<h4>Chapter 4: Corporal Punishment in the Family: Horrible Father, You Have Done Well to Hit Her</h4>


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    “Kneel down!”


    Ye Jiuge’s gaze was cold, as if a chilly breeze blew past.


    Pang! Hong Liu kneeled immediately.


    Ye Jiuge was preparing to interrogate the maid, when she overheard a few scoundrels


    hiding in the crowd trying to add fuel to the fire.


    “Rumors have mentioned that Ye Jiuge is arrogant and tyrannical. I can’t believe that it


    is really true. If she dares to abuse her maid in public, we can never imagine how cruel


    she must be in private.”


    “That’s right. I think...”


    Before the scoundrel could finish speaking, he felt a pain in his waist as he collided with


    the Ye residence’s main door with a bang.


    Ye Jiuge kicked each of them, one by one heaping the scoundrels into a pile.


    Hong Liu widened her eyes and looked fearfully at Ye Jiuge, whose entire body was


    radiating murderous energy.


    Is this still the cowardly and extremely spineless Eldest Miss?


    After Ye Jiuge finished dealing with the scoundrels, she turned her head to look at Hong


    Liu and yelled, “Speak! Who was it that actually directed you to ruin my reputation?”


    Her gaze zed with the sharpness of a lightning bolt, and her aura, simrly, was like


    a de. She radiated with imposing terror, as if she were Princess Iron Fan, descended


    to the mortal realms.


    Hong Liu trembled all over with fear. She almost spat out the truth. However, she


    thought about Second Miss’s way of handling things and snapped out of it immediately.


    Stubbornly, she wanted to lie and falsely incriminate Ye Jiuge.


    At that moment, a pair of strange purple irises suddenly appeared inside Ye Jiuge’s


    pitch ck eyes. They emanated a faint glow, simr to that of a demon hiding in the


    dark of night.


    Hong Liu looked at these irises, and her soul was immediately pulled in. She stared


    nkly and opened her small lips. She couldn’t help but speak the truth: “It was Second


    Miss whomanded me to bring some people along to use you falsely. She was


    the one who hired these scoundrels. She said that she wanted topletely sully your


    reputation and spread your tainted name far and wide!”


    There was an uproar in the crowd. The mastermind who had orchestrated all of this


    was, unexpectedly, the Second Miss of the Ye n. The truth was too scandalous!


    As the public was sharing their opinions on the matter, the main door of the Ye


    residence abruptly opened. A team of guards dragged the scoundrels and the kneeling


    Hong Liu away from the entrance.


    Then, a middle-aged man wearing a blue brocade robe emerged.


    He had a handsome appearance—a high-bridged nose and an imposing look. This man


    was Ye Jiuge’s father, Ye Yuxuan.


    He looked at his daughter, who had not returned homest night. He did not feel any


    tenderness or relief; instead, he exploded loudly at Ye Jiuge, pointing his fingers at her


    and shouting, “You—an evil, good-for-nothing daughter—have the gall to return!”


    Ye Jiuge smiled coldly in her heart. In a situation where his daughter had not returned


    for a night and then reappeared in such a miserable state, he had nothing to say other


    than this?


    Not only that, Ye Yuxuan had not appeared sooner, but at the exact moment when


    Hong Liu was confessing the truth about Ye Shanshan having harmed her. Wasn’t that


    such a coincidence!


    “Why haven’t youe inside yet? Stop being a disgrace out here!”


    Ye Yuxuan pointed to a small side entrance. It was the passageway used by the


    servants when they needed to exit and enter the Ye residence.


    “Your daughter does not know how she is supposed to enter the residence. Father, why


    don’t you show me, since you once foisted yourself upon the Yun n?” sneered Ye


    Jiuge.


    The penniless Ye Yuxuan had married into the Yun n. His cultivated elixir knowledge


    and skills had been entirely funded by the Ye n’s wealth—when she was born, Ye


    Jiuge’s surname had been Yun. Then, her grandfather had disappeared, and Ye


    Yuxuan had used the opportunity to cajole Ye Jiuge’s mother into changing the Yun


    residence to the Ye residence and even asked her to change her surname.


    But these name changes did not change the fact that everything that Ye Yuxuan


    possessed belonged to the Yun n! And Ye Jiuge was the only direct descendant of


    the Ye n.


    “You are so shameless. You went out and fooled around the whole night. I do not know


    what kind of improper man you have hooked up with that you now dare to return and


    scheme after my assets!”


    Ye Yuxuan’s face was ashen, and his gaze was fierce, like he wanted to swallow Ye


    Jiuge whole.


