Chapter Summaries

Wang Guizhi tried to sell the troublesome girl to Zhang Damei, insisting the girl was still a virgin and that the Hu family had not consummated the marriage. The bargaining ended with Wang Guizhi offering to let Zhang Damei take the girl for 7,000 yuan, though the deal was not yet confirmed.

• Wang Guizhi offered to sell the girl for 8,000 yuan after reducing the price from what the Hu family had paid.
• Zhang Damei questioned the price and suggested the girl might not be a virgin, but Wang Guizhi insisted Hu Dalong had never touched her.
• Zhang Damei said her family could control the girl with medicine and argued that her difficult temperament justified a lower price.
• Zhang Damei offered 5,500 yuan, and Wang Guizhi refused, saying it would be too great a loss.
• Wang Guizhi countered with 7,000 yuan and told Zhang Damei to take the girl at that price or abandon the deal.

Zhang Damei agreed to sell Su Qiao to Wu Ping'an for seven thousand, and Su Qiao learned of the arrangement when Wu Ping'an confronted her. She beat him until he fled, leaving the Hu Family’s plan to sell her unresolved.

• Wang Guizhi agreed to pay Zhang Damei seven thousand for Su Qiao, and Zhang Damei said she would discuss how to abduct her with her husband.
• Su Qiao planned to gather medicinal herbs for Big Treasure after returning from the river.
• Wu Ping'an stopped Su Qiao and told her the Hu Family had sold her to him as his wife.
• Su Qiao kicked Wu Ping'an and beat him until he fled.

Su Qiao stormed into the Wu Family and destroyed the home after discovering Old Hu Er and Wang Guizhi had arranged to sell her. The Wu family rejected the deal, and Su Qiao turned her threats toward Wu Ping'an.

• Su Qiao chased Old Hu Er and Wang Guizhi into the Wu Family and tore up the contract they were signing with the Wu couple.
• Su Qiao smashed the Wu Family home and frightened everyone with her curved blade.
• Wu Yougen and Wu Ping'an refused to confront Su Qiao, while Old Hu Er and Wang Guizhi tried to explain that she was merely fierce.
• Wu Yougen rejected the deal and demanded compensation, but Wang Guizhi argued that the Wu family had been warned about Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao interrupted their argument and threatened Wu Ping'an, recalling what she had done to the last person who harassed her.

Su Qiao threatened Wu Yougen’s family until they paid her for emotional distress, then refused to leave Old Hu Er’s home until the people who sold her were found. The chapter ended with her demanding that the couple help find Chen Ligeng and his wife.

• Wu Ping'an denied he would trouble Su Qiao again, while Wu Yougen warned her that killing people was against the law.
• Su Qiao threatened to kill the family and demanded one thousand yuan, claiming it was compensation for emotional distress.
• Wu Yougen persuaded Zhang Damei to give Su Qiao five hundred yuan, and Old Hu Er offered another five hundred to get her to leave his home.
• Su Qiao accepted the Wu family’s money but refused Old Hu Er’s payment and said she would stay until the people who sold her were found.

Su Qiao forced Old Hu Er and Wang Guizhi to give her money, then hurried off to find a way to travel to town. Meanwhile, Old Hu Er and the Wu family discussed how Su Qiao had broken her iron chain and beaten Dalong.

• Su Qiao demanded money from Old Hu Er and Wang Guizhi and threatened to slaughter their livestock until they gave her five hundred yuan.
• Su Qiao hurried away with her knife to look for her Little Friend and considered traveling by boat or crossing the mountains to reach town.
• Wu Yougen and Zhang Damei blamed Old Hu Er for bringing Su Qiao to their home and causing damage and trouble.
• Old Hu Er told Wu Yougen and Wu Ping'an that Su Qiao had broken the thick iron chain herself.
• Wang Guizhi said Su Qiao had beaten Dalong black and blue on the night she woke up.

Old Hu Er and Wang Guizhi told the Wu Family that their attempts to subdue Su Qiao had failed, and they agreed to wait for the village chief to return before deciding what to do. As word spread, villagers chose to avoid Su Qiao for now.

