Chapter 9.1 Concubine-Born Sister

Tantai Jin quietly hid his frostbitten fingers.

“I don’t know what the Third Miss means.” he said in a soft voice. “I only have these clothes.”

Su Su thought of his current situation and snorted, slightly embarrassed. Indeed, the Ye family wouldn’t care whether he was cold or not as long as he didn’t ruin the family’s reputation.

The young man sat quietly in the corner and looked at the incense burner in the carriage. His face was extremely pale.

Su Su thought to herself, if I hadn’t seen it myself, I wouldn’t believe that the ruthless man sitting on the throne of the devil palace five hundred years later is the same person as the gloomy young man in front of me.

After all, she had seen how the devil king had killed with her own eyes. He killed people swiftly, without hesitation, as if he was killing an ant! But the Tantai Jin in front of her totally looked like he would have difficulty killing a fish, let alone killing a person. As an evil being, he was actually useless enough to even get frostbite on his hands! What was the matter with him?

Su Su was initially a person who was open to persuasion but not to coercion1. On the vast Dao, cultivators should understand that even if they had a lot of knowledge or experienced many things, they should still cherish the plants. If he always looked like this, Su Su was really afraid that she would be soft-hearted when she removes his evil bone and scatters his soul. It seemed like a small matter, but for a cultivator, once they had gone soft, their Dao’s heart would be affected when they try to kill him again, and their journey on the vast Dao would be halted. Su Su’s dream was to become an existence like one of the ancient true Gods.

So she must stick to her Dao’s heart and remember his true colours at all times.

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Tantai Jin stared at Su Su for a few seconds. When her eyes were wide open, he retracted his hand flurriedly and said uneasily, “Third Miss, did I do it right?” The feeling of violence and terror faded in an instant.

Su Su: “……”

Yes. You did really well. Now, don’t even mention if he has no food to eat, no clothes to wear, or gets frostbite. Even if the young man in front of her died inside the carriage, or jumped off the carriage and was crushed by the horse’s hooves, Su Su wouldn’t have compassion for him anymore.

Evil things were evil things, after all. One day in the future, he would become the monster that only knew how to kill. The scene just now was just an act from the original.

She decided that in the future, once she showed signs of sympathising with this evil thing, she would let Tantai Jin reenact the scene of being possessed by the ruthless devil king. Then, her Dao heart would become so indestructible that it couldn’t be cut.

Tantai Jin saw the girl’s expression in front of him turn from tensed to relieved. His hand under the sleeve that had pinched that girl’s chin immediately moved to grab his reddened fingers.

The places that were frostbitten were painful and itchy.

He exerted great strength on them until he felt a cut was formed on his hand, and fresh blood was almost gushing out from it. Then, his eyes darkened, and he stopped.

The two of them spent their time just like that and had unknowingly arrived at King Xuan’s residence.

Su Su didn’t notice his changes. Previously, she had intentionally frightened herself, so now she absolutely didn’t want to stay in the same place as him and hurriedly jumped off the carriage. Chun Tao, who was beside the horse carriage and ready to help Su Su down, was startled. “Miss!”

“I’m alright.”

“Third Miss Ye’s body has recovered so quickly?”

A voice with a hint of mocking rang in the air. Su Su lifted her gaze and saw that a man with a jade crown was looking at her with a fake smile.

He had prominent facial features, his body was filled with a scholarly aura, but it could be seen at a glance that he was different from those rotten scholars. The man’s eyes were full of an unruly aura, as if given a whip, he wouldn’t mind whipping Su Su till she was rolling on the ground in pain.

A name suddenly popped up in Su Su’s mind, Pang Yi Zhi.

The extraordinary and prickly Minister of Personnel.

Although he wasn’t friendly towards her, Su Su suddenly thought of that vivid painting which had been drawn with just a few strokes. She couldn’t help but sigh, this person was actually quite outstanding.

When she was a kid, she used to grit her teeth and learn writing together with the other kids from the same sect, but she was often criticized. Her sect leader father had tapped her forehead and said dumbfoundedly, “You were born this quick-witted, but why are you so slow in learning?”

Therefore, Su Su respected beings such as champion scholars from the mortal world very much.

She nodded her head. “Thank you, Lord Pang, for your concern. I’m already alright.”

Pang Yi Zhi sneered. “Third Miss’s body is as strong as an ox. Naturally, she can recover quickly. However, she has harmed others, causing colds that have not healed yet.”

Su Su: ……

She had thrown an olive branch2 to the gifted scholar, but he caught it and started to whip her with it.

How dare he say that she was as strong as an ox? She wanted to take the olive branch back. Ye Xi Wu was a cute and pretty little girl, okay?! Pang Yi Zhi’s sarcasm had no conscience.

