Xiang Lan's words made Su Man laugh. "You drink like this with just a few dishes? Do you think you can represent the Celestial Clan? Stop it, little sister. You're so arrogant, you'll only get slapped in the face later."
"You...we'll see!"
Xiang Lan rushed out of the door. Judging from the direction she went, she was probably going to find Long Junling to complain.
As expected, Xiang Lan had just left Tinghua Courtyard where Shi Man lived, and the next moment she went to Long Junling's Wangxian Garden.
It was broad daylight, but the doors and windows of the garden were closed, and Long Junling's guard, Silver Wolf, stood at the door.
Yinlang and Xianglan had both served Long Junling before, so they were quite familiar with each other. He was stunned when he saw Xianglan's red and swollen face. "What happened to you?"
Xiang Lan was so focused on getting Long Junling to make the decision for her that she ignored Silver Wolf and rushed in, "I want to see His Highness..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the door to the wing room opened and a stream of air rushed out. Xiang Lan was unable to dodge and was directly thrown several meters away, crashing into the bronze tripod in the courtyard.
When he looked up, Long Junling was looking down at him. He stood with his back to the light, and the sunlight shining down on his shoulders did not dispel the coldness in his eyes. "Didn't I say that you are not allowed to call me Your Highness?"
Xiang Lan was frightened and trembled as she said, "I forgot for a moment. I deserve to die. I deserve to die."
"Forgot? Do you know what the consequences would be if Shi Man heard you say this?"
"Your servant..."
Xiang Lan was completely awake at this moment. After staying in the mortal world for so long, she almost forgot how cruel Long Junling's methods were.
When Xian Yufu failed to pass the tribulation, because a fairy maid hit the jade pendant given to him by Xian Yufu, he threw the person directly into the Ten Thousand Snake Cave and let her be eaten by thousands of snakes.
In order to let her fully feel the pain, he had been using magic to keep her alive, making it so that the fairy maid could neither live nor die, and could only watch her flesh disappear bit by bit.
If she disrupted Long Junling's plan, her fate would be...
Xiang Lan felt a chill down her spine. She didn't even dare to fart, let alone complain. She knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, "Goddess, please calm down. Goddess, please calm down. Xiang Lan will never dare to do this again. Please give me one more chance."
"Oh."
Long Junling sneered, "If I didn't need you to watch over Shi Man, do you think I would let you go so easily?"
"Yes, yes, I will serve you well."
"It's good that you know. Get up."
After Xiang Lan stood up, Long Junling remembered something, "Why are you here at this time? Did something happen to Shi Man?"
Xiang Lan didn't dare mention the Celestial Clan at the moment. She nodded and said, "It's nothing. Miss Shi Man was just in a bad mood and hit me. Didn't you say before that her every move should be reported to you? That's why I disturbed you."
As she spoke, she observed Long Junling's expression. When he heard that she was being beaten, Long Junling's face remained calm, but rather impatient. "Such a trivial matter is not worth bothering me. It's just punishing the servants. As long as she stays here honestly, even if I have to kill a few servants, it's okay. Don't tell me about this kind of thing again in the future, do you understand?"
Is it okay to kill servants?
Xiang Lan secretly clicked her tongue and shrank her neck as she said, "I understand."
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Xiang Lan was like an eggplant hit by frost when she returned from Wangxian Garden, completely exhausted. But she didn't dare not go back. If something happened to Shi Man, she would be killed.
When Xianglan reluctantly came into the room, Su Man was combing her hair in front of the mirror.
Shi Man used to wander around outside all the time, and she rarely took care of her hair. She usually just tied it up with a hairband, and she even liked to wear clothes that were convenient for movement.
But even so, it couldn't conceal Shi Man's stunning beauty.
Foxes are naturally charming, their eyes and eyebrows full of charm. Shi Man, with her ghost bloodline, possesses an even more sinister aura than the average fox. Upon closer inspection, her pupils are a dark red, with faint black lines radiating across them, a truly enchanting sight.
Su Man tied her hair into a bun, inserted a gold hairpin, lightly brushed her eyebrows, and then applied lip rouge in front of the bronze mirror. She suddenly looked so gorgeous that even Xiang Lan behind her was stunned.
She thought sourly, he is indeed a monster, he looks like a fox.
Su Man saw her expression through the bronze mirror and knew what she was thinking. She closed her makeup box and said indifferently, "You're back."
Although Su Man didn't say anything, she felt embarrassed for no reason and stammered in response.
Just as Su Man said, how arrogant he was when he made the threats is how embarrassing he is now.
Su Man slowly stood up from the dressing table and said with a half-smile, "You've found your place after this trip, right?"
Xiang Lan gritted her teeth and said nothing. Looking at her expression, one could tell she was cursing in her heart, but she didn't dare to show it on her face.
"Now that you know, go get to work. I need to take a shower after dinner, so you can wait for me downstairs."
"...yes."
The word seemed to come from between Xianglan's teeth, and her steps were stiff as she walked out.
Su Man ignored her and opened the closet to find a red dress.
Long Junling disliked bright colors, and most of the clothes he prepared for her were plain. This one was one of her old clothes. While it wasn't as expensive as the ones Long Junling had given her, it was superior in that it was made of special materials: it wouldn't get wet when exposed to water or burn when exposed to fire. It was made from the hair of a spirit. It was given to her by the elders of Wuyou Cave when she first transformed.
When Shi Man was driven out of the fox clan, she was still a young fox. The conflict between the demonic nature and the ghost energy within her body made her body extremely weak. If she had not been picked up by the people of Wuyou Cave who were out foraging for food, she would not have survived even the young fox stage.
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