118: Chapter 118 Chen Shanzhi, I'm breaking off all ties with you!

There, the rosy tint on her originally crystal-clear earlobes had not yet completely faded.

Under the glow of the sunset, they appeared somewhat enticingly bright.

Sensing Chen Shanzhi's gaze,

Murong Zhaoling, who had been seeing him off with a smile, suddenly narrowed her willow-leaf brows.

In her clear, beautiful eyes, a flash of shy anger instantly flickered as she stared down fixedly at Chen Shanzhi!

Holy crap!

Chen Shanzhi's heart trembled, and his scalp instantly tingled with fear.

I just took a subconscious glance; how could I get caught red-handed like this?

The perception of a Life Fire Realm expert is simply too terrifying!

"Um... farewell, farewell! Miss Murong, please stay where you are, no need to see me out!"

Chen Shanzhi's tongue was nearly tied in knots.

He didn't even bother with the footstool the driver, Coachman Zhao Da, held out; he just slightly bent his legs.

"Whoosh!"

With a burst of True Essence from his Xuanguan Nine Apertures, Chen Shanzhi dove into the spacious carriage like a large loach jumping out of water.

"Coachman Zhao Da! Back to the estate! Fast! Go!"

Chen Shanzhi’s frantic, nearly voice-cracking urge came from inside the carriage.

The driver, Coachman Zhao Da, was completely bewildered, but he still obediently cracked the horsewhip.

"Hyah!"

Accompanied by a flurry of rapid, muffled hoofbeats, the carriage of the Zhenguo Marquis Mansion kicked up a cloud of dust and sped away as if its tail were on fire.

Murong Zhaoling stood on the steps of the Murong Manor's main gate.

Watching the retreating back of the carriage as it fled in panic, her silver teeth bit her luscious red lips.

She slightly turned her head and touched her earlobe, which was still faintly burning.

Finally, the eldest Young Miss Murong gave a soft snort and let out an extremely faint spit of disdain.

"Hmph, shameless lecher."

Although she cursed him, a smile gradually rippled through Murong Zhaoling's bright phoenix eyes.

...

Meanwhile, inside the Murong Manor.

Murong Yun was sprawled out on a Grandmaster's chair.

He held a white jade wine cup, but his eyes were sneakily peeking toward the back courtyard where his elder sister lived.

The room was extremely quiet.

"Strange, it's been so long."

Murong Yun smacked his lips and muttered to himself in confusion:

"Why hasn't Brother Chen's heart-wrenching, tragic scream come from the back courtyard yet?"

He had clearly felt that soaring wave of Life Fire Realm energy that had erupted from his sister's small courtyard earlier.

That was definitely the Aura of his elder sister striking out in anger!

According to Murong Yun's experience from a tragic childhood full of devastation,

Anyone locked onto by that Aura would definitely end up being hung from a tree and given a savage beating!

"Could it be..."

Murong Yun's eyes suddenly lit up, and a mischievous, schadenfreude-filled grin couldn't help but appear on his face:

"Is Big Sister worried that the commotion of a fight outside would be too loud, so she thoughtfully isolated the sound and is beating him up inside the room?"

"Oh my, Brother Chen, Brother Chen, I’m sorry, man."

Murong Yun comically rubbed his swollen black eye; though he said he was sorry, the smile on his face was brighter than anyone's:

"But this is for the best. As long as you get beaten into a panda eye today too,"

"Then tomorrow at the Four Seas Academy, I won't have to be the only one being laughed at for having this thing.

Brothers should share both blessings and hardships!"

Just as Murong Yun was gleefully fantasizing,

On the veranda outside,

A crisp and rhythmic sound of footsteps suddenly approached.

The footsteps grew closer.

Murong Yun's ears twitched; the frequency and force of these footsteps...

They were all too familiar!

This was his elder sister Murong Zhaoling's exclusive stride.

The mischievous grin on Murong Yun's face instantly froze.

He sprang up from the Grandmaster's chair as if hit by an electric shock, wiped the wine stains from the corner of his mouth, and turned toward the door in shock.

He saw Murong Zhaoling walking in with her long legs, hands behind her back, her emerald-green dress swaying in the night breeze.

