My best friends both transmigrated into a book and married powerful officials; she left me and I lef

A hint of fear flashed in Tu Ling's eyes, but when her gaze met Liu Daqiang's fierce eyes, she gritted her teeth and suppressed her unease.

She stepped forward shakily.

Liu Daqiang continued in a cold voice, "Come any closer. What are you doing standing so far away?"

Tu Ling paused, and seeing that the other party was gradually losing patience, she quickly took another step forward.

Liu Daqiang's eyes narrowed, and he suddenly grabbed a bamboo stick from the side and struck Tu Ling without saying a word.

As he hit her, he said with dissatisfaction, "I'm making you feel guilty, and you still feel guilty?"

He raised the bamboo stick high and struck Tu Ling on the back without hesitation.

Tu Ling clutched the spot where she had been hit in pain, her lips pressed tightly together.

Normally, in order to enable her to earn more money, Liu Daqiang would not allow her to be injured in public.

It is only when she is extremely angry that she will have some noticeable marks on her wrists.

Liu Daqiang glared fiercely at Tu Ling, and only stopped when he had calmed down a bit. "Are you still feeling guilty?"

Tu Ling lowered her head, tears streaming down her face. Then, she slowly shook her head. "It won't happen again."

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Daqiang threw the bamboo stick aside, grabbed the wine jar next to him, tilted his head back and took a big gulp, looking completely satisfied.

With one leg casually propped on the table, he glanced indifferently at Tu Ling beside him and slowly said, "That's more like it. I don't know what you were doing before. A good scolding was enough, really..."

He didn't say the last word, but Tu Ling understood what he meant.

I felt even more upset.

"Go and bring me some water to wash my feet right away," Liu Daqiang said casually.

His voice was so loud that Tu Ling trembled and bit her lip as she went into the inner room.

She reached out and gently rubbed her slightly sore wrist, numbly pouring water into the wooden bucket beside her.

Only in a corner where Liu Daqiang couldn't see could she touch her wound.

Suddenly, she stopped, her gaze inadvertently catching sight of something to the side.

She lowered her eyes slightly, a strange light flashing in them.

With this, Liu Daqiang could sleep soundly until the sun went down.

Then, on a whim, she reached out and silently took the thing, dropping a little into the wooden bucket.

Her fingertips trembled slightly, and when her hand inadvertently touched the wounds on her body, she instantly became resolute in her decision.

After a stick of incense.

Liu Daqiang was contentedly waiting for Tu Ling to serve him, but unexpectedly, he suddenly froze, his pupils widened, and the wine jar in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter.

A wave of drowsiness washed over him, and then he collapsed straight down.

Tu Ling slowly got up, first stretching her neck forward, and after a few moments, the person in front of her started snoring loudly.

Tu Ling blinked, then carefully reached out and gently poked Liu Daqiang's arm.

Apart from the deafening snoring, there was no other response.

Tu Ling felt a little relieved and quietly put the few copper coins on the table into her pocket.

She had very few belongings; all of them combined amounted to just a small bundle.

He slung the bundle over his shoulder, turned around without looking back, and left.

Perhaps, she has to find out about her past herself.

*

Tianxiang Tower.

As soon as Meng Youning stepped into the private room, she looked at Sang Luan and asked impatiently, "Luan'er, I think we should meet somewhere else. I don't know what's wrong with Qi Ran lately, he's always been unusually concerned about my whereabouts."

She picked up the teacup on the table, tilted her head back and took a sip, then slowly exhaled a breath of stale air. "Just now, I saw Qi Ran's men, and it was only with great difficulty that I managed to shake them off."

As soon as she finished speaking, Sang Luan smiled mysteriously, took something out of her sleeve, opened it, and slowly placed it in front of Meng Youning.

Meng Youning exclaimed in surprise, looking puzzled, "What is this?"

Sang Luan gestured towards her with her chin, "Open it and take a look."

Meng Youning casually opened the object in front of her, and the next moment, her eyes widened in surprise.

She covered her mouth in surprise, instinctively lowering her voice, "An imperial edict?"

Sang Luan snapped her fingers instantly. "That's right. After that, all we need to do is choose the location. You can handle the perfume mixing and the lip balm making."

Meng Youning nodded, a hint of excitement in her eyes, "Okay, it's decided then."

Meng Youning paused, "It will take a few days, as it's very inconvenient for me to leave the manor these days."

Sang Luan frowned slightly. "Could it be that Qi Ran has discovered something?"

Meng Youning shook her head. "It shouldn't be. I'm just wondering why he was rarely at the residence before. Ever since that incident, Prince Yi and Princess Yi have forbidden him from playing with Gu Changfeng and his ilk."

Sang Luan was silent for a moment, and a figure instantly appeared in her mind.

"Is it the Gu Changfeng I'm thinking of?"

Her eyes widened slightly.

Meng Youning nodded quickly.

Sang Luan frowned even more deeply.

In the original book, Gu Changfeng was quite the troublemaker.

As he was the eldest son of the Imperial Censor, he inevitably had many people who fawned over him.

At first, Gu Changfeng was always by Qi Ran's side, giving her bad advice. She remembered that in one part of the original plot, Gu Changfeng even went to see Feng Hengzhi.

However, before they could see Feng Hengzhi, they were kicked out.

Now that Gu Changfeng has no use to Qi Ran, it's inevitable that he'll have other ideas.

After a moment of silence, she looked at Meng Youning and said, word by word, "By the way, has anything important happened in the court recently?"

Meng Youning lowered her eyes and thought about it seriously for a moment.

"After the Princess's birthday banquet, something seems to have happened." Suddenly, her eyes lit up. "One of the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice's protégés knew a lot about him, but somehow, he suddenly betrayed him."

She paused, then continued, "This student left the Xiang family under cover of night, intending to find the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice. However, he didn't expect that the two of them were in cahoots, so he decided to seek refuge with Qi Ran."

Sang Luan immediately became interested, "But Qi Ran didn't know about the collusion between the two. He listened to Gu Changfeng's advice and, by chance, sent the person away. Because of this, Prince Yi was furious."

As soon as he finished speaking, the two of them fell silent.

Since the disciple couldn't find Qi Ran for the time being, he had no choice but to go to another powerful and influential person.

The two exchanged a glance and blurted out the same thing at the same time.

"Feng Hengzhi!"

"What is your disciple's name?" Sang Luan asked anxiously.

Meng Youning pondered for a moment, "I remember his surname was Xu, a fair-skinned young man, who looked to be about eighteen years old."