45: Chapter 45 A Young Lady's Temperament, a Servant's Fate...

"Creak—"

The heavy door was pushed open slowly. The harsh grinding sound of the door hinges seemed exceptionally piercing in the pin-drop silence of the night.

Inside the room, cold moonlight spilled diagonally through the dilapidated window lattice, lighting up half the room.

Su Aili was curled up in the innermost corner of the bed, her hands clutching the corner of the quilt tightly, her eyes so red it was as if they were about to drip blood.

When she saw the oppressive black figure walking in, her suppressed anger and humiliation erupted like a volcano at that moment!

"Get out—, you devil, get out."

Su Aili screamed hysterically, grabbed the pillow from the head of the bed, and hurled it fiercely toward the doorway, infused with the manic Qi of a Level 5 Mortal.

"Bang!"

Facing the whistling strike, Qin Feng didn't even blink.

He reached out his right hand casually, his five fingers like iron tongs, firmly catching the pillow that had been thrown at his face.

Immediately after, Qin Feng tossed the pillow onto the ground to the side, slammed the door shut with a backhand, and directly dropped the latch.

"Click!"

The crisp sound of the lock was like a heavy hammer striking Su Aili's heart, completely locking off all her paths of retreat.

"A devil? Besides yelling like a weaned shrew, what else can you do?"

Qin Feng's voice was not loud, but every word carried a suffocating coldness.

"I thought you had some backbone, but it turns out, you, Su Aili, are nothing more than a coward who only knows how to escape reality and suck the blood of others."

"Bullshit!"

Su Aili sprang up from the bed, trembling violently, and pointed at Qin Feng's nose, cursing angrily: "It was you, you used your power to force my mother! You turned her into a shameless person. You are just a beast who bullies women and dominates others. What right do you have to lecture me here?!"

"I forced her?" Qin Feng acted as if he had heard a huge joke, the corners of his mouth curling up.

"Su Aili, is your brain filled with paste?! Did I hold a knife to your mother's throat? Or did I tie her up with a rope?!"

His gaze was like a knife. Qin Feng mercilessly tore away the girl's last shred of dignity, sneering: "It was an equivalent exchange. In this man-eating Servant District, people starve to death every day, and people are thrown into the mass grave like livestock every day! She voluntarily shed her pride to please me..."

"For what? So that you could sit in this room cleanly, eating hot spiritual rice, and then have the audacity to point at my nose and call me a beast."

"No... that's not it... You're lying!" Su Aili covered her ears in pain, shaking her head desperately.

"Afraid to listen?!" Qin Feng pulled her hands away, gripped her delicate chin, and forced her to look directly into his abyssal eyes, enunciating every word: "The reason you feel tired, feel pain, and feel like everyone in the courtyard is targeting you... is because you, Su Aili, have the temper of a Young Miss, but you only have the life of a Menial Laborer!"

"You only know how to hide under the protective umbrella she built with her dignity and blood and tears, flaunting your ridiculous nobility! You find her disgusting? You find her dirty?"

"Then, as you eat the food she traded her dignity for and live in the house she traded her humility for, aren't you ten times, a hundred times more disgusting than her?!"

Boom—! Qin Feng's words were like an indestructible sharp sword, piercing fiercely through Su Aili's heart, grinding her worldview, built since childhood, into pieces.

Every word struck at her heart. Su Aili's face instantly turned as pale as paper, her mind going blank.

She stared blankly at Qin Feng, recalling her mother's hands, which were red and covered in frostbite, and recalling Su Yourong's humble, fawning smile while holding the foot-washing water...

A massive sense of guilt and the despair of a collapsing faith instantly drowned her completely.

"I... so I was wrong?!" After a long while, Su Aili's body trembled uncontrollably. She suddenly looked up, tears gushing out like a breached flood, and bit her lip until it bled, roaring.

"Yes, you are dead wrong."

