".... " Mu Anxiao glanced at Feng Qishi, then at the second servant who had been released. "To put on a good show, of course it's real. Otherwise, how else would I gain your sympathy?"
As Mu Anxiao finished speaking, the young Mu Anxiao, with tear-streaked cheeks, looked at the limping second servant and tearfully said, "I'm sorry."
The second servant dared not acknowledge young Mu Anxiao. Instead, he was escorted forward by two other servants and stopped beside the young Mu Anxiao, trembling all over. "Master, please don't chop off my fingers. I rely on my fingers for a living. Please!" He began to cry loudly.
As the saying goes, a man does not shed tears easily. The young Mu Anxiao looked at the second servant pleading for his fingers and felt a sinking in her heart. She lowered her head to look at the food on the ground and said through gritted teeth, "Father, it's all my daughter's fault. Your daughter is willing to... endure all the suffering. Please, don't chop off his fingers." As she spoke, she knelt on the ground.
The saying "mountains and rivers may change, but one's nature is hard to alter" was completely ineffective on Mu Anxiao.
Over the decades, her personality had undergone constant change.
At this very moment, Feng Qishi, looking at the completely defenseless young Mu Anxiao before him, clenched his fist and then turned to look at Mu Anxiao, saying, "If it were me, I would have run away from home long ago."
"...." Mu Anxiao cast a sideways glance at Feng Qishi and said, "If I had left, I would have starved to death outside. That's what I thought at the time. But strangely, I didn't feel miserable back then." As she spoke, her voice choked again.
Feng Qishi: "How about we stop watching? Weren't you hungry? Go eat something."
"I'm too full of anger to be hungry," Mu Anxiao said, sighing softly. "I'm too miserable."
"Miserable, yet you still want to..."
"Only by doing this," Mu Anxiao gritted her teeth, "can I capture Mu Xi without any mercy. Only by doing this, by capturing him and getting money, will I not feel guilty."
Before coming here, Mu Anxiao had always held a soft spot for Mu Xi, believing that no matter what, he was still the brother who had been good to her.
However, after seeing the young Mu Anxiao suffer, all her thoughts changed. Now, she wanted to prove that Mu Xi was a bad person. Only then... would it be easier for her to list Mu Xi's crimes when she returned.
"Ruthless," Feng Qishi nodded slightly.
Lin Yan: "...." He dared not speak, looking at this fierce side of Mu Anxiao.
At the same time, the wolf demon spotted Mu Xi hiding behind a tree not far away. "There," he said, turning to look at Mu Anxiao. Hearing this, Mu Anxiao bypassed Feng Qishi and quickly walked to the wolf demon's side. Then, following the wolf demon's finger, she saw Mu Xi standing behind the tree, looking at the young Mu Anxiao with a sinister expression.
Thus, her eyes darkened. "I'll go take a look," she said, stepping forward.
Feng Qishi and the wolf demon followed Mu Anxiao.
Conversely, Lin Yan continued to watch the second servant.
After a dozen steps, Mu Anxiao stopped beside Mu Xi. "...." She simply stared at Mu Xi's profile, not saying a word.
Mu Xi, oblivious to her presence, continued to stare at the young Mu Anxiao in the distance. He curved his lips, then turned to look at the maidservant approaching gracefully and smiled, "You're here."
"Yes, young master," the maidservant said, arriving beside Mu Xi. She glanced at the young Mu Anxiao over there. "Why aren't you going over? She looks so pathetic." Her voice was excessively sweet, filled with profound insincerity.
The wolf demon looked disgusted. "This woman is only about eighteen, isn't she?" he said, looking at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao truly couldn't stand the maidservant's tone. She turned to look at the wolf demon staring at her and said, "This woman is Mu Xi's maidservant. However," she paused, then turned back to look at Mu Xi, "their relationship seems unusual."
"They look like they're having a secret rendezvous," Feng Qishi cut to the chase, clarifying Mu Anxiao's confusion.
Upon hearing this, Mu Anxiao suddenly remembered another rule of the Mu Mansion. "He's really bold," she said, looking at Mu Xi with disdain.
Feng Qishi: "This Mu Mansion doesn't have any other... peculiar rules, does it?"
Mu Anxiao admitted that the rules here were indeed bizarre, so she nodded without refuting. "There are rules."
"...." The wolf demon exchanged glances with Mu Xi and the maidservant, saying, "It couldn't be a rule that servants can't have relationships with their masters, right?"
"How did you know?" Feng Qishi asked in surprise.
The wolf demon revealed a fake smile. "Brother, this is a rule in every mansion in the mortal realm. It's bad for reputation if such things get out," the wolf demon explained in detail.
"That makes sense," Feng Qishi agreed with the wolf demon. He then looked at Mu Anxiao, a sudden idea striking him. "I know why your brother was nice to you."
"Why?" Mu Anxiao hadn't figured it out yet.
Feng Qishi: "Because of her." He pointed at the maidservant.
Mu Anxiao followed Feng Qishi's finger and glanced at the maidservant's face, saying, "You're not going to say that I saw my brother having a secret meeting with her, and then my brother..."
"Young master, she doesn't know about our affairs, does she?" the maidservant suddenly asked.
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao swallowed her unfinished words and shifted her gaze, along with Feng Qishi and the others, to the maidservant and Mu Xi.
Mu Xi, perhaps worried about being seen, maintained a distance from the maidservant, but his tone was extremely gentle. "That brat is only ten years old. How could she understand these things? Besides, this is not a place she can just come to. Even if she wanted to know, she might already be dead."
Dead?
Mu Anxiao never expected Mu Xi to have such thoughts.
Although she had said harsh words, she still held a sliver of hope for Mu Xi in her heart.
At this very moment, that hope was mercilessly shattered by Mu Xi. Taking a deep breath, she did not shed tears and let out a cold laugh. "As expected, not a good person."
"Are you alright?" Feng Qishi lowered his head, carefully observing Mu Anxiao's reaction.
Mu Anxiao: "I'm already this old, and I've experienced these things," she said with a cold laugh. "What could be wrong?"
In reality, she felt immense pain. She had always thought that although her childhood wasn't perfect, she was much happier than Feng Qishi.
But reality turned out to be this way. Her heart had shattered into pieces.
"...." Feng Qishi could see Mu Anxiao's forced demeanor, but he didn't say anything.
Conversely, the wolf demon said, "If you're feeling upset, just cry it out. Holding it in is quite pointless."
Feng Qishi was startled. "...." He began to observe Mu Anxiao's reaction.
Mu Anxiao: "...." She stared intently at Mu Xi and the maidservant, who were constantly making her the topic of conversation, using this to force herself to confront reality more directly.
Seeing that Mu Anxiao did not react, the wolf demon sighed in disappointment.
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