Chapter 306

Deng Mama and Zhang Mama were both in Li Qingluo's room at this time.

Upon hearing the young lady finally mention Liu Qiongzhu, both immediately excitedly came over.

Deng Mama: "Miss, your far-sighted vision back then— not killing Liu Qiongzhu immediately— was truly the most correct decision!"

"You have no idea what miserable life she is living now——"

"This is truly her karmic retribution!"

Lan Cang Courtyard.

Liu Qiongzhu heard the maid enter the main house to report to Li Kechuan: "Eldest Young Master, tonight the Old Lady and the Eldest Young Lady are staying over at the Jiangjun Fu."

Li Kechuan sat in the darkness beside the bed.

Upon hearing those words, he raised his eyes, which faintly glowed with a mysterious light, and was stunned.

"Luò'er, could it be that you and grandmother are planning to come back?"

The maid shook her head: "Eldest Young Master, I-I'm afraid not. The lady is locked in the Ancestral Hall, and they say she will be handed over to the authorities tomorrow……"

Li Kechuan's face turned ashen: "Mother killed my maternal grandmother to give the Qu family an explanation. Moreover, I've heard that over these years she has killed countless of my younger brothers and sisters; otherwise, the Jiangjun Fu would not now have only me struggling to hold it together."

"Now that the truth is out, she is likely to be divorced from the Li clan."

Li Kechuan could guess everything; he trembled and shut his eyes tightly.

But Mother's doing these wicked deeds— how could it not be for my sake?

How could he then hate her, blame her?

But now, in this state of mine, how could I have the face to step even half a step out of this courtyard?

He has long been completely ruined!

His wheelchair was destroyed, making it impossible for him to move an inch, and moreover he now refuses to see anyone.

He always feels that those people are staring at him with foolish smiles!

Moreover, only recently did he learn that the wheelchair had actually been specially ordered for him by Luò'er, who then had Su'er deliver it to him.

At the moment Li Kechuan learned the truth, humiliation and indignation, together with a guilt that could never be spoken, filled his chest like a huge stone pressing so hard he could barely breathe.

As it turns out, Luò'er had once also wanted to reconcile with me……

As it turns out, deep down she had actually once had this older brother of mine……

And the culprit behind all of this is Liu Qiongzhu!

Just thinking that I and my biological sister Luò'er have now become enemies, and that Mother these years has lavished affection on her in vain— she let Luò'er enjoy wealth and honor in the Jiangjun Fu for all these years, and she even exhausted her schemes to stage that self-immolation!

She is noble and precious, while Luò'er is lowly as mud.

She is beautiful as a celestial being, while Luò'er is crude and uncouth.

She is fawned upon by the world, while Luò'er is despised by everyone……

Li Kechuan had never once thought of these things.

He repeatedly told himself, this is fate!

It is Li Qingluo's destiny from birth to have such a fate, and Zhu'er being able to stay by their side is also Zhu'er's destiny.

But Luò'er shouldn't have taken Zhu'er's place, so after Luò'er returned, Zhu'er faked her death, and then they blamed everything on Luò'er……

He himself even came to utterly hate Luò'er.

But how absurd and unjust they are!

When fate befell him, Li Kechuan finally knew how cruel the two words "accept fate" are!

When injustice befell him, he then knew what it feels like to wish for death over life.

Only then did he slowly come to understand the pain and torment Luò'er had once endured……

Li Kechuan now also realizes that in his earlier years he was deliberately seduced by Liu Qiongzhu, and his later obsessive infatuation with her, unable to break free, was entirely the result of her scheming and even toying with him.

She wanted him to be unable to leave her in life.

Even in death, she wanted him to be utterly devoted, obsessively and madly in love with her.

Li Kechuan's heart ached and hated.

He ordered someone to bring Liu Qiongzhu back again.

Liu Qiongzhu is now emaciated, enduring torment day after day; where is there even a trace of her former lustrous jade-like beauty and her refined, elegant bearing?

She wears only a common maid's garment, not even as good as that of a second-class servant girl.

Moreover, her face is full of weariness, her hands rough; in just a short ten-odd days she seems to have become a completely different person, aged and weathered considerably.

Although she still retains a hint of her former beauty, she is no longer the person she once was in any way.

After Liu Qiongzhu entered, the remaining maids in the room immediately withdrew and locked the outer door.

Liu Qiongzhu stood timidly by the door, hands and feet drawn in, not daring to approach.

Li Kechuan: "Zhu'er, come over and pound my legs for elder brother."

Liu Qiongzhu dared not delay at all, after all her left leg still ached faintly.

She immediately came over, knelt beside the bed, and then gently pounded Li Kechuan's leg, which had grown somewhat atrophied from lack of use……

Seeing her so downcast and obedient, Li Kechuan suddenly reached out and clenched her face in his grip.

"Base wretch, do you now also look down on me?"

Liu Qiongzhu exclaimed in shock: "No! Elder brother, Zhu'er dares not……"

Li Kechuan raised his hand and slapped her across the face.

"Elder brother? You are merely a daughter of a lowly family; by what status do you call me elder brother?!"

"Liu Qiongzhu, you have not yet straightened out your identity, have you?"

"Now the Liu family no longer wants you; they have abandoned you."

"Prince Yun's Mansion also does not want you; they have driven you out."

"If I hadn't still kept a shred of old affection to take you in as a lowly servant, do you think you could still have a meal to eat today?"

Liu Qiongzhu stared blankly, tears streaming down her face; her face ached, but her heart ached even more.

