Ex-Wife is a Big Villainess
Chapter 440 - 231 Daughter Ye Zhuchan?_3

Chapter 440: Chapter 231 Daughter Ye Zhuchan?_3

"In... in the mistress’ room..."

The servant girl said with a trembling voice.

Hearing this, Jiang Shouzhong drew two pieces of information.

First, Mr. Xu Wenqing and his wife, Ms. Xu, did not have a good relationship.

Second, they slept in separate rooms.

"Where is the mistress’ room?" Jiang Shouzhong asked.

The servant girl, shivering, was about to speak when Jiang Shouzhong smiled and said, "To prevent you from deceiving us, you might as well take us there yourself. Rest assured, as long as you behave, I won’t hurt you. But if you dare to play any tricks..."

"Alright, I’ll take you there."

Feeling the chill in the air, the servant girl was almost in tears.

Li Nanshuang, watching from the side, couldn’t help but laugh.

It seems this guy still has the makings of a villain.

After crossing the corridor, they came to a secluded small courtyard with only one room inside and a vegetable patch planted in the yard.

"The mistress is resting inside," the servant girl said.

Seeing that the cottage was pitch dark, Jiang Shouzhong was surprised. "She’s resting so early?"

The servant girl replied, "The mistress always goes to bed early."

Jiang Shouzhong gave Li Nanshuang a knowing look.

The latter tiptoed to the window of the cottage and gently shook it open with her inner strength.

Just as Li Nanshuang pushed the window open a crack, she suddenly felt a shock of alarm and leaped backward with lightning speed.

A dark shadow burst out from the gloom.

Upon closer inspection, it was a slender snake, moving at an extreme speed.

"Leader!"

Jiang Shouzhong blurted out reflexively.

In an instant, Jiang Shouzhong felt the hand gripping the servant girl shaken by a surge of inner strength. Cursing inwardly, he hastily slapped the servant girl, but she slipped away like an eel, leaping to the front of the cottage.

Crack!

Accompanied by the sound of mechanisms, fishing nets appeared overhead in the courtyard from all directions, the nets laced with fine blades.

And on the blades, there was poison.

It could be called an inescapable net.

Li Nanshuang instinctively reached for the small snake flying towards her, but Jiang Shouzhong yelled, "It’s poisonous, don’t touch it!"

The girl maneuvered to the side and, with a flick of her foot, kicked a pebble off the ground at the snake.

The snake was smashed to the ground, turning into a puddle of corrosive blood.

"Not bad, you’ve got some brains."

The servant girl standing outside the net stared at Jiang Shouzhong with a smile beaming in her eyes.

Jiang Shouzhong stood with Li Nanshuang beside him, looking at the sprightly woman in front of the door, and said coolly, "Ms. Xu, what an intricate trap you’ve set; you deceived us."

"Ms. Xu? What Ms. Xu?" the woman asked with a smile.

Jiang Shouzhong revealed a smile, "A mere servant girl wouldn’t possess such skillful agility, nor would she be familiar with the traps in this courtyard. And this courtyard must undoubtedly belong to Ms. Xu. Hence, you must be Mr. Xu’s wife."

Li Nanshuang was quite astonished.

So this woman was the mistress of the Xu Family manor.

She had put on quite a convincing act on the way here.

"Tell me, who sent you here, and what are you doing at the Xu Family manor?" The woman asked, cutting to the chase.

Jiang Shouzhong bowed and said, "My apologies for the offense earlier, Ms. Xu. Today, we came to the Xu Family to inquire if someone recently had borrowed the ’Domineering Sword’ and whether the ’Domineering Sword’ is still in the mansion?"

Ms. Xu narrowed her phoenix eyes, "So you’re here to seize the Domineering Sword."

Jiang Shouzhong shook his head, "Not to seize, just to confirm. It would be even better if we could see it with our own eyes."

Ms. Xu scoffed, "Do you think I would believe that?"

Jiang Shouzhong was about to speak when Ms. Xu said indifferently:

"Here’s the deal, I believe my pet dog must be hungry. Seeing that girl full of vitality, she must be tender and soft. If she sacrifices an arm to feed my dog, perhaps if I am in a good mood, I’ll let you have a look at the Domineering Sword, how about that?"

Jiang Shouzhong’s face darkened, "Do you really think you can trap us?"

"Little dog, it’s time for dinner," Ms. Xu called out.

"Woof woof~~"

With the sound of a dog barking, a dark figure crawled out from the shadows.

It darted through the fishing net unscathed and stood in front of Jiang Shouzhong and the others.

Upon seeing the "little dog," the two were so startled they were at a loss for words—the figure was actually a man.

A completely naked man.

Only a piece of rag wrapped around his groin.

The man’s skin was dark, and he crouched on all fours, with disheveled hair and filthy features that were quite chiseled, staring at them coldly.

If he were cleaned up and stood up, he would be a tall and robust man.

"Woof woof~~"

The man barked twice, sniffed with his nose, and his turbid gaze fixed on Li Nanshuang.

Even Li Nanshuang, who was usually fearless, felt goosebumps rise on her skin, feeling as if she were a delicious dish on the dinner table in the man’s eyes.

"Such delicious food, why not enjoy it quickly?"

The woman chuckled.

Swoosh!

The man leapt forward, pouncing toward Li Nanshuang.

Jiang Shouzhong was about to step in front of Li Nanshuang, but the girl preemptively struck, transforming her slender hand into a fist, soaring like a dragon, and launching directly at him.

But just as her fierce fist was about to collide with the man, he vanished momentarily.

He had shifted his stance in a flash.

The swift and elusive man suddenly changed his target, charging toward Jiang Shouzhong, a soft sword appearing in his hand.

So fast!

Jiang Shouzhong’s pupils constricted.

In the blink of an eye, the sword tip was near, the skin feeling the chill of the approaching tip, almost freezing to the bone.

In that critical moment, Jiang Shouzhong drew his Spirit Water Sword from his waist, executed the Greedy Life Swordsmanship, and avoided the otherwise unavoidable sword strike, creating some distance between them.

"Woof woof!"

The man’s eyes gleamed sharply as he attacked again with his sword, the sword shadows so fast they dazzled the eyes. The air around seemed to be sliced, creating a continuous sharp noise.

And Jiang Shouzhong, calm and composed, used the Greedy Life Swordsmanship to defuse each attack.