Chapter 1104: Grand Finale: Return of an Old Friend (12)
"I originally thought that the Princess of Rui was just lucky and had a better family background, so she accidentally became the Princess of Rui and lived an enviable life. Now it seems that she is smarter than I thought. Perhaps she knew that if she stayed by His Majesty's side, regardless of her loyalty to Him or not, the final outcome would be the same, that is, a bad death." Ye Mei said.
"How outrageous!" Fu Xiuyi said.
"I lost to His Majesty," Ye Mei said. "Your Majesty was so affectionate with me not long ago, yet now he has reduced me to this state with his own hands. He knows how precious my beauty is, yet he has made me suffer so much. But Your Majesty, I have to tell you, you are no better than me. You put all your faults on me, and do you think you will have a good ending?"
Fu Xiuyi's face turned ashen. No one would be happy to be cursed like this. Moreover, he already hated Ye Mei to the core, and Ye Mei's anger at this time made him even more angry.
"You won't have a good ending either. You are no match for them. The fact that Shen Miao chose Xie Jingxing over you proves that in her eyes, you are not even one percent as good as Xie Jingxing. So you see, I have nothing now and have become a prisoner, but your end will definitely not be any better than mine. You will also lose. The Thirteen Capitals of Youzhou are just the beginning. After that, you will be completely defeated. The Ming Qi Dynasty will eventually fall at your hands. By then, you will be nothing more than a king of a fallen nation! I wish you a crushing defeat in this war, and that your Fu Dynasty will finally fall into your hands and never rise again!"
Fu Xiuyi stared at her coldly and said, "Are you done? I've already given you one last chance."
Ye Mei let out a long sigh and said nothing.
She was filled with resentment. She had never hated anyone as much as she did now. Fu Xiuyi had ruined her appearance, and she knew there was no hope for recovery. So, she simply poured out all her anger and hatred in her dying moments. But after the relief, she regained consciousness. She had almost forgotten what kind of person Fu Xiuyi was...
But it was too late to regret now. Besides, Fu Xiuyi had never given anyone the chance to regret. Back then, Pei Lang hadn't let him lose anything, yet he treated him this way. And because Ye Mei had lost the Thirteen Capitals of Youzhou, and after hearing Ye Mei's curse, Fu Xiuyi certainly wouldn't let her die easily.
He said, "Since you care so much about your appearance, I will grant you your wish."
He said to the jailer beside him, "Chop off her limbs and make them into a beauty bowl. Set up a stage in the east of the city and let a thousand people watch."
"Spy from Daliang, you are so good at singing and dancing. I will make you a plaything for people's entertainment. Live a happy life." After he said this, he turned around and strode away, ignoring the heart-wrenching cries coming from behind him.
The "beauty bowl" was a toy used by the nobility in the previous dynasty for their amusement. A beautiful woman was chosen and kept in the house. She would kneel in a corner of the room. If the owner wanted to spit or pour out spent tea, they would pinch the woman's chin and force her to swallow it. It was a living spittoon.
This is treating people like animals, even worse than animals, because it is too cruel, and the life of such a beauty is generally not too long. The emperor of the previous dynasty later ordered to abolish it.
Now, Fu Xiuyi wanted to use this abandoned method once again on Ye Mei. The beauty bowl with limbs chopped off was the lowest kind of beauty bowl, having lost its beauty and only left it with horror.
The common people, fearing such strange things, would undoubtedly criticize and curse them. For Ye Mei, whose vanity valued her appearance more than her life, this would be a torture worse than even killing her. For her, who was hell-bent on climbing the social ladder, she was even lower than the common people she looked down upon, even less than a "human." Fu Xiuyi truly understood her well.
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