I change neither my name on the road nor my surname at rest

"You dared to hurt people with a horsewhip. With such wicked conduct, why would you be afraid of me?"

Zhang Yuan spoke coolly.

When they first met in Jianning City, both her words and her actions had displayed all the willful arrogance of an aristocratic clan's scion.

Had he not been a cultivator, that lash would likely have split his skin and flesh just like that mortal's, leaving him bedridden for at least half a month.

"What do you mean, wicked! Driving mortals away with my horsewhip was a good deed!" Xiao Shi immediately retorted.

"A good deed?" Zhang Yuan's lips twitched, and he gave a cold laugh.

He would never have guessed that someone so dim-looking could be so funny.

Xiao Shi raised her chin and nodded. "Exactly. How dangerous is that great tomb? If a bunch of ordinary mortals entered it, they would face certain death, with no hope of survival. Every person I injured with my horsewhip was kept from entering the tomb, which meant I saved a life. How is that not a good deed?"

Zhang Yuan stared in astonishment, stunned by Xiao Shi's argument.

Whew. As expected of the Five Surnames and Seven Houses. They really know how to twist an argument into a perfect circle.

Zhang Yuan could not be bothered to argue right and wrong with her. Instead, he turned his gaze to the "Cui Family's Eldest Miss," whose name he knew but whom he had yet to meet.

Cui Yuanxi's brows were like distant mountains tinted with ink, her eyes like rippling autumn waters. Her figure was slender and graceful, her shoulders delicately sculpted, her waist as slim as a cinched ribbon. Dressed in a Skywater-Bi Silk Skirt, she carried herself with dignified elegance.

His gaze rose to the labels above Cui