Chapter 1 (1/2)

You are cold-blooded, I am ruthless

Midnight. The sky was dazzled with lightning as suddenly a loud thunder resonated along with a heavy downpour.

A shrill squealing pierced through the night of General Yu’s courtyard, accompanied by a roaring thunder, causing people to feel unpleasant.

“No mother, no, don’t!”

A naive-looking girl was sticking tightly to the wall, as if she were trying to squeeze her slender body into the wall as a pair of big eyes stared at the dark clay pot in front with fear. As if inside of it lurked hidden the scariest demon.

“Please, mother, I beg of you……” she begged with a trembling voice for over a countless number of times. Despite that, it wasn’t enough to shake the resolve of the lady that was sitting on the chair, not one bit.

“Useless child, you’re the same as your dead mother was!” was said in an annoyed tone. Mus.h.i.+ put down her tea impatiently, “What are you guys doing standing there? Hurry up and help fourth miss!”

Servants walked up as soon as they heard the order, cornering the girl at the wall.

Mother Qian stretched out her toe, pus.h.i.+ng the clay pot carefully to Yu Ling Long, keeping her hands away from it, as if she herself was also scared of what was inside the pot.

“Fourth Miss, didn’t lady already mention that it wouldn’t hurt one bit? It’s like getting p.r.i.c.ked by a needle……” said Mother Qian with a grin, in the swaying candlelight, her hideous looks were shown. “Why don’t you stop making this hard for us, go on and put your hand inside obediently, Sixth Miss is still waiting for your blood!”

Seeing the clay pot getting closer, Yu Ling Long was scared and was about to bite off her own lips, looking up to the servants surrounding her: “I don’t want to, I’m scared……. Please…… don’t do this……”

Such a pitiful voice only made Mus.h.i.+’s loyal servants feel more annoyed. One of the servants pinched her furiously, scolding her: “Giving a chance to someone who doesn’t appreciate! Letting you save Sixth Miss’ life is your life’s greatest blessing! Why don’t you put your hand inside already?!”

Yu Ling Long, while having felt great pain, was forced to stand up while her tears were dropping down her face like a waterfall. She thought that her life should be as important as sixth miss’ life was. “Why do I have to offer my blood to save my sixth sister’s life when she was the one who got herself in this mess?!!!”

She knew that they were only obeying orders, so she turned around quickly and climbed to Mus.h.i.+ who was sitting high up on the chair. As she climbed, she begged: Mother, please! I beg of you to pity me, I am willing to use my life to serve you…… I beg of you not to let that thing bite me! I am scared……”

Mus.h.i.+ only gave her a hateful look, thinking that she was the world’s lowest of the low. Despite the fact that she was only 14 years old, without having matured, she was already considered a beauty. Although she had never seen her mother, Mus.h.i.+ could imagine her glorious past as a dancer looking at Yu Ling Long’s tender-looking face and s.e.xy body shape.

But still, she had to thank Yu Ling Long’s mother for having that night with her husband, or else she wouldn’t have been able to save her daughter.

Three days before, the Sixth Miss Yu Qian Jiao was bitten by a poisonous snake while playing in the garden. Despite the use of many antidotes, she was still in a coma. Thankfully, a man offered a cure for the poison, he also told them to fight poison with poison. She needed to use the venom extracted from a scorpion to extract the poison inside her body. But against a weak body like Yu Qian Jiao’s, if she couldn’t control the dosage of the antidote, it could take away her life. Therefore, the blood from one of her relatives was needed to dilute the venom before using it.

Having remembered that her daughter was still in a coma and losing her life bit by bit as time pa.s.sed, Mus.h.i.+ quickly retracted her leg, getting as far away from Yu Ling Long’s shaky hand as possible. Turning her n.o.ble face away, she said: “Are you people all dead? Can’t you take care one single girl?”

Mother Qian and the other servants heard her, and knowing that their madam is starting to lose her temper, they immediately went and caught Yu Ling Long and put her back where she was before she tried to crawl on the ground.

Yu Ling Long was only 14 years old, there was no way for her to resist all five of the servants who were big and tough. Although she struggled desperately, it wasn’t enough to break free from their steel-like arms. She was overwhelmed by them and was pushed near to the pot.

“Help, someone please help me! Please let go of me——”

It was as if Mother Qian didn’t hear her terrified screams, she signaled to the other people that after stopping her movements, she would put her arm inside the pot. “Fourth Miss, why don’t you just obediently put your arm inside? After saving Sixth Miss, madam will definitely reward you highly——”

Yu Ling Long couldn’t hear anything after. Her slender body was shaking vigorously, as a huge fear made her collapse. Her arms were clutched tightly by Mother Qian, she couldn’t even struggle for a second.

She stared at the black pot that was releasing an evil aura with despair as she was forced to look at her hand get plugged into the pot

Scorpions that were filled with hunger for days immediately started clinging onto that white-as-jade hand. Having seen this, even someone as cruel and cold-hearted as Mother Qian couldn’t stand but to look away.

“Ah——” Yu Ling Long made a terrifying shout, she felt that her fingers were stung by countless sharp needle-like stings. Having felt this immense pain, she died immediately.

The pain on her fingers were soon about to fade, as the scorpions climb up her arm. As though they were like a hungry python, climbing all over her body, tranquillizing anywhere they touched. Yu Ling Long wanted to cry, but couldn’t make any more tears. She tried to shout, but she couldn’t make a single sound, even moving slightly wasn’t possible.

Mother Qian did not even notice that her face was already green, she only cared about ordering her servants around, “Hurry up and bring me the pot!”

The pot was brought as Mother Qian hurried and took a knife and opened a cut on Yu Ling Long’s white hand without thinking twice.

Mus.h.i.+ suddenly stood up nervously while looking at the reddish-blood flowing inside the pot, she was so nervous that she couldn’t blink her eyes even once.