"Bang, bang, bang," Huang Biren heard knocking on the door. Before she could say anything, a raspy voice spoke from behind it.
"I am coming in." Huang Biren was displeased by the presumptuous voice, but she quickly collected herself. A scrawny man who looked exhausted, breathless, and fatigued, with swollen limbs and a limp, entered the room.
Huang Biren looked at the man with indifference in her eyes. The man didn't seem to mind her behavior. He walked toward her, where she was seated on the massive bed in the center of the large bedroom.
"What exactly do you hope to achieve by doing this?" Huang Biren asked with curiosity.
The man smiled at her before sitting on a chair next to the dressing mirror. "Is your heart so fortified against me that you cannot accept my singular devotion, free from any deceptive ploys?" he questioned, his breath hitching in a stifled, bloody cough.
"Your insatiable depravity is a stain upon this land, a notorious truth whispered in every corner of the kingdom, from the youngest child to the oldest woman. You have exploited your status to abduct and violate women of every station, treating their lives as disposable playthings in your wake. Your monstrous appetite has branded you with the vile moniker of 'Sex Fiend'—a name so pervasive that your true identity has been erased by your own filth." Huang Biren said as she examined the prince's body.
"Hahahahahahahah," the prince laughed, his eyes roaming all over Huang Biren's enticing body. Huang Biren flinched in disgust, making the prince stop laughing and put on a more serious face.
"I don't care for what the useless commoners think of me, just as I don't care for what the bees think of me as I take their honey. Women were created by a god for the enjoyment of powerful men. I am a powerful man, so all women are mine to do with as I please. If a woman doesn't like my advances, she should be prepared to be taken by force before being discarded like an old doll. It is such a pity that I won't be able to enjoy both you and your sister, Huang Shengyi. The two of you together would have made the perfect drink to quench my thirst for a few months. Sigh, what a pity that your sister left the kingdom to go study in the Yulong Empire. Now, are you going to be one of those women that I forcefully take and then discard, or are you going to be a good little girl and fall into my arms while I am still happy?"
The prince's rant didn't come as a surprise to Huang Biren. "Do you know what will happen, now that you have undoubtedly angered the Huang family?" she asked, ignoring the prince's stupid question. The prince wasn't happy with this, but he cooled down.
"Of course I do. By week's end, there will no longer be a ruling family with the surname Huang," the prince said. Before Huang Biren could say anything, the prince continued. "Do not put your hopes on help from the other ruling families. My father, the king, wants to die after ensuring that our family will remain in power for generations to come. For this purpose, he has been planning the destruction of the Huang family for twenty years. To ensure the Tinding dynasty remains unshakeable upon the throne, we must act with ruthless precision, clan. We must obliterate the primary architect of our potential downfall before their shadow grows long enough to eclipse the crown. And that looming catastrophe is none other than the treasonous Huang clan. Although your Huang family is the newest ruling family in the Tinding kingdom, you are also the most powerful. With your cultivation technique, the Rumbling Tiger, no cultivator in the kingdom can exchange blows with a Huang family member at the same stage of cultivation. With such a powerful family in the kingdom, even a powerful king cannot sleep due to stress, causing many of the previous kings to die young, just like my father, who is on his last breath. Driven by the need to extinguish this looming catastrophe, the King has orchestrated a plan of absolute finality. The King has sacrificed sovereign treasures and yielded unprecedented power to the other four ruling houses, effectively bribing the nobility to ensure their blades stay sheathed—or pointed at his enemies. So, as I said, you will not be getting help from those families no matter how much gold you offer." The more the prince spoke, the angrier he got.
Observing Huang Biren's infuriatingly unshakable composure, the prince began to unveil the king's treacherous machinations in a desperate attempt to crush her spirit beneath the weight of an all-consuming despair. "The entire kingdom knows that your Huang family has more wealth than the king himself, probably even more than all the gold in the kingdom, but this time, the king offered the families something only a king can give: noble titles. The four families will become duke families and swear loyalty to the king. With these titles, the four families can truly become ruling families."
Still, the young miss did not seem flustered at all, causing the prince to look at her with defeat in his eyes. "Do you not care for the fate of your family?" he asked with confusion in his voice.
"Now that you are done with your nonsensical rant, let me tell you what will happen now that you have angered the Huang family," the young miss said in a calm voice, sending a bad premonition shivering through the prince.