Fan Xilou cleverly moved a chair from the carriage and placed it on the ground: "Your Highness, please sit down!"

Ye Junfei thought he was quite perceptive, so he spared his life for the time being.

Lin Xiuyan, along with her servants, quickly routed the men Zhou Chenyang had brought.

When they realized something was wrong, they immediately turned around and ran.

How could Lin Xiuyan let them get away like that? She picked up her crossbow and shot them all dead with a few arrows.

Zhou Chenyang stood in the woods watching the commotion. When he saw his men running back, he felt something was wrong.

Then he saw his man fall to the ground dead, pierced through the heart by an arrow.

His pupils contracted slightly as he wanted to see who had the audacity, and then he saw Lin Xiuyan charging towards him with a knife in hand.

Zhou Chenyang instinctively wanted to run, but it was clearly too late.

He already had injuries and couldn't run fast at all.

He had run less than thirty steps when he heard the sound of wind behind him. Before he could react, a rope was put around his neck.

He felt a powerful force strike him, and he fell backward to the ground like a dead dog.

His barely healed buttocks were instantly ruptured from the fall.

He was in so much pain he wanted to scream, but his neck was tightly bound, and he couldn't make a sound.

Lin Xiuyan flipped in mid-air and sat on him, raising her fists and giving him a good beating in the face.

Zhou Chenyang: "..."

He used to laugh at her for only knowing how to fight, but now he hopes she won't learn to fight.

Her hitting really hurts!

The pain was so intense he wished he could just fly to heaven!

Only then did he realize that she had seemingly held back when she put the sack over his head at the Lin residence that day.

After Lin Xiuyan finished hitting him, Zhou Chenyang felt that there was no part of his body that was okay, and his whole body was in extreme pain.

She stepped on his face and asked, "Zhou Chenyang, how does it feel?"

Zhou Chenyang gritted his teeth and said, "Lin Xiuyan, how dare you! You actually dare to assault an official of the imperial court!"

Lin Xiuyan smiled: "That's right, I hit you, what can you do about it?"

Zhou Chenyang gritted his teeth and said, "I'm going to kill you!"

Lin Xiuyan stomped on his head and rubbed it against the ground: "Come on, come and kill me!"

Zhou Chenyang: "..."

Zhou Chenyang: "!!!!!!!"

That crazy woman!

Lin Xiuyan continued to step on his face with one foot, half-squatting as she said, "Kidnap Fan Xilou, use him as bait to lure me in."

"Zhou Chenyang, your act is really the same old cliché that you've been doing for decades."

"As the city lord, you colluded with bandits to rob ordinary merchants, but you were killed and caught red-handed."

"How do you plan to explain yourself this time?"

Zhou Chenyang felt a chill run down his spine upon hearing this. If this matter were to get out, he feared he would be ruined and his position as city lord would be in jeopardy!

He quickly said, "Lin Xiuyan, I know you hate me because of love."

"I admit that I wronged you in the past, and I can apologize to you!"

Lin Xiuyan just smiled when she heard his shameless words: "Apologize? You don't actually think that an apology can make up for all the bad things you've done?"

After she finished speaking, she punched him in the face and stomach: "I hit you, I'm sorry! Please forgive me."

Zhou Chenyang: "..."

That crazy woman!

Before he could speak, Lin Xiuyan punched him in the stomach again: "What? You won't forgive me? Then I'll just have to beat you up again."

Zhou Chenyang: "..."

When someone else uses the same method on him, the feeling is truly unpleasant.

Zhou Chenyang gritted his teeth and said, "I admit I schemed against you, but you didn't suffer any harm. I'm the one who always suffers!"

"You've already beaten me up like this, what more do you want?"

Lin Xiuyan stomped on his face again, knocking out several of his teeth, and his mouth and nose were full of blood.

She said calmly, "That's because I'm capable and you didn't outmaneuver me."

"Now that I've caught you by my own skill, of course I can do whatever I want to you!"

Zhou Chenyang was filled with resentment, hatred, and regret. He spat out a mouthful of blood and said, "This was all Jiang Xinrou's idea!"

"If you're unhappy about this, go find her and settle the score!"

Lin Xiuyan was a little surprised to hear this: "It was all Jiang Xinrou's idea? Tsk tsk, you're really something."

After she finished speaking, she picked up a needle and stabbed it hard into a certain acupoint on Zhou Chenyang's body. This time, the pain was so intense that he couldn't even scream.

That kind of pain goes deep into your bones and drives you crazy!

He rolled on the ground, covered in blood.

Lin Xiuyan crossed her arms and looked at him, saying, "This was Jiang Xinrou's idea. If you're not happy about it, go find her and settle the score."

Zhou Chenyang: "..."

At that moment, he finally realized that no matter what he said, she could always throw it back at him.

Now that he's in her hands, she truly has the power to make him wish he were dead.

After the pain subsided slightly, he said, "If you have the guts, then kill me!"

Lin Xiuyan smiled and said, "I really don't have that skill, hehe!"

Zhou Chenyang: "..."

He inexplicably felt that her last two giggles carried a huge sense of mockery.

Lin Xiuyan's lips curled up slightly: "After all, it would be too easy for scum like you to be killed directly."

"I'll make you taste the pain of losing everything and the agony of living a life worse than death."

Zhou Chenyang felt that when she said that last sentence, she looked like a vengeful ghost that had crawled out of hell to collect a debt!

He was genuinely scared: "What exactly do you want?"

Lin Xiuyan looked at him and said, "I already said, I want you to lose everything and suffer a fate worse than death!"

Zhou Chenyang had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, the next moment, Lin Xiuyan called over her servants and tied Zhou Chenyang's hands and feet like a fat pig.

She then found a log over ten feet long and threaded it through his hands and feet, then had two servants lift him up.

This is exactly how the villagers carry dead pigs.

Zhou Chenyang: "..."

This is the greatest humiliation for him!

Fan Xilou and Ye Junfei watched the entire process with wide eyes.

Ye Junfei exclaimed admiringly, "My wife looks so beautiful when she hits someone!"

"His sarcastic remarks are quite pleasing to the ear, just look at Zhou Chenyang's expression!"

"This injection was well done; it won't kill Zhou Chenyang, but it will make him wish he were dead."

Fan Xilou trembled the entire time.

He knew before that Lin Xiuyan was fierce when she fought, but this was the first time he had seen her so ruthless.

Although he felt that Zhou Chenyang was a scumbag who deserved it, and that it was satisfying for her to teach Zhou Chenyang a lesson, it didn't stop him from being afraid.

The vague affection he once had for her vanished completely.

Even if he had a hundred times the courage, he wouldn't dare to compete with Ye Junfei for Lin Xiuyan!

Zhou Chenyang roared in fury, "How dare you treat me like this!"