As time passed, the two sets of memories and identities fused more and more seamlessly. She didn’t know when it started, but she truly began to see herself as Dong Dabao. "Now you’re bullying my Dong family again, slapping my little brother. What exactly are you relying on? Stirring trouble and running wild time and again, if I’m considered a monster for being strong and growing slowly, could I also say that you are a Mountain Demon in disguise? After all, someone as troublesome as you is rare indeed! Besides, let’s not even talk about whether I’m really a monster, even if I were, what evil did I do when I was a child? You blame me for natural disasters, have you ever thought about the dangers of rumors!" Old Lady Cui was so taken aback by the retort that she couldn’t speak. Suddenly, Cui Dong looked at the stunningly beautiful young woman in front of him. She carried herself with a grace that was nothing like that of a rural villager. "You are... Dong Dabao?" Dong Huiying slightly raised her eyelids but couldn’t be bothered to respond. At this moment, Old Lady Cui regained her senses and charged forward, wanting to slap Dong Huiying as well. Dong Huiying was about to react when someone suddenly stepped in between them. Liang Zhichen gripped Old Lady Cui’s arm with a grip like iron tongs, his expression extremely cold. He had long known that Dong Huiying had been missing for ten years, and now facing the culprit, his anger was unimaginable. He felt sorry for Baobao’s ten years of wandering and could not bear the thought of Baobao having suffered from Gu Poison, the root cause of which seemed to be right in front of him. "Human hearts can be so malicious and venomous. How dare you still throw tantrums here!" "Who is this young lad? When is it your turn to speak!" Liang Zhichen threw Old Lady Cui’s arm away coldly, "My unworthy surname is Liang. The Dong family girl whom you sold to the human trafficker is my fiancée!" "Oh, look at this little monster, she’s all grown up and even found herself another monster. So tall and burly, not a hint of gentleness that a man should have. Ha, no wonder they say ’birds of a feather flock together!’" "Shut your mouth!" Dong Huiying suddenly shouted. "You are way too arrogant!" She glared at Old Lady Cui. She did not want to be protected all the time, even though her brothers were unlike other men in Dayuan who revered their wives and groveled before them, pushing all the dirty and tiring work onto the women... But she could not just rely on Liang Zhichen’s kindness to her, let herself be defended without stepping up, let him be verbally trashed by an old woman. "Since you call me a monster, why don’t I see a hint of fear in you?" She spun around on the spot and spotted a brick as big as a human fist. She picked it up and with a snap, crushed it instantly. "You’d better watch that filthy mouth of yours, or I can’t guarantee that if you provoke me too much, your annoying head won’t end up brick." Old Lady Cui was scared witless. She used to bully the Dong family partly because she had a powerful backer and partly because she knew the Dong family would not stoop to her level. But looking at the shattered brick in the "little monster’s" hand, she began to feel apprehensive. At that moment, Old Lady Cui’s son, Cui Dong, suddenly said, "How presumptuous!" A glint of greed flickered in his eyes. "Presumptuous!? Who are you saying is presumptuous?" Dong Huiying gave him a cold glance, and Cui Dong felt a mysterious fear. But then he remembered his brother marrying into The officer’s family, and he felt reassured. "Dong Dabao! You slapped my mother and spoke rudely to her. I see that the Dong family has a large courtyard that has three entries and exits. If you transfer that courtyard to the Cui family’s name, I will no longer hold today’s events against you. But if you don’t recognize what’s good for you and continue to refuse to repent, don’t blame me, Cui Dong, for being ruthless!"
