Disciple, please come down the mountain soon. Your senior sister can’t wait any longer.

After understanding Pei Runnian's hidden warning, Pei Qingniao chose to tell everything, then lowered his head and quietly waited for Pei Runnian's judgment.

Pei Runnian still looked at Pei Qingniao with eyes as calm as an ancient well. There was not a trace of emotion in his indifferent eyes, as if the person in front of him was not the bed partner who had accompanied him for decades and gave birth to a son for him, but an ordinary person.

After staring at Pei Qingniao for a moment, Pei Runnian slowly spoke.

"Do you secretly hate me for sending you to Tianbo Building?"

Pei Qingniao raised her head in panic and shook her head repeatedly. She wanted to say something, but Pei Runnian raised his hand to stop her.

"Listen to me first."

After hearing Pei Runnian's words, Pei Qingniao could only suppress his desire to speak and looked at Pei Runnian nervously.

Pei Runnian's voice was flat.

"Logically speaking, you have been with me for decades without any status, and you gave birth to a son for me. I should give you a better place to go."

"Putting you in Tianbo Building does seem like exile, especially since I let Pei Xingchen take charge of everything in the underground base and only let you take care of some logistical matters. You should hate me even more in your heart. You might even scold me for being mean and heartless and not giving you any dignity."

Pei Qingniao's expression became more and more terrified as Pei Runnian spoke, and in the end, he was so distorted and frightened as if he had seen a ghost.

However, with Pei Runnian's previous words in mind, Pei Qingniao did not dare to interrupt Pei Runnian without permission. He could only shake his head repeatedly to indicate that he had absolutely no such idea.

Pei Runnian didn't care about Pei Qingniao's statement, and his voice was as steady as usual.

"The truth is, no matter what you think of me, I don't really care."

"Over the years, I don't know how many people inside and outside the family have cursed me. One more or one less will not make much difference."

"If I blame you for this, I'm afraid the entire Pei family will be wiped out by me."

"There is no need for me to explain my intentions to you because of this matter. If I have to explain my decision to everyone who doesn't understand it, then I won't have to do anything all day and I'll just be wasting my time talking."

"I make my own decisions, and I have my own reasons for doing so."

"I thought you had followed me for decades, so you would understand why I asked you to go to Tianbo Building, but I really didn't expect you to be so stupid that you couldn't even understand this and even did a series of stupid things in succession."

Pei Runnian turned his head away and did not look at Pei Qingniao, whose face was pale and bloodless with fear, and spoke in a cold voice.

"I asked you to go to Tianbo Building and make you inferior to Pei Xingchen. It seems to be suppressing you, but have you ever used your walnut-sized brain to think carefully for even a minute? I asked you to go to Tianbo Building, maybe it was a gift of respectability and a future for you."

When Pei Qingniao heard Pei Runnian's words, he felt as if he was struck by lightning. He stood there in a daze, as if he had heard something incredible.

Pei Runnian ignored Pei Qingniao and continued talking to himself.

"You've been in Tianbo Building for so long, you should know who Pei Xingchen is."

"He is my son who I have abandoned for eighteen years. In these eighteen years, he has cultivated to the peak of dark energy with only a basic formula!"

"Among all my sons, if we only talk about martial arts skills, no one can surpass him!"

"Based on his talent alone, he is far ahead of all my sons."

"Although I have not considered choosing a family heir until now, if there really comes a day when I really want to choose someone to inherit the Pei family and carry on my unfinished business and carry it forward, Pei Xingchen, with his once-in-two-hundred-years talent in the Pei family, is already a long way ahead in the competition for heirs."

"In other words, Pei Xingchen is very likely the heir of the Pei family that I have chosen, the future Patriarch of the Pei family!"

"You may feel wronged if you are inferior to Pei Xingchen."

"But if you were asked to be inferior to the future head of the Pei family, would you still feel wronged?"

"If Pei Xingchen really becomes the patriarch of the Pei family one day, and if you cooperate with him well when you are in Tianbo Building, do you think he will not give you a proper placement and a bright future for your son?"

“Let’s take a step back and say that even if something goes wrong in the future and Pei Xingchen fails to become the Patriarch of the Pei Family as he wishes, he can definitely become a powerful figure in the Pei Family with his strong cultivation and powerful martial arts talent.”

“Even if he really goes one step further and breaks through the peak of Dark Energy to become a Transformation Energy warrior, even the head of the family will have to behave himself in front of him!”

"Is it difficult for a person like this to protect you and your son?"

"When the time comes, he can guarantee you and your son a life of wealth and prosperity with just a few words."

"And such a future does not require you to do anything. You just need to cooperate with him and do what you are supposed to do, and it will be within your reach."

"But among the countless correct paths, you chose the most wrong one and chose to go against Pei Xingchen."

"You even chose to abandon Pei Xingchen and escape alone when the enemy invaded the underground base. You even tried to make trouble for me after you escaped to me. You are so stupid and hopeless!"

"Do you really think that because I'm old, I'll become soft-hearted and dare not kill people?"

"With your performance like this, do you still expect Pei Xingchen to protect you and your son in the future? Will he let you continue to stay in the Pei family and enjoy the glory and wealth?"

"I can conclude now that after I die, no matter whether Pei Xingchen will become the head of the Pei family or not, you and your son will die without a burial place at the first opportunity, and die cleanly!"

