Black Bellied Belle: Demon Lord, Bite The Bait Please Chapter 83: The Cloven Hoof Exposed

Chapter 83.1: The Cloven Hoof Exposed

Qing Yu narrowed her eyes and curled up her finger. A stream of air shot out which struck the servant girl’s arm. At the same time, Yan Xi Cheng had nimbly moved to restrain her.

Qing Yu walked over to go right before her and smiled at Yan Xi Cheng gratefully before she went on to look upon the servant girl who had her eyes tightly shut. “What? You couldn’t continue with the pretense and want to be liberated from it by death?”

“Or…..” Her alluringly beautiful countenance leaned in close, her light breath blowing gently upon the servant girl’s face. “Someone is intimidating you into doing that?”

The expression on the servant girl’s face turned into shock, her eyelashes quivered a moment as her face turned ashen grey.

The answer was known without needing any words. But Qing Yu was not going to let the matter rest there. That would be letting that woman Mo Han Yan off too lightly.

She let out a cold chilling laugh and her eyes turned upon Mo Han Yan with indiscernible meaning, which caused the latter to feel a chill run through her. [That little slut’s eyes….. felt so strange…..]

Yan Su’s gaze was fixed upon the young lady the entire time. [Exactly alike. Even the brilliant radiance between her brows was exactly the same, just as eye catching as that person back then, drawing people’s eyes to her regardless of the time or place.]

The young lady’s eyes suddenly turned to look at him. Yan Su was physically taken aback but her voice then took on a soft and gentle tone, tinged faintly with sorrow. “I had thought that although Father is a Duke, but he is a father just like one in any family, who loves his own children.”

“Is it because Mother is not here? My younger brother’s legs are crippled and is unable to walk, unable to live like any normal person. Why do you still want to treat him like this? He’s just a pitiful little child.” The young lady’s eyes then lowered slightly, as she stroked the pale face of the youth in the wheelchair.

That pair of eyes that lose its brilliant sparkle in just one instant just wrenched at Yan Su’s heart so painfully. “Qing Yu…..”

“Father promised Mother that you will take good care of us. I had thought that even if we are unable to be like our elder brother and sisters, to live a live of abundance and luxury, indulged and doted upon, we would at least be able to feel secure as this would be home to us, and not have to fall asleep in fear every night, not knowing when we will unknowingly be assassinated in our sleep.”

Yan Su’s eyes flared wide as he stared, as if he did not know that they had been living like this in the manor all these years.

[And….. there are people seeking to have them killed?]

[Have all the guards in the Eternal Peace Duke Manor all died? !]

Yan Xi Cheng who was beside him was looking incredulous and in utter disbelief, their gazes unconsciously shifting to fall upon Mo Han Yan.

[Those assassins….. Did they have something to do with Mother…..]

Mo Han Yan had naturally noticed Yan Su’s gaze. The quaking rage in Yan Su’s eyes had caused her body to turn cold and she immediately opened her mouth to stop Qing Yu from continuing on. “Ha! That’s a really brilliant story you made up. If there were really assassins trying to kill you like you said, then how did the two of you manage to live till today? What utter hogwash!”

“The Duchess has most probably forgotten that I’ve told you before that a mysterious expert has accepted me as a disciple.” Qing Yu said as the corners of her mouth pulled slightly back, to look smilingly at Mo Han Yan who was beginning to become flustered while she did everything she could to try to cover up. “My Master took pity on me and did everything he could despite the hardship, to turn the useless trash that I was into what I am today. He even taught me Medicine in case I cameto be given poison and do not know it.”

“So what! ?” Mo Han Yan said with her brows knitted together, not knowing what the young lady meant with those words.

Chapter 83.2: The Cloven Hoof Exposed

“So, the Duchess feels that, if things were really as what this servant girl has said, that Little Bei has some perverted habit and was acting like a lunatic at that time, to think that with her small and weak little body, she is still able to escape from the room after suffering an entire night of torment, I cannot help but highly suspect her real intentions.”

