After being reborn, I became the apple of my enemy's eye.

"do not Cry."

Zheng Jihua addressed Lu Lan.

Lu Lan immediately shut her mouth, but tears continued to stream from her eyes.

Zheng Jihua reached out his hand.

Lu Lan shrank back.

Zheng Jihua simply reached out and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. His tone remained unchanged as he told Lu Lan, "It's not pretty to look like this when you're crying."

Lu Lan immediately wiped away her tears, looked up at Zheng Jihua, and when she met his face, she felt shy for the first time and lowered her head.

Her shyness, obedience, and youth pleased Zheng Jihua somewhat, but it was a pity that she was from the General's Mansion.

But it doesn't matter.

Meanwhile, in the courtyard on the other side.

There was a commotion outside Yan Yun's house early in the morning.

Yan Yun pushed open the door and looked at the person whose voice was coming from.

The maids in the courtyard were walking around. Yan Yun recognized the two maids as having come to the mansion with Lu Lan.

Upon seeing Yan Yun, they immediately approached her simultaneously and said urgently, "Miss Ning'er, have you seen our Miss Lan? She hasn't returned all night, and we are very worried that something might have happened to her."

Yan Yun naturally had no idea where Lu Lan had gone, and was even searching for Lu Lan in her courtyard.

Lu Lan and she didn't have such a good relationship.

Then they came to ask her if these maids didn't know she was mute.

Yan Yun coldly glanced at the two faces, then placed his hand on the door, preparing to close it.

One of the maids looked at Yan Yun and said, "Miss Lan often talks about Miss Ning'er. She must have gotten lost in the courtyard." They looked at each other.

Yan Yun looked at them indifferently and listened to them continue talking.

The maidservant kowtowed to the ground.

"Please, Miss Ning'er, could you please help us find our young lady? If we can find her, we maids will be eternally grateful for your kindness."

After saying that, they banged their heads even harder on the ground in front of Yan Yun.

With so many maids and servants in the mansion, why didn't they look for anyone else but came to find me?

Yan Yun pondered for a moment, thinking of Lu Lan as he knew her, and felt that the girl was up to no good again.

In this case,

Let's follow them and see what they're up to.

The maids were still kowtowing, their eyes filled with tears that were hard to tell whether they were from pain or gratitude.

Yan Yun strode towards them and nodded to them.

The two maids immediately exchanged a glance and stood up from the ground.

"Thank you for your help, Miss Ning'er."

Rather than Yan Yun leading the way, the two of them were much more familiar with the place and quickly led Yan Yun to another courtyard.

Yan Yun did not walk around in this new courtyard, and had no idea what was inside each part of it.

The two maids leading the way kept saying, "Miss Ning'er, could you lead us inside to take a look? Perhaps Miss Lan is trapped inside this courtyard."

Trapped inside?

Yan Yun looked at the courtyard and obediently followed them into the courtyard.

There were other maids and servants in the courtyard. When they saw Yan Yun coming, they immediately greeted him.

"Miss Ning'er got up very early."

The two maids beside Yan Yun spoke up first, "We're here to see our Miss Lan. Have you seen her?"

The servants replied, "We did not see Miss Lan."

The maids were telling the truth; they naturally hadn't seen it, since they still assumed the person inside was the mistress of the courtyard.

The two maids immediately burst into tears and said to Yan Yun, "Miss Ning'er, we don't know where our Miss Lan has gone. If we can't find her, we'll die when we go back."

Their cries grew louder and louder, and one of the maids comforted the other, saying, "We will definitely find Miss Lan."

She suddenly called out loudly, "Miss Lan."

A voice drifted softly from inside the house, "I'm here."

Everyone present was stunned.

Yan Yun, standing to the side, was also somewhat surprised. These maids guarding the courtyard said they didn't know anything? But the voice definitely came from inside the courtyard.

Yan Yun also didn't quite understand what tricks they were playing.

Upon receiving Lu Lan's reply, the two maids immediately rushed towards the door.

Yan Yun and the other underground agents were caught off guard.

"Miss Lan, your servant has come to see you."

Before they could finish speaking, they had already pushed the door open.

Inside the house, Zheng Jihua was getting dressed, and Lu Lan was wrapped in a quilt on the bed with her shoulders exposed. Anyone with eyes could tell what was going on inside.

Lu Lan's maidservant didn't rush in. Upon meeting Zheng Jihua's gaze, she immediately knelt down with a thud.