Her face was slightly grim as she crossed the threshold, slowly closing in on him step by step.

"Big... Big Sister?"

Murong Yun's flesh instinctively tightened, and he swallowed hard, forcing a fawning smile that looked worse than crying:

"Why are you here? Where's Chen Shanzhi? Why didn't you... keep him at the estate for dinner to spend more time with him?"

In Murong Yun's original script, Chen Shanzhi should have been lying on the ground groaning by now.

Murong Zhaoling didn't answer immediately.

She just stood expressionlessly in front of Murong Yun, looking down at her underachieving younger brother.

The temperature in the room seemed to plummet second by second under her gaze.

Murong Yun felt his skin crawl and his scalp tingle.

This atmosphere was wrong! Extremely wrong!

This look was even more hair-raising than when she beat him in the underground Martial Arts Arena last night!

"Um... Big Sister!"

Tiny beads of cold sweat instantly broke out on Murong Yun's forehead, and he clutched his stomach with exaggerated drama:

"I suddenly have a terrible stomachache. It's probably because I drank the wine too fast. I can't take it, I have to go to the latrine right now!"

After saying that, the Qi in Murong Yun's feet was about to burst as he prepared to slip out through the nearby window.

However, he had barely taken half a step.

"Swish!"

An emerald-green afterimage was as fast as lightning.

Before Murong Yun could react, he felt the back of his collar tighten suddenly!

An unmatched, colossal force instantly locked him in place.

Murong Zhaoling reached out a jade-like hand and executed a very clean close-quarters grapple.

Her fingers were like iron pincers, directly grabbing Murong Yun's collar.

Effortlessly and expressionlessly, she lifted him off the ground like she was picking up a little chick.

Murong Yun's legs kicked wildly in the air, his hands clutching his collar, nearly being strangled on the spot.

He felt like crying but had no tears, wailing at the top of his lungs:

"Big Sister! Let go! Let go quickly! I can't breathe!"

"I've been honestly staying at home all day today, reading and reviewing."

"I definitely didn't go out to mess around, visit prostitutes, or gamble!"

"You can't just hit people for no reason!"

Murong Zhaoling held him with one hand, a cold smile slowly curling on her lips.

She narrowed her beautiful eyes, staring at the mid-air Murong Yun, her voice cold as ice:

"Didn't go out to mess around?"

"Very well."

Murong Zhaoling nodded, her grip loosening slightly, but she still didn't let him touch the ground:

"Then first, give me a good explanation."

"Before, every time you didn't come home at night, you said you went to the Zhenguo Marquis Mansion to train in seclusion with Chen Shanzhi."

Murong Zhaoling gave a cold laugh, her voice rising:

"Did you go to the Zhenguo Marquis Mansion to follow Heir Chen in bitter cultivation?"

"Or did you follow them to hide in a top-tier private room at the Yihong Pavilion in the city, drinking wine and having fun all night?"

"Hmm?"

Boom!

As soon as these words were spoken, it was like a bolt from the blue.

It struck Murong Yun's crown with pinpoint accuracy!

Murong Yun was struck as if by lightning.

His mind instantly went blank.

His mouth hung open as he stared blankly at his elder sister, his eyes nearly bulging out.

Yihong Pavilion... drinking wine with girls...

This highly classified dark history—Big Sister had been training at the border for so many years, how could she possibly know about it the moment she returned to the capital?

No, even when she was in the capital before, she didn't know.

How did she suddenly find out today?

Thinking about how his sister was just chatting with Chen Shanzhi,

Murong Yun understood in an instant.

Traitor!

Chen Shanzhi, you backstabbing snake!

You shameless scoundrel who abandons friends for a pretty face and sells them out for personal gain!

To think I even gave you my favorite wine when you entered my sister's courtyard.

You actually turned around and sold out your brother's secrets just to make my sister happy?

Murong Yun felt the entire world completely lose its color at this moment.

A surge of intense grief and indignation rushed to his head.

"Chen Shanzhi! This Young Master wants to break off our friendship forever!"

The shrill, tragic, heart-wrenching scream was like a cuckoo crying blood.

It echoed for a long time over the Murong Manor as night fell, startling a large flock of resting crows from the treetops.