"Tang Yuehua, your father has already sold you to me. It's all written here in black and white." Qian Xunji took out a ledger and opened it.
Tang Yuehua had excellent eyesight. Even from a foot away, she could clearly read the terms of the deal in the ledger.
She couldn't believe it was true. For the sake of a mere hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, her father and second brother had sold her.
What was even more ridiculous was that when she'd been knocked unconscious, she'd still been thinking about making whoever had done it pay.
Little did she know that the person who'd knocked her out had been sent by her father.
Even now, Tang Yuehua didn't know that the person who'd knocked her out hadn't been sent by Tang Wei. It had been Tang Wei himself.
If Tang Yuehua found out, who knew what she would think?
Confronted with the ledger, Tang Yuehua lost her reason in a fit of desperation and reached for it.
As long as she destroyed the ledger, the terms of the deal would no longer exist. Under her righteous scolding and threats, Qian Xunji would surely let her return to the Clear Sky Sect.
But how could she hide such a little trick from Qian Xunji? He didn't give her the chance to touch the ledger.
Qian Xunji clicked his tongue in amazement. "Tang Yuehua, just like your father, Tang Wei, you always manage to come up with these laughable displays of 'wisdom.'"
"Looks like you still don't understand your place!"
"Seems I'll have to teach you a lesson!" Qian Xunji dragged Tang Yuehua into the Underground Palace beneath the Pope Palace.
Underground Palace.
Qian Xunji opened Suite No. 3 and shoved Tang Yuehua inside.
He used considerable force, and Tang Yuehua stumbled and fell to the floor.
Taking advantage of the moment, Qian Xunji locked the door from the outside.
Tang Yuehua backed away in terror, asking a question she already knew the answer to. "Qian Xunji, what are you going to do? You can't just do whatever you want, or my father and two brothers will never let you get away with it."
"They're only yielding to you for now."
"As long as you leave my virtue intact, I can explain things to them later and persuade my father and brothers to spare you."
"What am I going to do?"
"Tang Yuehua, don't you already know the answer?"
"As for your father and brothers, don't worry. That day will never come. They're only fit to lie beneath my feet."
"Tang Yuehua, I'll give you two choices. Either you go to the bed on your own and do as I say."
"Or I'll send you to a brothel in Heaven Dou City. I'm sure the young masters there would be very interested in you and willing to pay for your services."
At the thought of herself ending up in a brothel, Tang Yuehua's face went deathly pale.
She stammered, "Qian Xunji, you—you're a villain, a devil!"
"Tang Yuehua, you're right. I am a villain. Don't worry, before I send you to a brothel, I'll make sure you know just how formidable I am."
"Now I'll count to ten."
"If you haven't given me an answer by then, you won't have to choose. I'll take it that you want to go to the brothel."
"Get ready, Tang Yuehua."
"One."
"Two."
"Three."
Tang Yuehua was torn inside.
"Four."
"Five."
"Six."
Tang Yuehua's inner turmoil intensified.
"Seven."
"Tang Yuehua, I never would've guessed you liked brothels so much!"
"Such a demure exterior, such a wanton heart. Tsk, how fascinating."
"Eight."
At the word "eight," Tang Yuehua gritted her teeth and climbed onto the bed.
She really didn't want to go to a brothel.
If she ended up there, then even if Qian Xunji died one day, she would never be able to return to the Clear Sky Sect.
"Hah, Tang Yuehua, I thought you wanted to go to a brothel," Qian Xunji sneered contemptuously.
Tang Yuehua felt terribly humiliated, yet she had no way to argue back.
But Qian Xunji gave her no time to think. He continued, "Tang Yuehua, now let me see what makes you, the Clear Sky Sect's eldest young lady, different from other women."
"I want to admire not only your outer beauty, but your inner beauty too."
"So, Tang Yuehua, get moving."
Tang Yuehua froze, torn inside. In the end, things had come to this.
She understood what Qian Xunji meant.
Seeing that Tang Yuehua remained motionless, Qian Xunji frowned. "Tang Yuehua, what are you standing there for? Do you really want me to send you to a brothel?"
Tang Yuehua sighed inwardly, loosened her clothes, and revealed her alluring figure.
"Not bad, Tang Yuehua. You've got quite a figure. Looks like you've been paying a lot of attention to developing it."
"Hard to cover it with just one hand!" Qian Xunji came over to Tang Yuehua and grabbed her, squeezing again and again.
Then he lay down and ordered, "Tang Yuehua, what are you standing there for?"
"Did you learn nothing from the etiquette of the Heaven Dou Empire's court?"
Tang Yuehua's face changed once more. At last, she accepted reality and, with a quiet sigh, submitted.
On Douluo Continent, twenty miles from Spirit City.
"Hao'er, Hao'er, what's wrong? Wake up! Your father can't lose you!" Tang Wei wept bitterly.
The Titan Giant Ape had escaped.
Tang Hao was gravely injured and unconscious.
Tang Wei had never hated anyone as much as he did now.
It had to be Qian Xunji's doing.
Damn Qian Xunji! He'd already handed over Tang Yuehua, yet Qian Xunji still wouldn't leave him in peace.
He'd lost both his daughter and his men!
"Qian Xunji! I, Tang Wei, and the Clear Sky Sect will never let this go! Just you wait. If I ever get the chance, I'll cut you into a thousand pieces!" Tang Wei roared at the sky and swore his revenge.
"Cough, cough... Father, stop shaking me. If you keep it up, I really will die," Tang Hao said weakly.
Hao'er!
Tang Wei immediately looked down at him, overjoyed. "That's wonderful, Hao'er! As long as you're all right, that's all that matters."
"I'll make sure you recover."
Seeing this, Tang Feng advised, "Sect Master, our top priority is to stabilize the young master's condition!"
"The Qian Family's Martial Soul can heal injuries too. Why don't we take the young master to see Qian Daoliu?"
"We should head straight into Spirit City and go directly to the Worship Hall to see Qian Daoliu."
"We can't let Qian Daoliu keep hiding like a coward. Let's charge into Spirit City and find him, and while we're at it, ask him to give us justice."
"Qian Xunji has made fools of us."
"And now that the young lady has just been taken away by Qian Xunji, he must be with her."
"He won't have the time to concern himself with us."
"Sect Master, this is our best chance. We mustn't let it slip by. We've paid such a steep price—we can't walk away empty-handed!"
Tang Wei didn't have time to think it over. Tang Feng's words made so much sense that he immediately agreed. "Tang Feng, you're absolutely right. While Qian Xunji is occupied, we'll go into the city and find Qian Daoliu."
"Qian Xunji must have used some kind of trick in Spirit City. Otherwise, Qian Daoliu would have heard me shouting."
"Qian Daoliu is an upright man. If he heard me, he wouldn't stand by and do nothing. He'd never cover for Qian Xunji."
"Let's go." Tang Wei made his decision at once, picked up Tang Hao, and raced toward Spirit City.
Spirit City, Pope Palace.
Underground Palace.
Qian Xunji muttered to himself, "Why did Tang Wei come back again?"
"Tang Hao is badly hurt!"
"That doesn't make sense. Even if the Titan Giant Ape had fully recovered, it should've been nearly impossible for it to injure Tang Hao this badly!"
"Looks like something's fishy."
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