Xu Youran fell to the ground with a look of disbelief.

"No, no, how could my father do this to me?" Xu Youran suddenly stood up and was about to rush out.

Lu Daqiang grabbed her hair and pulled her back hard, throwing Xu Youran to the ground.

"Run, where can you run? Get back here!"

Lu Daqiang grabbed her hair and pulled her into the room, not caring at all how much pain Xu Youran was in.

Xu Youran was crying, and the ferocious expression on her face was very scary. She felt like her scalp was about to be torn off.

"Lu Daqiang, I was wrong, I was wrong, please let me go."

Thinking of Lu Daqiang's methods, Xu Youran's eyes were filled with intense fear.

Lu Daqiang curled the corners of his mouth and curled his lips as he looked at Xu Youran begging for mercy.

"No, no, no—"

Xu Youran was thrown onto the bed and curled up in the corner, screaming. She looked extremely scared.

However, the more she did this, the more excited Lu Daqiang became.

He pulled out his cloth belt and tied Xu Youran to the four pillars of the bed.

Looking at Lu Daqiang's face, Xu Youran couldn't stop trembling, as if she had seen something terrible.

Lu Daqiang's eyes turned red. He grabbed Xu Youran's clothes on her chest with both hands and used brute force to tear the clothes into rags.

At the beginning, Xu Youran was still struggling and cursing, but later on, she just stood there like a broken doll.

She stared at the curtains above with unfocused eyes, tears of despair falling drop by drop onto the bed.

He no longer had the arrogant look he had before.

Like a dead fish, Lu Daqiang lost interest.

Staring at Xu Youran, Lu Daqiang's mouth corners tilted upwards, and a ruthlessness suddenly revealed in his eyes. He took out a rolling pin from behind the bed.

Xu Youran's eyes widened and her hands clenched. When she saw that thing, her whole face twisted and distorted, and a creepy fear rose from the soles of her feet.

The chilling and miserable scream rang out again, scaring even the birds in the trees in the yard outside away.

Xu Youran's maid was standing outside the door, watching the scene expressionlessly.

A sense of pleasure flashed through my mind.

She is A Xiang, Xu Youran's personal maid, but Xu Youran never treats these maids as human beings.

For even the smallest matter, he would either beat or scold.

Her biological sister had her hand chopped off because she accidentally hurt her while combing her hair.

They didn't even call a doctor, and he bled to death.

Now that she had seen the fate of her enemy, Ah Xiang just wanted to applaud.

Ah Xiang walked in only after Lu Daqiang left.

Seeing that Xu Youran had no healthy skin, and her lower body was red and swollen, and even bleeding, Ah Xiang smiled.

After sitting down, Ah Xiang asked with concern: "Does it hurt, Miss?"

"Get out! Get out! Get out right now!"

Xu Youran took the pillows, quilt and broken clothes from the bed and threw them around.

Ah Xiang smiled contemptuously, grabbed her wrist and stared at her straight in the eyes.

"Tsk tsk tsk, look at what you look like now? Why don't you just die? Aren't the prostitutes in the brothel cleaner than you?"

"Why? I'm so nice to you? Why do you treat me like this?"

"You are just a maid, and the perfume and powder you use are all rewarded by me. Your monthly salary is also higher than others. Why do you treat me like this?" Xu Youran yelled at Ah Xiang at the top of her lungs.

Ah Xiang sneered, "Be nice to me? I'm just a dog you raised. The things you rewarded me with are just things you didn't want."

"Have you forgotten how my sister died? You are my enemy."

Xu Youran was startled, thinking of her sister. Then she stared at her with a sinister gaze, fiercely shook off her hand, and said with gritted teeth, "Your sister deserves to die. Sooner or later, I will make you suffer a fate worse than death."

"Really? Then I'll wait, but before that, you should take a look at your current situation."

"Live well, and every day from now on, I will make you feel unforgettable pain." Ah Xiang said as she picked up Lu Daqiang's blood-stained rolling pin.

This time, Xu Youran screamed even more miserably than before, and finally fainted.

Xu Jinyi didn't say anything when she learned about Xu Youran's fate. Now she should just focus on taking care of her pregnancy.

The imperial concubine over there was really getting restless. The queen's belly was getting bigger and bigger, and it was impossible for the queen mother to fulfill her promise.

That was the queen's child, how could she raise him under her name? So when Qin Xiyue came to her, although she refused verbally, the idea kept coming to her mind.

Until this day in the imperial garden, the imperial concubine saw the scene she least wanted to see.

Xu Jinyi sat in the pavilion, and the emperor knelt on one knee in front of her, put her feet on his knees, and gently massaged her calves.

This scene deeply hurt the imperial concubine's heart.

The imperial concubine had followed the emperor since he was still a prince, and she had never seen the emperor dote on a woman so much.

He even knelt down and rubbed a woman's feet.

Covering her mouth, the imperial concubine's eyes were filled with tears, and she ran back to her palace sadly.

"How could he do that, Your Majesty? How could Xu Jinyi deserve such favor from Your Majesty?"

"Your Majesty actually personally performed such a foot massage for her, just like an ordinary couple in the folk."

"How could he hurt my heart like this?"

Akui stood aside, not knowing how to persuade him.

Her mother loves His Majesty so much, but now His Majesty hasn't been here for more than half a year.

Even the ice-playing that the Empress has practiced so hard cannot win back the Emperor's favor. What else can she do?

"Your Majesty, the Empress is pregnant now and cannot serve the Emperor. Why don't you bring some snacks to see the Emperor tonight?" Akui said.

"The Emperor stays in the Pepper Room every night and never returns to the Yangxin Palace. Does he want me to go to the Pepper Room to watch them being affectionate?!"

How could the imperial concubine not have thought that if the emperor didn't come, she would go to find the emperor herself.

But she never stood a chance.

"Your Majesty can go to the Qinzheng Palace."

The imperial concubine's eyes lit up. "Quick, have someone prepare some snacks and hot water. I need to take a bath."

at night.

Xu Jinyi came to the Qinzheng Hall with the support of Su Mian.

Before he even walked in, Xu Jinyi heard a woman's voice inside and his face suddenly darkened.

His heart ached slightly, and Xu Jinyi stood there with a frown on his face.

Although she had prepared herself mentally before entering the palace and understood that she would be the emperor's woman.

The emperor's woman is not the only one, and she has told herself many times not to get too involved and to stay sober.

You must remember your biggest purpose in entering the palace.

But at this moment, Xu Jinyi found that he was simply unable to be magnanimous.