Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Aunt Gui was stamping her feet and cursing up a storm when a soft chuckle suddenly came from nearby.
“Pfft-interesting. How very interesting.”
We all turned to look. Aunt Gui’s face instantly went deathly pale, and she hurriedly dropped to her knees.
“Eighth Prince-”
The Eighth Prince, Lu Min, was the late emperor’s youngest brother. He was only three years older than Lu Yunzhou, and the late emperor had doted on him so much that he had given him military authority. Lu Yunzhou had only been able to take the throne thanks to this eighth royal uncle’s support. He was aloof by nature and ruthless in his methods. Compared to Lu Yunzhou, the emperor, the people in the palace were actually more afraid of him.
“Which palace do you serve in? Come here and let me have a look at you.”
The Eighth Prince crooked a finger at me. Suddenly, a flash of gold passed before my eyes.
I narrowed my eyes and looked closer. The golden belt around his waist was gleaming brilliantly in the sunlight, and the dragon-head pattern on it nearly blinded me.
I couldn’t help but smile and walked toward him.
When I reached the Eighth Prince, my left foot tripped over my right, and my body lurched forward. I reached out and clutched his belt with all my might.
The amused smile on the Eighth Prince’s face vanished instantly.
“Heh. The same old trick again. I thought you were a special woman.”
Still smiling, I held on to his belt with one hand and desperately activated the Five Thunder Fire.
To my surprise, the golden belt was much thinner than I had imagined. I had only just refined a tiny bit of it when the belt snapped.
With a clatter, what fell to the ground along with the golden belt were the Eighth Prince’s golden underpants-and his dignity.
Aunt Gui sucked in a sharp breath beside us. The Eighth Prince immediately shot her a vicious glare.
“What did you see?”
His tone was icy. If her answer was even slightly wrong, Aunt Gui would end up without an intact corpse.
Aunt Gui was so frightened that her mind went completely blank. She stared at us in a daze. I couldn’t bear to let an innocent person get dragged into this, so I could only mouth at her,
“Compliment him. Compliment him!”
Based on my experience, mortal men all cared about saving face. If she said something nice about him, it ought to ease his anger, right?
Aunt Gui swallowed and forced out in a strained voice,
“Your Highness, your legs are so fair-”
When people are terrified to the extreme, they really do lose their minds.
The Eighth Prince’s expression darkened even more. Aunt Gui’s teeth chattered with fear as she racked her brains for more words.
“Not only fair, but the skin is very delicate too.”
“Especially that-”
“Enough! Men, drag this wretch away! Gag her and give her thirty strokes!”
Aunt Gui was dragged off. The Eighth Prince turned back and glared at me viciously.
“What did you see?”