• Old Hu Er told the Wu Family that the drugged soup had no effect on Su Qiao and that she had beaten him, his wife, and Dalong.
• Wu Yougen believed Old Hu Er and wondered what Su Qiao had done before arriving in the village.
• Wang Guizhi said she and Old Hu Er could neither beat nor drug Su Qiao and would wait for the village chief to return.
• Zhang Damei dropped her demand for compensation and urged Old Hu Er and Wang Guizhi to leave before Su Qiao came back.
• The villagers heard why Su Qiao was roaming freely and decided to avoid provoking her until the village chief returned.

Su Qiao and Big Treasure spent their days roaming the village and taking food, causing the villagers to wait for the village chief to return and handle them. As Su Qiao played with Big Treasure by the river, two young women approached, one dressed and acting like a princess.

• Wu Yingxiong gave up on seeking revenge against Su Qiao after hearing she had beaten and fined the Wu and Hu families, and his wife urged him to wait for the village chief.
• Su Qiao reunited with Big Treasure at the bamboo grove, showed him the money she had taken, and decided to go back for a chicken before heading up the mountain.
• Wang Guizhi discovered that Su Qiao had taken her last old hen.
• Over the next few days, Su Qiao and Big Treasure stole chickens, ducks, fish, vegetables, and watermelons from across the village, and Su Qiao damaged the village chief's fishpond.
• After the village chief returned, the villagers gathered at his house to complain while Su Qiao and Big Treasure played by the river.
• Two young women walked along the river path, and one stood out in a pink skirt and crown with an arrogant, princess-like manner.

Wu Chunni begged He Meili to help her escape an arranged exchange marriage by asking the village chief to intervene. He Meili had not agreed by the time their conversation ended.

• Su Qiao watched Big Treasure search beneath the river stones for crabs while two girls approached the riverbank.
• Wu Chunni admired He Meili’s new clothes, and He Meili boasted that her brother had bought her the latest style.
• Wu Chunni told He Meili that her parents planned to marry her to an old, disabled man in exchange for his sister marrying Wu Chunni’s foolish family member.
• Wu Chunni begged He Meili to help her avoid the marriage and asked her to persuade her father, the village chief, to speak to Wu Chunni’s parents.
• He Meili pulled away from Wu Chunni and said the decision belonged to Wu Chunni’s parents.

Wu Chunni sought He Meili’s help to avoid marrying a cripple, but He Meili refused and went with her to confront Su Qiao and Big Treasure. He Meili insulted Su Qiao, who fired back with harsher insults, leaving their quarrel escalating.

• He Meili refused Wu Chunni’s plea to ask her village-chief father for help.
• He Meili noticed Su Qiao and Big Treasure by the river and mocked Big Treasure as an idiot.
• Wu Chunni went to call Big Treasure over to help water her fields, while He Meili followed her.
• He Meili criticized Su Qiao’s dirty clothes and appearance.
• Su Qiao insulted He Meili, who angrily demanded to know whether Su Qiao knew who she was.
• Su Qiao dismissed He Meili and mocked her appearance and lack of public decency.

Su Qiao slapped He Meili after she insulted and threatened her, then waved a knife as He Meili ran toward the riverbank. The system suggested making He Meili fall into a septic tank, while villagers went to complain to her father, the village chief.

• He Meili threatened Su Qiao after tripping and falling, and Wu Chunni helped her up.
• Su Qiao slapped He Meili when she continued insulting and threatening her.
• Big Treasure ran over from the river and blew on Su Qiao’s reddened hand.
• He Meili threatened to have Su Qiao tied to the execution platform and ran toward the riverbank.
• Su Qiao waved her knife at He Meili, and the system suggested pushing her into a nearby septic tank.

Su Qiao kicked He Meili into a septic tank after He Meili threatened her, then accepted the outfit He Meili had brought. He Jianjun took villagers to catch Su Qiao, while she planned to prepare poisonous herbs for their arrival.

