Just as he was about to reach out and poke at the stone slabs on the ground, Mi Li's expression suddenly changed: "Be careful, someone's coming."
After she finished speaking, she became completely transparent.
Zu An hurriedly turned around to look. If it were an ordinary person, Mi Li would never be so wary. At worst, she would just kill him to silence him. There is only one explanation for this.
Sure enough, a burst of laughter followed: "It's like finding a needle in a haystack, only to have it come to you effortlessly!"
The laughter shook the leaves of nearby trees. Bi Linglong, pale-faced, gripped Zu An's sleeve tightly and said in a trembling voice, "Zu, if things can't be done, let's jump off from here. That way, we can die a quick death."
Being in the royal family, she knew better than anyone the emperor's insidious methods. Given what had happened between the two of them, falling into the emperor's hands would be worse than death.
Zuan gently patted her hand: "Don't worry, it hasn't come to that yet."
Bi Linglong was taken aback, unable to understand why he could remain so calm. Yet, his calm words had a strange ability to put people at ease, and her own wildly beating heart gradually calmed down.
A bright yellow figure appeared faintly on the horizon, leaving behind a series of afterimages. In the blink of an eye, he had arrived in front of the two.
Zuan sighed inwardly. This opponent's speed was achieved even under the extremely oppressive conditions of this world, and his cultivation level was simply despair-inducing.
"Want to be a pair of lovebirds? You don't have a choice now." Zhao Ruizhi coldly looked at Bi Linglong's hand tightly gripping Zu An's sleeve, clearly his ears hadn't missed their conversation.
Now that they are so close, he is confident that the lives of others are entirely in his hands.
"Is the Emperor planning to kill me?" Zu An sighed.
“Kill you?” Zhao Ruizhi sneered. “Dying like this would be too easy for you. I’ll castrate you and take you back to the palace, where you’ll be made to clean the latrines and empty the chamber pots every day. Every year thereafter, I’ll chop off a part of your body, letting you fully experience the fear of waiting for death. Finally, when you’re completely gone, I’ll soak you in a latrine, keeping you alive with ginseng and other elixirs, and having you irrigated by palace eunuchs every day…”
Hearing his words, Bi Linglong's knuckles turned white from clenching her fists. Several times she felt like vomiting. She regretted not dying sooner, because now she couldn't even die if she wanted to.
Zuan was speechless: "..."
That son of a bitch is really vicious. Could a human possibly come up with such a perverted punishment?
Since things had come to this point, there was no point in being polite anymore. He said coldly, "Unfortunately, not only can you not treat me like this now, you also have to beg me."
"I'm begging you?" Zhao Ruizhi burst into laughter, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world.
Just then, He Li and the others caught up, panting, and heard Zu An's arrogant words. They all looked at him with pity, wondering if he had gone crazy from fear.
Zhao Ruizhi abruptly stopped smiling and said coldly, "What a joke! I'll castrate you right now and see what you can do about it."
Just as Zuan was about to speak, the other person pressed down on him, and he immediately found it difficult to breathe, let alone speak.
"I know you're eloquent, and who knows what kind of crazy ideas you have to save your life? I can't be bothered to listen to your nonsense," Zhao Ruizhi sneered.
Zuan: "..."
Oh no, I messed it up!
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