Xiao Rou sobbed for a while before she calmed down. "He arranged things for my husband to do, keeping him so busy all day that he had no time to come home. But Wang Wentao would appear in front of me from time to time. At first, I thought he had something to ask my husband, but after it happened so many times, I felt something was wrong, so I deliberately avoided him."
“As soon as I got the news that he was coming, I would make an excuse to go out. It was okay once or twice, but after a while, I would always let my guard down. In the end, he caught me. Wang Wentao was spying on his sister-in-law. His heart is despicable.”
As Xiaorou spoke, she covered her mouth and sobbed, looking utterly miserable.
If she were a living person, seeing her like this, they would only feel sorry for her. But now that she has become a ghost, her voice is mournful and plaintive, sending chills down one's spine.
Mo Lan raised her hand and pinched her brow. It’s true that aristocratic families have a lot of shady dealings. How come they have all sorts of messy things going on? It’s not like the Wang family can’t afford to get married. What’s the point of them spying on other people’s families?
"Didn't you tell your husband? Ask him to stand up for you? Or take the matter to your elders so they'd be wary and wouldn't dare to touch you easily?"
"Waaah... My husband is not valued by the family, while Wang Wentao is the eldest son. I'm afraid that if I make a scene, it will be detrimental to my husband and affect his reputation. But now that I think about it, even if I make a scene, I will only humiliate myself. Nobody cares about us as a couple."
“My nominal mother-in-law is Wang Wentao’s legal mother. She has always cherished her own son and would not even give a second glance to the son of a concubine. If she knew that her son was eyeing his sister-in-law, she would not scold her own son, but would scold me for seducing my brother-in-law and being shameless.”
"They say you can't hide fire with paper. No matter how well Wang Wentao hid it, the news would eventually leak out. Every time I paid my respects, my mother-in-law looked at me with resentment and said that I had no virtue as a woman and had unjustly tarnished my brother-in-law's reputation."
Listening to Xiaorou's account, Molan agreed. It was true that no one cared about the life or death of an unfavored illegitimate son. In aristocratic families, competition was fierce, and even blood relatives were not necessarily loving and affectionate towards each other.
Thinking of this, Mo Lan glanced at the pitiful Xiao Rou again. Putting aside her pale face, she did have delicate features, a petite figure, and expressive eyes; she clearly looked like someone who needed protection.
"...Then how did you end up being murdered here?"
"Xiaorou is right. No secrets stay hidden forever. Wang Wentao's constant harassment and the rumors circulating behind our backs were the last straw. Left with no other option, my husband and I suggested leaving the family and living separately. Seeing my husband's firm stance, that scoundrel didn't dare to be so presumptuous, and things did indeed quiet down for a while..."
As Wang Wencheng spoke, his originally calm expression began to twist again, and resentment began to grow within his body. Fortunately, a beam of white light from the tomb spirit suppressed it.
"But in the end, we underestimated him. While my husband was out collecting debts in the countryside, that man cornered me in the house and showed his true colors. I cried out to heaven and earth, but no one answered. I couldn't even die. After being humiliated, he threatened me, saying that I had seduced him first, and that if I resisted, he would ruin my husband's reputation."
“Watching him laugh wildly, I wanted to eat his flesh and drink his blood, but I didn’t want my husband to be pointed at and cried all day long. In the end, my husband saw that I couldn’t live in the Wang family anymore, so he used his connections and asked the clansmen to help plead for us to be separated and live on our own.”
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