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As the two servants carrying Ling Zhang passed by a corner, they brought Ling Zhang to another direction. They weren't really going to send him to the room to rest.

They brought Ling Zhang to the garden at the back of the Main Hall and roughly threw him on the ground. It was extremely painful to fall at the rough stone floor, because Ling Zhang's left arm was cracked on the back of his hand due to being at the bottom.

"Tch, he didn't even wake up after so much effort. It seems like he really fainted."

"Ling childe, Ling childe!"

"Stop shouting, quickly take off his outer clothes."

The two of them roughly took off Ling Zhang's outer clothes, loosened his collar, untied his belt, and finally held his hand and placed it on a smooth and warm object.

Ling Zhang's finger twitched almost imperceptibly, the sensation under his hand caused him to recall an extremely bad memory, and he almost couldn't suppress the nausea in his mind. However, he was still able to control his physical reaction with great self-control derived by the fury and hatred.

"Alright, let's hurry back and report to the young master."

The two people quickly left. Although Ling Zhang had his eyes closed, his hearing was very sharp.

Hearing the sound of the two people's footsteps faded away completely, he suddenly opened his eyes. He quickly retracted his hand and sat up, then desperately rubbed his hand against the grass by the side of the road to wipe it clean. His cold gaze swept the surroundings and finally landed on the unconscious girl beside him.

Her face was rosy, and her body was covered with traces of lovemaking and unsightly filth. Her clothes were all over the place, revealing her naked body.

Ling Zhang only took a glance before quickly looking away and his heart was filled with a suffocating rage.

This woman was Jia Yuanling's stepmother and also a young dancer. Because of her graceful figure, Jia Yin, Jia Yuanling's father, had taken her into his family and doted on her a lot.

In his previous life, he was a guest of Jia family after the coming of age ceremony, during when he drank too much, went out to heat up, and accidentally fell into sleep in that pavilion. God knew how long he had slept there. After waking up, he returned to Jia Yuanling's courtyard in a daze, and was stuffed with a bowl of the so-called Decoction for Waking Up Wine and became unconscious.

The next time he woke up is by a splash of cold water. Lying with this woman, her screams and the curses of the people around him had pierced his eardrums. The scene was so chaotic that it was all a nightmare now that he thought about it.

No one believed that he hadn't done anything. The only woman who could return his innocence was silent, and then, he was taken away by the Jia family. When he heard that she had died, so what? He had already become the target of ridicule in the entire Tan Yang, the dirty water on his body couldn't be washed clean no matter how.

His uncle's good luck of being promoted was gone, his grandfather was humiliated, and the Ling Family became the laughingstock of the entire Tan Yang in one night because of it.

What was even worse was that one incident after another happened in Ling Family from then on. His uncle's job went awry for making mistake on the business. The paintings that His grandfather had once helped people appraise and confirm suddenly turned into fakes and his reputation plummeted.

The last time was that Ling Family was falsely accused of colluding with bandits.

Lu Family in Tanyang was killed overnight, everyone in the family was murdered. All of the treasures were looted. When the officials investigated the scene, they found his uncle's jade pendant, and confirmed that the Ling Family had colluded with bandits to murder everyone in the Lu Family.

At this critical moment, his grandfather revealed his engagement to Capital's Yuwen Family and took out the marriage certificate.

This marriage certificate shocked everyone, allowing Ling Family to relieve.

Even though Ling Zhang himself was shocked at the marriage agreement, he could not afford to think too much about it. He had to take this chance to investigate the truth of the Lu Family's murder.

Unfortunately, what even faster than his discovering the truth was a marriage annulment certificate from the Capital. This marriage annulment certificate became the last stone that could overwhelm the entire Ling Family.

The officials were no longer worried as the Ling Family was convicted.

Dozens of Ling Family's men were tied up in the sun and died in the open area outside the city.

Because of resistance, his legs were broken and he was thrown into the burial pit outside the city.

Until now, Ling Zhang still remembered his uncle's last words, "that is no justice in the world!"

He said that the death of the Ling Family was because they had stood in the way of some people.

What happened later proved his uncle’s words. after he was thrown into the deep pit of the unmarked grave, he heard the executioners at the top of the hole say with a tone of watching a good show that the Ling Family's family property had been taken over by various families, and his uncle's official position was replaced by Jia Yuanling's uncle, Jiazhong

Thinking about it, Ling Zhang suppressed all of his emotions, he stood up, tidied up his clothes, and looked down at dancers, wanting to find some clues that would lead him to a real adulterer. But other than the dancer’s own items, there was nothing else, everything was taken care of cleanly.

However, Ling Zhang slowly revealed a cold smile and took out a jade pendant. This jade pendant was very precious and had the word "Ling" carved on the front of it. He put it in the dancer’s hand.