Yu Ning, hearing Wu Yan insult her master, rushed over and grabbed Wu Yan by the collar. She spoke in a cold, measured tone, “Take back what you just said.”

“What, what do you want to do?” Wu Yan broke out in a cold sweat from Yu Ning’s gaze. This child used to be so easy to bully at home. Every time she hit or scolded her, even pouring hot water on her, denying her food, or putting her most hated mice in her shoes, Yu Ning never fought back. After spending two years on the mountain, she seemed like a different person.

“Big Sister! How can you treat mom like this! Mom is telling the truth!” Yu Zihan covered her mouth.

“Uncle Lin, look ~ Miss Yu is so scary. She’s actually laying hands on the mother who raised her~~” Jia Qingqing shook Lin Anbang’s arm.

Lin Anbang was shocked by the scene before him. Yu Ning’s movements were too fast; in the blink of an eye, she had already rushed out.

“Yu Ning! This is the Lin family! Do not act presumptuously in front of your elders!” Lin Anbang adopted a patriarchal stance. If this wild girl still wanted to enter the Lin family’s door, she should know not to defy him!

“Shut up, all of you.” Yu Ning ignored the chattering crowd. Her icy eyes stared directly into Wu Yan’s.

“Take back your words and apologize to my master.”

“I’m sorry,” Wu Yan, frightened by the terrifying murderous intent emanating from Yu Ning, apologized without thinking.

Only then did Yu Ning let go, reverting to her indifferent attitude toward everything.

“Outrageous!” Lin Anbang turned to complain to the elder Lin. “Grandmother, you saw it too. This girl is too wild. At the slightest disagreement, she resorts to violence. How can we entrust Ah Zheng to such a woman? It’s too dangerous.”

“Please, Great-Grandmother, stand up for my mother!” Yu Zihan took a few steps forward and knelt down.

“Heh.” Yu Ning rolled her eyes. Another one using their trousers to clean the floor? It seems the floor in this Lin family mansion is lacking trousers in its five elements. Why else would everyone be so eager to kneel?

“What do you mean by standing up for her? You were the ones who insulted her master first. As the saying goes, a master is like a second parent. Respecting one’s master is a fundamental principle. What did she do wrong?” the elder Lin asked.

“Great-Grandmother, you don’t know. Her master is indeed a licentious Taoist, not a decent person! I heard that when he was young, he flirted with a rich girl and almost got her pregnant. You tell me, how can such a vile Taoist exist?”

Wu Yan added fuel to the fire, although the part about almost getting the girl pregnant was something she made up.

“Oh?” The elder Lin squinted.

Yu Ning was ready to punch someone again. This time, for real.

“Little Ning, what do you think?” the elder Lin asked Yu Ning.

“I cannot comment on the matters of elders. However, my master is a Daoist of the Zhengyi sect, and he is allowed to marry. Even if there was a rich girl, it would be his private matter and not something for these lowlifes to gossip about.”

Taoists are not monks; Wu Yan and her daughter, being uncultured, did not know that not all Taoists are forbidden from marriage.

“Don’t argue sophistry! That old man is indecent! You, as his disciple, are no good either!” Wu Yan pointed at Yu Ning and scolded.

“Grandmother, such a person cannot enter our family. Ah Zheng hasn’t woken up yet. What if she is as unscrupulous as her master?” Lin Anbang found another reason to dislike Yu Ning.

“If she is like her master, I would be relieved.”

“Why?” Wu Yan asked foolishly.

Madam Lin, who had been watching silently, suddenly had a bad premonition.

The elder Lin sneered. “Because I am the rich girl you speak of.”

Wu Yan and her daughter were dumbfounded.

A minute later, Wu Yan and her daughter were thrown out of the Lin family mansion by bodyguards. Wu Yan even rolled off her wheelchair, finally realizing the stupidity of what she had just done! She had gone straight to the person involved to speak ill of them! She had even slandered the elder Lin, saying she almost got pregnant!

Thinking of this, Wu Yan shivered. She had thoroughly offended the elder Lin! Would the elder Lin destroy her husband’s company?

The more Wu Yan thought about it, the more frightened she became.

Yu Zihan, however, did not realize the severity of the situation. She climbed up from the ground and saw a small black cat. The cat had been inside the mansion and was thrown out with Wu Yan and her daughter when discovered by the bodyguards.

Yu Zihan felt that the little black cat’s gaze looked familiar, as if it saw her as a foolish and filthy thing—wait, wasn’t that the way Yu Ning always looked at her?

Yu Zihan picked up a stone and threw it hard at the black cat. The cat was hit solidly on the head, stumbled, and fell to the ground.

Yu Zihan walked over and kicked the black cat, venting her anger from the Lin family on the innocent cat.

“Damn Yu Ning! Damn wild girl! How dare she!”

Yu Zihan kicked the black cat into the nearby flower bushes.

“Mom, what should we do now? How do we get down the mountain? Do we have to walk?”

They had come up by helicopter, enjoying the beautiful scenery of Mount Sanqing. But it was easy to go up and hard to come down.

“Girl, what are you looking at?” The elder Lin had dismissed those she disapproved of, taking only Yu Ning upstairs.

The third floor was Lin Zheng’s private domain, usually off-limits except for cleaning staff.

Yu Ning stood by the corridor window, looking towards the gate.

From this angle, she could see Wu Yan and her daughter outside the courtyard, obscured by shrubs, unable to see the black cat being beaten by Yu Zihan. But she could feel that the black aura around Yu Zihan and her mother had intensified—what had they provoked?

Just at the moment of leaving, it felt like the ill fate of this unlucky mother and daughter had deepened.

“Nothing.” Yu Ning withdrew her gaze and respectfully replied to the elder Lin.

Since learning that the elder Lin and her master might have had an unforgettable past, Yu Ning’s attitude toward the elder Lin had become increasingly respectful.

The third floor was spacious, about five hundred square meters, as large as a luxurious presidential suite.

Passing through several unknown rooms, they finally reached Lin Zheng’s bedroom.

The elder Lin opened the door, and Yu Ning immediately saw the man lying on the bed.

He was connected to many tubes, sustaining his life.

This was the man who supported the entire Lin family’s economic lifeline, Lin Zheng.

Yu Ning followed the elder Lin to the bedside, gasping when she saw the man.

Not because he was handsome—though he was indeed handsome.

But to someone like Yu Ning, who was born a physiognomist, handsome men were no different from skinned piglets.

What made her gasp was this President Lin’s extraordinary physiognomy.

“I understand.” Yu Ning muttered to herself.

She finally knew why the Lin family’s villa was a massive formation! The reason lay with President Lin!