Chapter 129 Whipping
In the entire princess's residence, the only people who knew she had sent people to Xihan to investigate the mines, besides herself, the old eunuch who relayed messages like a shadow, and... this lowly woman kneeling on the ground before her! Xie Wulu!
It's him!
It must be him!
This Xie family outcast, whose life was destroyed by Xie Sangning, whom she wished she could tear apart and sleep on! This dog who willingly crawled to her feet and offered her a vicious scheme!
He wasn't truly loyal to her! He was using her! He leaked the information to Xie Sangning! He wanted to see her and Xie Sangning both suffer losses! He... betrayed her!
Pei Mingyue suddenly jumped off the couch, not even bothering to put on her shoes, and rushed to Xie Wulu barefoot in a few steps!
Xie Wulu looked at Pei Mingyue's face, which was as ugly as a demon from hell. He subconsciously wanted to back away and explain, but his body was as if nailed to the spot, stiff and unable to move!
"Your...Your Highness..." His throat was dry, and his voice trembled uncontrollably.
"You bitch!!!" Pei Mingyue didn't give him a chance to speak. She raised her hand and slapped Xie Wulu hard across the face with all her might!
"Smack—!!!"
A crisp, loud slap echoed throughout the hall!
Xie Wulu's head snapped to one side from the blow, his cheek instantly swelling and blood trickling from the corner of his mouth!
The immense force made him see stars and his ears ring!
"It's you! It must be you, you traitorous bastard!!"
Pei Mingyue acted like a madwoman, her sharp nails digging into Xie Wulu's shoulder as she shook him violently, as if she wanted to crush his bones!
"You betrayed me! You told that bitch Xie Sangning the news! Did you?! Tell me! Was it you?!"
Xie Wulu was pinched so hard that the burning pain on his cheeks was nothing compared to the fear in his heart!
If Xie Sangning were to give the letter he wrote to the Second Princess... just thinking about the contents of that letter, and how those words of regret and reporting would appear in the eyes of that madwoman Pei Mingyue...
Xie Wulu felt a chill rush from his tailbone straight to the top of his head, and his blood seemed to freeze instantly!
It’s over!
It's completely over!
If Pei Mingyue finds out that he tipped off Xie Sangning, trying to make them fight like dogs… with that crazy woman's methods… he would absolutely suffer a fate worse than death! Ten times, a hundred times, more terrifying than the whipping that night!
"No...no! Your Highness, you are right! I have no right! I am utterly loyal to Your Highness! I would never dare to betray you!"
"I hate Xie Sangning to the core! How could I help her?! It must be...it must be someone framing me! Your Highness! You must believe me!"
"Believe you?!"
Pei Mingyue abruptly released her grip, as if she had touched something extremely filthy. "I believed your lies, you vile woman! That's why I'm in such a passive position now!"
Now, this has given Xie Sangning another reason to deal with him!
It's still unknown how Xie Sangning will retaliate, and whether the people I sent to investigate will even come back alive!
"Someone come here!!"
The palace doors were suddenly pushed open, and two burly guards strode in.
"Drag this treacherous wretch to the torture chamber! I will personally...interrogate him!"
"No—!! Your Highness, spare me! Your Highness, spare me!"
Xie Wulu let out a wail and struggled desperately!
He knew what the torture chamber was! It was a place the Second Princess had secretly set up, a place more terrifying than hell!
Anyone who goes in will be severely injured, if not killed!
Two guards lifted Xie Wulu, who was limp as a chicken, without any effort, and dragged him out like a dead dog.
Pei Mingyue followed behind barefoot, a sickly smile on her face.
She didn't care whether Xie Wulu had really betrayed her.
She just needed an outlet to vent her anger!
A plaything that allows her to regain a sense of control after being frustrated with Xie Sangning!
The torture chamber.
The strong smell of blood and rust mixed with a musty, rotten odor was nauseating.
Xie Wulu was roughly stripped of his outer garment, leaving him only in a thin inner garment. His hands were chained high to a wooden frame, and his toes barely touched the ground.
Pei Mingyue walked in slowly, toying with a leather whip soaked in salt water and with barbs in her hand.
She looked at Xie Wulu, whose face was ashen and who was trembling uncontrollably on the wooden frame, and her eyes gleamed.
"Seventeen..." She slowly walked up to Xie Wulu, lightly lifting his chin with the tip of her whip, her voice carrying a chilling gentleness, "I'll give you one last chance... Tell me... how... did you... leak the information... to that bitch Xie Sangning?"
"Your Highness...I...I really didn't..." Xie Wulu's voice trembled uncontrollably. He absolutely could not admit it!
Now he can only take a gamble, hoping that Xie Sangning will not give the letter to the Second Princess!
In this way, there is no evidence.
The immense fear made it almost impossible for him to breathe.
He looked at the whip in Pei Mingyue's hand, as if he could already feel the excruciating pain of his flesh being torn apart!
"No?" Pei Mingyue's smile vanished abruptly, replaced by rage!
"It seems... I've been too lenient with you!"
Before the words were even finished!
"Whoosh—smack!!!"
The barbed leather whip lashed hard across Xie Wulu's chest!
"ah--!!!"
A bloodcurdling scream instantly echoed throughout the torture chamber!
The cloth was torn! The skin was ripped open!
A deep red bloodstain instantly burst open on Xie Wulu's fair chest! Blood quickly seeped out, staining his tattered clothes!
Excruciating pain!
It felt like being scalded by a red-hot iron!
The stinging sensation of salt water seeping into the wound is like a thousand ants gnawing at your heart!
Xie Wulu's body arched violently as if he had been electrocuted!
He was held tightly by the iron chain again!
The intense pain made his vision go black, and he almost fainted!
"Speak!" Pei Mingyue's second lash followed immediately! "Crack!" It struck his other chest!
"Ah—!!" Xie Wulu let out another heart-wrenching scream! His body convulsed violently!
"You bastard! Traitor!!"
"Smack!"
"Was it you?!"
"Smack!"
"Speak up—!!"
Pei Mingyue was like a madwoman, her whip lashing Xie Wulu's body like a storm, striking him mercilessly and brutally! His chest, abdomen, shoulders, arms... soon there wasn't a single patch of unscathed skin left!
Xie Wulu's screams, which started out shrill and high-pitched, gradually became hoarse and weak, until finally only his panting breaths, like those of a broken bellows, remained.
His consciousness was wavering, and his body was convulsing and spasming incessantly due to extreme pain.
Every breath aggravated the wounds all over my body, bringing a new wave of excruciating pain.
Despair overwhelmed him like a tidal wave.
Why?
Why does he always lose?
Why did every step he meticulously planned ultimately become Xie Sangning's stepping stone?
He worked really hard. He studied hard, he tried hard to integrate into the circle, and he earned his academic success through his own abilities. What's wrong with him wanting to transcend social classes and climb the social ladder?
Why did Xie Sangning want to block all his paths?
Why does the bright moon hang high above, yet it alone does not shine upon me...?
Pei Mingyue seemed to have exhausted herself and stopped, panting. She looked at Xie Wulu, who was lying on the wooden frame, looking like a bloodied man on the verge of death, with a satisfied flush on her face after the abuse.
"Well? Have you thought it through?" She panted, her voice laced with a languid cruelty. "Say it... or... continue?"
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