<h4>CHAPTER 40 (1): PRINCE HAO HAS ARRIVED</h4>


    “You’re even being obstinate! Why are you not yelling anymore? Your flesh is thick so it doesn’t hurt when the cudgel hits your body right?” The pce maid continued to hit her forcefully as she taunted. The pce maid’s teeth were even tightly clenched in exertion.


    Ruo Yuan bit her lips, every word that slipped out of her mouth feeling as if they had been squeezed out. “I’m not fat...and I’m not ugly either. My skin is not thick. I am going to face myself properly...”


    “Wow, you’re even full of enthusiasm! I’ll thrash you to death!” The pce maid’s cheeks swelled as she raised the cudgel high up, about tond it on Ruo Yuan.


    Su Xi-er nimbly bent down to pick up arge stone. With a flick of her finger, it shot forward to squarely impact the pce maid’s forehead.


    Pow! The pce maid yelped in pain and let go of the cudgel in her hand. Thump! It happened tond right on her leg.


    With how thick and long the cudgel was, its impact was muchrger than that of the stone. The pce maid couldn’t help but suck in a breath of cold air before hollering, “Ouch! It really hurts! Which goddamned person mounted a sneak attack on me?”


    Su Xi-er looked at the pce maid coldly. She picked up the cudgel beside her feet and raised it high up. Her eyes seemed to be ted with ayer of frost. “Just now, you were quite good at beating people. Seeing as how I haven’t beaten someone before, how about I try it on you?”


    The pce maid was frightened by Su Xi-er’s demeanour and frantically shook her head. “Don’t hit me. Don’t.” Then, she noticed that although Su Xi-er’s clothes weren’t from the Laundry Service Bureau, they were coarse clothes. It looks like she isn’t a pce maid with status in the imperial pce.


    “You’re not from the Laundry Service Bureau. What right do you have to hit me! Which pce are you from?” The pce maid ignored the pain and hooted arrogantly again.


    Su Xi-er chuckled. “You don’t have to care about which pce I’m from. Tonight, I am simply going to beat you.” Not bothering to wait any longer, her hand raised the cudgel beforending it heavily on the unbridled pce maid.


    For some people, you would feel it was unfair for you to hit them even once. On the other hand, for some other people, nobody would sympathise even if you beat them to death!


    The thick and long cudgel hit the pce maid time and again. Her unbridled arrogance vanished, leaving her curled up like a frog with her hands and feet to try to block the blows as she cried out in pain.


    Ruo Yuan was in extreme pain and felt that she was about to pass out but was brought back when she had heard Su Xi-er’s voice. She turned her head to take a look and her eyes widened.


    It’s really Su Xi-er! She hase! She hase to save me!


    “Su Xi-er...” Ruo Yuan called her weakly.


    Su Xi-er turned around to nce at Ruo Yuan before she threw the cudgel to the ground and nced at the pce maid coldly. “What crime did Ruo Yuanmit that caused you to beat her?”


    The pce maid was beaten until she had no strength, but she suddenly remembered that Ruo Yuan was transferred from the Pce Side Quarters. This pce maid who suddenly appeared is someone Ruo Yuan knows from the past. In that case, she’s also a pce maid from the Pce Side Quarters!


    Fury erupted in her heart when she thought of this. She red at Su Xi-er ferociously. “She simplycks a beating. Who asked her to be fat and ugly? Furthermore, the top instructed for us to purposely make things difficult for Ruo Yuan and torment her until she dies.”


    The expression in Su Xi-er’s eyes became colder with each word that came from the pce maid’s lips. She raised her right leg and stepped on the pce maid’s hand. “No decent personcks a beating. Only someone like you, who people wouldn’t mind being beaten to death, deserves such a fate.”


    Increasing the force exerted by her foot, Su Xi-er watched as the pce maid’s breathing became increasinglyboured.


    There was someone from the top who instructed the pce maids in the Laundry Service Bureau to deliberately punish Ruo Yuan? Is this true or fake? Who exactly instructed that? A probing look emerged in Su Xi-er’s eyes.