Su Clan Enforcement Hall

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Blood sprayed out, splattering across Su Yuexi's face.

With a thud, Su Yuexi released the dagger and sank to the ground. Beneath her veil, her face had gone deathly pale.

The shrew's eyes were wide open. She was already dead.

Sikong Jing walked over slowly. A scene this small naturally couldn't faze him, but he had seen countless new recruits kill for the first time. It took courage...

So he asked with concern, "Su Yuexi, are you all right?"

Rising to her feet with her whole body trembling violently, Su Yuexi faced Sikong Jing and swallowed. "I-I'm fine..."

"Now that Aunt Dou is dead, there's no evidence. When we get to the Su Clan Enforcement Hall, don't do what you just did again. Don't admit you chopped off Aunt Dou's hands and feet, and definitely don't admit you killed her."

"I did all of it, understand?"

Su Yuexi looked at Sikong Jing with a solemn expression and a firm gaze.

Sikong Jing's eyes widened. He stammered, "You killed that shrew to silence her for my sake?"

He had thought Su Yuexi had killed her because she hated the shrew for humiliating her earlier. He hadn't expected it was for him—to keep him from being punished by the Su Clan Enforcement Hall.

"Mm." Su Yuexi nodded.

"Why?"

Sikong Jing had seen far too many people kill for the first time. It took not only courage, but tremendous resolve.

Yet Su Yuexi had done it for him.

Su Yuexi lifted her eyes and said earnestly, "Because you're my husband, and because I'm a daughter of the Su Clan."

"No matter how serious a mistake I make, they won't take my life. But you're different. You're a convicted criminal who was exiled. Everyone in the Su Clan wants you dead as soon as possible."

Sikong Jing asked, "Even if they don't take your life, they'll still punish you severely."

The Su Clan had heartlessly made her live in a place like this, foul with stench. They had even let the household servants beat and curse her.

How could Su Yuexi possibly get off lightly after killing someone?

Beneath her veil, Su Yuexi smiled with childlike innocence. "That's still better than you dying."

After speaking, Su Yuexi suddenly seemed to remember something. She took Sikong Jing by the hand and said, "Come with me first..."

Without waiting for his answer, she pulled him toward the back of the thatched hut.

Behind it lay the Su Clan's Pig Farm, and beyond that was a small forest.

After jogging around the Pig Farm, Su Yuexi led Sikong Jing into a secluded cave in the woods. Only then did she catch her breath and say, "Hide here for now. Don't come out, understand? Wait for me to come back."

Sikong Jing was stunned again. "Why?"

"I'm afraid the people from the Law Enforcement Hall will take this opportunity to beat you first. Just don't come out, no matter what." As Su Yuexi spoke, angry shouts rang out in the distance, from the direction of the thatched hut. Su Yun had arrived with people from the Law Enforcement Hall.

"I have to go now, or they'll come looking for you. Remember, stay hidden."

With that, Su Yuexi jogged back, disappearing from Sikong Jing's hollow gaze.

Only after he could no longer see Su Yuexi did Sikong Jing slowly look away. The seven-foot-tall man, once the Invincible Divine General, now had red-rimmed eyes and trembling lips.

If the Ninth Princess, Yan Ruyu, represented the extreme of cold-heartedness, then Su Yuexi was the warmest sunlight in the world.

"For nineteen years, this is the first time I, Sikong Jing, have felt truly alive." Sikong Jing drew a deep breath and gazed toward the thatched hut. "But how could I let my wife suffer for my sake?"

His words rang with unshakable conviction!

Then he strode after Su Yuexi, step by step, as the true qi of the Emperor-Slaying Prison-Breaking Art coursed through his body!

The Su Clan Enforcement Hall was grim and forbidding.

As one of Yunye City's four great clans, the Su Clan had several thousand members. The Enforcement Hall was where they questioned and punished their own, and everyone in the clan feared it.

At the very front of the hall sat a middle-aged man: Su Yuexi's second uncle, Su Zhengtao.

His current position in the Su Clan was none other than Hall Master of the Enforcement Hall!

Standing beside Su Zhengtao was his most beloved daughter, Su Yun.

When the Enforcement Hall's people brought Su Yuexi in, Su Yun immediately snapped, "Su Yuexi, where's that sickly criminal husband of yours who dared to run his mouth?"

"He had another attack, so I took him to get treatment," Su Yuexi replied quietly.

"Treatment? How could you afford to take him for treatment? I think he ran away, didn't he?"

There was no way Su Yun would believe her. When Su Yuexi had been thrown into the Pig Farm five days earlier, all her money had been confiscated. Her parents had also been ordered by her grandfather, the Su Clan patriarch, not to help her anymore.

Su Yuexi had neither money nor anyone who could take that sickly man for treatment.

But she stubbornly replied, "I took him to get treatment."

"Good, good, good. You dare talk back to me, do you? I don't care whether you took him for treatment or he ran away. He's dead either way. Anyone who dares lay a hand on my people won't get off lightly... Father, send someone to capture him right now."

At the end, Su Yun turned to her father, Su Zhengtao.

Su Zhengtao didn't hesitate. "Guards! Bring that criminal back. If he resists, cut him down on the spot."

Su Yuexi's heart trembled. She prayed that if Sikong Jing was found, he wouldn't fight back.

Just then, Su Zhengtao looked back toward the center of the hall and barked, "Su Yuexi, kneel!"

With a thud, Su Yuexi knelt.

"You chopped off Aunt Dou's hands and feet, then killed her too, didn't you?" Su Zhengtao interrogated her coldly.

Su Yuexi nodded. "Yes. I did all of it."

She had made up her mind to take all the blame.