Huang Beiyue doesn't know what it lead into this, honestly, she is being honest when she said she had no idea what happened.
So let's recap for a bit what happened 50 hours ago shall we? Maybe Beiyue can understand what happened then.
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"Are you proud of what I have become grandmother? Or should I even call you that?" she didn't know what expression she wore at that time but it's definitely not pleasant.
If their own horror, realization, disturbed, and guilt. There are many more there one she did not bother to identify, three things she's certain sit hat the soul crushing guilt is there and the realization of what the events prior to this had affected her. Perhaps more than they would ever know. And there wasn't any disgust there. Fear, there is fear. Fear of what she would become if they let her succumb more.
Children are easy to influence, easy to be painted with colors. Easy to control. They will take the form of what shapes them.
It all comes down to Experience, their environment, the society and the people inside it.
Huang Beiyue has been surrounded by these Filthy and miasma like environment. The protection Huang Huiwen and Dongling gave her, even the Emperor and the Empress Dowager are but a glass lid over a Pure white Lily flower, they protected her from most damage but the soil is still corroded. She'll be corrupted, she'll wilt, and turn rotten.
And when the protection was removed. Any chances of saving the flower vanished along with it.
Perhaps in a way, an ugly bitter way, they are from the same family. Not necessarily by blood, but on its own twisted bond.
Perhaps, she can say she's far worse than them now. That thought alone made her want to hurl.
"Yue"
"Grandmother, do you still have the face to call my name affectionately?" Huang Beiyue asked lightly despite the feeling the is rolling inside her like a typhoon, finds herself petty enough to spit those venomous words.
To vent the anger she could not. The sorrow, sadness…. The Resentment and hatred.
Empress Dowager flinched.
"Beiyue, Royal Grandmother is still your Family." Huang Zhangye put up a weak defense that he knew Beiyue would puncture mercilessly, like a hot red knife fresh from the fire and into the wet toilet paper.
Her mouth opened without he consent and spat out words that she would definitely would not phrase it like that if she's clear headed, "And my mother isn't?! A tiger will never eat its cub but abandonment is not the same thing as eating, now does it?!"
What a filial child, diverting the hate unto himself. A martyr.
Beiyue knows its accounted for but she still hates and resented. It's unreasonable to be honest, to divert the hates and resentment to those who are innocent. It's uncalled for, however, even if she regrets this later, she's not in the right mind for now, her rationality is slipped our of her grasp like clenching on sand.
Most of all, Beiyue hates because she understood and would have done the same if she was in Huang Zhangye's place. Just the thought of it made her breathless.
Huang Beiyue felt terrible when more than Huang Zhangye had recoiled by that sharp remark. She felt sick, she felt... Unlike herself.
It's no good, she's not in the stable situation… She's not in the stable mind…. Her emotions is all over the place…. She felt hysterical.
Where is Lian jie? Where is Akane onee chan?
Beiyue wants them, she wants them now! Beiyue could faintly feel them merged with her at this point but she wants to hear their voice. She needs their reassurance.
Huang Beiyue felt suffocated. That she want to escape. She wants to leave.
"Miss…?" Dongling stepped forward before it even escalate more than they can handle.
Huang Beiyue is not rational enough to think of a better analogy but it's like the call from Dongling is a slap to snap her back to reality.
It's like everything became stagnant immediately.
Her eyes landed on Dongling and Zhong Lei, they didn't falter.
Everyone she can see, well, at least those who are sincere enough, wanted to help but hesitated cause they have no idea how to.
But these two didn't falter despite of…. Whatever she is becoming.
"Not afraid?" Huang Beiyue tilted her head slightly, "Your miss was turned into a monster." The instability is already bleeding to her tone.
"We're not afraid, Miss." They answered, firmly and determined.
"…. Hmm" she chuckled at the sheer hilarity of it, "Foolish"
Foolish.
What a pair foolishly endearing children.
Can you not see it already? What is becoming of her?
Beiyue doesn't know anymore, she couldn't think clearly with all her mind being fuzzy.
"Miss, let's get you washed up."
"En" she began to walk towards them, far cry of composure befitting of her status, the blood trailed is not pleasant in the eyes.
In the back of her mind, she had heard the faint voice akin to a shout like of Ye Lian about the engagement.
