This Is My Home

The courtyard was deathly quiet. Everyone was stricken with terror!

A cold glint flashed in Sikong Jing's eyes as he looked at the dozens of servants around him, all paralyzed with fear. His voice turned icy. "My family doesn't owe you any wages, yet you tried to rob us. So none of you will be getting funeral expenses."

"Kill..."

He surged forward, and screams rang out one after another.

When Sikong Jing landed, not a single servant in the courtyard remained alive.

Outside, the servants who had been reluctant to join the robbery fled in terror, running as fast as their legs could carry them.

In their eyes, Sikong Jing had become a bloodthirsty fiend.

Sikong Jing paid them no mind. He only killed those responsible; why would he slaughter the innocent?

His gaze returned to Su Yun.

Su Yun backed away, trembling as she pointed at him. "You criminal! You—you actually killed so many servants!"

Smack!

Sikong Jing flashed forward and slapped Su Yun to the ground. Looking down at her, he said, "I'd dare kill you too, but not yet. I'll wait until your big brother, Su Shan, comes back to die. Then I can kill you."

With that, he kicked her out of the courtyard.

Su Yun writhed on the ground in pain. After a long while, she finally scrambled up and shrieked, "You criminal! You're dead!"

"Su Yuexi, you ugly freak, just you wait!"

"Don't think this criminal is helping you. The City Guard caught him and brought him back. Maybe he saw things going badly and came running back! I'm reporting this to the authorities right now!"

"I'll tell Grandpa and the others, too. You're all dead!"

After unleashing a jumble of threats, Su Yun fled, frightened out of her wits.

Inside the courtyard, only the corpses, Sikong Jing, and Su Yuexi and her mother remained. Only then did the two women finally come to their senses.

Mei Xiaofang recovered first, her lips trembling. "Sikong Jing, how could you kill so many servants?"

She was terrified. He hadn't just killed Aunt Li and the others; he had killed dozens more.

This was going to blow up into a huge scandal. Su Xuefeng couldn't possibly sit back and do nothing now. He would soon bring people over to kill them.

Mei Xiaofang had never imagined Sikong Jing could be so reckless.

"Mother-in-law, you've endured this for far too long. It's gotten to the point where any servant can bully you."

Sikong Jing knew exactly what Mei Xiaofang was worried about. His voice was low, his gaze sharp.

It wasn't just the servants. Even their former friends and others outside could humiliate them.

His father-in-law, Su Zhenglong, was the eldest son of the Su Clan!

Mei Xiaofang shuddered. Thinking of all that had happened recently, her heart sank into bitter despair, but she still shook her head. "Even so, we have to endure it."

Her husband, Su Zhenglong, was gravely ill in bed. If they didn't endure it, they would die—and have nothing to eat.

"I understand. But with me here now, there's no need to keep enduring." Sikong Jing's voice was firm as iron.

Mei Xiaofang's mouth twitched. She wanted to say, what good would having you here do? You're only a fourth-level Bright Realm martial artist.

She didn't know that Sikong Jing had already reached the seventh level of the Bright Realm three days later.

Still, at least Sikong Jing hadn't run away, so she swallowed those harsh words. "Then tell me, what do we do now? You killed so many servants. Su Xuefeng and Su Zhengtao's Law Enforcement Hall will be here soon."

A glint flashed in Sikong Jing's eyes. He was about to explain—

Suddenly, a hoarse voice came from inside the hall. "We'll meet the soldiers with generals and the floods with earth."

The three of them hurriedly looked over. Su Zhenglong had appeared, leaning against the doorframe.

"Master..."

"Father..."

Mei Xiaofang and Su Yuexi called out together and rushed toward him.

Yesterday, they had been scared out of their wits. They had thought they would truly be separated from Su Zhenglong forever.

"I'm fine." Su Zhenglong smiled at the two women. In a low voice, he said, "A-Jing is right. We can't keep enduring this, or even a dog will climb onto our heads and shit on us."

"These vicious servants deserved to die!"

Raising his head, Su Zhenglong looked directly at Sikong Jing as he walked toward him. "A-Jing, we owe you a great deal this time."

Sikong Jing shook his head. "Father-in-law, it was the least I could do."

Then Su Zhenglong's expression turned serious. "Don't worry about what comes next, and don't take action again. I'll make Su Zhengtao and the others realize that as long as Su Zhenglong still breathes, he's still the Heavenly Pride of Yunye City he once was!"

"Cough, cough, cough..."

But as soon as he said this, Su Zhenglong broke into another coughing fit.

"Master, please say less," Mei Xiaofang said ruefully, hurriedly patting his back.

In his condition, it was hard to believe he could do anything at all.

In the end, the once-renowned Heavenly Pride Su Zhenglong couldn't stop coughing. They helped him back to his room to rest.

Sikong Jing didn't follow them inside. Instead, he carried all the bodies out of the courtyard.

When he was finished, he saw Su Yuexi emerge from Su Zhenglong's room alone, standing forlornly at the entrance to the hall.

Her face was stiff as she stared at him.

"Yue Xi, what's wrong? You haven't said a word since I came back." Sikong Jing walked over, puzzled.

Beneath her veil, Su Yuexi bit her lip tightly, still saying nothing.

Sikong Jing had no idea what his wife was thinking. Suddenly, he took a hairpin from his robes and smiled. "Yue Xi, look what I brought back for you."

When Su Yuexi saw the Jadeite Hairpin in Sikong Jing's hand, she couldn't help covering her mouth. Tears poured from her eyes.

"Don't cry. I told you I'd bring the Jadeite Hairpin back." Sikong Jing smiled and wiped away her tears.

But the very next moment... waah!

Su Yuexi suddenly burst into tears and threw herself into Sikong Jing's arms.

"I thought you wouldn't come back after leaving the city."

"I thought I'd never see you again."

"I thought my ugliness had finally scared you away. I was so afraid!"

As Su Yuexi sobbed, Sikong Jing froze. Only then did he realize that she had been afraid he wouldn't return.

She had taken Su Yun's words to heart, but Sikong Jing understood.

Su Yuexi was deeply insecure, and her ugly face made her doubt herself again and again.

Sikong Jing wasn't good at expressing himself either. He simply held Su Yuexi tightly and said, "This is... my home!"

"Ah..."

A sigh came softly from Su Zhenglong's room. It was Mei Xiaofang.

Through the window, she could clearly see her daughter with her criminal son-in-law outside.

She looked toward Su Zhenglong, who was half reclining in bed, and said, "Master, I still suspect this criminal was planning to run away. But just as Su Yun said, either he was caught and brought back, or he saw things going badly and came running back."

Su Zhenglong's eyes flickered at her words, but he said nothing.

He truly couldn't imagine what his ugly daughter could possibly have to offer Sikong Jing, even if he was a criminal himself.

What man didn't want his woman to be beautiful?