"Xiangjin, as long as you sleep with the man in the room and serve three years in jail for Aqi, I will get your mother out of the mental hospital."

Looking at the half-open doorway of the room, Xiang Jin clenched his fist.

She is the adopted daughter of the Xiang family and looks seven or eight parts like Xiang Qi. She has suffered humiliation and beatings since childhood. Now she not only has to take the blame for Xiang Qi, who killed someone while drunk driving, but she also has to sleep with a strange man!

But my mother is still in the mental hospital. Her health was already poor, and if this continues, she will die!

"Take the blame... I'll go! But could you... not go to the room to sleep?"

She has someone she likes, someone she has secretly loved for seven years. Even if this relationship doesn't work out, she doesn't want to betray him.

“If you don’t go, how can Wen Yibai give up pursuing you and be devoted to me?” Xiang Qi walked up, looking like a victor. “Xiang Jin, blame your bad luck for not being born into my mother’s womb and becoming the eldest daughter of the Xiang family.”

Xiang Jin trembled all over, a bitter smile appearing on his lips.

So that's how it is!

It turns out that Xiang Qi had taken a liking to Wen Yibai, and Wen Yibai was pursuing her openly and secretly. In order to force Wen Yibai to submit, the mother and daughter came up with such a vicious plan!

What a wonderful foster mother, what a wonderful older sister!

"What are you dawdling for? The man inside is a perfect match for you. He was picked from among the beggars in the slums. I guarantee he'll satisfy you," Xiang Qi said with a smile.

Xiang Jin took a deep breath, trying to suppress the dull pain and resistance in her chest, and slowly loosened her clenched fist.

Innocence is important, freedom is important, but neither is as important as a mother.

"Okay, I'll go."

Xiang Jin pushed open the half-closed door, and a strong smell of alcohol hit her. The room was dark and chaotic, filled with heavy breathing. Before she could react, a force pushed her down onto the bed, and a hot body leaned over her.

"Please, please don't..." Xiang Jin shrank back.

The man paused for a moment, then kissed her eyes passionately: "Don't be afraid, I will marry you."

Xiang Jin was slightly taken aback. The man's voice was deep and husky, resonant and pure, captivatingly beautiful. What flashed through her mind was that moonlit night when she was thirteen, in a bottomless pit, the boy had said to her, "When I grow up, will you marry me?"...

She said, "Okay!"

But after tonight, all of that will be gone...

Tears streamed down her face as she resigned herself to her fate, lying on the bed and enduring the humiliation. The light in her eyes gradually dimmed.

…………

After sweating profusely, she got dressed, not daring to look at the man's face.

Without realizing it, a ring fell into the pocket of the clothes.

As she opened the door, Xiang Qi and Li Shuhui were elegantly drinking red wine, looking completely at ease. Looking at the marks on her neck, Xiang Qi smiled disdainfully.

Passersby cast strange glances at her, and Xiang Jin was extremely embarrassed. She tried to cover herself in a panic, but her collar was too short and it didn't work.

Finally, she let her hand fall limply.

At this moment, a group of police officers came out of the elevator: "Hello, are you Xiang Jin? You are suspected of causing death by drunk driving. Please cooperate with the police investigation. From now on, you have the right to remain silent, but everything you say can be used as evidence in court."

Xiang Jin looked at Xiang Qi.

"What are you looking at? The police are asking you questions." Xiang Qi felt a little guilty and quickly looked away.

Xiang Jin sneered, and after a moment of silence, she stretched out her hand: "I was driving, I plead guilty."

A pair of shackles were placed on her cold wrists.

"Officer, please be lenient with my sister! She didn't hit her on purpose; it was just an accident." Xiang Qi appeared completely innocent and was extremely understanding.

Only Xiang Jin noticed the sinister and smug look in her eyes.

"I hope you will keep your promise."

Xiang Jin took a deep breath, his eyes turning ruthless: "Even if I become a ghost, I will make the entire Xiang family pay with their lives!"

To Xiang Qi and Li Shuhui's astonishment, Xiang Jin was taken out of the hotel and into a police car.

The sun was shining brightly outside, and the spring breeze was gentle, but alas... it no longer belonged to her.

……………………

Three years later, the prison gates slowly opened.

Four men in prison guard uniforms carried the woman on a stretcher to the slums.

The woman was sallow-faced, emaciated, and had disheveled hair; she was Xiang Jin.

Today is the day she is to be released from prison. Three days ago, she was beaten in both legs by her fellow inmates and suffered a high fever. She was already delirious and on the verge of death.

The people in the prison, afraid of trouble, and seeing that no one visited her after she went to jail, assumed she was an orphan and abandoned her near a beggar's den in the slums, leaving her to fend for herself.

"Where did this beggar come from, daring to steal my territory? Get the hell out of here!"

In a daze, Xiang Jin felt a sharp pain and then fell into a huge, stinking puddle, burying her entire face in it and becoming filthy.

"Why did you stop the car?" Inside the car, Murong Xiao's pupils narrowed slightly, his displeasure evident.

"Young Master, a beggar has fallen into a puddle and is blocking the road. She looks like... she's about to die." Su Ming glanced at the female beggar in the puddle in front of the car, then looked at the elegant and refined Murong Xiao in the back seat, as if seeking his opinion.

Murong Xiao remained calm and said in a light tone, "Crush it."

"Ah...ah?" Su Ming was stunned. Although he knew his boss was notoriously cold-blooded, he was still surprised that he didn't care about human life.

Murong Xiao raised his head, a glint of light shooting from the corner of his slightly upturned eyes, his powerful aura pressing down like Mount Tai.

"Is she about to die?"

"yes."

"Will there be no more pain after death?"

"yes."

"I'm helping her, what are you surprised about?"

Looking into his boss's dark, abyss-like gaze, Su Ming suddenly found himself speechless.

He restarted the car and drove forward.

Sigh, bad luck. Who told you to run into the cold-blooded Lord Xiao? Ever since that incident three years ago, he's become even more ruthless and cold-blooded, even towards his own family...

Su Ming closed his eyes with some reluctance.

The car is about to run over it.

Su Ming could already imagine that the woman's screams would be incredibly shrill in the next moment, blood would splatter everywhere, bones would shatter, and then...

"Bang—"

With a muffled thud, the front of the car was suddenly stopped by a force, the car swayed, and a pair of muddy hands pressed against the hood. The female beggar who was about to be run over had actually woken up and stood up on her own!

Her face was covered in mud, obscuring her features, yet she stubbornly propped herself up and looked into the car. Although she couldn't see anything clearly, her eyes were filled with a thirst for life and a determination to never give up or die!

"Young Master..."

Su Ming was speechless, stunned by the deathly yet intense gaze. He couldn't help but look at the back seat, only to find Murong Xiao staring intently into those eyes, like a wild beast eyeing its prey, bloodthirsty and insane.