Xue Che.
Huang Beiyue doesn't want that annoying ones as her fiance.
Her impression is still incredibly fresh, so she had pushed this matter and took advantage on what just happened.
Even if she is…. Unhinged and deranged, she looked at the Emperor, "Unless the Xue Clan's Childe do not want his head crushed by me, we break up our engagement if he doesn't, he can come and talk and get acquainted to my fist or my feet."
The threat is clear given they just witnessed her wipe the floor with a sword sage level into a ground meat paste and crushed his head as if she stepped on a watermelon. Same cannot be said at Xue Liu who's… Who's remains can only be seen with a mosaic filter to protect the readers visual innocence.
It really should be impudent for her but she knew that the Xue Clan, with Huang Jing there to witness what she just did, he will definitely crack down on them if they won't dissolve the engagement.
There is no love lost between Xue Che and Huang Beiyue. In fact, they haven't officially met at all!
Her gaze looked at everyone, taking in their action, before her gaze landed on supposedly delicate hostage Prince.
His gaze made her frown.
He…. Feng Lianyi looks happy! He looks as if he has found something interesting. As if….
It's the gaze like he's telling her without words, "You're just like me."
Huang Beiyue honestly did not want anything to do with him and the trouble that would await her should she brush her finger on that darned can of worms.
Beiyue felt cornered by that gaze.
Terrified even.
Without a word, Huang Beiyue reached out towards Dongling and Zhonglei, pausing when she took a good look of her blood stained hands.
As if sensing her hesitation and willing to retract her hand, Dongling and Zhonglei reached out and grasp her hand firmly, not carrying if the blood that's stained in it.
In front of everyone's bewildered eyes, flames erupted underneath the three children, like swirling tornados before it dispersed, they vanished.
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Arriving in Princess Royal Mansion, Huang Beiyue did not move, she is staring at their hands. Now stained with blood of her enemy.
It's like a promise.
That despite of what she had become, they accepted her still. Despite what….
"Miss, don't think too much, no matter what, we will follow you." Dongling reassured as one of her hand clasp on the one she held. The tight hold seemed to ground Beiyue a little bit.
"That's right, so don't push us away, you're stuck with us now." It should be impudent but Zhonglei did not care, formality is shit in times like this.
Huang Beiyue did not know the reason why, or honestly remember how, but she had broke down and cried her heart out. Right there in the yard.
She had no concept of time, she just cried and cried and they held her tightly.
Huang Beiyue seemed to have cried herself to sleep because she really doesn't remember what happened to be honest.
Dongling must had washed her up because she woke up, she removed the icy cold cloth on her eyes.
Yeah, definitely Dongling.
She eyes would have swollen shut it it wasn't wiped away by cold cloth.
It's in the middle of the night, her clone dispelled and she immediately learned she's been out for two whole days...
Huang Beiyue sighed and went to reach her hand under her pillow, one of her clone had dispelled when it's mission was done and brought back the objective.
The Million Beast Jade.
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It's an OP item that has so much trouble than it's worth, to be honest.
Huang Beiyue looked at it. Honestly, it's been tugging on her for a while since she had appeared, and her clone searched for it. Now, it's hers. She was honestly surprised what it was and wary about it.
Million Beast Jade, something like this is a hot potato in her hands.
She quietly pulled out a black box and put the Jade inside, closed it and placed several seals. She paused and then pulled out a scroll then sealed it inside, she proceed to seal it on on her skin, by the hip, least place people usually get injured and it's hidden.
That being said, Beiyue searched for memories of the clone that substitute her while she's asleep. The one that had to deal with the mess she had left.
By memories alone, her clone is annoyed to no end. There are many visitations to either apologies, to comfort, or to check if she's alright.
The Emperor is currently her legal guardian and he managed her fief first until she is of age.
Word had already spread out of what happened, even with the huge size of Linhuai Capital, it was so fast. How can it not be when the news that Huang Beiyue, famous trash, had used Executioner Battle and killed a Sword Sage Level single handed, Patriarch of Mu Clan, Mu Mixin.!!! As it's eye catching 'Headlines'. It works like a click bait at this point!
Not to mention, the servants who had to clean up the mess fainted out of terror and shock, and those that had personally witnessed it happened has a lot of thing to say and nothing at all.
