After venting her anguish, Red Leaf finally collapsed to the ground, her face sobbing with pain. Initially her quiet weeping only sounded like a whimper, but soon changed to a emotional cry of wanting to change this cruel reality. It’s resonating among the crowd because it’s too powerful.
“Yan Yan, let me handle the rest from here, I’m sure you are tired after today’s event.” Di Cang suggests from one side, not wanting his family to see what’s going to happen next.
Then turning to the villain of this incident, the demon king completely loses his warmth that he explicitly saved for his wife. There’s only cold hard ruthlessness in those eyes when watching the bruised piece of rag that was Mu Xue right now.
“Okay.” Bai Yan nods after seeing there wasn’t much life left in that lump of meat anyways. “You lured her here so you clean up after yourself. I’m taking the kids back to rest, they’ve been scared enough today.”
With that, the demon queen turns to her eldest boy who looked pathetically guilty. Originally she still had some harsh words for the steambun after he ran away from the city and attempted that foolhardy plan, but she’s his mother. As any mother, they could never be too angry at their own child.
“Do you understand not to leave the city again?” She asks with a lecturing tone.
Bai Xiachen immediately nods in a desperate manner like he would never make the mistake again.
“Then take your brother and sister back to their rooms. Mu Ying, you continue to watch over them, I don’t want you by their sides at all times.”
“Yes, Your Highness.” Mu Ying respectfully complies, never once giving her younger sister a glance.
She knows as well as anyone, Mu Xue’s fate was her own doing and couldn’t be blamed on anyone else.
“Xiao’er, come with me.” Bai Yan then gives her own brother a meaningful glance.
Bai Xiao didn’t know exactly what the conversation was going to be about, but he could mostly guess. So, for a split second he hesitated but was inclined to follow anyways. They’re family and family shouldn’t try to keep things hidden.
“Sire, what about this woman then?” First Elder points to the weeping sister who still wouldn’t stop crying.
Shifting his attention to Red Leaf, Di Cang continues to show his cold gaze but without the hardness: “Tell me the details.”
Trembling over that dominating voice, Red Leaf gradually managed to hold back her tears enough to give the full story: from how her younger brother got kidnapped, then how the steambun caught her in the act and of the plan they used in the cave, she said it all.
Likewise, Di Cang’s complexion grew darker and darker as well: “That rascal always did like to win. If he knew the scheme then he should’ve come back to tell us instead of acting on his own. Does he really not trust me, his old man that much?”
“Sire, from my view this is the prince looking out for you. He doesn’t want to bother you with such small things so he did it himself.”
Within the higher ups of the Demon Realm, no one dislikes the prince so First Elder’s first reaction was to defend the rascal kid, afraid the king would punish the boy somehow.
