The cannon fodder heiress trembled with fear after being recognized as a member of her family.

The woman who had been kneeling on the ground raised her head, her cheeks red and swollen, her forehead bruised, leaving only her eyes visible.

Those eyes were like a spring, full of affection.

She was indeed a beauty, no wonder the governor of Chang Le County doted on Li Ermi so much.

In retrospect, it was a case of loving the house because of its owner.

"I am Li Rou, and you are, young lady?"

Li Rou rubbed her knees, her shoulder accidentally bumping into her cheek, making her look pitiful.

"Alright, stop acting like that. I'm not a man."

Han Cuiyin disliked this appearance.

Qingyun often pretended to be pitiful in front of her, but she never made her feel disgusted like that.

Both women were equally charming, one worldly, the other simply adorable.

"Please don't be offended, young lady! I live in the backyard of Lu City. If I hadn't learned some tricks, I probably wouldn't be alive now."

Lu Cheng presented himself as fair and honest in public, but in private he was completely unrelated to those kinds of people.

He was a womanizer, and the group of people he secretly kept did a lot of dirty work for him.

But her brother revealed all of this, and the outcome was predictable.

"Young lady, you are free to come and go as you please. Could you please find me a sharp weapon? I am willing to exchange all my savings for it."

Li Rou hurriedly unbuttoned her clothes and tore off a small cloth bag from the inside.

"..."

Han Cuiyin remained silent and did not respond. "Keep what you got by selling your body! Are you planning to assassinate Lu Cheng?"

"Yes! He harmed my brother, how could I not take revenge! If he hadn't taken everything when he came in, it would have been a simple matter that could have been resolved with a silver hairpin, and I wouldn't have had to ask for help."

Li Rou gradually calmed down, her eyes flickering as she looked at the person lying on the ground.

She slowly walked to Lu Cheng's side, squatted down, and then quickly tore a strip of cloth from the hem of her clothes.

Han Cuiyin instantly understood what she wanted to do. "I advise you to stop! Lu Cheng is backed by the Marquis of Kaiming, and Lu's daughter is a concubine in the palace. If he dies, you won't be any better off."

“I have a worthless life. If Ermi dies, I don’t want to live on alone. But I must die. Ermi cannot die in vain.”

Li Rou wrapped the strip of cloth around Lu Cheng's neck twice, and was about to exert force when she was stopped by a hand.

"What's more terrifying than death is a living hell! You've followed Lu Cheng for so long, what do you think he's most afraid of?"

Li Rou's hand gradually loosened, and Lu Cheng coughed violently. Before he could speak, Han Cuiyin knocked him unconscious again.

"Stop wasting time, quickly tell us what you know. Revenge doesn't necessarily mean killing him; let him suffer a fate worse than death before we talk about it."

Han Cuiyin had never dealt with such a problem before, so she could only imitate Qingyun's methods of dealing with people.

The two women have different styles of doing things. She always speaks her mind directly with her fists, while Qingyun is indeed more roundabout and torturous.

Here, the elegant and refined approach is more suitable.

Li Rou looked stunned. "Lu Cheng is the most lecherous man. He is most afraid of his father scolding him and his brothers laughing at him. However, I have never been back to the Lu family. This is all I know."

"That's enough! I'll take you away from him, and from now on you'll be mine."

Han Cuiyin kept her promise; she would fulfill what she had promised Li Ermi and settle this matter.

"Your people? Lu Cheng will let me go? He hasn't tormented me enough, how could he let me leave so easily?"

Li Rou didn't believe it.

She didn't know how Han Cuiyin got in, only assuming that she had bribed the guards.

"He will not only let you go, but he will let you go willingly. You want revenge, but you can't have it right now. However, you can vent your anger today."

Han Cuiyin stomped on Lu Cheng, "Wake up!"

Lu Cheng opened his eyes and saw the dark-faced girl, which startled him.

"Are you Han Zhen's daughter whom he abandoned?"

The dark-faced girl returned to the Han family, and this event caused a sensation throughout the capital.

