"You instead like Shen Yuxue, who is famous in the city for being frivolous. She praises you a couple of times, and your heart follows her. Don't you think that those flirtatious words she can say to you today, she can say to other men tomorrow? Where have all your years of male virtue and male education gone?"
Yan Jiyue gritted his teeth: "So what? If I don't like someone, even if she's a heavenly fairy, I still won't like her."
Yan Zhujun was silent for two seconds: "It doesn't matter whether you like her or not. Hua Lu offended Su Mu. You will go to Luofeng courtyard tonight to apologize to Su Mu."
Su Mu's behavior today clearly showed that she was already dissatisfied with everyone in the Yan family. At this time, it was necessary to appease her well.
Initially, he had chosen Su Mu because she was capable but had no family background. With proper cultivation, she would definitely be able to help the Yan family rise to a higher level.
A chill suddenly appeared in Yan Jiyue's eyes, and he almost spat out a few words from his throat: "Fine, I'll go apologize to Su Mu in person tonight."
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Su Mu walked on the street, ignoring the criticizing and contemptuous gazes of people around her.
She came out with only one purpose: to find someone.
In her previous life, she had met Xie Yi, who was being sold by slave traders, a month after marrying Yan Jiyue.
Later, she learned that Xie Yi had a difficult life.
He was of mixed Central Plains and Western Regions descent, born on the frontier. Later, during the wars, his parents and siblings all died tragically, and only he survived by chance, only to be kidnapped by slave traders and brought to Juen City.
Before meeting Su Mu, Xie Yi had first been sold to a scholar's household as a slave.
Because he was too beautiful, he was envied by the wife-master, who believed he was a seductive fox spirit trying to tempt the scholar. She tortured him in various ways, even using a branding iron to brand the character for 'lust' on his body as humiliation.
This incident was a lifelong trauma for Xie Yi.
Now that Su Mu had been reborn, she was determined to change the course of this event and spare Xie Yi from the suffering he had endured in the past.
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Juen City was not actually very large; it was a small county town. But because it was far from the imperial court, it maintained relative isolation and independence.
There were only three scholar households in the entire city, and only one successful candidate in the imperial examinations, who was the current county magistrate.
Among these three scholar households, the one famous for having a fierce husband was the Li scholar's family.
Su Mu dared to go to the Li scholar's house. She hadn't even reached the front gate of the Li family when she saw a large crowd of people outside the back door, and most of them were men.
These men formed a small circle, and from the center of the circle, dirty curses occasionally reached Su Mu's ears.
She had a bad premonition in her heart. Pushing through the crowd of onlookers, she saw a middle-aged man in brocade clothes pulling on the collar of a frail young man.
"Let me show you all how this slut tried to seduce my wife-master. No wonder my wife-master couldn't concentrate on her studies these past few days, and even wanted to take you as a concubine. It's all because you, you little tramp, seduced her. Ptui! You filthy whore." The middle-aged man's expression was fierce as he tried to rip open the frail young man's thin collar.
The thin young man held onto his clothes tightly. In the struggle, his disheveled profile was revealed, covered in bright red handprints. It seemed he had already endured a beating earlier.
"Would any scholarly family want such a little slut? Would any of you dare to take him?" The middle-aged man asked the onlookers.
"So young and already seducing the master of the house. Who would want him? Our Zhou family certainly wouldn't dare," came a mocking voice from the crowd.
"Hehe, that's right. Who would dare bring a fox spirit home and disturb the peace of the household?" A husband nearby chuckled behind his silk handkerchief.
"Oh, he's from the Western Regions too. Men from there are best at singing, dancing, and all sorts of improper activities. Many of the top courtesans in brothels are from the Western Regions."
"Our family really had bad luck, buying such a little slut back home. Ptui!" The middle-aged man spat on his face with hatred. "First thing tomorrow, I'll find a slave trader to sell you off."
"No... not... didn't... seduce..." The young man pinned beneath him struggled to speak. His halting speech sounded strange and unfamiliar, as if he had just learned to talk. He was pressed to the ground by the middle-aged man, blood flowing from his forehead into his eyes.
"You little tramp, you dare talk back!" The middle-aged man was furious and delivered a resounding slap.
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