Chapter 30: Tearing Off the Mask, Stabbing Fiercely at Li Kechuan's Neck
Since Li Qingluo returned, he has been constantly confronting Li Kechuan head-on.
She seemed completely unconcerned about his outbursts, and even less afraid of his rage and irritability.
Even each time, her effortless deflection of his raging fury allowed him to retaliate.
He admitted that she was quite clever, and that she had given him some trouble.
But how could he let her be so smug, enjoying everything that should rightfully belong to Pearl?
Since he failed to make Li Qing pay for his crime by taking advantage of his mother's eye ailment last time, Li Kechuan planned this matter again.
But this time she actually shed tears?
He was stunned for a moment when he saw the teardrop.
Could it be that she truly knows she's wrong?
If she could properly kowtow to Zhu'er, admit her mistakes, and repent, he might spare her life.
But the next second, Li Qingluo suddenly chuckled.
She shrugged, her whole body shaking as if she were laughing at something ridiculous.
Li Kechuan then realized that he had been tricked by her!
Enraged, he stepped forward, grabbed her hair, and forced her face upwards.
Li Kechuan gritted his teeth: "What are you laughing at?"
Li Qingluo curled her lips slightly: "I'm laughing at you, you're so stupid."
Li Kechuan raised his other hand and pinched her face hard, so hard that he wanted to crush her teeth.
Li Qingluo felt that her inner cheek was broken, and her mouth was filled with the taste of blood.
But she was still smiling, her mouth unable to rise, yet her eyes were filled with contempt and mockery towards him.
Li Kechuan: "I'm stupid? What do you mean?"
Li Qingluo was speechless. Li Kechuan thought she was just being deliberately mysterious, and then he sneered: "Grandmother won't come to save you today, so there's no need for you to say anything useless. What good will it do you except to provoke me?"
There was no fear in Li Qingluo's eyes; instead, a hint of pity crept into them.
She...she pitied him?
Why pity him?
The person who's being arrested right now is clearly her!
As if stung by her gaze, Li Kechuan raised his hand and slapped her hard across the face.
"Don't look at me like that, and don't laugh!"
Li Qingluo lowered her head after being thrown away.
Five bright red finger marks were clearly visible on his face.
A trickle of blood slowly flowed from the corner of his mouth.
Li Qingluo: "Do you know, Li Kechuan? You're nothing but Li Qingzhu's dog. I pity you for being manipulated by her without even realizing it. I pity you for being blinded, living in your own chaotic world, like a raging madman!"
"I pity your ignorance and arrogance, but one day, you will be utterly and ruthlessly abandoned by the person you cherish most!"
Li Qingluo's eyes flashed with intense hatred: "Furthermore, even if you take my life today, I will not kowtow to Li Qingzhu! Because I have done nothing wrong."
She looked up, her face swollen, her cold, knife-like gaze fixed on her own brother.
These words thoroughly enraged Li Kechuan.
He clenched his fist, which was cracking, and pressed down on Li Qingluo's head: "Don't worry, I won't kill you right away, sister."
"Because, you'd be lucky to get away with it if you died."
"I want you to kneel before Zhu'er's grave every day and chant sutras for her salvation. I want you to guard Zhu'er's grave; if you don't kowtow, you won't get food or water."
"I want you to genuinely feel remorse and repent for Pearl's death. I want you to weep and admit that you were wrong!"
"I want you—to be a dog in front of Pearl's grave."
After Li Kechuan finished speaking, he stood up and ordered his trusted servants behind him: "Break her legs and pull out her Achilles tendons. Hold her down and make her kowtow a hundred times in front of the eldest daughter's grave."
"Not one person is allowed to get up!"
Upon hearing this, the servants trembled.
"Yes, yes, young master."
They dragged over, their faces fierce, carrying iron bars. Li Qingluo retorted, "How dare you! I am, after all, a daughter of the General's Mansion, a direct descendant of the General! If Grandmother finds out, she will surely take your lives!"
The servants froze instantly, and when they met Li Qingluo's sharp, angry gaze, they hesitated.
Li Qingluo suddenly spoke up again: "Li Kechuan, don't you have any guts? If you're going to do it, why don't you dare to do it yourself?"
"I am your own flesh and blood sister. Wouldn't it be more obvious how deep your love and cherish for Li Qingzhu be if you did it yourself?"
Li Kechuan sneered: "Fool, do you really think I can't?"
"Compared to Pearl, you are indeed as worthless as grass."
He snatched the iron rod from the servant's hand and swung it down hard on Li Qingluo's leg.
However, the change occurred in that very instant.
Li Qingluo, who had been tightly bound, suddenly found her hands and feet free. In the instant the iron rod was raised to strike down, she rolled over violently on the ground.
Suddenly, a dagger appeared in his hand, which he drew from its sheath and thrust at Li Kechuan's foot.
Li Kechuan laughed in exasperation.
The stick changed direction and struck Li Qingluo's back hard.
He then reached down and grabbed her hand before it could fall.
Li Qingluo let out a painful scream, and blood once again spilled from the corner of her mouth.
Li Kechuan: "You actually hid a knife on yourself? Too bad, you've met your match in Li Kechuan!"
He was a young general with superb martial arts skills. Ordinary henchmen were nothing more than ants in his eyes, let alone a weak woman like her.
Li Kechuan initially wanted to kick her away, but then he suddenly changed his mind, grabbed Li Qingluo's hair, and forcefully pressed her entire face against Li Qingzhu's grave.
"Since you want me to do it myself, then I'll force you to kowtow to Pearl a hundred times."
After Li Kechuan finished speaking, he was about to grab Li Qingluo's head and bang it down hard, but Li Qingluo just gave a cold laugh.
"You're dreaming..."
Li Kechuan didn't hear clearly and leaned closer: "What did you say?"
Li Qingluo turned to look at the face that was finally so close to hers, and the smile on her lips gradually widened: "I said, I have done nothing wrong... so, you're dreaming!"
As she finished speaking, a fierce glint flashed in her eyes, followed by a ruthless expression.
Li Kechuan was too arrogant and conceited, so he carelessly underestimated everything Li Qingluo had just done.
Even though he held Li Qingluo's hand holding the dagger, he never managed to knock it away from her.
However, this was the moment Li Qingluo had been waiting for!
She deliberately provoked him, recklessly trying to get him to take action himself, even at the cost of completely breaking off relations with him.
All of this was in search of the only opportunity to retaliate against him!
Li Qingluo had already released the handle of the dagger, and as Li Kechuan got close to her, the iron rod at that end stabbed fiercely towards Li Kechuan's neck!
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