After Qing Yu said all that with a smiling face, she looked at the ashen faced servant girl. “Possibly because you do not practice martial arts, and hence you do not know about lightning element wielders all that much. Usually when a lightning element wielder loses their mind or fly into a berserk rage, anything that is alive around them will be struck by lightning and die. Of course there are exceptions to that. If you possess a higher level of power than him, then you can still remain safe and sound.”

The fact that Yan Su had invited Qin Fang, a former Elder of the Faint Mist Sect to come teach his children who were at an opportune age was something that everyone had heard about. Among the few of them, Qing Bei had been most gifted, and was a wielder of the incredibly powerful Lightning element. Qin Fang had also said that he was greatly talented with a lot of potential, picking up anything he was taught very quickly, and was very intelligent.

If that was really true, then not only had the servant girl not died but was still very much alive here. Could she be a spy who had managed to sneak in among them? If so, she must be much more of an expert than she seems!

The servant girl had obviously not expected that things would play out like this and her face immediately grew a darker grey. Even Mo Han Yan had not thought that there would be such a turn of events. Her nails dug deeply into her palms as her enchanting brows took on an unnoticeable dark glint.

Yan Xi Cheng did not miss the expressions of the servant girl and Mo Han Yan, and his handsome countenance showed a sliver of disappointment.

[Why is Mother still unable to let it go? Will she only be appeased after she has them completely wiped out?]

The faces of the people there showed a variety of expressions. However, things have not yet ended. At that moment, the servant girl was then seen slumping weakly down to the floor from having knelt for such a long period of time as her conscience was wracked with fear, and a thin sheen of sweat broke out over her temples.

Qing Yu arched up her long sharp eyebrows and then said in a light fleeting voice. “And….. aren’t all of you forgetting one more thing?”

“The Faint Mist Sect has always been said to be a place that deities live in, noble and pure. And most of the secret martial arts techniques they cultivate requires one to abstain from wine and remain celibate, hence they have never accepted people who are addicted to drink and revel in lusty pursuits. Because of that, unless one is already married and have children, all the unmarried young men and women they take in are untainted and have remained chaste. Can the Duchess then help me explain just what kind of a irresistible charm does this servant girl possess that she is able to make Qing Bei give up on the chance to go to the Faint Mist Sect, choosing instead to partake in such improper and illicit affair with her?”

Once those words came out, everyone present seemed to have suddenly awakened, thinking that they seemed to have completely forgotten about such an important detail about the whole matter.

One of the stages in the Faint Mist Sect’s recruitment trials was to test whether the unmarried young men and women were still chaste, and all the hedonistic and pleasure loving Young Masters can forget about wanting to be accepted.

So it was rumoured that all in the Faint Mist Sect were a bunch of deities who does not even eat the common food of mortals.

Mo Han Yan was at a loss for words, unable to think of anything to say in rebuttal.

In all honesty, no matter what kind of a reason it is, it will sound a little far fetched. As who could possibly choose to not want the opportunity to be accepted into the Faint Mist Sect just for a moment of pleasure, by willingly destroying their body’s chastity?

Unless that person was a mindless fool.

At that moment, even Yan Su finally came to realize that something wasn’t right and he slammed his large palm hard onto the arm of his chair. Because he had exerted too much strength, the chair’s arm cracked in a few places while his voice was icy cold and filled with an oppressive aura. “What an audacious lowly servant! You even dare to slander your Master! Tell this Duke here the entire truth now! Who sent you here as a spy, and who is the one pulling the strings behind? If you do not confess everything here today, with the methods this Duke uses to deal with military convicts, I fear a little girl like you will not be able to withstand it at all!”

Chapter 83.3: The Cloven Hoof Exposed

Yan Su had stormed through countless battlefields all these years and the blood stained aura on him was no joke. With just a slight raising of his voice in rage, his words made the little servant girl whose last line of mental psychological defence was already on the verge of breaking completely collapse at that moment.

