Chapter 7: Master Forbids Escape - Retribution
"Young Master Gong, please don't worry."
Xiao Ling's voice came from inside, intermittently.
That voice was captivatingly charming.
The thought of Gong Ye being inside, and what was happening there right now, made Gu Shanshan's heart clench.
"They talk about treating wounds, what a high-sounding excuse, they're clearly just here to have sex with someone."
Gu Shanshan couldn't help but mutter to herself, her voice tinged with resentment.
To be honest, he had no right to interfere, so why was Gong Ye deceiving himself?
What a beast.
Gu Shanshan angrily cursed, her five fingers involuntarily scratching at the window paper.
The force was a bit too strong, and the window paper ripped with a tearing sound, leaving a hole.
"who!"
From inside the house came a man's angry shouts.
Immediately afterwards, a black whip flew sharply toward the window.
Gu Shanshan had no cultivation level and did not know how to form hand seals to defend herself.
"ah!"
With a scream, he abandoned all semblance of a venerable master and crouched on the ground, clutching his head.
Upon hearing the familiar voice, Gong Ye's bewildered eyes instantly cleared.
He instinctively pulled the whip back, but it was too late.
The whip was lashed so hard that the area where Gu Shanshan was standing was completely smashed, and the window was reduced to scrap wood, which flew around and hit Gu Shanshan's head and body.
The first person to speak up about Gu Shanshan was not Gong Ye, but the male prostitute Xiao Ling.
"Master Gu, are you alright?"
Xiao Ling gathered her tattered clothes with one hand, her delicate eyebrows slightly furrowed.
His disheveled appearance immediately evoked a sense of ambiguity, especially since he still carried the familiar scent of sandalwood.
Xiao Ling squatted down on the ground and reached out to help Gu Shanshan up. "Master Gu, please get up first. There are a lot of sawdust on the ground. Don't hurt yourself."
Gu Shanshan did indeed get a splinter in her arm, and when Xiao Ling reached out to help her up, she instinctively put her hand over to her.
But before his fingers could even touch Xiao Ling's arm, a sharp pain shot through his palm.
With a snap.
A whip lashed across his palm.
"Ouch...it hurts."
Gu Shanshan cried out in pain and curled her hand back into her palm.
What followed was a chilling shout, "Don't touch him!"
Is it that Gu Shanshan is not allowed to touch Xiao Ling, or Xiao Ling is not allowed to touch Gu Shanshan?
The three people present, including Gong Ye himself, couldn't tell who that possessiveness was directed at.
Seeing the whip mark clearly visible across his palm, he looked up, his eyes red, and glared at the culprit.
"Gong Ye, what's wrong with you!"
Not only did he come here for a brief encounter, but he also wanted to beat him up.
Where did this apprentice come from? He's a lunatic.
Gong Ye sneered, provoked into retorting, "Heh, I'm going to go crazy, what can you do to me, Master!"
Its fierce appearance was like that of a ferocious beast.
Gu Shanshan glanced at Xiao Ling's disheveled clothes and Gong Ye's torn shirt.
A breath caught in my throat.
She looked away, unwilling to look at the two smirking men any longer, and said in a cold voice, "Nothing much."
After saying that, he stood up without touching Xiao Ling's body at all.
Hmph, the pain in his palm made him remember it vividly.
He added, "I'm sorry, I disturbed you. I apologize. You... please continue."
After saying that, he didn't even look at the two of them, and turned and left.
The sawdust was embedded deep, and bright red blood kept gushing from the arm that had been pierced by it.
Gu Shanshan didn't want to appear too pathetic in front of Gong Ye and Xiao Ling, so she clenched her fists and let her hands hang down at her sides, using her wide sleeves to cover her bleeding arms.
With each step, deep red drops of blood fell to the ground.
The raindrops just fell into the soil, and now it's night, so nothing can be seen.
As soon as Gu Shanshan's frail body disappeared from sight, Xiao Ling immediately knelt on the ground, looking at Gong Ye with apologetic eyes.
"I'm sorry, Young Master Gong. It's all Xiao Ling's fault. Master Gu misunderstood. Please punish me, Young Master Gong."
After speaking, he kowtowed deeply.
The impact was so strong that when I looked up, I had a cut on my forehead that was bleeding.
Bright red blood flowed down his cheeks, across a face that bore a resemblance to Gu Shanshan, causing Gong Yeqing's clear eyes to glaze over once more.
Gong Ye stared at Xiao Ling's face for a long time, his eyes deep and unfathomable.
After a long while, she finally managed to look away, her voice hoarse as she said, "Get up, it's not your fault."
It was his fault. When Xiao Ling was applying medicine and bandaging his wounds, he was so distracted that he mistook Xiao Ling for Gu Shanshan.
Then, it was pressed down.
Gong Ye closed his eyes and clenched his fists as he recalled those scenes.
He felt a sense of relief, thankfully, nothing had happened between him and Xiao Ling.
At first, when he accidentally saw Xiao Ling in a brothel, he did indeed mistake her for Gu Shanshan's stand-in.