Huang Beiyue, after all this time is a frightening existence. She's now perhaps above Sword Sage level and she's only 8 years old.
Her future prospects is really bright, but she is… Like insane at this point and not right in the head. So there's a faction torn there. Will the Princess be a Rising Star or will she succumb and be its ruins.
Or just about anything that anyone cooks that fits with that dramatic lines.
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There is this what's bothering her since the Princess Royal Mansion is in Lockdown.
There is this bug that is trying to get in.
A persistent and annoying Bug.
Huang Beiyue's brow twitched as another attempt to get in her Mansion is at it again.
Feng Lianyi, don't you have anything better to do?! She scolded in her heart, irritated.
Which is why she felt no remorse in activating the other defense mechanism. Electrocute him till he goes away.
Huang Beiyue's lips curled up in satisfaction when the poking on the barrier ceased.
That will definitely give her a few days of peace.
A person who has that kind of gaze is bad new to her despite his delicate appearance. His good looks played the part despite his white clothes.
Huang Beiyue calls bull if he's as delicate as he proclaims to be.
"Family's youngest, coherent now? You have time, right?" Ye Lian called out to her in her mind.
"Yes, I have. What is it, Lian jie?" Huang Beiyue drank the water her clone got for her and she laid down on the bed.
"Come to our mindscape, there is something you should see." Ye Lian said, solemn and serious.
Huang Beiyue closed her eyes and let her consciousness sunk in deeper.
She landed on top of the water, it's dark all around and it's like a cylinder tunnel or a pipeline lined with torches to at least lit it up.
Ye Lian stood there, waiting for her. In contrast to the sleeping robes Huang Beiyue wore, Ye Lian is clad in Black Cheongsam that hugged her figure and the delicate embroidery of golden blossoms, her hair is up in a fancy bun with elaborate braids and golden maple leaves hairpins, she also wore a pair of heeled shoes, and drape on her arms is white fur robe. Black and Gold is the color of the Ye Family, she exuded the aura befitting if the eldest daughter of such illustrious family, despite how so out of place she is in this gloomy place and. With that coloring she still shine bright.
She's really beautiful, Ye Lian absolutely adore wearing Cheongsam and wears them in every chance she get. Golden eyes stared at Huang Beiyue, "Yue, you're here."
"Yes, jiejie, what is it?"
"Come, follow. Akane is waiting for us."
Ye Lian turn back, they are using water walking technique so this the water won't disturb and make too loud splashing sound.
"Where are we going?" Beiyue dared asked.
"Akane and I found something that…. Interest and disturbed us at the same time. Hopefully, our family's Red Tomato had not made a move yet."
"Something in our mindscape?" Huang Beiyue had thought of many possibilities, "Something harmful for us?"
"….. Yes and no." Ye Lian answered as they are nearing towards where she can see Akane is standing. Akane, despite being a Shinobi had wore Miko get up instead, her hair is tied with a white ribbon. She's facing towards whatever she's staring up front.
Ye Lian finally stopped and Huang Beiyue stood between the two, awfully young in contrast to these two.
Which bring us to the situation right ow. She recalled the events earlier and she still couldn't understand why this is happening other than chunking it into just having a bad week.
To be honest, it made her feel and realized that... Sanity isn't always Overrated.
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Beiyue finally understood what made Lian jie and Akane onee chan feel complicated.
In front of them are gigantic black pillar like bars with golden seal inscriptions on it.
Huang Beiyue felt it clicked like gears coming into place.
Sewer like mindscape. Check.
Jail bars. Check.
In front of her are a pair of huge red eyes that glowed in the darkness that hid its form. Check.
And she's facing it in her mindscape.
"So my… Hosts finally decided to visit little old me~" rumble of laughter caused the water to churned, like the sea during a storm.
Dark amusement, ridicule and curiosity with the tint of fascination and sarcasm. Check.
"Little Yue, take a closer look…." Ye Lian said with a strain in her voice.
"We seemed to be this world's Jinchuuriki." Akane finished.
Huang Beiyue felt it made a lot of sense and at the same time not.
With no choice, she summarized what, without a doubt the three oft hem is feeling, "What the fuck?!?!"
The being behind bars had the cheek to laugh at their faces.