Chapter 12: Gu Tian's True Face [2]

Knock* Knock* Knock*

I knocked on the door while smiling as I saw the sweat dropping from the maid's forehead, with a terrified expression on her face.

"Oya, peeing already? It's not even time for the main course and you're peeing already?" I said, laughing at her fear of what was about to happen to her.

After a few seconds, the door automatically opened, and I saw my mother standing inside, looking at me with a smile.

"Tian'er, finally you arrived. I've been wanting to tell you that Mei Mei, my daughter-in-law, somehow mysteriously awakened a new spiritual root," my mother said as she embraced me in a hug, her face showing a surprised expression.

"Uh, yeah, I accidentally found out about it somehow..." I said, making up a lie so that she could truly accept her as her daughter-in-law after her newly awakened spiritual root.

"Ooh, so that's why you chose her as your second spouse from thousands of other women." My mother said, giving me a thumbs up as she seemed to already know the rank of the spiritual root Mei Mei had awakened.

"Where is she though, mother?" I asked, truly confused as I hadn't seen her since I came back from my seclusion.

"Oh, about her, I've given her some resources so that she can cultivate to become strong enough to be your wife. And it seems you've also progressed in your seclusion, reaching the early Saint realm," she said, analyzing me as I smiled.

'Haha, if only you knew that I'm already in the Immortal realm, what would be your reaction then,' I thought while laughing inside my own thoughts.

"Oh, and why is Zhung Li in that state, Tian'er? Did she make some kind of mistake?" Gu Meina asked, looking coldly at Zhung Li, who shivered under her gaze.

"Kind of. She entered my room without even knocking while showing attitude to me and even using your name without any courtesy," I said with a smile as I looked back at Zhung Li.

"Oh, why haven't you killed her yet then? Do you feel pity for her maybe?" Gu Meina said as she looked at Zhung Li with a cold glance.

"No, I dragged her because she said that as she's your personal maid, she can come to my room whenever she wants and that she is in a higher position than me," I said, adding a little bit as I looked at her with an evil smile.

"Oh, so the girl I picked up from the slums and made my personal maid is starting to show her true face, huh? As expected from the girl I picked up from the slums," Gu Meina said as Zhung Li started crying because of her words.

"Now crying, huh? Is that an attempt to make me feel sympathy toward you, pathetic bug?" Gu Meina said as she released her killing intent, making the crying Zhung Li fall to her knees while tears still dropped from her eyes.

"Alright then, Tian'er, you can go for now. By now, Mei Mei should have already come out of her seclusion, so you should go and meet with her. She was really eager to meet you and don't worry about zhung li, I'll make sure she has a "pleasant" time here," she said, changing her face and looking at me with a beautiful smile as I agreed and then headed toward the hallways that lead to the cultivation rooms with different Qi qualities.

As I passed through the low-level cultivation rooms mostly used by the servants or guards, I heard the sound of a woman shouting.

Hearing it, I used my Qi to cloak myself and make myself invisible as I walked toward the place where the sound of the woman shouting came from.

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"Y-you bitch, how dare you become young master's wife. You don't deserve him. He only deserves someone like me, the princess of the Yang Country," Jiaohong, the girl that Gu Tian kicked and smashed into the walls at his coming of age ceremony, said proudly while still shouting at Mei Mei, who looked down.

"..." Mei Mei didn't say anything and just silently stayed there, looking at the ground with her head down.

"Huh? What's with that attitude of yours? You think you can ignore a princess like me just because you became young master Gu's spouse? You bi—" As she was about to curse Mei Mei once again, a shadow of a tall, handsome man with long black hair appeared as he grabbed Jiaohong by her neck.

"It seems there are still some stupid, brainless people out there trying to harm my little Mei Mei even after giving a warning... hmm, I seriously need to punish you and use you as an example of what will happen if somebody tries to do something to Gu Tian's property," Gu Tian said as he grabbed her neck, making her unable to speak.

As he put some pressure on her neck, a cracking sound came as he stopped grabbing Jiaohong's neck. She fell to the ground and shouted.

"Ahhh ahhhh, m-my neck, ahhhhhhhhhh y-you fucking bitch, you couldn't do anything to me, so you called young master here haaaaaa ahhhh," shouted Jiaohong.

As she was about to say more, Gu Tian just kicked her once again, smashing her to the wall beside her.

"Urgh, this bitch's stupidity is killing my brain cells," he said. "*Snap*" As he snapped his fingers, a man in ninja-like attire appeared out of nowhere and cupped his hands as he bowed to Gu Tian.

"Haojin, take her to the torture center and let the boys enjoy her body. After that's done, destroy that lowly country of Yang and spread it amongst people so they know the consequences of doing what I strictly forbid," Gu Tian ordered the ninja-like man called Haojin, who bowed once again and took the unconscious Jiaohong to the torture center.

"Ugh, Mei Mei! Why didn't you reply to her or just kill her? Didn't I say before that if you want to stand alongside me, you have to have the resolve to deal with people like these?" Gu Tian scolded Mei Mei, who just looked down even more.

"Sigh, if you're going to stay like this, then alright, you can go your own way. I'll take back my word of making you my spouse," Gu Tian said, making Mei Mei stunned for a second before she came running toward him.

"Please, h-hubby, please no! I-I can't live without you. I'll even do that and change myself for the sake of being alongside you," she said, starting to cry.

"Sigh, alright! I'll just give you a chance," Gu Tian said, still looking ahead without showing any expression to Mei Mei as he started to walk away.

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'Gotcha! Now, this way, I'll slowly make you more obsessed with me, even more so than your previous obsession with the original Gu Tian in the original timeline.' I thought as I hid my expression from Mei Mei, as the expression I currently had was too demonic.

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(A/N: Alright, in this chapter, we can see that Gu Tian is not just a brute, arrogant, and evil, but he's manipulative. He's making sure that Mei Mei has an insane amount of obsession towards him to make sure she won't change because of the interference of the world's will [even though he already has the fateless villain]. I would have loved to write about his past to show why he's like this, but since I can't, I'll just tell you one thing: he was born this way.)

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