CHAPTER 28: CHAPTER 28: WHAT A BRAZEN FACE

Ruan Mian immediately followed. She touched her bracelet, thinking of taking some weapons from the space, only to find that the tiger had run out of the space on its own.

It sprinted like an arrow, pouncing with its paws, and the man was instantly pinned beneath it.

Ruan Mian ran up, grabbed the man’s hand with a reverse grip, and without hesitation, slit his throat.

At first, she had no intention to kill, just thinking about how to teach them a lesson and rescue the people and supplies.

But after discerning their identities, she naturally couldn’t let them go.

She searched the man, stripped him of all his loose silver, then turned to look at the fierce beast beside her.

It proudly lifted its head, nuzzling over as if seeking a reward.

Ruan Mian reached out and petted its head, and amidst its satisfied purring, she stored it back into the space.

Seeing the corpse of the man on the ground, Ruan Mian recalled the scene from the original book where these three villains slaughtered several government family members, and suddenly felt they were not worth pitying.

She even gave him a hard kick.

However, just when she was about to return to the cave, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind her.

"Mianmian!"

Ruan Mian slightly furrowed her eyebrows and, upon turning around, unexpectedly found Qi Nanfeng emerging from the bushes.

He was leaning on a cane, limping forward, his gaze towards Ruan Mian lighting up with an unusual glow.

"I didn’t expect you to be so brave. I always thought you were a sheltered young lady, no different from those cloistered girls, but now it seems, I never truly knew you."

Upon hearing these words, Ruan Mian squinted slightly, wondering if he had seen everything that just happened?

But... didn’t he see the beast?

While puzzled, Qi Nanfeng took a few more steps forward, saying seriously.

"Mianmian, why didn’t you show your courage sooner? I like unique women like you."

"It was my fault before, making you suffer and hide yourself to be a widow for me at the estate. Actually, I... still have feelings for you as a couple."

What a... big face, so much... so-called love as a couple!

Ruan Mian couldn’t help but laugh.

However, Qi Nanfeng continued, "If you’d been yourself sooner, I would have stayed with you before going south. Maybe if you’d had a child, you wouldn’t have suffered so much. Mianmian, why don’t we... reconcile as two families and have another child together?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ruan Mian swung a stone at his head without hesitation!

"Looks like your brain is damaged!"

She pulled out a dagger, ready to finish him off! But when the dagger touched him, it suddenly vanished.

Ruan Mian was shocked, could it be that I can’t kill this villain?

Not believing it, she took out another dagger and aimed for his chest, but the dagger disappeared again.

At this point, Ruan Mian laughed angrily, could it be because he is an important character in the original book that I can’t end him early?

Or perhaps without him, the plot wouldn’t progress, so she can’t personally finish him off now?

But other less important supporting characters, like Du Fei, she could take action against.

Ruan Mian couldn’t figure it out for the moment.

In that case, she decided to spare his miserable life for now and would thoroughly test him later.

She then returned to the cave to find that all the supplies from their group had been moved to the cave entrance, but there was no one to be seen around the cave.

Unbeknownst to her, Du Fei’s subordinates, upon seeing the boss and second-in-command brutally murdered in the cave, fled in panic and chaos.

Those guarding outside the Earth God Temple also scattered in fear.

Ruan Mian picked up the eldest sister on the ground, and was helping her when she suddenly awoke.

Seeing Ruan Mian’s face covered in blood, she burst into tears on the spot, disregarding her own danger: "Sister! Sister, why... why are you bleeding so much..."

Ruan Mian casually explained: "It’s not mine, it’s from those villains. Earlier, a passionate hero helped us, and now those two villains are dead."

Following her pointing direction, the eldest sister saw the blood-soaked bodies, and only then did her tense heart completely relax.

When her gaze moved to a certain spot, she hurriedly went over and untied a woman bound in the corner.

The bruised and swollen woman looked up with difficulty, and upon seeing herself rescued, tears welled up in her eyes.

Ruan Mian realized then that there was another poor woman here, but she hadn’t fainted earlier, didn’t she see the scene where I acted so ruthlessly?

Seeing this, she softly asked, "Madam, where is your home?"

The woman quickly knelt down, though fear was in her eyes, she remained unexpectedly calm: "Thank you, miss, for your help! My home is in Purple Cloud Village outside Hui City."

Hui City, isn’t that just where they’re passing through?

Seeing this, Ruan Mian simply led her and the eldest sister back to the Earth God Temple, as for the two siblings of the Qi Family, who cared anymore.

Seeing the two return safely, the family was overjoyed, but the bloodstains on Ruan Mian and bringing back an extra woman worried them.

She used the same excuse to dispel their doubts.

After untying everyone, she urged the woman to join her in changing into clean clothes.

The woman didn’t talk much and did whatever Ruan Mian instructed.

At such a moment, a woman was already in a difficult position, especially one at the bottom like her, not much different from exiled people like them.

She could be bullied by anyone with ill intentions at any time.

Presumably, she had been maliciously captured by Du Fei; seeing her clothes still intact, Ruan Mian was relieved to have saved her.

Any later, she might have met the same fate as the pitiful eldest sister in the original book.

Fortunately, in this life, none of them had to face that.

And since this woman was saved by her, Ruan Mian considered it fate.

So she patted her shoulder and handed the bottles of medicine she had just taken from the space.

"We will pass through Hui City, you can travel with us now, I will arrange everything with the Lord."

"As for these medicines, take them and apply them daily as instructed on the bottle to help the wounds on your face heal faster, after all, as a woman, the face should not be scarred."

Hearing this, the woman hurriedly knelt, tears falling in big drops on the ground: "I can’t accept!"

They were also pitiful exiles, in a tougher situation than her own.

Perhaps these medicines were even more important to them.

But Ruan Mian shoved them into her sleeve saying, "We may be exiles, but I have someone looking out for me, and we don’t lack a little medicine. I see that you’re not a bad person, I am willing to give it to you, if it were someone with ill intent, I wouldn’t hesitate to kill them!"

The woman’s eyes shimmered, and she profoundly bowed to Ruan Mian.

"Miss, your great kindness, I have no way to repay..."

Ruan Mian did this good deed without expecting anything in return.

However, when they finished changing and came out, they found Qi Lin running back in a daze, crawling and stumbling, her appearance now completely disheveled.