Zhu Yuehong's eyes were filled with terror as she looked at Zhu Qin, wanting to plead, but she couldn't bring herself to speak.
"You'd rather abandon your comfortable life as the eldest daughter of the Zhu family and go against me than accept your fate. You should have thought of this day when you decided to do it!"
Zhu Qin coldly mocked, his eyes full of contempt, as if he were looking at a dog. At this moment, he even felt that his daughter, who was not of one mind with him, was not as good as his sons, who only knew how to eat, drink and have fun, were ignorant and incompetent, and were even somewhat despicable and shameless.
Zhu Qin was about to leave when Zhu Yue, recovering from her shock and fear, quickly knelt on the ground. She crawled a few steps in a somewhat disheveled manner and pleaded in a trembling voice, "Father, please let me see her."
“She’s so well-behaved and timid. She’ll be scared if we don’t see her for so long.” Zhu Yue saw Zhu Qin stop and, although he didn’t turn around and only showed his back, as long as he hadn’t left, Zhu Yue felt there was still hope, so she pleaded desperately.
"Father, please." Zhu Yue even hurriedly kowtowed her smooth, fair head to the ground.
The dull, painful sounds of "thump," "thump," "thump" rang out, but Zhu Qin remained completely unmoved, turning around with a cold and ferocious expression to look at her with sarcasm and contempt.
"Don't worry, she's not dead yet. If you really want to see her right away, hand over the ledger you've been hiding!" Zhu Qin's voice was devoid of any emotion.
Zhu Yue opened her mouth, but because she was so worried about her daughter, she almost blurted out where she had hidden the account book.
But when she thought about how Zhu Qin had tried to kill her daughter several times before she even used the fake account book to fool him, she realized that he had wanted to kill her daughter several times.
She wouldn't have kept those ledgers if she didn't want to have leverage if Zhu Qin wanted to kill her daughter again in the future; she just wanted to protect herself.
If she were to reveal the location of the ledgers before even seeing her daughter, she would have no leverage to protect herself.
If Zhu Qin gets the ledger and still kills her daughter, then she will truly have nothing left.
Thinking of this, although Zhu Yue felt a pang of pain in her heart whenever she thought of her daughter, she still pursed her lips and refused to reveal the whereabouts of those account books.
Seeing this, Zhu Qin knew that Zhu Yue was still unwilling to hand over the account books easily, so he snorted coldly, glared at her fiercely, and left with a flick of his sleeve.
In the spacious flower hall, only Zhu Yue remained, slumped on the ground. Dark clouds loomed over the horizon, making the room gloomy and dark.
Zhu Yue felt like a drowning fish, gripped by a terrifying sense of suffocation, making it difficult for her to breathe.
"Hoo..." Zhu Yue thought of her daughter waiting for her, and she slowly reached out to cover her neck, trying to make her breathing smooth and steady.
She didn't know how much time had passed, and she didn't even know how she managed to get up shakily. She slowly walked outside, holding onto the table and chairs.
The Zhu family mansion, a place both familiar and unfamiliar to her, was incredibly opulent, yet she felt as if it were a huge, dark cage, gloomy and reeking of decay and death, from which she could not escape.
A cold smile tugged at Zhu Yue's miserable face as she thought to herself, perhaps one day she really would be buried here.
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