"Don't come out, my lord!" Lady Dong cried out hoarsely.
Everyone was startled upon hearing this. Inside the study, Minister Dong couldn't help but shed tears. He never thought that his wife would still think of him so much at such a moment.
Tian Gang couldn't help but let out a cold laugh. Then he kicked Lady Dong away with one foot and shouted into the air, "Minister Dong, if you're a man, come out quickly. I'll count to three. If you don't come out, I'll kill your wife."
After saying that, he started counting without hesitation.
"One!"
He paused for a moment and found no movement around. He sneered and counted again, "Two!"
At this moment, a clear voice of a child came.
"Mother—!"
Everyone turned around and saw a little boy about seven or eight years old running towards the woman with small steps.
When Lady Dong saw him, her emotions almost broke down. She roared at the little boy in the distance, "Who told you to come out! Get out of here quickly!"
The little boy had never seen his mother so fierce before. He was immediately frightened and burst into tears. The crying of the child filled the entire mansion of Minister Dong.
Tian Gang seemed to realize something. He walked over and picked up the little boy himself.
"Don't touch him! He's just a child!" Lady Dong shouted out without any scruples when she saw his action.
But Tian Gang completely ignored her. He held the child and teased him. Then he said, "What a lovely child. Can you bear it, Minister Dong?!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a man rushed out of the study. It was Minister Dong. He could endure anything, but he couldn't stand others threatening his son.
"Father!" The little boy shouted and then opened his arms as if asking for a hug.
This made Minister Dong smile painfully at him. Then he said to the man holding the child, "Put the child down. If you want to kill someone, kill me!"
"My lord!" Lady Dong shouted. Tears fell one by one.
Tian Gang put down the child in his hand and walked towards the man in the distance. Then he said, "Minister Dong really acts like a man!"
Minister Dong just snorted coldly. Then he asked, "Who on earth are you? Why do you want to wipe out our family? Why..."
Before he could finish his words, he heard a "puff" sound. Then he looked down and saw a knife sticking out of his chest. Blood was gushing out. He widened his eyes in disbelief and wanted to ask something more, but blood also flowed out of his mouth.
"My lord!!!" Lady Dong shouted. Then she crawled over desperately and watched helplessly as her husband was stabbed a second time.
"Who... on earth are you..." Minister Dong asked this last question. Then he fell down and lay in a pool of blood. Until his death, he didn't know who the people in front of him were.
"My lord! Wake up, my lord!" Lady Dong rushed to his side and picked up his upper body. Her hands were flustered as she tried to stop the bleeding wound, but she still couldn't stop the body temperature of the man in her arms from fading.
"Stop... I'm not going to make it..." Minister Dong murmured. His voice was already very weak, barely audible.
"How could this happen! How could this happen!" Lady Dong cried loudly. All this happened too fast for her. It caught her completely off guard.
"I only blame myself for not listening to you... But I just wanted to give you a better life..." After Minister Dong said this last sentence, his eyes closed completely and his body cooled down.
"My lord!!!"
Tian Gang watched this scene. Somehow, he found it very dazzling. It reminded him of a day many years ago when he had also cried out hoarsely like this, but still couldn't change anything. So from then on, he had hated all parting scenes.
Thinking of this, he took a long spear from a wolf guard beside him and stabbed it at the woman in the distance.
The tip of the spear pierced through Lady Dong's chest and almost took her life in an instant. But at this moment, a smile appeared on her lips. Then she fell on the body of the man in front of her.
Tian Gang saw this and tightened his lips. He knew that in this world, those who had seen too much of life and death would find death a relief, while living was the greatest pain.
The little boy beside him witnessed his parents being killed with his own eyes. Although he was still too young to understand what life was, he still felt extremely sad. So he began to cry loudly.
"Left Envoy Tian, what should we do with this child?" a wolf guard asked.
At this moment, Tian Gang did feel a bit of pity. Looking at the crying boy in front of him and thinking of his just - deceased parents, somehow he walked over and stared at him and asked, "What's your name?"
The little boy sobbed while answering, "I... My name is Dong Xuan..."
"Dong Xuan... It's a good name." He murmured and then turned around and said, "Let's spare your life and throw you on the street to fend for yourself."
He stopped there. After a moment of pause, he heard a gasp behind him. Then he looked back and found that the little boy had fallen to the ground, and none of the wolf guards beside him had made a move.
"Who killed him?!" He asked sharply. Veins popped out on his forehead. He had given the order to spare the boy's life. Who was so disobedient?
"It's me!"
Then a man jumped down from the roof beside him. His hair was tied up high with a red ribbon. His clothes were neat and tidy. He looked like a young boy. It was Meng Yu, and it was his hidden weapon that had killed the little boy just now.
"He's just a child!" Tian Gang couldn't help but shout.
But Meng Yu sneered. He walked around the little boy and then said, "This little brother is about seven or eight years old, right?"
After saying that, he looked up at the man in the distance.
But Tian Gang frowned and didn't answer. He didn't know what he was trying to say.
Meng Yu naturally saw his confusion. Then he squatted down and pulled out the hidden weapon from the little boy's body. Immediately, blood spurted out of his body. The situation looked extremely bloody.
Tian Gang couldn't bear to watch him do such a cruel thing to a little boy. So he turned his head. Then he heard Meng Yu behind him say a sentence.
"I was just a six - year - old child nine years ago."
After saying this, he couldn't help but look up and let out a wild laugh.