Chapter 128

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Du Mingzhu's life wasn't going too well.

Even though her mother had managed to get her moved from a regular cell to the best one, where she had good food and clothes, wasn't cold or hungry, and had someone come in to clean twice a day—the Jiang Shi even moved in a few pots of her daughter's favorite orchids to help her pass the time so she wouldn't be bored.

But prison was prison after all. Just the fact that she wasn't allowed to go out was enough to make Du Mingzhu collapse.

Especially today, her eyelids had been twitching since early morning, making her feel irritable and restless.

Du Mingzhu threw the shovel in her hand onto the ground with a bang and sat on the edge of the bed, sulking.

That bitch Du Ruo, for causing her to be in such a miserable state, one day she would make her pay it back ten or a hundred times over!

Click, the cell door was opened.

The person who entered was the female jailer responsible for this cell.

"Didn't you already sweep this morning?" Du Mingzhu frowned.

The female jailer didn't say a word, walked around the cell on her own, picked up the shovel from the ground, and then turned back to say to the person outside: "It's fine, come in."

Du Mingzhu narrowed her eyes.

Who was here to see her?

It couldn't be her parents; they had just come yesterday, and they wouldn't act like this, as if they were afraid she was in some kind of danger.

Before Du Mingzhu could figure it out, a woman had already walked slowly through the door.

She was about seventeen or eighteen, wearing a grass-green fine cotton dress. Her figure was plump, yet her skin was fair and her face beautiful. Her eyes were extremely unique, with the corners slightly upturned, as if the wings of a phoenix were slowly spreading, soul-stirring and captivating.

This face, it looked somewhat familiar...

Du Mingzhu looked at her brazenly, but another face couldn't help but pop into her mind.

The face she hated and envied most in this life.

The two faces gradually overlapped and turned into the appearance of the woman in front of her.

Du Mingzhu's pupils shook violently, and she stood up abruptly, "You..."

Du Ruo smiled at her, "Good sister, have you been well?"

Du Mingzhu stared at her fixedly, squeezing the words out through her teeth, "I didn't expect you to actually have the ability to restore your appearance."

"Yes, I didn't expect it either," Du Ruo raised her hand to touch her face, then sighed, "Speaking of which, I have to thank you, sister Mingzhu. If you hadn't held back when you attacked me back then, how would I still be alive, let alone have my face restored?"

Du Mingzhu sneered, "So? You came here today specifically to mock me, ridicule me, and show off to me?"

"How could that be? I just..."

"I say, why are you like this?" The female jailer on the side couldn't stand it anymore. Remembering Jiang Li's instructions, she couldn't help but interject, "Your sister kindly came to see you, yet you have this attitude..."

"Is it your place to speak?" Du Mingzhu glanced coldly at the female jailer and pointed at the door, "Get out."

"You!" The female jailer was so angry her teeth itched.

All these days she had been providing Du Mingzhu with good food and drink, diligently serving this female demon, hoping to win a little reward to take home to support her family.

Who knew that what she got in return was Du Mingzhu's bossiness and casual scolding.

Once, that broken shovel had even nearly poked her in the face!

Thinking of this, the female jailer was full of resentment and wished she could rush up and slap Du Mingzhu.

Bah, black-hearted, rotten-livered stinking bitch, did she really think she came to the prison to enjoy life?

Seeing the female jailer's bear-like paws clenching and creaking, Du Ruo quickly pressed her hand and smiled to soothe her: "Sister Gui, why don't you wait outside first? I'll just say a few words to my sister and leave."

Sister Gui still had some sense; she knew Du Ruo was doing it for her own good. After all, how could a small jailer go up against an official's daughter?

"Alright, I'll be outside. If Lady Du needs anything, just call."

After saying this, Sister Gui glanced sideways at Du Mingzhu and turned to walk out of the cell.

She took the shovel with her on the way out.

Du Ruo's gaze swept around this super VIP cell, her pretty little face full of surprise, "It seems you're living quite comfortably here, sister. It's not much worse than the Du mansion. Let alone one year, even three wouldn't be a big deal for you, right?"

"Enough, stop beating around the bush," Du Mingzhu sneered disdainfully, "Didn't you come here just to see how miserable I am? Now that you've seen it, can you get lost?"

"You're wrong. I didn't come to see how miserable you are; I know how miserable you are without having to look."

Du Ruo tilted her head and asked in confusion, "Honestly, there's one thing I've never understood. If we're talking about hatred, your mother stole my mother's husband, and you stole my father's affection. If anyone should hate, it should be me hating you. How come I haven't even settled accounts with you, yet you've tried to harm me time and again? Why is that?"

Why...

Du Mingzhu wanted to laugh.

She thought this bitch had finally made some progress after experiencing so much, but it turned out she was still as idiotic as before.

Of course, it was because of that excessively beautiful face of hers!

It was because Du Ruo looked so good that Father had tried every possible way to incite Mother, even saying he wanted to bring Du Ruo into the mansion to be raised as a young lady!

Heh, was she worthy? A bitch born to a country village woman, what right did she have to call herself sister to her and enjoy the same glory and wealth?

Someone like her was born to roll in the mud and should never think about turning things around!

Since the cause was that face, fine, then she would destroy it and see if Father would dare to sneak off to visit that mother and daughter again!

"I'll tell you why."

Du Mingzhu walked up to Du Ruo, leaned in close, and a cruel smile curled at the corner of her mouth, "Because I hate you. I hate you the moment I see you. I want to see you crawling on the ground like a dog; that's the most beautiful scene I've ever seen in my life, hahahahaha."

She laughed until she was doubled over.

Du Ruo also smiled.

Taking advantage of Du Mingzhu's madness, she put her hands behind her back and secretly dropped the two flying cockroaches she had just exchanged for onto the ground.

Then she quickly dodged to the side.

Du Mingzhu was laughing happily when suddenly, a blur appeared before her eyes. A black, shiny, fat bug with its wings spread flew toward her.

Those iconic two antennae were thin and long, as if they were weapons ready to attack at any moment.

Cock, cockroach!

Du Mingzhu's smile froze on her face; without even a transition, it was replaced by a look of terror.

She wanted to scream, wanted to run, but found she couldn't even move.

It wasn't until the cockroach zoomed into her wide-open mouth that Du Mingzhu snapped out of it, letting out several shrill screams of "Ahhhhh!"

Then she bit down subconsciously.

Pfft, white fluid sprayed out, covering Du Mingzhu's mouth.

Du Ruo twitched the corner of her mouth and couldn't help but shake off the goosebumps on her body.

Poor little cockroach died so miserably; it seemed... it exploded.