As soon as she returned to the palace, Hanna suddenly raised the hand holding the maid and looked at the sticky bloodstains on it. She said angrily, "Disgusting, truly a cheap maid, even the blood is dirty. Soone, strip her and give her forty lashes."
The maid was so terrified that her courage was utterly destroyed. She wailed, "Empress, spare my life... Empress, spare my life..."
The whip in Hanna’s palace is woven from leather strips, extrely tough, and although it looks light when it lands on the body, it can tear the skin and flesh open. Even three to five lashes are unbearable, let alone being stripped and receiving forty lashes. She would likely die before the forty lashes were complete!
However, Hanna was in a fit of rage and wanted to vent her anger on her, so how could she spare her? Therefore, she glared and shouted, "When the master wants you dead, you have to die. How dare you plead with ? Soone, add forty more lashes, beat her to death!"
The guards rushed forward, so grabbing hands and so pulling hair, ignoring the maid’s cries and pleas. In a few strokes, they stripped her and swung the whip to beat her.
"Crack—Crack—Crack—"
The crisp sound of the whip echoed, and the maid’s screams resounded through the night sky. Hanna sat on her chair, watching the maid being whipped, her flesh flying, and imagined her hated queen consort and concubines as the maid being punished. Gradually, her anger subsided.
At this mont, a maidserving outside rushed in and said, "Master, the emperor is here!"
"What? What did you say?"
Hanna was shocked and stood up from her seat, startled by the news. But imdiately, she saw the maid on the ground, bloodied and near death from the beating, and hastily ordered, "Quick, quickly hide her!"
Last ti when she abused the servants, Helan Hao had reprimanded her, saying she was violent by nature and not as kind as the queen consort, advising her to learn more from the queen’s aura and cultivation.
At that ti, she was almost angry to death but had to endure because Helan Hao had spoken. She hadn’t abused the servants in a long ti. Today, she relapsed because she was too angry and coincidentally was caught by the emperor. It was truly unlucky!
Even before entering the courtyard, Helan Hao heard the wailing of the maid from Hanna’s palace. His brows furrowed, and he quickened his pace.
Upon entering the sleeping hall, he indeed saw two guards dragging a severely beaten nude woman, intending to hide her behind the hall. The long bloodstains trailed across the ground, looking horrifying!
"Empe... Emperor, how co... you are here?" Hanna approached cautiously, peering at Helan Hao’s expression with a guilty conscience, asking anxiously.
Helan Hao said coldly, "If I hadn’t co, I wouldn’t have known you’ve relapsed into this violent and cruel habit again. Truly, a dog can’t change its habit of eating shit!"
With that, he shook off his sleeve and stord out angrily.
Hanna hurriedly grabbed his sleeve, shouting, "Your Majesty, listen to . I was just confused and did this montarily because they bullied and insulted , siding with the queen consort. You don’t know, I... I’m so distressed..."
Helan Hao sneered, "Rember when the queen’s horse was shot with a cold arrow by you, causing her to almost fall and die? After she fainted, she was whipped by you, and even now, deep scars remain on her body. Didn’t you bully others? The queen consort suffered so much grievance but didn’t say a word against you. Just now, she even urged to co here to accompany you. And you, rudely ruthless, enviously unsage, took your anger out on innocent palace maids simply because I didn’t co, venting your resentnt toward by beating the palace maid to this miserable state. This shows a sinister mind, maliciously involving other concubines to transfer your cris onto others. Such a person, how can they be worthy of being an empress?"
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