Su Yue looked at her master, He Zhou, who had already been beaten until his flesh was mangled and bloody beside her. She could no longer care about anything else. Clutching the wooden bars tightly, she pleaded through a face covered in tears:
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! I was framed! Someone drugged me. I truly did not betray you!"
"Your Majesty, it must have been Prince Jing. It must have been him who harmed me. He's targeting you, Your Majesty! Please think carefully, Your Majesty!"
Ye Beiyao kicked the cell door open. With a bloodstained roar, his whip lashed out, sending her sprawling to the ground with a scream.
"You still dare claim you didn't betray me?"
"Did Ye Jinghua force you to leave the palace in the middle of the night? Did Ye Jinghua force you to stay out all night?"
"You shameless harlot had already been carrying on with that damned savage, He Zhou!"
Ye Beiyao's eyes had gone red with fury. He lashed out again and again, whipping Su Yue until she shrieked and leaped aside to dodge.
"I had already investigated. He Zhou and you were old lovers. You two had been carrying on twenty years ago.
"You shameless harlot! You actually dared to cuckold me! I'll make you wish you were dead! Wish you were dead!!!"
Overwhelmed by immense humiliation, Ye Beiyao wished he could tear the adulterous pair limb from limb.
"Someone come! Sever the tendons and meridians in all four of her limbs, and pull out her tongue."
His cold, sinister gaze fell on her beautiful face, and he found it unbearably irritating.
"Slash up her face too. Every time I see this face, I feel like vomiting."
Upon hearing this, Su Yue was so frightened that she nearly fainted.
She screamed, covered