• Su Qiao kicked He Meili into a septic tank after she ran at Su Qiao while cursing her.
• Wu Chunni pulled He Meili out, but He Meili shoved her down and ran home crying.
• Su Qiao picked up and kept the pink-and-blue outfit, then asked Big Treasure if the villagers might attack her.
• Su Qiao took Big Treasure up the mountain to gather poisonous herbs and prepare for the villagers.
• He Meili told He Jianjun and Liu Suzhen that Su Qiao had thrown her into the septic tank.
• He Jianjun took villagers to catch Su Qiao, and Liu Suzhen promised He Meili that they would punish her.

After the villagers failed to find Su Qiao, He Yongqiang intercepted her beside a bamboo grove and offered to protect her in exchange for becoming his mistress. Su Qiao rejected his inflated assumptions, and the chapter left her facing his proposal.

• He Meili demanded that Su Qiao be made to kneel and thrown into a cesspit, and Liu Suzhen promised to help her take revenge.
• The village chief failed to find Su Qiao and questioned Old Hu Er and his wife about her origins.
• He Yongqiang spotted Su Qiao and her companion near a bamboo grove and blocked their way.
• He Yongqiang bragged that his father was the village chief and offered to protect Su Qiao if she followed him.
• He Yongqiang said he could not marry Su Qiao because village rules forbade the next village chief from marrying an outsider, leaving Su Qiao speechless.

He Yongqiang tried to make Su Qiao submit, but Big Treasure chased him away when he threatened her. The village chief’s family then called an assembly to decide Su Qiao’s fate, and He Meili proposed sending her to a disabled bachelor at Black Mountain Pass as his wife.

• He Yongqiang promised Su Qiao protection if she behaved and bore him a son, but Su Qiao mocked him as mentally ill.
• He Yongqiang angrily threatened Su Qiao, and Big Treasure chased him with a curved blade until he fled through the vegetable fields.
• Su Qiao called Big Treasure back, and they returned home without wasting time on He Yongqiang.
• The village chief and his wife called a village assembly to discuss punishing Su Qiao, but the villagers could not agree on a plan.
• He Meili suggested sending Su Qiao to the single, crippled man at Black Mountain Pass as his wife.

The village chief and villagers planned to make Su Qiao pay more money to compensate Old Hu Er, then discussed how to capture her. They left the meeting wary of her strength and noted that Wu Dabao had become her constant companion.

• Village Chief He Yongjian proposed making A-Gen and his wife pay extra when they arrived to reduce Old Hu Er’s losses, and the villagers agreed.
• He Yongjian called for a plan to capture Su Qiao, while several men volunteered to seize her by force.
• Wu Yougen warned the villagers that Su Qiao carried a Bone Scraper and would attack with deadly intent.
• Old Hu Er recounted how Su Qiao had broken her chains and iron collar and beaten him and his family despite their drugging her.
• Wu Yougen warned that direct attacks would fail and said Wu Dabao had been following Su Qiao and throwing stones at people.

The village chief and Wu Yougen planned to use hungry wolfhounds to capture Su Qiao, but she got to the dogs first and tested a painful powder on them. She left the wolfhounds incapacitated and warned Big Treasure not to touch the powder or let it get wet.

• He Yongqiang accused Wu Yingxiong of chasing him with a knife, while Wu Yingxiong complained that Big Treasure had beaten him.
• Zhang Damei offered to coax Big Treasure home, and the village chief agreed to let her try before they cornered Su Qiao.
• Wu Yougen asked how they could capture Su Qiao, and the village chief proposed releasing the wolfhounds to attack her.
• He Meili eagerly volunteered to fetch Wangcai and Fubao, unaware that Su Qiao had slipped into the courtyard.
• Su Qiao spotted the wolfhounds, led them toward the wall, and scattered powder over them, leaving them convulsing and whimpering.
• Su Qiao told Big Treasure that the powder caused intense pain and warned him to avoid touching it or getting it wet.

