Chapter 4942  You Call That Punishment?

While Evelynn was glaring at her, Isabella stepped forward.

"Zenova, you should keep quiet. If it's about punishment, Natalya has been slapped."

Zenova blinked, "Just a slap and you call that punishment? Isn't this equivalent to just giving a pat on the back of the hand and forgetting it?"

"…" Isabella clenched her teeth, unable to retort.

Even in the Ruth Family, punishments were deadly. If an Emperor's consort did the same thing as Natalya did, she would've been beheaded along with her entire family and three more generations. Therefore, she understood where Zenova came from, but wanted to tell her it wasn't like that.

Shirley stepped forward at this moment, "Since we are all equal in the harem, even getting a slap warrants that the wrongdoer has been punished well, and we all trust big sister Evelynn to be righteous, just, and reasonable. Otherwise, do you think you can walk freely after receiving just twice the number of slaps Natalya did for the crimes you committed?"

"…" Zenova's gaze turned cold, her smile fading.

'Well said…!' Davis inwardly praised Shirley.

When it comes to banter and twisting words, Shirley wouldn't lose even to Mingzhi.

The women of the harem all nodded.

"That's right." Fiora waved her hand, "We trust big sister Evelynn to be our judge and jury. She has never wronged anyone. I dare you to bring someone who says otherwise! Even my elder sister, who is receiving the punishment, is in silent agreement, not retorting."

"True." Zenova nodded, "Big sister Evelynn is righteous, just, and reasonable, but the punishment should match the crime. According to our family's law, putting the family in danger intentionally nets a hundred thousand-year sentence at the minimum, and harming the vulnerable, unlike Davis, who is invulnerable, amounts to a thousand whips at the person's cultivation base, and at the worst, soul torture until death. There is no law stating that harem members are exempt from this rule."

"…"

Shirley and the others became speechless.

More importantly, Mingzhi also blinked as though she was caught, inwardly sweating.

The laws she made certainly didn't have this aspect since she didn't want any harem members getting away scot free after pulling such a disgusting move of intentionally harming the family by siding with enemies, but this time around, she was in support of letting Natalya go. After all, Natalya had challenged the heavens and got struck by it, but could have inadvertently taken the family down with her.

However, was offending the enemy and then getting exterminated a crime? It wasn't.

Even a normal and honorable family would fight to the death.

However, this was the heavens. It wasn't something they could offend. No family would even have a law about it. At the same time, they were a Divergent Family, so they were supposed to go against the heavens no matter what.

So what kind of law could she make for this?

It was unprecedented, so it came back to bite them in the back.

The foremost thing was that Natalya was told to stop, and she didn't, so at that point, it truly did become intentional, even if her initial reasons weren't intentional.

Zenova emphasized, "What I did was merely conspiring against the strongest, which only counts as a challenge at the minimum within the family's personal laws. But at that time, since I was an outsider, I could be judged harshly. I do not mind undergoing a retrial, but it cannot compare to what sister Natalya did."

"…"

Evelynn remained silent.

The others were too dumbfounded to say anything.

'No way she sat and learned all that legal jargon in a week… what is she planning?'

They could only think of this, and Davis was no different.

He could tell she had the laws around her fingers now, so he activated his Heart Intent, wondering what he was up to.

"So what do you want? Do you want to see Natalya punished harshly?" Evelynn asked.

Her voice was calm, but her gaze was chilling, her purple eyes gleaming.

Zenova turned to look at her, her smile returning, but she didn't respond.

She turned to look at Natalya, her crimson lips moving, "I have a few questions I want to ask you, sister Natalya."

"Ask away, sister Zenova~"

Natalya said smilingly, appearing pretty uncaring about her own fate as she held Davis's arm.

"Can you tell us that you didn't place the family in danger for a fact?"

"No."

"Then can you tell us if you didn't intend to harm the family and only intended to save Davis despite everything that could happen to the family?"

"Yes~ I said it already. This family doesn't exist without him."

Zenova's eyes gleamed crimson, her energy circulating within without control, "There's no need to explain yourself. Yes or no is enough. Finally, can you tell me if you would do it again?"

"Absolutely~"

Natalya nodded with a faint smile, but then remembered she needed to promise Davis that she shouldn't do it again, causing her to panic.

"I… I mean… I am not going to do it anymore after I make the promise…"

Natalya said, but she saw others look at her as they facepalmed or looked away with a sigh.

Fiora's expression went pale. Her elder sister had just incriminated herself. It wasn't bad that she showed no remorse, but just had to say she would do it again with a cheeky smile. How can one save her from this self-snitching move?

If they did, it would absolutely set a bad precedent!

Natalya seemed to realize this, but she made no effort to defend herself. As far as she was concerned, she acted true to her heart, and if she was punished or killed because of it, so be it. She didn't mind giving her life away today or any day as long as the command didn't come from Davis himself.

He could never forsake her. He should never forsake her-

- and that was her undying faith in him.

Mingzhi saw Zenova smiling brightly as though she had this in the bag. She felt the need to stop her, but her brain didn't catch up after being caught offguard with Natalya's self-incriminating move!

Zenova's gaze then fell on Davis.

She raised her hands high up in the air before cupping her hands and kneeling on the floor.

"My Emperor, there are rumors spreading everywhere. Otherwise, I wouldn't have noticed this crime that has been hidden from the public's eyes, and since I noticed it, I couldn't pretend as though nothing happened."

She raised her head, looking at his eyes straight, causing many hearts to sink. The next few words she could say might make it extremely difficult for them to forgive Natalya officially, just like that.

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