Chapter 1169: If No One Has Taught You Respect, Then I Will Teach You!

Lu Ding's voice rang out again: "Bitch, you hear me but pretend to be deaf. You're just asking for a beating. I'm telling you to send someone to call them!!!"

"Call whoever you want! Call that frog at the bottom of the well of yours who dares to call himself the Great Creation Immortal Lord and husband of yours, or call that short-lived brother of yours Jin Tianran, call them!!!"

Jin Tianran was indeed Lu Ding's target, but what rank was he to deserve Lu Ding going to see him in person?

Let him crawl over here, kneel in submission, and await his death!

The woman stared at Lu Ding with venomous eyes: "Fine, you wait, you just wait. Xiaotao!!!!!"

The maidservant hiding nearby trembling weakly responded: "M...Matriarch......"

"Go call my brother!"

The maidservant didn't dare to move, staring helplessly at the seated figure. Lu Ding sensed her gaze: "If she says go, then go!"

Hearing this, the maidservant fled out the door as if escaping death itself.

The woman called out again: "Xiaoqing!!! Go notify the Master!!!!"

Another maidservant ran out. The Shen Family Matriarch, unable to touch the wound on her face, continued glaring at Lu Ding with venomous eyes: "You will pay for what you've done today......."

Before she could finish.

Lu Ding picked up the incense poker from the table and drove it straight into her eye.

A blood-curdling scream rang out: "Ah!!!!!"

Lu Ding slowly twisted the golden poker embedded in her eye socket. As blood flowed down her face and she screamed in agony, Lu Ding spoke: "Come now, don't just scream. Let me see that venomous look in your eyes again. You still have one eye left, don't you? Show me!"

Did she really think he was like those male leads in novels, who, when in a position of power, would turn a blind eye to their opponent's venomous glare?!

Let's get one thing straight. Who's in control here!?

Glaring? Venom?

Lu Ding had a hundred ways to make her submit meekly.

The woman no longer dared to show that kind of look. She had finally learned to be smart, though she couldn't stop crying out from the pain.

Still, as the saying goes: people can't teach people, but events can teach people in a single lesson.

She didn't even dare to look at Lu Ding's face!!

Lowering her head, she gritted her teeth and asked: "What grudge is there between us!? Why must you be so vicious toward me!?"

Lu Ding said: "Look up!!!!"

The woman slowly raised her head.

And then.

Another palm strike that whistled through the air like a crack of thunder landed on the same side that had been hit before.

Smack!!!!

This time.

Teeth and bone fragments flew everywhere!!!

The woman was knocked sprawling to the side, only to bump into the golden poker still embedded in her eye, driving it even deeper and doubling her agony.

Watching her scream on the ground, clutching her face and rolling around, trembling and convulsing in unbearable pain.

Only then did Lu Ding speak: "You know what I hate? A weakling who bears a grudge against someone stronger, yet dares to ask questions through gritted teeth."

"If no one has taught you respect, then I will teach you!!!!"

"Now. Speak!"

The woman endured the pain, crawled up from the ground, clutching her face. Blood flowed through the gaps between her fingers and splattered against the floor as she spoke with suppressed deference: "Yes........"

Lu Ding was satisfied. He turned to look at the terrified Fatty beside him, and Butler Wu's son next to her.

He asked: "Her name is Jiannan, right?"

Wu Yong performed a grand kowtow, eyes fixed on the floor, and replied respectfully: "Reporting to the honored one, yes. The young lady's full name is Shen Jiannan."

Now that he knew her name, Lu Ding would no longer call her Fatty. That was respect. Even if she was just a child of eleven or twelve, children deserve respect too.

He turned his gaze back to the kneeling woman before him: "I'm asking you, where has Jiannan's heart gone?"

The Shen Family Matriarch kneeling on the ground felt as if struck by lightning.

He found out!!!

He must have come here for this very reason.

The woman's mind raced with a thousand thoughts, yet she did not answer. Even though she knew that refusing to answer would provoke this temperamental and brutal man before her into meting out punishment, she still said nothing. She simply steeled herself mentally.

But unexpectedly.

This time, the pain she had braced herself for never came.

What came instead was Lu Ding's voice: "Not talking?"

"Then let me guess."

"You're already in this much pain, yet you still obey my commands, kneeling here and groveling before me. That means you're afraid of me. You're afraid I'll hit you."

"And since you're afraid, you shouldn't be refusing to answer my question."

"But you're not answering, which means that among the people involved in this matter, there's someone you care about. Or something. And that someone or something can't afford to provoke me. Because if they could, you would have already been screaming threats, since that's exactly what you were doing just now."

"Combining all these conditions......I'm guessing that Jiannan's person was given to someone by you? Or rather, you took her heart for someone else's sake?"

At this moment, panic had already seized the woman: "No, no! I used her heart as a medicinal ingredient!!!"

"I ate it! I ate it!!!!"

A smile that didn't reach his eyes spread across Lu Ding's face: "Do you think I believe you?"

"If anyone can report on the Matriarch and tell me what she did with your young lady's heart, or who she gave it to, I'll spare that person's life."

"Otherwise, everyone present here, I will kill one by one."

Just as Lu Ding's words fell.

He suddenly sensed something and looked toward the hall's entrance.

Several elderly figures were striding in against the wind.

"Young friend, that's enough. This is the Shen Family's internal affair. You've already caused quite a scene here today. That should be sufficient."

The kneeling woman, seeing through her one remaining good eye that the newcomers were several elders of the Shen Family, immediately grew excited and tried to rise: "Elders......."

Boom!!!!

Lu Ding lifted his leg and brought it down, pressing directly onto her shoulder, forcing her back down into a kneeling position.

"So you're saying you know where Jiannan's heart is, then?"

"Where it is no longer matters."

Shen Gui said.

Then came a thunderous boom.

Lu Ding, who had been seated in the hall moments ago, had instantly appeared right before him.

Startled, the other elders behind Shen Gui moved to strike.

He quickly stopped them.

Looking directly at Lu Ding, he asked: "Young friend, what is it that you want?"

Lu Ding, standing at over six feet tall, looked down at him from above: "Old man, you keep calling me 'young friend.' Do you think you're worthy? If I didn't know that you all once protected Jiannan's mother, you would already be lying on the ground the moment you told me to stop."

"Now I'm speaking to you nicely, and this is the last time. Don't push your luck. Where did her heart go, and besides this Matriarch of your Shen Family, who else was involved in cutting out her heart?"

"Before you answer me, I want you to think carefully. I'm not joking with you. You have exactly one sentence to explain yourself clearly. If you can't, then don't blame me for grinding your old bones to dust."

"After all, killing one is the same as killing a hundred. I don't mind killing a few more!"

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