Wang Ming chuckled, sharing in the joy of the inheritance the Great General was about to receive. He immediately accepted the order and headed straight for the Young Duke.
Young Duke Lu Jun was completely bewildered at this moment.
This is not right!
This is not right at all!
He had clearly come to show Ren Tianye who was boss, so how did it turn into Ren Tianye demanding an inheritance from him?
Seriously, how could someone be so shameless? His father had only been Ren Tianye's mentor for a mere two or three days. How could Ren Tianye use that to snatch the inheritance?
Was he insane?!
But the next moment, Wang Ming's face appeared before him.
He remembered this face all too well. Back in Yunji City, it was Wang Ming who had physically dealt with him. Those scenes were etched deeply into his memory, and now, overlapping with the figure before him, they instantly turned into a nightmare that violently struck his soul.
Young Duke Lu Jun let out a loud yell.
"No!"
Unfortunately, it was too late!
Wang Ming had already leaned over, grabbed him, and thrown him horizontally across the back of his horse, much like capturing an enemy general alive on the battlefield!
"Alright, everyone..."
Seeing that the matter was settled, Ren Tianye looked at the funeral procession before him and said, "Go on back!"
"What remains is an inheritance issue concerning our Duke of Fuguo's estate."
"Don't stay here to watch the show."
With a faint smile, Ren Tianye turned his horse around and headed back.
His heart was filled with joy.
Last time in Yunji City, because he had captured the Young Duke, he had managed to extort seventy thousand sets of equipment from Lu Qing. Today, the strongest forces in his Northern Frontier Army still relied on that very equipment.
This time, having captured the Young Duke again with such a convenient excuse, he wondered how much more Lu Qing would deliver to him.
He could hardly wait!
However, in this world, one person's joy is often another's sorrow. The instigator and mastermind behind this entire incident, Gu Qingyue, was absolutely dumbfounded when she heard the news.
"How could this happen?"
"This is not right!"
"Should not Ren Tianye have obediently knelt down and kowtowed, or else bear the infamy of the whole world? How..."
"How did he end up fighting for an inheritance?"
"What the hell kind of inheritance is he fighting for!"
Gu Qingyue was going crazy, and what drove her even crazier was the news that Young Duke Lu Jun was currently being brutally beaten by Ren Tianye's subordinates, his miserable screams echoing endlessly!
Gu Qingyue shivered.
After all, she and the Young Duke had known each other since childhood. How could she sit back and watch the Young Duke suffer like this?
She immediately sent someone to bring the Young Duke back.
The messenger returned in less than an hour, but there was no sign of the Young Duke.
"Miss, Ren Tianye said that this is a private matter of the Duke of Fuguo's estate and no one else's business. He would not give face even if the Emperor of Heaven himself came!"
Gu Qingyue asked anxiously, "Did you not tell Ren Tianye what I instructed you to say?"
"I did. I warned Ren Tianye that whatever torture he inflicted on the Young Duke, you would replicate exactly on Duke Ren. But... after hearing that, Ren Tianye actually had the Young Duke beaten even harder!"
Gu Qingyue was speechless.
Harder?
Wait, how did it get even harder?
She could not help but frown. After a moment, she finally figured it out: "So that is how it is!"
"So that is how it is!"
"Duke Ren, oh Duke Ren. I did not expect that despite your cowardly appearance, you are actually a true hero, willing to pay such a heavy price to support your son!"
Having thought it through completely, Gu Qingyue knew she could not just sit and wait. She had to find a way to rescue the Young Duke from Ren Tianye's hands.
Since Ren Tianye would not give any of them face, he probably would not even heed a request from the Prime Minister.
In that case...
There was only one person Ren Tianye could not afford to ignore!
That was Lu Qing!
Lu Qing was the Great General of the capital, commanding two hundred thousand troops inside and outside the city. Ren Tianye had come by imperial decree; he might ignore others, but he had to give face to Lu Qing!
And Lu Qing...
Would be more than willing to save the Young Duke.
Without delay, she set off immediately and hurried to the Duke of Fuguo's estate. Just as she entered the gates, she saw the old steward of the Duke of Fuguo's estate walking out, covering his bleeding face!
"What happened?"
Gu Qingyue stopped the old steward and asked.
"No, it is nothing!"
"What exactly happened?"
"It is just that Madam and Master had a little disagreement. Madam accidentally shattered a vase, and this old servant's face was scratched by the flying shards."
Gu Qingyue's brow furrowed immediately.
The Master the old steward referred to was naturally the current de facto ruler of the Duke of Fuguo's estate, Lu Qing, and the Madam was, of course, the original Madam, Ruyue.
But...
Everyone knew that Lu Qing loved Ruyue deeply. He cherished her so much that he feared dropping her if he held her in his hands, and feared melting her if he held her in his mouth. How... how could they have a little disagreement?
From the looks of it, the two of them must have had a quarrel, right?!
When she questioned the old steward further, he only gave vague answers and brushed it off, though he was sighing inwardly.
What you cannot have is always the best.
Once you get it, it might not be the best anymore.
Besides, with such an intense level of passionate love, as soon as it cooled down even slightly, how could conflicts not arise?
Since the old steward would not say, Gu Qingyue did not press the matter. She headed straight for Ruyue's boudoir. After all, as a junior and a fellow woman, she had visited countless times before.
Before she even arrived, she heard a noise coming from the room.
Crash!
It sounded like a vase smashing onto the floor!
Gu Qingyue jumped in fright and quickly stopped in her tracks.
Lu Qing's voice then drifted out from the room.
"Ruyue, what are you doing?"
Ruyue's voice was as gentle as ever, but her reply was filled with sorrow. "You brought the sea of stars and crossed mountains and rivers to rush to me. I thought I had finally found the love of my life. Hah, only now do I realize that you do not understand me at all!"
Lu Qing's voice was clearly breaking down, his tone growing anxious. "Then tell me! If you do not tell me, how am I supposed to understand you?"
"True understanding requires no words!"
"If you just tell me, will I not understand?"
"What is the point of saying it out loud? You should understand even if I do not say it!"
Lu Qing was obviously even more exasperated. "Ruyue, I am not a fortune teller! How am I supposed to know what you mean!"
Ruyue's tone instantly flattened. "I do not mean anything!"
Lu Qing also completely lost his patience and said dejectedly, "This is really meaningless!"
But Ruyue's pitch instantly soared. "Right, so now when I speak, you think it is meaningless, is that it?"
Lu Qing continued to crumble. "Did I say it was meaningless?"
Ruyue retorted, "So if I say it is meaningless, it is meaningless?"
"Then why do you not tell me, what exactly do you mean?"
"Fine!" Ruyue's tone instantly went up an octave. "Then I will tell you right now what I mean..."
"This is exactly what I mean!"
...
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ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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