Chapter 189: How Much Do You Care?

“Your Majesty, why is your brow furrowed so?”

In the harem, the Demon Emperor arrived at a concubine’s palace.

Seeing the Demon Emperor’s displeased expression, the concubine stepped forward and gently smoothed his brow.

“It’s nothing, just some matters in the court.”

The Demon Emperor took the concubine’s small hand and pulled her into his embrace.

Although he said it was nothing, the Demon Emperor’s brow remained furrowed, his mind elsewhere.

“Is Your Majesty troubled because of the Seventh Princess’s affairs?”

In the Demon Emperor’s arms, Concubine Li spoke softly.

“Why do you say that?” The Demon Emperor did not get Life Qi because Concubine Li discussed court affairs.

“Now that the Demon Race World is settled, what else could give Your Majesty a headache? It is nothing more than the Seventh Princess.”

“Hmm?”

The Demon King gripped Concubine Li’s wrist.

A bone-eroding chill spread from Concubine Li’s wrist to her body, threatening to corrode Concubine Li’s heart in an instant.

“It hurts… Your Majesty, this servant knows her mistake.”

“Watch your words. I’ll spare you this time, but if Qiqi heard your words, you wouldn’t even know how you died in this harem.”

The Demon Emperor threw Concubine Li heavily onto the ground.

“This servant knows her mistake.”

Concubine Li sat on the ground, propping herself up; cold sweat had already drenched her back.

“Go and have the head of the Butterfly Pavilion come see me. I want to know every move Qiqi made while she was away.”

“Yes.”

Concubine Li got up and left, saying no more.

The Butterfly Pavilion was an intelligence organization directly under the Demon Emperor.

When an emperor wants to grasp every single move of his daughter while she is away, one can see the extent to which this emperor fears his own daughter.

“Qiqi… what exactly do you want? Half of the court’s civil and military officials are leaning toward you. Is that still not enough?”

Looking out the door, the Demon Emperor sighed heavily.

“Sister.”

“Qiqi.”

“Sister Qiqi.”

Still in the palace backyard, but compared to other places, this courtyard was much quieter.

In the flower pavilion of the courtyard, a plump woman doing needlework heard a call; her eyes lit up, and she stood up.

At the same time, a little girl who looked about Yaya’s age slithered over, twisting her snake body, and threw herself into her sister’s arms with open arms.

The plump woman looked to be around thirty years old; she was the Royal Family’s Sixth Princess, Sixth Princess.

Although Sixth Princess’s appearance was not as good as her sister’s, she was still very beautiful, with a dignified and elegant beauty, and looked very fertile.

If She Qiqi was the kind of woman one would be mesmerized by at a single glance, making it hard to believe such a beautiful woman existed in the world—even if she were incredibly poisonous, one would be willing to die under her poison.

Then Sixth Princess was the type where one glance made you feel you could spend your life with her; she would bear you four or five children and manage everything for you in an orderly fashion—the virtuous wife type of big sister.

“Jiuyue, have you been Cultivating well while I was away?”

She Qiqi pinched the oval face of the Ninth Princess beneath her; the tenderness in her curved eyes was a look she never showed in front of others.

She Jiuyue was She Qiqi’s younger sister from the same mother, but their mother passed away in the third year after She Jiuyue was born.

“Mm-hmm, I have, I have. Jiuyue has already Cultivated to the… first, second, third…” She Jiuyue counted slowly on her small fingers, pouting her little mouth. “That’s right, Jiuyue has already reached the Third Realm.”

“Mm-hmm, Jiuyue is so impressive.” She Qiqi doted on her sister, rubbing her small head.

Praised by her sister, She Jiuyue’s eyes curved, and the tip of her snake tail wagged happily.

“But Jiuyue needs to learn to walk using human legs; slithering like this doesn’t look very good.” She Qiqi pinched her sister’s little nose again.

“Eh? Walking with feet is so slow. Slithering around like this is much faster.” She Jiuyue wagged her little tail.

“But then Jiuyue won’t be able to get married.”

“Sister isn’t married either.”

“Hmm?” She Qiqi gave a “kind” smile.

She Jiuyue shivered and quickly burrowed into Sister Sixth Princess’s arms.

“Alright, alright.” Sixth Princess smiled as she stroked her younger sister’s back, then turned to look at She Qiqi with a smile. “Little sister is right. Qiqi, you are already over fifteen hundred years old. Now that the world is settled, you should also find a suitable husband.”

“A suitable husband?”

She Qiqi walked into the flower pavilion, and Sixth Princess poured her sister a cup of tea.

“Sister, a man who can capture my heart does not exist in this world. There wasn’t one before, and there won’t be one in the future.”

“But you’re a girl; can you really stay unmarried for the rest of your life?”

“Didn’t Sister also not get married?”

“You little girl, can you be the same as me?”

Sixth Princess lightly tapped She Qiqi’s forehead.

Only Sixth Princess could get away with such a gesture toward She Qiqi.

“Who would dare to get involved with me now…” Sixth Princess couldn’t help but shake her head with a bitter smile.

Sixth Princess’s looks and figure were top-tier, but the problem was that Sixth Princess’s Destiny Star was cursed to bring misfortune to her husband.

Once, the Demon Emperor wanted to betroth Sixth Princess to a capable general. Although the two had never met, the engagement was set, only for the general to die on the battlefield within five days.

Later, the Forest Snake Clan from Beyond the Borders wanted to marry Sixth Princess and requested a political marriage. The Demon Emperor agreed, but within three months, the prince who was engaged died.

Once or twice might be fine, but it happened a third, fourth, and fifth time…

Every time an engagement was made, they hadn’t even met, yet the man would always die unexpectedly. The one who lasted the longest was a fellow who held on for three months!

When he was finally about to see Sixth Princess, he was struck dead by a meteorite just as he stepped out of his country’s gates…

Who could one even argue with about that?

From then on, the reputation of the Royal Family’s Sixth Princess spread throughout the entire Demon Race World, and was even heard of Beyond the Borders.

Everyone was terrified of being engaged to this Royal Family’s Sixth Princess.

So what if her personality was gentle? So what if she was fertile and extremely beautiful?

One had to be alive to enjoy it.

In the end, there was no choice. Since the Royal Family’s Sixth Princess couldn’t be married off, then so be it. The Royal Family didn’t lack the means to feed her anyway.

Seeing her sister’s lonely eyes, She Qiqi smiled and took her sister’s hand. “It’s just that they couldn’t handle such great fortune from you, Sister. It has nothing to do with you, so there’s no need to be sad or blame yourself.”

“You…” Sixth Princess shook her head with a smile. “If they can’t handle my fortune, then what kind of man would have the fortune to marry you? Qiqi, do you really not have any man you care about?”

“A man I care about?” She Qiqi thought for a moment and smiled with curved eyes. “I do.”

“Really? Who?” Sixth Princess’s eyes lit up. As the eldest sister who was like a mother, Sixth Princess truly cared for She Qiqi.

“Sister doesn’t know him, but Qiqi really cares about him.”

“How much do you care?” Sixth Princess suspected she had misheard. Had this little girl finally had her heart stirred?

“How much?” She Qiqi thought for a moment, her eyes shimmering. “I care about him so much that I want to trample him under my feet and have him call me ‘Master’ over and over again.”