Chapter 36. If you love me, kiss me
Xie Fei and Su Yin held their wedding shortly after the start of their senior year. It was a grand wedding and everyone who received the invitation came to attend. The classmates from their former Class 1 of Senior 3 also gathered together, making it a very lively event.
It was not until that day that everyone realized how powerful Xie Fei's background was. His grandfather was a founding father of China. As he got older, he had more and more health problems, so after handing over power to his sons, he returned to his hometown with his most beloved grandson to recuperate while training Xie Fei to be his successor.
Xie Fei lived up to everyone's expectations and soon took over the Xie family, becoming the new generation leader of the Xie family.
Xie Fei had a mixed reputation throughout his life. He was loyal and kind to his friends, but cruel and ruthless to his enemies. However, what people praised him most for was his loyalty and love for his wife.
The two walked together into their old age. When Su Yin was dying, Xie Fei waited day and night, vowing to catch the soul that he had not caught in his previous life, to find out who she was, why he felt inexplicably familiar with her when he saw her, why his calm heartstrings could be easily touched by her, why they could only meet in this situation, and why she could not recognize him...
Too many questions lingered in his mind. Xie Fei held Su Yin's hand tightly, his cold eyes showing unprecedented seriousness and solemnity. When he saw that the soul was about to float out of Su Yin's body, Xie Fei suddenly felt a strong pulling force sucking it away instantly.
What did he feel at that moment?
There is such a powerful force in the mortal world. Although it is not as powerful as his original body, it is more than enough to deal with him who is restricted now.
It seems that there are still many unknowns in this mission, and he needs to go back to the underworld to investigate it carefully.
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When Xie Fei returned to the underworld, he wanted to go directly to the library. However, when he passed the Netherworld Bridge, he saw Judge Cui waiting respectfully in front of the Soul Pawn Shop from afar. He paused and changed direction.
"Lord Ksitigarbha." Judge Cui bowed and saluted.
"Get up." Xie Fei nodded, opened the door, walked straight to the beauty bed and lay down, patted his spotless sleeves and asked lightly, "Tell me, what are you doing here?"
Judge Cui waved his right hand, and a phonograph stone appeared instantly. He held it in both hands and presented it to the emperor, saying, "The Queen Mother Hou Tu asked me to give it to you."
Xie Fei took it and tapped it gently. Hou Tu's coquettish voice rang out in the room: "Little Feifei, I took a walk in the human world and found a poor little girl for you. I am so heartbroken. Little Feifei, you are wise and brave, suave and handsome..."
"What does she mean by this?" Hou Tu hadn't finished her words, but Xie Fei couldn't stand her anymore. He clenched his slender hands and instantly shattered the phonograph stone. He turned to look at Judge Cui, rubbed his forehead and asked, "You tell me."
"Before you came back, Queen Hou Tu brought back a girl from somewhere..."
Judge Cui paused, handed the Book of Evil Spirits to Xie Fei, and continued, "After hearing her life story, the Queen Mother Hou Tu felt very sorry for her, so she asked her to sign her name and make a deal. You can set off as soon as you come back."
Xie Fei sighed helplessly. This Hou Tu had a very good personal relationship with his master. She was also lively and playful, so he really couldn't do anything with her. It seemed that she would not listen to anyone else in this world except her master.
Thinking of this, he opened the booklet and saw a beautiful handwriting. Xie Fei's fingertips gently slid over her name, and the soul of a woman who had been tortured beyond recognition appeared in his mind, slowly telling of her unwillingness.
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The girl's name was Xu Jiaru. She was an orphan. She was secretly abandoned at the door of an orphanage at night when she was just a few days old. The next day, the director found her when she opened the door and took her back to the orphanage. From then on, she spent the first twenty years of her life there.
As an orphan, she naturally had no name. Not only her, but most of the children in the orphanage had no names, so they all followed the director's mother and took the surname Xu. She was the seventeenth child, so everyone called her Xu Seventeen.
It was not until she went to school that she changed her name to Xu Jiaru.
There are many children in the orphanage, but the only income is a small amount allocated by the government, which is not enough to cover the expenses, so their lives are very difficult and they are often not well clothed or well fed.
Therefore, the director's mother divided the children into two groups. The older group had to follow her to do various rough work in order to reduce expenses, while the younger children were taken by another mother to play games. As time went on, the older group became more and more unwilling, so they secretly bullied the younger group of children, robbing them of their food and clothes, and threatened them not to complain, otherwise the punishment would be doubled.
Xu Jiaru happened to be on the weaker side, and their things were robbed. At first, everyone huddled together for warmth, but not long after, an internal conflict broke out. Several stronger children teamed up to rob the weakest child's things to make up for their own losses.
Unfortunately, Xu Jiaru became one of the targets of bullying because she didn't know how to please others and was petite and weak.
