Rebirth As a Fatuous and Self-indulgent Ruler

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

Ouyang was still silent.

Looking Ouyang in the eye, Liu appeared very confused and said, “Can’t you tell me that? Brother Ouyang?”

Ouyang let out a long sign and said slowly, “On the night of the tenth day after you disappeared, a man in black came to attack me while I was sleeping in the room.”

Speaking of that, Ouyang paused. Liu was very surprised because he has already guessed that man’s identity!

Sure enough, Ouyang continued in a soft voice, “At the beginning, I didn’t know who he was, but I knew it after we fought for a while. There was something wrong with Shi Qingzhou’s internal strength and that method was taught by our master, so I knew his identity. I tried to talk with him, but he didn’t listen to me at all and attacked me more and more fiercely. I didn’t want to hurt him, but I didn’t want to be hurt, either. So we fought in the room.”

“You knew his identity, so you must’ve restrained yourself. But Shi Qingzhou is almost as powerful as us. How did you hurt him?”

“I didn’t want to hurt him, but he got closer to me and made me hurt him.”

Liu was surprised. “Why? How could that happen?”

Ouyang shook his head. “I don’t know. I couldn’t figure out what he was thinking and he didn’t communicate with me at all. I think that… he’s very horrible now, just like a beast that can’t control itself. Sometimes, I can feel that he’s looking at me murderously. I thought he was angry because you and Long Xiaoyuan disappeared together, but…”

Speaking of this, Ouyang took a deep breath. “You know what? I specially asked several Shadow Guardians, including Ying Feng. They all felt that Shi Qingzhou is horrible and murderous! It doesn’t matter if he’s only hostile to us because we may have some conflicts. However, if the Shadow Guardians also…”

Ouyang stopped speaking.

There was an expression of shock on Liu’s face. He murmured, “How could it be…”

“I have no idea. Suifeng, Shi Qingzhou is really very horrible. There’s another thing… Four days ago, I felt that Shi Qingzhou was in a very bad mood and almost lost his mind. He didn’t allow the Shadow Guardians to follow him and went to the Songye River alone. The Shadow Guardians obeyed him. I was worried, so I secretly followed him.

By the Songye River, a man was fishing. Shi Qingzhou went to ask him whether he knew something special about the river. That man said he didn’t know. It was nothing serious. But later, the fisherman’s friend came over. His friend thought Shi Qingzhou was good-looking, so he accosted him. Shi Qingzhou didn’t feel good, but… instead of scolding or beating that man, Shi Qingzhou… killed him.”

Liu was stunned. “He… killed that man?”

“Later, the fisherman whom Shi Qingzhou asked about Songye River went to help his friend. Then, he was also killed.”

Liu was shocked.

“Perhaps the fisherman’s friend had gone too far, so his death was understandable, but the fisherman didn’t deserve to die. I’m afraid that Shi Qingzhou can no longer control himself. You also saw that the color of his pupils has become much deeper. It began to change after he killed. It was a little bit deeper at first, but it wasn’t that obvious.”

Liu’s body was a little stiff. He found that this matter had gone out of control.

He didn’t expect that Shi… had been possessed.

Ouyang looked at Liu and continued, “Three days ago, in a small county near Songye city, the Shadow Guardians found out several people who were related to Eastern Darkness. Originally, the Shadow Guardians were responsible for eliminating those people, but that night, Shi Qingzhou went there and killed them in a very brutal way.

Instead of directly stabbing those people to death with his sword, he wounded them and made them gradually lose all the blood. You wouldn’t imagine how horrible that was… They were just like the poisonous creatures in Quanzhou. I think Shi Qingzhou has completely lost his mind when he was killing those people. Or perhaps, he was extremely sober, but he just wanted to do that.”

Liu’s body trembled slightly.

“Suifeng, you know what? Killing is not that horrible. It’s bad when Shi Qingzhou loses his mind, but it’s no big deal. What I am worried about is that when he kills, he actually is able to control himself, but he doesn’t want to stop at all. If that’s the case… it would be horrible!”

Liu took a deep breath. “The sequelae of the poisonous insect… are so serious.”

“It may have a lot to do with the poisonous insect, but Suifeng… I think there are other reasons,” Ouyang said softly.

Liu was stunned. “What do you mean?”

“Shi Qingzhou’s character also matters. Although he’s from a family of generals, I think that he and his father are very different. I have heard of many stories about General Shi Qingshan. Although General Shi doesn’t have blind allegiance to the emperor, he is willing to die if the emperor wants him dead. I think General Shi has been mentally prepared for this. In other words, if the emperor wants to kill him, he won’t resist. But Shi Qingzhou is different. If the emperor wants to kill him…

I think he will kill the emperor!”

Liu’s eyes widened. “You mean… he wants to kill the emperor?”

Ouyang shook his head. “That’s not what I mean… Why would he do that? If Long Xiaoyuan was still a tyrant, Shi Qingzhou might have killed him. You should have found that Shi Qingzhou has his own secret forces that were trained in the past. However, Long Xiaoyuan changed later and the two of them fell in love. I don’t know how Long Xiaoyuan won his affection, but he made it. And Shi Qingzhou has taken him as the most important person in life!

Shi Qingzhou likes to go to extremes. If someone hurts Long Xiaoyuan, he’ll surely make him pay. Take Eastern Darkness as an example. As the backstage manipulator, Eastern Darkness repeatedly attacked Long Xiaoyuan and threatened his position. You see what happened later. Every person who is related to Eastern Darkness has been killed. Of course, some people betrayed our nation and deserved to die, so we helped Shi Qingzhou with that. However, some people didn’t commit serious crimes and they were also killed…”

Liu took a deep breath. “Shi Qingzhou wants to solve the problem once and for all.”