"Okay." Shi Nian curled her lips into a harmless smile. "Then please have Uncle lock her in the dungeon for three days. I don't need to torture her, just keep her locked up for three days. Is that too much to ask?"

That dungeon was full of rats, who especially loved the smell of blood.

Bai Lian'er's injuries will surely attract those rats...

Even if she doesn't die within three days, it will exhaust Bai Lian'er both physically and mentally.

This was her final concession.

If Ye Chen still can't bear to part with him, then she'll have to consider imprisoning him again.

If she can successfully take him down next time, she will definitely break his arms and legs immediately so that he can't run away like this time.

Ye Chen frowned. "She's not in good health, and now she's injured. Locking her up in the dungeon might..."

"Enough, stop making excuses. If you can't bear to part with her, just say so. What's the point of saying all this useless stuff?" Shi Nian put away her smile and looked at him with cold eyes: "As long as you say you can't bear to part with her, I will no longer ask you to punish her."

Looking into Shi Nian's cold eyes, Ye Chen's heart trembled violently.

He had a feeling that if he said he couldn't bear to punish Bai Lian'er, he would never be able to win her back...

“It’s not that I can’t bear to part with her, and I don’t have the kind of feelings for her that you think I do,” Ye Chen said earnestly, looking into her eyes.

Shi Nian looked at him coldly, without any reaction.

She doesn't want explanations, she just wants results.

Ye Chen sighed and said, "Alright, as long as you can calm down, I'll do as you say and order her to be locked in the dungeon."

He stood up and walked towards the door.

As he reached the door, he turned back to Shi Nian and warned her sternly, "You'd better stay in the room and wait for me this time, or you'll run away again!"

Shi Nian ignored him, wrapped herself in the blanket and lay back on the bed, turning the back of her head towards him.

…

When Ye Chen went downstairs again, the servants had already left.

Bai Lian'er was also carried onto a stretcher by several uninjured maids to be sent back to her room, accompanied by a family doctor.

That doctor was someone Ye Chen had previously hired specifically to take care of Bai Lian'er's health; you could say he was Bai Lian'er's personal doctor.

Seeing Ye Chen get down, Bai Lian'er, lying on the stretcher, looked at him with teary eyes and said, "Brother Ye, I know that what you said just now was definitely not what you really thought. You just said those things to appease that woman with a mental problem. I don't blame you."

"But I'm in so much pain, Brother Ye, could you stay in my room with me tonight? Only when I see you can I forget the pain..."

She first kindly said that she didn't blame Ye Chen, and then revealed her vulnerable side.

Ye Chen will definitely feel sorry for her when he sees how sensible and pitiful she is.

As long as Ye Chen stays in her room with her tonight, she will have won back a point!

As for the woman who hit her, she'll find another opportunity to get revenge later.

Ye Chen is clearly bewitched by that vixen now. If she continues to stir things up in front of him, it will only annoy him.

She wanted to win Ye Chen's favor by feigning weakness.

Ye Chen is only nice to that woman now because it's new and he's temporarily infatuated.

Before long, once Ye Chen gets tired of her, he'll realize that a woman as understanding as her is more suitable for him!