Yun Manman couldn't help frowning. How could this bastard be so utterly devoid of conscience?
There were about eight women in the center of the courtyard, wearing nothing but thin dudou.
Their jade-like backs bore fresh wounds and red lash marks, and some even had brands burned into them.
Every woman's eyes were filled with terror. Their bodies shook like sieves, yet all they could do was kneel numbly and beg for mercy.
This only excited Master Wang further. He slowly tipped the wine in his cup onto their wounds.
Listening to their shrill screams and pleas, he closed his murky, lustful eyes, his face full of apparent enjoyment.
Yun Manman clenched her fists, frost creeping into her pale violet eyes.
Scum like him must not be allowed an easy death. He had to taste the bitter fruit of his own deeds!
Yun Manman surveyed the courtyard.
Finally, she spotted a young woman strung up by the entrance. A light dusting of powder covered her delicate face, her moth-wing brows lightly drawn. Her autumn-water eyes were filled with terror, and blood was still slowly running down her forehead.
Yun Manman had thought she had been fast enough.
She hadn't expected this bastard to be so impatient that he had already laid hands on the young woman.
It seemed the young woman had tried to kill herself to preserve her chastity, and she had probably been strung up here as punishment.
Yun Manman glanced at the sky. It was gradually growing dark.
"Guagua, if I feed him that pill from last time directly, can its effects keep going? I want this bastard to stay conscious while he suffers."
"Master, you may be able to stand this, but I, Guagua, can't! I have an even more powerful pill here, tailor-made for scum like him."
Yun Manman withdrew her gaze and flashed into her space. She picked up a Returning Lotus Fruit and began eating. Her killing intent was a little too strong right now; she needed some fruit to quell her anger!
"What does it do? That bastard absolutely cannot die. Death would be too easy for him. I want him to suffer every torment before he dies!"
"Don't worry, Master!
"Once he takes this pill, its effects will kick in after half an hour, and his body will experience a kind of hallucination.
"Only being beaten constantly will relieve it. The moment the beating stops, it'll hurt like his bones are being pulled apart. And he'll be fully aware of everything, but powerless to stop it."
Yun Manman nodded in satisfaction. "You're getting better and better. But I have other gifts for him too!"
Guagua twisted into a ball and floated overhead. "Master, our points have already hit rock bottom. What are we going to do?"
Yun Manman rubbed her chin and sank into thought. After a while, her eyes lit up.
"Come on. I'll take you to gather more resentment and fill this empty space while we're at it."
With that, Yun Manman flashed out of her space.
The sky had already darkened, but the man in the courtyard was still thoroughly enjoying himself. Presumably, the women's lives weren't in danger for the moment.
Yun Manman turned toward the enormous residence, the corners of her mouth slowly lifting.
If she had no points, she would earn them herself!
Surely, when the people in this residence woke up tomorrow, every last one of them would want to kill her?
Yun Manman looked at her white clothes, then flashed into her space to change into a fitted black outfit. Putting on the standard face mask, she flew toward the front courtyard.
Under cover of darkness, she blended into the night.
The lamps in the front courtyard had already been lit.
Yun Manman swept her gaze around and spotted a young male servant guarding one room's entrance. Since she was going to sweep through every room anyway, she couldn't be bothered to figure out what this one was.
A silver needle flashed into her hand and shot toward the doorway.
A thud followed, and the servant dropped stiffly into a sitting position on the ground.
Yun Manman stepped forward, pulled out the silver needle, and quickly pushed open the door and entered.
Inside was a classically furnished study filled with rare treasures. Yun Manman looked at the books crammed onto the shelves.
That bastard actually read?
She walked closer and scanned them. Several were books the shopkeeper in town had recommended last time.
She hadn't had the silver to buy them then. Now they had fallen into her lap without the slightest effort.
Yun Manman examined the books, including those on the desk. There was no sign they had ever been opened. Presumably, he had only bought them to put on display and show off.
She collected all the books.
Yet one book remained standing alone on the shelf. Yun Manman tried collecting it again. It didn't move?
An idea flashed through her mind. Could this be the switch to a secret room?
Immediately invigorated, Yun Manman stepped forward, gripped the book, and gently turned it. Nothing happened.
Then she pressed it straight down. Still nothing happened.
Finally, Yun Manman pulled it straight up.
The bookshelf immediately responded, slowly splitting in two to reveal a small room in the middle.
She was just about to ask Guagua to exchange points for a flashlight when she remembered that they had no points left.
She could only turn around, light the oil lamp on the table, and carry it into the secret room. It was stuffy and hot inside, not chilly as the stories described.
The secret room was so shallow that she could see all the way to the back at a glance. Yun Manman scanned it. Hmm?
Why wasn't there even a single silver ingot?
There were only two boxes on the table. One contained three paintings.
The other was filled with letters. The writing in some of them clearly wasn't from the Southern Mo Kingdom, and Yun Manman couldn't read it.
Others were written in the Southern Mo Kingdom's script and mentioned such things as their master's orders and the poison afflicting the North-Guarding Prince.
Yun Manman tossed the things back in. They were completely useless to her!
After tossing them down, she was about to leave when her steps faltered.
These things were useless to her, but if that bastard had hidden them in his study's secret room, they must be important.
Perhaps taking them would make him resent her even more?
So Yun Manman swept up everything in the secret room. Just as she was about to turn around, a sheet of paper fluttered down.
Yun Manman caught the paper between her fingers and looked up.
It turned out that when she had collected the boxes, the paper underneath them had fallen out.
Yun Manman unfolded the paper. It was actually a map?
Hmm?
Why was it a map of this residence?
She had observed the layout of the residence from the roof earlier. It looked exactly like this.
Yun Manman's eyes lit up.
Sure enough, after harvesting her like a chive so many times, Heaven had grown embarrassed and deliberately let a little water through to give her a watering, lest she be cut completely bare...
Yun Manman quickly committed the map to memory.
Leaving the secret room, she collected the large rosewood desk, the bookshelf, and the chairs into her space.
Her younger brothers should get to use such beautiful things.
The study was in the front courtyard.
Right beside it was that bastard's own bedchamber. Yun Manman entered and looked at the antique vases and rare treasures inside, once again cursing how much that bastard loved showing off.
She cursed as she collected everything with all her might.
Looking at the room, now bare except for the bed and some old clothes, Yun Manman felt rather disgusted. She certainly didn't want to touch those clothes.
But if she didn't want to touch the bed, why not destroy it?
At that thought, a blade appeared in Yun Manman's hand. Gripping it tightly, she delivered two chopping blows to the middle of the bed.
An almost-severed X appeared in the wooden bed. The slightest weight of someone sitting on it would make it collapse.
Yun Manman put away her blade and was about to leave when she saw the split sections in the middle of the bed part neatly, revealing darkness below.
Her eyes narrowed. She walked straight over and gave the bed a gentle push, sending a heap of scrap wood tumbling down together.