Tianfu City in an Uproar

The Bai Residence.

"Miss, miss... something terrible has happened!"

Lian'er jogged all the way into the room, looking shocked. Seeing Bai Ruoli reading, she cried out, gasping for breath.

"What is it?"

Bai Ruoli felt a wave of exasperation. This little girl could only get away with this here.

If she had another mistress, her legs would surely be broken for being so unruly and making such a fuss every day.

Then again, Bai Ruoli had spoiled her into acting this way...

After all, in their previous life, this little girl had chosen death to save her!

"Miss, something terrible has happened outside!"

"Hmm?"

"Young Master Jun, it's Young Master Jun..."

"A story!"

With that, Lian'er told her the story Jun Jingyi had told at the restaurant, her face flushed and her eyes moist.

She said through sobs, "That young lady was so pitiful. That damned Li Family, how could they do that to someone so kind..."

Bai Ruoli: "..."

So that was why Jun Jingyi had come to her before and told her the story of that young lady?

For a moment, she felt a little guilty.

She had gone too far with what she said back then.

At the same time, she grew angry with that damned Li Family.

But then she frowned slightly.

She kept feeling that something about this wasn't right.

But what was it?

She couldn't figure it out.

She looked at Lian'er.

Bai Ruoli frowned and asked, "Does everyone outside know about this now?"

Lian'er nodded frantically. "It's Young Master Jun. He seems to have founded something called the Journey to the West Merchant Alliance, and he told the story there."

"He said he would pay a price to ask those shopkeepers to help him deal with the Li Family."

"He said a drop of kindness should be repaid with a gushing spring. Young Master Jun has taken it upon himself to avenge that young lady!"

Bai Ruoli nodded.

Indeed.

That made perfect sense.

Not to mention Jun Jingyi-even she would certainly take action if someone dared do that to her benefactor.

The Li Family deserved it.

But she still kept feeling that something was wrong.

Outside, in Tianfu City.

The whole city was seething with indignation.

After hearing Jun Jingyi's story, the scholars were outraged and wrote pieces denouncing the Li Family.

Their family had no morals; they bullied men, preyed on women, and treated human lives like blades of grass.

Many women who already admired Jun Jingyi also spoke out to condemn the Li Family.

In an instant, the matter was thrust into the teeth of the storm.

The Li Family.

In the main hall, the head of the Li Family was beside himself.

Looking at his son kneeling before him, he dearly wanted to slap him to death, if only that would solve the problem.

That bastard had caused such enormous trouble for the family.

He knew the bastard usually liked to abduct common women, but he had taken into account that those women were people without power or influence.

As long as the aftermath was handled properly, it wasn't such a big deal.

As long as it kept this son from causing some other great disaster, he had turned a blind eye to it, believing that harmony in the family brought prosperity in all things.

But he had never imagined that this time...

"The Jun Family! That's the Jun Family!"

"Master, master, the authorities are here!"

"What?!"

Master Li froze, then stood up, but before he could say anything,

another person rushed in beside him, panic-stricken.

"Master, this is bad! Our shops have been surrounded!"

It wasn't over.

Only a moment later,

"Master, the Liu Family, who have always supplied us with goods, said... our Li Family isn't worthy of doing business with them. This..."

Master Li, who had just risen, lost his balance and fell back into his seat.

In an instant, he looked far more haggard.

After a long while, he finally laughed.

He laughed bitterly and murmured, "The Jun Residence, the Jun Residence..."

He still couldn't understand how a wild girl with a bit of beauty had ended up connected to the Jun Residence.

His Li Family's hundred-year foundation!

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Tianfu City.

Inside a residence.

"Have you looked into it?"

A young man sat upright in a chair, drinking tea. Beside him, a guard bowed. "Young Master, we've looked into it. Someone did see Jun Jingyi personally carry that young lady's body away and bury her."

Hearing this, the young man pursed his lips, at a loss for words.

The Li Family was connected to an important figure at court. It would not be an exaggeration to call the family that figure's purse.

He wanted to save the Li Family to curry favor with that person, who would be a very important source of support in the struggle for the throne.

But this matter just had to involve the Jun Family.

And it was the Jun Family's only son, the young marquis-to-be.

This...

After a long silence, the young man waved his hand. "Send an invitation to Young Marquis Jun. Tell him this prince invites him to a banquet."

He had originally come to Tianfu City because a female divine physician had appeared here, and he wanted to see whether her medical skills could cure him.

He looked sorrowfully at his legs.

The young man shook his head.

Yet before he had even met the divine physician, he had run into this.

He couldn't leave the Li Family to its fate, but he couldn't just offend the Jun Family either!

Honestly, he was also at a loss for words over that Li Family wastrel. The world was so big, Tianfu City was so big, so how had he managed to abduct a common woman who was connected to the Jun Family?

Honestly...

What a headache.

That bastard was utterly incapable of accomplishing anything, but more than capable of ruining things.