Chapter 3 After Her Death
The next day.
Ye Mingzhu saw Baozan off at the courtyard gate and waited anxiously until the afternoon, but she did not return for a long time.
That evening, Sheng Huai'an, her face ashen, stormed into Tingsong Residence with several rough-looking old women. With a wave of her hand, the old women immediately rushed forward with hemp ropes and surrounded her.
Ye Mingzhu was both shocked and furious: "Sheng Huai'an, what are you doing?"
Sheng Huai'an looked at her with complicated eyes: "I didn't want to do anything, but you're too restless."
Ye Mingzhu's mind raced, and she tried to soften her voice as she asked, "Why did you say I was restless? Huai'an, is there some misunderstanding?"
"Misunderstanding?" Sheng Huai'an, abandoning his usual gentle demeanor, coldly threw a letter at her face.
Ye Mingzhu looked down and saw that it was the letter she had asked Baozan to bring back to the Ye residence.
Sheng Huai'an waved his hand, and another servant brought over a box containing the heads of a rough old woman and a male servant, which was extremely gruesome.
Ye Mingzhu's face turned pale, and she immediately asked angrily, "Where is Baozan? Did you tie her up?"
Seeing Sheng Huai'an's expression, her heart sank to the bottom.
The precious hairpin... I fear it brings more misfortune than good fortune.
Gritting her teeth, she calmly said, "I'm trapped in the inner quarters. So what if I know about you and Liu Rumei? I will keep your mouth shut and never interfere in your affairs with her again! I can still manage the family business for you and provide you with the 'Child Gu,' as long as you spare my life!"
She saw the murderous intent in Sheng Huai'an's eyes, but she wanted to live.
Only by living can one take revenge.
Sheng Huai'an hesitated for a moment, then quickly shook his head: "My sister-in-law said you would definitely use the Longevity Gu to negotiate with me, and that you are cunning and difficult to control, so she told me not to agree to your request."
“I didn’t want to kill you, but you actually wanted to adopt a child from the Ye family as my bloodline. Your ambition is too great.”
"You are cold and selfish. You have a longevity gu but you won't let your sister-in-law use it."
"You suspect that my sister-in-law and I are having an affair but you've kept quiet about it. That's terrifying! If you were given the chance, who knows what you would do to us later? We must eliminate you to prevent future troubles!"
"Really?" Ye Mingzhu smiled, even though there seemed to be no way out.
She questioned him angrily, "Sheng Huai'an, how can you and Liu Rumei have an affair? Do you know what shame is?"
She had wanted to ask him the same question he had once asked her!
Sheng Huai'an held the dagger, his eyes filled with surprise: "I thought you would ask me if I had ever truly loved you."
"Love? Ha!" Ye Mingzhu found it laughable and actually laughed out loud. "You think you're worthy?"
She just felt disgusted!
Being looked at like trash by her, for some reason, Sheng Huai'an felt a surge of anger.
He stopped wasting words and took action immediately.
The dagger sliced across her neck, and Ye Mingzhu clutched the wound, trembling with pain.
The sharp knife tip was very cold, and her neck was in a lot of pain.
Tears blurred her vision, and blood rushed into her lungs. She collapsed to the ground, coughing up mouthfuls of bloody foam, struggling to breathe but to no avail.
Her body grew colder and colder, and she collapsed to the ground, closing her eyes helplessly.
She longs to go home.
I really want to...
In her last moments of consciousness, she heard Sheng Huai'an's voice: "Bring the basin to collect the blood, dissect her body and see if you can find the Longevity Gu. There will be a generous reward if you find it..."
Everything that followed seemed to accelerate infinitely.
She was dead, yet it seemed she wasn't.
Her soul floated in the air. She saw that Sheng Huai'an had not found the Longevity Gu, so he simply used her blood as medicine, making the most of it and giving it to Liu Rumei to cure her cough.
She heard Liu Rumei say it was a pity that if she were an easy person to control, she would have an inexhaustible supply of venomous insects to befriend powerful and influential people, and that she did not truly love Sheng Huai'an, and was even unwilling to pave the way for his official career.
She was overjoyed to see Sheng Huai'an and Liu Rumei having an affair in front of her spirit tablet, saying that there were finally no more obstacles between them.
She saw that Liu Rumei had suddenly been diagnosed with pregnancy. Sheng Huai'an chased down the servants who had been sent to the Ye residence to report the death and silenced them. He then announced to the outside world that Liu Rumei was pregnant and needed to rest, and sent "her" to the estate.
A few months later, Liu Rumei gave birth to a baby boy, while Ye Mingzhu died in childbirth.
When the Ye family finally learned of her death, her parents, brother, and sister-in-law were devastated, and her fourteen-year-old sister, Ye Baozhu, even fainted from crying.
She saw Sheng Huai'an and Liu Rumei discussing marrying Ye Baozhu as his second wife, saying that he needed a wife in name only, and that Ye Baozhu was young, naive, and easy to control.
This was the first time she had felt such unbearable heartache, shock, and anger.
It's bad enough that the scumbag and the bitch ruined her life, but it's unacceptable that they schemed against her family!
She shouted "No!" trying to stop her younger sister from ruining her life, but nothing could stop her!
At this point, Shenghuai no longer installs anything.
She watched helplessly as the innocent and charming Ye Baozhu married Sheng Huai'an, watched her treat the illegitimate child as her own, watched her manage the household affairs for Sheng Huai'an at such a young age, but grew thinner and thinner day by day due to the cold treatment and torment, and regretted it so much that she almost vomited blood.
She regretted it, regretted that she shouldn't have been so cautious back then, she should have just taken Sheng Huai'an down with her!
However, this is not the end.
Years later, Liu Rumei became pregnant again. Sheng Huai'an poisoned the thin and weak Ye Baozhu, controlled her, and told others that she was in poor health and needed to stay in bed to rest during her pregnancy.
On the day Liu Rumei gave birth, Ye Baozhu also "died in childbirth".
Throwing herself over her sister's frail body, Ye Mingzhu wept tears of hatred.
As Sheng Huai'an's official position grew, the number of places he needed to bribe increased.
Because of the deaths of his two daughters, the Ye family no longer gave him whatever he wanted. When he was short of money, he caused an accident that killed her parents and brother and sister-in-law.
After wiping out the entire Ye family, only the two illegitimate children he and Liu Rumei bore remained as nominal bloodlines of the Ye family.
He obtained the Ye family's vast fortune from the steward and then murdered the steward.
During the change of imperial power, he used the Ye family's wealth to gain merit in supporting the new emperor and inherited the title of Duke of Wei. After consolidating his power, he had Liu Rumei fake her death to escape and married her after she changed her name. The family of four lived a life of wealth and honor.
But the Ye family is no more in this world.
Her soul lingered in the world for over a decade, watching her loved ones perish and the villains triumph, yet she was powerless to stop them. Ye Mingzhu's eyes were filled with tears of blood, her hatred boundless.
Just as she was filled with resentment and had nowhere to vent it, wanting only to destroy the world and reduce everything to ashes, a voice as loud as a bell rang in her ears:
Do you want to know the truth about this world?
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