CHAPTER 2355: CHAPTER 2355: SNEAKING OVER TO SEE YOU

"Reporting to the master, she’s been staying here all along," the guard replied.

"Since she’s a capable person, bring her over to my side. You go handle it," Lu Tianfeng instructed.

"What?"

The guard was nearly stunned by his words.

Was his master resorting to desperate measures now? They didn’t even know who this woman truly was, yet he wanted to recruit her.

What if that person was actually a spy planted by the Commander’s Mansion?

"Master, we haven’t even investigated her identity yet. Wouldn’t it be rather risky to bring her in just like that?"

This time, regardless of whether he’d be punished, the guard knew he had to speak up. Otherwise, if trouble arose in the future, the master would end up blaming him anyway.

He definitely didn’t want to take the risk of bringing a spy into their circle.

"Isn’t investigating her your job?" Lu Tianfeng glared at him and demanded sharply.

"Understood, I’ll investigate immediately,"

The guard lowered his head, frightened, and responded.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t tried to investigate, but those individuals seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, giving him no leads at all.

This was precisely why he suspected the identities of those people, believing they might have been sent by Lin Baizhong.

After all, their appearance coincided precisely with Lin Baizhong’s return, and the timing of both groups was so suspiciously close that it was hard not to doubt.

...

Just as Lu Tianfeng was contemplating recruiting Lin Caisang and her companions, on the other side, the Mistress of the Ding Family was also restless.

Upon hearing that Lin Baizhong had returned, her first thought was to seek out the City Lord’s wife.

She wanted to plead with her to intervene, to ask Lin Baizhong for mercy and return her beloved daughter to her. After all, regardless of how grave her mistakes were, surely these days of suffering had been punishment enough?

However, the head of the Ding Family adamantly refused to let her seek out the City Lord’s wife.

Finally, after stifling her frustrations for several days, Madam Ding took advantage of her husband’s absence and secretly snuck out by herself, heading to the City Lord’s Mansion to find the City Lord’s wife.

"Elder sister, I truly have no other options left. My husband forbade me from coming to you, so I had no choice but to come secretly,"

Madam Ding sat across from the City Lord’s wife, tears streaming as she lamented.

"What’s wrong? Is my younger brother bullying you again?" The City Lord’s wife frowned slightly and asked.

In truth, her younger brother had always been kind-hearted and wouldn’t dream of bullying his wife.

Even though Madam Ding had only given birth to one daughter and had not provided a male heir to the Ding Family, even after he took a concubine and bore a son, he still prioritized Madam Ding and their legitimate daughter, Ding Rong, in all matters.

"No, no."

Madam Ding immediately shook her head when she heard her sister-in-law’s question.

"My husband would never bully me. It’s just... I haven’t seen Rong’er for so long, and I miss her terribly."

She carefully observed the City Lord’s wife, noticing her rosy complexion and healthy appearance—nothing like what her husband had described as frail and unable to withstand any stress.

If she’d known the City Lord’s wife was living so comfortably here, she would have come to her long ago to plead for her intervention in reclaiming her daughter from Lin Baizhong.

"Elder sister, you know I only have this one daughter. Although her infatuation with Lin Nian back then was reckless, ultimately it’s just a matter of young love and marriage—a perfectly natural thing.

Even if Lin Nian doesn’t reciprocate her feelings, he shouldn’t use this matter as an excuse to keep my Rong’er captive indefinitely, should he? Don’t you think so?"