In the capital, Huanan He excitedly hit four beauties from the palace with a horsewhip in the flower hall of the Ninth Prince's Mansion.

"Hup! Go! Go! Come on! Come on! Hahaha."

The whip swished in the air for many times brought the sharp wind blowing over four girls' ears. Beaten by the whip, girls tried to escape from his attack, like weak reptiles.

The man didn't violently hit them. In addition, their clothes were thin and they were tender and fine-boned after they lived in the palace.

So even if the beat by the crazy man was not hard and their clothes were not torn, there were still some weals on their snow-white skin.

How could these 15-or-16-year-old girls bear the pain that was so severe that as if they had been cut by a knife?

They shrieked and begged, frightened and helpless. They even rolled and tumbled on the ground to prevent themselves from being beaten by him, like four spinning tops whose destiny was controlled by others.

However, Huanan He completely ignored their suffering. He chased and kept crazily hitting them with his whip. It seemed that he enjoyed the cat-and-mouse game.

The louder they cried, the more excited he was. The whip in his hand swished and crackled, accompanied by his loud laugh.

Soon, the girls were physically exhausted and drenched in sweat. With their messy hair and makeup, they shouted themselves hoarse.

Two of them were so tired that they could not move any more but hide under the square table to catch the Tanmu table legs for a rest, weeping and shivering.

"Why do you stop? Come on! Come on! Go! Ha-ha."

The man watched them and wildly laughed. After bending over to pull them out of the table, he forced them to crawl on the ground with his whip.

"Your Highness."

Looking nervous, the guard with a knife quickly strode into the flower hall.

"Your Highness, Commandery Princess Jingle is here."

"Why is she here?"

Huanan He turned around to stare at the guard, frowning. He was unhappy to be interrupted.

"Where is she?"

The guard raised fist salute and answered, "She is stopped by Heifeng in the front courtyard."

"Hah. Heifeng deserves my love and affection."

With his arms crossed, Huanan He quickly came up with an idea.

He slightly bent down and lifted the girl in apricot to her feet by rudely seizing the back of her neck.

After throwing up the whip with his right hand, he caught her slim waist with his hand.

The girl looked disheveled. The makeup on her pretty almond face was destroyed by tears and sweat.

"Don't cry. Good girl."

Touching her wet tip of nose with his left index finger and wiping tears for her, the man coaxed her in a soft tone.

The girl in his arms looked at the handsome man with her swollen eyes. His weird behaviors and uncertain tempter frightened her so much that she didn't know how to react.

The silver-hair man wiped her messy face clean and softly whispered.

"When the guest comes in, you must smile. If you cry, you will be skinned."

Stunned by his threat, the girl gasped for a while and then kept quiet.

With an evil smile, he pulled her robe open with his big hand and dragged her out of the flower hall. Led by the guard, he strode toward the front hall.

The Ninth Prince's Mansion was in the northern prosperous district of the capital.

In the mansion, there were five square courtyards. In each one was pavilion, bedroom, gallery and weird stone and plant.

Now, it was in summer. There were many colorful, fragrant flowers around the clear lake. It was an attractive place.

Huanan He was walking in the gallery. Before he reached the door, he heard the noise accompanied by the howl by a beat from the courtyard outside the wall.

Holding a beauty in yellow in his arms, Huanan He walked and impatiently grumbled, with his finger scratching his ear.

"Women are so noisy. Why do they shout so loud?"

After stepping over the threshold engraved with golden bats, he stood on a bluestone step to see what had happened in the courtyard ablaze with flowers. And then he burst into laughter.

The leopard raised by him cheerfully walked around the four people standing in the center of the courtyard. It opened its mouth to show its sharp fangs. Sometimes it raised its front leg, ready to attack them. Its claws were so sharp, as if they could break the sunlight at dusk.

Yuexin and Xingmu, two maids, were so frightened by the leopard that they kept shouting. However, they still stood before Commandery Princess Jingle and stretched out their hands to protect her.

Xi, a eunuch, was scared shit of him. However, he stood before three girls and kept moving the lower hem of his robe in an attempt to drive the leopard away.

Protected by her followers, Commandery Princess Jingle was pale and shouted most aloud.

Huanan He laughed out loud and whistled, walking down along the bluestone steps engraved with lotus and clouds.

When the leopard heard it, it immediately stopped its attack and squatted on the ground, wagging its long tail and shaking its ears.

"Ninth Uncle, what are you doing?"

As the danger passed, Jingle pushed away from her followers and patted her chest to let out a sigh of relief. With a glimpse of the leopard, she went past it to jump in front of Huanan He.

"Ninth Uncle, who is she?"

Seeing the girl embraced by him, Jingle was jealous. She frowned and angrily pointed at them.

"She is the girl given to me by Imperial Mother, isn't she?"

The man didn't take her words seriously. He narrowed his eyes and raised his silver eyebrows. With a malicious smile, he reached the clothes of the girl in yellow and touched her chest casually.

Seeing his behavior, Jingle got angry and rushed to pull the girl's hair. She violently hit and cursed her.

"B*t*h, how dare you stay here? How dare you hug him? Leave him right now!"

Tortured by Huanan He and scolded by the bratty Commandery Princess, the humble girl only covered her face with hands to cry and gave up fighting back.

Fed up with these two noisy girls, Huanan He pushed away the girl in yellow. Now, she would be punished by the bratty Commandery Princess.

"Yuexin, Xingmu, and Xi. Come on! Slap her face."

Jingle was still irritated, so she asked her subordinates to slap her across the face in turns.

When she looked back, she found that Huanan He had entered into the arch.

"Ninth Uncle, wait for me."

Jingle lifted her dress to run after him to stop him. She twisted her waist and grumbled.

"Ninth Uncle, why do you ignore me?"

With his eyes closed, he scrubbed his forehead. He didn't know how to ease his annoyance.

"My lady, you have punished her, so what else do you want?"

"Ninth Uncle. I miss you, so would you like to shop with me?"

She softly asked with her pink mouth.

The man was not affected by her but shrugged his shoulders, stepping toward his bedroom.

"No. I drank much last night, so I'm tired now and I have to sleep."

Like sticky candy, Jingle tried to catch his arm and even blurted out shameful words.

"I will sleep with you."

"What?"

Stunned by what she had said, he suddenly stopped. However, when he looked at her pretty but childish face, he couldn't help laughing.

With her thick and curled eyelashes fluttering, she tried to look into his eyes.

Her tender lips opened and curled into a smile.

After loosening the man, she stepped backward and looked back at him. She touched her clothes embroidered with butterflies and willow leaves with her snow-white hands, untying the pearl buttons one by one.

She fully blushed and lowered her head, with a shy smile.

"Ninth uncle, if you want to have sex with someone, why not me? I'm willing to be your girl."