She couldn’t listen anymore.
She couldn’t imagine how a person so immaculate, as pristine as precious jade on a snowy mountain, could be so cruelly abused by these vicious townspeople.
Whipping, severing his tendons, breaking his bones, bleeding him out, skinning him...
She had always thought herself cold and heartless, but hearing this, she knew she could never be so unfeeling.
She couldn’t bear the thought of the one she cared for suffering even the slightest harm.
’To think my fox has suffered such agony.’
’How could I ever let this go?’
’And it was all because of me.’
’As his Female Master, I failed to protect him, allowing him to be tortured endlessly.’
’I let him fall, step by step, into the abyss, to suffer a fate he never deserved, to be brought so low.’
’He had never done anything to wrong me. On the contrary, I was the one who schemed and trapped him in all of this.’
’I owed him.’
’And now, my debt to him has grown even greater.’
She slowly closed her eyes. The ache in her chest was so real it made her heart race and her body tremble.
’My fox, you have to be okay.’
’Wait for me. I will find you.’
’I won’t let you face the abyss alone again.’
She opened her eyes and stared at the vicious townspeople, at this mob that couldn’t tell right from wrong, who had inflicted such senseless suffering upon Bai Chaosi.
The anger in her heart had already festered into hatred.
’She hated how barbaric and unreasonable this Beast World was, so savage that no one even had the capacity for independent thought.’
Bai Chaosi had done nothing wrong.
He had absolutely no connection to the members of the Fox Clan who had massacred Luoxi Town all those years ago, yet he was forced to suffer this inhuman, undeserved catastrophe.
What a corrupt and stubbornly backward mindset this world possessed.
She had just strangled the town leader to death in front of everyone to make an example of him. Otherwise, these people wouldn’t have been frightened enough to spill everything.
But now, she truly wanted to slaughter every last one of these stubborn, brainless thugs to vent her fury and avenge Bai Chaosi.
So, she raised her hand, ready to commit mass murder for Bai Chaosi’s sake.
Seeing her movement, the people on the ground immediately huddled together in terror, screaming:
"Don’t kill us, we know we were wrong!"
"We beg you, spare us!"
"I have children, spare my life!"
"We know we were wrong! We know we blamed an innocent man! Please, don’t kill us!"
Shen Yue’s throat tightened. Glaring at the crowd, she said coldly:
"Can simply saying you were wrong make up for the suffering an innocent man endured?"
Huang Ziyue, who was beside her, had stood behind her from the very beginning. No matter what Shen Yue wanted to do, he would be her spearhead.
He narrowed his eyes at the people on the ground and raised his hand without the slightest hesitation.
"No need to dirty your hands. I’ll do it."
’He’d killed far too many people in his time.’
’What was one more massacre?’
He could see that Shen Yue wanted to avenge her fox. Otherwise, she’d never be able to get over this.
And he wanted to as well.
Even though the fox was his rival in love, he wouldn’t stand by and let others abuse his opponent in such a manner.
Shen Yue looked at the crowd on the ground—the old, the weak, the sick, and the children, all weeping piteously. She took a deep breath.
’I can’t be purely good, but I can’t be purely evil, either.’
’But hurting someone who belongs to me is unforgivable.’


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