For those people, Zhang Xiaoying made it crystal clear to them: if they harbored intentions like they did with Li Lanlan, their ends would not be much different. They should not covet the wealth and honor that did not belong to them!
Some gave up, while others did not.
Yu Yang and his two companions, however, were well aware of this, and they always kept their distance from the village girls, barely speaking more to them than necessary.
Over time, the young women with thinner skins understood their intentions and no longer approached them.
Those who harbored wild hopes were simply not the calculating sort that aspired to climb up the social ladder, and were not to be feared.
Zhang Xiaoying had recounted the events of the recent period succinctly.
Qin Yujun felt somewhat relieved.
