Free Web NovelChapter 5: Chapter 5: Mu Tangfeng Almost Died of Anger
’Mad Lord!’
She complained silently. Setting aside how difficult the room would be to clean, just looking at the current state of He Hanshi’s cell made Shi Lan suspect he might have suffered a spiritual power collapse.
Under these circumstances, if she were foolish enough to actually open the door and go in, she’d be courting death.
Since it was her first day on the job, Shi Lan maintained her polite smile. "My apologies, Lord Mu, but we generally don’t open the cell doors."
Mu Tangfeng knew this, of course. But when he realized the Empire just wanted them to wait here to die, and he recalled what He Hanshi looked like during his spiritual power collapse, he couldn’t stop himself from taking his anger out on the female successor the Empire had placed before him.
He clenched his teeth and threw his unfinished meal container out of the window slot. The lid popped open, and the food inside scattered across the floor.
Seeing this, he smiled. "What about now? It’s not too much to ask for you to clean up outside the cell, is it?"
Shi Lan was so angry she could grind her teeth, but for some reason, the image of a friend’s kitten pushing a water cup off a table popped into her head. As she looked at Mu Tangfeng’s smug smile, she suddenly imagined his beast form, complete with wings, causing a ruckus. Inexplicably, some of her anger faded.
People are always more forgiving of fluffy things, and Shi Lan was a bona fide fluff enthusiast.
Still, Mu Tangfeng truly had a knack for getting under people’s skin. Her smile tightened slightly. "Alright."
With that, Shi Lan left.
Mu Tangfeng’s laughter grew louder behind her. Shi Lan quickened her pace. Once she was gone, Jiang Xia couldn’t help but say, "Impressive, Mu Tangfeng. That female has a good temper. After what you just pulled, even I wanted to kill you, but she still managed to smile?" freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
"Heh, you short-legged beast, you want to hit me? Why don’t you get out of your cell first."
"Damn it, Mu Tangfeng! If you’ve got the balls, fly over here and we’ll duel."
Mu Tangfeng scoffed and ignored him. He couldn’t maintain his humanoid form for long and had already reverted to his beast form. The thought that the female would be back soon to clean up put him in a slightly better mood.
He even had Robot No. 2 bring over his chair so he could sit by the entrance.
Shi Lan didn’t keep Mu Tangfeng waiting for long. The robot from cell number one had given her an idea, reminding her that this world was full of service robots. Not to mention, the facilities at Black Ming Star Prison were state-of-the-art; there was even a butler robot in the corner of the Prison Director’s office.
When she returned to her office, it had even picked up the Prison Director’s manual that had fallen on the floor.
She smiled in satisfaction and left with the robot.
With a robot around, there was no way she was going to clean it herself.
When she arrived at the cell with the robot, Shi Lan could see Mu Tangfeng’s face turn livid, even through the blue light-screen door.
"Female, you dare deceive me?"
Shi Lan had a conventionally beautiful face, but not the sharp, aggressive kind of beauty. Her eyes were round, her face youthful, and her pale pink lips were neither too full nor too thin, but just right. It was a face that made it hard for people to put up their guard.
At this moment, she pursed her lips slightly, an innocent look in her eyes. "Is something wrong? Didn’t Lord Mu ask me to clean?"
"Did I say to get a robot? I meant you!"
Shi Lan blinked. The flutter of her long lashes made her look even more guileless. "But... I’m the one who brought the robot."
"I brought it here so it could clean. Isn’t that the same as me doing the cleaning?"
"That’s twisted logic!"
Mu Tangfeng gritted his teeth. His face was thunderous as he shot up from his chair, so angry that his claws stomped on the ground. The flapping of his wide wings stirred up a wind within the cell.
As the sole heir of the Mu Family, one of the Four Great Families of the Empire, Mu Tangfeng might not have been a figure who could command the wind and rain back in the Empire, but no one had ever been foolish enough to provoke him, let alone exploit a loophole like this.
Whatever he ordered, his subordinates would carry it out to the letter. Even the previous Prison Director wouldn’t have dared to utter a single word of protest if he had been told to eat food off the floor.
But this female before him, who looked so small and delicate, was audacious enough to defy the heavens.
Jiang Xia’s laughter from the next cell echoed through the entire prison block. Mu Tangfeng was so furious he felt the faint onset of a spiritual power collapse. His head and heart throbbed with pain. Unable to win the argument against Shi Lan, he could only glare at the robot that was diligently cleaning the floor and snarl, "Get lost."
Shi Lan hadn’t expected Mu Tangfeng to get this worked up. Seeing the mirror in his cell vibrate from the force of his wings, she decided it was best not to provoke him any further.
She sighed, took the cleaning cloth from the robot, wiped the floor a couple of times herself, and then left with the machine.
Seeing this, Mu Tangfeng let out a cold snort. The pain in his head and chest subsided. ’Even if the female was just putting on an act,’ he thought, ’at least she did some of the cleaning herself. I can still save face.’
The furious flapping of his wings ceased, and the vibrations in the room slowly calmed.
In the corner, Robot No. 2, which had curled into a ball, cautiously returned to its original form.
Jiang Xia called out loudly, "Hit a wall, did you, Mu Tangfeng? I never thought I’t see the day you couldn’t argue your way out of something."
"Who says? Didn’t you see? I told that female to clean, and she cleaned."
"Did she?"
Jiang Xia had been too busy laughing to see what happened. Besides, the line of sight from the cells was poor; you could only get a clear view of the cell directly opposite.
"Of course. Would that female dare to disobey my word?"
Jiang Xia rolled his eyes. He finished the food in his bowl, then rubbed his face with his paws in the nearby snowy pool, making sure it was clean before speaking. "You’ve had your fun. Now it’s my turn."
With that, he pressed the Emergency Bell in his room.
Shi Lan hadn’t even had a chance to warm her seat before she had to get up again. She looked at the flashing alert; this time, it was cell number four.
She rubbed her forehead. ’These ’lords’ are certainly a handful.’
But she wasn’t afraid. Taking the robot with her just in case, she headed to cell number four.
As she passed cell number two, she glanced inside from the corner of her eye. Seeing that Mu Tangfeng’s room was calm again, she looked away.
She looked toward cell number four. Inside, a Pallas’s cat was sitting on a snowy throne. Piled snow formed a translucent ice chair, which was even carved with intricate patterns. The base was all snow, and the whole thing looked quite exquisite.
However, when she looked up and saw the Pallas’s cat itself, she felt a strong sense of dissonance, like a child playing dress-up as an adult. It couldn’t be helped; the animal was just too cute, and a rare species at that.
Shi Lan’s palms began to itch. She could only imagine how soft and thick its fur must feel.
Jiang Xia could naturally feel the female’s gaze on him. It was a little different from the stares he usually got. This female’s eyes seemed to hold a strange hint of... affection?
It wasn’t the fanatical adoration of other females, not the kind of look that made them seem like they wanted to devour him. Instead, it felt gentler, more accepting.
He found it a bit odd, but he had to admit he didn’t dislike Shi Lan as much as he’d expected.
Life in the prison was boring, so teasing the Prison Director had become their main form of entertainment. He reined in his thoughts and had Robot No. 4 pass out his meal container.
Shi Lan took it and glanced inside. It was wiped clean, without a single grain of rice left. ’No wonder he looks so plump,’ she thought. ’He takes good care of himself.’ freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
A smile played in her eyes, and she couldn’t help but praise him, "Excellent. You ate everything."
Jiang Xia had been aggressively plotting what to make the female do, but when he heard her words, his round, fluffy face instantly flushed.
’How strange,’ he thought. ’This is the first female to ever praise me like that.’