Gradually, Xu Jiaru, who was originally cheerful and lively, became more and more silent and less sociable. She began to often hide in a corner and count ants by herself. She would not respond to others when they talked to her and became a freak in everyone's eyes.
This period of oppression actually didn't last very long, because those who behaved well were adopted one after another, except Xu Jiaru. Many orphans who came in later than her left, but she remained in the orphanage.
Twenty years passed like this. Although Xu Jiaru did not like to communicate, she studied well and successfully went to college with the help of scholarships and part-time jobs. During the summer vacation between her junior and senior years, she was introduced by a classmate to interview for an accounting assistant position. However, the company was a fraud. On the surface, it was a small and legitimate company, but secretly it was set up by the village chief of a village named Zhao deep in the mountains for the purpose of human trafficking.
Xu Jiaru was knocked unconscious and taken deep into the mountains, then sold to a family in the village as a wife.
This family is very famous in the village because their son Zhao Tiansheng is the only intellectual in the village who has attended high school. Also because of this, Zhao Tiansheng looks down on the women in the village. Now he is nearly 30 years old and still has not married. His parents have no choice but to entrust the village chief to find a highly educated and good-looking woman to be their son's wife.
That night, Xu Jiaru was held down by several women and raped by Zhao Tiansheng. She cried until her voice was hoarse, but no one came to help her. Through her tearful eyes, she only saw the indifferent expressions on the faces of the women who were holding her down. They were fed up with her screaming, so they just swung their hands and slapped her hard several times. Xu Jiaru's mouth tasted fishy, her head was dizzy, and she passed out as soon as her eyes closed.
When she woke up, it was already daybreak. When Xu Jiaru tried to get up, she found that her hands and feet were tied to the bed with iron chains. She struggled several times, and when her hands were almost broken, she cried silently and weakly.
During the day, she was locked in bed and forced to drink folk fertility medicine. At night, she was repeatedly tormented by the beast Zhao Tiansheng. Soon, Xu Jiaru became pregnant. After she became pregnant, Zhao Tiansheng's parents were very happy and treated her much better, no longer beating or scolding her at every turn.
Xu Jiaru saw all of this, and she knew her chance had come - she ate and slept well, stopped making noises and crying, and chatted with Zhao Tiansheng's parents. Finally, she hinted to them that she wanted to go out for a walk every day in order to have a baby.
Her obedience gradually made Zhao Tiansheng's parents relax their vigilance against her, and finally set her free two months later. Xu Jiaru walked around every day to observe the escape route, and asked the neighbors about the situation here. In order to get well for the escape, she ate half a bowl more every time...
After making sufficient preparations, Xu Jiaru implemented her escape plan a month later - however, she didn't know that this was not an escape plan at all, but a game of cat and mouse.
Xu Jiaru walked carefully all the way to the village entrance and was about to escape from the village, but suddenly the wife of her next-door neighbor Zhao Sier appeared in front of her. The woman was carrying a basket and smiled as she asked to accompany her for a walk.
The plan fell through.
Soon, Xu Jiaru started her second escape plan. Almost in the same place, she was helped back by Zhao Tiansheng.
Xu Jiaru, who was in a hurry to escape, did not notice anything wrong, and did not even notice the mocking smile in Zhao Tiansheng's eyes. She firmly believed that these people had believed that she had submitted to fate. She regarded escaping from the dead as her only belief. These people's friendliness towards her made her not doubt that there was something wrong.
It wasn’t until the third, fourth, and fifth times… that she was stopped each time. She finally realized something was wrong. After being caught for the last time, these people no longer had the patience to play with her. They surrounded Xu Jiaru and laughed at her, mocking her—
"Hahaha, do you think we don't know you want to escape? We're just playing a joke on you. How about it? Isn't it fun?"
"What a fool you are! You thought we were fooled. We have played all these tricks to death, you bitch."
"You're living a good life, but you're always thinking about escaping. If you don't want the chance we gave you, don't blame us for being cruel!"
"Open your eyes and take a good look, bitch. These women were abducted. They didn't escape. How could they let you escape?"
"I have good news for you. The policeman in this area is the bad boy from our village. Do you want to call the police? I will call him over for you..."
Then, in a trance, Xu Jiaru's legs were broken and she was locked back to the bed.
Because she was pregnant, these people did not beat her brutally for the time being. However, the good times did not last long. After she gave birth to a child six months later, her life became like purgatory. Whenever someone in the village was unhappy, they would take it out on her. Her body was covered with scars and bruises, and not a single spot was healthy.
They said this was her punishment for running away, and that the punishment would go on endlessly.
Xu Jiaru was almost driven crazy by their torture. Even though she was determined, the double torture of mind and body made her lose the determination to escape. Like other abducted women, she accepted her fate and waited desperately for death in the mountains.
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