Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

In this case, she thought that using those two unexpected pieces of information as conditions to persuade him was enough to surprise him. At that time, he admired this young lady from the bottom of his heart, because if it was someone else, her trick would really work, and his originally extinguished mind became active again.

Next, he didn't expect the other party to evaluate him so badly. He knew he was despicable, but he still couldn't accept that the woman he cared about looked at him like this. He was furious and asked someone to call Yang Jian, who came to his house today, over. He confessed everything to her and let her know that everything she did was in vain. Seeing her crying, he was angry and distressed, and he couldn't control his desire to get close to her.

After this day's tossing and turning, Wei Jue felt that he cared more about this young lady. If they had not met before today, perhaps everything before would have been over, and they would have been two strangers in the future. But she came to his door and surprised him once. Such a young lady made him look at her with new eyes. He felt more and more that her mediocre husband was not worthy of her, and she deserved someone better to match her.

Before sending her away, in order to let her rest in peace and to prevent others from touching her, he asked Yang Jian to send Pei Zhu away in front of her. All of this hid his dark thoughts.

Ye Xi had indeed had a good rest in the past few days, but that was only physically. She was even more depressed mentally. She regretted why she had come to the man's house. If she hadn't come, she might not have known the man's identity. She might have been free one day if she continued like before. Now that she knew the man's true identity, the day the man despised her might be the day she died.

She had been thinking about how to break the impasse these days, but there was no way out. She had originally hoped that her brother Ye Xin would pass the imperial examination and become an official to help her get rid of Yang Jian, a businessman, but now that the target had become a third-rank official, there was really no way out.

Unexpectedly, she simply stopped thinking about it. She was going to die anyway, so she let it go and gradually returned to her old self. She thought Pei Zhu would be home soon, but she waited and waited but he didn't come back. She felt uneasy, so she went to the shops run by Pei Zhu in Suzhou City with Chuntao in the morning and asked the shopkeepers where Pei Zhu was. The shopkeepers didn't know either, and Ye Xi felt even more uneasy.

Sure enough, her anxiety came true in the afternoon.

Douzi came back with bad news, saying Pei Zhu was arrested. The reason was that an innkeeper sued Pei Zhu, saying that Pei Zhu bought things on credit and always kept accounts for each stay, but never paid. After fruitless negotiations, the innkeeper could no longer bear it and called the people from the yamen to arrest Pei Zhu as a deadbeat.

When Ye Xi heard this, she immediately suspected that Pei Zhu was being framed. She didn't need to think too much about who was behind the scenes. When something happened at this critical juncture, it was hard for her not to suspect the other party.

She had seen a prison not long ago. Although it was in a different place, the situation would not be much different. So she hurried back to her room to look for the banknotes, took the banknote that she had intended to use to bribe Wei Jue, and immediately took Douzi and Chuntao to the yamen.

In ancient prisons, there were not only death penalty instruments, but also live torture instruments. The live torture instruments in prisons were the prison bosses. These people actually controlled the prisoners' living environment and often used this power to extort money from the prisoners. There were even cases where "prison guards failed to extort money and tortured (prisoners) to death."