mtl008 Chapter 927 Beautiful Slave
Chapter 927 Beautiful Slave
When Zong Que led his men to Wanguo Temple to pick up Crown Prince Chongwen, Sheng Junyao had already sent men to surround the Yan Imperial Palace.
Earlier, when she heard the news that the Zhao army had entered the city, Empress Dowager Dugu ordered the princes and nobles of Yan to come to the palace to prepare to escort them away from Yanjing.
After Sheng Junyi killed Empress Dowager Dugu, he had all the princes and nobles who had entered the palace captured, including the emperor of Great Yan, the concubines, princesses, and princes, and they were all tied up and taken to the Zichen Palace.
By the time the Zhao army had taken control of the entire palace, it was already dark.
After handing the pear to Lu Yangyang, Sheng Junyao left to attend to other matters.
Li Duan clung tightly to Lu Yangyang's arm, wishing she could hang her whole body on Lu Yangyang. If seeing Sheng Junyao made her happy and expectant, then seeing Lu Yangyang made her completely dependent.
Holding Lu Yangyang's hand and smelling the most familiar scent from her, she felt as if she had truly overcome the three years of forced marriage and was finally alive and well.
Lu Yangyang led her to the Zichen Palace, where the emperor and nobles of the Great Yan knelt on the ground. Hundreds of men and women were tied up with ropes and thrown on the ground. Sheng Junyi stood coldly in front of them, holding a blood-stained sword, which frightened those who usually flaunted their power and dared not move.
They had already heard rumors when they were captured. The incredibly handsome man in front of them was the ruthless person who had killed Empress Dowager Dugu with a single sword.
For these people, Empress Dowager Dugu was the only one who mattered to them. If even the Empress Dowager was defeated, then they would become fish on a chopping board.
The Emperor of Great Yan, in particular, was exceptionally obese, with knees that were difficult to bend. Trapped and slumped on the ground, he could not even open his eyes, and his throat was filled with uncomfortable gasps. He had just been pulled out from among the wine and beauties, and before he could even put his clothes back on properly, he had gone from being an emperor to a prisoner.
The Emperor of Great Yan indulged in wine and women for over twenty years, having many women and even more children.
Aside from a few princes who had powerful maternal clans backing them and had become independent and granted titles early on, there were countless others, both officially recognized and unofficially unrecognized, living in the palace.
Most of these women were merely concubines favored by the Emperor of Great Yan, their lives in the palace less fortunate than those of ordinary palace servants. Yet, under the deliberate indulgence of Empress Dowager Dugu, they had long since learned to wallow in wine, women, food, and pleasure. Even with the army of Great Zhao at the gates, they continued their revelry, and now, bound, most are still drunk. Not to mention the once arrogant and domineering princes and nobles, who still cannot believe how Great Yan could have collapsed overnight.
The smell of alcohol in the main hall almost overpowered the smell of blood.
However, after they were tied up, a few fools were dealt with on the spot by Sheng Junyi. That's why they were all quiet when Lu Yangyang and the others arrived, for fear that they would be killed in the blink of an eye.
Lu Yangyang looked at the people who had thrown the entire hall and didn't quite know their identities, but Li Duan was very familiar with each of them.
As Li Duan walked in, some people even sent her messages for help, "Princess Zhao, please save us!"
Li Duan looked at those people, her smiling face gradually turning cold. She pulled out the whip that Sheng Junyao had given her for self-defense when they parted and lashed out at the person.
"what--"
Screams sounded one after another.
Li Duan acted as if she had gone mad, whipping the whip in her hand until she was tired. Then she walked up to the men who were huddled in the corner, not daring to raise their heads, and threw away the whip in her hand.
She looked up at Lu Yangyang and asked, "Can I kill them?"
Without saying a word, Lu Yangyang handed her his cleaver.
Halfway through handing it over, he remembered that the knife looked light but was actually very heavy, so he looked at Sheng Junyi and said, "Second brother, can I borrow your sword?"
Sheng Junyi handed over the sword.
Lu Yangyang placed the sleek longsword into Li Duan's hand.
Li Duan, holding the sword, whose hands had been trembling from exertion, was now unusually steady as he pierced the heart of the person in front of him with a single strike.
She drew her longsword, and the people around her began to shrink back in fear.
"Don't kill me, don't kill me..." she cried out in panic, trying to dodge to the side.
But how could Li Duan let him go? He thrust his sword forward, followed by another.
Without uttering a single unnecessary word, she stabbed all those men to death. Holding the blood-dripping sword, her hand trembled so badly it was almost impossible to close.
Tears streamed down her face without warning, and she turned and hugged Lu Yangyang.
Lu Yangyang took the sword from her hand, tossed it to Sheng Junyi, and helped her out through a side door of the Zichen Palace, where they sat down in the corridor.
The Zichen Palace was built on a very high site. The corridor outside the side hall was surrounded by a high wall several meters deep. Sitting on the corridor, one could see almost half of the Yan Imperial Palace.
Li Duan leaned against Lu Yangyang's chest, initially crying silently, but eventually she couldn't hold back and burst into tears.
Lu Yangyang gently hugged her and stroked her back lightly.
"In my first year in Yanjing, I thought that as a princess sent for a political marriage, I would at least receive some respect in terms of status."
"But I soon discovered that I was no different from the female slaves who were wantonly humiliated on the roadside. Helian Jue took me to various banquets and made me dance for the princes and nobles of Yanjing until they were happy. If they were not happy, I could not stop. If I stopped, I would be whipped and forced to drink."
"During the first hunt, several noblemen took advantage of Helian Jue's absence to approach me. When they saw that I was not going to submit, they drugged me. Lin Feng tried to help me escape, but they treated him like prey and hacked him to death in front of me. Lin Shuang was raped to the point of near death in front of me in order to protect me. I had already submitted and stripped off my clothes, but they still did not let Lin Shuang go."
"Looking at Lin Feng's broken body and Lin Shuang, who was tortured to the point of barely breathing, I begged Helian Jue to uphold justice for me. Helian Jue only said, 'Just compensate me with a few slaves.'"
"Lin Feng and Lin Shuang grew up with me since they were little. They were never servants; they were my family."
“I watched them fall apart right before my eyes, and there was nothing I could do.”
"From that moment on, I understood that in this cannibalistic place, if I wanted to survive, I had to first lose myself and learn how to be a beautiful slave."
“My resistance alone couldn’t even save my closest loved ones. I told Lin Shuang, who survived, that we would not run away anymore. We would leave this place with dignity, taking all the female slaves with us.”
"Let's smash this shameful cage together."
“The most terrifying thing is that the body is imprisoned, but the soul is also imprisoned.”