The Snake Among Spiders [HxH]

Prologue: Lotus Pier Falls; Another World; Phantom Troupe [Edited]

"I want Wen Zhuliu, Wen Chao and that bitch of his to suffer a fate worse than death. Don't let them get away with murdering A-Niang, A-Die, and the rest of our sect!" - Yu Yanmei to Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian
"We won't!" - Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian to Yu Yanmei

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Surname: Yú - to worry

Birth Name: Lian - the graceful willow

Courtesy Name: Yanmei - flattering and seductive

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Two slaps rang through the air of the Main Hall.

Then, a female voice asked, deceptively calm, "Who do you think my mother is? Who do you think you are compared to her?"

Another female voice spoke next, but this voice sounded furious. "You want to punish him? You think you're superior?" Three women were shown. One on the floor, her hair in the grasp of a slightly older woman, while the third woman was watching this happen with the slightest hint of a smirk on her light pink lips.

"Let us tell you who's the lady of the house." The younger female said, stalking forward and tightly gripping the chin of the woman on the floor. The younger female leaned her head down slightly and continued when her mother made no effort to stop her. "It's not you, even if you think it's you. You're nothing but a maid who climbed into Wen Chao's bed to gain some sort of rank. All it would take to replace you...is a woman of even prettier looks than you." She said, smiling slightly, though her smile was dark and promised pain, which terrified the other woman. "The lady of the house is my mother, not you!" Simultaneously, both mother and daughter threw the other woman, Wang Lingjiao, to the floor.

"A-mei..." Jiang Cheng murmured, awed at the sight of how strong his mother and younger twin sister looked at the moment, like mirror images of one another. Wei Wuxian was equally awed. And a little terrified, since Madame Yu had given Yu Yanmei a spiritual whip named Heidian. Currently, both Zidian and Heidian were in their ring forms.

The two Wen sect soldiers gasped when the mother-daughter duo looked at them. With a scoff, the younger female, Yu Lian, courtesy Yanmei, turned and walked to her elder brother and shixiong, while her mother, Yu Ziyuan, turned her back on the soldiers with a scoff, deeming them not worth her time, even as they launched forward and attempted to attack her.

Zidian turned into its whip form, Yu Ziyuan holding the handle of the whip and the rest of it settling on to the ground, emitting purple lightning on the ground that electrocuted the two Wen sect soldiers.

"I...I'm Wen-gongzi's woman." Wang Lingjiao said, terrified, as the purple lightning around Yu Ziyuan grew. "If you dare hurt me, he'll make you all..."

"What's he going to do to me?" Yu Ziyuan asked, scorn in her voice as she whipped Zidian forward, the whip wrapping around Wang Lingjiao's neck and pulling her towards her. Then, Yu Ziyuan stomped down harshly on Wang Lingjiao's left wrist, drawing out a pained scream from her. "Cut off my hands?"

"Make me his woman?" Yu Yanmei asked, disgust and scorn also in her voice. "He can't do anything without that Wen Zhuliu being near him."

"A-Niang." Jiang Cheng said as he helped Wei Wuxian stand up. Yu Yanmei did the same, but screams outside the main hall caught their attention.

Then, Wen Zhuliu ran in, red spiritual energy crackling around his right hand as he soon engaged in a fight against Yu Ziyuan, before telling Wang Lingjiao to run. Yu Yanmei's eyes followed the terrified Wang Lingjiao leaving and a slight smirk formed on her lips as she met eyes with her mother. She gave a nod and that was all she needed before silently slipping away, picking up a dagger that was conveniently nearby on the ground. She weighed it in her right hand for a moment, before her smirk turned into a furious frown as she saw Wen Zhuliu kill one of her sect members and she threw the dagger quickly enough that Wen Zhuliu didn't see it until it was too late. It didn't reach its target, the back of that Wang Lingjiao's head. Instead, it hit that woman's shoulder, but not before the maid had already set off the Wen signal flare.