Chapter 193 Two worthless lives stabbed to death together
"Ugh!"
Aru's shrill screams rang out.
Geng Qionghua showed no mercy, pulling out the hairpin and letting the blood instantly stain the golden phoenix.
Her face contorted with rage, and she chuckled in a low voice, “This time, I’ll teach you who the rightful mistress of this mansion is!”
Before she finished speaking, she stabbed again fiercely!
"This is to tell you that the Meng family's reputation cannot be tarnished by someone as filthy as you!"
She looked down at Aru, who was curled up on the ground, her face contorted in agony, and with an extreme sense of pleasure, she stabbed her with the third hairpin!
"This final touch... is the hairpin he personally gave me years ago. Now, piercing through this wicked fetus, it can be considered... a return of the favor."
Aru's screams turned into a hissing, drafty gasp.
Her eyes widened in disbelief as she looked down at her bleeding abdomen, then looked up at Geng Qionghua's cruel and heartless face.
"You...you dare to..."
Her lips trembled as she tried to reach out and grab Geng Qionghua, but she had no strength left.
The pain shattered the smugness and scheming on her face, leaving only fear and despair.
She seemed to want to look in Meng Jiang's direction for help, but her vision was already blurred.
Finally, her body convulsed violently a few times, her head lolled to the side, and she collapsed completely into a pool of blood.
Geng Qionghua slowly squatted down, and with the still-dripping hairpin, she coldly traced a bloody line across Aru's lifeless cheek, leaving a gruesome bloodstain. Her voice was sinister: "I forgot to mention, don't blame me for killing both of your worthless lives together..."
The surrounding servants were already terrified, their faces pale and trembling like leaves.
Some of the timid maids had already collapsed to the ground, covering their mouths tightly, not daring to make a sound.
Lu Zhaoruo was the only one who remained calm.
after all.
She once ended a life with a hairpin.
She knew better than anyone what it felt like when a sharp hairpin pierced the skin.
He understands better than anyone the kind of determination and madness that can burst forth in the eyes of someone driven to the brink of despair.
At this moment, she saw in Geng Qionghua the old mistress who was once shrouded in vanity and respectability, and also her ruthless and vicious nature; but even more deeply, she saw her... patheticness.
The commotion startled Meng Jiang awake.
In his drunken stupor, the first thing he saw was the glaring blood on the ground, followed by Aru lying in a pool of blood, her face unrecognizable.
"Aru...Aru!"
He lunged forward, staggered, shoved aside Geng Qionghua who was squatting to the side, and hugged Aru's still warm body, his hands covered in sticky blood.
He abruptly looked up, his eyes filled with unbelievable horror and boundless hatred, staring straight at Geng Qionghua: "You poisonous woman! You...you're a complete madwoman!!"
Geng Qionghua was pushed and swayed slightly, but she took the opportunity to stand up.
She raised the gold hairpin in her hand, now soaked in blood and no longer shining, and examined the winding bloodstains running down its surface.
Meng Jiang's eyes were bloodshot, and he was furious: "You vile woman! You...you have utterly disregarded all human ethics!!"
Hearing Meng Jiang's angry curses, she burst into laughter instead.
Meng Jiang, suppressing his trembling, commanded sternly, "Guards! Bring me paper and pen! Today I will divorce this jealous and cruel wicked woman! Write the divorce papers and immediately send her to the family nunnery in the back mountains, never to step out of the nunnery again! I want you... to spend your days with the ancient Buddha and the dim lamp, to repent for the murder you have committed today!"
Geng Qionghua's laughter stopped abruptly.
Her bloodshot eyes were fixed on the man she had once loved with all her heart, her voice hoarse: "What did you say? You divorced...me? You imprisoned me in the family nunnery?"
Looking back at her, Meng Jiang's eyes were filled with undisguised hatred and fear, chillingly cold: "I didn't kill you immediately because of our past relationship."
"You dare!"
Geng Qionghua screamed shrilly.
"Why wouldn't I dare?"
Meng Jiang's rebuke.
The moment their eyes met, Geng Qionghua suddenly woke up.
Yes, her maternal family had long since fallen into ruin, and the Empress's pity had been exhausted.
