Though it was well beyond midnight, the principle courtyard of the Li residence was nonetheless brightly illuminated. Maids and manservants of the mansion had gathered at a distance away, supporting each other each bodily and emotionally. But, none of them dared to strategy.

The residents of different annexes of the mansion or standalone indifferent buildings had holed themselves up in their very own abode, not eager to get entangled after witnessing the horrific occasion that had occurred earlier.

Initially, a gaggle of individuals had tried to intercept the intruders, however all of them ended up being crushed to a pulp, leaving numerous our bodies mendacity far and wide with various levels of wounds.

Su Jin sat upright within the chair of the household head, casually flicking her nails with an detached expression on her face. Liao Music stood firmly behind her with a number of different guards, arms crossed as they glared on the group of individuals in entrance of them.

This was the scene that greeted Li Shen when he arrived on the predominant courtyard, after rapidly donning his upperwear. He narrowed his eyes and coldly stared on the lady who took his seat with out permission.

(Su Jin… so she is the reason for the ruckus… Simply an ignorant lady who must be educated to know her personal place!)

Seeing that their grasp had arrived, the servants rapidly flocked over to him as he was their beacon of sunshine who might resolve this predicament.

“How impudent of you, Su Jin. Do you assume my Li residence is a spot the place you possibly can freely trespass and behave as you would like?”

He glared at her fiercely and condemned her.

“Oh?”

Su Jin slowly stood up with a smile, however her eyes had been as chilly as ice.

After glancing at him indifferently, she flicked a kick and despatched him tumbling down a flight of stairs.

*Cough cough*

The person coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Li Shen didn’t anticipate that Su Jin would launch a simple assault. He leaned ahead and coughed violently.

The close by servants cried out in concern and rushed over to assist him.

“You bunch of nugatory idiots! What are you idling round for? Go and eliminate that loopy b*tch!”

Li Shen unleashed his anger on the housekeeper beside him.

“Grasp… we…” his hand that was supporting Li Shen trembled barely. He didn’t have the braveness to lookup.

(None of us stood an opportunity towards her!)

Li Shen utilized stress on his injured chest. His rage amplified when he noticed that nobody was following his orders.

His eyes turned bloodshot and he gritted his tooth.

“Why the hell are you doing this, Su Jin? Do you wish to begin an all-out feud with the Li household? ”

“Why… you ask? You need to know finest, proper?”

Su Jin continued with a malicious grin.

“Granny Hu is lonely down within the netherworld. Why don’t you be part of her for a reunion?”

Li Shen’s coronary heart skipped a beat when he heard Granny Hu being talked about. He tried to recompose himself and rebuked her to alter the subject.

“Who the hell is Granny Hu? Cease spewing nonsense! You broke into my non-public property at the moment and even injured me and my males. If I don’t get a passable rationalization and applicable compensation, I’ll make you remorse your actions!”

“You desire a correct rationalization? Does a sinful lady like myself… want a correct cause to beat individuals up? Effectively… if you would like one… let’s simply say I felt the urge to mess with you and ship you to your grave whereas I’m at it!”

She checked out him with a menacing smile.

“Su Jin, you wretched lady!”

His anger had reached its restrict and he cursed at her loudly. Taking a deep breath, he stood again up and raised his hand to strike her.

Su Jin scorned at his novice strikes, effortlessly avoiding his assault with a slight flip of her physique. Leveraging on the momentum, she swiftly countered by grabbing his wrist and giving it a twist, casually dislocating his arm.

Li Shen screamed out loud. Unable to resist the ache, his physique went limp and he fell to his knees.

After a fast go searching, Su Jin picked up a vase from the shelf and smashed it on the ground.

With the smile nonetheless on her face, she mentioned, “Oh? Do you want fixing issues utilizing bodily means?”

“What an exquisite coincidence! That’s my default answer for the whole lot too!”

With a peaceful expression, she forcefully pushed him onto the shattered vase and trampled on him, grinding his physique towards the damaged shards with appreciable pressure!

“Aaaargh!”

A shaarp scream pierced by means of the sky.

“Let me go! Please, cease!”

Li Shen begged in ache as his blood flowed far and wide. The encircling servants turned pale and trembled in concern. Of their eyes, she was like a cold-blooded monster sporting human pores and skin. These with faint hearts might not bear the brutal sight and collapsed to the bottom, protecting their mouths tightly with their arms, afraid of changing into the subsequent goal of the demoness.

“Allow you to off? Did that thought ever cross your thoughts while you employed somebody to kidnap my daughter?”

The air round Su Jin turned chilly. She stared at him coldly, as her anger welled up.

“I… I’ll launch her! I organize them to launch her instantly! ”

He initially supposed to vehemently deny any involvement within the kidnapping, however his hazard alarm went off when he appeared straight into Su Jin’s eyes. The girl in entrance of him had a number of screws unfastened. She was actually going to comply with by means of along with her threats and ship him to the netherworld.

He might solely pray that these males had been sloppy and that he might nonetheless make it in time. In any other case… she would most actually slaughter him on the spot!

