Liu Changning suddenly understood why the original host could endure wearing a green hat. It wasn’t weakness, but a humble self-redemption. She had taken this man called Yuanshao’s flamboyant debauchery as redemption.

A distorted personality, pitiful yet also sad.

And tracing back to the source of all this, it was all because of this couple before her eyes.

Although they hadn’t killed her, they had eroded her personality. This might be even more disgusting than murder.

Liu Changning rubbed her fingers, a flash of fierceness passing through her eyes, her entire aura suddenly changing. Although her head was lowered, the coldness around her increased rather than decreased.

Suddenly, a clap of thunder sounded in the sky, booming loudly.

Liu Zheng and Liu Tian were startled. Rain was imminent, the weather sultry, but at this moment, the two felt a chill all over, their right eyelids twitching incessantly, their palms already covered in cold sweat.

Tian glanced at his grand-niece leaning against the wooden door. Her head was lowered, her half-draped hair covering her facial expression. If one ignored her current cold aura, she looked completely dejected and dispirited.

Tian wiped the sweat from his forehead, pressed his tongue against his teeth, deliberately ignoring the sudden fear that arose in him, and curled his lips into an arrogant smile: “Grand-niece, your uncle isn’t asking for much. If you can produce five hundred taels of silver, I’ll return this indenture contract to you today. How about that?”

The yellowed contract paper in his hand rustled in the breeze. Getting no response, Tian wasn’t anxious. He stared fearlessly at his grand-niece leaning against the door.

Tian understood his weak grand-niece. Although she occasionally had some temper, she didn’t have much ability after all. No matter how angry she got, she could only compromise in the end.

They held her lifeline, thinking she couldn’t escape from his and his wife-master’s grasp.

Even though a wave of coldness was sweeping over his heart at this moment, Tian could still ignore it. It was a thunderstorm today, and it was normal for people to have illusions when their mood was unsettled.

He shook off the chill, his smile deepening, his eyes narrowed to slits gleaming with sharp light: “Your second aunt and I had hoped for your well-being. Now that you’ve married such a husband, it’s scandalous. His only use is his good looks. In my opinion, selling him to a brothel would fetch a good sum of money…”

Liu Changning was nauseated by such vile words. She suddenly raised her head, her tea-colored eyes flashing with cold light.

Tian, swept by such a sinister gaze, felt his courage falter and swallowed the rest of his unfinished words. But then feeling unwilling to give up, his voice unconsciously softened a bit: “If grand-niece is unwilling, so be it. But your husband has great abilities. With just a smile at noble ladies, he surely has plenty of silver. Niece, listen to your uncle’s advice. Don’t let wealth flow to outsiders. Go ask your husband for five hundred taels, and you can regain your free status in the future. It’s a profitable deal.”

“A deal?” Liu Changning stood up straight, walked down the steps, and approached Liu Zheng and her husband one swaying step at a time.

She lowered her head to glance at the indenture contract in Liu Tian’s hand, laughing in extreme anger: “You consider this a deal? That filthy, forcibly obtained indenture contract has been threatening me for so many years. Second Aunt and Uncle are truly good elders.”

Liu Changning was tall and slender, a good two heads taller than Liu Zheng and her husband. Now standing straight, looking down at the two, the pressure of the Merciless Dao Ancestor fell upon them.

The couple’s legs trembled. Liu Zheng’s face was already full of impatience. Although it wasn’t the first time she had seen her niece suddenly become domineering, her right eyelid kept twitching, and her legs involuntarily weakened, making her extremely irritable.

She darkened her face and snorted heavily: “Ill-mannered dog, hand over the five hundred taels of silver, and our aunt-niece relationship ends here today. If you don’t give it, I’ll sell you to human traffickers tomorrow… thing raised by a dog father, not worthy to enter my Liu family ancestral…”

Liu Zheng’s warning was only half-spoken when her body was kicked straight to the ground.

The change happened so quickly that Tian involuntarily screamed.

But unexpectedly, this grand-niece not only kicked over his wife-master but also raised her hand and slapped him across the face, fast, hard, and accurate.

Liu Changning rarely took action lightly. If she became angry, even if all the gods and Buddhas were before her, she would still strike without hesitation.

Although the original host’s personality had many faults, these two were the direct executioners who pushed her towards death, yet every word they spoke was an insult. The deceased was gone, how could she allow these two to trample on her memory?

They had already taken so much advantage, yet they were still insatiably greedy, going back on their word. Their disgusting faces made even an outsider like her feel a strong sense of disgust and anger.

Liu Changning moved extremely fast, her palms flying. Tian had no strength to fight back at all. Blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, his cheeks swollen, his whole person beaten sideways to the ground.

Liu Zheng, who had been kicked over earlier, now recovered, holding her abdomen and bending to stand up, making to pounce.

Unfortunately for her, the grand-niece before her seemed to have eyes in the back of her head. She raised her foot, her long leg exerting force, hitting Liu Zheng squarely in the abdomen. Liu Zheng was kicked over again.

The couple lay sprawled on the yellow earth outside the old house door, only moans and pleas for mercy remaining.

Liu Changning had OCD. She always struck only ten times, whether kicking and punching or stabbing with a sword.

After ten strikes, if they weren’t dead, she would let them off.

Due to years of pampered living and being influenced by socialist ideology, her former viciousness had been smoothed out. Otherwise, given the evil deeds these two had committed against the original host, using bare hands was already a mercy born of her smoothed edges.

After exercising her muscles and bones, the two middle-aged people on the ground could no longer even moan. Although they had only received ten strikes, the force was ten times ten. Now their faces were swollen, blood staining the corners of their mouths, in a sorry state.

“I thought you had some ability, but it seems you’re nothing special,” Liu Changning said calmly, leisurely wiping her dusty fingertips with a cloth.

Looking down, she met the hateful gazes of Liu Zheng and her husband. She bent down, leveling her gaze with theirs, clenched her fist, her joints cracking audibly.

She sneered: “It seems my force earlier wasn’t enough, leaving you two with energy to spare to look at people sideways.”