Chapter 25

" General Bai, are you going to give me the seal or not?", the emperor asked while grinning innocently.

General Bai gritted his teeth, he knew that the emperor is purely ruthless, he can even kill his sister, but now, he saw him again in a new light.

He knew that all pretense of cordiality is already non existent. He closed his eyes to calm himself and looks at his struggling family in front of him.

" No matter what, I will not let you use the kingdom's protectors for you own selfish reasons!", he said as he straighten himself while looking fiercely at the emperor.

The emperor was taken a back. Is this general insane? He can sacrifice his family just for his principle? He looks at the struggling people at his side. He saw how the general's wife, Yun Rou, crying while looking disappointedly at her husband.

' Hmp! This is how you get for not choosing zen!', the emperor darkly thought. He has been chasing Yun Rou since he was just a little child but Yun Rou is not even a little bit amazed or moved with his power even when he became the crown prince. Instead, she obviously chose to marry the love of her life.

Seeing her disappointed face right now gives him a weird sense of satisfaction.

" Are you sure you don't want to?", the emperor stands while lustfully smiling. He unbuckled his belt and walks slowly towards Yun Rou.

General Bai's eyes widen as he realize what the emperor is about to do to his beloved. He never thought that the emperor still has the audacity to harass his wife.

" You know that zhen has been in love with your wife eversince zhen was a child. Are you just going to let zhen make your wife my woman?", the emperor arrives in front of Yun Rou. He caress her frightened face, actually, even if he can't be saved right now, he would at least fulfill his greatest dream if general Bai still won't give him the seal, the dream of having the woman he really loves in his arms, screaming his name.

General Bai saw the lust, love and desire in the emperor's face making him lose his composure and attack him.

The emperor already envisioned his reaction and just wave his hands to signal his shadow guards. Yun Rou just glares at him fiercely, she wants to shout but she can't due to the cloth in her mouth. He caress her eyes, nose, up to her lips, and his hand stayed there. He gently massage her lips, enjoying the feeling of her soft lips against his hands, one thing that he can only dream before. Yun Rou tried to shake his hand away, but the royal guard behind her held her head in place, making her unable to move.

The emperor's hand went further in her neck, pinching her jade like skin gently. While she is glaring at him with hatred, he is looking at her with tender eyes.

Unsatisfied with just pinching, he lowered his head to taste her neck. He can hear the shouting of the general at the other side of the room and can feel the struggling of the woman he is currently kissing, but he doesn't give a damn as he is very intoxicated with his overwhelming feeling.

He frowned as he thinks that something is off, as unlike with his concubines, Yun Rou's skin doesn't have a taste, not even the taste of a sweat, but just shrugged it off, as the most important thing right now is the woman in his arms.

General Bai looks like he is already in the verge of insanity as he saw how the bastard of an emperor ravage his wife's neck like a hungry wolf. His world dimmed when he saw him licking her collarbones while cupping her two breasts with his hands. This is the very first time in his life that he wants to kill everyone he sees, as all he can see right now is plain red.

He fights with the emperor's shadow guards while his attention is divided at the scene before him. He can't stomach the fact that the emperor has been lusting his wife for way too long.

The emperor got carried away and immediately stripped the woman's clothes. He doesn't care anymore if all his subordinates can see him right now. His kisses went further down until he saw her full breasts in all its glory. He immediately let himself enjoys heaven in her two mountains as he keeps sucking left and right, unaware that a moan never even escaped from the woman's mouth. He is busy sucking her left breast when he remembers that he wants to taste her lips and so he did. He kisses her passionately but immediately stops at the extreme taste that he is tasting in her lips right now. The taste of rotting woods and plants entered his senses, making his lust went down the drain.

The general already stops shouting and fighting as he saw that the emperor already stops but his chest is still heaving up and down abnormally, as he is still containing his rage right now. He immediately saw the lying corpses of the shadow guards in front of him as he came back to his senses, making his eyes wide as he saw the way they died. He never even realized that he was already chopping those poor bodies that hard.

The emperor was puzzled so he looks at Yun Rou, he looks closely and found out that those areas that he kissed was not swollen nor riddled with love bites, instead, it looks like the skin is falling off like a sheet of paper, making his eyes widened in shock as a word suddenly pops out in his mind.

Puppet

" How dare you deceive the emperor!", the emperor bellows in rage as he looks at general Bai murderously. He never thought that he has been lusting over a disgusting puppet right now! The thought that it looked like her deepens the rage he is feeling inside even more! No one has the right to copy her face! He murderously thought.

General Bai can't still believe about what happened a while ago. Yes, he knew all along that the family he brought in the palace were just puppets, but seeing his wife's face being violated like that, he can't control the rage inside him. It makes him wants to kill the person in front of him, what more if it really was his beloved?

The founder of the Bai family was a general, but everyone in their whole kingdom is unaware that their founder is obsessed with one thing, puppets. Whenever he wasn't busy with all the military works he had to do, he will research more about puppets.

He knows that someday, his descendants will need puppets, whether it is for escaping or for facing problems.

All the Bai family members have corresponding puppets the moment they were born or the moment they entered the family. The scary and weird thing about the puppet refining skill that their founder passed down from generations to generations is that, it only needs the blood of the person it has to impersonate, and it will grow together with that person while fulfilling all of their wishes.

But the Bai family's puppets are stored in a place where only the family head and the ancestor of the family who refined the puppets knew, preventing the other family members to use them for personal purposes unless completely necessary.

Before he went to the palace, he already talked to their ancestor to gain permission to take his wife and children's designated puppets. As of this moment, his whole clan has already evacuated to a safe place away from the prying eyes of the emperor.