Little Purple

1.046 An eye for an eye

"I wonder what this bad feeling is..."

The moon was shining brightly above Qing Bo's head, he was at the garden in the palace, waiting for the Crown Prince to arrive. After a while, he moved to a shadowy place, hidden from the moonlight.

"Master?" A grey clothed man walked up to Qing Bo. "Master, are you alright?"

Qing Bo sent him a glance, and the grey clothed man nodded, indicating that there were no spies around.

"No, I am not alright, something is bugging me. I knew that I should have pretended to be sick and stay at the residence."

"But even if you were sick, as long as you could still walk, I think the Old Master would have still dragged you to the palace. After all, the one that summoned you was the Crown Prince himself."

"I should have broken my legs and stayed at the residence then." Qing Bo frowned. "Who cares about the Crown Prince! I need to get rid of this bad feeling in my chest, and I think the only way to do that is to go home early—no, go home, now!"

"..." The grey clothed man watched Qing Bo's pale expression. "If it's bothering you that much, allow me to go back to the residence first."

"Oh, that's a good idea."

"But, why the residence?" The grey clothed man asked. "I thought that no one is there since Miss Guang said she wanted to go to the fastival and eat a lot of meat tonight."

"Ugh... I am not sure, this feeling is like a fire burning my heart. I feel very insecure. Maybe I forgot something at home. Anyway, do me a favor and check the residence, okay?"

"Yes, Master."

"Remember to not let anyone see you. Father asked you to be my attendant in this meeting, so if he sees you sneaking around in the residence, it will raise his suspicions."

Qing Bo's eyes gleamed dangerously. Ever since he graduated and was accepted as a government official right after, his father had been very cautious toward him. Must be because Qing Bo's real power was starting to show little by little.

"That man must still remember his sins toward my sister and I. He must be scared that I will surpass him and get my revenge one day. I would never let him forget about the days he made us starve, especially when he just kept quiet even though he knew what that mother and daughter pair did to Guang'er!" Qing Bo clenched his fist when the image of Qing Guang's red ankles come to his mind. "The damned pair of bitches tied her upside down like a pig when she was just a nine-year-old girl!"

"Master..." The grey clothed man could not help but feel anger too. "If only your maternal grandfather, the previous minister, knew they treated his grandchildren like this..."

"Tch!"

Qing Bo could not forgive himself for not being able to protect his precious sister in the past. He knew that unlike him, who the old man could use to elevate his position, Qing Guang was just an eyesore. In the past, he and Qing Guang foolishly thought that if their father would love them, their painful days in the Qing Residence would end. But when he became an official and his father started to act weird, he finally realized that such a man would never give them a thing like love.

"No matter how smart, talented, and beautiful we become, that man only thinks of us as tools to elevate himself in the eyes of society."

"He is a heartless man. It is a pity that the Old Master was smart." The grey clothed man said. This man was Qing Bo's new servant. Qing Bo realized that he needed capable underlings to fight his old man, so he began recruiting people secretly. The grey clothed man was one of them. At the surface, he was just another servant that served the Qing family, but in reality, he was the son of the butler that once served the Qing twins' birth mother. His mother was saved by the Qing twins' mother, and that made him very attached to the Qing twins. In the Qing Residence, he was the only servant Qing Bo could trust.

"He knows that I was on your side." The grey coated man sighed.

Qing Bo smirked. "Still, I won't lose." He suddenly flicked his finger, and the grey-clothed man just disappeared.

"Sorry that I kept you waiting, Young Official Qing. I just got out of a meeting with your father."

Qing Bo looked back and smiled, immediately kneeling. "This official greets the Crown Prince."

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PAH!

Another slap landed on Qing Guang's stony face. "You insolent girl! How dare you look at me like that!"

PAH!

Qing Li, who was told to act like she was the wronged one, could not help but flinch every time a slap landed on Qing Guang's face. It had nothing to do with feelings of guilt. At first, she merely flinched because the sound of her mother's slaps was very loud; it must have hurt a lot at impact. But now, she flinched because of Qing Guang's attitude. She was staring at her mother with such cold eyes that it took her breath away.

Qing Li gulped and prayed that her sister would not look her way, or her act would diminish because she would be too scared of her.

"You murderer! Xixi is Li'er's precious cat! Look at her, she cried so much when she hugged Xixi's dead body. She refused to let Xixi's body go!" Qing Li's mother screamed on and on. "You cruel girl, I want to lock you up in the shed, but your sister said that she would forgive you if you apologize to her."

"Beg for forgiveness from your sister, now!"

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