Chapter 1: The Deng family’s hearts can’t be warmed
"Deng Youning, you vicious woman, you have been back for two years, and Lian'er has been wronged for two years."
"Now that the old woman is finally dead, there is no one to protect you. How can you still bully others?"
Deng Yi's sinister voice fell, like a sword hanging over Deng Youning's head.
Her martial arts had long been abolished, and she had no ability to resist at all, and was afraid that the sword would chop her down.
"Brother, even though my grandmother has passed away, I am still afraid that my sister will target me."
"Not long ago, you put poison in my rouge and almost ruined my face. Have you forgotten all this, brother?"
Deng Xuelian touched her delicate little face and looked at Deng Yi with a wronged expression.
It seemed as if tears would burst into rain in the next second.
Deng Youning shook her head in confusion.
She had never even heard of poison rouge.
Although she had lived in the Wanshe Valley of Nanxin Country for sixteen years, she had never learned the dirty skills of poisoning and witchcraft.
"Brother, I have never harmed my sister..."
She shook her head with tears in her eyes, hoping that Deng Yi would believe her.
But how could Deng Yi, who had treated her like an enemy since she just returned home, not trust his beloved sister but trust her?
“Pah—”
A crisp slap landed on Deng Youning's pale little face, knocking her to the ground with blood coming out of the corner of her mouth.
She was originally raised as a medicine man, and the Valley Master had been taking her blood since she was young, making her body thin and sickly. How could she withstand a slap from Deng Yi, a major general?
"Don't be afraid, my dear."
Deng Yi gently touched Deng Xuelian's face and comforted her softly.
"My parents said that we can just spare her life."
"I have thought of a foolproof plan. Cut her tendons and scald her throat. This way, she will never appear by your side again, and she will not be able to instigate others to harm you."
These words made Deng Youning terrified.
She didn't understand why her biological brother, who was born to the same mother as her, would treat her like this?
In the dark night, in a room lit only by a candle, Deng Yi's devilish appearance made Deng Youning tremble with fear all over.
She also learned martial arts.
If her martial arts skills were still there, she would definitely be able to defeat Deng Yi and escape.
But now...
"Brother, is this too much?"
"I'm an adopted daughter. I've occupied her identity for sixteen years. I can understand why she hates me."
"She is our sister after all!"
Deng Xuelian pretended to be nervous for Deng Youning.
Even the unsympathetic Deng Youning could see that he was acting, but Deng Yi didn't notice anything at all.
"Lian'er, you are just too kind. You treat her as your sister, but she wanted you dead from the moment she came home!"
"Such a vicious person is not worthy of being the legitimate daughter of our Zhenguogong Mansion!"
Listening to the charges that Deng Yi imposed on him, Deng Youning could only keep shaking his head in resistance.
She never thought of it that way!
Deng Yi pinched her neck and poured a pot of freshly boiled hot water into her mouth.
The scorching temperature burned her mouth and throat, and even the skin around her lips was burned off.
The pain of suffocation made her unable to resist.
Not only did my voice become hoarse, but my tongue also lost its sense of taste.
But the torture did not end.
The next second, Deng Yi raised his knife and swiftly cut off the tendons in Deng Youning's hands and feet.
Blood spurted out and stained Deng Xuelian's shoes.
"The blood of a bitch is so dirty!"
He took out the handkerchief he carried with him, squatted on the ground, and carefully polished Deng Xuelian's shoes.
Seeing that he couldn't wipe it off, he simply picked up Deng Xuelian and said:
"Come on, I'll take you to get a new pair."
Deng Xuelian snuggled in his arms and nodded with satisfaction.
Deng Youning was just thrown here.
His lips turned white from the pain and he couldn't bear it any longer, so he passed out.
Deng Youning, who was covered in scars and blood, couldn't understand why her biological brother would treat her like this?
Ever since the day she was brought back by her grandmother two years ago, no one in the Duke's Mansion liked her.
Whatever she did was wrong.
