The prince is fierce: Who dares to steal my woman?

Upon hearing this, Yu Xin'er frowned and asked, "Peach, what does that woman look like?"

Peach stammered, "Madam, that woman had exquisite features, cherry lips, silkworm eyebrows, and a beauty mark at the corner of her eye. She was crying with tears streaming down her face, and she looked very sad."

Just then, Guan Lingxuan stumbled into the courtyard, looking like she was about to cry. She said with a wronged expression, "Young Master, how could you treat me like this? You took my body that night, and I'm already yours. How could you bear to abandon me? How can I face anyone now? How am I supposed to live like this?"

After she finished speaking, glistening tears slid down her cheeks like pearls.

Xiao Jinyan naturally understood Guan Lingxuan's thoughts. The mud on her clothes and the bloodstains at the corner of her mouth were enough to tell she had just been beaten. Who did it? It could only be Yang Rong.

If Yang Rong truly relied on him, how could she possibly hit Guan Lingxuan? Guan Lingxuan was a gift from Yang Rong to him, or perhaps a peaceful bond between them.

However, Guan Lingxuan did such a sloppy job. She didn't even take a shower or change her clothes before coming to perform. There's no one else like her.

Xiao Jinyan couldn't help but sneer and said, "You slut, I've already had my fill of you, don't bother me here!"

"Your Highness, how cruel you are!"

Guan Lingxuan cried even harder, tears falling from the corners of her eyes like broken pearls. She knelt on the ground, wailing and lamenting.

At this moment, Xiao Jinyan and Guan Lingxuan, one playing a playboy who starts a relationship and then abandons it, and the other playing a virtuous woman who is abandoned after a fleeting affair, both delivered excellent performances without revealing any flaws.

Seeing this, Yu Xin'er flung Xiao Jinyan's arm away, biting her red lips and angrily said, "Hmph! Everyone says that Xiao Jinyan is a playboy who flirts with women everywhere, and at first I didn't believe it. I didn't expect that you really are that kind of person!"

Xiao Jinyan didn't react for a moment. Goodness, Yu Xiner looks well-behaved, clever, and honest, but she's actually a woman with a temper.

He quickly explained, "Madam, it's not what you think."

As she spoke, she tried to take Yu Xin'er's arm, but Yu Xin'er shook her off: "I've only just married into this family, and you've already brought those disreputable women into our home. Who knows what kind of trouble they'll cause in the future?"

Upon seeing this, the two maids, Cherry and Peach, quickly stepped forward and took Yu Xin'er's arm on each side, constantly comforting her.

Yu Xin'er was on the verge of tears: "Why is my life so miserable?"

Seeing this, Xiao Jinyan couldn't help but think that this was a good opportunity to get rid of Guan Lingxuan and prevent Yang Rong from planting a seed of trouble around him.

Then, he sternly said to the people around him, "What are you all standing there for? Quickly throw this woman out of the mansion!"

Upon hearing this, the two maids, Cherry and Peach, grabbed Guan Lingxuan's arms on either side and tried to pull her out of the mansion.

Unexpectedly, Yu Xin'er shouted, "Enough! Since what should have happened and what shouldn't have happened have already happened, then let's keep her here and make her the young master's concubine."

Everyone froze on the spot. Cherry and Peach stopped pulling on Guan Lingxuan's arm and instead helped her up, then bent down to brush the dust off her knees.

These two girls had been working in the Duke of Qi's mansion for many years and were quite perceptive.

Guan Lingxuan stopped crying instantly, her pretty face brightening from cloudy to sunny, a look of secret joy on her face.

Xiao Jinyan stared at Yu Xin'er in astonishment: "Madam, this..."

Yu Xin'er rolled her eyes at Xiao Jinyan and said sternly, "It's better to be called a womanizer than to be called a womanizer who abandons women after starting a relationship!"

After saying that, she flung her hand away and, like a wronged little wife, hurried into the room with a belly full of grievances.

Upon seeing this, Xiao Jinyan quickly gave chase...

Once inside and the door closed, he said to Yu Xin'er, "Madam, do you know who that woman is?"

Yu Xin'er sneered: "Isn't that the young master's little lover?"

Xiao Jinyan explained, "She's Yang Rong's woman. Just a few days ago, she impersonated you to assassinate me on our wedding night!"

Yu Xin'er was surprisingly calm: "I know."

She showed none of the complaining or grumbling she had just displayed.

"Madam, you should have witnessed Yang Rong's methods. She is unfathomable, a woman who hides a knife behind her smile, and is deeply scheming. She is far more than just Wei Kui's mistress!"

"I know."

Yu Xin'er remained calm, her clear eyes seemingly devoid of any scheming.

This time, Xiao Jinyan was completely stumped...

"Madam, since you know she was sent by that wicked woman Yang Rong, yet you still keep her in the manor as my concubine, aren't you afraid she might try to assassinate me again someday? Or perhaps you simply don't care whether I live or die, and are thinking of remarrying after I'm gone?"

Yu Xin'er stared intently at Xiao Jinyan with her bright, star-like eyes and said slowly, "Your Highness, since Yang Rong sent her to be an undercover agent, we might as well turn the tables on her."

Xiao Jinyan was taken aback. He stared at Yu Xiner with a strange look in his eyes, thinking, "Holy crap! I thought you were my white moonlight, but it turns out you're just a scheming bitch!"

"After all, she is out in the open for us. We should follow Zhou Yu's example and use a counter-espionage strategy, which is the right thing to do."

Never mind, the real white moonlight... turns out to be Guan Lingxuan.

Just now, Guan Lingxuan and I were acting in the courtyard. I was hoping to perform opposite her and maybe even compete for an Oscar. Turns out, the real Hollywood star, the acting powerhouse, is this seemingly innocent and harmless young lady from a wealthy family right in front of me!

“Young Master, since Yang Rong has her eye on you, even if you drive Guan Lingxuan out of the manor, she might send someone else. We don’t know what kind of people she’ll send. Rather than that, it’s better to keep Guan Lingxuan under our watchful eye. From my observation of Guan Lingxuan, this woman isn’t that cunning, so she shouldn’t be difficult to deal with.”

Seeing that Xiao Jinyan was still looking at her with a strange look, Yu Xin'er thought for a moment and then said, "Oh, Your Highness, please rest assured. Now that I, Yu Xin'er, have married into the Duke of Qi's mansion, we will share both honor and misfortune."

Xiao Jinyan still stared at Yu Xiner with an unusual look, as if scrutinizing her, or even searching for her.

Yu Xin'er was taken aback for a moment, then asked with a bewildered look, "Why is the young master still looking at me like that?"

Xiao Jinyan paused for a moment, then said, "Is there anything else you want to say to me?"

Yu Xin'er's pretty face was as beautiful as a flower. Her eyes sparkled as she looked at Xiao Jinyan, and she said in a soft and charming voice, "Young Master, actually, long before I married into this family, I had already heard about your reputation as a playboy. I thought to myself, any girl who marries you would be jumping into a fire pit."

"what about now?"

"From the first time we met, I knew you were not the spoiled brat the world saw you as. You are completely different from what I imagined."

"anything else?"

Yu Xin'er's long eyelashes fluttered, her pretty face blushed, her eyes were like water, and she said timidly, "Your Highness, I have a good impression of you. You are much better than I imagined. Marrying into this family is definitely not like entering a fire pit."