Yesterday, Zhan Moxiao had made it crystal clear that he was forced to marry her due to the military orders of the great general, indicating that he didn’t like her one bit.
Ou Lan seriously suspected that he would mysteriously kill her and find a third wife.
Many emotions flickered across the girl’s pretty face.
Zhan Moxiao felt an urge to crack open her little head to see what on earth she was thinking.
Suddenly, he pinched her small chin and inspected the red marks on her face again, his brows faintly furrowed, “Useless!”
Ou Lan, not one to take it lying down, glared back at him boldly.
Master Xiao’s expression remained unchanged, his tone still the same, “If someone touches three inches of my land, I will dig up their ancestors’ graves, you understand, hmm?”
Ou Lan stiffened her neck in defiance, “Wasn’t it just returned with a beating?”
“Would you have been able to throw a punch with a vengeful effect if I weren’t backing you up?”
Ou Lan was left speechless.
She couldn’t do it.
Ever since she was young, if it weren’t for Lin Ziran acting as her boss, she would surely have been a warrior always on the losing end.
Zhan Moxiao let go of her chin coldly and turned to leave, “Come with me!”
She dared not disobey; Ou Lan took two steps for every three, trotted along, and eventually arrived at the training ground behind the castle.
The training ground was about as large as a small parade ground.
Zhan Moxiao had already retired from the military, but he still maintained the self-discipline characteristic of a soldier, and he wouldn’t miss his daily workout.
Master Xiao, who usually marched in a steady pace, came to an abrupt halt, causing Ou Lan to bump into him without warning—damn, this man had a body tough as steel.
Clutching her sore nose, Ou Lan felt tears from the pain, “Could you not give a warning before stopping?”
Looking at the girl with teary eyes, Zhan Moxiao was frankly amused, “Useless!”
Out of nowhere, he had acquired a meter-long training stick, tapping it rhythmically in his palm, striding around her in a circle with an air of superiority,
“Ou Xiaolan, listen carefully.
Now that you’ve married Zhan Moxiao, you are no ordinary noble lady.
You must be invincible outside and avoid bringing me shame; inside, you must obey orders absolutely, understand?”
If she just submitted to Zhan Moxiao’s authoritarian might and willingly became his little wife and the stepmother of his children, that wouldn’t be Ou Lan at all.
She let the Tycoon Master’s lecture go in one ear and out the other, silently reciting in her heart, “I’ll just consider it as…
fart from your backside!”
“Whack!”
A training stick struck her behind, punishing her lack of attention.
Ou Lan cried out with an “Ah,” clutching her bottom and leaping away, “Zhan Moxiao, are you a pervert?”
To be forcibly married off was bad enough, but to be abused as well, the girl who had always played the role of the aggrieved little wife finally exploded, “Our marriage is a mistake, we should be discussing divorce!”
A trace of an imperceptible smile crossed his inscrutable eyes, but Master Xiao’s voice remained icy cold, “When a superior officer speaks, you should listen attentively and not discuss topics that will never happen.”
Ou Lan looked at him with a mix of sadness and anger, “You have already been discharged, you’re not an officer anymore, and I am not your soldier!”
“Whack!” Another training stick landed on her behind.
Ou Lan cried bitterly, “You bully women, so rich yet heartless!
A tyrant!”
Li Dan watched the whole scene unfold, unable to hold back a mix of laughter and tears.
“Silence!”
At Master Xiao’s command, Ou Lan immediately clamped shut, scared silent.
Power and domestic violence, nothing was scarier.
“Stand properly!”
Ou Lan straightened her legs, bowing her head submissively to the power before her without any dignity.
Zhan Moxiao narrowed his eyes in satisfaction.
Looking at her slender frame, she definitely needed training.
She couldn’t even beat those two weak girls earlier, and if she was to be brought back to the Zhan Family, she would surely be bullied to death by those women as fierce as tigers.
The Zhan Family was a distinguished military family that had been prominent in The Empire for hundreds of years, where each and every woman was martially inclined and warlike.