As if she should die!
Her grandmother passed away, and she really wanted her grandmother to take her with her on the journey.
But her grandmother's last wish before she died was for her to live well...
If she had known this, she should not have come back with her grandmother.
But my grandmother clearly said that she was the only daughter of the Deng family, and Deng Xuelian was just an adopted daughter.
She thought that if she kept her head down and opened her heart to them, she could gain their sincerity in return, and one day her parents and brother would be moved by her filial piety.
But she was so wrong.
Because the Deng family’s hearts can never be warmed.
Her father Deng Zheng loved drinking tea, so she collected morning dew to make tea for him, but he smashed the teacup heavily on her head.
Just because Deng Xuelian said that the dew on the leaves was not clean, she said that she wanted to give her father diarrhea and had ulterior motives.
Her mother had suffered from a serious illness. When she fell ill, she went to a mountain hundreds of meters high to find medicine for her mother, but she was deceived and her mother poured the medicine into the泔水桶.
It was because Deng Xuelian got the imperial medicine from the prince, and her medicine came from an unknown source, so she had ulterior motives.
Even the entire capital city was filled with the reputation that the second daughter of the Duke's Mansion poisoned her parents, bullied her elder sister, and was disrespectful to her elder brother.
Her biggest mistake was longing for family love that didn't exist at all!
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Three months after Deng Youning's tendons in her hands and feet were severed, a great event occurred at the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.
Deng Xuelian married the prince!
She married into the Eastern Palace and became the Crown Prince's wife.
The entire Duke Zhenguo's Mansion was celebrating this event, with red silk and wedding characters hung everywhere.
But at this time, Old Madam Han Qiongyue had only been dead for three and a half months.
These days, there was a shortage of staff in the mansion, and the servants who usually brought sloppy meals and dirty water to Deng Youning were also called to the front hall to help.
No one in the mansion cared about her.
She had been starved for two or three days.
Suffering from hunger and cold, she felt that her so-called relatives had begun to kill her.
This is an attempt to starve her to death!
No, she couldn't just sit there and wait for death.
Dragging her crippled leg, she accidentally arrived at the wedding banquet.
I just wanted to find something to eat, but I didn't expect to offend His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
The prince was furious and ordered her to be beaten to death with sticks.
"You little bitch, you're still running around with a broken hamstring?"
"Originally, you could have relied on your status as the second young lady to bully others in the Duke's Mansion, but you had to take advantage of my wedding with your sister to come and mess with us. Don't blame us for sending you to hell!"
"Hit me, hit me hard!"
pain!
It hurts so much...
At first, it was just physical pain; little by little, the tendons and bones were broken.
Finally, the meat was rotten into pulp and the bones were broken into powder.
Wooden sticks as thick as forearms fell on her already weak and thin body, and each blow could tear her skin and break her bones.
His face was pale and bloodless, his facial features were tightly wrinkled, and drops of water as big as beans kept falling from his chin, it was impossible to tell whether they were tears or sweat.
Slowly closed his eyes.
That's how she died.
When Deng Youning died, Deng Xuelian was getting into the bridal sedan.
Because it was the Crown Prince who ordered the killing, the people in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion had no right to plead for mercy.
They sent an old maid to keep an eye on it.
When the man was dying, the old woman came running to report:
"The Duke, Madam, Crown Prince, and Second Miss have all died!"
Deng Yi breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that the sky had cleared up.
Once this vicious woman died, no one could bother his sister anymore.
Gu, the biological mother, blamed the nanny with a look of disgust.
"You guys just dispose of the body if she's dead. Today is Lian'er's big day, why are you telling me she's dead? It's bad luck!"
She fanned her ears with her handkerchief and turned away.
Deng Zheng, his biological father, sighed, as if he had gotten rid of a serious threat.
"Alas, you will suffer the consequences if you do evil."
"I usually spoiled her too much and let her offend the prince. It's a misfortune for our family to have such a daughter!"
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