Chapter 464: Chapter 403: Gouge Out Both Eyes

“Sangsang, you’re still mortal. Traveling back in time over and over will take an immeasurable toll on your body!” Quan Jin protested.

An heir, no matter how important, was nothing compared to her. He couldn’t just stand by and watch his partner risk her life again.

The last time took ten years. This time will be another ten. What about the next?

No one could be sure.

She would be traveling back in time all alone, with none of them by her side. If she ran into danger…

“Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing. I don’t necessarily have to go back ten thousand years. It would be best if I’m lucky enough to find the exact moment the Demon Lord implanted the Exquisite Heart in Little Treasure.”

“But…”

After much pleading and persuasion from Sang Luo, Quan Jin and the others had no choice but to agree.

As she stepped into the Space-Time Tunnel once more, Sang Luo’s heart was surprisingly calm. Her opportunities were limited. Each trip back in time was followed by years of slumber. She wasn’t confident she could find the exact moment the Demon Lord implanted the Exquisite Heart in Little Treasure, so she chose to return to the Beast World of ten thousand years ago instead.

…

“Princess, spare my life! I should not have spoken out of turn! I should not have pleaded for the servant Yun Qi!”

SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!

The sound of three loud slaps rang out.

Sang Luo jolted awake to a splitting headache, staring blankly at the unfamiliar scene before her.

A slender young man knelt on the floor, dressed in simple, roughspun clothes. From his attire, he appeared to be a low-ranking servant.

His face was a swollen, red mess. THUD! THUD! THUD! He slammed his head against the ground several more times, splitting the skin on his forehead and spilling fresh blood onto the floor.

The other servants in the hall looked on with pity, but not one of them dared to step forward and intervene, terrified of being implicated.

“…So noisy.”

The female on the high seat let out a quiet rebuke. The hall below immediately fell silent. Even the pleading male servant froze, looking up in terror.

The young woman reached up to rub her temples, her brows furrowed. She seemed to be in an exceptionally bad mood.

In reality, Sang Luo’s mind was a chaotic mess. The senseless clamor from the people below only unsettled her further, making her feel even more irritable.

’What is happening?!’

’Sang Luo… no, this probably isn’t her body anymore.’ Minos had once told her that when traveling back in time, there was a small chance of a soul being swept by temporal turbulence into the body of a person from that era. It was the best way to hide, especially when evading pursuit from the Heaven and Earth Laws. Even if the body was destroyed, the soul would still have a chance at rebirth.

’That must have been what happened to her last time.’

’And this time, too.’

“Princess, are you alright? Should I call for the witch doctor?” a youth from the Deer Clan dressed in green robes asked as he stepped forward. He had a delicate, innocent face and a voice as soft and gentle as water.

Sang Luo gave him a faint glance.

Yi Xing’s heart trembled. ’I’m the Princess’s most favored servant, but the look she just gave me was so cold, as if she didn’t even recognize me.’

“Ahem, I have a bit of a headache. All of you may leave. I wish to be alone for a while.”

Sang Luo composed her expression and waved her hand, dismissing them.

’I haven’t figured out the situation yet. I can’t risk exposing myself. It would be a small matter if people discovered there was a new soul in this princess’s body, but disrupting the timeline would be a catastrophe.’

’I can’t break the original owner’s character. Even if it’s an act, I have to make it convincing.’

“Princess, your health is precious. We should have the witch doctor take a look, just in case this develops into a chronic ailment…”

“I said I’m fine, so I’m fine! Do I need a mere servant like you meddling in my affairs?” Sang Luo snapped.

It was clear this princess was a spoiled, short-tempered tyrant. No one dared to say another word, and they all quickly withdrew.

’That was close. I almost blew my cover.’

Sang Luo breathed a sigh of relief and slumped back onto the couch.

She quickly used her spiritual power to search the young princess’s memories.

The next second, her eyes widened in shock.

’This young princess’s name is… Princess Ji Wan?!’