Li Shen’s blood soaked physique shivered as he imagined what would occur to him if that had been the case.

He ought to have resisted the satan’s temptation. Why did he blindly imagine the phrases of Jia Zong, and assumed that Su Jin was a straightforward prey? It might have been unimaginable for any extraordinary lady to quickly develop her enterprise whereas defending her secret recipe single-handedly over the previous few years.

The Jia household boasted the standing of being the in-laws of the highly effective Marquis Ding’an from the royal capital by means of a number of layers of political marriages.

Marquis Ding’an additionally occurred to be the maternal household of the eldest prince of the Nice Yuan Dynasty, who was alleged to be the main candidate for the place of the Crown Prince.

Naturally, each power-hungry particular person would rapidly leap on the alternative to forge beneficial connections and experience the waves of shift in energy dynamics, elevating the standing and political affect of their household by means of currying favours with the long run emperor’s maternal household.

Their unique plan was to kidnap Su Jin’s daughter as a way to extort her for her secret brewing methods and recipes, and subsequently provide them as tribute to get within the good books of Marquis Ding’an.

Sadly, issues didn’t go as deliberate. Their goal had come knocking at his doorsteps shortly after the plan was put into motion.

Su Jin pretended to not hear his pleas and scorned, “Why don’t you reveal your plan?”

Li Shen groaned in ache. His blood and sweat has blended collectively, flowing into his eye whites and dyeing them crimson. His look resembled a tormented soul that had escaped from the depths of hell.

He felt his coronary heart clench up upon listening to Su Jin’s query. He frantically gasped for breath and confessed the whole lot to her whereas stuttering as a result of ache.

“Every thing is instigated by Jia Zong of the Jia household from the royal capital? Alright, very effectively! ”

Su Jin gave no shit in regards to the Marquis and the eldest prince. So long as they didn’t mess along with her, she had no intention of inflicting bother with them.

“Liao Music, carry some males with you and burn down the Wangjiang Restaurant. From at the moment onwards, Wangjiang Restaurant shall not exist in Fengyuan County!”

That restaurant was the core basis of the Li household’s wealth and social standing. Destroying it was no totally different from eradicating the Li household.

Liao Music acknowledged the orders with a severe expression and left with a number of males.

Li Shen’s face turned pale. Ignoring his personal ache, he struggled to his ft and begged Su Jin: “No, please cease! I’ve realized my mistake, the hostage will probably be launched! Please don’t try this! The Jia household is not going to go away this matter alone!”

He was solely capable of set up a big restaurant within the Fengyuan County because of the assist from the Jia household. In return, he promised to pay an annual tribute to the Jia household. If the restaurant ceased to exist, it will be akin to chopping off a supply of revenue for the Jia household. There was no means the Jia household would take this mendacity down.

Li Shen had presumed that Su Jin is perhaps cautious of implications and rethink her motion if he had been to pull the Jia household into the image. In any case, the Jia household had robust backing within the capital. However to his dismay, the lady remained detached.

Li Shen’s pleas become cries of despair.

The System shed crocodile tears because it noticed from the sidelines: “I can’t bear to observe this anymore. Sigh… I believe there is perhaps one thing flawed with me… Why does it really feel so pleasing to my coronary heart each time I see his bloody face?”

The System wiped its tears whereas cursing, as if it had suffered from break up personalities.

Su Jin silently watched the as soon as proud man, now wailing pathetically as he prostrated on the bottom. She was beginning to get tired of this. A malicious glint flashed in her eyes. After giving a look to sign to her subordinates, she strode out of the Li household property alone and by no means appeared again.

Her lips curled up as she lifted her head to benefit from the starry sky, ignoring the screams behind her and launched into her return journey towards the backdrop of the wonder nightscape.

……

By the point she arrived at her residence, the morning twilight had simply crossed the horizon, because the tiny streaks of daylight streamed out to light up the morning fog.

Nevertheless, nobody within the mansion was asleep right now. Everybody was gathered in the principle corridor, seated and seemingly ready for one thing.

Su Jin encountered this peculiar scene when she pushed open the door to the principle corridor, and have become momentarily loss for phrases. Did she neglect to ship somebody to relay the message of her late return?

Why was everybody awake and gathered over right here as a substitute of sleeping? Not solely Dabao and Erbao, even her eldest brother and his household had been all current. Each single one in all them was seated upright with their backs absolutely straightened.

Su Jin: “…”

(Why does the environment really feel form of off?)

The second she noticed the previous man wearing a black gown seated on the elevated chair, her face brightened up. She was glad that he had returned, and felt relieved from the underside of her coronary heart.

(Wait, isn’t the previous man all the time wearing pale moon-coloured gown? Why is he donned in full black at the moment? It gave a very totally different impression.)

She acted as regular and cracked a joke: “Lastly keen to return, previous man?”

It was unlucky that she was too occupied with the previous man’s return, and didn’t discover Erbao’s frantic makes an attempt to warn her by means of eye winks.

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