Jiaojiao is getting married, and the male leads fall for her and fight over her.

Chapter 64 You think I'd take responsibility for you?!

“I have no contact with my second aunt, and I have no old grudges with my fourth cousin. Why would I want to harm my fourth cousin?” Shen Shuyi said, trying to help Pei Beizhou unbutton his clothes.

Seeing that Pei Beizhou only frowned and did not shake her off, she quickened her pace and helped him take off his outer clothes.

She gasped when she saw the blood-stained undergarment.

Pei Beizhou had lost too much blood and was feeling dizzy. When he opened his eyes and saw Shen Shuyi's pale face, a surge of pleasure welled up inside him: "What, scared?"

Shen Shuyi was indeed afraid.

She had come from civilized society and had never been tainted by blood. But now she had no choice but to step back. With trembling hands, she unbuttoned his inner garment and saw the dense whip marks all over his body. She immediately realized that Pei Beizhou's injuries were probably the work of Second Master Pei.

It must have been Li who instigated it again, right?
Pei Beizhou is now a court official, serving in the Hanlin Academy. How dare Second Master Pei treat Pei Beizhou like this?

Pei Beizhou is powerful now, and should no longer be allowed to be tormented like this by Second Master Pei.

"Was it my second uncle who did it?" Shen Shuyi asked in a low voice.

Pei Beizhou answered with silence, and Shen Shuyi knew that he had tacitly agreed.

"Why doesn't my cousin fight back? Now that he's grown up and works in the Hanlin Academy, why is he still willing to be bullied by my second aunt and uncle?" Shen Shuyi asked, puzzled.

Pei Beizhou stared coldly at Shen Shuyi, his blood-stained hand gripping her snow-white chin as if staining a flawless piece of white jade.

He perversely admired his masterpiece, then answered irrelevantly, "Does my cousin think I'm pathetic?"

Shen Shuyi thought to herself, "What's so pitiful about the male lead? He'll become very powerful, Li Shi will die tragically at Pei Si's hands, and Pei Er Ye will be crippled by Pei Si."

Suddenly, she remembered that Aunt Zhao was suffering from a strange poison, and Li had threatened Aunt Zhao's life to prevent Pei Si from resisting.

Only after Aunt Zhao's poison is cured can Pei Beizhou act without any worries.

"Fourth cousin will become stronger and stronger in the future, he's not pitiful." Shen Shuyi rummaged through drawers and cabinets, found the wound medicine, and just wanted to help Pei Si apply the medicine and then leave this place of trouble.

Master Pei was truly ruthless. Pei Beizhou had whip marks all over his chest and back, and his body was covered with old wounds, which showed how many times Pei Beizhou had been abused in the past.

She tried her best not to get too caught up in the drama, but she couldn't help but exclaim angrily, "What kind of father is this? How could my second uncle be so cruel?!"

Such domestic violence should be punishable by imprisonment in a civilized society!
Pei Beizhou was feeling the girl's gentle, feather-like movements as she applied the medicine when he heard the sound. He opened his eyes and met Shen Shuyi's beautiful eyes, which were filled with anger.

In the entire Marquis's mansion, it seemed that only this woman would stand up for him. Of course, it was also possible that she was only pretending.

Seeing Pei Beizhou frown, Shen Shuyi thought she had hurt him: "Did I apply the medicine too roughly?"

Pei Beizhou felt a surge of irritation and didn't want to be with Shen Shuyi anymore: "Get out!"

Just then, the system came online: [Congratulations, host, on completing the task. The current task progress is 21%]

In the past, Shen Shuyi would stay away from the male lead as soon as she finished her mission. But seeing Pei Beizhou's wounds, she felt it would be better to apply medicine before leaving.

So that Pei Si doesn't die here and no one will collect his body. "I'll finish applying the medicine for my cousin before I leave. Cousin, please speak softly so as not to hurt the wound," Shen Shuyi said, speeding up the application of the medicine.

