"Master, are you alright?" Xiao An immediately stepped forward to support him.
When the servants saw that it was their master, they were terrified and knelt down to beg for mercy, their legs trembling uncontrollably.
"Master, I didn't mean Miss Yaoyao... I..."
"Master, please spare me! I will never dare to do it again."
"Spare me, Master! I was wrong!"
They never expected their master to appear here.
The faces of the men swelled up visibly from the blows, and they pounded their heads on the ground, pleading incoherently, "Master, spare us! Spare us!"
"Master, I dare not do it again, I dare not do it again..."
Lu Shiyi felt a suffocating pain in his heart. How dare these people...?
He considered himself to be tolerant enough, and he didn't care what others said about him, because he had long been disheartened.
He was too lazy to bother with the servants who gossiped about him behind his back, and even felt guilty at one point because he felt that it was his own fault that caused them to live in fear every day.
But they actually...
How dare they say his Yaoyao is a jinx? A demon?
He couldn't tolerate it.
Yaoyao is his last line of defense, the only light left in his eyes, and the only hope in his heart. He cannot allow or tolerate others slandering his child like this.
He roared, "Xiao An, beat them all to death! Kill them all! I don't want to see their faces or hear a single sound from them!"
"Yes, yes, Master, please calm down," Xiao An echoed repeatedly.
The servants were still begging for mercy when Xiao An called over guards, who gagged them all and beat them to death one by one in front of Lu Shiyi.
They couldn't even let out a scream; their eyes were bloodshot, and they were spitting out blood, staining the cloth tightly covering their mouths crimson.
Lu Shiyi's eyes were lifeless as he coldly watched the group of people's tragic deaths.
It wasn't until Xiao An called him several times that he finally smirked and laughed, a chilling laugh that gave Xiao An goosebumps.
"Master..." Xiao An felt a chill run down her spine and tentatively asked him, "Master, are you alright?"
Lu Shiyi's expression shifted, grief welling up within him. After a long while, he finally spoke softly, "It was I who was wrong."
I shouldn't have turned and left back then, now...
We should not tolerate or indulge these unruly servants!
"From now on, if anyone dares to speak ill of my Yaoyao, I will kill them on the spot without any need to report. Do you understand?"
Xiao An nodded repeatedly: "Yes, Master."
"But what if too many people talk about it and they're all killed? What if the lord blames us?"
Lu Shiyi's face was deathly pale as he said fiercely, "These vicious lackeys don't even spare a three-month-old infant. What if they are all killed? They are servants of my Hehuan Pavilion, and I still have that right."
"Yes, Master."
Under Xiao An's frightened gaze, Lu Shiyi stumbled back.
...
"Yaoyao, what should Father do?"
"I was wrong, I was wrong, please don't hurt my Yaoyao."
"Am I really so wicked that I am beyond redemption?"
"Why are you treating me like this?"
“My dear Yaoyao, it is your father who has wronged you... it is your father who has dragged you down.”
“Yaoyao...”
Xiao An stood outside the door, listening to the mournful words coming from inside the bedroom, and he was so frightened that he lost his composure.
"master........"
No one responded to him.
The only sound in the room was a man talking to himself, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing.
Xiao An was so frightened that she collapsed to the ground.
"Master, has the master gone mad?"
As soon as the thought crossed Xiao An's mind, he immediately got up from the ground. He had to go and tell his lord so that his lord could make a decision and he could beg his lord to save his master.
He turned around quickly and ran out of the main courtyard.
...
Wen Yanche learned three days later that Lu Shiyi was on the verge of going insane.
Because of the ban, the guards dared not let Xiao An leave Hehuan Pavilion.
Later, after Xiao An's persistent pleading and a large amount of bribery, he was finally released.
Upon hearing this, Wen Yanche immediately rushed to Hehuan Pavilion.
"Shi Yi, what happened?"
Wen Yanche stepped into the main bedroom, where Lu Shiyi was sitting dejectedly by the cradle, staring intently at Xiao Yaoyao.
Seeing this, Wen Yanche's heart sank.
She was fine when I came here half a month ago, how come she suddenly looks like this?
He approached the cradle, sat down beside it, and carefully examined the man before him.
In just half a month, Lu Shiyi's once handsome face had become haggard, his eye sockets were deeply sunken, his stubble covered the area around his eyes, and his complexion was sallow.
Would Lu Shiyi of the past have been so unkempt and disregarded his image?
Wen Yanche looked anxious. "Shi Yi, what happened? What's wrong with you?"
Could it be that you heard something from someone else?
During this period, under strict discipline, no one outside dared to utter a single word.
Could they be servants from Hehuan Pavilion?
Wen Yanche, with a stern face, carefully comforted Lu Shiyi: "Shiyi, no matter who you heard or what you heard, you can't give up on yourself before the truth comes out. What will happen to Yaoyao if you collapse? The mistress is coming back soon. Do you want her to see you like this?"
Wife?
Lu Shiyi's heart skipped a beat.
"Would my wife still want to see me?" he couldn't help but wonder.
"You're overthinking things again," Wen Yanche sighed.
He then looked at the baby in the cradle and said earnestly, "Look how cute Yaoyao is. You have to pull yourself together. How can you take good care of her like this?"
Hearing him say that, Lu Shiyi turned to ask him, "Does my lord also think my Yaoyao is very cute? Does my lord like Yaoyao?"
Wen Yanche was taken aback by his question, then answered affirmatively, "Of course, I love Yaoyao. Yaoyao is also my child. How could I not love her?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Shiyi smiled and muttered to himself, "That's good, that's good."
Wen Yanche noticed that something was wrong with him, so he asked, "Shi Yi, what's wrong with you? What did the servants say?"
Lu Shiyi answered irrelevantly, "My lord, if a servant says something wrong and I kill them, will you be angry?"
"Of course... no. Servants are disrespectful to their superiors. You are the master of Hehuan Pavilion, and you have the right to punish them."
"If many servants made the same mistake, and I killed them all, wouldn't you be angry?"
Wen Yanche was startled. Lu Shiyi would never look at him like that, let alone say such things to his face. It seemed that he had been greatly provoked this time.
I couldn't help but feel even more worried. Lu Shiyi's current state was really worrying. Xiao An said he was going crazy. I didn't believe it at first, but now that I see it, Xiao An's words are true. I'm really afraid that he might do something stupid.
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