Yin Na's personal attendant pressed her shoulders and asked her if she was feeling good. Yin Na was lying on her belly with her arms over the pillow. "It's still aching. I did not know that an hour of training would be this painful," asserted Yin Na.
"Miss, why did you even start that? Your brother is the great General of Han. You do not need to stress yourself with the work," stated the attendant.
"That's why I need to learn. The sister of the General should know everything," Yin Na replied and sat up on the bed. "Do you know where Huo Jin is? After lunch, I did not see him around," Yin Na asked her.
"Forgive me, Miss. I have no idea where he is," the attendant replied.
"I am going out to the Courtyard. I will see you later," Yin Na answered and got down from the bed. She walked out of the room after checking herself in the mirror. After searching for Huo Jin in the entire residence, she could not find him. "Has he gone out?" She muttered and went towards the main entrance of the house.
She looked up at the sky and found that there was enough time for the evening. She decided to go out and stepped out of the house. She descended the few stairs and looked around.
"Huo Jin is mostly in the market at this hour," she murmured and headed towards the market. After a certain distance, she saw Zhou Xuweng and his friends. It terrified her, so she quickly changed the route.
"What were they doing here?" Yin Na thought and followed the route which directed through the chain of abandoned houses to the market. She lifted her skirt a little and hastened her steps. She turned left and stopped immediately as she saw Zhou Xuweng in front of her.
She clutched the edges of her high waist skirt and took a step back.
"We met again, Jiayi. Forgive me for pronouncing the wrong name. I must call you Yin Na," Zhou Xuweng stated and smirked at her. Yin Na kept taking backward steps while he moved forward, closing the distance between them. Yin Na turned to run away but behind her, there were already two men.
Zhou Xuweng grasped her wrist and twirled her. "Leave my wrist," Yin Na shouted at him.
"You have become bold after leaving the Brothel. You humiliated me in front of so many people and now, you have to pay for that," Zhou Xuweng asserted.
Yin Na struggled to get released from his grip. "If my elder Brother will find out that you tried to molest me, then he will not spare you. So, it is better to let me go," Yin Na said sternly and threatened him using the name of Wang Hao. Her right hand was already aching and the pain had increased more after Zhou Xuweng grabbed it fiercely.
"Yin Na, what will your brother do? He released an entertainer from a brothel for whom I had paid the highest amount. You are not the blood sister of General Wang. You are still an entertainer, whose work is to provide the services to her master," Zhou Xuweng proclaimed.
"I am not an entertainer anymore. Don't forget that I am from a respected family. My status is even bigger than yours," Yin Na tried her best to confront him. In this situation, she had to protect herself at any cost. She was terrified from inside too because Zhou Xuweng could do anything to her if she did not run away from him.
Yin Na thought to bite his hand and ran as quickly as she could from that place. Zhou Xuweng drew her close and asked his men to check any of the houses.
"What are you trying to do?" Yin Na knitted her brows as she twisted her wrist in his grip.
"Something for which I paid in the Brothel house," Zhou Xuweng replied and grinned. Yin Na shook her head and told him not to do anything wrong with her.
"Yin Na, you are mine," Zhou Xuweng reminded her.
"No. I am not yours," she retorted at him and shouted for help when he tightly pressed his palm over her lips, thus preventing any of the noise from her mouth. One of the men of Zhou Xuweng informed him about a house where he could take Yin Na to.
Yin Na widened her eyes. With her entire strength, she brought her mouth a little lower and bit the hand of Zhou Xuweng as hard as she could. He screamed at the top of his lungs. At that moment, Zhou Xuweng's grip loosened and Yin Na took it as a chance. She pushed him away and ran in the opposite direction as fast as she could.
Zhou Xuweng shouted at his men. "Catch that woman!"
There were tears on her cheeks. She should not have come out of the house and should not have followed that passage. The first thought came to her mind.
Zhou Xuweng took out the sword from his sheath as he had decided to kill her. "Yin Na, I will not spare you alive. You should have easily come with me," he muttered and ran towards the other route with which he could get to her in a short time.
Yin Na looked behind and did not find anyone approaching her. She stopped and gasped for air. But then, instead of resting for more seconds, she again started to run. Her shoe hit the pebble, and she fell to the ground. "Ahh," she winced in pain.
"Yin Na!" She heard the shout of Zhou Xuweng and turned to look.
She stood up and dragged her right leg ahead. She was weeping badly and by now, she was in a mess. Her strength was leaving her body, and the blood on her knee had soaked her dress from the knee. "Brother Wang! Brother Wang!" She shouted while running.
Zhou Xuweng was a few meters away from her. He finally caught her by fisting her hair in his hand. Bringing the sword near her neck, he said, "You should have agreed to me. Now, close your eyes and die!" He told her.. Yin Na cried in pain as Zhou Xuweng was not showing any mercy on her.