When Pei Runnian said the last sentence, his tone, which had been as calm as water, finally fluctuated. The emphasized tone was like a sledgehammer that hit Pei Qingniao's heart hard, causing Pei Qingniao's whole body to tremble violently. He suddenly realized something and felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave. A deep chill spread all over his body. He couldn't help but tremble violently. He was almost incontinent because of the extremely tragic future described by Pei Runnian!

For someone like Pei Qingniao, she may not be afraid of anything else, but there are definitely two things she fears the most.

The first is death. For people like them who were born into wealthy families and have enjoyed endless wealth and glory since birth, death is always the thing they fear most.

Once they die, they will no longer be able to enjoy the boundless wealth. How can they not be afraid?

The second is being deprived of wealth and honor, the feeling and pain of which is even worse than death.

They have always had everything provided for them since they were born. Many family members have never eaten a meal or taken a bath alone in their entire lives until they died. They are all served by personal maids.

If they were deprived of their wealth and completely reduced to civilians, it would be even more painful than killing them!

Not to mention other people, just talk about Pei Qingniao and Pei Runnian’s son, that is an extremely typical example.

As the son of Pei Qingniao and Pei Runnian, although he was labeled as an illegitimate child since birth, he was the son of the head of the family after all, so he never lacked everything he deserved.

In addition, Pei Qingniao loved his son very much and had real power in the family, so Pei Qingniao's son lived an extremely leisurely life in the Pei family, and the treatment he enjoyed was no worse than that of the legitimate son.

But after enjoying wealth and luxury for many years, he has long become a complete idler, or even a useless person.

Apart from eating, drinking and having fun, Pei Qingniao's son has no other abilities at all.

If a person like him suddenly lost all his wealth and became a member of the lowest class, having to do everything by himself, he would definitely starve to death within three days.

Pei Qingniao had long been accustomed to the feeling that just by giving an order, countless people would run around and serve her. If she really fell into the status of a commoner, the huge gap would drive her crazy.

So when Pei Qingniao heard the terrifying future that Pei Runnian talked about, he was almost scared to death.

She no longer cared about Pei Runnian's order not to speak, and she prostrated herself on the back seat, begging with a trembling voice.

"Master, please give me another chance and save me."

"It's all my fault. I was blinded by greed and mistakenly thought that you hated us. That's why I gave up on myself and ignored your good intentions, causing so many problems."

"It's all my fault. Please, for the sake of my decades of service to you and for the sake of our son, please give me another chance."

Pei Qingniao begged desperately, but Pei Runnian still didn't look at her. He stared quietly out the window. The indifference in his eyes was like an eternal iceberg, without the slightest wavering.

When Pei Qingniao begged for a long time and still showed no sign of stopping, Pei Runnian frowned slightly and spoke in a cold voice.

"Noisy."

As soon as these two words came out, it was as if Pei Qingniao's volume button was pressed, muting her instantly and losing all sound.

The whole person didn't even dare to breathe, holding his breath and crawling quietly on the ground, not even daring to make the slightest loud movement, for fear of angering Pei Runnian.

After Pei Qingniao's crying voice disappeared, Pei Runnian's frown relaxed and he spoke in an extremely cold voice.

"mercy?"

"If I wasn't merciful, I would have killed you the moment you started lying to me."

"I asked you to go to Tianbo Building because I wanted to give you and your son a bright future. But you foolishly went against Pei Xingchen and threw away this future."

"If that's all, then it's fine. If you can do your job peacefully, even if I don't like you ruining my plans, I will eventually arrange a proper place for you for the sake of your hard work and my son."

"But how did you do it?"

"The enemy invaded, and you abandoned Pei Xingchen and the entire base, and ran back by yourself!"

"How is your behavior different from desertion?"

"Just based on your behavior, I can kill you eight hundred times!"

"Even if I protect you, once this matter spreads, how will everyone in the Pei family look at you? How will they talk about you and your son behind your back?"

"When public opinion is boiling, even I can't stop it. I can only choose to deal with you."

"In other words, even if I can protect you from everyone's threats, I will definitely not protect you."

"Why should I spend so much manpower and material resources to protect two worthless pieces of trash like you?"

"Because you are good at flirting, or because of your good-for-nothing son who is good at nothing but spending money?"

Pei Runnian's extremely cold voice was like two knives, piercing deeply into Pei Qingniao's heart, making her heart ache, but she was powerless to refute.

She knew that everything Pei Runnian said was true.

She and her son were not worth Pei Runnian spending so many resources to protect them.

Pei Runnian did not even look at Pei Qingniao's pale, ghost-like face, but continued to speak in a cold voice.

"Besides, do you think your crime is just running away without permission?"

"No, your biggest crime is that you brought Chu Longtu's men here and led them into the underground base. That is your biggest crime."

"You should know what is in the underground base, and you should also know how much ill will Chu Longtu has towards the Pei family."

"You should know what the consequences will be if Chu Longtu's men find out about the things in the underground base. That means the entire Hedong will know the secrets of the underground base, knowing that we are privately training thugs and cultivating hi grass."

"The reputation of the entire Pei family will instantly become so bad that it will spread ten miles away. It will become so infamous in Hedong that the reputation of the entire family will suffer an extremely serious blow."

"Based on this crime, let alone killing you, that would be too easy for you. Even if I tortured you to death a hundred times, it would not be enough to vent my anger!"

"No one in the entire Pei family will let you go. They can't wait to kill you!"

"After causing such a mess, you still expect to stay alive and continue to enjoy your wealth and splendor?"

"Go and dream your dreams!"

"I am already extremely merciful by being able to take you away from the Pei family alive. How much more merciful do you want from me?"