The Azure Continent.

In the center of the grand and austere ancestral hall of the Huo Li Kingdom's general mansion, there was a statue, its armor stripped away, clothed in tattered rags, lying on the execution platform like torn cloth. It was unclear whether it was dead or alive.

The servants outside the ancestral hall whispered indignantly, pointing at the young man:

"Is she dead? Is she dead? Did the young lady die?"

"It's best she's dead. After all, she has a fiance as talented as the third prince, yet at such a crucial moment, she does something so shameless. She deserves to be tortured and killed."

"That's right, what about Miss? The mistress said that Xiao Lingyun has disgraced the General's Mansion. Once the husband is found out, they will arrest Miss and take her back to the mansion!"

So noisy... so painful...

Xiao Lingyun gritted her teeth and opened her eyes in a daze, despite the excruciating pain that wracked her entire body.

Where are you now? Aren't you already dead, even your soul split in two?

Just as I finished thinking, a wave of unwelcome memories surged in, and Xiao Lingyun was pained to the point of losing consciousness.

His pupils dilated, and it took him a good while to react. It turned out he had somehow transmigrated his soul into another world...

The original owner, Xiao Lingyun, was the legitimate eldest daughter of the General's Mansion. Her biological mother had been divorced, and her biological father had been away fighting wars all year round, ignoring family affairs. She was bullied by her stepmother and half-siblings since childhood. Worse still, the original owner herself was an ugly and spiritless waste.

In this world where might makes right, the original owner's incompetence and birthright condemned him to a childhood filled with ridicule and bullying from others.

She was lucky, having an engagement with the current Third Prince. She was supposed to marry him in a few days, but who knew that this morning, she was found disheveled in a dilapidated temple. The Xiao family immediately brought her back and performed a family law interrogation to find out who was responsible. Unfortunately, the original owner...

Unable to withstand the blows, he was beaten to death. Upon waking up again, he became Xiao Lingyun, a renowned feng shui master from the 21st century!

"Big sister, don't keep defending that husband anymore. Mother will kill you if you do. Just apologize quickly."

A pear blossom with tears looked particularly pitiful as it appeared before her, yet Xiao Lingyun saw the disdain and smugness flashing in its eyes.

In a voice only the two of them could hear, he taunted Xiao Lingyun in her ear:

"What else are you going to do? Your son is already unkempt, Brother Tianyan wouldn't marry you again. I advise you to confess sooner rather than later, and maybe you can lessen your suffering."

This girl is truly the second young mistress of the Xiao family, Xiao Yueya.

The people could not hear their conversation, and they both proudly exclaimed:

"Our second young mistress is truly kindhearted. Xiao Lingyun did such a shameless thing and still pleaded for..."

"Our second young lady, to have a sister like Xiao Lingyun, is truly bad luck for eight lifetimes."

Xiao Lingyun sneered at those words, knowing that she had ended up in this situation because of Xiao Yueya, the second young mistress of the Xiao family.

"Yue Ya, come back! It seems the young lady hasn't repented yet. Bring me more men! Continue beating her until she admits her fault!"

A gentle yet authoritative voice belonging to a woman of standing came.

Xiao Lingyun raised her head and saw a woman in her thirties, dressed in lavish finery, sitting at the head of the table. She was Shang Liu, the stepmother of the Xiao family. The original owner's father was away fighting, so now the Xiao family was under Shang Liu's control.

"Yueya, sister, these despicable women like Xiao Lingyun are not worth your pursuit. Come back."

Another pleasant voice sounded, Xiao Lingyun turned her head to look at the man speaking from the seat below.

He was handsome, but when he looked at Xiao Lingyun, his eyes were filled with disgust. He was the original owner's fiance, the Third Prince.

Xiao Yueya stood up with a sorrowful expression, her eyes brimming with tears like autumn water. With a voice that was as soft as silk, she unwillingly addressed the Third Prince:

"Tian Yan gege…"

The Third Prince Li Tianyan also looked at Xiao Yueya with warmth in his eyes, a pampering smile on his face. He pointed to the side and said:

Come, come and sit down.

Between their gazes, a hint of ambiguity hung in the air.

Mrs. Xiao watched with great satisfaction the ambiguous interaction between Xiao Yueya and the third prince.

But when he looked at Xiao Lingyun lying on the torture rack, his eyes were filled with hatred. With a voice full of malice, he ordered:

What are you still doing standing there? Give me a good thrashing!

Two servants obeyed the order and were about to strike Xiao Lingyun.

