Chapter 461: Chapter 461 Dwarf Chapter 461: Chapter 461 Dwarf Not long after leaving the tavern, Xuexue looked around; the streets were pitch-black and empty.
Quickly, she made her way to the back of the tavern. With the uneven outer wall offering plenty of footholds, Xuexue easily climbed up to the second floor.
Xiao Taohong, with the advantage of being a ghost, was already on the second floor. She had wandered through each room. It didn’t take long before she found the dwarf’s room.
When Xuexue arrived, Xiao Taohong stood at the door and shouted loudly, “Master, Master, the little dwarf is here!”
Since Xiao Taohong was a ghost, no matter how loudly she caused a commotion, no one could hear her.
It was different for Xuexue. She didn’t dare make a sound out of fear that alerting the shopkeeper and the rest would ruin their efforts.
She swiftly darted into the room and quietly shut the door behind her.
Indeed, she saw the dwarf, lying motionless on the bed.
Xuexue’s eyes blazed with fury, wishing she could hack him to pieces with a single strike for the agony he caused her in her past life. She fought to control her hatred, kicked him hard a few times, and hissed through gritted teeth, “You killing demon, you tormented me so much in my past life! Don’t think you’ll have an easy time in this life. I won’t let you die so easily; that would be letting you off too lightly.”
With that, Xuexue lifted her hand and flung him into her space.
Getting rid of this dwarf was akin to taking away the right-hand man of that scoundrel.
In her past life, before the Fourth Prince became the Crown Prince, many things were done by the dwarf on his behalf. In this life, before he could pledge himself to the Fourth Prince, she had already disposed of him.
Lacking both her, the Legitimate Daughter of the General’s Mansion, and the dwarf, his capable assistant, she would see how he could ascend to the position of Crown Prince.
Xuexue’s hate turned her eyes blood red.
Although Xiao Taohong did not know the grudge Xuexue held against the dwarf, seeing the way Xuexue gritted her teeth in hatred, it was clear how much she despised him.
“Master, if you hate him so much, why don’t you just kill him with a single strike?” Xiao Taohong asked curiously.
“You don’t understand. The cruelest way to deal with an enemy is not to kill them quickly but to make them live a life worse than death. Only then can I quell the hatred in my heart,” Xuexue said with a chilling tone.
Who could understand the pain she had suffered for three days and nights of being flayed in her previous life?
Xiao Taohong shuddered at the thought, wondering what kind of deep hatred existed between her master and the dwarf to make her master so determined to deal with him.
After throwing the unconscious dwarf into her space, Xuexue slipped out from the back of the tavern unnoticed and returned to the street.
Then, with Xiao Taohong by her side, she strode away.
A while later, the waiter went to check on the dwarf in his room, only to be astonished to find the room completely empty, not even a ghost in sight. He panicked and scrambled to inform the shopkeeper.
“Shopkeeper, we have a problem!”
“What happened? Did that little dwarf wake up and wants to settle accounts with me?” the waiter blurted out in a fluster, causing the shopkeeper to grow anxious.
“No, it’s not that,” the waiter said, panting heavily and waving his hands frantically.
“Who’s gone?” the shopkeeper asked, completely baffled.
“That dwarf is gone.”
“He was just fine in his room a moment ago, how can he just disappear?”
“Exactly, I was only away for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, and now he’s gone,” the waiter said, just as perplexed.
The shopkeeper scratched his head in annoyance. After a moment, he suddenly clapped his hands and burst out laughing, “Ah, well! That darn little dwarf nearly drove me mad tonight; I wasn’t thinking clearly. It’s better that he’s gone; maybe he left on his own! Are we not free from the threat to our lives now? Why worry here like fools?”