Su Su retracted her smile and looked at him. “Did Lord Pang just say Eldest Sister’s cold hasn’t gone away yet?”

“Why does Third Miss Ye ask when you already know the answer.” Pang Yi Zhi didn’t even try to conceal his disgust.

Su Su tilted her head and said, “Eldest Sister is the Side Imperial Concubine of King Xuan. Even I, her younger sister, don’t know much about her physical condition. How can an outsider like Lord Pang be so well informed? People who didn’t know would think Lord Pang is a debauchee.”

Pang Yi Zhi retracted the sarcasm in his eyes and coldly commented, “How sharp-tongued.”

The girl blinked her eyes at him.

Are you the only one allowed to bully people? Whatever the original owner did wrong, Su Su would make up and apologize for, one by one. However, she and the original owner had never harmed Pang Yi Zhi before. She didn’t need to grin and bear with someone who hated herself in every possible way.

Why did an unrelated and biased big guy like him get involved in the grudges between two girls?

At this moment, General Ye also saw his daughter talking with Pang Yi Zhi. Ye Xiao walked over and said, “Lord Pang, what are you and my daughter talking about?”

Pang Yi Zhi averted his gaze and smiled softly. “General Ye, this official and Third Miss aren’t familiar with each other. I was just greeting her.”

Pang Yi Zhi glanced at Tantai Jin, who had just gotten down from the carriage, and vaguely said, “On the contrary, hostage prince, I haven’t seen you for a long time. You look a lot thinner.”

Tantai Jin’s gaze was fixed on Pang Yi Zhi’s face and he said, “Lord Pang, you must be mistaken.”

Pang Yi Zhi smiled and lifted his hand to General Ye. “General Ye, please.”

Ye Xiao was already a person who held great power, so he didn’t decline and took the lead to enter the residence. Pang Yi Zhi followed closely behind him.

Su Su glanced at Tantai Jin. “Do you know Pang Yi Zhi?”

Tantai Jin shook his head and said, “I don’t know him.”

Su Su thought to herself, who’s he lying to? Not mentioning anything else, between love rivals, they must have known about each other’s existence. Even if they didn’t, when everyone jumped into the water that day, they should have met each other in the water.

Since he didn’t want to talk about it, Su Su wouldn’t ask any further at this kind of occasion.

Chapter 9.2 Concubine-Born Sister

King Xuan’s residence was extremely lively today.

His Highness the Sixth Prince, Xiao Lin, had always been a legend of the Great Xia Empire. First of all, of his family background, his biological mother was the Empress, and the Empress was the distant niece of the Empress Dowager.

After the Empress’s wedding, the Empress never had children. The Emperor waited for a few years and saw that his harem was scarce, so he had to remove the contraceptive concoction from the harem. After that, his concubines got pregnant one after another.

The Empress had been extremely worried, but there was still no good news from her stomach. It wasn’t until she was twenty-eight years old that she gave birth to a legitimate prince, Xiao Lin.

The legitimate prince had a distinguished identity, not to mention how precious his birth was. At that time, the previous National Councillor read his fortune and sighed, “His Highness the Sixth Prince has a boundless future! The destiny of the Great Xia Empire is greatly connected with His Highness the Sixth Prince.”

Since words like that had been said, even the Emperor and Empress Dowager couldn’t help but pay great attention to that child. Not to mention how the Empress treasured her son like her own life.

Even without mentioning his identity, Xiao Lin was a talented gentleman from just his temperament and capability. His appearance was that of an immortal who had been banished from heaven. When he was seventeen, the Emperor wanted to evaluate the academy. Hence, he asked Xiao Lin and the champion scholar of that year to compete. In the end, even the champion scholar couldn’t beat him.

With His Highness the Sixth Prince now at the top, some people apprehensively speculated that his skills were on par with General Ye. 

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Su Su couldn’t help but look at the man on the main seat. Xiao Lin was talking to an official.

Su Su propped up her chin. As a mortal, King Xuan was quite different compared to her Eldest Senior Brother. Her Eldest Senior Brother, Gong Ye Ji Wu, had a more refined appearance. It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that his beauty was as breathtaking as a celestial being.

Tantai Jin followed Su Su’s gaze and saw King Xuan.

He retracted his gaze and looked at his own wine bottle, not knowing what he was thinking about.

After a while, before the sounds of the sizhu1 started, the maidservants of King Xuan’s residence assisted a young lady in.

Xiao Lin’s original cold expression suddenly became extremely gentle. “Bing Shang, come here.”

The girl put her slightly cold little hand into Xiao Lin’s palm. They looked at each other and smiled.

