She Holds the World After Being Reborn
Chapter 217: If You Don’t Speak Up, It’s Another One

Chapter 217: Chapter 217: If You Don’t Speak Up, It’s Another One

Hearing this person insult her as disgusting, Li Chengyuan was so enraged she could hardly stand it and wished she could go up and stab him a few times to feel relieved.

But looking into those pitch-black eyes, she couldn’t help but shudder.

She had only felt this kind of oppression from one other person.

That person was the Emperor.

Li Chengyuan thought herself very ridiculous.

The man in front of her, though dressed in tattered clothes and possessing a handsome face, bore little resemblance to the Emperor and Prince, yet she was so frightened of him.

"What are you, daring to say this princess is disgusting?" Li Chengyuan stepped back a few paces, her hand slowly reaching for the candlestick on the high platform behind her.

Xiao Pingfeng looked at her actions lazily, his slender fingers resting on the hilt of his knife.

Just as Li Chengyuan touched the candlestick, the dagger flew straight at her!

"Ah—!" Li Chengyuan was so frightened that she slammed into the cabinet beside her.

A strand of hair swirled and fell through the air.

That sharp dagger was now stuck above Li Chengyuan’s head!

The dagger made a metallic clink, making one’s scalp tingle.

Li Chengyuan felt as if her heart was about to jump out of her chest at that moment.

At that moment, the man slowly rose from his chair, paced a few steps, then crouched down in front of her.

"What do you want to do, I warn you not to mess around," Li Chengyuan said, nervously swallowing because of her fear.

Xiao Pingfeng looked at her, extending his hand.

Li Chengyuan, frightened, closed her eyes.

A cold snicker sounded next to her ear, and when Li Chengyuan opened her eyes, she saw that he had pulled out the dagger.

"I’m not a patient man, this is the last time I’m asking you, where is Yan Wanqing?"

Li Chengyuan still defiantly said, "...I don’t know, Yan Wanqing and I have always been at odds, why would she inform me of her whereabouts, I don’t know anything!"

Xiao Pingfeng’s last bit of patience had been exhausted.

"No tears until you see the coffin." Xiao Pingfeng, his expression cold, said nothing further as the dagger plunged into the back of her hand.

Li Chengyuan screamed in agony, her left hand pinned by the dagger to the cabinet, and she looked at Xiao Pingfeng in disbelief.

"I won’t let you go! When the Prince arrives, he will surely kill you!"

Li Chengyuan screamed in pain, continuously shouting filthy words.

Xiao Pingfeng immediately dislocated her jaw.

"I usually don’t lay a hand on women, but you are an exception," Xiao Pingfeng said, without even blinking as he pulled out the dagger. He fiddled with the sharp tip of the dagger, conjuring a captivating smile even in such a situation.

"Do you know why?"

Watching Xiao Pingfeng’s gaze fall on her, Li Chengyuan could no longer focus on his looks, only feeling that the man before her, laughing as he wielded the knife, was a demon!

She frantically shook her head, indicating her innocence.

But Xiao Pingfeng was not a man to pity or spare a fragile woman.

He didn’t care whether Li Chengyuan had had a miscarriage, whether she was a frail woman; in his eyes, those who bore grudges and debts, those who touched his reverse scales, all deserved death.

Yan Wanqing was his reverse scale.

"When I found this dagger, it was covered in blood, just like now." Xiao Pingfeng slowly moved the dagger up along Li Chengyuan’s neck, eventually resting at her eyes. His voice turned chillingly cold, "Was it you who used this dagger to hurt her?"

Li Chengyuan continued shaking her head frantically, sobbing uncontrollably, saliva dripping from the corners of her mouth.

At this moment, she deeply regretted not having gone with the maid sent by the Prince.

If she had gone just a while ago, she wouldn’t be encountering this lunatic now.

This man was crazy!

Li Chengyuan’s eyes were filled with fear as her gaze constantly drifted toward the door.

At that moment, how much she wished someone would break through the door and save her life!

"These eyes are quite beautiful, it’s a pity they belong to the wrong master," Xiao Pingfeng murmured to himself, "Shall I dig them out for you?"

The dagger had already landed above Li Chengyuan’s eyelids, at that moment, she dared not move at all.

In the face of absolute terror, she pointed to her own chin, tears continuously overflowing from her tightly shut eyes.

The next second, Xiao Pingfeng reset her dislocated jaw to its original position.

"I’ll talk, I’ll talk! Just don’t dig out my eyes!

Xiao Pingfeng withdrew the dagger, "Speak."

Li Chengyuan’s heart was filled with fear, but if she really told this man that she had killed Yan Wanqing, she feared that the next second, she would be beheaded.

So she couldn’t speak.

Not only that, she needed to buy time, waiting for the seventh Prince to come and save her.

Thinking of this, Li Chengyuan wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with the back of her hand, her voice extremely soft. If it had been an ordinary man, he might have already softened by now.

But Xiao Pingfeng was no ordinary man.

He would only soften for Yan Wanqing.

For a woman like Li Chengyuan, even if she fainted from crying in front of him, he would still despise her for blocking his way.

So, hearing her sobbing, he stabbed the dagger beside Li Chengyuan’s ear without a second word, the gust of wind cutting her earring and completely stopping her cries.

"Noisy," Xiao Pingfeng said indifferently.

Li Chengyuan, enraged yet not daring to speak, took a deep breath, "...I indeed had a verbal and physical altercation with Yan Wanqing, but I didn’t really harm her, even with a hundred guts, I wouldn’t dare to lay a hand on the Great Marshal personally appointed by the Emperor."

Xiao Pingfeng’s half-closed dark eyes seemed to be pondering the truth of what Li Chengyuan had just said.

The whole city was now searching for Yan Wanqing under the pretense of hunting thieves.

Xiliang City was merely the size of a palm, and these past two days it had been turned upside down.

So far, Yan Wanqing had not been found.

No news is the best news.

Li Chengyuan quietly observed Xiao Pingfeng’s expression and continued, "This dagger was actually previously used in the kitchen to touch raw meat, and it was later handled by the maid, the blood on it...is not human blood."

Xiao Pingfeng’s originally calm eyes suddenly surged, he smirked, "Not human blood?"

Li Chengyuan nodded heavily, "Absolutely true, at this moment how dare I lie to deceive you?"

Xiao Pingfeng chuckled softly, then, looking up at Li Chengyuan again, his eyes were bone-chillingly cold, "Do you think I am that fool Xiao Hongshen? To treat someone like you as a treasure because of a few words, guess, how did I find my way to you?"

Li Chengyuan swallowed nervously.

She wouldn’t admit it.

Xiao Pingfeng pulled out a handkerchief embroidered with a gesang flower from his bosom.

The handkerchief naturally fell through his fingers, the vividly embroidered gesang flower blooming suddenly before Li Chengyuan’s eyes.

The next second, the little color remaining on her face completely disappeared!

Xiao Pingfeng looked at her expression, like a black panther in the dark about to kill its prey.

"Before her disappearance, the last person she contacted was you. I gave you a chance, and it was you who did not know how to cherish it."

Before his words had finished, Li Chengyuan covered her right eye, blood seeping through her fingers.

This man, resembling a poppy, had actually cut her eye with the dagger!

"If you don’t speak now, the other one will be next," Xiao Pingfeng’s voice, like a demon’s, echoed in Li Chengyuan’s ear.

As for torturing people, he had endless methods.

There wasn’t a criminal in the world he couldn’t interrogate!