Now that she is all alone and helpless, of course he dares to do it!
In that instant, memories of the past surged forth like a tidal wave.
She recalled that seven years ago, when she was a young girl just past the age of marriage, she accidentally bumped into Meng Jiang, who was then a fourth-rank official, at a banquet.
He was handsome and charming at the time, and his gentle words easily stirred her innocent heartstrings.
This secret secret was eventually discovered by Meng Jiang's wife—the weak and gentle woman from the Di family.
Lady Di married Meng Jiang, but she loved him deeply and chose to endure it.
But even though she knew it was wrong, she was still indulging in love and couldn't extricate herself.
However, the matter eventually came to the attention of the Duke of Di, who, in a fit of rage, demoted the Geng family from fourth-rank officials in the capital to Jizhou City.
During her exile, her mother, unable to bear the humiliation and hardship, died en route.
Two years later, although he was summoned back by the grace of the emperor, my father had already fallen ill from grief and indignation and passed away...
It was her naive and foolish infatuation back then that not only dragged down her family, but also indirectly caused the death of her parents!
When she returned, it so happened that Madam Di was seriously ill and on her deathbed. Filled with hatred and resentment, she angered the weak first wife to death at her bedside.
Later, taking advantage of the last vestiges of pity from the then-Crown Princess, now the Empress, she married into the Meng family and became their second wife...
That is why Meng Xi, the eldest son of the Meng family, hated her to the bone and opposed her at every turn.
She even suspected that Meng Xi was behind the scenes orchestrating this drama that had ruined her reputation.
She looked at the man glaring at her with rage because of a lowly maid and her illegitimate child, then at her own blood-stained hands and the hairpin that symbolized their love.
She devoted her entire life to gambling everything, only to receive such a miserable ending in return.
She no longer looked at Meng Jiang, nor at the corpse on the ground; utterly despondent.
She simply tightened her grip on the hairpin and silently walked towards the courtyard.
A servant stepped forward tremblingly and whispered, "Madam...please."
As she passed by Lu Zhaoruo, she paused slightly, turned her head, and gave a bitter smile: "Sister Lu...did you enjoy watching this grand show today?"
Lu Zhaoruo remained calm, her gaze as cold as ever: "I have no interest in watching a show."
Geng Qionghua scoffed.
Lu Zhaoruo continued, "I came here today only to expose your true colors and no longer want to be used by you."
Indeed, she did not want to see the mistress of the house murdering her servants.
"face?"
Geng Qionghua scoffed, her red eyes filled with confusion and self-mockery, "Even I... can no longer tell whether I am a human or a ghost."
Lu Zhaoruo asked, "The real reason I came here today is to ask you why the jade pendant that I personally carved and gave to Shen Rongzhi ended up in your hands?"
Geng Qionghua trembled violently, a hint of panic flashing in her eyes, but it was quickly replaced by a kind of madness.
She glanced back at the furious Meng Jiang and deliberately raised her voice, "Why? It's because when I was demoted to Jizhou, your dear former husband, Shen Lang, fell in love with me at first sight and tried every means to please me. This jade pendant... was a token of love that he personally gave me!"
Lu Zhaoruo's knuckles turned white from clenching her fists, her heart filled with a mixture of shock and doubt.
Seeing this, Geng Qionghua's face broke into a mocking smile, and her voice became even sharper: "Look, all the fickle men in the world are pretty much the same! Your Shen Rongzhi and my Lord Meng are no different birds of a feather."
Meng Jiang, who was already furious, became even angrier upon hearing this.
He pointed at Geng Qionghua and cursed, "You vile woman! So you had an affair in Jizhou, and your relationship was tainted! How dare you marry into my Meng family!"
Geng Qionghua turned her head sharply, her gaze like a knife piercing Meng Jiang, and retorted in a mournful voice: "Meng Lang! Didn't we also secretly meet behind the Di family's back? When have you ever been innocent!"
These words were like the last fig leaf being lifted, and Meng Jiang was so angry that he trembled all over, completely losing face.
He could no longer tolerate it and roared at those around him, "Gag her! Drag this madwoman away right now! Quickly!"
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