At that time, Gu Shanshan was still a high and mighty aloof master, while he was an unloved disciple. He had just been reborn and did not yet have the ability to drag Gu Shanshan down from her pedestal and trample her underfoot.
Therefore, he could only place all his emotions on Xiao Ling.
He originally intended to use Xiao Ling as a substitute for Gu Shanshan.
However, he accidentally discovered that Xiao Ling had a similar tragic background to himself, and from then on he could no longer bring himself to harm her. Instead, he treated her as his younger brother and raised her in this mansion.
Seeing the blood flowing down that face that resembled Gu Shanshan's, a hint of pity flashed in Gong Ye's eyes.
He helped Xiao Ling up and said, "I'm sorry, Xiao Ling, I overstepped my bounds just now."
Xiao Ling shook her head. "Young Master Gong, it's not your fault. Master Gu didn't look well when he left, and his arm was also pricked by wood chips. You should go and take a look, lest Master Gu get angry."
His words were spoken with sincerity, and his furrowed brows and worried expression made it seem as if he was genuinely concerned for Gu Shanshan.
Xiao Ling's words are pointless and only add fuel to the fire.
Gong Ye scoffed, "Him? Ha, what is he? Is he worth my attention?"
His concern was completely ignored by Gu Shanshan, a cold-hearted and heartless person.
He had once offered his heart to Gu Shanshan, but back then, Gu Shanshan didn't even glance at him and scolded him for being delusional, a toad trying to eat swan meat, and shameless.
Now, he will not humiliate himself again.
Thinking of how Gu Shanshan had repeatedly peeked at Xiao Ling in front of him, Gong Ye's expression became even more unpleasant.
He turned around and gave a gloomy order, "Xiao Ling, stop trying to win her over. Gu Shanshan is not worth it at all. In this mansion, you are the only one who is half the master of this house."
"Don't treat yourself like a servant, and don't be overly polite to Gu Shanshan just because he was once my master. He won't give you a good look anyway."
Ha, a prisoner, yet he dares to give his men attitude.
Seriously... he deserves to be messed with.
After saying that, Gong Ye turned and left.
Standing in the pitch-black night, Xiao Ling's worried expression turned calm after Gong Ye turned away and could no longer see her face.
Within that calm, upon closer inspection, one can still detect a faint trace of hatred.
But who that hatred was directed at, no one but himself knew.
Xiao Ling watched Gong Ye's figure disappear from sight. She saw that although Gong Ye said he hated Gu Shanshan, he was heading in the same direction that Gu Shanshan had left. A sarcastic smile slowly appeared on Xiao Ling's lips.
"Heh, what a show, Gu Shanshan, you really are capable, whether in your past life or this one."
After saying that, Xiao Ling sighed deeply and closed her eyes.
When she opened her eyes again, her gaze returned to its harmless state.
Innocently, she pulled a sachet out of her torn inner shirt and casually tossed it into the soil of the flowerbed.
Inside that sachet was the very culprit that caused Gong Ye to lose control and mistake him for Gu Shanshan.
The sandalwood incense he lit in Gong Ye's room also contained another spice.
Other people can inhale that spice without any problems.
It only works on Gu Shanshan.
Thinking about the exciting show that was about to unfold, Xiao Ling's smile grew even gentler.
......
On the other side, after leaving the backyard, Gu Shanshan walked straight ahead.
Because he was holding a grudge, he had no desire to return to Gong Ye's room.
As soon as he entered, his mind was filled with images of Gong Ye on top of other men, which he couldn't shake off.
Therefore, he did not realize that he had entered the Bagua formation and wandered back and forth in one place several times.
As Gu Shanshan walked with her head down, she suddenly heard a swishing sound and unusual footsteps coming from ahead.
His expression changed, and when he looked up, he was met with a pair of deathly pale faces.
"ah!"
Staring at that deathly pale face and those eyeballs that seemed about to pop out of their sockets, Gu Shanshan screamed in terror.
Just as I was about to turn and run, I turned around and was met with a grotesquely rotten, dead face.
The stench emanating from the corpse almost made Gu Shanshan faint.
He didn't know how a manipulated corpse could appear in this place.
Covering her nose and suppressing the urge to vomit, Gu Shanshan crouched down, but after only two steps, a sharp pain shot through her foot.
Looking down, I saw that my ankle was being gripped tightly by a pair of bony, rotten hands.
The corpse grabbed Gu Shanshan and dragged her backward violently, pulling her directly to the ground.
The corpse was very strong. Gu Shanshan's five fingers dug into the ground as she desperately crawled forward, her fingernails bleeding from the effort.
But it was no use; he was still dragged over and pinned down by the two corpses.
These corpses were refined living corpses, moving swiftly and fiercely, leaving Gu Shanshan with absolutely no chance to resist.
The two corpses threw Gu Shanshan to the ground and held down her legs, rendering her completely immobile.
Gu Shanshan thought he was going to be killed by the corpses, but the corpses didn't choke him and showed no intention of killing him.
Instead, they tore his clothes off?
As the corpse pressed down on her, Gu Shanshan was filled with fear and confusion.
A terrible thought popped into my head.
These corpses weren't meant to kill him at all.
Instead, you want to... force him?
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