The cannon fodder female supporting role wants to run away, and the madly criticizing prince is red-

"I am not that man's woman, nor am I that man's property. You don't have to escort me like you're escorting someone else's property."

"If you want to know whose woman I am, then I am Gu Huai's woman, and even more so his nominal concubine."

In the evening, the two walked to an inn on the outskirts of the city for dinner. Lin Qianqian said to the two dishes on the table.

"You are his woman, I know."

Shen Jian sat opposite him, picked up a white steamed bun with chopsticks, put it in his mouth and took a bite, and narrated slowly, "You and he both slept."

Lin Qianqian raised her head abruptly, her eyes full of resistance, "Is being forced still considered his woman? What exactly is a woman? Does sleeping with a man mean she becomes his property? What exactly is she?"

Lin Qianqian was confused as she spoke. "Here, are women just like flowers? No matter what means are used, whoever picks them owns them. What about her thoughts? Are her personal feelings unimportant?"

"I don't want to mention or recall anything that happened with that man. Please don't classify me as his woman. A man like that doesn't deserve me. It's an insult to me to have any connection with him."

Shen Jian glanced at Lin Qianqian and saw that she looked strong and determined, with a slight curve at the corner of her mouth.

"How could a girl like you who came from a brothel keep her chastity for Gu Huai?"

Lin Qianqian glared at him with her round eyes, "Who cares what my background is? I can be chaste to whoever I want to be. Does it mean that if you come from a brothel, you have to serve all men? What's your ideology?"

Lin Qianqian looked at Shen Jian with a probing and disdainful look in her eyes, "You mean, just because she's a prostitute, you can take advantage of her and violate her at will?"

Shen Jian didn't say anything.

Lin Qianqian looked at Shen Jian with disgust. "Because she came from a brothel, men approach her with the mentality of taking advantage of her? Taking advantage of her, getting benefits, and saying that this kind of woman is coquettish and seduces men, thus completely shirking their own guilt?"

Shen Jian took a bite of the vegetables without any emotion on his face. "Look at you. I only said one sentence, and you said so much. You are getting all thorny again."

"You are such a difficult woman, but he actually cares about you." Shen Jian picked up the wine pot and poured himself a glass, then took a sip from the glass.

Lin Qianqian snorted coldly and leaned forward a little, "I hit the nail on the head and you have nothing to refute, so you start to criticize my character."

She narrowed her eyes slightly, "The same is true for the Ninth Prince, and Gu Ling in the Marquis' Mansion."

"This kind of man is really funny. He doesn't dare to face his own mistakes. In the end, he said that women are crazy and arrogant, and that such women make his male chauvinism lose its dignity. Such self-confidence and pride are like balloons, which are blown up and always stand above people's heads, but in fact they will burst with a slight poke."

"Are you provoking me?" Shen Jian put down his chopsticks and stared at Lin Qianqian.

Lin Qianqian tilted her head slightly and pursed her lips in a pretentious manner, "I'm not provoking you. I'm a hedgehog, a nitpicker, and I like to expose the false faces of those who are high and mighty. That's it."

Shen Jian smiled lightly, raised the wine glass in his hand again, his eyes full of contempt and ridicule, "I advise you not to be too arrogant. Even now, you still need men to sit here in peace."

"Yeah." Lin Qianqian hummed softly.

She raised a hand to support one side of her face and smiled softly, "What if I don't want your protection at all?"

"Women have their own ways to protect themselves. It's you men who are too narcissistic and self-righteous."

"Protecting women can satisfy your desire to be a hero and save the beauty, right? Saving women in brothels can also satisfy your desire to save prostitutes, fulfill your heroism, and satisfy your fantasy of having women fall in love with you wholeheartedly."

Shen Jian sneered, lowered his head, and turned the wine glass in his hand, "So in your eyes, a man protects a woman just to satisfy himself?"

"You woman..."

"Can't a man just act from the bottom of his heart and save a woman simply because she needs help?"

Lin Qianqian blinked her long eyelashes, with a hint of ridicule in her eyes, "Maybe there is such a man. Such a man is a true gentleman, a man who is truly worthy of respect and love. I will also fall in love with him."

Shen Jian took the knife from the table and said to Lin Qianqian before returning to the room, "Okay, from now on, I will no longer say that you are his woman. I am just fulfilling my promise."

"I live next door to you. If anything happens, just call me."

He went to the guest room on the second floor first.

After Lin Qianqian finished the chicken leg in her bowl, she opened the door and returned to her guest room.

Sitting on the simple wooden bed covered with old bedding, she took out her purse, poured out all the silver and money inside, and counted the copper coins.

"I don't have much money left. I guess I'll have to go to a bank to get some money when I get to the next place."

Lin Qianqian hugged her bag and lay on the bed. Looking at the curtain with a big hole in it, she suddenly said, "Without me, they will live well, and everything will develop just like in the book. Maybe, I changed some of the plot, and the relationship between the heroine and the prince has also changed. Will the two of them secretly fall in love? No matter who the heroine is with, as long as she is happy, the book will have a happy ending."

Lin Qianqian took a deep breath, then suddenly turned over and fell on the bed, pounding it happily, "Great, I'm free."

"No need to worry about the affairs of the Marquis' Mansion anymore."

"When he left, he didn't leave a single word. He left quietly without a trace. There is no clue at all. Even if the prince wanted to find him, he couldn't find him. By then, he would have slowly forgotten him..."

Lin Qianqian thought happily, sat up, hummed a little tune, raised her arms to take off her coat and put it beside the bed.

She happily spread her arms on the bed and rolled over in the quilt. "When I find a suitable place, I will stop and settle down, do business, and buy a house. It will be such a happy thing to have my own land and house."

“I just don’t know how to leave this world.”

Lin Qianqian thought gloomily and sighed.

"Maybe I can find a way, maybe I will never be able to escape, and just die of old age in this world..."

Lin Qianqian hugged the neatly folded quilt on the bed and said, "Never mind, let's just live in the present first."

In the middle of the night, there was suddenly the sound of fighting with swords and knives outside.

The muffled sound of a knife piercing flesh and the man's shrill screams woke Lin Qianqian from her deep sleep.

She panicked and reached down to the edge of the bed to get up and light the candle, but someone suddenly held her shoulders and said, "Don't move, don't go out. There's a fight going on outside."

"Why are you here?" Lin Qianqian's voice became hoarse with fear, and she quickly hugged the quilt tightly around herself.

"I'm here to protect you."

Lin Qianqian didn't bother to ask him when he came in, she didn't hear any sound at all.

She reached out and touched her goose-bumped shoulder and found it very cold.

The man's scream reminded Lin Qianqian of the bloody and violent movie scenes she had seen. And everything that happened just now was real, and the murder scene was not far away from her.