"Let me tell you, if anything happens to your grandmother or your mother, I won't let you off the hook!"

"Aren't you going to help put out the fire?"

Shen Qiyin didn't respond to his question, but instead said, "Why don't you answer my question first? Why didn't you continue rushing into the fire?"

"Is it because no one stopped you?"

"Is it because you're afraid of dying?"

Shen Cang flicked his sleeve: "Stop talking nonsense!"

Before he could finish speaking, Shen Qiyin suddenly grabbed his wrist and dragged him into the fire!

Shen Cang was so frightened that his face turned pale.

Just a few steps away, a scorching heat wave hit you.

Shen Cang immediately began to resist, struggling like a pig tied up and about to be slaughtered during the New Year: "What are you doing, you crazy girl? Let me go right now!"

Shen Qiyin laughed and said, "Didn't you say that if anything happened to Grandmother and Madam, you wouldn't forgive me? I have to hurry to the fire to save them!"

"Then why did you pull me?!"

"Of course we'll work together to save people." Shen Qiyin said with a matter-of-fact expression, "Weren't you fearless?"

Shen Cang was terrified and dared not reply at all.

Shen Qiyin said calmly, "I heard it clearly just now. You said that if anything happens to Grandmother and Madam, there's no point in you living."

"In that case, I'll just accompany you."

"That way, our whole family can be considered complete."

Shen Cang forcefully shook off her hand, clearly still shaken: "You're crazy, you're absolutely insane!"

Seeing his cowardly and afraid-of-death behavior, the onlookers knew perfectly well that he had just been putting on an act, and they wished they could spit in his face to vent their anger.

What is that?!

His mother and wife both perished in the fire, and this old man still hasn't forgotten to seek fame.

Shen Cang knew that his plans had failed, and he couldn't help but blame Shen Qiyin in his heart.

But he couldn't say anything more in front of others, otherwise he would seem guilty.

However, his intention to "cease hostilities" does not mean that Shen Xiyin will let it go easily.

Her gaze fell on the raging inferno, and she said meaningfully, "This fire happened quite by chance; Grandmother and Madam were inside, but Father was the only one unharmed."

Shen Cang was startled: "What do you mean by that?!"

"It's just a question, what could it mean?" Shen Qiyin said, but her speculation never stopped: "I'm just wondering, if there's nothing to start a fire, how could the fire be so big for no reason?"

"It seems like someone deliberately set the fire."

"If it were someone from outside, they wouldn't be carrying firewood around while setting a fire." Thinking of something, she said to Dafu, "Go check the kitchen; is the firewood missing?"

Shen Cang's heart was in his throat.

That brat! She's just born to be his nemesis!

Dafu returned quickly, glanced at Shen Qiyin, and then announced loudly, "Second Miss was right, all the firewood piled up in the kitchen is gone!"

No one present was a fool; upon hearing this, all eyes turned to Shen Cang.

He exploded like a firecracker: "Why are you all looking at me?!"

"One of them is my own mother, and the other is the wife I paid money to marry. How could I be so heartless as to burn them to death in a fire?"

He spoke with such righteous indignation that even he himself began to believe it.

Just then, a loud shout suddenly came from not far away, which startled him so much that his legs went weak.

"Chen Cang!"

Li Zhenzhu walked over with a limp.

She stood against the firelight, her hair disheveled, and with just that one sound, Shen Cang trembled and fell to the ground.

Her outer garment was missing for some reason, and she was only wearing an inner garment.

Xianglan stepped forward to support her, and Shen Qiyin took off her cloak and draped it over her shoulders.

She smelled blood.

Looking down, I saw that Li Zhenzhu's calf was injured.

"Let's go to the Begonia Courtyard first, I'll bandage you up," Shen Qiyin said, as she and Xianglan helped her up on either side of her as they prepared to leave.

Li Zhenzhu, however, remained standing still.

She looked at Shen Cang with a strange expression, then suddenly reached out her hand to him: "Come here."

Instead of advancing, Shen Cang regressed.

He crawled backward using both his hands and feet.

Li Zhenzhu narrowed her eyes and said in a dangerous tone, "I want you to come here!"

Shen Cang's body stiffened, and the flesh on his face trembled.

Those who were watching the drama unfold simply helped him up and brought him to Li Zhenzhu: "Madam wants you to go over there, Master Shen, you'd better hurry up and go."

Li Zhenzhu grabbed his arm.

Shen Cang wanted to escape, but he couldn't.

Li Zhenzhu said to him in a cold and hard voice, "Help me to get my wound bandaged."

"...I...I still have to stay here and watch the fire. Let Qiyin take care of it for you." If you listen carefully, you can easily hear that Shen Cang's voice is trembling a little.

"What? You don't want to?" Li Zhenzhu's voice was eerie, like a ghost's: "Are you doing this on purpose? Do you want to see me in pain?"

"No, no!"

Since the other party had already said so much, how could Shen Cang refuse? He could only nervously help Li Zhenzhu to bandage her wound.

But shortly after they left, a scream suddenly rang out.

Most people were busy putting out the fire, and the surrounding area was so noisy that no one noticed.

Inside the study.

Shen Cang curled up, one leg paralyzed on the ground, unable to move, and was in excruciating pain.

Li Zhenzhu threw down the door latch with great fanfare, straddled him, and took off her socks, stuffing them into his mouth.

Then, under his horrified gaze, they untied their belt and bound his hands.

He then slapped her across the face.

Snap!

"You heartless, short-lived bastard, how dare you harm me! You must have eaten the gall of a bear and the heart of a leopard!"

turn out to be--

During dinner, Li Zhenzhu ate too many melon seeds, so they didn't taste very good and she didn't eat much. Therefore, the amount of sleeping pills she was given was not large, and she woke up quickly.

He was still somewhat drowsy.

That's why she used a hairpin to cut her calf, hoping to wake herself up through the pain.

Shen Cang had already lit a fire inside and outside the house.

She took off her clothes, which were soaked with alcohol, broke open a window at the back of the house where the fire was relatively small, and escaped from there.

Fearing that Shen Cang would discover her and use his evil schemes again, she hid by the wall, planning to reappear when the firefighters arrived.

But unexpectedly, they were discovered first!