The Empress’ Livestream

Jiang Pengji clicked her tongue in annoyance when she noticed Miao Man laying lazily on the ground outside and called, “Come in.”

Yang Si heard his lord’s order and immediately scrambled up in the dark to make his way inside.

From the darkness, he heard his Lord say, “Jing Rong, I’ll give you a chance to become a Wulin master. Don’t mess up later.”

Yang Si wondered what his lord was doing!

He was already worried that his lord might be hurt, but now his lord had decided to throw another heavy task right at him without any explanation!

He reminded himself again that, despite being a lord, she was also still just a teenage princess. As her personal advisor, he had no choice but to follow orders.

Yang Si lit up the bronze lamp in the dark and finally got a view of the room inside. He looked down at the female corpse on the ground and goosebumps rise from shock.

He messed up his clothing, then removed them to wipe some of the blood off of the wounds on the woman’s body, then finally put his clothes back on…

The audience in the livestream watched wide-eyed as Yang Si put on his “disguise” right in front of them.

Devil’s Blazing Sun: My RongRong is so talented; he can plan and strategize, lead an army, and even clean up after his lord.

Rotten Cat Gossip: Hahaha, what kind of name is RongRong? His name is Yang JingRong… Uh, but the nickname RongRong is also very nice.

Yang Si had only managed to hastily disguise himself before he heard countless and concentrated footsteps outside, along with the sounds of metal armor clanking together.

Yang Si shot a bitter glance at Jiang Pengji, who was pretending to be asleep, and walked out of the camp with a bloody sword.

Concave: Lighting in place, camera in place, actors in place, prepare the microphone—RongRong, you may start your performance!

Yang Si breathed heavily as he glared at the group of people rushing over and called out with righteousness in his heart, “Oh, what a chief of Zhe County! My master trusted you so and called you a brother. How dare you slander us with such lowly hands!”

Xu Pei had been wronged in the extreme, but at this point, the foul stains of his own wrongdoing could not be washed away.

He didn’t find an excuse immediately. Instead, he was more concerned about Jiang Pengji. If Liu Xi was killed, his entire life would be over.

“Sir, as you know, I, Xu Pei, am a man of honor. How could I ever do something as dirty as this? If you are insistent on pinning the crime on this humble man, I shall not argue with you. But my brother’s safety is of the utmost importance right now. Please allow me to see my brother!”

Pei Xu let out a sigh of relief when he saw that Yang Si was only enraged and not in tears. At least this proved that Liu Xi was still alive.

Yang Si stood face to face with the group for a while before he finally moved, reluctantly letting the troops into their camp.

Under the glare of the bright light, the interior of the camp was completely exposed before their eyes.

A female corpse was on the ground beside the bed where the person they were concerned about slept soundly. Her body smelled of wine and her cheeks were rosy from the alcohol. Xu Pei’s tightened heart finally loosened as he shifted his attention toward the corpse. The military generals who rushed in all inhaled a cold breath.

The neck of the corpse was broken and twisted. A dagger pierced the body from front to back.

Such… merciless hands!

Yang Si lowered his gaze and sneered. His back remained straight like a sturdy pine growing on top of a mountain as he said, “If my lord hadn’t remained conscious until I arrived, it would’ve been too late. Chief Xu, if you don’t have an appropriate explanation for this, I will not let this matter go! The dancer you brought us was raised by your county, so why did she become an assassin out for my lord’s life? Her actions almost killed my lord!”

Xu Pei then quickly attempted to explain things and wash away suspicion.

“Please remain calm, sir. This was a villainous plot orchestrated by someone else. It was not the intent of this humble man to assassinate anyone. Sir, please look at this person’s face, there is an extra layer of skin on it! To be completely honest, the manager of the dancers found that the dancer who was killed had the skin on her face ripped off. That’s when we discovered that something was wrong. When I heard about this, I immediately took my men to come to save the lord. But thankfully, our brother here is a master of martial arts and killed the assassin.”

Yang Si’s heart thumped in surprise as he watched someone rub against the sides of the woman’s face, exposing a layer of human skin just as the chief said.

Quiet Huang ShaoTian: My god, I can’t believe there’s been such a plot twist!

Clear Moon: Oh my goodness, did the ghost stories production team jump in here? A real-life human face mask!? I think I’m gonna throw up!

Sweet YuXiao: The atmosphere here is getting a little too heavy, let’s talk about something more fun. RongRong is quite good at acting like a martial arts master…

If this had been a normal stream, the audience would’ve mocked Yang Si as the power level five RongRong shamelessly pretended to be a master.

However, at the sight of this cruel scene, even the most casual of all audience members weren’t in the right mind to energize the stream.

As the layer of skin was ripped off and the bloodied face beneath it became exposed, everyone felt disgusted and lost the energy to check out how she looked.

“This person can’t be any more dead. Throw the body out and feed it to some stray dogs. It’s bad luck to keep it here…” Xu Pei waved his hand and ordered his men to take away the female corpse.

The crowd looked down at the lolling head of the corpse. Chills went down their spines as fear crawled up their skin.

Xu Pei gulped his saliva as he moved away from Yang Si quietly.

If this martial arts master threw his hands at him, his life could be in danger.

Yang Si didn’t call out the slight movements he noticed coming from Xu Pei. While his eyes were still filled with gloom, his tone remained at a high-class level worthy of a master.

“I will guard the lord outside this tent tonight in case of emergency. If you have no other business here, please leave. When my lord awakes tomorrow morning, I will report this to her myself. Chief Xu, you must be responsible and settle this matter for us!”

“Naturally, please rest assured.”

Xu Pei gestured as he let out a small sigh and left with his men.

Even though Yang Si was standing guard inside the tent, he was still concerned and set aside a portion of his elite team to guard the camp.

Yang Si finally let out a long sigh after Xu Pei left.

Asking a level-five to act as a top martial artist was simply too much.

As he prepared to leave, Yang Si glanced towards his sleeping lord… Despite knowing that she was just pretending to be asleep and having a stomach full of questions to ask her, he held it all in and waited outside for a whole night in his bloodied clothing.

He was already mentally exhausted. With the help of proper resting time, he quickly fell into slumber.

Just before falling asleep, Yang Si felt something else cover his body. The slight coldness from before disappeared and was replaced by warmth.

Jiang Pengji’s pupils flashed in the dark. Like a wisp of smoke flowing through it, she swiftly moved around the tent out of sight of the guards. Without disturbing anyone, she left the camp and ran swiftly in a certain direction.

The audiences in the livestream saw that Jiang Pengji wasn’t turning off the stream and realized that there was more to come. They stayed up late into the night until she finally moved. However… What was she planning on doing out in the middle of the night? On top of that, the background became more and more deserted as she ran, and occasionally the audience could see pieces of human bones lying around, sending chills down their spines…. Had the livestream channel finally decided to give up on the battle royale theme and turn into a supernatural channel?

Yet the imagination of the audience was proven wrong.

Jiang Pengji had run out here in the middle of the night to find evidence to prove her theory.

She followed the spiritual markings on the red-dress dancer to this location but didn’t find a corpse.

“Tsk… Things are going to get a bit more interesting from now on.”