In the dilapidated courtyard, an oil lamp was burning tightly in the house. The flickering flame was very weak and could only illuminate a small area.

Clothes were scattered all over the floor, extending to the edge of the bed. The bed frame was shaking and creaking.

Jiang Muxue lay on the bed with a wooden expression, staring upward with lifeless eyes. There were two obvious red slap marks on her fair cheeks, which were caused by Zhong Lei when she was struggling after being dragged into the house.

At this moment she completely gave up resisting and let the man crawl on her and torture her bruised body without mercy.

After the conversation, Zhong Lei picked up the scattered clothes and said, "Tomorrow is the wedding day of Wei Jingkang and Princess Rong An. Do you want me to bring you some wedding candy?"

Jiang Muxue curled up her body and remained silent.

He didn't care at all, curled his lips in contempt, and continued: "I heard that the wedding candy of an old lover tastes the sweetest. I don't know if it's true. You must taste it carefully tomorrow."

Seeing that she still didn't answer, Zhong Lei felt bored, casually draped his outer robe over his arm, and prepared to leave.

Jiang Muxue suddenly reached out and grabbed his sleeve.

He frowned and said coldly, "Why? Do you think I'm not serving you enough?"

"no……"

Zhong Lei didn't even wait for her to finish her words. He pulled her sleeve hard. Jiang Muxue was caught off guard and was pulled forward due to inertia and fell off the bed.

She rolled twice on the ground in her disheveled clothes, knocking over the shelf next to her. The water bottle on it fell down and broke into pieces in her hands.

Jiang Muxue lay on the ground, covering her abdomen, her face pale and her expression painful.

Zhong Lei said impatiently: "The bottle didn't fall on you, why are you pretending to be pitiful?"

However, just as he finished speaking, he saw a pool of blood slowly spreading under her body. He was stunned for a moment, then immediately threw off his robe, bent over, picked her up and put her back on the bed.

"What's wrong with you?" He sounded a little anxious.

Jiang Muxue shook her head, her voice very weak, "I... I don't know..."

"Someone come! Someone come!"

The servant who was eavesdropping outside the door was startled by his roar and immediately ran in, "What do you want, sir?"

"Go call the doctor!"

The servant did not dare to ask more questions. He just glanced at the bedside quickly and then left to do his job as he was told.

The doctor they hired was the same one from before, whose surname was Liu. His clinic was the closest to the Zhong Mansion, and usually, people in the Zhong Mansion would go to his clinic for any minor illnesses or pains.

Doctor Liu was about to go to bed when he was hurriedly called back, saying that something had happened to Concubine Jiang of the Zhong Mansion.

He was puzzled and asked, "This concubine of your Zhong family is really unlucky. Something happens to her every other day. What's the reason this time?"

The servant was a little embarrassed, but he couldn't help gossiping in his heart, so he lowered his voice and said, "It seems that our young master was too reckless in his sexual intercourse, and Madam Jiang couldn't stand it."

Doctor Liu looked quite embarrassed, so he covered his lips with his fist and coughed softly.

The two men rushed to the dilapidated courtyard. As soon as they entered the door, Doctor Liu smelled a strong smell of blood and he immediately frowned.

This doesn't seem like the amount of blood that could be produced by improper intercourse.

He quickly quickened his pace and went in. Zhong Lei stood up immediately when he saw him. There was some blood on his body. He said, "Doctor Liu, please take a look at her. Why did she bleed so much all of a sudden?"

Doctor Liu glanced at Jiang Muxue, put down the medicine box, and said as he picked up something, "Please wait outside for a moment. I will stop Madam Jiang's bleeding first. If you delay any longer, her life may be in danger."

"Yes, yes." Zhong Lei immediately prepared to leave the dormitory.

"Wait, leave someone here to help me."

Zhong Lei asked the servant to stay and help.

He sat outside the house under the veranda, waiting quietly. He saw servants coming in and out, bringing in a basin of clean water and bringing out a basin of blood.

In fact, he felt a little annoyed. He felt that he should not have been so ruthless just now.

But at this moment, when he faced Jiang Muxue, he couldn't help wanting revenge, especially when he thought about other people who had touched that alluring body. He was so jealous that he wanted to go crazy and wanted to pin her down and ravage her so that she would belong to him alone...

He waited for a long time, until the moonlight faded, and then Doctor Liu came out of the room.

Hearing the door open, he immediately stood up and asked Dr. Liu, "How is she?"

Doctor Liu shook his head, sighed helplessly, and said, "Madame Jiang has had a miscarriage. She was already weak, and she has suffered new injuries before her old ones have healed. After this ordeal, I'm afraid it will be difficult for her to get pregnant again."

Zhong Lei was shocked and asked in confusion: "When you examined her pulse a few days ago, you didn't tell her that she was pregnant?"

"The fetus is not yet full-term and the pulse is weak, so it is really difficult to detect."

"Is there no other way to save it?"

"Alas - it's not easy for her to keep her life now."

Zhong Lei pursed his lips, told the servant to send Doctor Liu away, and stayed behind himself.

The next day, Jiang Muxue moved out of the shabby yard as she wished and returned to the courtyard where she had lived before.

When she woke up and saw a familiar environment, she felt happy at first, but when she learned that she had not only miscarried, but also might not be able to get pregnant again, she became completely upset.

No matter how beautiful she is, there will always be a day when she grows old and loses her beauty. If a woman cannot give birth to a child, it will be difficult for her to gain a foothold in her husband's family. She knows that it will be difficult for her to turn her life around from then on.

Luju looked at her hopeless expression and felt a little scared. She said cautiously, "Madam Jiang, you should take some medicine and take care of yourself. It would be bad if you develop any underlying illness."

Jiang Muxue overturned the medicine bowl that Luju handed over and shouted coldly, "Get out! Get out of here!"

Green Ju's hands were spilled with the overturned soup and he didn't dare to stay any longer. He picked up the fallen pieces in panic, put them on the tray, and walked out with it.

Jiang Muxue curled up on the edge of the bed, sobbing with her little face buried in her hands, her shoulders shaking uncontrollably.

She felt that everything was over. Yu Shi didn't like her in the first place, and when Zhong Lei married his first wife, she would have even less status in the Zhong Mansion.

Maybe she can still win sympathy for now by relying on the guilt in Zhong Lei's heart, but if the wife gives birth to a child in the future, she is afraid that she will not even be qualified to compete with him for favor.

"What should I do? Who can tell me what I should do?" She cried for a while, then suddenly stopped and said in a daze: "I still have the Marquis' Mansion... Yes, I still have my mother and my brother. I can ask them for advice. I can't just sit there and wait for death. I can't..."

She will never give up, no one can make her give up!