Dai Mubai and Tang San returned from Star Luo Lake to the Imperial Capital Grand Hotel with bruised faces and swollen noses.
Passersby kept glancing at them along the way. Tang San and Dai Mubai kept their heads down, hiding their faces behind their sleeves, too ashamed to face anyone.
Only when they reached the Fountain Pool outside the Imperial Capital Grand Hotel did Tang San lower his sleeve and snort. "How despicable. So young, yet already so vicious. How dare she humiliate me like that?"
Dai Mubai clamped a hand over Tang San's troublemaking mouth. "Keep your voice down. We're lucky she only had us beaten instead of killed. She's a princess-a princess of a powerful nation like the Divine Realm Empire, at that. We can't afford to offend her."
"Slavish to the bone!"
Tang San grumbled inwardly, exasperated that iron could not be forged into steel.
If Dai Mubai hadn't gone over to flirt with her, none of this would have happened, and he wouldn't have been dragged into the beating.
"What do you mean, slavish to the bone?" Dai Mubai bristled at those words. "Would you rather acknowledge neither sovereign nor father?"
Tang San didn't argue with Dai Mubai. Instead, he thought bitterly, That Dai Yun'er has also given me grounds to kill her. A princess, indeed-what a spoiled tyrant!
However, Tang San did not voice these treasonous thoughts.
In his previous life, Tang San had belonged to the martial world and had never left the Tang Sect, so he held no reverence for the imperial court.
Moreover, the stories that had shaped his education were tales of people who "would not bend their backs for five pecks of rice." As a result, he believed defying the imperial court was actually a mark of great integrity.
Thus,