Chapter 50 Paying for Your Sins
For Su Wanyu, this woodshed carries countless days and nights of suffering and humiliation from her previous life.
She had been imprisoned here, never seeing the sun, enduring dampness and filth. The experience was unforgettable.
Seeing that the matter had been handed over to Su Wanyu, Yu Jingxuan swaggered out of the Zheng Mansion as if nothing had ever happened.
Mrs. Guo and Mrs. Zheng tried their best to keep the truth in mind and tried to cover up this family scandal perfectly.
However, the truth will eventually come to light, and Lord Zheng will know everything sooner or later.
In his heart, Lord Zheng had never had a favorable impression of the concubine that Zheng Chengyan had married. However, considering the importance of having children, he could not hide his sorrow and anger when he heard the servants report that Jiang Yingying had miscarried. "That kid from the Yu family is getting more and more lawless. When the Yu family loses power, I will show you how I will make him pay!"
Little Guo gently comforted her husband: "Master, we will have children in the future. Yan'er is still young and has many opportunities."
Her voice was gentle, trying to calm the turmoil in Lord Zheng's heart.
Lord Zheng's expression eased slightly, and he gently embraced little Guo in his arms. His words expressed both praise for little Guo and deep dissatisfaction with her: "You are much more virtuous than your sister. If she hadn't doted on Yan'er, the child wouldn't have ended up like this."
On the surface, these words are a compliment to young Guo, but in fact every word reveals strong dissatisfaction with Guo's educational methods.
Guo was completely unaware of this. In order to prevent Zheng Chengyan from acting impulsively, she stayed outside Zheng Chengyan's room all night, her heart filled with worry and uneasiness.
At the same time, Jiang Yingying, who was imprisoned in the woodshed, spent a night in pain and despair.
Blood continued to flow out from under her body, her body was covered with bruises, her consciousness was blurred, and dreams and reality overlapped.
In the dream, she was wearing a gorgeous wedding dress and riding in the bridal sedan of the Zheng Mansion. She became a co-wife in great glory and enjoyed the love of Old Lady Zheng and the doting of Mrs. Guo. Even Marquis Zheng regarded the child in her belly as the hope of the family.
However, Su Wanyu, the legal wife, suffered from neglect and bullying, and eventually became a prisoner and endured humiliation due to her own schemes.
In the dream, she followed Zheng Chengyan to become the top scorer in the imperial examination and climbed to the pinnacle of power step by step. She became the wife of a marquis admired by everyone and enjoyed supreme glory and luxury.
However, when she woke up from the dream, all she saw was the cold, damp woodshed and the pungent stench. She suddenly realized that this was the place where Su Wanyu had been imprisoned. Why had she ended up like this?
"What on earth is going on?" Jiang Yingying covered her aching head. The memories of her past and present lives came flooding back, causing her unbearable pain. "No, I should be the wife of the Marquis' Mansion. It was Su Wanyu who killed me!"
She struggled to crawl to the door, banging on it with all her might, and screamed, "Su Wanyu! You vicious woman, let me out now!"
The door slowly opened, and it was Siqi who appeared before her, which surprised Jiang Yingying: "Why is it you? Where is Su Wanyu? Where is she? How dare that humble merchant's daughter treat me like this!"
"Let her out. What right does she have to lock me up here?" Jiang Yingying's question was filled with anger and unwillingness.
Siqi's eyes flashed, and without saying a word, she suddenly grabbed her hair and pushed her against the wall.
With a dull thud, Jiang Yingying was hit hard on the head. Blood flowed down her cheek. She felt dizzy and collapsed to the ground powerlessly.
Siqi's voice was as cold as ice: "How dare you insult the young lady! If you dare to speak nonsense again, I will make you regret it."
Jiang Yingying endured the severe pain and wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, her eyes flashing with a fierce light: "You slut, how dare you hit me! Do you know who I am? I am the wife of the Marquis, I want the Marquis to chop off your hand!"
Outside the door, when Su Wanyu heard these words, a strange light flashed in her eyes.
It seems that Jiang Yingying began to gradually recover some fragments of her past life in her confused memory.
Inside the house, Siqi raised her hand again and slapped Jiang Yingying so hard that two of her teeth fell out and blood gushed out of her mouth.
At this time, Su Wanyu slowly walked into the room, looking at the haggard Jiang Yingying, and a cold smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "Marquis's wife? Humph, Jiang Yingying, times have changed, you have long lost your former glory, and now you are just a concubine abandoned and despised by the Zheng family, and you can't even protect your own flesh and blood."
Jiang Yingying almost collapsed in the tearing of the memories of the two lives. The nobleness of the previous life and the humility of this life formed a sharp contrast, which made her miserable: "No, it's impossible! All this is an illusion, fake! I, Jiang Yingying, am the legitimate second wife of the Zheng family!"
"I was personally conferred the title of First-Rank Lady by His Majesty! Su Wanyu, you are a woman with a heart as vicious as a snake. I clearly witnessed you being tortured with my own eyes, your skin and flesh torn apart. How could you still be standing here in this glorious place, unscathed?"
Her dream and reality were intertwined, her consciousness was blurred, and she asked with a hoarse voice, with disbelief in her voice, "You should have rotted away in the dark and damp underground and turned into bones!"
Su Wanyu responded with a cold gaze, her eyes flashing with endless contempt and ridicule: "Jiang Yingying, if you hadn't been lingering on, how would I dare to easily step into the road to the underworld. Your existence is a stumbling block on my road to revenge."
Jiang Yingying was deeply hurt by the cold look, and her sanity began to collapse. She grabbed her scattered hair and screamed through the dull air: "Where is Zheng Chengyan? Where is he? I want to see him! How could he do this to me!"
"Let me out immediately, or I'll let Zheng Chengyan take your heads!"
She threatened hysterically, not knowing that her words had lost their weight in reality.
"Do I need to remind you of Zheng Chengyan's feelings for you? Even if you kneel down at his feet now, he won't even look at you again."
Su Wanyu approached step by step, her eyes sweeping over the place that once made her feel so miserable: "Jiang Yingying, stop struggling in vain. You enjoyed all the glory and wealth in your previous life. In this life, it's time to pay for the sins you owe."
"You want to kill me? Su Wanyu, aren't you afraid that Zheng Chengyan will resent you or even hate you because of this?" Jiang Yingying widened her eyes, burning with anger.
Su Wanyu's lips curled up into a cold smile, as if she had heard the funniest joke in the world: "Don't worry, there will be plenty of opportunities for him to hate me in the future."
Jiang Yingying was unable to understand the deeper meaning of this, and her heart was filled with resentment and hatred.
She stared at the daughter of the Su family who had been driven into a desperate situation by herself and the Zheng family. The cruelty of reality was too much for her to bear. She dragged her broken body and screamed, "Everything is messed up, all messed up! Su Wanyu, I am the legitimate young lady of the Changping Marquis's Mansion, and my child should be the future owner of the Changping Marquis's Mansion!"
"Child? The innocent life that you killed with your own hands?" Su Wanyu's words were like a sharp blade, piercing Jiang Yingying's heart.