All the dogs surged out at once. The scene was so horrifying that even Feng Caiwei’s face changed. She stumbled back a few steps, nearly falling—thankfully, Xiuyi was nearby and caught her. In a low voice, she asked, “Miss, what do we do?”
Feng Caiwei’s heart was pounding furiously, and for a moment her mind went blank. But as she looked at that many dogs, she couldn’t help shuddering.
Tian Baoci was truly insane.
How could anyone go mad to this extent? Raising dogs was one thing—but this many?!
And now that he’d lost, he didn’t even care about the crowd and just released them all?!
That lunatic—there were many nobles and sons of powerful families here. Was he not afraid someone would be mauled to death and cause a huge scandal?!
Xiao Jingzhao could no longer tolerate it. He grabbed Feng Caiwei’s hand and said coldly, “You deserve death.”
With that, he flung her aside and roared at Tian Baoci, “Tian Baoci! Call your dogs back!”
After all, he was a county prince. Though he came in disguise, he was accompanied by over ten guards.
Now those guards stepped up, shielding the crowd and fending off several of the dogs.
Tian Baoci whistled sharply and hurled a stone in Qi Yuan’s direction. He pointed and shouted, “My babies, kill her! Rip her to pieces!”
Qi Zhen immediately moved to charge forward.
Enough was enough. Even if this meant breaking all ties with Duke Chengen’s household and dragging this to court before the emperor himself, he would beat this b*stard senseless.
What a dog-born disgrace—clearly raised without a mother!
Scum!
But before Qi Zhen could act, Qi Yuan let out a whistle of her own.
In the next moment, the spotted dog lunged forward, clamping its jaws around the neck of the lead dog and tearing mercilessly.
And at that same moment, the rest of the dogs abruptly turned and began stampeding back toward the low doghouse they came from.
Tian Baoci was stunned by the sudden shift. On reflex, he raised his stick to beat the dogs. “Beasts! Get back! Get back!”
These d*mn useless beasts!
But in chaos, dogs were still just dogs—they didn’t listen to orders.
They rushed madly toward their den, and those who lagged behind were brutally mauled by the spotted dog. Many were torn beyond recognition.
The commotion grew so intense that the low wall around the kennel collapsed with a loud crash, kicking up clouds of dust.
Face twisted with rage, Tian Baoci tried to stop the stampede. But when he failed, he turned his fury toward Qi Yuan, charging at her with his stick raised.
The crowd was in total disarray, and those in the back couldn’t see what was happening up front.
The Tian family’s servants appeared to be restraining him, but it was only for show.
Everyone knew Tian Baoci’s prized dogs had been ruined by Qi Yuan. If he wasn’t allowed to vent his anger, no one knew who else he’d take it out on.
They might even end up beating someone to death to feed the dogs again.
No one wanted to be that person. Better someone else than them.
Tian Baoci barreled toward Qi Yuan, his stick about to come crashing down. The Tian family’s men had already blocked off the scene, and outsiders couldn’t see what was going on inside.
But right then, Qi Yuan lifted her foot and kicked Tian Baoci flying. He landed hard on the ground.
Qi Yuan strode over, yanked him up by the collar, and snapped: “You can’t even pick a proper fighting dog, and you call yourself a dog king? You’re just trash!”
Then she slapped him twice, hard. “You rely on your ancestors’ merit and think no one else matters? You’ll get what’s coming to you soon enough!”
Tian Baoci’s ears rang. He couldn’t hear a thing and saw stars before his eyes.
Just as he was about to curse back, Qi Yuan grabbed him by the hair and growled, “Remember this day!”
At that moment, someone in the crowd suddenly screamed, “Something’s wrong—there’s a dead body in the dog yard!”
Qi Zhen and the Old Marquis Qi were still pushing forward, desperate to reach Qi Yuan.
They didn’t know what was happening up front and feared Qi Yuan would be harmed.
But when they heard that cry, they froze in place and instinctively turned to look at the dog yard.
There, the dogs were scattering in all directions—and amid the chaos, one of them had dug up a mangled corpse.
The panicked shouting grew so loud it seemed like the entire estate would collapse from the noise.
Even the Tian family’s servants were terrified. They had never expected a body to be unearthed.
But that was only the beginning.
Moments later, someone shrieked in horror—because as the dogs ran wild, more bones began surfacing from beneath the yard.
And they weren’t dog bones.
Xiang Jie suddenly realized: “Tian Baoci… fed humans to his dogs?!”
Xiang Rong clutched his arm, her face pale as death. “Is he insane?! He’s really gone mad?!”
Feng Caiwei also took a shaky step forward, her face twisted with shock.
She finally understood.
The dogfight was just a setup. From the start, Qi Yuan wasn’t trying to win a match—she came here to expose everything.
Feng Caiwei’s face contorted in fury.
She was furious at Tian Baoci’s recklessness—such arrogance with no real strength to back it up.
But more than that, she was enraged at Qi Yuan.
How did she know everything?!
Even this?
Of course Qi Yuan knew. In her previous life, she had seen Tian Baoci raise dogs like this with her own eyes.
Even Qi Wang, who treated human life as worthless, had been disgusted by Tian Baoci’s cruelty and ordered him executed.
A man like this should never have been allowed to live.
H*ll was where he belonged.
Xiao Jingzhao’s face was stone cold now. He didn’t care about Feng Caiwei anymore—he brought his guards straight to Tian Baoci, grabbed him by the collar, and roared, “What is going on?! Why are there so many corpses and bones in your kennel?!”
Tian Baoci recognized Xiao Jingzhao at once. Panic overtook him and he screamed, “Your Highness, I don’t know! I really don’t know! The dogs were fed by my servants—I didn’t know anything!”
Xiao Jingzhao was beyond furious and slapped him hard across the face. “BEAST!”
Before long, the prefect of Tongzhou arrived with his men in haste.
Old Zhao exchanged a look with Liujin. “We should call Censor Tie. He needs to see this.”
At last, he understood why Qi Yuan had insisted on fighting Tian Baoci.
She didn’t just want him dead—she wanted to drag the entire Duke Chengen’s household down with him.
Who knew what Tian Baoci had done over the years? Judging from the number of bones, this way of raising dogs had clearly gone on a long time.
And those minor charges from before?
They were nothing.
No wonder Qi Yuan stopped Censor Tie last time…
