"Lin Ye! Kill me! Kill me if you've got the guts!"
He roared, his voice distorted by overwhelming humiliation.
"The Dai Family has no cowards! We'd rather die than submit!"
Zhu Zhuyun had also been forced to her knees beside him.
Hearing Dai Weisi's roar, she glanced at Lin Ye in terror, then quickly lowered her head, trembling even harder.
Lin Ye's gaze was as still as an ancient well.
He looked down at Dai Weisi from above, as though watching a trapped beast roar.
His voice was calm, yet carried an unquestionable verdict:
"Kill you?"
"That would be letting you off too easily, Dai Weisi."
Lin Ye's gaze swept over him, then settled on Zhu Zhuyun before finally turning to the trembling members of the Zhu Family behind her.
"You, and these people from the Zhu Family..."
"Someone else will decide whether you live or die."
Dai Weisi froze, then even deeper humiliation and fury erupted in his eyes.
"Zhu Zhuqing?!!"
He instantly understood what Lin Ye meant.
He and his crown princess... no, they were nothing more than prisoners now.
The fate of him, Zhu Zhuyun, and the entire Zhu Family would be handed over to the younger sister he had once treated as a bargaining chip, whose life he had arranged however he pleased?!
That cut into his heart ten thousand times deeper than simply killing him!
"You-"
Lin Ye no longer looked at Dai Weisi's expression, which seemed ready to devour someone alive.
An icy command left his lips.
"Take them away."
"Bring them back to Heaven Dou City."
"Keep them under strict guard."
"Until Zhu Zhuqing returns from Sea God Island, no one is to visit them, and no one... is to take their lives lightly."
The soldiers answered in unison, roughly hauling up Dai