Chapter 119 Song Jinxiu Regrets
Song Jinxiu hadn't heard any news from the outside world for a long time. When he suddenly heard the words "Miss Song", he felt as if he was in another world.
Tang Ning...
Became the Princess of Yi Yang County?
He lowered his eyes slightly and looked at his withered and shriveled hands, his expression was stunned.
After the entire Song family was imprisoned, he was first taken to the criminal department for severe torture, and later thrown into the imperial prison. The former Master Yutai is now skinny, with dirty prison clothes hanging loosely on his body, and the blue veins on his exposed wrists can almost be seen.
His face, which was once as smooth as jade, had become thin and pale, and his kind and gentle eyes seemed to be stained with the dark color of dusk. Although he was not ugly, he no longer had the slightest bit of elegance and grace.
In this dark prison, the dim, swaying light and shadow seemed to remind Song Jinxiu all the time that he was no longer the same person as before.
From the beginning, he hoped that someone would come to see him, hope that someone would talk to him about what was happening outside, and hope that he could get out. But as the days passed, the prison door was never opened, and no one came to see him.
None of the Song family members, Song Tangning, or old friends came.
Not only did Song Jinxiu hear what the jailers said, but the people in the cell next door also heard it clearly.
"Brother, it's Song Tangning!"
Song Shulan lay in front of the prison door, her eyes wide open and full of resentment.
It was obvious that Song Tangning was the legitimate daughter of the Song family, and it was obvious that she was the girl of the Song family who had enjoyed the wealth and supremacy of the Song family for more than ten years. She had only been in the Song family for half a year.
Why was she suffering in prison while Song Tangning was able to roam freely outside, and she was even given the title of County Lady?!
Song Shulan cried, "How could she become a county lady? How could she... She must have used the Song family as a stepping stone, betrayed my brother and father, and tried to please His Majesty. How could she be so vicious..."
"She's vicious? If she were half as vicious as you, how could you have entered the Song family in the first place? If she had your scheming and calculating mind, she wouldn't have been forced to turn against the Song family. She would have torn you into pieces long ago, and would have let you talk nonsense?"
A hoarse voice came from the dark cell opposite, and Lu Zhinian leaned against the cell door with a mocking look on his face.
"But you call Song Hong father? Does he recognize you? The entire Song family probably thinks you're a disaster, just a bastard of unknown origin. Calling him father and brother is easier to say."
Song Shulan looked up in disbelief: "You...how can you say that to me..."
"Am I wrong? Has the Song family ever had any good fortune since you appeared? But it's not right to call you a disaster star. A scheming bitch like you has brought misfortune to your father, mother, and relatives. You are just like a star destined for disaster." Lu Zhinian spoke viciously.
"Brother Lu..."
Song Shulan's face was pale and she was about to collapse with tears in her eyes. But before she could cry like she used to, Lu Zhinian suddenly became angry.
"Shut up, who is your brother!" His eyes were full of frost: "There is no shameless girl like you in my Lu family, who would try to marry anyone she sees."
Song Shulan shuddered: "Brother Lu..."
"I told you to shut up!"
Lu Zhinian didn't know what taboo had been violated, and his face was stained with anger. "Who allowed you to call me that? You are just a shameless concubine, a shameless whore trying to climb up the social ladder."
"This is Tang Ning's name. Only Tang Ning can call me that. Who the hell are you?!"
He was beaten with a stick, his back was soaked in blood, and his whole body seemed to have been drained of energy and spirit. He was not much better off than Song Jinxiu.
He was invisible when he was hiding in the dark just now, but when he pounced on the prison door, his face full of hostility was revealed.
Ever since he was arrested and imprisoned that night, Lu Zhinian has been trapped in dreams. The headaches day after day have kept him at rest. The torture that pierces his mind like a needle makes him wish he could die immediately. Whenever he closes his eyes, all that emerges in his mind are those unbearable dreams.
How he was infatuated with Song Shulan, and how he was extremely despicable in betraying Song Tangning.
He witnessed with his own eyes that he lost his mind because of Song Shulan, ignored the Lu family rules and welcomed a concubine's daughter pretending to be a concubine into the mansion, demoted Song Tangning to dust for her, and sent the little girl whose heart and eyes were full of him to her death.
It was as if he had lived another life, spending half of his life in that messy dream.
In the dim courtyard, the half-dead tree seemed to be mocking his harshness and shamelessness.
He seemed to be possessed by Song Tangning in his dream, feeling her pain, seeing her suffering and despair, watching her go from being vibrant at first to withering and decaying day by day, and finally dying...
Lu Zhinian wanted to break free but couldn't, trapped in the nightmare and unable to extricate himself.
In those haunting dreams, the woman's affected calls of "Brother Lu" overlapped with Song Shulan's cries outside, and Song Shulan's face in the prison not far away was like a ghost, reminding him of the stupid things he had done in the "dream".
Lu Zhinian seemed to be enraged and knocked hard on the prison door. The loud noise scared Song Shulan so much that her face turned pale and she retreated in panic. When Lu Zhinian looked at her, he was as ferocious as a man-eating beast.
“Bitch!!”
It’s all her fault. If it weren’t for her, how could he have let Tang Ning down.
If it weren't for her, how could he and Tang Ning have come to this point today! !
Song Shulan looked at Lu Zhinian, who was full of ferocity, as if he was going to skin her alive and dismantle her lower abdomen in the next moment.
She shrank back in panic, closer to Song Jinxiu, shaking with fear. She reached out and grabbed Song Jinxiu's sleeve, saying in a trembling voice, "Brother...Brother, I'm scared..."
Song Jinxiu waved his sleeve and shook off her hand: "We're behind the prison door, what are you afraid of?"
"Brother..."
Song Shulan widened her eyes in panic, tears quickly filling up in her eye sockets.
But in the past, the brother who would soften his heart when he saw her crying and wanted to give her all the good things and coax her to smile still looked at her with indifference.
Those black eyes seemed to be icy, so sharp that they seemed to be able to see through her, making Song Shulan's face pale and her eyes panic.
"Brother..."
Her lips trembled. Why was he looking at her like that? What did he know?
Song Jinxiu looked at the stained face, and saw that she tried hard to hide the guilt and uneasiness under her tearful eyes, but couldn't. He lowered his eyes and laughed at himself.
Why did he think that the woman in front of him was weaker than Tang Ning and would have difficulty surviving without his protection?
Song Jinxiu looked at Song Shulan's face carefully. Seeing that she was evasive and afraid, her guilty conscience became stronger, and the mockery in his eyes became even stronger.
He really didn't understand why he, who had always been praised for his intelligence and had entered the court early since childhood because he felt that he could see through people's hearts, would be deceived by this woman's poor acting skills.
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