simply couldn't stop.
Fam, who gets it!
Who wants to play some regret game with you?
Isn't it incredibly satisfying to just throw hands directly?
Off to the side.
Jia Xu, Lu Fengxian, and the others watched, absolutely dumbfounded.
"I ran through many scenarios... His Majesty might have apologized, or used some compromise, but I never expected His Majesty to just directly attack her!"
Jia Xu clutched his frightened little heart, a look of utter shock on his face.
The crowd nodded in unison, swallowing hard.
Seeing such a crazed scene of Qin Xiao, Lu Fengxian imagined himself being beaten by Qin Xiao like that, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
"Brutal! Too brutal!"
"Looks like I can't spar with His Majesty anymore. I definitely don't want to get beaten like that!"
Smack! Smack! Smack!
The sound of slapping was endless; Qin Rumeng was already on the verge of death.
Blood constantly flowed from her mouth and nose, leaving her as wretched and pathetic as a dead dog.
Right at this moment.
"Qin Xiao, you unfilial son, stop right now!"
Empress Dowager Wen rushed over with a group of people.
When she saw her daughter's miserable state, she instantly flew into a rage, striding forward to help Qin Rumeng up.
"Second Sister!"
Wrapped in thick blankets, Qin Rushuang endured the ravages of the cold poison in her body. Looking at Qin Rumeng's sausage lips, she stood completely frozen in place.
Was this still her second sister?
She was beaten so badly she hardly looked human.
She looked exactly like a platypus.
"Second Sister, what happened to you? How did you end up like this?"
Qin Rushuang looked at her second sister in disbelief.
"Wu wu wu..."
A whimpering sound came from Qin Rumeng's throat.
Qin Rumeng wanted to speak, but because all her teeth had been knocked out, she couldn't utter a single word.
Seeing her second sister's tragic appearance, a surge of grief and indignation welled up in Qin Rushuang's heart. She turned her head and glared deathly at Qin Xiao.
"You really are a menace! You've only been back in the capital for a few days, and you've already thrown our home into chaos!"
"A person like you doesn't deserve our forgiveness!"
Remembering her third sister being beaten into a pig's head, and her second sister being beaten into a platypus, the fury in her heart burned fiercely.
If the commotion here hadn't prompted the servants to report it, her second sister probably would have been beaten to death!
"Qin Xiao, weren't you just asked to kneel and apologize? How dare you hit your older sister!"
"Exactly!" Empress Dowager Wen also stepped forward, sizing up Qin Xiao with eyes full of disgust.
"Qin Xiao, you aren't even half as sensible as Yu'er. Not only did you force your imperial father to abdicate, but you also brutally beat your own sister!"
"If we had known you had such a despicable character back then, we should have strangled you in your cradle!"
"Hurry up and crawl over here to kowtow and apologize to your second sister!"
The sharp roar echoed.
Qin Rumeng stared at Qin Xiao with venomous eyes, pointing her finger at him while babbling incoherently.
It was as if she were saying: Now that Big Sister and Mother are here, I'm not afraid of you anymore!
Qin Xiao walked step by step toward Empress Dowager Wen.
That originally cold heart couldn't help but twitch slightly at this moment.
"Original host, this is the family you risked your life to protect... How truly ridiculous!"
"It's better to have no family at all than to have a family like this!"
He clutched his chest, enduring the agonizing, heart-rending pain as his eyes gradually turned crimson.
Behind him, a group of soldiers clenched their teeth, consumed by unbridled fury.
How dare they treat the Great General like this!
However, the Great Qin Empire prized filial piety above all else.
No matter what, Empress Dowager Wen was still Qin Xiao's mother.
They could not intervene.
Seeing Qin Xiao approach, the corners of Empress Dowager Wen's lips curled into a faint, contemptuous sneer.
See?
Qin Xiao still obeyed her.
After all, she was Qin Xiao's mother.
The Great Qin governed the nation through filial piety.
Would Qin Xiao dare to be unfilial to her?
She harbored a twisted kind of feeling toward Qin Xiao.
He was the child she had carried for ten months, yet she felt not a single shred of maternal love for him.
Instead, she showed every possible care and consideration to Qin Yu, an adopted child.
She hated Qin Xiao!
She hated him for tormenting her during his birth, causing a difficult labor and severe hemorrhage that left her barren for the rest of her life.
Making her despised by her own husband!
A hen that could not lay eggs.
Even though she was the Empress Dowager, the supreme phoenix of the world, this remained a thorn buried deep in her heart, one that could never be pulled out!
Back then, she had personally taken Qin Xiao to the countryside and watched with her own eyes as the wet nurse swapped her own child with Qin Xiao, yet she kept it a secret from everyone.
She even treated Qin Yu as her own flesh and blood.
Everything she did was to leave Qin Xiao to rot in the mud!
In this family, her status was extremely low; only when facing Qin Xiao did she possess an air of superiority.
Because of this, her sick and twisted mentality only worsened.
"Qin Xiao, cripple one of your arms as an apology to your older sister. Otherwise, Mother will never forgive you in this lifetime!"
"You are the younger brother, and you must respect your older sister. If you were as sensible as Yu'er, Mother would not be punishing you today."
"Mother is punishing you, but it is all for your own good!"
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
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he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
