Chapter 438 The Bai Family Head Regrets It
"Thank you for bringing this gift to my master, young lady. We have some things to attend to at home and don't have time to entertain you right now. Please stay at our home for a few more days. Once we're done with our business, I will prepare a generous gift for you."
Madam Zhong didn't take Lin Qingxi seriously and looked at Yu Zhiyi.
Lin Qingxi's expression changed slightly.
Miss Jiang didn't know the Zhong family, but she did.
The Zhong family values face the most and covets power and wealth the most.
All the glory and favor this family enjoys is based on the premise that the head of the Zhong family is alive. Once outsiders know that the head of the Zhong family is dead, the Zhong family's wealth and honor will be greatly diminished.
Oh no.
The Zhong family will definitely be crushed by other forces!
Just like the Lin family in the past.
Under these circumstances, they would absolutely not release Miss Yu, the only one who knew that the head of the Zhong family was dead.
"These injuries I sustained were not outside, but were inflicted by Zhong Zhehao and the servants of the Zhong family!"
Madam Zhong was surprised that Lin Qingxi dared to contradict her, and her face immediately darkened: "Xi'er, are you delirious from pain? How can you say such nonsense? Hao'er loves you deeply, how could he possibly hit you?"
"You are the future young mistress of my Zhong family. Do the servants in this mansion have a death wish to lay a hand on you?"
In just a short while, she emerged from her grief, and her gaze towards Lin Qingxi seemed uncomprehending of sorrow, but in reality, it concealed a sharp edge.
Lin Qingxi said firmly, "Madam Zhong, Zhong Zhehao has mentioned annulment of the engagement to you more than once, and he has also sided with Ding Xueyan in front of you more than once. Not only do you know that he doesn't love me, but the entire Zhong family knows it too."
“Everyone in your Zhong family treats me like a joke! The only reason we haven’t dissolved the engagement is because we’re worried that the other major powers in Wanyuan City will laugh at you for breaking your promise.”
She looked at Madam Zhong and spoke each word with unwavering determination: "Today, it was Zhong Zhehao who abducted me to the Zhong residence. It was also he who, enraged by my decision to break off the engagement, beat me and then locked me in the woodshed, where the servants humiliated me!"
She looked at Yu Zhiyi again: "I don't want to live here, I hate them! Please, take me away."
Yu Zhiyi patted her shoulder, stepped over the frail yet determined woman, and looked at Madam Zhong with a blank expression: "My friend has already made her stance clear, so naturally I cannot let her down."
Madam Zhong gave Lin Qingxi a cold look, her feigned kindness vanishing: "Sorry, you're not leaving today."
She would absolutely not allow these two young women to announce her husband's death until she came up with a proper solution.
Yu Zhiyi sneered: "Madam Zhong, what a boastful tone and what a show of power! It's just a pity that your brain doesn't seem to be working very well."
"What makes you think that I, who was able to break your husband's formation, am someone you can just leave to live?"
She suddenly raised her eyes, and the pressure of a Golden Core Realm expert poured out.
Before Madam Zhong could even process what was happening, she was already kneeling on the ground.
The surrounding servants were stunned.
Yu Zhiyi looked at Madam Zhong earnestly: "Now, can we leave?"
In a short moment, cold sweat poured down Madam Zhong's forehead like rain.
She practically spat out the two words through clenched teeth: "Please...go ahead."
Under the astonished gazes of the maids, servants, and other servants who were stunned throughout the mansion, Yu Zhiyi helped Lin Qingxi and left the Zhong mansion unhurriedly.
Only after the Zhong family was completely left behind did Lin Qingxi breathe a sigh of relief: "Thank you, Miss Yu."
She was genuinely grateful.
She understood that Miss Yu had come here tonight specifically for her.
They were clearly just strangers who met by chance, yet Miss Yu helped her a great deal.
He even changed his pre-arranged schedule for her.
At this moment, Lin Qingxi had long forgotten that the reason Zhong Zhehao was targeting her was because of Yu Zhiyi.
However, even if she didn't mention it, Yu Zhiyi wouldn't pretend not to know: "Your misfortune is all because of me, how can I sit idly by?"
Zhong Zhehao and Ding Xueyan witnessed her tearing down the Bai family's medical notice, which was precisely the pretext she used to cause trouble for Lin Qingxi.
They believed she was incapable of curing the eldest son of the Bai family, and that the Bai family head's attitude towards those who dared to take on challenges without any real ability had recently worsened. They worried that the Bai family head would take his anger out on the Zhong family because of her.
Although she saw those two people at the time, she doesn't consult divination for every little thing.
She didn't care about these two people at all, and naturally wouldn't waste her divination sessions on them.
Besides, she didn't have any direct conflict or hatred with them.
Ding Xueyan might hold a grudge against her, but Ding Xueyan couldn't hurt her at all.
She never expected that these people would have such complicated thoughts. Unable to gain any advantage from her, they went to cause trouble for Lin Qingxi.
She couldn't understand how these two people thought like that.
Even if she really can't cure Young Master Bai's illness, the Bai family head will only blame her for being the one who accepted the challenge, right?
Lin Qingxi shook her head slightly: "Your matter is just a pretext. Even if they didn't see you take down the Bai family's notice, they would still cause me trouble."
This has been her norm for the past few years.
Whenever Zhong Zhehao encounters something unpleasant, he blames it on her.
After Ding Xueyan appeared, this situation worsened even further.
They would blame her for many things that had absolutely nothing to do with her.
However, Zhong Zhehao had been quite restrained before and had never laid a hand on her.
This time, he has truly gone mad.
Yu Zhiyi pulled Lin Qingxi to a deserted alley, her expression serious: "Miss Lin, there is something I must tell you."
Bai Mansion.
Master Lingyun was as aloof as dust, like a snow lotus on a ten-thousand-year-old glacier, chilling to the bone yet irresistibly drawing people closer.
Where was the imposing presence that the Bai family head had in front of Yu Zhiyi?
He bowed slightly, his face beaming with smiles: "The visit of True Immortal Lingyun to my humble abode is truly an honor."
He made a "please" gesture.
Master Lingyun did not look at him. His gaze swept across the sky above the Bai residence for a moment before suddenly turning to a certain direction, his eyes suddenly becoming sharp.
Noticing the direction of his gaze, the Bai family head felt a sudden jolt in his heart.
"A real...real person, is there anything wrong with that?"
Master Lingyun spoke in a cold voice, his clear and melodious tone like pearls and jade.
The Bai family head had no time to appreciate it; he was only filled with shock.
Master Lingyun coldly said, "There is demonic energy."
The Bai family head's heart was pounding in his chest, but he could only try his best to keep his expression steady, feigning shock: "Demonic energy? How is that possible? Although my Bai family is not a thousand-year-old family, we still have a protective formation. Ordinary demons cannot get in at all."
Master Lingyun ignored his sophistry: "I could not have been mistaken; it is in that small building."
As soon as he finished speaking, he moved and appeared more than a hundred meters away in the blink of an eye.
The head of the Bai family nearly collapsed to his knees.
He deeply regretted it.
He regretted taking a chance and underestimating Master Lingyun's strength.
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