Prince Ling flicked his sleeve forcefully and returned to his manor with an irritated expression.
"Hey, wait!" Han Jing called out. "Your beauty here is injured! Her hand is going to be paralyzed if you don't rescue her. Don't blame me when that happens!"
Han Jing bent down and grabbed onto Han Yan's hair when she was least expecting it. She relaxed her feet, exerting force on her arm to hurl her up to the riverbank.
"Ah!" Han Yan let go of Han Yuxiao from the excruciating pain, causing Han Yuxiao to fall back into the water. Fortunately, Han Yuxiao already regained her consciousness from the cold, and she stabilized herself in the water before crawling up the riverbank.
Prince Ling turned around after hearing Han Yan's agonized cry and saw Han Jing grasping her hair. His eyes got even redder with fury, and he shouted, "Han Jing, this is too much!"
Han Jing let go of Han Yan's hair in disgust and met Prince Ling's fiery gaze with a sneer, "So what?"
She was acting too much. 'So what?'
Prince Ling pointed at Han Jing with rage, "You!"
Han Jing curved her lips in a flaunting smile.
"I'm going to bully whoever you favored. What's the matter? Can't I do that?"
Prince Ling was speechless—he did not know how to reply to the sinister woman in front of him. However, he felt uneasy from her words.
"Alright, I had enough fun for today. We'll continue another day!" Han Jing clapped and called Dong Bao, "Let's go!"
She resented him for the slap!
Suddenly, Han Yuxiao, who climbed to the riverbank, shouted to Han Jing, "Han Jing, stop right there! I'm not letting you off easily! By the way, how did it feel to be defiled by a beggar? Hahaha! I told you that Brother Ling will never be interested in you! You're tainted now, so stop dreaming of getting married to Brother Ling!"
Han Yuxiao was burning with rage. She could not be bothered about anything else and blurted about Han Jing getting tarnished from the previous night.
Han Yuxiao and Han Yan stopped Han Jing outside Ling Manor when she was looking for Prince Ling that morning. Then, Han Yuxiao beat around the bush and told her that Prince Ling had been drinking with her brother in Han manor the whole night and only returned after sunrise. She lied that they came to visit Prince Ling out of worry before meeting Han Jing there unexpectedly. The naive Han Jing became unsettled and emotional, providing an opportunity for them to trick her and make her fall into the water when she was not paying attention.
Han Jing's inability to swim was a well-known fact in Hanjing City. She would most certainly drown if she fell into the water. However, Han Yuxiao did not expect Dong Bao to rush over so soon, saving Han Jing in the nick of time.
Han Yuxiao was fine with Han Jing surviving, but she hurt her! Han Yuxiao could not think straight—swearing to wreck Han Jing's image by letting the whole capital know that she was tarnished by a beggar! She wanted to see how would Han Jing face the world after this.
Dong Bao bent down and slapped Han Yuxiao on the face.
"Shut up!" she yelled. "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Dong Bao was actually unsure of what happened because Lady Han went outside by herself while she was not paying attention last night. She searched for her, but Han Yan stopped her and said that Lady Han went away to look for Princess Yi Feng.
Dong Bao rushed outside the city as she had always known that Lady Han was unpredictable; it was not her first time doing something like that.