Everything Is Under Control

Snake Manor.

Everyone watched as Snake Princess, tears in her eyes, carried the blood-soaked Taishi Ming into the manor.

The two guards were stunned.

"What happened to the young miss and her husband?"

As though she had not heard them, Snake Princess walked straight past them and continued deeper into the manor.

Seeing their young miss looking utterly distraught and her husband's life hanging in the balance, the guards panicked. "What happened?!"

One of them said, "You follow the young miss. I'll report to Elder Snake. Keep a close watch on them—we can't let anything else happen!"

With that, he dashed away.

Before long, Elder Snake and Aunt Xu rushed out.

The moment they saw the state Snake Princess and Taishi Ming were in, they exploded.

Elder Snake roared, "Who did this?! I'll kill him!"

Aunt Xu was also radiating killing intent.

However, Snake Princess still acted as though she had seen nothing, heading directly toward the room she shared with Taishi Ming.

After entering, she immediately shut the door.

This, this, this!!!

Elder Snake was frantic!

They had not even figured out what had happened yet!

Aunt Xu immediately said, "Let her calm down first. Taishi Ming's accident has dealt her too great a blow. You know how deep their feelings have grown these past days!"

"No, I must get to the bottom of this. I personally sent Taishi Ming safely to Changlin Academy, yet he came back as a cold corpse. They must give me an explanation."

"Otherwise, I'll tear Chang Feng Academy apart!"

At that moment, Dai Zhirou, Bai Jingjing, Hanyu, and Lüping, who had followed from a distance, entered as well.

They then gave Elder Snake and Aunt Xu a detailed account of everything that had happened.

After hearing it all, Elder Snake flew into a rage. "What does Zhu Pingshui's death have to do with our Taishi Ming? They actually dared to go to the academy and seize someone—who gave them the nerve? Don't forget, this is Barak, not the Star Luo Empire."

"It must have been that bunch!"

"Let's go. Today, I'll make them understand that Taishi Ming is a member of Snake Manor. No matter who harmed him, they will have to pay the price."

After saying that, no matter how Dai Zhirou and the other three tried to stop him, they could not hold him back. He rushed out of Snake Manor.

It was obvious that he intended to cause a huge disturbance at the Star Luo Embassy.

The next day, the entire royal city was shaken.

Because one major incident after another had occurred the previous night.

First, Zhu Pingshui of the Star Luo Empire's Zhu Family had been poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances.

Then, Snake Manor's son-in-law had been ambushed and attacked within Chang Feng Academy.

Finally, Elder Snake of Snake Manor had stormed the Star Luo Embassy and beaten nearly everyone inside.

The once-grand embassy had become ruins overnight.

At once, the gossiping instincts of everyone in the city were stirred.

"Have you heard? Apparently, Zhu Pingshui was there because of Dai Zhirou, Snake Princess's friend!"

"I heard that. They say Dai Zhirou is even a princess of the Star Luo Empire! Her status is extremely noble!"

"Then do you know that when Zhu Pingshui arrived, he saw Snake Manor's son-in-law pulling and tugging with that princess in the street?"

"You've got it wrong! What does Snake Manor's son-in-law pulling and tugging with the princess have to do with him?"

"Haha, then you don't know, do you? Zhu Pingshui and the Star Luo princess were engaged! What man wouldn't be furious upon seeing his own woman pulling and tugging with someone else? So he directly confronted Taishi Ming."

"I reckon he angered Taishi Ming over this matter, which was why he was killed."

"No way! I heard Taishi Ming was only seven or eight years old. Could he really kill someone? If you ask me, someone must have framed him. Didn't you see that he was killed too?"

Overnight, the matter spread like wildfire.

Anyone with half a brain understood that someone was fanning the flames behind the scenes. Although no one knew what that person's true purpose was.

At this moment, inside Snake Manor!

Within Snake Princess and Taishi Ming's room.

Snake Princess was chatting and laughing with a girl around ten years old.

Elder Snake, meanwhile, wore a helpless expression.

"Tell me, that brat Taishi Ming is far too reckless. Are people from the Star Luo Zhu Family someone you can just kill whenever you please? Now look at this—we can't even go home!"

Snake Princess smiled faintly. "This is not his fault. I bear responsibility too. Before he acted, I had already noticed it, yet I did not stop him!"

Elder Snake: "How could you be so foolish?!"

Snake Princess: "Dai Zhirou is my best friend. I couldn't just watch her jump into a pit of fire!"

Elder Snake: "Taishi Ming can only live in hiding now. Are you satisfied?"

Snake Princess's face fell, and she sank into silence.

Aunt Xu sighed. "We have to thank the Second Prince this time. Otherwise, things would have been troublesome."

At that, Snake Princess said to the girl in front of her, "Thank you as well. If not for your Disguise Soul Skill and you pretending to be Taishi Ming's corpse, we couldn't have fooled everyone at the scene."

It turned out that the girl Snake Princess had carried home was this very girl.

The girl said, "I merely followed His Highness the Second Prince's orders, so there's no need to thank me! Oh, right. I have to say, your performance yesterday was incredibly convincing. If I hadn't known everything beforehand, I'm afraid you would have fooled me too."

Snake Princess trembled at those words.

Without realizing it, she had already grown accustomed to having that cheeky, shameless little brat Taishi Ming by her side.

She had grown accustomed to the two of them warming each other's beds.

But after this incident, let alone being together, whether they could even see each other often in the near future was now a question.

Once she thought of that, yesterday's performance had not been difficult at all.

Because she had truly been heartbroken!

Second Prince's Mansion.

The Second Prince looked helplessly at Taishi Ming, who was stuffing himself with food and drink before him.

It was as though he had not been affected by last night in the slightest.

"You can't be so impulsive again in the future. If I hadn't arranged for An Yi to come ahead of time, I'm afraid you would have been doomed this time."

Taishi Ming thought to himself:

It would've been the same even if you hadn't come! If you hadn't sent someone to fake my death, I had already arranged something myself. After all, as I spent more and more time with Snake Princess, I simply couldn't let her go anymore.

But don't forget, someone else arranged for me to come here!

As long as I remained alive, I was a threat to Snake Manor!

To end all of this, death was the only answer! That way, I could deceive that mysterious Tiger Mask!

Then, after a few years, once I had grown up and my build and appearance had changed drastically, I could return to Snake Princess's side once more. At that time, we could finally be together openly.

Of course, killing Zhu Pingshui had also been for Dai Zhirou's sake. Otherwise, I would have waited a while longer before carrying out this plan.

Although this was much earlier than I had originally planned, it still killed two birds with one stone.

That was right—this had been his plan all along: shift everyone's attention to Zhu Pingshui's death, giving his own death a plausible cause!

Only then could his death deceive everyone and allow him to slip away like a cicada shedding its shell.

The only unexpected part was that the Second Prince had interfered.

Still, the outcome was just as he had expected! He was satisfied with the result.

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