Su Qiao broke into Village Chief He's house with Big Treasure, stole some cash, and set the house on fire. The flames drew the villagers’ attention as He Jianjun and the others rushed to respond.

• Su Qiao caught Big Treasure when he misjudged his jump over the wall, then led him into Village Chief He's house.
• Su Qiao had 444 search the house and found about four thousand yuan in a locked drawer.
• Su Qiao decided to burn the house, poured peanut oil over furnishings and firewood, and set them ablaze before hiding in the woods with Big Treasure.
• Zhang Damei spotted the fire and warned He Meili, who was leaving the Ancestral Hall to fetch the wolfdogs.
• He Jianjun and the villagers saw the smoke and hurried to the house with buckets and basins to put out the flames.

After the village chief’s house burned down, Liu Suzhen and He Jianjun blamed Su Qiao, who threatened to destroy the village if anyone tried to take revenge. He Jianjun ordered the villagers to surround the tree where she was sitting and set it on fire.

• The villagers failed to put out the fire, and the village chief’s house burned to a blackened shell.
• Liu Suzhen cursed Su Qiao, while Su Qiao watched from a tree and taunted her.
• He Yongqiang and his sister found the family’s two wolfhounds, Wangcai and Fubao, burned to death.
• Su Qiao threatened to burn the village, kill its livestock, and ruin its crops before escaping beyond their reach.
• He Jianjun ordered the villagers to pour oil around the tree and set it alight, as someone cried out for them not to bully Su Qiao.

Su Qiao used medicinal powder to incapacitate several villagers after Big Treasure charged in and disrupted her plan. The village chief and his family were left screaming on the ground while the others feared Su Qiao’s methods.

• Big Treasure rushed out of the woods swinging a club to protect Su Qiao, and the villagers scattered as Liu Yufen tried to stop him.
• Village Chief He Jianjun ordered the villagers to surround and tie up Big Treasure.
• Su Qiao shot a packet of medicinal powder into the crowd with an elastic, and Liu Suzhen, He Yongqiang, and others who were hit collapsed in agony and itching.
• Wu Chunni and He Meili trembled in fear, while Old Hu Er’s family felt relieved that Su Qiao had treated them less severely.
• He Jianjun wrapped his hands in his shirt and tried to examine his wife and son, but he could not identify the poison.

Su Qiao explained that her poison caused severe pain and itching, which water worsened, while He Jianjun struggled to protect his family. She reminded the villagers that they had tried to control and harm her first, leaving them to recognize that their anger came from losing the power they expected to have over her.

• He Jianjun ordered water brought to wash his wife and son, but the water made their pain and itching much worse.
• Su Qiao told He Jianjun that the poison would not kill them and that its effects would pass after two or three days, but water would intensify their suffering.
• He Jianjun called Su Qiao's methods vicious, and she accepted the remark before listing the villagers' earlier attempts to harm and exploit her.
• Su Qiao said she had only taken food and had retaliated against Wu Yougen's family because they had tried to buy her and Wu Ping'an had tried to take advantage of her.
• The villagers reflected that Su Qiao had not seriously harmed them and realized they resented her for overturning the status they expected her to have.
• Someone urged the villagers to tie up those suffering so they would not hurt themselves.

Su Qiao forced He Jianjun to agree to find the two people who trafficked her, threatening the villagers with poison and destruction if they resisted. She left him to choose between protecting his son from her threats and losing his home.

• He Jianjun tied up his wife and son, while the villagers bound the others who had fallen.
• Su Qiao demanded to see the two traffickers, especially the woman who had gained her trust before drugging her and selling her to the Hu Family.
• Su Qiao threatened to poison the village's well and vegetable plots and burn the village if anyone tried to stop her.
• He Jianjun agreed to find the traffickers but asked how he would be compensated for his family's losses.
• Hu Dalong said that Su Qiao had punished men who harassed her by castrating them and cutting off their hands and feet.
• Su Qiao threatened He Yongqiang and asked He Jianjun whether he wanted his son mutilated or his house burned.