Chapter 4: No Negotiations When It Comes to Trapping You

The next morning, the members of the Li family were shackled and driven out of the General’s mansion.

“She… she’s pregnant. Can we make an exception and not put shackles on her?” Li Yuan pleaded to the escorting officers.

“If she must wear them, then put them on,” the despicable father said, pointing at Li Mumu without a trace of guilt.

Li Mumu was furious, biting back a string of curses. How old did they think she was? If it weren’t for her father and his mistress rushing things and having Lin Siyen officially taken into the Li family as a secondary wife before returning home, she wouldn’t have to be exiled along with them.

But her father told her mother it was to protect Lin Siyen and the child in her womb. After all, his men had died saving him, and a woman with a child outside would have a hard life.

So, she was merely a nominal concubine.

Gu Yuru, thinking her husband was doing this out of gratitude, though still dissatisfied with the plan, couldn’t bear to let her husband be branded unfilial and cruel. She nodded in agreement.

Li Mumu stared at her ruthless father, vowing silently that she would make their exile anything but dull.

“Pregnant? It’s my seed, is it?” The man leered lecherously at Lin Siyen, who looked delicate and weak, fueling his desire to dominate.

Li Yuan frowned, anger making him forget his status. “Bastard, what nonsense are you spewing?”

But the officer didn’t waste words. A whip cracked against his face, and blood immediately seeped from his otherwise handsome features. “You think you’re still a general? How dare you talk to me like that.”

In the original story, the escorting officers hadn’t made things difficult for the Li family at first because they found a great deal of valuables in their home, but this time was different. Orders must have come from above.

“I…” Li Yuan was reluctant but remembered his identity. His arrogance immediately died down.

Li Mumu, who saw everything, wasn’t about to let the show end so easily. The day before, her despicable father had someone beat her eldest brother for speaking up for her.

Fifty lashes—that’s a brutal punishment. Even an adult man wouldn’t withstand it.

In the novel, the original Li Yun Zhao, eldest brother of the original owner, died within days due to untreated wounds and exhaustion.

The officer lasciviously grabbed Lin Siyen’s backside. She screamed, flailing her hands, while Li Mumu seized the moment and flicked a gold coin from her hand, making it appear as if it had fallen from Lin Siyen’s person.

“Stop!”

The officer bent down, picked up the gold coin, and smiled slyly. “Looks like the Li family isn’t completely empty-handed. You’re hiding things on you. Let me see what else you’ve got.”

The man had planned to make his move after leaving the city, but since there was a free woman to play with, he took this chance to humiliate the Li family and show loyalty to Lord Liang.

“Brothers, search them well. Don’t let them hide anything. I’ll make sure to report to Lord Liang for your efforts.”

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