On the night of the broken engagement, the paranoid prince came to me crying and asking for my statu

"Sister An, save me."

"Excuse me everyone, my young master said that this dusty girl has recognized the wrong person."

As the maid dressed as a man spoke, the driver continued to drive forward, and the gentle cries and rough and obscene curses behind him became farther and farther away.

Su Sui'an, who was dressed as a man, finally smiled after keeping her lips tightly pursed for two days.

Two days after returning, she finally had the opportunity to take the first step towards changing her destiny since her rebirth.

Four days ago, because Zhao Qingwan had nightmares for several days, Liang, the old lady of Changping Marquis' Mansion and Su Sui'an's grandmother, ignored the fact that Su Sui'an was getting married in half a month. She asked Su Sui'an to take Zhao Qingwan to the Huguo Temple, which was dozens of miles away from Luojing, to ask for talismans to interpret the dreams, saying that there were only two girls in the mansion who were of similar age and easy to take care of.

He also said that in order to avoid complications, they should not bring too many servants with them when traveling incognito, so as not to expose their identities.

On the way back, Zhao Qingwan said she had something to do first, and hurried down the mountain with her personal maid. Somehow, she attracted the attention of several fierce men in a temporary market.

Those people were all ferocious and swearing, and they insisted on pulling Zhao Qingwan aside to have fun with them.

In her previous life, Su Sui'an, who was dressed simply as a woman, was caught off guard and passed by the market. Seeing Zhao Qingwan in trouble and begging her for help, she took action and gave the group of burly and fierce men a severe lesson. Unexpectedly, those men turned out to be a group of bandits who wanted to take the opportunity to rob the people.

After teaching those men a lesson, the two were surrounded by hundreds of bandits who had rushed to the scene after hearing the noise. She and Zhao Qingwan were taken to the bandits' lair, along with Su Sui'an's two personal maids.

The two were trapped in the bandit's lair for three days and two nights before they were rescued. During that time, Zhao Qingwan gave the two maids who followed Su Sui'an to the bandit leader in order to please him. Even Su Sui'an almost lost his innocence due to the conspiracy between Zhao Qingwan and the bandit leader.

Not long after being rescued, rumors that the two girls from the Changping Marquis' Mansion were captured and their innocence was still widely spread.

How did Liang and my uncle handle the situation at that time?

Oh, they all spread the word that Zhao Qingwan had been praying for her grandmother in the small Buddhist temple in the mansion those days. Everyone could testify that only Su Sui'an and his servants were kidnapped by bandits for seducing men in the street, and Zhao Qingwan was innocently implicated by Su Sui'an.

Not only that, they also asked the maid in the mansion to examine her two maids to prove their innocence, and then beat her maids to death with sticks in front of all the servants in the mansion.

The next day, rumors spread that the second daughter of the Changping Marquis's mansion seduced a man in the street and ended up in a bandit's den, where she was raped by everyone and forced her two personal maids to serve the bandit leader. Su Sui'an's good reputation was ruined overnight.

Not only that, in order to clear the name of the "innocent" Zhao Qingwan and give her compensation, Liang personally threatened Su Sui'an's sick mother and the century-old foundation of the Changping Marquisate, saying that Su Sui'an was just the daughter of the adopted son and could not repay kindness with enmity, forcing Su Sui'an to give up the marriage with the Duke of Gu's Mansion and forcibly changing the marriage that originally belonged to Su Sui'an to Zhao Qingwan, who was forcibly recorded as the legitimate daughter of the second house...

Su Sui'an was unwilling to accept this, but in the face of the huge power gap, any revenge she took would only lead to more suppression.

In the end, he was humiliated for not knowing his own limitations.

What made her sad was that her fiance, whom she had secretly loved for nine years and had been engaged to for three years and was about to get married, looked at her with disgust, but in the blink of an eye, he treated the person who stole her engagement with tenderness and consideration...

Obviously...

Obviously she was trying to save her and ended up like this...

However, Su Sui'an, who had little knowledge of the viciousness of human nature, never expected that those beasts snatching her marriage was just the first step to uproot the second branch...

Three months after Su Sui'an's engagement was broken off, her father and brother were accused of collaborating with the enemy and selling out their country at the border, and eventually died at the hands of their own people on the battlefield; the Changping Marquisate cut off all ties with her family on the grounds that "Su Yong is not of the Changping Marquisate's bloodline", and at the end they even pleaded hypocritically, saying that after all, the Su family father and son had once defended their country...

As a result, their so-called "plea" only saved Zhao Qingwan, who had become the "second wife's legitimate daughter" and was the one who fulfilled the marriage contract on behalf of the second wife.

Su Sui'an, who had been waiting for Gu Xiuyan to fulfill her marriage contract until she was 29 years old, was sent to the Jiaofang as a prostitute, and was eventually bought by an old eunuch, suffering humiliation and torture; her five-year-old younger brother was sent to the Ye Ting as a slave, and died under the knife of castration; her seriously ill mother was sent to the Prince Yun's mansion as a criminal slave, and died in her tattered clothes on the bed of the tyrannical Prince Yun; her maternal grandfather's family was also implicated by her father and brother, and all the family property was confiscated and returned to the national treasury, and the whole family was exiled to Liaobei, and finally died in the bitter cold on the road of exile...

Really...

No one left...

Thinking about everything that their second branch had gone through in the previous life and how their maternal grandfather's family was implicated.

Su Sui'an's heart felt like it was being squeezed so tightly that even breathing hurt.

How much hatred must one have to uproot the entire Second House in such a vicious way? His father, who clearly knew that he was just an adopted son, had always been working hard for the First House and the Marquis' Mansion...

Crystal tears dripped onto the exquisite gold-thread woven collar. Su Sui'an lowered his eyes, and his gaze fell coldly on the still soft and slender hands.

In her previous life, her finger bones were deformed and her knuckles were thick, but the hidden weapons she threw could still kill the enemy with one strike. However, every time she raised her hands to throw hidden weapons, a fine pain would always linger from her hands to her heart that had long been numb with pain...

Now seeing his intact hands, Sui An couldn't help but move his nimble fingers.

There were actually some thin, barely noticeable calluses on her hands before, which were left when her father taught her to draw the bow and arrow and practice with the spear. However, because she later asked for a marriage with Gu Xiuyan, and Gu Xiuyan's grandmother, Old Lady Gu, did not like her granddaughter-in-law wielding swords and guns, Su Sui'an stopped practicing the spear and archery.

Her grandfather knew that she liked Gu Xiuyan. When he heard that Duke Gu's Mansion disliked her, he immediately spent a lot of money to find the Jade Face Cream and specifically told her to apply it on her hands every day so as not to let Duke Gu's Mansion look down on her.

Thinking of the old man's kind eyes and his calloused hands clumsily pushing the jade cream in front of her, Su Sui'an's eyes inexplicably felt hot.

The old man probably didn't even dream at that time that his hands would experience the pain of having his tendons cut and his finger bones crushed a few years later, and he certainly didn't think that he would die on the roadside without even a straw mat and be torn apart by wild dogs a few years later...

Thinking of this, Su Sui'an couldn't help but stretch out her right hand and gently cover the warm jade bracelet on her left wrist - it is said that the ten fingers are connected to the heart, but the warm jade that touched her could not warm her cold heart at all, and even her moist eyes became even colder.

She will not let go of any of those who harmed her family in the previous life...