Chapter 566: The Exiled Female Prisoner with Two Deadly Deaths (1)
Wang Zhennan pursued Cui Shichu unremittingly for two years, and finally moved Cui Shichu's heart with his skill of grinding stones with water, and became the one who could enter Cui Shichu's home openly.
Seeing that he had always been committed to Cui Shichu and had been trying to persuade him for so many years, the Wang family no longer had any intention of opposing him. When Cui Shichu finally accepted their son/brother, they were relieved and glad that Wang Zhennan got what he wanted and did not have to work in vain and live out his life in loneliness.
After graduating from the School of Political Science and Law, Zhou Zhiyuan went to work in the court. A few years later, he became a judge. His career in the judicial system eventually went more and more smoothly. He also found a like-minded partner, had several children, and lived a happy and smooth life.
But Zhou Lizhi's life was even more miserable than her previous life. She gave birth to a daughter who was not liked by her in-laws. She was oppressed like a nanny in the Chen family, but she failed to resist.
Chen Wenya was also tired of her, so naturally he started an extramarital affair. She only found out about it when he asked her for a divorce. After that, she cried, made a fuss, and even threatened to commit suicide, refusing to divorce him. She even threatened to fight to the death with their family if he dared to divorce her.
After she made up her mind, Chen Wenya was afraid that his work would be affected, so he had to give up the idea of divorce. However, the extramarital affair did not stop. Zhou Lizhi began to keep a close eye on him and was suspicious of everything. However, this did not stop Chen Wenya from having affairs outside. No matter how much she made a fuss, Chen Wenya remained indifferent. Only then did Zhou Lizhi finally see through Chen Wenya's true nature. He had never been a good man, but she had the filter from her previous life, and she tried her best to marry him, but in return she got such a life.
Zhou Lizhi regretted it very much, but it was too late. She was isolated and helpless in the Chen family, with only a timid daughter who could not help her but was a burden to her.
Every time this happened, she would think, if my mother and brother were still alive, if their relationship with her had not been severed, the Chen family would definitely not dare to treat her so presumptuously, right?
However, she cut off all ties with her family members who could have been her support.
After they went to the capital, there was no news. But even if there was no news, she could imagine that Zhou Zhiyuan, who went to college, would definitely be more successful than in his previous life... If they had not severed their relationship with her, it would only be because of her brother's promising status, which would also be a deterrent to the Chen family, right? Unfortunately, she could not get any benefit at all.
The Chen family knew that she had a bad relationship with her parents' family as early as she got married, but her biological mother and only brother never came to visit her for so many years. Especially when her parents didn't even tell her that they were selling their house and moving to the capital, the Chen family already knew that she was a person who had no one to rely on and could be bullied at will.
Zhou Lizhi suffered more hardships in this life than she had ever experienced in her previous life. Things became even worse when she and her husband were both laid off in middle age. She had to go out to do hard labor to earn money. Chen Wenya lost his job because he touched a woman he shouldn't have touched, and he was unwilling to lower himself to do other work, so he became a decadent alcoholic and began to beat and scold his wife and children.
"I really regret it..." Before her death, Zhou Lizhi watched the Minister of Justice being interviewed in a documentary about the development of justice in the new century on TV. The strange yet familiar face and the middle-aged man with an extraordinary aura at first glance was none other than her brother Zhou Zhiyuan, whom she once despised.
The brother she had once been eager to abandon had become a successful and beloved authority in the legal world, but she was just a poor and sick old woman curled up in a shack. She regretted it! There were so many choices in life, why did she choose the most wrong one? She swallowed her last breath unwillingly, but this time there was no next rebirth.
When Shi Chu woke up, she felt sore and tired all over, especially her legs, which felt as if they were filled with lead and were extremely heavy. She also felt a burning pain in the soles of her feet, and her lower abdomen also ached dully, as if a stone was pressing on it, making it difficult for her to breathe.
She opened her eyes and saw several ragged men and women in front of her. Their faces showed numbness or pain, and their feet were shackled. There were also soldiers watching them fiercely with whips in their hands.
Shi Chu immediately received the original owner's memory. It turned out that the original owner was on the way to exile, and the people in front of her were her husband's family. It was noon, and everyone was tired and hungry after walking for a long time in the morning. The officers and soldiers guarding them were afraid that the prisoners would die before reaching the place of exile, so they let them stop to eat some dry food and rest before continuing on the road.
The original owner was pregnant at the time. She was already weak and frail, and she had walked such a long way. The double pressure of physical and mental stress soon overwhelmed her and she became ill. That's why she felt pain all over her body and was in a daze.
If Shi Chu had not come, the original owner would have fallen seriously ill and died tomorrow, leaving two lives behind, dying on the way of exile.
The original owner was named Lan Shichu. She was the second granddaughter of King Lu of the Dagan Dynasty. After she came of age, she married Gongliang Subai, the youngest son of the Queen's brother, Duke Cheng'en. This was a typical political marriage.
As the only king of a different surname, Prince Lu had a sensitive position and was easily suspected of having ulterior motives by the ruler. So he sought out Duke Cheng'en to be his relative, because Duke Cheng'en was the uncle of the crown prince. With this relationship between his family and Duke Cheng'en, he would not have to worry about the crown prince settling accounts with him after he became emperor.
As for why Duke Cheng'en was willing to marry the Prince of Lu, one reason was that the Prince of Lu was the most powerful and influential person in the world, and the Gongliang family could gain a lot of benefits by marrying into his family.
The second reason was that the original girl was well-educated, gentle, virtuous, and well-known. She was a good candidate for a daughter-in-law for many mistresses. The wife of Duke Cheng'en also took a fancy to her, especially after learning that Gong Liang Sibai liked a woman of low status, she hoped to marry a gentle and considerate woman who could make him settle down after marriage and avoid causing scandals.
The original owner married Gongliang Sibai in this way. She had no right to ask about her marriage. Everything was decided by King Lu. King Lu decided to let her marry into Gongliang's family, and she had no choice but to marry.
Gong Liang Sibai already had another woman he loved, and he was forced to marry the original owner, so naturally he could not have a good attitude towards the original owner. Even his wedding night was drugged by the wife of Duke Cheng'en. On the second day of his wedding, he left a letter, claiming that he was going out to travel around the world, looking for knowledgeable people, and becoming a celebrity who traveled around the mountains and rivers. He left his newlywed wife and left without saying goodbye.
The Gong Liang family naturally sent people to capture him, but they found nothing after searching for a long time. The original owner was found to be pregnant in the first month after he left, so the Gong Liang family stopped looking for him and no longer cared about him, thinking that he would come home when he got tired of playing.
(End of this chapter)
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