Xiao Lingyun's face suddenly turned cold, and a hoarse, weak but powerful voice rose:

"Shangliu, you are audacious! Dare you bully even the eldest daughter of a prominent general's household?"

The house servant froze, allowing Xiao Lingyun to bear the excruciating pain and slowly stand up.

A flash of cold fury crossed Mrs. Xiao's eyes as she angrily said:

"Xiao Lingyun, what do you mean?"

Xiao Lingyun glared sharply at Shang Liu, letting out a cold snort:

"Oh, you wouldn't understand what I mean. What evidence do you have that I am unchaste? And you dare to torture the eldest daughter of a prominent general's family in private? Shang Liu, who gave you the guts?"

As the eldest legitimate daughter of the Xiao family's original wife, even though her biological mother was divorced, a concubine had to address her as "Madam" and couldn't privately punish Xiao Lingyun.

Shang Liu's expression changed, Xiao Lingyun looked different.

Isn't he usually timid and cowardly, shrinking before us and not even daring to lift his head?

"Elder sister, how could you treat mother like this..."

Beside her, Xiao Yueya looked on with pity, her eyes brimming with tears as she watched Xiao Lingyun in disbelief.

Seeing the Third Prince Li Tianyan in pain, he was filled with disgust and anger towards Xiao Lingyun, opening his mouth to speak:

"Xiao Lingyun, you stop! This right to live belongs to Lady Xiao given by this Palace!"

"Brother Tianyan..."

Xiao Yueya's face was filled with surprise and a deep look towards Li Tianyan. Li Tianyan also looked at Xiao Yueya dotingly, giving her an reassuring look.

Xiao Lingyun sneered in her heart. This pair of dog men had been secretly communicating for a long time. Only the original owner was too foolish and hadn't discovered it. Every time Tian Yan came to the Xiao residence, he never looked for the original owner, but instead found Xiao Yueya, who was born to Shang Liu, the concubine.

And today's play was precisely the trick they, along with Shangliu, had concocted.

As their wedding day approached, they were forced to marry the original owner. Li Tianyan disliked the original owner immensely and naturally couldn't bear to marry them.

So they drugged the original owner last night and took them to a dilapidated temple, where they had people take advantage of them so that they could capture them tomorrow. This way, they could legitimately break off the engagement and then get rid of the original owner. After that, the Xiao family would be theirs.

However, something unexpected happened. When I went early in the morning to catch him, there was only Master Chang lying somewhat bruised in a dilapidated temple. The person who had arranged to defile the original master because of the acne all over the original master's thin face, he still couldn't bear to do it, so he simply took the money and ran away.

There was no other way, so Shangliu could only resort to private torture, forcing the original owner to confess to having a husband.

Xiao Ling

With a mocking look in her eyes, Yun looked at Li Tianyan and said:

"Third Prince, you have such great authority. I wonder when the Xiao residence became yours? I shall go ask the Emperor when the Third Prince changed his surname to Xiao and gained the right to dispose of the eldest son of the Xiao family at will?"

Shang Liu's face turned dark. Xiao Lingyun actually compared him to a servant!

Li Tianyan's face sank. How dare Xiao Lingyun speak to him like that?

Before, the moment I got close, she would be stiff as a board, not uttering a single word. Now, how come she's become so sharp-tongued? Or is this her true nature all along?

Li Tianyan naturally couldn't admit that the Xiao Residence belonged to him, otherwise, he and his position as Crown Prince would be out of reach forever.

He angrily opened his mouth and cursed:

"Xiao Lingyun, you are utterly shameless. After being exposed and humiliated in public, you dare to justify yourself! Your unfaithfulness and promiscuity, according to the laws of Huoli Nation, deserve the death penalty by hanging. Why would I not have the right to punish you!"

Xiao Lingyun suddenly laughed and said:

"It turns out that wearing clothes that are not properly arranged means being unchaste..."

Xiao Lingyun's voice rose, and she suddenly reached out to tear off the outer garment from Bian Xiaoyeya.

"Ahhh! My clothes!"

Xiao Yueya suddenly felt a chill, discovering that her delicate shoulder was... She let out a sharp cry, covering her shoulders with both hands.

"Yue Ya, little sister!"

Li Tianyan's pupils constricted, and instinctively he embraced Xiao Yueya. He held her tightly in his embrace, preventing any further exposure to the spring breeze. His face contorted with anger as he said:

"Xiao Lingyun, what are you doing?"

Xiao Lingyun's eyes narrowed as she looked at Li Tianyan, a cold smile curling on her lips.

"The second sister is now unkempt and immoral. Besides, she openly cuddles with the third prince! Truly, the world is decaying."

(The End)