"Are you planning to meddle, too?"
After being separated from Li Xiaoyao, Lin Yueru eyed Hao Shuai warily. She didn't rush at him to fight.
Lin Yueru was willful and impulsive, but she wasn't stupid.
Hao Shuai had simply waved his hand and separated her from that brat. Clearly, his strength was far beyond anything she could match.
Picking a fight or mouthing off to someone that powerful would be downright idiotic.
Hao Shuai didn't answer Lin Yueru's question. Instead, he looked at Zhao Ling'er and Li Xiaoyao. "Ling'er, Xiaoyao, this is your first time out in the martial world. Today, I'm going to teach you a lesson."
Then he turned to Lin Yueru. "Miss, could you tell us why you were whipping those two?"
"Hmph. They're servants of my family. They dared to steal money from the estate and run away together without permission, so naturally I had to punish them." Lin Yueru held back her temper and briefly explained what had happened.
"Well? Ling'er, Xiaoyao, what do you think?" Hao Shuai asked.
"Martial Uncle, I was rash this time." Li Xiaoyao looked apologetic.
Unlike Zhao Ling'er, who had grown up on Immortal Spirit Island and knew nothing of the ways of the world, Li Xiaoyao understood what it meant to be a servant.
Servants who had signed contracts selling themselves had neither dignity nor freedom. Their very lives were in their masters' hands.
And these two hadn't just stolen money; they had tried to run away.
That was already a serious crime. Lin Yueru had only whipped them; even if she'd beaten them to death, they would have brought it on themselves.
"It's good that you recognize your mistake." Hao Shuai nodded approvingly. "Xiaoyao, it's good to have a sense of justice, but you need to think things