Chapter 53: The Punishment II
She follows the head eunuch through the courtyard given to her as a guest without a cloak or coat on. This made her feel that she and Ning Bi Yu are at the same level. Ning Bi Yu did came to meet her without a warm cloak or coat on.
The head eunuch really doesn't see her as a human. He didn't even wait for her to grab a cloak in this cold damned weather while he himself is wrapped up and being cozy in his cloak. The other servants that follow along with wouldn't even dare alter a sound too.
Drizella can only warm herself up by blowing into her hands and rubbing her arms in an attempt to warm herself.
If anyone is wondering why she isn't using spiritual power to warm herself, it's because she doesn't know how to do so...
Even though mana and spiritual power are similar as they flow the same way, however, mana is gathered from the world and spiritual energy is from one's own detain.
Remembering her past experiment with the leaves and branch stick which lead to complete failure... she shivered. She doesn't want to experiment on her body and see it explode to smithereens. Even picturing it gives her more shivers... she's too young to die...
Wait...wait... when she first experienced death she was 20 years old and nine years have passed since then...so, she's already 28 years old on the inside. Thinking about it... her behavior isn't like that of a 28-year-old woman at ALL!!
She was always picking a fight with that stupid Elijah, she cried on her first birthday with her grandparent (Camilla' parents), acted like an arrogant and stupid child in front of everyone. This isn't the mindset of a 28-year-old woman at all. Being around children after her rebirth has really turned her into a child.
Aghhhh! This makes me wanna cry. Where did my 28-year-old self has disappeared to?
"Please enter and change into the clothes inside. After you are done, the two guards will take you to where the punishment is," the head eunuch instructed with impatience and disgust.
Wow! What did Xuehau do to achieve such loathing from the head eunuch? Let's search through Xuehau's memories after entering.
Drizella enters the dim room that was light up with candles. There was a set of black robe without any decorations sitting on the desk waiting for her.
With her hair tie up and her hands moving to undress, inside her mind she was searching for clues about the head eunuch.
...In the end, she found nothing related to the head eunuch. Xuehau had only seen him with Tang LiWei and doesn't even know his name. Xuehau also hasn't done anything so rude to his decease parents or not so close relatives So... where did all those loathing coming from? It can't be that she is just imagining it. No, can't be. The head eunuch's loathing was clear as day, he wasn't even trying to hide it.
Anyhow... Is she tieing the sash on correctly?
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Shen Yuan open his closed eyes while his whole face was burning red as he remembers the situation from before.
From outside the closed wooden door, he can hear voices and footsteps entering the room two doors away from the room he's in.
He slowly walks while holding onto the wall and planning to leave the courtyard when a burst from the door stops him from his track.
From within, a woman with a delicate figure dresses in white stomp her feet as she walks out with her maids in hand. He can clearly see that one of the maids was looking pale like it was the end of her life. This make him wonder what was going on, so he made a detour to that room.
As he approaches the open door, he can clearly hear the conversations inside. The conversations rooted him in his place as it was clearly about him and his punishment. He couldn't believe that Yun Xuehau would be willing to take on his punishment. This Yun Xuehau was different from the one always beating him. She was closer to the one that saved him and Zhang Wu from cultivators in the mortal realm. The Yun Xuehau inside that room didn't want him to hate her and didn't care if he wants revenge.
Shen Yuan didn't have time to sort out the information he got before a group of eunuch went into the room and announce the Emperor's decree. The decree was about the punishment Yun Xuehau and he is going to receive.
When Yun Xuehau walks past him with the group of eunuchs, she directed him a faint smile and ran off, following the eunuchs without a mind to what she is wearing or how cold it is outside.
Even though there are unanswered questions in his mind, he burst into the room where Xiao Lizi and Xiao Mimi stood rooted with drooping eyelids. Their faces were downcast, while Xiao Mimi is trying to hold back her tears while biting her lower lip. Xiao Lizi stroked her on the back as she tightens her hold on the scroll.
Shen Yuan can see their depress look; knowing he shouldn't bother them but his mind was going to explode if he didn't get his answers. He shook Xiao Mimi as he demanded with a hoarse voice, "What is happening? Why is that b*tc... person doing whatever she wants? Did anyone ask her to do any of those things? Why is she trying to act nice now after what I have been through?"
Xiao Mimi pushed his arm aside as she slaps his little cheek with tears dripping down her face.
"What do you know! What do you know about the miss! You know nothing about her own suffering. I don't want to hear any more out of you!" even though tears were making her sight unclear, she still shouted those words out in one single breathe.
Xiao Mimi took a deep breath as she kneels down and cries her heart out as incoherence words murmur from her lip, "Why...why... after she has returned! Why? World's... unfair... suffering again. Miss...miss...I... Sorry. Sorry...Sorry."
Xiao Lizi kneels down, patted the crying Xiao Mimi again, handed her the scroll, and spoke to Shen Yuan, "Come let me tell you a secret."
A small person and a slandered person stood out in the cold of the courtyard. There was only silence in the air accompanied by the smoke from their breathing mixing into the air.
The small person, Shen Yaun, looks at the slandered person, Xiao Lizi, seeing a faint smile and with reluctance in her eyes. She broke the silence with her soft voice, "What you said is correct. She is a person who doesn't know her own faults. Only inflicting pain on others, even those who are close to her. But, Shen Yaun, you know what, the Miss I use to serve isn't like that at all. She was someone who was willing to be hurt in the place of her family. And she considers you a part of her family. Please don't hold her past actions against her."
When he heard those words he felt warm inside. It wasn't the kind of warmth that he felt when he was with Zhang Wu but a different kind. It was a warmth that seems to say that he was needed and not alone. Shen Yuan uttered, "Why?"
He notices that Xiao Lizi change the way she called Yun Xuehau. From young miss to miss. From what he knows, servants only call their master that way when they come of age, have power and authorities, when they married, or not under the guidance of their family. In Yun Xuehau's case, she didn't apply to any of those.
"She has already lost everything. Her loved ones, her family, and own self. All because of that person," toward the word 'that person' anguish can be seen in her voice and face.
What Xiao Lizi can't tell Shen Yuan is that due to giving her love to that person, their miss lost everything. A love that has spanned for a thousand years, to the point of her breaking herself and creating false memories to fill in those voids.
Yet, even with those false memories, the miss is still implemented in the sky tribe, the ruler of the heaven realm's dispute. She just has to fall in love with the crown prince.
Xiao Lizi gazes at Shen Yuan, "Now that I think about it, you resemble the sky tribe so much."
Shen Yuan gulp, knowing that there is hostility in her voice, "It must be because I've spent time with Zhang Wu."
"That girl who was proclaimed as the sky tribe's princess," Xiao Lizi said indifferently.
"Yeah. Please excuse me," Shen Yaun said as he bows to leave.
"I suggest you not follow after the miss and to care about your wounds. Even though the miss uses a bit of spiritual power and medicine, your wound isn't healed yet," Xiao Lizi called out.
Shen Yuan felt that Xiao Lizi is more strong-willed than Xiao Mimi, even though they appeared different, with Xiao Mimi being strong-will and Xiao Lizi being like a gentle and kind older sister.
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