Chapter 138: One Purpose, Two Pieces of News

In those days, it was no blessing for a young girl to be too well-known; it drew a swarm of men in pursuit, and that would have been fine if their intentions were merely ordinary admiration.

Ye Xiuling and the Ye family, however, had no idea they had provoked a local despot.

This "local despot" was a gang leader who ruled over the Jiangnan district during those chaotic times. He was a man of impulsive, hot-blooded youth;