She was about to call for help, but as soon as the word "you" left her lips, the rest of her words were stuck.
The newcomer had sealed her acupoints.
Rendering her unable to utter a single sound.
She looked at the person before her in terror.
Who was this person?
What did they want?
Yun Shu, her face veiled, concealing her features, her gaze as still as a deep well, looked at Yun Yueyin as if she were already dead.
The room was instantly filled with a bone-chilling atmosphere.
Yun Yueyin looked at Yun Shu, her heart consumed by fear, a fear she had never experienced before!
This was the Regent's manor, and yet this woman had managed to infiltrate it!
Could she be someone from the Regent's manor?
Did the Regent intend to abandon her, sending someone to assassinate her?
Suddenly, an icy hand gripped Yun Yueyin's neck tightly.
Yun Shu didn't apply much force, yet Yun Yueyin's face turned red beneath her grasp, her eyes wide with terror. Though unable to speak, Yun Yueyin's expression clearly conveyed her intentions.
Begging for mercy.
Cursing.
Even...
Yun Shu glanced at Yun Yueyin's skirt, where a stain of urine had appeared.
She had soiled herself just from being choked? Was Yun Yueyin's courage truly that meager?
Yun Shu looked at Yun Yueyin with a half-smile.
Such a timid person had bullied and harmed the original owner with such arrogance in those years, causing her to have nightmares. And then, for years, she had been brainwashing her son, intending for him to harm her?
The room was frighteningly silent.
Yun Shu hadn't uttered a word, but her presence was like that of a soul-reaping demon.
Yun Yueyin was completely paralyzed by fear and unable to resist.
A pungent smell of urine filled the room.
Yun Shu felt a wave of nausea.
She looked down at Yun Yueyin's disfigured face.
To kill her now would be too easy for Yun Yueyin.
She had to make Yun Yueyin taste the feeling of falling from heaven to hell, then use her completely, and strike a heavy blow against Zhan Ming.
Zhan Ming was unworthy of being her son's godfather!
Then.
She took out a dagger.
And lunged towards Yun Yueyin's face.
Yun Yueyin's face contorted in pain, her body trembling uncontrollably in terror.
But her acupoints were sealed, leaving her utterly immobile and unable to resist!
This was what the original owner had endured, and this was the scarred face she had woken up to. Now, she would make Yun Yueyin taste the same sensation.
Tears streamed down Yun Yueyin's face from the pain.
She felt as if she were already dead.
Like a terrifying nightmare!
Her face!
Unable to withstand the shock, Yun Yueyin completely fainted.
Yun Shu wiped the blood from the dagger with Yun Yueyin's clothes and put it away.
Just as she was about to leave.
She remembered something.
Seeing a brush on the table nearby, she picked it up, dipped it in blood from Yun Yueyin's face, and wrote a line of text on a prominent pillar in the room.
After seeing the finished calligraphy, Yun Shu nodded with satisfaction.
Her brushwork had improved recently; it no longer looked like gibberish that no one could decipher.
Good, very good.
...
Half an hour later.
Wen Shu woke up, initially not understanding what had happened. Once she did.
She immediately looked towards the bed.
Her terrified scream caused her to collapse back onto the ground, her face completely drained of color.
"Ah! Ah! Miss!"
The pig-like screams startled the manor servants who were about to sleep.
Zhan Ming, who was reading in his study, frowned. "What is going on?"
A servant outside the door quickly replied, "My Lord, those screams came from Miss Yun's chambers. Could something have happened to Miss Yun?"
Hearing this, a fierce glint flashed in Zhan Ming's eyes. "I'll go and see what she's up to!"
He hadn't killed her for carrying an illegitimate child with another man; he had kept her alive only because she was still useful, and it was all an act for everyone. If she overstepped, he would never forgive her!
Soon, Zhan Ming arrived at Yun Yueyin's room.
A crowd had gathered outside the door.
But the door was tightly shut, and the servants couldn't get in to check.
Wen Shu, meanwhile, was desperately holding the door shut, her eyes fixed on Yun Yueyin on the bed.
Yun Yueyin was still unconscious, completely unaware of her current predicament.
"Miss... Miss..." Wen Shu called out Yun Yueyin's name.
She was frantic and had no idea what to do!
What about Miss's face? It was already scarred, and now... now it was covered in knife wounds, bloody! Blood had seeped onto the bed and onto Miss's clothes!
It was too terrifying!
Suddenly, Wen Shu heard someone calling for the Prince from outside.
It was over!
The Regent had arrived!
Wen Shu's face was a mess of snot and tears from her distress.
Suddenly, the unconscious Yun Yueyin finally woke up, her senses disoriented as she looked around blankly.
The coppery smell of blood assaulted her nostrils, and she suddenly became fully conscious.
"Ah, my face!"
It hurt so much!
The next moment.
The door was kicked open.
Wen Shu immediately collapsed onto the ground.
Zhan Ming walked in.
The smell of blood and urine in the room mingled, making Zhan Ming's already grim expression even more horrifying.
"My... My Lord!" Wen Shu cried out in alarm.
She tried to scramble up, to block Zhan Ming from seeing Miss's face, but it was too late!
Zhan Ming had already strode forward and stood before the distraught Yun Yueyin.
He saw Yun Yueyin's face, slashed and disfigured to the point where her original features were almost unrecognizable.
"What happened?!" Zhan Ming recoiled in shock, his grim expression turning ashen.
The servants outside the door now saw, and were all horrified.
Miss Yun's face!
"Ahhh!"
Yun Yueyin let out a scream.
It wasn't a nightmare!
"It was an assassin! A moment ago, an assassin knocked me out and then attacked Miss, disfiguring her face! Fetch the divine physician, quickly! Tell him to come and treat Miss immediately!" Wen Shu wailed.
Yun Yueyin finally reacted, and she cried out in panic, "Divine physician, hurry! Hurry and bring him here! My Lord, someone harmed me! That person was a woman, she sealed my acupoints and then cut my face with a knife!"
Zhan Ming stared at the unrecognizable Yun Yueyin, his eyes filled with ruthlessness and coldness.
At this moment, Lu Hao had arrived.
He stood at the door, not rushing in.
Even from the doorway, he could smell the nauseating odor. His heart shuddered. His master was truly ruthless! He wondered how Yun Yueyin had offended his master. Look at her face, even his master might not be able to restore it to its original state now!
Wait!
He suddenly stared at the pillar.
Just as Wen Shu spotted him and tried to pull him into the room, he pointed at the writing on the pillar and said, "Quick, look! Regent, look at the pillar!"
He couldn't let his master's hard work go unnoticed.