“Spare me my life Your Highness….. Your servant….. It was all just my own wishful thinking and I was blinded by greed, not content to submit myself to a fate of being just a lowly servant and to be at the back and call of people. So….. So I decided to spike the Second Young Master’s medicine…..”

Those words seem to be an attempt at heaping all the blame for the crime upon herself. It was not known what kind of a hold Mo Han Yan held in her hand over the little servant girl that made the her not dare to reveal the mastermind behind the plot even when she was shaking like a leaf in terror from Yan Su’s shout.

[Haha….. Letting Mo Han Yan escape calamity so easily….. Not possible.]

The mirth in Qing Yu’s eyes deepened further and she then said in a rather admiring tone. “It looks like this servant girl is also highly skilled and knowledgeable in Medicine. Otherwise, how could she possibly know to use such a common Drunken Immortal Flower to be mixed with drugs that cause hallucinations, that makes people lose their mind and become incredibly aroused.”

With an abrupt turn in her words, she suddenly swung around to look at Mo Han Yan, saying each word with a slight pause in between, seemingly not bothered by the venomous glare staring back at her that was as sharp as steel blades. “I heard that the Duchess has always loved flowers, and the several pots of Drunken Immortal Flowers in her backyard are absolutely gorgeous, their fragrance nose tingling. But although Drunken Immortal Flowers are absolutely beautiful and enchanting, they are however harmful to the body. The Duchess must remember to take care of your health.”

“What do you mean by that? Are you insinuating that this Duchess here is the one who instigated that little servant girl to go harm others? !” Mo Han Yan was looking like she had been so wrongfully accused and was questioning her in indignant rage.

The Duchess’ words caused Yan Su to be rather surprised, thinking that Mo Han Yan might be overreacting a little.

“Duchess, Qing Yu is merely just throwing out guesses and has no intention of suspecting you at all. Do not take it to heart too much.” It might be because Qing Yu really looked too much like that person and Yan Su had unconsciously just jumped to her defense.

Hearing that, Mo Han Yan’s face immediately changed. The countenance that had been maintained to look as pretty as a young lady was tinged with a little bitterness and looked rather pale. Her beautiful eyes brimming with tears, she said: “Is Your Highness blaming me now? Or are you saying that you believe that young lass’ words and think that I am an unscrupulous and venomous evil witch who would not stop at anything?”

Mo Han Yan was General Shang’s most beloved youngest daughter, smart and intelligent, ravishingly beautiful. Seeing her looks now, one would be able to see the kind of enchanting poise she must have possessed when she was younger.

She had married Yan Su when she was fourteen and had come to bear him a son and a daughter, both with outstanding looks, and extraordinary talents, whom Yan Su had always been exceptionally proud of. With their affinity of more than twenty years as husband and wife, deep down in Yan Su’s heart, he still loved her. If he had not met that person, he always thought that his heart would never have changed.

From what he still remembered, she had always been a gentle and dutiful wife, never throwing any kind of tantrum, but just only that one time. It had been because he had brought that person back. She had been hysterical back then and he could still clearly remember how she had looked back then. That had been the only time and right after that, she had then moved out from the main house, and her character had changed into one that he could not fully comprehend.

But with her expression looking like she was silently enduring her aggrievement and on the very verge of tears, it made his heart soften again as he felt that he still owed her all these years.

Yan Su sighed lightly. “This Duke does not mean that but just feel that the entire matter isn’t as simple as it seems on the surface.”

“Then what does Your Highness mean then?” Mo Han Yan said, her gaze looking icily at the young lady down below. “With her insinuating and shadowy words, isn’t she suspecting that it is this Duchess here that it manipulating the whole thing behind?”

“This Duke will naturally not any false accusations not will I allow the mastermind to get away scot free.” Yan Su said in a gentle voice, trying to appease and calm her down, getting her back into her seat.