"Lord Zheng."

They begged for mercy, their bodies trembling.

"Sir, we didn't know you were inside."

When the maids outside the courtyard saw Zheng Jihua, they all knelt down as well.

In the courtyard, only Yan Yun coldly stared at Zheng Jihua.

Zheng Jihua's gaze swept over the faces of the maids one by one, memorizing each one without missing a single one. When he looked at Yan Yun standing there, he panicked a little. He hurriedly put on his clothes and came out of the room.

"Ning'er."

Yan Yun naturally knew that Zheng Jihua and Lu Lan were alone in a room and what had happened between them, but she never expected that Zheng Jihua would do such a thing to Lu Lan.

Zheng Jihua called out Zheng Ning'er's name anxiously, but Yan Yun had already turned his head and left the courtyard, not wanting to look at him at all.

The maids and servants in the courtyard knelt on the ground, all trembling.

Zheng Jihua chased after Yan Yun and left the courtyard.

Lu Lan, who was left inside the room, did not panic at all. She crossed her arms and looked at the maid kneeling beside her, calmly instructing, "Do my hair and makeup, and bring me my clothes to change into."

The clothes on the ground had all been torn into pieces by Zheng Jihua, and the maid immediately got up to find other clothes.

The maid who remained looked at Lu Lan with some concern.

"Miss, is this..."

Lu Lan said coldly, "Shut up."

Zheng Jihua chased after Yan Yun. Naturally, Zheng Jihua was extremely worried about Ning'er discovering his affair with Lu Lan, since Ning'er was no longer a child.

What he and Lu Lan did was perfectly understandable for a man like him; everyone makes mistakes. But when his daughter saw it, he felt flustered and unsure how to explain it.

Should I say that every man does this?

Or is this something for adults?

Zheng Jihua successfully blocked Yan Yun's path. The two looked at each other. Zheng Jihua thought he was seeing things when he saw the coldness in Yan Yun's eyes. But when he saw Yan Yun's eyes clearly, he knew that it was coldness.

He wanted an explanation.

"It was just an accident, not what you think, Ning'er."

Yan Yun shook his head. What was the point of explaining to her? From the moment he started having an affair with that concubine, she knew that the man in front of her was no good at all. He had been pretending for so many years, just suppressing his true nature.

Therefore, Yan Yun felt like laughing when he saw the person in front of him trying to explain himself.

There was a time when Zheng Jihua would explain even a fraction of it to her.

Yan Yun doesn't like Lu Lan, but she's lying in Zheng Jihua's bed now.

I had always thought that all the people I disliked would end up together, and sure enough, they did.

While Yan Yun was still thinking about these things.

Not far away, the concubine arrived with her maid.

Her face was filled with panic, so she naturally knew what had happened.

Tears welled in the concubine's eyes as she ran towards Zheng Jihua with her nanny.

"Master."

It was the old nanny who noticed Yan Yun standing to the side and reminded the concubine, "Miss is here too."

With the young lady present, the nanny felt even more confident.

The concubine arrived at this time because the people in the courtyard had already been taken care of to some extent, so she naturally knew what had happened.

Last night, Zheng Jihua neither returned to his room nor went to the study. He also heard Lu Lan's maid looking for Lu Lan and the maid talking about some irrelevant things.

She never expected that such an absurd thing could happen right under her nose.

The nanny was there to remind the lady not to anger the master and to always treat him with the utmost magnanimity, since there were so many people around and she shouldn't do anything foolish.

Unfortunately, the old woman's reminder had already been forgotten.

The concubine rushed forward, looking directly at Zheng Jihua and demanding, "My lord? How could you do this to me?"

Zheng Jihua frowned; he didn't want to cause a scene in front of Yan Yun.

"What are you making a fuss about here?"

The concubine blurted out, "Don't you know what my lord has done?"

Her loud questioning immediately displeased Zheng Jihua. Moreover, Zheng Ning'er was still by his side, with his daughter. Even though Zheng Jihua loved her, he lost patience with her speaking like that.

"Aren't you meddling too much? Have you forgotten your place?"

Zheng Jihua's voice didn't need to be loud; just a soft utterance was enough to make the old woman standing beside her tremble.

The nanny sensed that the master was already angry, and the wisest decision for the concubine was to leave with Miss Ning'er.

But the concubine was completely oblivious to her situation. She looked at Zheng Jihua and kept shedding tears.

"Husband, why are you doing this to me?"