Chapter 188 Extra: Pei Yu (VII)
Yue Miao saw the light again in a dark cell.
She was untied and quickly reached out to take off the black cloth covering her head. The moment she regained her sight, she first saw the dazzling array of torture instruments hanging on the wall. She turned her head in horror, and then she was met with a pair of eerie and terrifying eyes.
Ten years no see.
The boy who used to be only as tall as her shoulders has now grown tall and handsome. Due to the wind and sun of the frontier, his face has lost its childishness and has sharp features. There is even a knife wound on his left cheek.
The reason why I recognized him at a glance was because that cold and chilling look was so familiar.
Yue Miao almost collapsed instantly, and two words popped up in her mind.
It's over.
It's all over.
After a brief look at each other, Pei Yu knew that this servant recognized him.
He suppressed the cruelty in his heart, took the whip from the servant, and walked towards her step by step under Yue Miao's frightened gaze.
The pair of leather boots embroidered with cloud patterns seemed to be stepping on Yue Miao's heart. She was tense all over, but had nowhere to escape. She could only watch Yan Luo approaching.
The pair of leather boots finally stepped on the back of her trembling hands that were supporting the ground.
"Yue Miao." Pei Yu leaned forward slightly and looked into her eyes. His voice was like a ghost that could not be driven away. It was gentle yet eerie. "I hope you are well."
Yue Miao was so stiff that she couldn't answer a single word.
Even though the boot on her hand didn't use much force, it was reminding her that he was superior and she was inferior, he was the master and she was the slave, and she could never escape from his grasp.
Why is this happening.
This was the first time Pei Yu saw Yue Miao cry except when she was beaten. Her eyes gradually turned red. With tears in her eyes, she looked at him pleadingly, her voice trembling uncontrollably: "Your Highness, I know I was wrong. Please don't kill me, please don't kill me..."
She has admitted this mistake many times, but she never changes.
Pei Yu squatted down, turned the whip, and lifted her chin with the handle, saying with a half-smile: "It's too late."
"What did you say to Pei Shen? I beat you every day and made you kneel every night. You couldn't stand it anymore, so you betrayed me."
Pei Yu looked down at the trembling Yue Miao and slowly made her completely despair: "I have said that I will double down on these things, so where should I beat you today? Yue Miao, I will let you choose, okay?"
Yue Miao was so frightened that she could only cry, admit her mistakes and beg for mercy.
In fact, she didn't know where she went wrong.
She just told a lie that would not hurt anyone in order to make herself feel better, so why did she have to suffer such revenge...
Pei Yu seemed to have heard enough of her pleas for mercy. He stood up suddenly and ordered in a cold voice: "Tie this slave to the rack. I will execute her myself."
As the tall man stood up, Yue Miao saw the bloody rack not far behind him.
Her pupils suddenly shrank and she couldn't even utter a word to beg for mercy. She opened her mouth several times in vain and then felt her whole body go numb and a feeling of dizziness came over her.
Yue Miao didn't expect that she would be frightened to faint.
In the last moment before she lost consciousness, she seemed to feel someone hugging her and Pei Yu calling her name hurriedly.
I must have heard it wrong.
*
Yue Miao had a nightmare for a long time, dreaming that she was tortured to death in a cell, and she only woke up at dusk.
A maid in the room saw her move her hands and immediately walked to the bedside, half helping and half pushing her to get up: "Sister, are you awake? Then go to the front and serve the prince."
Yue Miao now feels her scalp tingling when she hears the word "Prince".
She wanted to ask why she was here and why she was still alive, but the maid had been told not to say anything.
Yue Miao could only drag her drowsy body and go to the palace's bedroom under the guidance of her maid.
Pei Yu was sitting at the desk reading a book.
It was a very familiar scene. It often happened in Wenhua Palace. But at that time Yue Miao had hope and motivation, but now she was left with only fearful despair.
She knelt down at the door, not knowing what to do, so she simply lowered her head and let Pei Yu deal with her.
"Go and pour me a cup of tea."
What greeted her was just this ordinary command.
Yue Miao didn't understand, but she still stood up, looked around the hall, walked to the tea table not far away, poured a cup of hot tea for the prince, and came back to offer it with both hands.
Pei Yu took the tea and drank it, still not looking at her, and only sneered and asked: "Do you regret it?"
