In the beginning, they tested each other, until last night---
The two arranged to meet at a theater. When Ye Jiaoniang entered the private room, the sixth young master was already slightly drunk.
Ye Jiaoniang frowned, sat down, and started talking to him.
Who knew that before long, the Sixth Young Master Yuan started to grope her, uttering vulgarities all the while.
Ye Jiaoniang naturally refused, but dared not shout loudly, fearing that it would attract someone to come in and see, and then cause some complications.
And then---
Ye Jiaoniang still feels terrified when she thinks about it now.
She didn't recognize any of the people who suddenly barged in, yet she was grabbed by the hair and slapped twice.
The woman in the lead was charming and beautiful, but also shrewish and ruthless; it was she who tore Ye Jiaoniang's clothes.
She cursed Ye Jiaoniang for being shameless and also cursed the former Sixth Young Master for being heartless and ungrateful.
They kept going until it was almost dawn before they finally stopped.
The original Sixth Young Master seemed quite wary of that woman. He didn't dare utter a sound after being beaten and scolded, and let the woman send two strong old women to drag Ye Jiaoniang away.
All she could hear was Ye Nishang's crying and Old Madam Yin's cursing. Ye Jiaoniang was roughly dragged out.
That day, the entire Yin residence was in complete chaos.
This morning, news spread that Yin Wenxiao, the Earl of Pingyin, was resentful of his divorce from Lady Qin and had secretly sent assassins to kill her on her way out of the capital.
As evening fell, an imperial edict was issued, striking the Yin family like a bolt from the blue.
Because Qin Zhengde, the Left Censor-in-Chief, knelt at the entrance of the Imperial Study and begged the Emperor to uphold justice for his poor daughter, the Emperor, moved by his love for his daughter, had an imperial edict drafted, stating that Yin Wenxiao, the Earl of Pingyin, had lost his virtue and talent and had repeatedly failed to correct his ways. Therefore, he was stripped of his title of Earl of Pingyin and only retained his position as the head of the Horse Training Office.
Furthermore, he was fined six months' salary.
Madam Yin fainted for the second time. This time, pinching her philtrum and squeezing her fingers failed to wake her up, so the mansion quickly summoned a doctor.
...
When Yin Wenxiao returned, it was already late at night.
The events of that day left him utterly exhausted, as if he had fallen from the first level of hell to the eighteenth.
Yin Wenxiao went to Songliu Courtyard first.
"How is Mother?" he asked Bi, the old woman who was taking care of her.
"The doctor has already given her acupuncture and medicine. It's just a sudden attack of anger caused by extreme emotional distress. The doctor said she should wake up tomorrow."
Yin Wenxiao nodded.
He stood by the bed, looking at his pale-faced mother lying there, his eyes devoid of any tenderness.
Do you hate it?
Now that things have come to this, Yin Wenxiao no longer knows who to hate. Who led the Yin family step by step to where it is today?
Is it Qin Sheng? Or is it Old Madam Yin?
No, it was him!
After leaving Songliu Courtyard, Yin Wenxiao wiped his face and told the servant beside him to go to Mingyue Pavilion.
On his way back home, he already knew everything that had happened at home that day, including Ye Jiaoniang being caught in the act of having an affair.
Only a few old women remained in Mingyue Pavilion.
While they were chatting and cracking melon seeds, the old women suddenly saw Yin Wenxiao enter. They quickly dropped their melon seeds, stood up, and bowed, saying, "Master."
Yin Wenxiao didn't look at them, and only said, "Go back."
The old women looked at each other, then nodded in agreement and left.
Candles were lit in the room, and Ye Jiaoniang's ropes had been untied. She was sitting at the table, lost in thought.
She seemed perfectly calm and collected!
"You still dare to sit still!" Yin Wenxiao's face turned extremely ugly in an instant, and he strode over.
“Lord?” Ye Jiaoniang looked at him, then frowned. “No, I should call you Master.”
The Earl of Pingyin... there is no more Earl of Pingyin!
Having been stripped of his title, Yin Wenxiao is now merely the head of a horse training camp; even if he lives to the end, he will only ever be a minor official of the sixth rank.
"Yes, the title of Earl of Pingyin is gone, but you don't seem worried at all."
Yin Wenxiao looked at her mockingly, "I guess if you really do acknowledge your ancestors and become a princess, you won't even look at me anymore."
"..."
"You were afraid I couldn't be relied on, so you got involved with Yuan Xiuwen through Xue Mei, hoping he could help you?" Yin Wenxiao sneered.
Ye Jiaoniang pursed her lips and remained silent.
She seemed to have given up entirely.
Yin Wenxiao's smile grew colder. He shook his head and said, "Even if Yuan Xiuwen is willing to help you, Jiaoniang, your mother is a courtesan. She is currently someone else's concubine. She fled to the capital because she accidentally killed the wife. If the royal family finds out about this, do you think you can still be a princess?"
"What did you say?" Ye Jiaoniang stood up in shock, her face pale and shaking her head violently. "No, no, you're lying! It's impossible! You're deceiving me!"
Although she had asked her mother several times why she had come to the capital, Ye Nishang's answer was always the same.
But she never thought of... killing someone?
My mother was such a frail person; she wouldn't even dare to kill a chicken when she was little. How could she possibly kill someone?
Yin Wenxiao must be talking nonsense, he's talking nonsense!
Ye Jiaoniang shouted, "You definitely don't want to help me, that's why you're lying to me like this! I don't believe it, I don't believe it!"
Looking at her almost hysterical state, Yin Wenxiao felt strangely calmer.
"Believe it or not, it's the truth."
Yin Wenxiao calmly said, "The old lady sent people to Hushan to investigate, and they found out everything clearly. The family in Hushan where your mother was a concubine is surnamed Zhu, and the Zhu family is already on their way to the capital."
"..."
Ye Jiaoniang finally panicked.
She stumbled out, determined to find out what had happened from her mother!
Yin Wenxiao was indeed not lying to her. Originally, to avoid trouble, Old Madam Yin was going to send Ye Nishang away in the next couple of days.
Ye Nishang looks so gentle and weak, but who would have thought that she is such a ruthless person?
In order to become the matriarch of the family, she did not hesitate to murder the Zhu family's wife.
However, she did not get what she wanted.
Although the patriarch of the Zhu family was blinded by lust, the matriarch of the Zhu family was shrewd. She immediately ordered Ye Nishang to be tied up and sent someone to report to the authorities.
However, Ye Nishang was lucky. Just then, the eldest son of the Zhu family returned from his studies abroad, and the old lady had her locked in the woodshed and told to deal with her the next day.
In the middle of the night, Ye Nishang spent a lot of money to bribe the old woman guarding her, so that the old woman could quietly go back and pack some valuables for her before letting her out.
Ye Nishang spent almost two months hiding and dodging before finally arriving in the capital.
Whether Ye Jiaoniang is a real princess or not is no longer important to the Yin family.
Yin Wenxiao closed his eyes, thinking about all the things that had happened in the past, and a wave of bitterness washed over him... He regretted his past actions!
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