"Milord!"
"Milord!"
"Ma-ma!"
Shen Tang faintly heard someone calling for her and instinctively turned toward the voices, patting her ears. With her physical constitution and five senses, everyone's voices should have been crystal clear. The fact that they sounded muffled could only mean something was wrong with her ears.
Patting them had been a mistake.
She let out another yelp as dust and grit shook loose, her outer ears throbbing with pain.
Shen Tang hurriedly covered both ears, cursing inwardly at the Good Thought and Evil Thought for acting like they weren't human. This was a body the three of them had shared, yet they hadn't known to go easy! In no time, everyone had arrived one after another. Gu Chi had been preparing to show some "gentle consideration," but the moment he got a clear look at his lord's appearance, every line he had rehearsed jammed in his throat. He couldn't hold it in.
"Pfft—"
Shen Tang cut him a sidelong glance. "What are you laughing at?"
The four brief words came out thickly nasal, with air leaking through as she spoke.
Xun Zhen shot Gu Chi a look, signaling him not to court death at a time like this. Shen Tang noticed their strange expressions and covered her battered, swollen head. "What are you laughing at?"
Once she got riled up, she would settle accounts with every one of them later!
Gu Chi hid the upward curl of his lips behind his sleeve and said with a light cough, "I wasn't laughing. It's just rare to see Milord looking so bedraggled. Other than the external injuries, is there anywhere else that hurts?"
Though she had no mirror, Shen Tang knew from touch alone that her handsome face had swollen into a pig's head. She couldn't possibly show herself