Chapter 584
The woman before him indeed had an entanglement with Cheng Dalei, but they did not have the kind of entanglement between men and women.
This Li Ru was originally the concubine of Su Ying's father, later promoted from concubine to wife. Based on Su Ying, she was probably Cheng Dalei's mother-in-law.
But the relationship between them was far from good. After the incident at Falling Leaves City, Li Ru's entire family was expelled from the city, barely surviving on their few acres of farmland. Not long after, the Rong Clan attacked and Falling Leaves City was brutally sacked. The rich and powerful who had received news in advance escaped towards the south; those unable to escape hid in the basements and forests. Those with no other options became the ghosts under the blades of the Rong Clan.
Most of Li Ru's daughters died in this disaster. She and her brother, Li Datou, managed to escape to Shajiaji in Qingzhou where they made ends meet by running a small tavern.
