Chapter 148
After they left, the silent Boyis finally spoke. "So, the only reason you didn't kill me before was because the time wasn't right?"
Qiu Chi nodded. "What else did you think? You didn't flatter yourself into believing I spared you because I liked you, did you?"
Boyis didn't answer that question, asking another instead. "Why are you so powerful? I've been thinking, we vampires are so strong, yet we have the werewolves, a race that can restrain us. Even if they aren't as powerful as we are, it's still possible for us to die at their hands."
"But you... you're too powerful. It's as if you have no weakness, no rival. Why is there no one in this world who can restrain you?"
Qiu Chi hadn't expected Boyis to ask such a question.
She couldn't help but laugh. "That's a good question, but I have no intention of answering it."
Boyis stared fixedly at Qiu Chi, then suddenly tried to lash out, but she restrained him with ease.
"Even now, you still don't know your own place?"
Boyis swallowed. "I'm going to die. Give me a mouthful of your blood. Just one."
Qiu Chi lashed out with her whip, striking him directly across the face.
"Not a single drop. I was going to give you a quick death, but you just had to court disaster."
After whipping Boyis until there wasn't a single presentable spot left on his body, Qiu Chi threw him out into the sun.
Boyis laughed. "It's useless. I hate the sun, yes, but it doesn't have the power to make my soul scatter like it does for those low-level vampires."
Qiu Chi laughed as well. "How will you know it's impossible if we don't try?"
The sun, indeed, couldn't make Boyis's soul scatter.
But what if she had pulled a few other strings?
Now, Boyis was inside a formation, and it felt as if more than ten suns were shining down on him.
It wouldn't make his soul scatter instantly, but it caused him extreme pain and suffering. His body felt as if it had begun to slowly dissipate.
At this, Boyis finally began to panic.
"This is impossible! How can this be? How did you do this?"
"I was wrong, I know I was wrong! Just kill me directly! Stop torturing me, give me a quick death..."
Boyis had only ever found sunlight annoying before, but he never knew it could be so terrifying.
He began to wail in agony, begging Qiu Chi to grant him a quick end.
Qiu Chi listened with an impassive expression, taking the opportunity to tell him, "I was going to give you a quick death, but who told you to be so reckless and covet my blood? You fell into my hands and still couldn't grasp the situation. Who's to blame? No one but yourself."
Even at this point, Boyis tried to be stubborn. "Your blood is too delicious. I'm a vampire; it's my nature. It's like you humans eating a meal. I just wanted to have one last good meal before I died."
Qiu Chi was left speechless by Boyis.
She wasted no more words, simply adding a few more suns. Boyis soon vanished, wailing in agony.
After dismantling the formation, Qiu Chi left directly.
A few days later, when Nate and Hall returned to the castle, it was completely empty, save for the werewolf corpses that hadn't been dealt with.
It wasn't that Nate didn't think of looking for Qiu Chi.
But Hall said, "Since she left on her own, she clearly doesn't want us to find her. If we go looking, I'm afraid we'll displease her. You've seen her power with your own eyes."
Hall's words made sense. Nate dismissed the idea of sending people to find Qiu Chi and began to properly act as the king.
After leaving, Qiu Chi first took a stroll over to the Main System's location, only to find it still deserted.
The System said cautiously, 【He probably won't be back anytime soon. He might have other places to go, I just don't know...】
"Oh? So what do you know?"
【I... I'm useless. I don't know anything.】
Qiu Chi chuckled lightly. "You're quite self-aware."
The System quickly agreed, the picture of cowardice.
Qiu Chi didn't stay there long before heading to the next world.
An ordinary, ancient small world.
The heroine, Pei Siyi, was a crown prince who was a female disguised as a male.
The Pei Dynasty struggled to produce heirs. In Pei Siyi's generation, there was only her, a single daughter, born when the reigning emperor was thirty-five.
Thirty-five wasn't actually that old, but this was ancient times, an era where one could marry in their teens. For an emperor with a harem of three thousand beauties, to have only a single daughter by the age of thirty-five was unusual.
The emperor couldn't possibly hand the Pei family throne over to a collateral branch, so he could only have Pei Siyi disguise herself as a male to let others know that he had an heir.
The emperor didn't pay particular attention to Pei Siyi, as he still hoped to produce other sons in the meantime.
But by the time Pei Siyi was fifteen, the emperor still had no other children. Left with no choice, he had to place all his hopes on her.
It didn't matter that she was a daughter; the child she would bear after her marriage would still carry the Pei bloodline.
After resigning himself to this fate, the emperor began searching for outstanding young talents, wanting Pei Siyi to produce an heir.
Poor Pei Siyi had been disguised as a boy for fifteen years. During that time, her father paid her no mind, and her mother had been killed right after she was born. Now that her father finally paid attention to her, it was only to make her produce an heir.
And that wasn't even the most tragic part for Pei Siyi.
The most tragic part was that the emperor found a suitable young talent—a handsome and brilliant Tanhua Lang (Third-Rank Scholar).
However, the Tanhua Lang already had a beloved. But when the emperor spoke, refusal meant the execution of his entire clan, so he was forced to marry this Princess Qingping who had appeared out of nowhere.
Even after obeying the imperial decree and marrying Pei Siyi, the Tanhua Lang, whose heart belonged to another, did not treat her well. He even brought his beloved into their manor, showing no regard for Pei Siyi's dignity.
Pei Siyi also felt she had wronged him, so she tolerated whatever he did.
But Pei Siyi was the Crown Prince. Even if the Tanhua Lang had come from a humble background and had never met the Crown Prince before, was it possible for him to never see the Crown Prince?
The fact that Princess Qingping and the Crown Prince looked identical was something that couldn't be hidden for long, especially from someone as close as the Tanhua Lang.
But the emperor didn't resolve the issue. He was solely focused on getting the two to consummate their marriage so that Pei Siyi could conceive a child as soon as possible.
Of course, while pushing Pei Siyi to conceive quickly, he didn't forget to keep trying to produce an heir himself.
Pei Siyi was in great agony.
Her husband was as cold as ice to her, acting lovingly with another woman right in front of her. She endured it. After all, he was pitiful for being forced to marry her, and besides, she had no feelings for him, so it didn't provoke her.
Her imperial father had made her disguise herself as a boy for fifteen years, only to then make her become a woman and marry someone else, completely ignoring her circumstances and caring only that she conceive a child soon...
Pei Siyi truly couldn't bear it any longer.
With things as they were, was there any need for the Pei Dynasty to continue existing?
Someone, please start a rebellion!
Just as Pei Siyi was suffering unbearably, the rebels arrived.
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