The guards here have been talking about it a lot these days, and Lu Cheng has heard quite a bit about it as well.

His current predicament was, in a way, related to this dark-faced girl.

"Put away your resentment. Remember, it wasn't me who caused this. Han Song, the guy next to Han Zhen, was the one who agreed to let you arrest the Gao family that night. Now that it's exposed, you should blame him."

Han Cuiyin simply distanced herself from the situation.

Lu Cheng thought for a moment, "That's true, but you're also a member of the Han family, none of you will have an easy time!"

"Have you said enough?" Han Cuiyin slapped him across the face. "You should hold a grudge against the Han family, not my family! Remember that?"

Lu Cheng opened his mouth and spat out a tooth, along with blood.

Black Rakshasa?

When Lu Cheng remembered this nickname, he dared not go against it anymore.

"How did you get in?" Lu Cheng stepped back, pressing himself tightly against the wall, not daring to look at her.

"Here, let me let you vent your anger first!"

A feather duster appeared out of thin air in Han Cuiyin's hand and was shoved directly into Li Rou's hand.

"You shameless woman, how dare you! Wait until we get back to the Lu family, and I'll see how I deal with you!" Lu Cheng said fiercely, but his body was trembling.

"I'll teach you a lesson for hurting my brother and me!"

"I'll teach you to hit me!"

"..."

Li Rou's feather duster struck every spot, and Lu Cheng let out a violent scream.

"Help! Pull this crazy woman away! Help!"

Unfortunately, no matter how much he shouted, no one outside paid any attention.

"Screaming your lungs out won't save you!" Han Cuiyin watched from the sidelines without intervening.

Li Rourou is weak, and these few blows only caused superficial injuries, which could not cause her any real harm.

"You... what kind of sorcery did you use? I want to tell Grand Preceptor Mo!"

Lu Cheng came from the Kaiming Marquis's mansion, and his sisters were imperial concubines in the palace, so he naturally knew some things.

Otherwise, he would have shouted it out when Han Cuiyin conjured things from a distance.

"Alright! Li Rou, stop. Let's resolve your identity issue first."

Han Cuiyin took the feather duster and tapped Li Rou's forehead to calm her down.

She then turned to Lu Cheng and said, "You're not a womanizer, so I'll give you a big gift today."

He placed his right hand on Lu Cheng's head for a moment before leaving.

"Write a letter of release from your concubine, and leave first thing tomorrow morning to congratulate Han Zhen. Everything you've experienced today is because of him, so don't go to the wrong person."

Lu Cheng only felt a coldness in his lower abdomen and pain in his body, but no other discomfort.

"You just want me to go after the Han family, and I'm already venting my anger even if you don't tell me. What have you done to me?"

Lu Cheng is not an incompetent fool; otherwise, he would not have been able to secure his position as prefect.

Fighting with others is commonplace in these large families.

"You'll find out later. I'm taking him away. Don't even think about causing trouble later. I have plenty of ways to deal with you."

Han Cuiyin made two more threats.

"Okay!" Lu Cheng agreed easily, but secretly glanced at Li Rou, his eyes flashing with a cold light.

"Let me give you a piece of advice: put away your thoughts, otherwise it won't just be your problem, it will be the problem of the entire Lu family."

After Han Cuiyin finished speaking, she left with Li Rou.

"Miss Yang, I...I'll go back to the Han residence with you?"

"Not for now. Li Ermi begged me to take you in as a maid, but your current condition is not suitable for strenuous activity."

Han Cuiyin grabbed Li Rou's wrist and learned about her situation.

"You can stay at the Yan family's house for the time being. I'll come over in a couple of evenings and tell you some things then."

After the two left, Lu Cheng called out and finally someone heard him.

"Prepare paper and pen; I need to write a letter home. Send someone to deliver it to me now."

Lu Cheng was completely at ease being ordered around.

Han Cuiyin wasn't worried about him at all. After returning to Tingfeng Xiaozhu, she went straight to sleep to recharge.