"Shut up! Still trying to argue? Looks like you didn't learn your lesson last time."
Ayao tried to speak up for herself, but Lu Yunli flicked his wrist, and a whip appeared in his hand. He lashed Ayao with the whip without any mercy, and Ayao screamed in agony.
"I didn't! I didn't!" Ayao cried out loudly.
"You shameless wretch, still daring to argue! You don't learn anything good, you only learn to seduce men, wanting to become the young sect master's wife of the Divine Dream Sect, what a pipe dream!" Lu Yunli whipped A Yao hard.
Ayao's screams attracted a large crowd. Many members of the Lu family gathered outside the door, but no one went in until Lu Yunshen heard the noise and rushed in, grabbing Lu Yunli's whip: "Big brother, what are you doing? Are you going to beat Xiaoqi to death?"
Lu Yunli looked at A Yao, who was covered in blood, snorted coldly, and threw away the whip.
Lu Yunshen helped A Yao up and stopped her bleeding. Seeing that A Yao's skin was torn and bleeding, he felt sorry for her. He looked at his elder brother in confusion and asked, "Brother, what did Xiao Qi do wrong? Why are you punishing her like this?"
"This shameful thing, dreaming of becoming the young master's wife of the Divine Dream Sect, I'm just waking her up so she won't embarrass herself in the future," Lu Yunli said coldly.
Lu Yunshen looked at the dying A Yao with surprise.
The young members of the Lu family gathered outside looked at A Yao with disdain and contempt. Some, like Lu Yunshuang, even made sarcastic remarks.
"She actually thinks about becoming the young sect master's wife of the Divine Dream Sect. She's like a toad trying to eat swan meat."
"Don't you even know if you're worthy?"
"He really deserves to be hit."
Lu Yunshen frowned and looked at Lu Yunli, saying, "Brother, Xiaoqi isn't the only woman who admires Xu Fengzhi, is she? Even if she has such thoughts, it doesn't warrant the death penalty, does it?"
Lu Yunli sneered: "She even went to seduce Xu Fengzhi, isn't that shameful? If I hadn't beaten her up, who knows what shameless things she would have done in the future, ruining the reputation of my Lu family."
"No...I didn't..."
Ayao tried to defend herself in a weak voice, but no one listened to her or believed her.
Lu Yunli snorted coldly and strode away. Lu Yunchuan and Lu Yunxing followed him, and the crowd gathered outside dispersed. After everyone left, Lu Yunshen helped Ayao heal her injuries. Once Ayao had recovered, she grabbed Lu Yunshen's collar, her eyes red, and said, "Third brother, I didn't, I didn't seduce Young Master Xu. I... I just thanked him. I didn't seduce him..."
Large tears rolled down Ayao's cheeks.
Looking at A Yao's pale face, Lu Yun Shen said, "I know you envy Xiao Ba's marriage, but the gates of the Shenmeng Sect are not so easy to enter. The sect leader and his wife only have one son, Xu Feng Zhi, whom they cherish like the apple of their eye. Ordinary women are hard to catch their eye."
Lu Yunshen said this in a tactful way, but Ayao understood what he meant. He didn't believe her and even told her in a roundabout way that there was absolutely no way she could marry into the Divine Dream Sect.
Ayao suddenly pushed Lu Yunshen away and ran out.
"Xiao Qi—"
Lu Yunshen called out from behind.
Ayao ran crying down the corridor to her room, closed the door, and sobbed on the table. Why? Why didn't anyone believe her? She had only gone to thank him; she had only wanted to say thank you to Xu Fengzhi. Why did they interpret her so maliciously?
She clearly never had any improper thoughts about Xu Fengzhi, so why is she slandering her like this?
Besides, so what if she likes Xu Fengzhi?
Even the most ordinary female disciple of the Lu family dared to openly admit her love for Xu Fengzhi. Is it so wicked of her, the seventh young lady, to even have such thoughts?
Because they hate themselves, everything they do is wrong, even breathing is wrong?
Ayao burst into tears.
Back at the Lu family home, Lu Yunli told Xu Lianxin that at the banquet at Tianshui Palace, Ayao had tried to seduce Xu Fengzhi. Xu Lianxin didn't give Ayao a chance to defend herself, slapping her across the face and calling her a shameless slut and a whore.
Ayao fell to the ground, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth. She looked at her beautiful and noble mother and said, "If I am a shameless slut, then I was born from you."
After she finished speaking, it was as if a cold front swept through the entire room, and everyone's expression changed.
Enraged, Xu Lianxin kicked A Yao in the chest, sending her flying backward, coughing up blood. She crashed into the wall and lost consciousness. When she awoke, she was back in the water dungeon.
Her entire body was submerged in icy water. Ayao was chained up; if it weren't for the chains suspending her, she would have collapsed by now. Ayao thought of her days as a little beggar and suddenly felt that those days were better than coming back to this home. In this home, no one welcomed her, no one liked her. Tears welled up in her eyes again, dripping down her cheeks into the cold pool.
The more she tried not to cry, the more her tears flowed uncontrollably.
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Divine Dream Sect.
Xu Fengzhi was drawing spirit talismans on a huge table made of black jade, with a spirit-drawing brush in hand. On his table were many calligraphy works by famous people, as well as the talismans he had just finished drawing.
A woman in green entered from outside and bowed to Xu Fengzhi: "Young Master."
Xu Fengzhi looked at the maid in blue and said, "Have you found out what I asked you to inquire about?"
"I've inquired. The seventh young lady returned to the Lu family in Kunshan twelve years ago. However, she is not favored by Madam Lu, and the young masters of the Lu family also dislike her. They only dote on the eighth young lady, Lu Xuening, so they have never announced that she has been found."
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