Steward Sun was stunned upon hearing the master’s words.

The master actually wanted to send Miss Sui’er to Zhiqiong Courtyard, which was practically a prison. Even the eldest daughter had never been sent there for any major mistakes.

Moreover, Miss Sui’er is really young. Is she really going to be sent away from the Ding Family at such a young age?

"Why are you standing there dazed? Did you not hear my orders?" Ding Zhuzui saw his shocked expression, stopped, and asked him.

"Yes, yes, I will handle it right away."

Steward Sun, seeing the master about to lose his temper with him, quickly responded.

...

Within a desolate courtyard of the Ding Family.

Concubine Qiongying, heavily pregnant, was sitting in the courtyard, gazing at the moonlight.

She was waiting, waiting for the letter to be sent out, hoping that person would come to save her. Even if he didn’t come personally, he should at least give her some advice.

She was still young, she couldn’t stay in this cold and desolate place forever, could she?

What she did not expect was that instead of waiting for someone from outside with advice, she was met by an enraged Ding Zhuzui.

"Master... Master, why have you come?"

Upon seeing Ding Zhuzui hurrying over, Concubine Qiongying stood up in surprise and delight.

Her thoughts were that perhaps Ding Xu, that ungrateful child, had pleaded with the family head for her? Was the master here to take her back?

"Master, why did you come personally? Sending someone to fetch me would suffice... Ah!"

Before she could finish her presumptuous words, Ding Zhuzui slapped her hard, sending her tumbling to the ground.

As she fell, the maid beside her timely dropped down and prevented her belly from taking a heavy blow, thus avoiding any major incident.

At this moment, Concubine Qiongying, holding her stinging face with one hand, looked at Ding Zhuzui in utter disbelief.

"Master, did you... did you hit me?"

Even in the past, when Jin Cuiniang was favored, Ding Zhuzui had never hit her, much less now.

Jin Cuiniang had already met the same fate as herself, but she was carrying Ding Zhuzui’s child in her belly. How could he dare, how could he have hit her? 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

And with such force that she fell directly to the ground.

If not for the maid’s quick reaction, she herself didn’t even dare to imagine what the consequences would have been.

"Hitting you, hitting you is lenient!"

With utter disdain in his eyes, Ding Zhuzui looked at her, flinging the intercepted letter onto her face.

"You really have some nerve. At this point, you still dare to seek help from outsiders? Do you think they will come to rescue a useless wretch like you?"

Seeing the letter thrown onto her face, sliding down to the ground, Concubine Qiongying’s heart trembled.

How did this letter end up in Ding Zhuzui’s hands? She had specifically sent someone she trusted most to deliver it, yet it was intercepted by his men?

What useless people! After spending so much gold and silver to keep them, it turned out to be all in vain!

"Master, what is this? I have never seen it before."

Gathering her composure with great effort, she tried to feign normalcy as she looked at Ding Zhuzui and asked.

As long as she adamantly denied the letter was hers, even if Ding Zhuzui was convinced it was written by her, there was nothing he could do to her, right?