Volume One, Chapter 106
Yan Sijiao snorted coldly. "You can go if you want. I'm not going."
The man pleaded, "Wife, you should still go! Even if not for my sake, think of our family! I heard Great Qin is especially skilled at torturing people. They'll skin us alive and slice our flesh off piece by piece. Wife, I'm begging you."
Yan Sijiao's expression turned troubled as well. Thinking of her relatives, she considered it for a moment before nodding.
Seeing his wife agree, the man immediately broke into a happy smile. "Then I'll have to wrong you, Wife!"
Seeing how happy he was, Yan Sijiao angrily pinched his ear. "You're very happy that I'm going to Great Qin, aren't you?"
The man truly was delighted inside. He would no longer have to suffer Yan Sijiao's violence, which was a tremendous blessing to him. The moment he learned of this, he had rushed home at once. But now, he put on a reluctant look and said, "No!"
Yan Sijiao felt a little better, though she could not help but grow curious about what kind of person the ruler of Great Qin was.
Inside a room, a beautiful mature woman with a gentle temperament, dressed in a green palace gown, wept quietly. Her name was Yan Siyou.
The man beside her—the same middle-aged man from before—said angrily, "I will never agree to something like this! Wife, we'll leave today. We'll never return to the Rock Family again."
Yan Siyou shook her head. "Husband, if we leave now, what will happen to everyone else?"
The middle-aged man had no answer and fell silent.
With tears flowing down her face, Yan Siyou said, "I agree to go to Great Qin. What saddens me now is that I can't bear to leave you. You