2.5

Wei Ying closed her eyes and took a deep breath before walking into the hall.

"Call Elder Jun for me," Wei Ying ordered a passing servant.

"Yes, Master Si," the servant bowed and scurried away to call Elder Jun.

"Look who graced my hall," Elder Jun's leisurely voice came from the main hall's door and quickly a scrawny man with a handsome face and fine lines at the corner of his eyes and mouth came in.

"What brought my dearest Si Yu over?" Elder Jun took a seat and sipped the tea a maid poured him.

Wei Ying didn't answer and smiled instead, "Elder Jun, I have made a cream especially for you. I'm sure you will like it once you try it." Wei Ying took a small jade box and passed it on to a maid standing beside her and serving tea.

"Oh," Elder Jun tried to keep his voice mild but the light that shone on his eyes spoke of his eagerness.

Wei Ying's lips twitched as she watched Elder Jun apply the cream to his hand and mumble to himself.

Elder Jun was someone obsessed with beauty, otherwise, he wouldn't have taken an interest in skinning people and wearing their faces. Like the one he was wearing now…

Wei Ying shuddered a little and looked down at her hands. Si Yu had seen Elder Jun's face before. It was all scarred and burned.

The day Si Yu saw his face, Elder Jun wanted to kill her, but Si Qianfan wouldn't let him.

Elder Jun had been holding a grudge ever since. In order to appease him, Si Yu researched a lot of products and gave them to the evil man.

Si Yu was someone with a weak constitution. Since young, she could only cultivate so much internal strength. With her zero combat skills, everyone in the sect except the servants and maid could defeat her if she didn't use poison to protect herself.

Although Si Yu had a high status in the sect, many people looked down on her luck of brute force but these same people were afraid of her as she could make them wish for death.

Si Yu didn't care about what others thought of her and wholeheartedly devoted herself to researching medicine and poison.

Elder Jun sniffed the cream on his hand and nodded in satisfaction, "Tell me, dearest Si Yu, why did you come here?"

Wei Ying smiled and looked at the maids around.

Elder Jun waved his hand, "All of you get out."

The maid obeyed and left the hall and closed the door behind them.

"Elder Jun, I'm sure you heard about how I'm tasked with taking care of Miss Dongmei personally, right?"

Elder Jun touched his face lovingly and nodded, "I did hear about such a thing. Is it true?"

"It's true," Wei Ying nodded her head and made her face flush, "Every day, I have to look at Miss Dongmei's heavenly face." Wei Ying sighed with an infatuated look, "Those phoenix eyes, that button nose, and those kissable pink lips. I'm verging on obsession, Elder Jun."

Wei Ying looked at Elder Jun and showed an obsessive look with lustful eyes.

"Elder Jun," Wei Ying stroked her hands together and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "I heard you have Miss Dongmei's brother with you."

Elder Jun's eyebrows shoot up and he let out a crackle. "Dearest Si Yu, I can finally see you are interested in something other than your poison. What a wonderful day to witness."

Wei Ying licked her lips and showed a shy look. With eager eyes, she looked at Elder Jun, "Elder Jun, I promise to return him to you." Wei Ying raised five fingers, "Give him to me for five months, no just three. I only want him for three and I will bring him back to you."

Elder Jun hummed, "That's such a tough thing to ask. I like him quite a lot myself."

"Elder Jun, I researched many beauty products and I made a breakthrough, I'm sure you would like what I have to offer." Wei Ying hesitated and showed her wrist, "Elder Jun, do you remember the scars I had here? Look how much their color lightened."

Elder Jun practically flew to Wei Ying's side and took her wrist in his hands. With an erratic breath, he touched Wei Ying's wrist again and again, "My dearest Si Yu," Eder Jun's voice was hoarse, "How can I not give you what you ask for? You can have that boy for as long as you want."

Wei Ying's breath also became heavy, and her expression turned intoxicated. Wei Ying shuddered in disgust at her perfect display, but she still held on and showed a perverted expression, "Elder Jun, I can't thank you enough. Si Yu promises to make more breakthroughs in her research."

"That's my Dearest Si Yu," Elder Jun reluctantly straightened his back, but his eyes remained fixated on Wei Ying's wrist.

"Then Elder Jun, can I have him now?" Wei Ying asked cautiously, her eyes bright and dreamy.

Elder Jun crackled in happiness and nodded again and again, "Anything for my Dearest Si Yu. Now follow me."

Wei Ying stood up and slurped her saliva again and followed Elder Jun, the whole way she talked and talked, "I've seen that boy before. He looks exactly like his sister. Since I can't touch Sect Leader's beloved, then I can only accept her substitute. Elder Jun, how is that boy's temper?"

Elder Jun walked with a bounce in his steps, "Quite fiery if I'm being honest. Such temper, it's rare to find among the people I choose."

"Just the way I like," Wei Ying nodded, "Only a fiery temper would suit that heavenly face. If he is submissive and a scaredy cat, then his beauty would go down several notches."

"My Dearest Si Yu has the same taste as me."

"That's my honor, Elder Jun," Wei Ying smiled shyly.

After walking for a good while, the two reached a garden.

Elder Jun touched something, and a staircase appeared on the ground.

The stench of feces and the putrid smell of decomposing bodies hit Wei Ying's nose like a tornado.

Wei Ying felt her stomach lurch in disgust but she held herself back from vomiting.

Along the way, Wei Ying's heart became colder as she watched countless dead bodies in cells with maggots eating on them.

As the two passed, imprisoned men and women shivered and trembled as they huddled in the deepest parts of their cells.

Elder Jun and Wei Ying finally stopped in front of a cell. Li Dongshu was holding his knees and glaring daggers at them.

Beside him, a bowl full of food was overturned and the shards of a cup of water filled the cell.

Wei Ying's expression was sullen.

When she saw Elder Jun looking her way, Wei Ying frowned, "Is he refusing to eat?"

Elder Jun sighed, "I tried countless ways to force him to eat and drink but he wouldn't budge. I'm also quite helpless." Elder Jun had a heartbroken expression on his face, "Look at how dry his skin became. Soon, he would be so skinny, and he would lose his beauty."

"Don't worry Elder Jun, I would definitely make him eat. I have my ways."

Elder Jun smiled and nodded, "Go, go, take your little sparrow. However Dearest Si Yu," Elder Jun looked at Wei Ying with a half smile, "I don't want to see even a small scratch on him."

Wei Ying showed a disappointed expression, "Oh."

Elder Jun let out a laugh, "I'm just kidding. As long as you don't touch his face then it's fine."

Wei Ying's eyes brightened and she looked at Li Dongshu with coveting and cruel eyes, "Don't worry, Elder Jun, I also like his face. I will definitely take good care of such a face."

Elder Jun nodded and opened the cell's door.

Wei Ying bent down and went in. As she stood in front of Li Dongshu, Wei Ying patted his face and held his chin, "Little boy, you will follow this lady from now on, do you understand? If you serve this lady well, I will give you whatever you want."

Li Dongshu's face was pale and full of exhaustion. His lips were chapped and he looked so weak.

Li Dongshu couldn't resist Wei Ying's manhandling and could only glare at her with fierce eyes.

However, such eyes coupled with such a face and tired demeanor could only make one covet him even more.

Elder Jun watched from the side silently. Seeing Li Dongshu showing such a seductive look, Elder Jun tsk-ed. If the brother was this good, just how better was the sister?

Now he could understand where Si Yu's obsession came from.

Wei Ying held Li Dongshu on her shoulder and looked at Elder Jun with a smile, "Then Elder Jun, I would take him first. Once I'm done with him, I will bring him to you."