Without needing anyone to explain, Su Su already recognised the girl not far from her. The person in the painting from a few days ago seemed to come alive in an instant.

A snow-white fox fur was draped on her shoulders. Her skin was fair, and when she looked down, her eyes were gentle and modest. The girl’s hair was tied with a simple green silk ribbon, making her look tender and pretty, yet elegant. Ye Bing Shang’s face could be said to put flowers to shame. If it was any more, it would be too ardent, and if it was any less, it would be too plain2.

From the moment she came out, the sharp-tongued Pang Yi Zhi’s eyes didn’t even blink, let alone contain any of his usual animosity. All that remained was melancholy and yearning.

The female family members of the officials that were present were unconsciously biting their lips and clenched their handkerchiefs as they looked at Ye Bing Shang.

This illegitimate sister’s destructive power is really great, Su Su thought to herself.

Chun Tao was extremely worried that the Third Miss would be angry. Compared to the graceful Eldest Miss, the face of the Third Miss still had some baby fat. She could be described as adorable but with not enough grace.

However, when Chun Tao looked at her Third Miss, she saw the Third Miss was biting on a strawberry, and her clear eyes were looking at the Eldest Lady with pure curiosity.

Chun Tao: …… Huh? Why is Third Miss so peaceful?

Chun Tao didn’t know that——

Five hundred years later, there was a female cultivator among the three realms that would be so pretty that the gods and devils were dazed, and even the fox race was infatuated with her. That little female cultivator, who was a natural spiritual fetus, was a stunning beauty that would not be seen in the mortal world for millions of years.

Although the world was in turmoil, among the Eight Wastelands, even a newly formed devil race knew that even the beauty of the fallen Goddess of the ancient Gods couldn’t compare with that little female cultivator from Hengyang Sect that rarely went outside.

Her name was Li Su Su.

They had also made some particularly obscene assumptions——

That the reason why the devil king didn’t kill Su Su was that he saw that the young little lolita had good prospects. So was he waiting for her to grow up, and he was going to grab her to become his furnace tripod?

Su Su had seen her own calamity-bringing face, which carried an air of divinity, for a hundred years, so it was impossible for her to be stunned by Ye Bing Shang’s appearance.

The general standard of attractiveness index in the cultivator realm was outrageously high. There you could find countless female cultivators that were prettier than Ye Bing Shang.

Su Su looked at the absent-minded and lonely Pang Yi Zhi. Then, thinking of something, she subconsciously looked towards Tantai Jin beside her. The young man had lowered his eyes, but he realised that someone was looking at him, so he met Su Su’s gaze, perplexed.

Su Su averted her eyes, uninterested.

Well, she thought that the evil young man beside her would be staring at Ye Bing Shang, but it turned out he was so restrained.

Was he afraid of her beating him?

Ye Bing Shang was the only woman in Xiao Lin’s harem. She sat behind Xiao Lin and gently nodded to General Ye. “Dad.”

Ye Xiao nodded his head and glared at his youngest daughter, who was eating strawberries behind him.

“Xi Wu!”

Su Su was biting half of a strawberry in her mouth and hurriedly swallowed it.

I know, I know! Take the blame and apologise, right? She’s an expert already!

Su Su stood up and bowed to Ye Bing Shang. She awkwardly said, “I’m sorry, Eldest Sister. Last time, at the palace banquet, Xi Wu shouldn’t have pushed you. Xi Wu is here to make amends with you and I hope you will forgive me.”

Ye Bing Shang was stunned. She then said with a smile, “It’s no problem. It was just a joke between sisters. I know the Third Sister did not do it on purpose.”

Her gentle moist eyes were eyeing Su Su. She said with delight, “Third Sister has grown up.”

Her amiability was beyond Su Su’s expectations. It seems like the Eldest Sister that the original owner hated the most wasn’t that bad of a person?

With this in mind, Su Su’s suspicions had dissipated a little, but her guilt became more certain. Ye Bing Shang indeed looked sick. Under her makeup, she could vaguely see that she was unwell.

As expected, she occasionally used a handkerchief to cover her lips and coughed during the banquet.

The maidservant, Xiao Hui, aided Ye Bing Shang and said, “Niangniang3, why did you forgive Third Miss Ye so easily? That day, she deliberately……”

Ye Bing Shang frowned and said with a soft voice, “Xiao Hui, you shouldn’t talk too much.”

Xiao Hui shut up, embarrassed.

Before the Eldest Lady was married, the Third Lady often bullied her. Now that the Eldest Lady had a backer, she still gave way to the Third Lady.

Ye Bing Shang quietly sighed as she looked at the girl in a light pink coat behind General Ye. She really hoped that her Third Sister had really grown up.