ACER-Chapter 3: Three-Legged Crow Tattoo

It’s probably because Di Yange had been too dazzling at the academy, so as soon as she and Luo Ziyin left the academy, they were blocked on the way home by a group of students older than them.

Di Yange shielded Luo Ziyin behind her.

She shouted loudly at those people, “If there’s anything, come at me. If you want to kill or hurt me, go right ahead, as long as you don’t hurt my younger brother.”

After being shouted at by her, those students were a bit stunned.

Then their anger instantly surged.

Not only was this person better-looking than them, even the knowledge they had studied for years had been surpassed by her, what man could endure such humiliation?

Thus several of them rushed forward to teach her a lesson, their fists aimed directly at Di Yange’s face.

Seeing everyone charge over, Di Yange raised her arm, blocking in front of Luo Ziyin, and said to him, “Ziyin, run quickly. Big brother will protect you.”

After saying that, she shouted at the few people in front of her again.

“Come on, if you have the ability, beat me to death.”

……

Di Yange looked at her foolish past self and felt secondhand embarrassment.

Her noble and powerful image, from that moment on, ran away like a grass-mud horse and could never be found again.

The onlookers were also stunned by what they saw.

Especially Luo Ziyin, whose brows were tightly furrowed.

He couldn’t clearly remember the period of time when his parents died.

He also didn’t expect that he and Di Yange actually had such a past.

Fake, it must be fake, it’s impossible for Di Yange to never save him.

At the time, Luo Ziyin, who’d just turned seven, under everyone’s stunned gaze, actually ran away crying…

After Luo Ziyin left, Yange was beaten several times by those people, and the crowd felt extremely satisfied watching it.

At this moment, there’s only one phrase in their minds, serves him right.

They even wished those people would beat Di Yange a bit longer.

They only could only lament that these students were too weak and wished they could take their place.

However, soon, everyone could no longer laugh.

Di Yange suddenly became agitated and gave each of those people a slap.

Damn it, those people had hit places they shouldn’t have, what a bunch of hooligans.

When Luo Ziyin returned with his father and the parents of the students, Di Yange stood there covered in dirt.

Meanwhile, the students were sitting on the ground wailing loudly, with obvious handprint marks on their faces.

Now things were troublesome.

They all insisted that Di Yange had hit them.

Thus the situation reversed, the parents of those students grabbed Luo Father and Di Yange, demanding an explanation from them.

After all, they all said the same thing, and with both witnesses and evidence.

In the end, it’s still Luo Father who paid compensation, and the matter was settled.

On the way back, although the Luo Family did not drive away Di Yange, they were clearly a bit unhappy.

After all, it would be a lie to say that losing several hundred taels of silver for no reason didn’t hurt.

But they didn’t blame her, instead, they comforted her and told her not to take it to heart.

……

At night, Di Yange lay on the bed tossing and turning, thinking about how to prevent the Luo Family from being exterminated.

But the plot was a bit vague, she only knew that the incident would occur in Helixian.

She needed to think of a way to make them leave this place as soon as possible.

At this moment, her door opened, and Luo Ziyin quietly walked in.

He looked at Di Yange sitting on the bed and said, “Brother Yange, even if everyone doesn’t believe you, I believe you. They deserved it. Brother Yange, you did nothing wrong.”

After speaking, Luo Ziyin yawned.

“Ziyin, are you sleepy?”

“I’m very sleepy.”

Saying that, the small Luo Ziyin very naturally lay down into Yange’s blanket.

Di Yange patted him.

“Sleep. Big brother will protect you.”

What a simple child, who knew how he leveled up and became a villain.

After all, novels don’t record the growth history of villains, only glossing over it, and she had skimmed this novel, so there were things she really didn’t remember.

“Mm.”

Luo Ziyin looked at Di Yange and unknowingly fell asleep with a satisfied expression, sleeping very soundly.

But Di Yange looked at his sleeping face, her small face filled with thought.

……

“Disgusting, perverted, shameless.”

Looking at the light screen, Luo Ziyin felt utterly nauseated.

He hadn’t expected that when he was young, he had been so close to that person, even showing such a satisfied expression.

……

Soon it was the next day, and Di Yange didn’t plan on going to the academy.

The Luo parents also followed her decision, but because of this, Luo Ziyin made a fuss for quite a while.

Because it was too late, and the Luo parents were in a hurry to handle matters, they could only entrust Luo Ziyin to Di Yange to take to the academy.

On the way to the academy, they were stopped by two people dressed in black with bamboo hats.

From their appearance, the two didn’t look like decent people.

By chance, Di Yange saw that both of their wrists bore a three-legged crow tattoo.

She immediately sensed the scent of courting death, stepped in front of Luo Ziyin, and looked at them vigilantly.

“What do you want?”

“Little brothers, we’re just asking for directions. We brothers have been searching for our benefactor, but after looking in many places, we still haven’t found them.”

Before Di Yange could speak, Luo Ziyin’s innocent voice was heard.

“We only moved here last month, we’re not familiar with this place either.”

One of the black-clothed men said again, “May I ask your surname, little brother?”

“I…”

“Ziyin, we should go.”

What benefactor?

There wasn’t the slightest sign on their faces of looking for a benefactor, it’s more like they were looking for their enemies.

If there was any grudge, it could come at her, but not at others.

So she pulled Luo Ziyin along and left.

After sending Luo Ziyin into the academy, Di Yange went to the darkest tavern in the entire county.

She found the shopkeeper and stated that she wanted to sell a recipe.

……

At this moment, Long Yanche spoke disdainfully.

“Di Yange doesn’t even know how to cook. He must be going to cheat and swindle again. Back then, he used this method to deceive my dragon clan members, exchanging treasures from the clan for garbage.”

Those who had been cheated by her all nodded in agreement and mocked her.

Until the shopkeeper readily gave Di Yange one hundred taels of silver.

Everyone was slapped in the face, especially Long Yanche, who immediately felt his face burn and didn’t speak again.

“Boss, if I give you nine more recipes, can you give me another nine hundred taels?”

The shopkeeper agreed readily, and Di Yange successfully obtained one thousand taels of silver.

However, seeing the fleeting greed in the shopkeeper’s eyes, it was clear that Di Yange might not be able to keep the silver in her hands.

Sure enough, not long after she left the tavern, she was surrounded by a group of adult men.

Seeing Di Yange surrounded, the melon-eating onlookers and Luo Ziyin felt extremely satisfied.

“If only these people could beat Di Yange to death.”

“Even if they can’t beat him to death, giving him a harsh lesson would still be satisfying.”

“Hit him, hit him.”

Everyone laughed loudly, clearly forgetting that at the time, Di Yange was only eight years old.

Even Di Yange herself, watching, was so angry that her face turned green.

What a group of people with vile tastes, even they could see that the tavern owner had ill intentions, how could she not have seen it at the time?

Back then, she had done it deliberately.

Originally, everything was within her plan.

She had thought that by offending the tavern owner, she could make the Luo parents leave this place.

But she hadn’t expected everything to happen so quickly.

When she broke out from the encirclement under those people’s heavy punches and ran back holding the silver, the sky had already darkened.

From afar, she saw flames soaring into the sky in the direction of the Luo Family.

The silver in her arms fell to the ground with a clatter.

“Ziyin, Madam Luo…”