Yue Miao heard the intention to ease up, and immediately knelt down, grasping at this little hope, and said in a tone as sad and sincere as possible: "I have regretted it a long time ago, Your Highness. I was originally a laborer. Thanks to Your Highness's kindness, I can serve you closely. Your Highness's kindness to me is as great as a mountain, but I am not satisfied. I just feel resentful because I made a mistake and received a little punishment. I slandered Your Highness in front of Your Majesty. This is really an unforgivable crime..."
"What I'm asking is whether you regret not running away because you were soft-hearted that day and got bitten back in the end."
Yue Miao choked, and then she saw Pei Yu put down the teacup and looked at her coldly: "But you are right, even if your crime is unforgivable, I have no intention of pardoning you."
Yue Miao swallowed back all the words in her mind.
After a long silence, she lowered her head and whispered in a voice that only she could hear: "I don't regret it. They went to expose it because they were afraid of death. I ran away because I was afraid of death. There is nothing wrong with either of them..."
"What are you mumbling about?" Pei Yu stretched out his hand to pinch her chin, and lifted it up with force. His eyes were like those of a wolf and a tiger, with a strong deterrent: "For the previous matter, I will forgive you once, but if you dare to have second thoughts again, I will really skin you alive."
When Yue Miao heard the words "skinned alive", she was so scared that she immediately shook her head. Then she realized something and was stunned.
Forgive her, forgive her this time?
Her lips trembled, and she asked tentatively, "Your Highness, do you mean that I can leave now?"
As soon as these words fell, Yue Miao saw Pei Yu's face become as gloomy as in a dungeon again, staring at her coldly, frightening her so much that she quickly changed her words: "I dare not leave! I will be loyal and serve the prince for the rest of my life!"
*
Yue Miao felt that there was no one in the world more unlucky than her.
She originally lived a simple life, just wanting to save money to leave the palace, reunite with her mother, and live a good life together without worries about food and drink.
But as fate would have it, she now seemed to have signed a lifetime contract to sell herself.
Fortunately, my mother now lives a good life with no shortage of money.
The days in the palace seemed like they had returned to the Wenhua Palace in the palace. She had to serve Pei Yu closely, guess his moods, and take care of his food, clothing, housing and transportation.
There were also some differences. For example, one morning when she was helping the prince get up and change his clothes, the prince was particularly irritable and did not allow her to touch him.
Yue Miao has been serving in the palace for ten years and is no longer an ignorant girl.
She immediately lowered her head and retreated, then sent a message to the backyard, asking the concubines that His Majesty had bestowed upon her a few days ago to come and serve her.
Unexpectedly, this action completely angered Pei Yu.
Yue Miao was chased and howled in the palace, and finally fell into the hands of the man. She opened her eyes wide and looked at the carved beams and painted buildings in the palace, her lips opened, and a teardrop slid down the corner of her eye.
Slaves should not have dignity.
It was common for the master to do whatever he wanted with her on a whim.
But Yue Miao was distraught, feeling as if she had lost something, not her so-called chastity, nor her dignity which had long been trampled into the mud.
She stayed in her bedroom and didn't go out for many days.
Fortunately, Pei Yu knew that he had gone too far that day and did not call her to his presence again.
*
In Prince An’s Mansion, Pei Yu and Pei Yi sat opposite each other drinking tea.
Pei Yi (G) (L) (T) (T) looked at his brother who was as strong as an ox, and his eyes were filled with satisfaction: "You have improved a lot. You must have suffered a lot in Yanzhou these years, right?"
Pei Yu was not here to reminisce about the past. He asked coldly, "I remember that you doted on your maid named Yuexi. Are you sleeping with her now?"
Pei Yi choked on the tea, coughed a few times, put down the cup abruptly, and scolded: "What nonsense are you talking about!"
Pei Yu was too lazy to waste time talking to him and continued to ask: "Did you go or not?"
Pei Yi knew that his brother had been in the military camp for too long and had learned a lot, so he could only hold back his anger and say, "She used to be knowledgeable to me, and now she is my concubine, and has given birth to my eldest son and two daughters. Why are you asking about my inner house affairs?"
Pei Yu fell into deep thought for a long time, then looked up and asked him: "Brother, Yue Miao is not as pretty as Yue Xi, nor is she as knowledgeable as Yue Xi, and she is five years older than me..."
"What do you mean!" Pei Yi slammed the table and stood up, rarely showing anger: "Are you going to exchange concubines with me? You bastard!"
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