Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but frown when she heard this. She didn't know why she had a bad feeling in her heart. She stroked the chess piece in her hand and asked, "I wonder which eunuch he recognized."
Xiao Jingxi said: "This eunuch's surname is Lu, and he is close to Empress Dowager Yan."
Ren Yaoqi's hand trembled. The chess piece in her hand slipped from her fingertips and fell to the ground with a crisp sound. Her face turned pale and she looked up at Xiao Jingxi in disbelief: "Who?"
Xiao Jingxi was a little stunned, not understanding why Ren Yaoqi had suddenly lost his composure. He softened his voice and said gently, "It's Eunuch Lu, who serves Empress Dowager Yan. He's in his thirties and has served the Empress Dowager for over a decade. He's very much in her good graces. But... he's just a eunuch."
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but think of the things in his previous life, and his body trembled slightly.
There were some things she tried hard to forget and never tried to think about them on purpose, but hearing the name now still made her feel uneasy.
When she was sent to Eunuch Lu by the Ren family, she was very frightened because the servants who served Eunuch Lu secretly talked about it. Although Eunuch Lu was a rootless man, he liked to torture women with all kinds of despicable means. The servants once saw the miserable body of a little maid being carried out of his yard.
The maid who was sent to serve her comforted her, saying that she was born in a wealthy family and was sent to be Eunuch Lu's wife, so Eunuch Lu should not treat her in that way.
The first time she saw Eunuch Lu was on the third night after being sent there. She went to bed early that day, and felt someone touching her face while half asleep. She was so scared that she woke up with a start, and then she saw a pale and slightly fat middle-aged man sitting at the head of her bed. The man exuded an unpleasant smell of alcohol, and the look in his eyes when he looked at her was very strange, which made her unable to help but do evil.
She screamed in fright, but was thrown onto the bed by the man. He began to tear her clothes regardless of her struggles and strangled her neck with one hand.
Ren Yaoqi was so desperate that she wanted to die at that time, but she knew that she still wanted to live, because when the man lowered his head to kiss her, she opened her mouth and bit his ear, and was finally slapped unconscious by him.
When she woke up again, she learned from the old woman who took care of her that the man was Eunuch Lu.
Fortunately, Eunuch Lu had injured his ear at the time and was mostly sober. He no longer had any interest in torturing her, so he went downstairs to check on her injuries first. When she learned that her innocence was preserved, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
But her relief did not last long. The next day, Eunuch Lu came again with gauze wrapped around his ear. This time, he held a strange whip about a foot long in his hand and started whipping her without saying a word.
That time she was beaten all over her body and was only breathing her last breath. She rested in bed for half a month.
From then on, every time she recovered from her injury, he would whip her, but he would never whip her in the face.
She still remembered how he said to her with a twisted face, "Aren't you a chaste woman? I want to see how long you can remain chaste! One day, you won't be able to bear the pain any longer and will beg me to get into your bed!"
She cursed in her heart, "Dream on!", then said nothing and endured it silently. She thought that she would eventually die under the whip of Eunuch Lu, but she finally survived and met Pei Zhiqian who was willing to save her from the hell.
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