I Lied to You

East Street, Lin Family estate.

The household guards lay sprawled everywhere. Some were still breathing, while others had gone utterly still.

"Heaven truly favors me, Xu Lao San. Never thought I'd come across such a beautiful little bitch here."

The two-meter-tall Xu Lao San wore a particularly lecherous grin as he carried a girl in a yellow dress over his shoulder and headed for the nearest room.

The girl in yellow was none other than the Lin Family's young lady, Lin Yunyun.

A cup of tea ago, Lin Yunyun had gone out with her servants to buy rouge and cosmetics.

Who would have thought Xu Lao San would set his sights on her and follow her all the way home?

The moment Xu Lao San entered the courtyard, he began killing. More than a dozen household guards were no match for him.

After only a few exchanges, some were dead and some were wounded.

Her father and uncle had also been beaten into the pond, their lives and deaths unknown.

Lin Yunyun wept like pear blossoms drenched in rain, her hands and feet constantly striking Xu Lao San.

But with her slender arms and delicate legs, hitting Xu Lao San was no different from scratching an itch.

"Who are you? Why are you killing my family? I'm begging you, please let me go."

Hearing Lin Yunyun's pleas, the lecherous look on Xu Lao San's face grew even more wanton.

"Little bitch, go on and scream. Scream your throat raw, and no one will come save you."

"I'm begging you. My family has lots of money. I'll give you money—will you leave?"

Xu Lao San burst into laughter.

"Money? I, Xu Lao San, don't want money. I only want you."

Xu Lao San kicked the door open, threw Lin Yunyun onto the bed, and impatiently tore off his clothes, exposing his thick black chest hair.

Lin Yunyun clutched the blanket and desperately curled into the corner.

Xu Lao San suddenly became interested and spoke with a teasing expression.

"Little bitch, how about this? I was originally planning to kill all of you after I had my fun."

"If you serve me well, I'll show mercy and spare your lives. How about it?"

Lin Yunyun looked at Xu Lao San through tear-filled eyes, and a deathly stillness rose in her heart.

She instinctively felt that Xu Lao San was lying to her. No matter what she did, he would still ruthlessly kill them in the end.

Lin Yunyun steeled herself, bit her red lips, and hurled herself with all her strength toward the corner of the bed.

But just before she struck it, a palm as large as a cattail fan appeared and seized her by the throat.

Lin Yunyun's eyes filled with despair.

Will someone come save me? If you save me, I'll do anything you want.

Please.

Xu Lao San sneered. "I don't like playing with dead ones."

"Didn't I say that if you served me properly, I'd give you a way to live? Why don't you believe me?"

Suddenly, a voice sounded behind him.

"Believing your bullshit would be worse than believing a dog."

Xu Lao San was startled. He casually tossed Lin Yunyun aside, then struck backward with a palm filled with Internal Energy.

But a fist wrapped in Overbearing Internal Energy came smashing in from behind at an even faster speed.

The next moment, Xu Lao San let out a shrill scream as his entire palm was beaten into a twisted wreck.

Xu Lao San staggered back several steps, his eyes filled with terror, like a young wife who had just been violated.

After a single clash, he understood that he was absolutely no match for Shen Qing.

"Who the hell are you?"

Shen Qing stepped with Carefree Steps, rapidly closing the distance. Then his fist erupted with a violent blast of air and slammed into Xu Lao San's abdomen.

Xu Lao San's eyes bulged out, his tongue desperately sticking out as he felt like even his stomach acid had been beaten out of him.

"What? Did your little head control your big head so completely that your eyes grew in your crotch too?"

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Shen Qing grabbed Xu Lao San by the head, lifted him up, and smashed him onto a nearby rosewood table three times in a row.

"Don't recognize my face? You don't even recognize the clothes I'm wearing?"

A glimmer of light appeared in Lin Yunyun's reddened eyes.

A peerless hero had really come to save her.

Xu Lao San had been smashed senseless. "You're... one of the Imperial Guards."

"Correct answer, but unfortunately, there's no prize!"

Shen Qing glanced back at Lin Yunyun and spoke in a tone that allowed no doubt.

"You go outside. What comes next isn't suitable for children."

Lin Yunyun froze for a moment, but quickly realized he was speaking to her. She nodded.

She staggered toward the door step by step, so frightened that she had no strength left.

Only after Lin Yunyun had gone outside did Shen Qing smile at Xu Lao San.

"Come, let me ask you something. You did what happened to the He Family in Mudwater Alley, didn't you?"

Xu Lao San said nothing.

"Not talking? Didn't hear me? Then it looks like those ears are just decorations."

"Since they're decorations—"

"Then you don't need them!"

Shen Qing grabbed one of Xu Lao San's ears, twisted it three hundred and sixty degrees with force, then gave it a hard yank. A sound of flesh tearing rang out as Xu Lao San's ear was cleanly ripped off.

"Aaaah!" Xu Lao San screamed like a madman.

Shen Qing grabbed Xu Lao San's other ear. "If you don't talk, this one's gone too."

A two-meter-tall man like Xu Lao San actually began crying outright, shouting loudly.

"I'll talk, I'll talk! I did it! I did it! I'm guilty! I'm guilty!"

"I saw that girl yesterday and was overcome by lust! Who knew her father wouldn't know what was good for him? In a fit of rage, I killed them all."

"I know I was wrong! I know I was wrong!"

"Please spare me!"

Shen Qing nodded in satisfaction.

"Don't rush. One more question. Since you call yourself Xu Lao San, does that mean there's an eldest and a second brother above you?"

Looking at Shen Qing's smile so close at hand, Xu Lao San looked as though he had seen a ghost.

But in the next moment, the sound of flesh tearing rang out. Blood sprayed everywhere as Shen Qing tore off Xu Lao San's other ear as well.

Xu Lao San's wails echoed through the three streets around them.

"I already confessed! Why did you still—"

"I lied to you. Even if you confessed, I'd still tear it off."

Shen Qing gave a disdainful smile.

Since he had already provoked the Imperial Guards, he had to be prepared not to leave behind a whole corpse.

If he had not even made that preparation, then why provoke the Imperial Guards? Was he courting death?

Xu Lao San roared like a madman.

"Imperial Guards? I should have known. You're nothing but the court's hawks and hounds."

"My eldest and second brothers won't let you go! Imperial Guards are still human! At worst, I'll blow myself up with you!"

"I'll tell you this right now—my eldest brother is Xu Long, and he's on Ox Horn Mountain. Do you have the guts to go find them?"

"Either one of them has a cultivation higher than mine. Do you dare go?"

"They definitely won't let you go! You sleep, don't you? You rest, don't you?"

Shen Qing smiled and punched Xu Lao San in the mouth, knocking it crooked.

He had originally planned to have someone else go take a look, then simply capture them and bring them back.

Now, though, it seemed very necessary for him to make the trip himself.

An eye for an eye?

Then I really had to see just how much of an eye-for-an-eye man he was.