When Shang Yanting came out, he had a mask in his hand.

It was already dark outside.

The lights in front of each house were dim, and pedestrians hurried along the road.

Shang Yanting stood alone on the empty street, having gone in the wrong direction.

Jia Xitong reminded her, "Dear host, you should go to the left when you return to the inn."

"That's right."

Shang Yanting continued walking without stopping, becoming increasingly isolated until he finally arrived at an abandoned, dilapidated courtyard.

The beggars living inside stood up upon hearing the noise outside, thinking that someone was trying to take their territory.

The lead beggar roared first, "Everyone, grab your weapons!"

A dozen or so beggars, carrying various sticks, walked out menacingly.

Then... they got hit in the face with copper coins.

beggar:?

Shang Yanting leaned against a pillar by the door, toying with two silver ingots in his palm.

In the moonlight, his expression was gentle yet dazed, his voice clear yet venomous.

"Tomorrow, I want everyone in the city to know the news that 'the divine physician Xie Qingxian and Wanbaoge maliciously inflated the price of medicines, buying and selling them for 12,000 taels of silver.' Is that alright?"

The leader of the beggars was the smartest and quickly understood what he meant.

Although Wanbaoge and the Divine Doctor are the biggest powers in Zhaocheng, those with nothing to lose have nothing to fear. If they make this money, they can always move to another city to beg.

"No problem, don't worry!"

Shang Yanting nodded slightly and tossed the silver in his hand to him.

Observing Shang Yanting from the sidelines, Jia Xitong suddenly remembered something she had forgotten—

The male lead's harem, oh, a harem!

Shang Yanting's visit to Zhaocheng to treat his hands and feet became the catalyst for starting her first harem. Once she cured him, Xie Ziyan would have no chance to enter the scene!

Not only did he not appear on stage, but now the male lead is also going after his former father-in-law!

What a terrible thing!

The readers have wiped out the protagonist's harem!!

###Original Work###

When I crawled out of the abyss, I thought I could embrace the light.

Fools spit on me for harming my own family;

People curse me to die a horrible death;

The hands and feet, treated by quack doctors, suffered terribly in the darkness, and suspicion and murderous thoughts grew rampant like weeds.

I conceal my broken body and decaying soul, approaching the world with a false facade—

Everything can be fooled;

Everyone deserves to die