The one who wanted Lin Lang chopped up for flower fertilizer was Madam Wang, the mistress of Manduo Manor, Wang Yuyan's mother and Li Qiushui's daughter, Li Qingluo.
Madam Wang had always kept a tight rein on her daughter. There were too many faithless men out there, she felt, and she did not want her daughter following in her footsteps.
That brat Murong Fu had kept stringing her daughter along without ever mentioning marriage. All he thought about was accomplishing great things, without stopping to consider whether he was cut out for them.
Did she really need to spell out where the Murong Family's Repaying the Giving Water Pavilion had come from?
But when her daughter later left to roam the Jianghu with Murong Fu, she had not been too angry, because her lover, Duan Zhengchun, had happened to arrive then.
With her daughter away, there was no one to interrupt her pleasures.
Duan Zhengchun had already promised to take her back to the Prince of Zhennan's Manor in Dali after a while. She had made all the preparations to move, and planned to tell her daughter that Duan Yu was her older brother. Her daughter would become a Commandery Princess of Dali and enjoy boundless wealth and splendor.
Then dreadful news suddenly arrived: Duan Zhengchun had been killed outside Southern Shaolin by that villain Duan Yanqing!
All her hopes had come to nothing.
And now she saw her daughter embracing another man. How could she tolerate it?!
Hearing her mother's furious shout, Wang Yuyan scrambled out of Lin Lang's arms. "None of you come any closer. Mother, you've misunderstood. This is Lord Lin. He came to see me about something."
Madam Wang stared at Lin Lang. "Lord Lin? He serves the court? What office does he hold?"
Having her