"Eldest young master, Zhu'er dares not anymore; please spare Zhu'er……"

Liu Qiongzhu was truly afraid.

Li Kechuan's tormenting methods now are truly completely perverse!

Liu Qiongzhu had not a single part of her body that was uninjured.

Since she was brought back and locked up in Lan Cang Institute that time, she has never stepped foot outside this place again!

She began crying day after day, then night after night.

She had hoped that her mother, Qu Shi, would come to rescue her.

But Qu Shi never appeared again.

She also hoped that Prince Yun would appear and take her back……

But Prince Yun seemed to have truly completely forgotten her, not even coming to fetch her on his own birthday today.

Liu Qiongzhu knew that she had indeed truly been abandoned by everyone……

Why has it come to this?

Why!

Everyone obviously loves me……

Liu Qiongzhu initially was not resigned, she struggled, she tried to escape.

But without exception, every time she was brought back, she would be severely punished or even beaten.

The cruelest of all……

The first time she tried to escape, the martial strongman beside Li Kechuan caught her and brought her back, then Li Kechuan choked her neck and pressed her onto the bed.

He said: "Where do you think you're running to?"

"Last time you ran away."

"This time, how do you still plan to escape?"

"Zhu'er, if you become defiled, do you think Prince Yun would still want you?"

Before Liu Qiongzhu could react, Li Kechuan tore her clothes and sash to shreds.

Then Li Kechuan wanted to forcibly possess her.

Liu Qiongzhu, being fully limbed, could have originally slipped away through the crack, but that martial strongman kept watch in the room, actually seized her again and personally delivered her onto Li Kechuan's bed.

"You two lunatics! Perverts! Let go, let go of me——"

"I beg you, elder brother, elder brother, don't——"

"Elder brother, I'm Zhu'er, I'm Zhu'er——"

She tried to break free, but the martial strongman pressed her firmly onto the bed, watching how Li Kechuan proceeded directly.

Liu Qiongzhu let out a miserable scream.

Shame and humiliation made her painful tears stream incessantly.

"Li Kechuan, you lunatic, I hate you!!"

Li Kechuan pinched her face, lowered his head, and fiercely kissed her.

Soon, Liu Qiongzhu could not control her emotions; once she became aroused, the love toxin previously administered by Zi Jin flared up again, making her internal organs feel as if they were being sliced by knives.

Even if Liu Qiongzhu were utterly dense, she finally realized something was wrong with her body; she felt as if she could no longer engage in sexual relations.

It felt as if two knives were buried in her body, one being the desire that protects her from harm.

while the other side is an abstinence toxin that forbids her from becoming aroused……

Liu Qiongzhu writhed on the bed, crying out in pain.

The martial strongman's eyes were blood-red, yet he still did not release her.

Liu Qiongzhu felt as if she were being vivisected alive, almost to the point of dying from pain.

In the meantime she fainted outright, only to be painfully awakened again.

She forgot how she had returned to her room.

Even the next day she could not get out of bed……

Yet the senior maid beside Li Kechuan still came on schedule, coldly and unfeelingly shouting for her to get up to work, requiring her to personally attend to Li Kechuan's rising, dressing, and even toileting.

Liu Qiongzhu had never in her life suffered such humiliation and torment, especially thinking of how Li Kechuan once cherished her like a treasure in his palm, holding her for fear she'd fall, containing her for fear she'd melt; now he treated her this way, her heart instantly filled with utter despair as she turned, flung herself onto the bed, and sobbed bitterly.

When she arrived beside Li Kechuan with swollen eyes, he showed not a trace of pity toward her.

Instead, he pinched her face and harshly scolded: "Lowly servant! Serving Prince Yun, you do it willingly, even shamelessly throwing yourself at him like a wanton woman."

"Now serving me, you are this heartbroken?"

"Don't forget, you are no longer the legitimate daughter of my Jiangjun Fu, nor a concubine of Prince Yun's Mansion! You are nothing more than a discarded wife, not even worthy of a lowly servant!"

Liu Qiongzhu fell heavily to sit on the ground, her face full of heart-wrenching despair.

No…… absolutely not like this……

No!

But from then on, she sank to being lower than a bedroom maid, not even a sweepings maid, a sinful slave whom even a lowly maid could bully at will.

When Li Kechuan was pleased, he would give her a slight change of expression, say a few kind words, merely letting her beat her legs and pinch her shoulders.

When he was displeased, he would subject her to another round of abuse……

Liu Qiongzhu, time and again, found the suffering unbearable to describe.

Now, to her, that incident is like death by a thousand cuts; she can no longer sense any joy, each time feeling as if she had been stabbed, the pain unbearable.

Even……

A few days ago, she inadvertently stumbled upon the scene of Wu Da and Li Kechuan tangled together on the bed.

At that moment she was filled with shock, and many things became completely clear.

So it turns out, after he had tasted that, the only reason he kept Wu Da was because he couldn't bear to let go?

No wonder he shows no pity or tenderness even toward himself!

Each time it's nothing more than venting!

It's truly disgusting!

Liu Qiongzhu almost couldn't help vomiting on the spot.

But before she could sneak away, her whereabouts were discovered again.

Wu Da came out and shoved her inside the house in one motion.

The lewd smell filling the room made Liu Qiongzhu almost want to vomit.

Li Kechuan showed not a shred of embarrassment at having his scandal exposed, even sitting on the bed with a half-smile, staring at her: "Zhu'er, since you've found out, why not join us?"