Matriarch Rules, Scumbag Begs - Chapter 46

Chapter 46: He is the prey

The red dress fluttered, like a gossamer. Lu Yan’s evil intentions rose, and he couldn’t wait to undress, but just as the red dress fluttered down and blocked his line of sight, he suddenly felt a dull pain in his chest, and then his whole body was lifted into the air!

He was kicked away by Shen Qiuci. His back hit the beam pillar heavily, and after falling to the ground, he coughed out a mouthful of blood.

Lu Yan widened his eyes in surprise, looking at Shen Qiuci.
How could she, with her delicate frame, have such great strength?

At this moment, Shen Qiuci had already put her red dress back on. She sat calmly on the edge of the bed, propping her cheek with her hand, looking at Lu Yan with a cold smile.

Lu Yan suddenly felt a chill, an inexplicable sense of fear spreading through his heart. His mind went blank, and he didn’t care about anything else.
He struggled to get up and ran towards the door.

His hand was on the door latch, and he was about to open the door and leave when he felt a gust of wind with a faint fragrance behind him. Lu Yan turned around in shock and saw that Shen Qiuci had somehow stood behind him and was holding his hairpin tightly.

Lu Yan shouted in fear: “Help! Someone, help!”

Outside, the performance in the courtyard was in full swing.
His cry for help was drowned out by the music, and no one heard it.

The next moment, Shen Qiuci pulled Lu Yan’s hair, and he did a backward somersault, his back hitting the ground heavily again.

“Pu!” Blood spurted out of his mouth, and he struggled to get up, but he couldn’t.

Lu Yan looked at the woman in front of him, dressed in red, standing with her back to the light, exuding a cold and intimidating aura that made his heart tremble.

“What… what do you want to do?” Shen Qiuci lowered her eyes, looking at Lu Yan with a gaze as cold as if she wasn’t looking at a living person. “Didn’t Eldest Young Master Lu say he wanted to have fun with me?”

Her gaze slowly fell on the pool of blood on the ground, and she smiled coldly. “This is the kind of fun I want.”

Every move she made, every word she spoke, carried a huge sense of oppression. Lu Yan stared at her fixedly, thinking to himself: I know Shen Qiuyu! That woman is timid and weak, it’s impossible for her to be this person! Who is she? What does she want to do?

After a moment of distraction, Lu Yan forced himself to threaten her. “This is the Minister’s mansion. If anything happens to me, my father will not let the Danyang Marquis’s mansion and your Shen family off!”

“Oh?” Shen Qiu Ci curved her eyes. “What difference does it make that this is the Minister’s mansion? When Minister Zhang’s son died, weren’t there also guards patrolling outside? You can see that they can’t do anything to me.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Yan’s mind buzzed, as if it had exploded.
He knew Minister Zhang’s son and was close to him.

They used to go to brothels together, but later, when they got tired of courtesans, they set their sights on respectable women.

What she just said…
Could it be that the murderer who specifically targeted noble families in the capital… was her?!

Lu Yan felt fear for the first time. He crawled to Shen Qiu Ci’s feet without any dignity, grasping the corner of her red skirt, his voice trembling as he asked: “You… you’re the wanted murderer the court is looking for?”

Shen Qiuci raised her eyebrows at him and smiled, but said nothing. It was her silence that scared Lu Yan even more!

“You… you can’t kill me! I’ve never offended you!”

“I’ll give you silver! I have a lot of money! Or whatever you want, just tell me, and I’ll satisfy you!” He forced a flattering smile at Shen Qiuci, and then watched as she slowly squatted down, pulled out a plain silver hairpin from her hair bun, and placed it in her palm, holding it out in front of him.

Lu Yan stared at the hairpin, it looked ordinary, except the pin head had some dark red stains, like dried blood.

Not until Lu Yan’s gaze fell on the middle part of the hairpin.

There was a small inscription on it, a character ‘Di’.

This was… this was Pan Di’s hairpin!
He recognized it!

The day Pan Di crashed into the Minister’s mansion gate and died, Lu Yan had ordered people to wrap her up and bury her in a mass grave.

The hairpin was found at the gate, and the servants asked him what to do with it.

He glanced at it and thought it was ominous, so he told them to throw it away.

How could… Pan Di’s hairpin be in Shen Qiuci’s hand?!

Lu Yan looked at Shen Qiuci in disbelief, huge fear swirling in his eyes.

His neck felt like it was gripped by an invisible hand, making his throat tight, and he couldn’t say a word.

A yellowish liquid flowed out from under his body, uncontrollably.

Shen Qiuci glanced at him disdainfully, her eyes like frozen water, locking onto Lu Yan.

“You’re scared?”

“When Pan Di was defiled by you, she was more scared than you.”

“Twenty-six respectable girls in the capital, their reputations ruined by you, they’ll live in the shadow you cast over them for the rest of their lives, they’re more scared than you.”

“What right do you have to be afraid?!”

Lu Yan listened to these words and finally understood what Shen Qiuci was going to do. She was going to avenge those women who had been defiled by him!

“You’re going to avenge them? But when I enjoyed myself with them, they enjoyed it too! I gave them silver in private, more than I would give at a brothel!”

“Men and women enjoying each other is a natural order of things, what’s wrong with that?!” He shouted loudly, almost drowning out the singing sound coming from outside.

Shen Qiuci laughed in anger, “Your mouth is really tough.”
She turned the hairpin sideways, pressing it against Lu Yan’s neck, and slowly slid it across his throat. “I wonder if your life is as tough as your mouth.”

The tip of the silver hairpin had been deliberately sharpened, making it extremely sharp. When Lu Yan felt the cold sensation on his neck, his face contorted in panic, and he begged for mercy: “Don’t! Don’t kill me! You can’t kill me! You came here with Pei Yuanzhou today, and all the guests are outside listening to the music and watching the play. If I’m dead and we’re not at the banquet, you’ll definitely be suspected!”

“Is that so?” Shen Qiuci asked with a cold smile, “But who can see?”
Lu Yan was taken aback.

Shen Qiuci continued: “It’s you who brought me here, avoiding the heavy guards at the Minister’s mansion, and had people sing loudly outside to cover up any sound that might come from this room.”
“It seems I should thank you.”

Lu Yan stared at Shen Qiuci in horror, his eyes almost bursting with fear. For a long time, he had taken advantage of women, treating them like prey to be hunted. But today, he thought he was one step ahead, able to enjoy the beauty and the night without anyone noticing.
Little did he know… from the very beginning, he was the real prey to be hunted!