Shu Yue merely gave a faint smile, filled with deep-seated sarcasm and coldness. Slowly, she said, "Why weren't you so timid and fearful when you were harassing my father?"
Her words were spoken calmly, but her sharp eyes occasionally glanced at the sharp blade. They were sharper than the knife and colder than ice.
"I, I really know I was wrong. Please let me go. I'll never dare again, never..." This elegant yet dangerous move made Li Nao tremble all over. Big drops of cold sweat rolled down his forehead. Fear made his voice break into sobs.
Shu Yue let out a soft laugh and shook her head. There was a look of regret in her eyes, but they still exuded a piercing sharpness.
She slowly brought the dagger closer in the most graceful motion. Suddenly, she pressed down on Li Nao's struggling hand, only inches away from his fingers.
"What, what are you going to do?" Li Nao felt the coldness of the sharp blade brush past. In an instant, it seemed to seep through his fingers, chilling his heart and reaching the very marrow of his bones.
"You've been harassing my father again and again. How can I not give you some punishment..." Shu Yue said casually as she used the knife to gesture at his trembling fingers. She murmured to herself, "Do you think I should cut horizontally or vertically?"
She sounded as if she were calmly discussing the weather, but her lazy voice carried a cold menace. Her thin lips curled into a bloodthirsty and cold arc.
When she lowered her eyebrows, her features became even more defined. Her sharp sword-shaped eyebrows were set on her brow bone. Amidst her charm, there was a bone-chilling ruthlessness.
"Shu Yue, I, I beg you to spare me. Don't, don't cut off my hand..." Li Nao's desperate pleas only received Shu Yue's cold and expressionless response.
Shu Yue just lifted her eyes. A meaningful look shot out from the slits, cold as frost.
"Spare you and let you continue to harm my father?"
"No, I won't. I won't harass your father anymore. I promise!"
Shu Yue frowned coldly and said in an icy voice, "What can you promise with?"
"I, I..." Li Nao stammered and couldn't say a word. In the end, he didn't dare and couldn't think of anything to guarantee with.
Seeing him hesitate, Shu Yue smiled again, very softly but coldly. Her cold eyes made one feel as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.
After all, this was Kunshan, a place of cultivating immortals. Shu Yue didn't want to be stained with blood and attract unnecessary trouble.
She put the dagger away. Then, as if thinking of something, under Li Nao's terrified gaze, she watched as the cruel smile on her face gradually grew larger, blooming with a deadly toxicity in its brilliance.
She scanned up and down this false and ugly mask. Her cold and sharp gaze was like a knife, as if it were going to cut this face beyond recognition.
Suddenly, she said calmly, "Li Nao, I seem to remember that you have a book of gay erotic pictures, right?"
Shu Yue suddenly felt lucky that she still had this hold over Li Nao and could use it to control him.
"What, what do you mean?" This faint smile was precisely the most terrifying and fatal thing. Li Nao always had a bad feeling.
"Listen up. If you hurt my father again, I'll make your book public and ruin your reputation. You'll become infamous!"
Then, she squinted her eyes, looking a bit hazy but also carrying an undeniable coldness. "You tell me, if the disciples of the Kunshan School knew that the elder they respected was a complete lecher, do you think you'd still be that important elder in their hearts?"
These words exactly hit Li Nao's weak point!
For someone who cared so much about his reputation, this hold was enough to destroy his fame completely. Also, the position of acting sect leader that he had worked so hard to obtain would be ruined because of a single book.
At this moment, he both resented Shu Yue for this threat and was afraid that she would really expose this matter.
If that happened, he would be kicked out of the Kunshan School. Not only would his martial arts be abolished, but he would also be infamous for the rest of his life.
"Have you made up your mind?" The soft and low voice brought him back from his thoughts.
No matter how much he hated Shu Yue, for the sake of long-term plans, Li Nao finally chose to compromise.
He gritted his teeth, hiding the hatred in his eyes, and continued to play the role of a timid person on the surface. "I promise. I'll definitely never harass your father again. Can you, can you let it spare me?"
He looked at the strong body that was firmly holding him and pleaded with Shu Yue in fear, afraid that he would be devoured by the flood dragon the next second.
"Remember, if you don't want to end up disgraced, you'd better behave yourself. Do you understand?" After the warning, Shu Yue watched with satisfaction as Li Nao nodded nervously.
Thinking that she had the hold over him, Shu Yue wasn't afraid of anything. So she glanced at Long Mo. Long Mo immediately withdrew his body quickly and transformed into a human form after spinning.
Seeing Long Mo in human form, Li Nao recognized that this was the man with two horns who had saved Shu Yue from the brink of death last time.
Because the two of them were so imposing and he was alone, even though he had a lot of resentment in his heart, he could only bury it for the time being.
Naturally, he was a bit afraid of the two of them. He shrank back his body. His cowardly look made both Shu Yue and Long Mo sneer.
The sarcasm and disdain in their eyes were a blatant humiliation and provocation to Li Nao.
He hated! He resented!
"Consider yourself lucky today. But if I ever find out that you're making advances on my father again, I'll cut off your hands and feet and throw them to the dogs!"
"I dare not. I'll never dare again..."
Under the surface of his fear, he watched as the two imposing men left the wing room with contemptuous looks in their eyes, holding their heads high and taking elegant steps.
He didn't know when his eyes turned red with anger. Finally, behind the mask of fear, he showed his hatred without reservation...
This operation could be called flawless. Although they didn't really punish Li Nao much, after Long Mo's appearance, it was bound to leave a lifelong shadow on Li Nao.
Therefore, she thanked Long Mo for the first time. But in Long Mo's eyes, her sincere thanks were just a perfunctory gesture without any real sincerity.
"I've helped you so much. Is a simple 'thank you' enough?" There was a hint of dissatisfaction on Long Mo's face, but his eyes were filled with changing expressions.
Under the cold moon, the moonlight shone on him. The wind blew his clothes and black hair. Standing between heaven and earth, he looked even more handsome than a painting, noble and unparalleled, making others look up to him.
Shu Yue even had an illusion that such a person shouldn't really exist. And it was incredible that she could actually know such a god-like man.
She stared at him for a long time, which caught Long Mo's attention. Seeing that her gaze was a bit infatuated, Long Mo slightly curled his lips, looking extremely charming.
"What, are you charmed by me?"