’Is this just a coincidence… an ill-fated connection… or something else entirely…’

Sang Luo quickly dismissed the first possibility.

’It really is the Princess Ji Wan she knew—the one and only young princess of the Qingqiu Red Fox Clan.’

’She had gone back one hundred thousand years!’

Sang Luo rubbed her temples. Her headache was getting worse.

’Oh well. Since I’m here, I’ll make the best of it. Being a princess will make it easier to search for the materials I need… Besides,’ she had a small, hidden thought, ’I’m curious about what really happened between Yan and Princess Ji Wan back then.’

To maintain her persona, Sang Luo quickly skimmed through the young princess’s memories from the past few years. The more she saw, the more horrified she became. This princess truly was a cruel and tyrannical monster.

She had fallen in love at first sight with the Young Master of the Qingqiu Nine-tailed Fox Clan after seeing him on the street. From then on, she began a relentless pursuit, constantly fawning over him and throwing unimaginable amounts of money his way, all just to win a single smile.

But the Young Master remained aloof, neither rejecting nor accepting her affections.

Later, when Princess Ji Wan learned that the Young Master had someone he loved and was soon to be engaged, she nearly went mad with rage. She goaded her father, the Clan Leader of the Red Fox Clan, into going to the Nine-tailed Fox Clan to propose marriage.

When the Clan Leader refused, she smashed her head into a stone pillar, nearly killing herself.

The Red Fox Clan Leader had only this one treasured daughter. Seeing her do that nearly scared him to death. In the end, he had to swallow his pride and go to the Nine-tailed Fox Clan to propose the marriage.

But the Young Master didn’t want to marry her, so naturally, the Nine-tailed Fox Clan Leader wouldn’t agree either.

Eventually, the two sides negotiated an agreement: the Young Master of the Nine-tailed Fox Clan would return all the money and jewels Princess Ji Wan had given him over the years.

When the accounts were tallied, both clan leaders were stunned.

The Red Fox Clan excelled at business and generating wealth; nearly half of the shops and banks in Qingqiu were in the Red Fox Clan Leader’s name. The fortune that the young Princess Ji Wan had lavished on the Young Master was equivalent to almost half of the Nine-tailed Fox Clan’s entire treasury. It even included a priceless heirloom of the Red Fox Clan!

The Young Master of the Nine-tailed Fox Clan stammered, unable to produce such a sum.

Meanwhile, Princess Ji Wan was still insisting on a marriage alliance with the Nine-tailed Fox Clan.

Somehow, the Nine-tailed Fox Clan eventually agreed to the marriage.

To show his sincerity, the Nine-tailed Fox Clan Leader offered a generous dowry and agreed to have his son marry into her clan.

When Princess Ji Wan heard the news, she was so happy she couldn’t sleep all night.

On the day of the engagement, a grand procession arrived, but she did not see her beloved Young Master among them.

The one the Nine-tailed Fox Clan sent for the marriage was not the Young Master, but an illegitimate son—an unsightly young Black Fox.

Princess Ji Wan flew into a thunderous rage. It was said that she tortured the young man so brutally that night he was barely recognizable as a person. The next morning, he was carried out covered in blood, his life saved only by the intervention of a witch doctor.

Princess Ji Wan had been the one to force the marriage. To send him back now would be a tremendous loss of face for her.

But she never treated the young man well. Although he was supposed to have been married in with the status of a Main Husband, she only gave him the title of a mere servant. He wasn’t even a Concubine, his status just a sliver above that of a bed-warming boy.

In the face of this humiliation, no one from the Nine-tailed Fox Clan came to demand an explanation. It was obvious that no one cared about this illegitimate son who had been sent off to be married.

This only made Princess Ji Wan hate the young man even more. She vented all her resentment on him, and her days were filled with either humiliating and cursing him or torturing and whipping him.

Just two days ago, she had even ordered the young man’s eyes to be gouged out. She then gave the Eye of the Spirit Fox to an auction house, where it sold for a fortune—compensation, she claimed, for the wealth she had lavished on his brother over the years.

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