chapter 5
Chapter 5
Ye Piaoling sighed: [Silly System, Old Silly, your business sure is risky…]
Silly System: [Host, do not lose heart. Besides the final ascension reward, every time you obtain a personal belonging of the Regent King, you will receive a marvelous reward!]
[Oh?] Ye Piaoling became interested: [I’ve already got the Regent King’s Mask. So, where is my reward?]
[Here is your reward, please check and accept it, Host!]
As the voice fell, two spirit talismans suddenly appeared in Ye Piaoling’s hand.
There were words on the talismans, one reading “Truth,” and the other “Dare.”
[Truth can make someone speak their true thoughts, and Dare can make someone do something adventurous.]
Ye Piaoling’s mouth twitched.
Truth or Dare…
What kind of silly prizes are these!
“Crash!”
The courtyard gate was suddenly smashed open.
“Ye Piaoling is back! Hurry, come beat her with me, beat her to death!”
A boy of seven or eight, holding a slingshot, stormed in aggressively.
The boy was Ye Tianbao, the youngest son of Ye Liaozhai. He had been spoiled since childhood, completely lawless, and found pleasure in bullying the weak.
After the original host became withdrawn and spoke little, Ye Tianbao often spat at her, threw stones, and even made up nursery rhymes to insult her.
The original host once had a beloved lark, which Ye Tianbao killed with his slingshot.
Ye Piaoling walked out of her room and looked at this brat.
Ye Tianbao shouted as he raised his slingshot, approaching her: “Useless trash, who let you come home? Get out!”
Ye Piaoling replied airily, “Don’t come any closer, or you’ll become unlucky.”
Ye Tianbao: ?
Ye Tianbao didn’t understand and didn’t care. He took two steps forward, aimed, and snapped his slingshot, shooting out a pebble.
Ye Piaoling sidestepped, curling her lips into a tolerant big sister’s smile.
Then she grabbed the broom by the wall and started whacking the brat all over his head and face!
“Waaah!”
Ye Tianbao screamed and jumped up.
“How dare you hit me? I’ll tell Father! He’ll beat you to death! Beat you to death!”
“Oh, really?” Ye Piaoling smiled.
The broom in her hands fell like a torrential storm!
“Wuuu-aaah!”
Ye Tianbao howled as he threw away his slingshot, fled in disarray out of the courtyard: “Father! Mother! Someone is hitting me…”
Ye Piaoling didn’t say a word, chasing after him and giving him a sound thrashing.
The servants who had come with Ye Tianbao were all stunned.
Previously, when the Young Master bullied the Eldest Miss, at first the Eldest Miss would complain to the Master, but after being scolded and told to let her brother have his way, she stopped fighting back.
Everyone knew the Young Master was the Master’s precious darling. He could make as much trouble as he liked and no one dared lay a finger on him!
But now…
Ye Tianbao was beaten so badly he fled Falling Petals Courtyard in tears and snot.
“Tianbao, Tianbao!”
A charming young woman came running at the sound, screaming shrilly: “Someone come quick! The Eldest Miss is killing someone! She’s going to kill Tianbao!”
It was Aunt Liu, Ye Tianbao’s birth mother.
She glared hatefully at Ye Piaoling: “Eldest Miss, how could you be so ruthless? Tianbao is your brother, how can you treat him so cruelly?”
Ye Piaoling just chuckled: “Is that all? You’re making a big fuss over nothing!”
With that, she slammed the gate of Falling Petals Courtyard shut.
Ye Tianbao pointed at the closed gate, howling: “You can’t just let her get away with this! Beat her to death!”
Aunt Liu quickly soothed him: “Mother knows, Mother will take you to find Father right now and see how your Father punishes her!”
Inside Falling Petals Courtyard, Ye Piaoling clapped her hands and sat comfortably in the rocking chair.
In the Prime Minister’s Mansion, Ye Tianbao was like a little tyrant. Even the children of the servant women were often bullied to tears by him.
You could say he was in desperate need of a beating.
And Ye Liaozhai was incompetent as a father. Now that Ye Tianbao had been beaten, Ye Liaozhai would definitely side with him without a second thought, and would soon come to settle accounts with her…
Ye Piaoling smiled wickedly.
No problem, let him come!
She already had an idea for dealing with this cheap Father.
…
Not long after, a furious roar came from outside.
“You unfilial daughter, how dare you hurt your brother? Get out here and receive your punishment!”
The courtyard gate was pushed open once again, and the Prime Minister, Ye Liaozhai, strode in, face full of rage.
Ye Liaozhai held a whip, pointing at Ye Piaoling and scolding: “Kneel!”
Ye Piaoling looked him up and down.
This Ye Liaozhai had a pale face and a thin beard, looking every bit the dignified official.
How did he end up with such a ghostly name?
Ye Liaozhai saw her unmoved and barked: “I told you to kneel!”
“I won’t.”
Ye Piaoling rolled her eyes at him.
“It’s your son who deserves a beating, not me.”