"Come on, let's cut to the chase. If you have something to say, just say it," Lin Qiao didn't beat around the bush. "Why did you bring me here?"
Meng Erliu smiled. "Your Majesty the Empress Dowager is still as straightforward as ever. But I'm sorry. Today, I can't let Your Majesty have your way."
Can't let her have her way?
... What did that mean? Was it that he wouldn't tell her why he'd brought her here?
Meng Erliu looked at his own arm, curling one corner of his mouth into a sinister smile.
At first, Lin Qiao didn't look closely, but now all her attention was drawn to Meng Erliu's actions. Even without looking closely, she could see clearly.
Meng Erliu's arm was covered in purple veins!
The veins were extremely prominent, one by one. The purple and blue veins were intertwined, like rolling mountains, hideous and swollen. The original skin couldn't be seen at all.
If the veins on a fitness coach's body were like a small swimming - pool, then those on Meng Erliu's arm were like a rough and surging sea.
Moreover, the veins on a fitness coach were based on well - developed muscles. Although Lin Qiao didn't really like them... at least they looked healthy.
But on Meng Erliu's arm, it could be seen that the original muscles had shrunk a lot and were completely overwhelmed by the horribly growing purple veins.
The scene was extremely strange.
Meng Erliu stared at his arm quietly for a while, while Lin Qiao was so tense that she didn't even dare to breathe deeply, for fear that Meng Erliu would make a move the next moment.
"Lord Meng, the person has been brought."
Lin Qiao was startled. Wasn't that Qu Yinghan's voice?
She turned her head and, sure enough, it was Qu Yinghan, but she had changed her outfit.
Before, she always had an otherworldly and cold - looking style. Now, she was wearing a black form - fitting dress with a cinched waist, looking very capable.
Mainly, she was good - looking, so she looked good in anything.
What a great figure...
As soon as Qu Yinghan saw Lin Qiao, her pupils dilated quickly and then returned to normal.
"Lord Meng, we agreed not to involve others..."
Lin Qiao began to understand. In the original novel, Qu Yinghan sought revenge by finding an old monster hiding in a remote mountain forest. This old monster had been angered by Luo Nanchen when they were treasure - hunting together with Li Gusong, so he agreed to help Qu Yinghan take revenge.
But after she had transmigrated into the book, for some reason, the plot had changed. Luo Nanchen hadn't gone treasure - hunting, so there was no such old monster in the mountain forest.
So, this part of the plot had changed to Meng Erliu helping Qu Yinghan take revenge. The two of them were using each other.
But... she never would have thought that the big boss was actually Meng Erliu?!
Didn't this guy know his own fate in the original novel?
How dare he go against Luo Nanchen?
Wasn't he afraid of ending up the same as in the original novel?!
"This is my own business. It has nothing to do with you," Meng Erliu came back to his senses and finally stopped looking at his arm. "Throw the person into the furnace and then leave. You're done here."
Qu Yinghan looked at Lin Qiao again, as if she was reluctant to give up and wanted to save her.
Alas, this girl was so kind and merciful to her, but why was she so stubborn about Li Gusong?
Maybe this was love. Lin Qiao didn't quite understand.
Suddenly, a flame burst out from Meng Erliu's head. Although the scene was quite shocking, there was also a strange sense of hilarity.
Lin Qiao instinctively tried to run, but Meng Erliu grabbed her back. "Lin Qiao, I've given you chances, again and again. Just now, I still wanted to give you another chance, but what about you?"
Meng Erliu's eyes turned blood - red, with a sinister glint in them.
Lin Qiao felt that the situation was a bit wrong. Was Meng Erliu... possessed? Blackened? Or had he fallen into the devil's way?
No matter which situation it was, it was very unfavorable to her. Meng Erliu was pinching her neck and lifting her off the ground directly. The purple veins on his arm were becoming more and more obvious, as if they were swollen and filled with blood.
But his strength was much greater than that of an ordinary muscular man.
Lin Qiao's face turned red. Her breathing became increasingly difficult. "Meng Erliu, listen to me..."
"There's nothing to say," Meng Erliu's eyes were blood - red. After thinking for a while, he smiled wickedly and put Lin Qiao back on the ground. "Oh, right. I can't let you die too soon. After all, it's really fulfilling to let a person watch the people they trust be tamed, humiliated, and trampled under the feet of the people they don't trust."
Saying that, he picked up the glass of milk that had been on the ground when Lin Qiao had just woken up and drank it all in one gulp. "That would be really good. Just thinking about it makes it seem good, doesn't it?"
Although it was milk when he drank it, a trace of bright red blood remained at the corner of Meng Erliu's mouth.
Lin Qiao was a bit frightened.
This rhythm... why couldn't she keep up?
"The glass I prepared for you was really a good thing, the blood sac of the eel shark. It's good for replenishing qi and blood. I didn't expect Her Majesty the Empress Dowager to be so unappreciative. What a pity."
Lin Qiao immediately felt physically uncomfortable and wanted to vomit.
The blood sac of the eel shark was the blood - filled sac from a deep - sea fish. It was a kind of animal organ and also the place where excretions passed through. When it was first cut off, because the physiological cycle was still going on, it would secrete white milk, which was very convenient for storage.
It was a very disgusting medicinal material for replenishing blood.
And now the liquid in the cup was white, which meant it had been cut off from the eel shark not long ago...
Damn it, she had even thought it was milk...
What on earth did Meng Erliu want to do?
"Your Majesty the Empress Dowager, you can enjoy yourself here. I'll take my leave first," Meng Erliu came back again. "Oh, right. I know you and the Emperor are having an affair, so I've specially brought the Emperor here too. A moment of spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Your Majesty the Empress Dowager, don't be shy."
Before his voice faded, a large group of people rushed in from all directions, vast and dense. But all of them had Luo Nanchen's face.
One by one, they were all Luo Nanchen, exactly the same.
Meng Erliu... was really crazy.