    The thing that he detested most in life was when someone mentioned how he had


    married into the Ye n. Every time, he was forced to recall how inferior he had been


    back when Ye Tianwei was able to step all over him.


    “Ye Yuxuan, even if you are my father, not even you can nder me in such a malicious


    manner. You keep mentioning that I have hooked up with an improper man. Shouldn’t


    you bring him forward?”


    Ye Jiuge’s beautiful gaze emanated a coercive light.


    Her clothes were covered in blood, simr to a phoenix bathed in fire. The aura that was


    bursting from her body was making the people around her palpitate uncontrobly.


    Ye Yuxuan waspletely silenced by Ye Jiuge’s questions. He was simply defaming


    her, so where was he going to find this improper man? At the same time, he was also


    not going to allow this unfilial daughter to defy him!


    Ye Yuxuan pointed his finger at Ye Jiuge and wanted to continue to insult her, but she


    cut him off. “I, Ye Jiuge, have acted honorably. I am not like your ‘good’ daughter, Ye


    Shanshan. Because she wanted to marry Dongfang Jianming, she stabbed me in the


    back and pushed me down into the Wanzhang Depths!”


    “What are you thering on about? The Wanzhang Depths are bottomless. Even if a


    Northern Goshawk fell in, it wouldn’t be able to fly out of there. How is it possible that


    you could climb out? You, unfilial daughter, have a mouth full of nonsense. You use


    your younger sister falsely and defy your elders. You are truly disloyal, unfilial, and


    immoral. Someone, bring out the punishment tools of our n!”


    Ye Yuxuan did not believe Ye Jiuge’s lies at all. In that moment, he only had one


    thought: to punish this unfilial daughter harshly in a cruel manner. He wanted to see


    whether she would dare be so impudent again after this!


    Ye Shanshan had predicted earlier that her father would punish Ye Jiuge. As she heard


    his words, she immediately handed him the horse whip that they used for punishment in


    the n. This horse whip was woven from fine cowhide with tiny barbs on its surface.


    Needless to say, not only women were unable to endure a flogging from that whip, but


    strong men too.


    Ye Yuxuan was just scaring Ye Jiuge. He did not n to use it.


    Ye Shanshan saw that her father was frozen with the horse whip in his hands, so she


    tugged on his sleeve and begged pitifully, “Father, you should never ever hit elder


    sister. Otherwise, when grandfather returns, you will be the one who is beaten!”


    Ye Shanshan’s words only provoked Ye Yuxuan’s anger even further. Both of his eyes


    were very red. To him, Ye Jiuge had be as repulsive as Yun Tianwei.


    “Today, I want you, an evil spawn, to know of who it is that really has all the authority in


    the Ye n!”


    Ye Yuxuan did not hesitate as he raised the horse whip, ready tosh Ye Jiuge.


    “Father, you should never be impulsive!”


    Ye Shanshan’s eyes were filled with tears as she pretended to stop him. On the


    surface, that impression of a deep and profound sisterly bond was emotionally moving.


    However, the private gaze she shot Ye Jiuge was full of glee.


    Ye Jiuge, this is the consequence of defying me!


    A glint of frostiness flitted past Ye Jiuge’s eyes. With the speed of lightning, she yanked


    Ye Shanshan forward and kicked her, forcing her to kneel right in front of her.


    Ye Yuxuan’s whip happened tond at that exact moment.


    Pa!


    The horse whip hit Ye Shanshan’s body without any mercy.


    The barbs on its surface tore her clothes with a ripping sound. Her soft, white shoulder


    was exposed, and traces of blood, which gave the alluring impression of mistreatment,


    caused the spectators’ eyes to widen.


    Ye Jiuge pped her hands as she praised, “Father, you are truly wise. A person like


    Ye Shanshan, who is disloyal, unfilial, and immoral, should be punished using the n’s


    methods in public.”


    Ye Shanshan had never thought that the whip wouldnd on her body.


    She looked at Ye Jiuge in disbelief. This b*tch should die, who dares treat her like this!


    “Wow, it is so white!” Someone in the crowd watching the scene mentioned lewdly.


    Ye Shanshan could no longer endure the crowd’s gaze, so she gathered her clothes


    back together. Wa! She cried and ran inside covering her face.


    Ye Yuxuan was not in any mood to care about Ye Shanshan’s humiliation whatsoever.


    He widened his eyes, looking at Ye Jiuge as if he had just spotted a ghost. “You—how


    is it possible that you are using spiritual force?”