The orc was terrified when he heard Shen Miao reveal her identity.
His eyes darted around in a panic, and he jumped up to run away, but Shen Miao lashed out with her God-Slaying Whip and pulled him back. "Where are you going?"
The orc somersaulted, then knelt on the ground, kowtowing and saying, "I didn't mean to, I...I...I didn't know you were a high-ranking official from the Beast Realm. Please forgive me, please forgive me."
"I'll let you off the hook, but then you can go somewhere else and spread rumors about me everywhere?"
"I won't dare to do it again, I'll never dare to do it again."
If Shen Miao believed him, she would be seeing a ghost.
The orc panicked and kept trying to find a chance to escape, but he dared not run because of Shen Miao's majesty. He huddled on the ground and looked extremely pitiful.
Shen Miao said coldly, "You have the guts to do it, but not the guts to admit it? I saw you talking quite happily just now, why don't you curse a few more times in front of me?"
"I really won't dare to do it again." The orc kept kowtowing.
Shen Miao lashed her whip across the ground beside him, sending up a cloud of dust. “Get up. I didn’t make you kneel. After you knelt, you found another opportunity to say I was abusing you, didn’t you?”
The orc, his face contorted in a grimace, trembled and cried, "No, no, no, I wouldn't dare."
"What's there to be afraid of? I bet you're pretty daring. Go on, keep cursing. If you can't get it out, you're staying here and not going anywhere," Shen Miao threatened.
The orc trembled, opened his mouth as if to curse, but couldn't utter a single word.
The foul language he had been using earlier seemed to have vanished from his throat. The orc pleaded, "My lord, please don't make things difficult for me. You are a good person. I... I was just momentarily blinded by greed and took someone's money. I really, really didn't mean it that way. My lord, please believe me."
"Who ordered you to do this?" Shen Miao pressed.
The orc said in a tearful voice, "I... I really can't say it. If I do, I'll die."
Seeing this, Shen Miao didn't make things difficult for him. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Come back with me."
Upon hearing this, the orc looked horrified, thinking that he was still doomed to die. He knelt down again with a thud, "My lord, please don't kill me. I...I know I was wrong. I really know I was wrong."
Shen Miao clicked her tongue: "Don't kneel down all the time. I told you to come with me, so come with me. Stop talking so much nonsense. If you say another word, I'll kill you right here!"
The orc shuddered and obediently shut his mouth, daring not to say anything more.
Midway through, the orcs, seeing that Shen Miao hadn't tied him up, started to get restless again. They spotted a direction and took off running.
“I advise you not to run, really. If you don’t run, I can still make you walk on your own now. But if you run and I catch you, you’ll be crawling for the rest of your life.”
The orc silently retracted the step he had taken.
When Shen Miao brought the orc back, many people in the Beast Realm saw it. She then called out to everyone to gather in the square.
The orcs didn't know what was happening, but that didn't stop them from going to watch the spectacle.
When Shen Miao arrived at the square, it was already surrounded by layers of people. When the orc saw this, he felt a chill in his heart and thought that he was probably going to die here today.
With so many orcs, how could he possibly escape? He could drown if no one spat on him!
Shen Miao had no idea what he was thinking. She reached out and pushed him, saying coolly, "Go and say it yourself."
"Say... say what?" the orc asked tremblingly.
Shen Miao raised an eyebrow, crossed her arms and said, "Just tell me how you framed me, and then you've been cursing me for so long. It's not too much to ask you to apologize. Go ahead and say it. If you don't say it well, just keep saying it."
The orc was quite quick-witted. He understood that Shen Miao meant to let him go and didn't intend to pursue the matter. He immediately straightened up and said obsequiously, "I'll explain right away, I'll explain right away."
He recounted how he had taken money from others and deliberately tried to ruin Shen Miao's reputation, which drew boos from the crowd, with some even criticizing him for abandoning all sense of shame for a few beast crystals.
The orc ignored the insults directed at him and sincerely bowed to Shen Miao to apologize, saying that he had been bewitched and asking Shen Miao to forgive him.
His attitude was indeed impeccably humble.
"May I go now?" the orc asked cautiously.
"No rush."
Shen Miao said, dispersing the crowd of onlookers, before turning to the orc and saying, "You can leave now. If I had let you go earlier, you would probably have been surrounded and beaten up by them."
The orc was very grateful that Shen Miao had thought of everything so thoughtfully for him.
He's starting to regret yelling at her like that.
"Thank you, thank you, sir. You are such a kind person." The orc bowed and left.
Shen Miao beckoned to one of Xuan Ran's soldiers and instructed him, "Follow him and see where he goes. Report back to me."
The soldier Xuan Ran agreed and nimbly followed.
Not long after they arrived, the soldier returned and whispered something in Shen Miao's ear. Shen Miao's eyes darkened slightly: "Lin Ming? Who is that?"
The expression on Xuan Ran's soldier's face was indescribable.
"A good-for-nothing scoundrel who always thinks he's something special, putting on a tough act in front of his tribe of orcs, but in reality he's just a paper tiger."
After hearing this, Shen Miao understood.
This kind of person has no ability, but is ambitious and jealous, and is actually useless.
Since he had come looking for her, Shen Miao wasn't going to let him off so easily.
She decided to retaliate in kind, so she immediately sent people to collect dirt on Lin Ming, embellishing it with exaggerated claims. The next day, she found someone to go to Lin Ming's house and hurl insults at him non-stop for 24 hours.
Lin Ming was so scolded that he couldn't even lift his head and didn't dare to show his face. All the secret things he had done, such as secretly drugging the orcs of his tribe out of jealousy, or secretly killing his neighbor's chicken, were suddenly exposed.
Lin Ming felt as if his skin had been peeled off, and he was in so much pain that he wanted to die.
After two days of being cursed, Lin Ming's reputation was completely ruined. He could no longer be a tribal chief, and the orcs of his tribe would want to spit on him whenever they saw him.
Lin Ming was in a sorry state and dared not go out for several days. It wasn't until his family ran out of food that he had no choice but to sneak out at night to get something to eat.
"Do you want revenge?"
In the forest, Lin Ming encountered a ragged and disheveled female animal.
This female beast hadn't been out for a long time; she was filthy and looked like a wild woman.
Lin Ming, wary, clutched the wild fruit in his arms tighter and asked, "Who are you? What grudge do you have?"
The female beast, who was actually Frostflower who had escaped, sneered: "I know about how Shen Miao ruined your reputation, so don't try to hide it from me anymore."
"Who are you, and why do you know these things?" Lin Ming asked again.
Shuanghua said calmly, "You don't need to know who I am. You just need to understand that I can help you deal with Shen Miao."
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