Looking at the palace maids below, crying their hearts out, Ye Shangzhou felt a headache coming on. He frowned and said, "The death penalty can be waived, but punishment is inevitable. Drag them away and give them thirty strokes of the cane."
Qiao Zhen was dragged away by several strong men, but suddenly she became fierce and bit the men beside her. She then darted towards the man at the head of the table, grabbing at his calves without any regard for her image. "Your Majesty, my crime does not deserve thirty strokes of the cane. I beg you to reconsider and reduce the punishment?"
Ye Shangzhou felt a faint sensation in his leg, and his expression changed slightly, but in an instant he became the cold-faced king again, "Drag him away and give him ten strokes of the cane."
Qiao Zhen knew when to stop, so she obediently followed the guard down and endured ten strokes of the cane.
Ye Shangzhou was a little disappointed. He thought that the palace maid would dare to defy him. If she continued to oppose him, he might pardon her.
Qiao Zhen was in so much pain that tears streamed down her face. [What kind of bastard is that trash king? How dare he punish this fairy with a cane! This fairy will beat that scoundrel to death sooner or later!]
As Xiao Ling heard Qiao Zhen utter those words for the 186th time, it could only weakly squat in a corner of Qiao Zhen's mind to avoid offending her.
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The target of the mission is Ye Shangzhou, the trashy man who ordered Qiao Zhen to be flogged.
Ye Shangzhou had a very tragic childhood. His mother was a woman favored by the late emperor. Originally, she was a lady without a title. She died in childbirth when she gave birth to Ye Shangzhou, so the late emperor posthumously honored her as a queen.
As a result, Ye Shangzhou gained a reputation for "bringing misfortune to his mother." The late emperor thought he was too unlucky, so he named him "Shang," meaning ominous. Ye Shangzhou's mother gave birth to him while accompanying the late emperor on a boat trip, so the last character of his name was "Zhou," hence the name Ye Shangzhou.
It is now the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Linxian of the Great Night Dynasty.
Ye Shangzhou bided his time and, at the age of twenty-four, brutally murdered his father and crippled his brother, seizing control of Yejing and ascending the throne as emperor in the shortest possible time.
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