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Infanta Tao'an was the number one admirer of Prince Yanbei in Revelation. When she found out that Xiao Jiu'an's life was on the brink of death, she cried and begged to marry Xiao Jiu'an and to die with him. However….

In this case, she had just obtained her freedom and immediately came looking for trouble with Ji Yunkai.

"Since I said 'no', move aside." Ji Yunkai stepped forward. She bypassed them with a casual push, but she did not expect all of the four maidservants to fall onto the ground like paper, "Ji Yunkai, you actually dared to hit us! Our Infanta will not let you go."

Ji Yunkai was startled for a moment and then laughed coldly: "So what if I hit them? Infanta Tao'an." If the other party was already looking for trouble, would any explanation be of use?

*Pah!*

When she was just ten steps away from Ji Yunkai, she swung her whip at her.

Ji Yunkai had already prepared herself. The moment Infanta Tao'an made her move, she retreated a step, but her maidservant did not have time to react and was struck by the tail-end of the whip. The maidservant cried out in fear and pain.

"Ji Yunkai, you actually dare to dodge!?" Tao'an bellowed and lashed out with her whip again, forcing Ji Yunkai to dodge it continuously.

"Infanta Tao'an, you're done!" A flash of annoyance appeared in Ji Yunkai's eyes.

As she had said, she hated little girls who did not know their place and were spoiled by their families the most.

"Just let me whip you three times." Infanta Tao'an kept swinging her whip and approached her step by step. Ji Yunkai was unarmed and had no choice but to keep dodging.

"Still retreating? If you have the guts, to marry Prince Yanbei then come face my whip! After failing to hit Ji Yunkai three times in a row, Infanta Tao'an was very dissatisfied.

"Infanta Tao'an, I am the future Princess Yanbei. Have you thought about the consequences of whipping me?" Ji Yunkai knew that Infanta Tao'an would not understand such things as "consequences", but she still had to warn her about what would happen.

"Princess Yanbei? Ji Yunkai, why don't you look at your face? With your looks, do you think you are qualified to marry Prince Yanbei?" Infanta Tao'an pointed at Ji Yunkai's face sinisterly. "I originally only heard that you destroyed your looks, and that the Emperor had no choice but to cancel the engagement. However, it seems that you are not only disfigured, but you have really turned into a demon! Come now, being this ugly doesn't mean you have to come out and annoy people!"

The Emperor unquestionably wanted the world to see just how ugly she, Ji Yunkai, was. He wanted the world to believe that it was not that he, the Emperor, was ungrateful and shameless, but that her, Ji Yunkai, was unworthy of being the mother of the country.

As for giving her to Xiao Jiu'an? With her appearance, everyone would probably believe that she was the one who asked for this marriage.

With her appearance, only someone like Prince Yanbei, who was on the verge of death, would possibly marry her. Forget about marrying anyone else, any potential suitors would probably throw up just by looking at her.

"Insult you? How did I insult you? Aren't you ugly? Didn't you look in the mirror before you left? It is fortunate that this Infanta is brave; otherwise, when I saw your appearance, I really would have vomited." Infanta Tao'an closed in step by step, refusing to stop. She forced Ji Yunkai out of the side hall and onto the main road.

The imperial guards and eunuchs on both sides were like dead men. No one stepped forward to stop them, nor did anyone ask the Emperor to stop them.

"You being impolite? Ji Yunkai, how can you not be courteous? Do you dare to touch me? Do you dare to hit me?" Infanta Tao'an raised her whip arrogantly: "You don't dare! If you touch me, my royal father will plunder your Ji Family. Yours is just a small Ji Family, with the title of imperial advisor hanging on it. What could they do to me? My Prince Duan's Mansion doesn't even put them in our eyes."

This was the reason why the Infanta Tao'an did not place Ji Yunkai in her eyes. Although the Ji Family had an imperial advisor, they were still only a third-rate family. The only one with any kind of authority in the imperial court was Imperial Advisor Ji.

However, Infanta Tao'an would not dare to make a move if she was a member of one of the Four Great Clans.

"If Prince Duan's Mansion does not put Ji Family in their eyes, then what about Prince Yanbei's Mansion?" In the North of Revelation, there were the Feng, Qi, Xiao, and Wang families that formed the Four Great Clans. Meanwhile in the South of Revelation the Yun, Yang, Wu, and Hu, families were called the Four Wealthy Clans.

Prince Yanbei had some connections with the Xiao Family, one of the Four Great Clans in Revelation. However, the relationship between Prince Yanbei's Mansion and the Xiao Family were lukewarm at best.

Ji Yunkai's mother and stepmother, both, had come from one of the Four Wealthy Clans in the south, the Yun Family.

The Four Great Clans have great authority in Revelation. In order to create a balance of power, the late emperor issued a marriage between families in the the North and South of Revelation. Imperial Advisor Ji was the person chosen by the late emperor as the marriage partner. The reason why Imperial Advisor Ji was able to obtain the trust of the late emperor and was highly valued by the current emperor was all due to the marriage alliance between him and the South.

The Ji Family was only an ordinary small family that had married a daughter of one of the Southern Four Wealthy Clans. It was normal for Infanta Tao'an to not put Ji Yunkai in her eyes, and Ji Yunkai had never once thought of using the power of the Ji Family to pressure others.

She had always known that the only power she could borrow from, and from now and into the future, was Prince Yanbei's Mansion.

"Prince Yanbei's Mansion? This Infanta shall see if Prince Yanbei's Mansion will stand up for you today." Infanta Tao'an was truly worthy of being called a spoiled little girl. As soon as she finished speaking, she pounced forward and instantly closed the distance between the two of them. Without hesitation, she swung the whip in her hand: "Today, I will smash your face into pieces!"

*Pah!* The whip broke through the air and seemingly turned into a water snake, striking towards Ji Yunkai's right cheek.

Ji Yunkai's expression did not change. She took three steps back in a row, and was about to be hit by the whip. Ji Yunkai extended her hands and grabbed the whip, firmly holding onto the tail-end: "Your thoughts are truly malicious!"

To actually hit her perfectly fine right cheek, it showed how evil this little girl's heart was.

"You, let go!" Infanta Tao'an used all of her strength to swing the whip. Not only did it not hit her, it got caught, making her jump in anger.

"Who are you to ask me to let you go?" Ji Yunkai ignored the burning pain in her palms and used her strength to pull on the whip. Infanta Tao'an stumbled and fell.…

"Ah...! Help, help!" Just as she was about to fall, Ji Yunkai's figure moved. With a slight pull with her hand, she pulled her back.

Without waiting for her to stabilize herself, Ji Yunkai shook off the whip in her hands and grabbed Infanta Tao'an by the neck, forcing her forward: "Infanta, are you still going to smash my face to pieces?"

"You, you, quickly let me go!" Infanta Tao'an's neck was being choked, causing her to be unable to breath. She felt both shocked and fearful.

"Infanta!" The four maidservants shouted in succession, looking like they wanted to step forward, but they did not dare to.

"How dare you! Let go of Infanta!" This whole time, the guards and eunuchs had been pretending to be dead; pretending as if they did not see Infanta Tao'an bullying Ji Yunkai. Now, they immediately stepped forward and raised their spears towards Ji Yunkai, but they did not dare to rush forward.