Chapter 213 I Don’t Want to Be a Reproductive Machine, I Choose Liberation
Xiao Lingzhao tried his best to stop Shen Yuanwei.
He can die by himself, but Yuan Wei can't!
It was because he, as a husband, had little influence and could not protect Yuan Wei. He could only use death to defend their dignity and protect Yuan Wei from being harmed by the emperor. But what had Yuan Wei done wrong?
It's not her fault that she can have children. She should have lived a colorful life. How could she sacrifice her life because of the fight between two men?
Watching the couple fighting to grab the sword to commit suicide, Xie Junlin's face became so ugly that it was unbearable to look at.
This couple is so bold!
They didn't really want to die, they were clearly putting on a show for him!
Trying to force him to compromise by committing suicide is simply outrageous!
Xie Junlin was about to put the swaddling clothes on the table and free his hands to get angry, when suddenly -
He glanced at Shen Yuanwei and saw her take a few steps back!
Shen Yuanwei couldn't snatch the sword from Xiao Lingzhao, so she simply gave up. She took a few steps back, and then suddenly pulled out the hairpin from her head with lightning speed!
She held the hairpin and pointed the sharp end at her neck!
Xie Junlin, who was about to lose his temper, suddenly froze.
Seeing that the sharp hairpin had cut Shen Yuanwei's neck and was bleeding, his heart rose to his throat!
Aren't you just pretending for him?
Isn’t this woman the most cherishing of her life?
Why does it seem like it’s serious?
Xiao Lingzhao's blood froze. He was anxious, panicked and scared. He threw away his sword, stretched out his hand tremblingly and shouted softly.
"Yuan Wei, don't do anything stupid. Put the hairpin down and give it to me, dear——"
Shen Yuanwei did not put down the hairpin.
Seeing Xiao Lingzhao approaching her step by step, she stepped back step by step.
"Xiao Lingzhao, I don't want to drag you down anymore."
"Four years ago, the emperor snatched me into the palace, and you went to Taihu Water Stronghold and fought bloody battles for four months before you got me back. That time, someone cut your neck with a knife, and you almost died..."
She shook her head.
"This time, if the emperor takes me into the palace again, I don't know what price you will have to pay to get me back."
"If you give up on me and let me be a concubine in the palace, they will call you a coward and a jerk. You can't even get your own wife back. You and your children will have no chance to live as human beings..."
"But if you listen to the emperor and do something dangerous to buy my freedom, will you still be so lucky and survive this time?"
"I don't want to put you in a dilemma again. I don't want to hurt you again."
Shen Yuanwei looked at Xie Junlin again.
She raised her lips sarcastically.
"Xie Junlin, tell me, why can't people be content? You already have a child. Your lucky child is smart and looks like you. As long as you teach him well, he can shoulder the burden of inheriting the country. Isn't what you want a child to inherit the country? What else do you want?"
Xie Junlin looked pale.
"Shen Yuanwei, put down your hairpin, and let's talk it over nicely—"
Shen Yuanwei sneered.
"You are the emperor who has the final say. We are insignificant and have little influence. How can we have a proper discussion with you? Have you given us a chance to have a proper discussion?"
"Look, it was you who forcibly took my wife and caused the current situation, but you actually turned the tables and threatened me with my son's life to force me to submit. How can I still have a good discussion with you?"
"I have finally understood that you are a greedy person. As long as I am alive and can still give birth, you will do everything you can to get me into the palace to bear your child. Even if you can compromise and give up today, in a few days, you will become greedy again and try to seize me——"
"And as the years go by, you will have more and more things to threaten me with."
"Look, four years ago you could only use Xiao Lingzhao to threaten me. Now, you have another wish to threaten me with. In the future, you can also use the boy and girl twins that Xiao Lingzhao and I gave birth to to threaten me. If I enter the palace and give birth to more children with you, then you can use even more children to threaten me."
"As long as your greed and desire are endless, I will always be under your control."
Xie Junlin looked at Shen Yuanwei's red eyes and her fearless look, and his fingers trembled slightly.
He whispered, "You're willing to die just to avoid having a child? Is it so intolerable for you to have a child for me? I never thought that this was something that you had to die for. It's just a year of hard work. Does it really make you so miserable that you have to die?"
Shen Yuanwei found it quite ironic and funny.
Just having a baby?
Just one year of hard work?
Men don't have to go through the pain of childbirth, so they can always talk without any back pain.
Especially powerful men.
Such men are proud in their hearts. They think that there are many women in the world who want to marry them and bear children for them. They can entrust this glorious and great task to women, and women should be grateful.
Shen Yuanwei shook her head.
"Xie Junlin, you still don't understand. There is a difference between voluntary and forced."
"If a woman is willing to have a child, then a year of hard work is really nothing to her, because she has a sense of mission in her heart, she feels that she is doing something great, she is happy every moment, and no matter how difficult it is, she can rely on the love and faith in her heart to get through it."
“Can be forced to be different.”
"People who are forced to do something have resentment and unwillingness in their hearts."
"Just like back then, I was unwillingly pregnant with the child of a man I didn't love. Giving birth to those two children was just a task for me. Even though I knew the children were innocent, even though I told myself many times that I was a mother and I should love them, deep down in my heart I still couldn't generate too much love. I just wanted to give birth to them as soon as possible, abandon them, and leave that cage."
"I left your cage covered in blood after my stomach was cut open, but now you want to capture me again—"
"You want me to sleep with someone I don't love, to bear a child for someone I don't love, and to have my belly cut open once again. You want me to go through ten months of pain and suffering in exchange for two little things you can use to threaten me. Do you think there is anything to look forward to in such a life?"
"Being locked up in a small bedroom like this day after day, acting as a reproductive machine without seeing the sun, there's really nothing to look forward to."
"It's really terrifying to be controlled by you like this, to be threatened, intimidated and coerced by you forever, and then to endure the pain of childbirth for ten months again."
She smiled at Xie Junlin.
"So, I chose to escape. I want to free myself while I am still free."
After saying this, she smiled and with the determination to die, she thrust the hairpin hard into her neck!
Xiao Lingzhao and Xie Junlin opened their eyes wide at the same time.
The two of them spoke in panic at the same time—
"Yuan Wei!"
"Shen Yuanwei!"
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