Stay, Woman's Schemes

Yangjin refused to let me leave and even had Zaxi post guards outside the door.

I smiled. "Can they stop me?"

"They have to stop you, unless you can truly bring yourself to kill them. Otherwise, even if they die, they won't let you go. Besides, you're Tangba Tusi, our lord. You should be our pillar now. How can you just leave whenever you want? If you really leave, people's hearts will scatter, and the Tumba Family will fall apart."

"This woman really isn't simple," Erha said to me.

I gave a bitter smile. None of the women I had met seemed simple. Xu Qiuyan's mother, even Ye Jinghong—they all seemed more decisive than me in many matters. Compared to them, I seemed even more timid and overly cautious whenever I did anything.

Not being ruthless enough would eventually become my greatest weakness.

That was what Guiguzi had told me.

He had also said that I might very well die because of my kindness.

I thought his words made some sense, but I couldn't abandon my kindness because of them. I was Jiang Xiaobai. Whoever I had been before was who I would remain in the future. I would not change easily.

I said nothing more and simply sat in the room. Yangjin had the servants bring food and wine.

It wasn't Tibetan Barley Wine, but the sauce-aroma liquor I was used to.

She knew I wasn't really Tangba Tusi, and I knew she wasn't really the Tusi's wife.

Yet we had to bear the roles assigned to us in this scenario. That was a rule of the game we had to follow.

Truthfully, I was curious too. Although I had kept trying to stop them, I did want to know who would win tonight's battle. Logically, Yangjin and the