Severed ties and living in a dilapidated house? No worries, the poor thing has a space.

Chapter 490 Let's just kill him directly.

The woman was bound hand and foot to a pillar, defiant and unruly, as if she would pounce on anyone who dared to take a step closer and bite them without hesitation.

When the woman caught sight of Su Yu slowly walking in through the door, her anger seemed to be extinguished by a bucket of cold water, instantly dissipating somewhat.

Immediately afterwards, she stared wide-eyed at Su Yu and shouted, "Where is the person who captured me? Tell him to come out! I'm going to fight him to the death today!"

Mo Liu did not use torture on her; instead, he kindly fed her breakfast.

When it came time for questioning, the woman refused to cooperate at all. She even flung her hand and smashed the teacup in front of her to the ground, which finally woke Su Yu up.

Su Yu walked up to the woman, gently reached out, and helped her straighten her slightly disheveled clothes.

Then, Su Yu smiled warmly and asked softly, "Does the young lady really want to know?"

You see, she's always the one teasing others, and this guy actually kidnapped her while she was bathing. She was naturally furious about this humiliation.

Upon hearing Su Yu's words, the woman raised her head slightly, her eyes blazing with anger, and replied, "As long as Princess Qin can hand this person over to me, then whatever Princess Qin wants to ask, I will tell her the truth."

Seeing the woman's angry expression, Su Yu couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

She wondered if she had done anything too outrageous to the woman last night.

"A scholar can be killed, but not humiliated! How dare he so brazenly insult me! I will personally gouge out his dog eyes!!"

Upon hearing this, Su Yu couldn't help but twitch her lips, and it took her some effort to understand the meaning behind her words.

Su Yu smiled slightly and said slowly, "Then you can rest assured, young lady. The person who forcibly abducted you here last night was a woman. Your innocence is naturally intact, so there is no need to worry."

Su Yu clearly remembered that she used a woman's face last night, so how could this woman mistake her for a man?

Upon hearing this, the woman was first taken aback, then breathed a sigh of relief, but quickly put on a look of resignation, gritting her teeth and saying, "I don't know anything, if you have the guts, then kill me!"

Su Yu didn't take it to heart at the moment. She casually walked to the side, sat down, picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip of tea, and then began to fidget with the cup in her hand.

Seeing Su Yu's nonchalant and inactive demeanor, the woman felt increasingly uneasy.

Finally, she couldn't hold back any longer and asked again, "Hey, what exactly do you want to do with me?"

Su Yu continued to ignore her, not even lifting her eyelids, and only playing with the teacup in her hand.

Seeing this, the woman struggled violently for a few moments, then shouted, "Princess Qin, what exactly do you intend to do?"

Su Yu slowly turned her head, stared at the woman in front of her, and said calmly, "Shouldn't I be asking you what the people behind you want to do?"

When the "person behind it" was mentioned, the woman fell completely silent, her breathing barely audible.

Seeing this, Mo Liu, who was standing to the side, rolled his eyes and decided to scare this stubborn woman.

He added menacingly, "Your Highness, since she is so stubborn and refuses to utter a single word, why not just kill her?"

No matter how Mo Liu threatened or intimidated her, the woman remained motionless like a statue, seemingly completely detached from the situation and unresponsive to everything happening around her.

Just then, footsteps approached from afar, and then the door was suddenly pushed open, revealing Baili Jiyan stepping into the room looking travel-worn.

As soon as he entered the door, he couldn't wait to ask, "Ayu, did you get enough rest last night? And what brings you to Jizhou?"

After he finished speaking, he noticed that there were several other people in the room, especially the woman who was tied to the pillar.

For some reason, Baili Jiyan's expression changed slightly, as if he had remembered something unpleasant, and he looked somewhat embarrassed.

He quickly covered his mouth with his hand, pretending not to see the woman, and walked straight to Su Yu's side to sit down, his eyes full of expectation as he waited for her answer.

Su Yu picked up the teapot, poured a full cup of tea for Baili Jiyan, and then said, "Someone secretly sent me a message, telling me to bring 100,000 taels of silver to exchange for you."

One hundred thousand taels!

Baili Jiyan's thoughts suddenly drifted back to what the woman who was tied to the pillar had said not long ago.

No wonder the woman disregarded her own injuries and risked her life to rescue him from the bandits' den; it turned out it was because of the 100,000 taels of silver.

He turned his head, his gaze falling on Su Yu beside him, and asked, "Did you get all the silver back?"

Su Yu nodded and replied, "Don't worry, it's all been retrieved. However, you rushed to the yamen early this morning, did you find out anything useful?"

Baili Jiyan frowned slightly, looking thoughtfully at the woman tied to the pillar not far away, and then slowly said, "Hmm, the bandits who captured me originally came from two villages outside the city. Fifteen years ago, these two villages suffered a major upheaval."

At this point, Baili Jiyan paused deliberately, then turned back to look at the woman on the pillar.

He continued his story: "Years ago, a gang of vicious bandits broke into these two villages, committing widespread burning, killing, and looting. They kidnapped all the children aged three to ten, regardless of gender. At the time, the government did nothing about it, and the villagers pleaded everywhere to no avail. With nowhere else to turn, the remaining bandits became outlaws and have remained entrenched in the mountains ever since..."

"Later, I heard that a mysterious person helped capture the bandits and brought justice to the people of the two villages. From then on, they no longer trusted the government and preferred to become bandits in the mountains..."

"But those children weren't found. The thieves who were caught confessed that they were only responsible for branding the children, and they didn't know anything else..."

When the word "brand" was mentioned, Baili Jiyan's gaze involuntarily turned to the woman again.

At the same time, Su Yu followed his gaze and looked over.

Because Su Yu clearly remembered that when she arrested the woman last night, she also saw the old brand on the woman's chest.

However, the brand was located in a rather hidden spot, and it was impossible to see it unless the woman took off her clothes.

Su Yu's suspicious and surprised gaze lingered on the woman for a moment before quickly shifting to Baili Jiyan. She said with a slightly teasing tone, "You...you guys?"