Ye Piaoling sighed: [Silly System, Old Silly, your business is quite risky…]
The Silly System replied: [Host, don’t lose heart. Besides the ultimate ascension reward, you can also receive wonderful prizes for every personal item of the Regent King you obtain!]
[Oh?] Ye Piaoling grew interested: [Then I’ve already obtained the Regent King’s mask. Where’s the reward?]
[The reward is here. Please check, Host!]
As the voice faded, two spirit talismans suddenly appeared in Ye Piaoling’s hands.
The talismans were inscribed with words—one read “Truth,” and the other read “Dare.”
[“Truth” can make someone speak their true thoughts, while “Dare” can make someone perform a risky action.]
Ye Piaoling’s lips twitched.
Truth or Dare…
What kind of silly prizes are these!
“Crash!”
The courtyard gate was suddenly smashed open.
“Ye Piaoling is back! Hurry, let’s beat her together, beat her to death!”
A seven- or eight-year-old boy, holding a slingshot, barged in aggressively.
The boy was named Ye Tianbao, the youngest son of Ye Liao Zhai. Spoiled since childhood, he had grown lawless and took pleasure in bullying the weak.
After the original host became withdrawn and spoke little, Ye Tianbao often spat at her, threw stones, and even made up nursery rhymes to insult her.
The original host once kept a beloved lark, which Ye Tianbao also killed with his slingshot.
Ye Piaoling stepped out of her room and eyed this brat.
Ye Tianbao raised his slingshot and approached her, shouting: “Trash, who told you to come home? Get out!”
Ye Piaoling said lightly: “Don’t come closer, or misfortune will follow.”
Ye Tianbao: ?
Ye Tianbao didn’t understand and didn’t listen at all. He took two steps forward, aimed at her, and fired a stone from his slingshot with a “snap.”
Ye Piaoling sidestepped to dodge it, curled her lips, and revealed a tolerant, elder-sisterly smile.
Then she grabbed the broom leaning against the wall and swung it at the brat’s head and face!
“Wah!”
Ye Tianbao howled and jumped up.
“You dare hit me? I’ll tell Father and have him beat you to death! Beat you to death!”
“Really?” Ye Piaoling smiled.
The broom in her hand descended like a storm of pear blossoms!
“Wah! Ow!”
Ye Tianbao howled, threw away his slingshot, and fled toward the courtyard gate in disarray: “Dad! Mom! Someone’s hitting me…”
Without a word, Ye Piaoling chased after him and gave him a thorough beating.
The servants who had come with Ye Tianbao were stunned.
Previously, when the young master bullied the eldest young lady, she had initially gone to the master to complain. But after being scolded by the master for not yielding to her younger brother, she had stopped fighting back.
Everyone knew the young master was the master’s precious darling. No matter how much he caused trouble, no one dared to harm him!
But now…
Ye Tianbao was beaten until he fled in panic, screaming as he ran out of the Fallen Blossoms Courtyard.
“Tianbao, Tianbao!”
A charming young woman hurried over upon hearing the commotion, shrieking: “Someone, come quickly! The eldest young lady is trying to kill someone! She’s trying to kill Tianbao!”
It was Concubine Liu, Ye Tianbao’s birth mother.
She glared at Ye Piaoling with resentment: “Eldest Young Lady, how cruel you are! Tianbao is your brother. How could you treat him so viciously?”
Ye Piaoling couldn’t help but chuckle: “This is nothing. You’re just making a fuss over nothing!”
With that, she slammed the gate of the Fallen Blossoms Courtyard shut with a “bang.”
Ye Tianbao pointed at the closed gate and howled: “Don’t let her get away with this! Beat her to death!”
Concubine Liu quickly comforted him, “Mother knows, I’ll take you to find your father right now and see how he punishes her!”
Inside the Fallen Blossoms Courtyard, Ye Piaoling clapped her hands and settled comfortably into the rocking chair.
Ye Tianbao was a bully in the prime minister’s residence, often bringing the children of several servants to tears with his harassment.
He could be described as utterly deserving of a beating.
And Ye Liao Zhai had failed in raising his son properly. Today, after Ye Tianbao was beaten, Ye Liao Zhai would undoubtedly side with him without a second thought upon finding out and would soon come to settle the score with her…
Ye Piaoling gave a wicked smile.
No matter, let him come!
She had already devised a plan to deal with her so-called father.
…
Before long, an angry roar indeed came from outside.
“You rebellious daughter! How dare you injure your brother? Come out at once and accept your punishment!”
The courtyard gate was pushed open forcefully once again as Prime Minister Ye Liao Zhai stormed in, his face filled with rage.
Ye Liao Zhai pointed his whip at Ye Piaoling and shouted, “Kneel down!”
Ye Piaoling looked him up and down.
Ye Liao Zhai had a fair complexion with a light beard, his appearance could be described as hypocritically dignified.
How did he end up with such a ghostly name?
Seeing her standing still, Ye Liao Zhai barked, “I told you to kneel!”
“I won’t kneel.”
Ye Piaoling rolled her eyes at him.
“Your son is the one who deserves a beating, not me.”