Who Said You Could Call Her Ling'er?

After Li Xiaoyao finished speaking, he chased after the woman with the whip. Although he had a natural gift for martial arts, Lingbo Weibu still required footholds, and he fell farther and farther behind her.

The woman was skilled in Lightness Skill. She seemed to be chasing someone and moved incredibly fast. Li Xiaoyao could only follow at a distance, never managing to catch up, eating her dust the whole way.

Seeing Li Xiaoyao race ahead, Wang Yue didn't hurry. He led Ling'er along at an unhurried pace. They followed all the way out of town before finally spotting Li Xiaoyao standing still in the distance.

At first, Wang Yue and Zhao Ling'er didn't know why Li Xiaoyao had stopped. But when they heard the crack of a whip and a woman begging for mercy, they understood what was happening.

The woman begging pleaded, "Eldest Miss, please let us go. We truly love each other."

At her words, the whip fell silent, but the man's groans continued, as if he were encouraging the maid to keep pleading for him.

Hearing the man's groans, a clear female voice said indignantly, "A man like him isn't worth loving!"

It was as if the man had been reminded of himself, or perhaps he feared the maid might take the young lady's words to heart. Either way, he stopped groaning and hurried to defend himself. But he couldn't think of anything to placate the Eldest Miss, so he simply joined the maid in pleading, "Eldest Miss, we truly love each other."

Hearing the shameless man's words only made the Eldest Miss angrier. She snapped, "I've never stopped the two of you from being together. But you have to take care of her! You're lazy, and you even stole money from our household. It's not