Chapter 311 – Sandalwood Token
"Where did you get this?" Ye Beizhi asked in his usual concise way as he gestured toward the guqin.
Nalan Su resembled a wounded beast, his gaze savage and threatening. He didn’t respond to Ye Beizhi's question directly. Instead, he grit his teeth and growled, "If you’re going to kill me, make it quick. Why waste so many words?"
Ye Beizhi nodded slightly. Tightening his grip, he was about to strike when a shout echoed from afar.
"Please... Please spare him!"
Ye Beizhi ignored the plea and moved the blade without hesitation. However, from behind came Chi Nanwei's shout, "Dummy, stop!"
The blade grazed the skin of Nalan Su’s neck, drawing a few beads of blood, but ultimately stopped.
Ye Beizhi gave Nalan Su a long, deep look before sheathing his blade.
A woman came stumbling forward, collapsing to the ground and shielding Nalan Su with her body. Chi Nanwei arrived ahead of Fang Dingwu and stood beside Ye Beizhi.
The woman was none other than Nalan Su’s mother. Tearfully, she knelt before Ye Beizhi, pleading with a trembling voice, "Please, young masters and mistresses, spare him. It is my failing as a mother. If there must be punishment, let it fall on me instead."
Nalan Su’s clothes were almost entirely soaked in blood. He was unable to move after his tendons had been severed by the bladelight. Nearly paralyzed, he still growled at the woman in a low voice, "This is my matter. Why are you here?!"
Nalan Su’s mother cried even harder.
"It’s my fault! It’s all my fault! I should never have let you learn the guqin, and I certainly shouldn’t have allowed you to claim it as your own. If I had known this would happen, I would have never let it come to this!"