After being slapped by the White Tiger Duchess, Duke White Tiger Dai Hao was furious. The slap that the White Tiger Duchess had just given him was not light at all, landing on Duke White Tiger Dai Hao's face with a bellyful of rage.
What hurt was not just his face, but rather his damaged dignity. Although the White Tiger Duchess was unable to cause any actual harm to Duke White Tiger Dai Hao due to the gap in their strength, Duke White Tiger Dai Hao's aura at this moment had also become quite sharp.
Duke White Tiger Dai Hao looked at the White Tiger Duchess before him, thinking that he had given the White Tiger Duchess far too much face. To think she dared to hit him, and moreover, to do such a thing to him in broad daylight.
Just as he wanted to raise his hand to strike back, the White Tiger Duchess spoke a step ahead of him.
"Duke White Tiger Dai Hao! To think you dare speak to me like that. Do you really think you are anything good?"
The voice of the White Tiger Duchess was filled with madness at this moment, and as she spoke these words, she carried somewhat of a feeling of mutual destruction.
"Weren't you also complicit when I did those things? Did you think I didn't know that you had long since grown sick of Huo Yuner?"
"You despised her humble background, feeling she merely had a bit of looks, and after getting tired of her, you cast her aside completely. Could it be that you didn't know in your heart whether I deliberately targeted that servant? If you really cared, you should have stopped it long ago!"
After the White Tiger Duchess uttered these words, her entire face became quite hideous and terrifying, venting all her dissatisfaction toward Duke White Tiger Dai Hao in one go.
"And you still claim you didn't know you had a son named Huo Yuhao? Is the White Tiger Duke's Mansion my word alone? Weren't there your people inside? Did you really not know?"
She sneered.
"You were simply playing dumb!"
Duke White Tiger Dai Hao's expression became quite ugly. He opened his mouth to refute, but before the words could come out, the White Tiger Duchess continued speaking.
"Besides, you, Duke White Tiger Dai Hao, are quite romantic. Apart from Huo Yuner, don't you have a concubine? You even had a child with her, and that child is only slightly younger than Huo Yuhao."
Her gaze suddenly shifted to Huo Yuhao, a trace of vicious light emerging in her eyes.
"Huo Yuhao, don't you want to know why you and your mother didn't receive the same treatment as them?"
"That is because—"
Before she could finish her sentence, Duke White Tiger Dai Hao let out a sudden roar.
"Enough!"
His voice was deafening, and the Spirit Power all over his body suddenly burst forth, forcefully pressing down the White Tiger Duchess's words.
Although the White Tiger Duchess's words had been interrupted, that speech had already clearly entered the ears of everyone present.
Seeing this scene before them through the light screen, everyone couldn't help but eagerly feast on the gossip.
The secret of the Star Luo Empire and the domestic affairs of the White Tiger Duke were thus torn open right before the eyes of the entire continent.
Emperor Xu Jiawei stood within the palace of the Star Luo Empire, looking at this scene within the light screen with a remarkably colorful expression.
He had not expected that the family of the dignified grand general of the Star Luo Empire would have so many affairs, and that the persona he projected to the outside world was having only one wife, which matched so poorly with reality. (Chapter 96 of the original work states that Dai Yueheng mentioned Duke White Tiger Dai Hao was very self-disciplined regarding women).
Duke White Tiger Dai Hao took a deep breath. He didn't want to say another word to the White Tiger Duchess, and he raised his hand once more, preparing to teach this vicious woman another lesson.
But right at this moment, an aged figure suddenly appeared on the competition stage.
That person had a hunchbacked figure and graying hair, looking quite elderly, but her movements were shockingly fast.
This person was precisely Long Yeyue.
The moment she appeared, she didn't give anyone any time to react at all. That pair of withered, thin hands suddenly lifted, swinging left and right, directly slapping toward the faces of Duke White Tiger Dai Hao and the White Tiger Duchess.
"Slap! Slap!"
Two crisp sounds of slaps rang out almost simultaneously.
The bodies of both Duke White Tiger Dai Hao and the White Tiger Duchess simultaneously left the ground, sent flying by the strike, rotating twice in mid-air before heavily crashing down onto the ground.
Both spat out a mouthful of blood at the same time, spitting out all their teeth along with it.
A few bloody teeth appeared on the ground, pearly white and looking quite piercing to the eyes.
Everyone who saw this scene before them was directly stunned; completely no one could figure out what had happened.
Who was that old woman? How dared she strike against the White Tiger Duke?
When Bei Bei saw this scene at this moment, he always felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if someone else had once been beaten like this by Long Yeyue.
Duke White Tiger Dai Hao lay prone on the ground, half of his face swollen high, blood continuously seeping from the corners of his mouth. He could clearly feel just how terrifying that force was when Long Yeyue made her move.
That power... far exceeded the endurance range of him, a Titled Douluo.
This old woman was definitely not a simple fellow.
Duke White Tiger Dai Hao struggled to crawl up from the ground. He glanced at Long Yeyue, then glanced at the few teeth he had spat out, yet didn't dare to utter a single word.
He was, after all, the White Tiger Duke of the Star Luo Empire, a figure who could walk sideways in the Star Luo Empire on normal days. Yet at this very moment, he knew very well that if the old woman before him wanted to kill him, it probably wouldn't be much harder than pinching to death an ant.
Duke White Tiger Dai Hao took a deep breath, suppressing the grievance and anger in his heart, and turned his gaze toward Huo Yuhao.
"Yuhao..."
His voice was indistinct. Because he was missing half a mouthful of teeth, his speech leaked air somewhat.
"I know... I know I have failed the two of you, mother and son... Can you..."
He lowered his head.
"Can you forgive me?"
"Give me a chance to properly make it up to you, to make up for these years I wronged you."
Before he could finish his words, Tang Wulin on the side couldn't help but furrow his brows.
Separated by a distance, he looked at Duke White Tiger Dai Hao's appearance, a strong sense of revulsion surging in his heart.
How could this Duke White Tiger Dai Hao be so hypocritical?
Not to mention past matters, if Huo Yuhao didn't have his current strength and encounters, and if he were still just trash, I'm afraid Duke White Tiger Dai Hao's attitude toward Huo Yuhao definitely wouldn't be good anywhere.
Just like how he currently treats Dai Yueheng and that White Tiger Duchess of his.
Dai Yueheng broke his leg, yet he wasn't even willing to take another look; the White Tiger Duchess lost power, and he raised his hand to strike, showing not a shred of old affection.
Meanwhile, on the competition stage, Huo Yuhao had been standing there, coldly watching all of this.
He watched Duke White Tiger Dai Hao get slapped flying by Long Yeyue, watched Duke White Tiger Dai Hao lower his head to confess his mistake, watched Duke White Tiger Dai Hao's face covered in blood and filth, and slowly pulled a sneer at the corner of his mouth.
"Want me to forgive you?"
Huo Yuhao's voice was icy, carrying a kind of temperatureless smile.
"Very well."
Hearing these words, a trace of joy inevitably emerged on Duke White Tiger Dai Hao's face. He had originally thought Huo Yuhao would directly refuse, but he didn't expect him to actually relent.
As long as Huo Yuhao stood on his side, then he wasn't finished yet.
But Huo Yuhao's next sentence directly froze his entire person in place.
"Then go die."
"If you die, then I will forgive you."
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