Jing Tian squatted on the ground like a bullied young wife, a huge black eye around his right eye.
Tang Xuejian, who had been spoiled since childhood, would not tolerate him. Well, at least not right now.
"Honestly, what kind of man cries and whines like that?"
"This sword..."
"What sword? You're so annoying. Your poison has already been cured, so go wherever you want. I don't want you anymore."
Her beloved grandfather, Tang Kun, had just passed away, and she herself had been driven out of Tang Family Fortress. Tang Xuejian was in just as low a mood.
While Tang Kun had been the lord of Tang Family Fortress, he had kept the entire fortress flourishing.
But the people inside had proved useless. After Thunderclap Hall and the illegitimate son Tang Yi coordinated an attack from within and without, the fortress collapsed outright. Tang Kun died from serious illness and fury.
The people of Tang Family Fortress had even wanted to use the poison arts he had cultivated throughout his life to nurture the Three Corpses and Three Insects poison, in order to intimidate Thunderclap Hall.
Tang Xuejian, who had been given the family head's token by Tang Kun and had fiercely opposed the matter, was thus expelled from Tang Family Fortress by the Tang family.
Although Jing Tian did not know what had happened, as a pawnshop clerk, he was quite perceptive. From being driven away when they had gone to Tang Family Fortress earlier, the information he had learned, and the young mistress's current mood, he could roughly tell that she was feeling terrible.
He immediately put on a shameless grin and said,
"How can you do that? Young Mistress, you can't just leave me alone."
"Hmph~ Go die for all I care."
Tang Xuejian gave an