Qin Feng delivered the fatal blow without hesitation. He released her hand with disdain, pulled a handkerchief from his pocket to wipe his fingertips, and said in an indifferent tone: "If you have guts, get out of this courtyard yourself, make a living outside, and prove you don't need anyone's protection. If you don't have guts, stay here honestly, do what you are supposed to do, be a qualified Menial Laborer, and don't make your mother do double the work every day to support you, a useless person."

Having said that, Qin Feng didn't linger, turned around, and walked toward the door with long strides.

"Oh, right—" At the moment he was about to pull the door open, Qin Feng turned his head slightly, glancing at the girl on the bed who was like a pile of mud. "If you really want to leave, remember to be loud when you go out. Tell all the Menial Laborers around that you, Su Aili, and I, Qin Feng, are from now on unrelated in life and death!"

"Clang!" The door was pulled open and then slammed shut again. The deathly silence in the room made Su Aili feel like she could barely breathe.

"I am not a useless person... I am not a coward..." Su Aili clenched her teeth tightly, drops of blood dripping onto the bedsheets from her bitten lip. The extreme sense of humiliation completely ignited the stubbornness and madness in her bones!

"I possess the strength of a Level 5 Mortal. In the Intermediate Laborer District, as long as I am willing to work, why can't I survive? Why must I rely on selling my mother's dignity to survive?!"

Wiping away her tears, Su Aili didn't even take a change of clothes. Relying on the surging Qi of the Level 5 Mortal within her, she pushed open the door and, like a stubborn little beast, rushed into the courtyard with long strides.

In the center of the courtyard, Su Yourong was kneeling on the ground, her face pale. Seeing her daughter rush out with red eyes, her heart sank to the bottom.

"Aili, what are you doing? Go back and apologize to the master!" Su Yourong scrambled forward, clinging tightly to her daughter's legs, begging bitterly.

Beside them, Wu Mengmeng and Bai Yuhe crossed their arms, their faces full of mockery as they watched the show.

"Mother, let go!" Su Aili pried open Su Yourong's fingers with force, her eyes showing a determination burning in a desperate situation. "Even if I, Su Aili, starve to death outside and am eaten by wild dogs, I will never eat another bite of Qin Feng's food!"

Having said that, she took a deep breath, channeled her Qi, and toward the outside of the courtyard gate, toward the dark night sky of the entire Ding District, let out a hysterical roar: "Everyone around, listen to me!!!"

"From now on, I, Su Aili, and Qin Feng are finished. I have no more connection with Courtyard No. 77. From now on, regardless of honor or disgrace, our lives and deaths are unrelated!!!"

This voice had great penetrating power, echoing over the silent Servant District, instantly attracting many hidden, prying eyes.

After roaring these words, Su Aili felt a wave of relief in her chest, as if she had smashed the shackles on her body. She didn't look back at her mother, who was collapsed on the ground crying, and plunged into the boundless darkness of the Servant District.

"Aili—don't go!" Su Yourong reached out desperately, but didn't even touch the corner of her daughter's clothes.

"Creak—" Just then, the door of the main room was pushed open. Qin Feng walked out with a composed pace.

"Master, I beg you, please bring her back. It's too dangerous outside, she will die!" Su Yourong, as if clutching a life-saving straw, kowtowed and begged frantically.

Qin Feng did not stop Su Aili from leaving; looking at the open courtyard gate, a meaningful smile curled the corners of his mouth.

He lowered his head, looking at Su Yourong, who was crying like a tear-stained person, his tone carrying a hint of gentleness, and smiled: "Don't worry, what I promised you naturally counts. I will follow and see now, nothing will happen."

"However—" Qin Feng's eyes gradually became deep, looking into the endless night, "This arrogant girl really needs to understand what the true way of survival in the Servant District is. Only by being shattered and reshaped can she recognize reality."

Before the words faded, Qin Feng suddenly activated Clear Wind Shadow under his feet!

"Swish—!" His figure was like a ghost, instantly melting into the night, leaving not even a ripple of airflow behind.