She noticed this as soon as she entered the North Garden. There wasn't a single servant in the North Garden, which must have been at Li's behest that no one was there to serve Pei Beizhou.

No wonder Pei Beizhou acted so extremely later on.

Pei Beizhou felt that Shen Shuyi was just crocodile tears and didn't appreciate it at all: "Shameless! You think that just because you've seen my body naked, I'll take responsibility for you? You can't seduce those three, so you've set your sights on me, right?"

Shen Shuyi quickly finished applying the medicine to Pei Beizhou, then stood up and said, "Judging from my cousin's condition, he won't die anytime soon. I'm leaving."

Although she did come with a mission, she didn't need to listen to Pei Beizhou's sarcasm here; it wasn't her fault that he ended up in this situation.

Only an incompetent man would anger others.

Pei Beizhou watched coldly as Shen Shuyi walked away without looking back, thinking to himself that he must have hit the nail on the head, which was why she was too ashamed to stay.

A-Jian, who was guarding outside, breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Shen Shuyi come out safely: "This servant saw someone secretly following her not far away."

"They are Xia Nianchu's people, no need to worry about them."

"If Miss Xia goes around telling everyone about your visits to the North Garden, it will damage your reputation," A-Jian said, expressing her concern.

"At most, she'll tattle to Li Shi. If this gets back to my grandmother, she'll definitely not let her off the hook. She's a smart woman, and she's after her cousins; she won't easily put herself in an awkward situation," Shen Shuyi said calmly.

As Shen Shuyi had expected, although Xia Nianchu had indeed intended to ruin Shen Shuyi's reputation, if the news reached the old lady's ears, the old lady might take the opportunity to make Pei Beizhou marry Shen Shuyi.

She hadn't expected Shen Shuyi to be so shameless, even going to Beiyuan that night. Since Shen Shuyi had seduced Pei Beizhou, her other cousins ​​certainly wouldn't let her off the hook either.

So it was on her way to Heshou Hall the next day that she met Pei Dongzhou and "took the opportunity" to mention the matter: "Yesterday, Green Willow saw Cousin Shen going in and out of the North Garden at night. This matter concerns the reputation of Cousin Shen and Fourth Cousin. I dare not tell anyone else, but I hope that Cousin Heir can keep an eye on Cousin Shen and prevent her from doing anything that would disgrace the Marquis's family."

Her actions were simply to let her cousin, the heir apparent, know how flirtatious Shen Shuyi was. She had failed to seduce him before, so now she had set her sights on her fourth cousin.

If the Crown Prince knew that Shen Shuyi was a womanizer, there would be no chance that he would be interested in her.

Upon hearing this, Pei Dongzhou looked at Xia Nianchu and said gently, "Does Cousin Xia spend all her time hiding under Cousin Shen's bed?"

Xia Nianchu immediately understood the sarcasm in his words and felt somewhat embarrassed.

Tears welled up in her eyes, and she said in a hoarse voice, "If it weren't for the reputation of the Marquis's mansion, I wouldn't have said anything. Does Cousin Heir think I'm meddling?"

Pei Dongzhou glanced at the woman hiding behind him out of the corner of his eye and said with a smile, "Cousin Shen, tell me, is what Cousin Xia said true?"

Shen Shuyi actually hid as soon as she saw Prince Pei and the female lead together, but Prince Pei still found her.

She couldn't hide any longer, so she had to show herself and reply: "Fourth Cousin was injured yesterday, and I brought him medicine. Cousin Xia spends all her time with Second Aunt, so she should know about Fourth Cousin being punished by Second Uncle. I don't understand why Fourth Cousin, injured like that, doesn't even have a servant to take care of him. Fourth Cousin is also a young master of the Marquis's mansion; is this how everyone in the mansion treats Fourth Cousin so poorly?"

Since the female protagonist felt that life was too peaceful and insisted on stirring things up, she simply laid it all out in the open.

(End of this chapter)