Chapter 6: The Su Family of Yunye City

Su Yun was stunned. She pointed a trembling finger at Si Kongjing and shrieked, "You bastard, you sickly weakling, when did you recover your strength? How dare you hit my people?"

With a cold face, Si Kongjing took a step forward. "That’s not all. I dare to hit you, too."

However, just as Si Kongjing was about to lash out at Su Yun, Su Yueshi, having regained her senses, cried out, "Wait, don't hit her!"

Feeling his hand being held, Si Kongjing frowned, a look of confusion appearing on his face.

At this moment, the frightened Su Yun shouted again, "Fine, fine, fine! A fine pair of damned dogs you are. You’re dead meat! I’m going to report this to the Su family’s Law Enforcement Hall right now. Just wait to be severely punished!"

With that, Su Yun turned around quickly and ran away.

Immediately after, her maid and the thugs also threw out threats before turning to run after her.

Si Kongjing did not pursue them, because his hand was being held tightly by Su Yueshi. He asked in confusion, "Su... Yueshi, that woman was clearly targeting you on purpose. We should have taught her a harsh lesson."

He was born a commoner and had struggled on the edge of survival since he was a child; he had never been able to stand by and watch the weak being bullied.

After joining the Great Shang army, Si Kongjing had always intervened whenever he saw someone being mistreated, let alone the person before him—his wife, who had been taking such careful care of him for the past few days.

Su Yueshi shook her head vigorously. "We can't teach her a lesson. Su Yun is my second uncle's daughter. Beating her maid and servants can be smoothed over, but if you hit her, it will become a huge disaster."

Si Kongjing was even more puzzled by this explanation.

"Since she is your second uncle's daughter, why does she treat you like this?"

Shouldn't relatives look after one another? Especially such close kin.

Hearing this question, a gloomy cloud of sorrow filled Su Yueshi's eyes. She lowered her head and replied, "Because I am too ugly, and I have brought shame to the Su family."

Just because she was ugly, even her own relatives despised her?

Suddenly, Si Kongjing looked at the surrounding environment and asked, his body trembling slightly, "Judging by Su Yun's attire, your Su family shouldn't be poor. Why do you live in a place like this?"

The surroundings were filled with a foul stench, and the thatched hut was dilapidated, looking as if a gust of wind could blow it over.

This was no place for a young lady of a wealthy family to live.

Si Kongjing had originally assumed that Su Yueshi's background wasn't great, but since Su Yun was her cousin and had maids and thugs, the family certainly wasn't ordinary—they should have been quite wealthy.

Su Yueshi's eyes dimmed further. She replied softly, "Our Su family is one of the four great families of Yunzhou's Yunye City; we are naturally not poor... And I only moved here five days ago."

His body trembled slightly. Si Kongjing asked, "Five days ago? Because of me?"

Five days ago, he had been exiled to Yunzhou and designated as Su Yueshi's husband.

Su Yueshi had been thrown into this place five days ago; there had to be a connection.

Su Yueshi nodded, then immediately shook her head. "Not entirely because of you. The place I lived before wasn't very good either, but because I married you, I brought shame to the Su family once again, which is why I was ordered to live here."

Si Kongjing suddenly understood. He was an exiled criminal. Even if a young lady of the Su family—one of the four great families of Yunye City—was ugly, marrying a criminal was a disgrace that shamed the entire city.

Therefore, this was the Su family's punishment for Su Yueshi.

But how could they do this? Marrying him wasn't Su Yueshi's own wish, but an order from the Great Shang Emperor, Yan Tianmo.

"The root cause is still that I am too ugly," Su Yueshi lowered her head, her eyes filled with self-abasement.

Seeing this, Si Kongjing couldn't help but ask, "What about your parents?"

No matter how ugly she was, a daughter was still a daughter; they shouldn't let her be subjected to such abuse.

"They..."

Su Yueshi was about to answer, but was interrupted by a scream—it was the fierce woman lying on the ground.

"Miss Su Yun, this old servant is crippled! Help me kill that pair of dogs, Su Yueshi!"

At this moment, the fierce woman had regained consciousness; she didn't know that Su Yun had already left.

She continued to shriek, "Especially that sickly weakling! He cut my hands and feet! I’m going to sit on him and crush him to death!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Su Yueshi's expression changed drastically, and her eyes flickered incessantly.

Suddenly, a flash of firm, resolute sharpness crossed her eyes. She lunged at the fierce woman, pulled a dagger from her bosom, and stabbed it grimly into the woman lying on the ground.

But she seemed to have never killed anyone before; her hands were trembling violently.

"You ugly freak, what are you doing?"

Seeing this, the fierce woman screamed in a mix of terror and confusion, struggling wildly. "You actually want to kill me? You bastard! Miss Su Yun won't let you off! She will definitely kill you and your stinking man!"

Hearing this, Su Yueshi instinctively looked at Si Kongjing, her gaze becoming even firmer.

Her trembling hands stopped shaking, and the dagger in her hand plunged fiercely into the fierce woman's heart.