The pampered heiress holds the script and leads her cannon fodder family to a counterattack.

Several servants immediately came up and, with cold faces, dragged the mother and daughter outside, where they wailed and howled like ghosts.

When Ding Yuyan relented, Cai Liyang learned that he could marry Zhou Lin and immediately finalized the paperwork. Now, according to the laws of Dayao, Zhou Lin is a concubine of the Cai family.

The child Zhou Lin brought with her before marriage is also considered a member of the Cai family.

As the head of the Cai family, Cai Liyang has the right to beat them with a scepter, but he cannot kill them.

Cai Liyang sat inside the house, coldly watching Zhou Lin and Cai Huixin being beaten repeatedly in the courtyard outside.

The cane used for torture was thick and heavy. Two blows were enough to leave the buttocks raw and bleeding. Each blow was accompanied by the two men's heart-wrenching screams.

Soon, the bright red blood stained their clothes, and the strong smell of blood wafted into the room from outside, filling Cai Liyang's nostrils.

He felt a cruel pleasure as he watched Zhou Lin and Cai Huixin being tortured.

The thought of that bastard child, whose identity was unknown, actually entering the Cai family and becoming its legitimate daughter filled Cai Liyang with another wave of heart-wrenching pain.

Ding Yuyan and Cai Yuanling looked coldly at the scene before them, feeling a sense of satisfaction.

This is the mother and daughter who are going to kill their entire clan.

They deserved this fate; if they had shown mercy today, they would have been the ones to die in the future!

Their shouts grew fainter and fainter.

"My lord, if you hit him again, he'll die!" The servants outside who were carrying out the execution stopped and said.

"Then stop for now and lock him in the woodshed!" Cai Liyang's voice was icy.

Zhou Lin was not a concubine with slave status, and according to the laws of the Great Yao Dynasty, she could not be beaten to death.

Having just been promoted, he didn't want any trouble. So he had no choice but to lock the man up.

in the afternoon.

Ding Yuyan took two pieces of paper and went into Cai Liyang's room.

Cai Liyang was sitting in his room in a daze. Everything that had happened today was too extreme for him, and he still hadn't recovered.

Cai Liyang saw Ding Yuyan walk in but did not say anything.

"You can't accept it, can you? When I found out you'd been keeping a mistress for so many years, I couldn't accept it either," Ding Yuyan said coldly.

"You did this on purpose, didn't you?" Even if Cai Liyang was stupid, he could see that everything Ding Yuyan did today was premeditated.

She had known all along that the child wasn't her biological child, and deliberately designed this blood test to prove kinship.

"What are you saying? How could I do that on purpose?" Ding Yuyan smiled gently. "I helped you. Otherwise, you would have been kept in the dark your whole life, treating that bastard child as your own precious daughter. Wouldn't that be right?"

Ding Yuyan handed over something, "Sign it, the divorce papers."

"You pretended to bring your mistress into the mansion just to humiliate me and then divorce me?" Cai Liyang said through gritted teeth.

He felt a chill.

Why are all the women around him so cruel to him?

“Cai Liyang, don’t portray yourself as a victim. It’s clearly you who wronged me. You’ve been keeping a mistress behind my back for so many years, spending all my money. Not only do I have to support your entire family, but I also have to support your mistress!”

"That mistress has better food, clothing, and daily necessities than I do. The hairpin you gave me was just scraps that she didn't want!"

"You gave all the things I bought for my daughter with my dowry to your mistress's 'daughter'! You're not only blind, but also heartless! Tell me, should I get a divorce?"

By the end, Ding Yuyan was gritting her teeth.

And what else is there to say? After my Ding family fell into misfortune, you ungrateful wretch not only divorced me and severed ties with my daughter, but also kicked me when I was down in an attempt to clear yourselves.

I'm not getting a divorce, am I just keeping you around for the New Year?

Cai Liyang could feel Ding Yuyan's hatred very directly. He thought to himself that he had been with Ding Yuyan for so many years and never realized that she was such a vicious woman!

All I did was find a mistress. Which man doesn't have multiple wives and concubines? Why do you hate me like this?

However, the truth must not be spoken aloud.

He had just arrived in Kyoto and needed the Ding family's influence to help him gain a foothold.

He stood up, looked at Ding Yuyan with deep affection in his eyes.

When Cai Liyang was young, he was handsome and charming.

It was this affectionate gaze that captured Ding Yuyan's heart.

But looking at it now, Ding Yuyan only felt disgusted.

"Yu Yan, I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have kept a mistress, and I shouldn't have lied to you. Now I'm getting what I deserve."

“I swear I will treat you well from now on. You are a woman, and if we divorce, it will be bad for your reputation. If we divorce, it will also be bad for Yuan Ling’s reputation.” Cai Liyang coaxed patiently.

Ding Yuyan looked coldly at Cai Liyang.

A chill ran through Cai Liyang's heart.

The lady looked at him with such cold eyes, something that had never happened before.

Previously, the lady would only look at him with loving eyes.

In the past, when my wife was angry, all I had to do was humble myself and coax her, and she would definitely stop being angry.

But now, Cai Liyang felt that the woman in front of him was a complete stranger.

Those cold eyes were devoid of any emotion.

Cai Liyang felt a sting from that cold gaze, as if he had lost something very important.

Ding Yuyan knew that if she showed leniency towards Cai Liyang at this moment, it could lead to the death of her entire clan.

She knew that by speaking so calmly, Cai Liyang would not agree to a divorce.

So he said, "Cai Liyang, will you sign this divorce agreement yourself, or should I have my father and son-in-law submit a memorial impeaching you, saying that you have been keeping a mistress for nearly twenty years, and request an imperial decree for a divorce?"

Cai Liyang's expression changed.

Ding Yuyan even started threatening me!

My lifestyle is not proper while I am working in Kyoto, which makes it easy for others to find fault with me and affect my career.

If it gets reported by someone, things will get even worse.

If the person impeaching him is his own father-in-law and daughter's husband, then the argument is even more powerful, and he won't even be able to defend himself!

He looked at Ding Yuyan with a grim expression, and finally picked up the brush, his hand trembling as he signed his name on the divorce papers.

Ding Yuyan moved out of the mansion that very day. She had already separated the accounts and taken her dowry and the money generated from it with her. She moved more than a dozen cartloads, leaving the Cai mansion as an empty shell.

Ding Yuyan sat in the departing carriage, looking back at the Cai residence.

Do you think that's all?

No, that's why it's not over yet.

Chopping the grass does not remove the roots, but the spring breeze blows and regenerates.

She had obtained the evidence Qin Wanying had uncovered: letters written by Zhou Lin to her exiled father's family, all handwritten by Zhou Lin herself.

The letter also mentions Cai Liyang. It can be seen from the letter that Cai Liyang knew Zhou Lin was the daughter of a disgraced official, yet he still protected her and kept her by his side.

In fact, Zhou Lin didn't dare to write letters at first. It was only after a few years, when the storm had passed, that she dared to write.

Later, when the storm surrounding her father's family's downfall had completely passed and no one mentioned it anymore, she dared to write many letters.