Upon hearing this, Xie Xuan could only lower his head and mumble a reply: "Mm!"
Yun Chu smiled slightly, then, as if remembering something, said, "Xie Xuan, there's something you might need to know..."
Yun Chuwei paused here.
Xie Xuan looked at Yun Chuwei without saying anything, simply waiting quietly for her to continue.
“I’m not lying!” Yun Chuwei said earnestly.
Xie Xuan didn't immediately understand what the four characters "Yun Chuwei" meant.
Yun Chuwei added calmly, "My health isn't good enough; I won't be able to have children!"
Xie Xuan was slightly taken aback; he hadn't expected Yun Chuwei to mean that.
After he understood, he pulled Yun Chuwei into his arms, held her tightly, and whispered, "Weiwei, you are a Taoist priest, you shouldn't care about these things, right? This won't be an excuse for you not to marry me, right?"
Yun Chuwei was stunned; she hadn't expected Xie Xuan to say that.
She laughed out loud: "Of course I don't care, let's see if you do!"
Xie Xuan frowned and slowly said, "Why should I care? I don't have a throne to inherit!"
Yun Chu raised an eyebrow: "Don't you have one at home?"
"I didn't!" Xie Xuan emphasized.
Yun Chu smiled and said, "Let's go see what's going on with that pregnant woman!"
Upon hearing this, Xie Xuan released Yun Chuwei.
Whether it was the people pulled from the crowd or the pregnant woman and the man beside her, they were all tied up after entering the Marquis's residence.
They were imprisoned in three empty rooms next to the woodshed.
Those three rooms were left over from the founding of the country. They were used to detain and interrogate prisoners, so they were quite well-equipped.
When Yun Chuwei and Xie Xuan went in, they saw the man tied to a rack and the pregnant woman tied to a chair.
Yun Chuwei slowly walked up to the pregnant woman, removed the gag from her mouth, and said with a smile, "Well? Do you want to tell us?"
The pregnant woman looked up at Yun Chuwei but did not speak.
She simply lowered her head and remained silent.
Yun Chu raised an eyebrow, signaling Huo Qingjue to remove the cloth covering the man's mouth.
Huo Qingjue acted according to Yun Chuwei's wishes.
Yun Chuwei looked at the man and asked, "Why don't you speak?"
The man suddenly shouted, "Murder! The Marquis's mansion is abusing its power and trying to kill me..."
Huo Qingjue stuffed the wad of cloth back into the man's mouth to muffle his shouts.
It's not that I'm afraid he'll shout, but I think it's too noisy.
Yun Chuwei's gaze swept over the man, but finally landed on the woman sitting in the chair.
She laughed and said, "I still prefer quiet people. How about this, you stay silent, and I'll have someone beat him up. As for when they'll stop, that depends on when you speak up, how about that?"
The woman kept her head down and did not speak.
Yun Chuwei raised an eyebrow slightly and waved her hand, signaling to start the fight.
Huo Qingjue indeed picked up the whip and lashed it at the man.
The sound of the whip slicing through the air and tearing flesh filled the air, a sound that evoked a sense of agony.
The woman's eyelashes trembled slightly, but she kept her head down, unmoved.
Yun Chuwei looked at the woman's expression and raised an eyebrow slightly.
The woman in front of me was clenching her fists, and her body seemed to be trembling slightly.
However, her expression did not show fear or worry.
It's more like...
Yun Chuwei subconsciously looked at Xie Xuan.
Xie Xuan knows more about trial than anyone else!
He made his judgment almost immediately.
"She hates him! Or rather, she's both afraid of and hates him. It's a complex and contradictory emotion!" Xie Xuan said earnestly.
Upon hearing this, the woman subconsciously raised her head and looked at Xie Xuan.
Xie Xuan made a further judgment based on her expression.
“Among the cases I’ve investigated, there have been instances of husbands frequently beating and verbally abusing their wives. This is the kind of expression they’ll have when they see their husbands suffering!” Xie Xuan said to Yun Chuwei in a low voice.
He spoke in a low voice, trying to make sure only the two of them could hear him.
However, the woman still heard it.
Her face changed drastically, and she turned pale with panic.
Yun Chuwei raised her hand, signaling Huo Qingjue to stop.
Then she said, "All of you, get out, and take that man with you!"
Upon hearing this, Huo Qingjue indeed led everyone out.
Before Xie Xuan left, he whispered to Yun Chuwei, "Be careful. If anything happens, just call me!"
Yun Chuwei would give him a reassuring smile.
Once only Yun Chuwei and the woman were left in the room, Yun Chuwei reached out and tore open the woman's clothes.
The woman cried out in terror, "No!"
Yun Chuwei remained silent, her gaze fixed on the woman's chest and hands.
On the skin, wounds and bruises are layered upon each other, a mix of new and old injuries.
The woman struggled, trying to escape, but was bound and had nowhere to run.
Yun Chuwei pulled her clothes up before slowly saying, "He's not your brother, but your husband? Oh no, someone like him doesn't deserve to be called a husband! Does it hurt?"
Upon hearing this, tears welled up in the woman's eyes instantly, and a bitter pain shot through her chest, causing her to choke back sobs.
Over the years, no one has ever asked her if she was in pain!
It seems everyone thinks that as long as she's not dead, everything is fine.
They would condemn the man, but they would point fingers at her even more.
She couldn't win over her own man's heart or persuade him, no wonder she was beaten.
Some even went so far as to say that she was being provocative outside the home, and that's why she was beaten after being discovered by a man!
She never imagined that, over the years, the only person who would ask her if she was in pain would be the high and mighty eldest daughter of a marquis's family.
She cried harder and harder until she could no longer control herself.
Yun Chu pursed her lips, untied the shackles from her hands, and gave her a handkerchief.
The woman finally calmed down and began to sob, clutching her handkerchief.
Yun Chuwei glanced at the woman and said slowly, "Finished crying? Listen to me after you're done crying!"
The woman was sobbing uncontrollably, but she was trying her best to suppress it.
Yun Chuwei said seriously, "Two choices. First, I will let you go back, but you will continue to live the life of being beaten and scolded by him, suffering for the rest of your life."
Yun Chuwei paused for a moment, then continued, "Take this opportunity to kill him. Then raise the child and start a completely new life! Choose!"
The woman was startled, and then a hint of retreat appeared in her eyes.
“I…” she shook her head, “I can’t…”
Yun Chu sneered, "You can choose whatever you want. But before you choose, you need to understand that after you go back this time, he will only beat you even more severely! And the child in your womb will not be spared either. If it is a boy, even if it is tragic, there may still be a glimmer of hope. If it is a girl, she may be beaten to death before she comes of age! Or she may be sold before she even reaches adulthood. In this life, we may not have many opportunities to make choices! Think it through before you answer me, understand?"
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