Trigger warning: Slight description of non-consensual ***

Jiang Wu paused, she knew in her heart that she couldn’t avoid it, so she slowly loosened her grip on her coat.

The silk satin material quickly slid down her smooth skin, leaving only a little fabric inside. She didn’t know if it was the cold or fear, but there was a slight tremor on her creamy skin.

Jiang Wu looked at Chu Ling who was sitting there. The light from the night pearl made him look more handsome than an ordinary person. Compared with Jiang Wu who was naked after bathing, he was still wearing the same clothes he had in the daytime, neatly dressed.

This was… the gap between them.

He was looking at her, as if recalling something, and his expression as if his thoughts were drifting away made Jiang Wu feel a little nauseous.

Another unlucky night, she thought.

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Jiang Wu woke up in the morning as soon as Chu Ling left.

To be precise, she didn’t sleep. She couldn’t sleep, not only tonight but also for the next few days.

Her stomach was churning. She tried to hold it in for a long time, but in the end, she couldn’t hold it in any longer and she sat up after a while.

“Zhizhi.”

As she called, a figure immediately appeared beside the bed and skillfully handed her a spittoon.

Jiang Wu began to vomit, her heart breaking. She thought she must have vomited out everything left in her stomach because, in the end, her mouth was full of bitterness, which should be bile.

She didn’t dare to make a sound. Finally, Zhizhi handed her a teacup and said, “Madam, wash your mouth.”

Jiang Wu was a little tired after vomiting. She took a deep breath to calm down the discomfort before taking the cup of water.

Zhizhi glanced at the criss-crossing marks on her master’s exposed shoulders, then silently turned her eyes away.

After Jiang Wu lay down again, Zhizhi secretly went out to deal with it.

Chu Ling must not know this, otherwise Jiang Wu would not know what kind of madness the man whose self-esteem was hurt would go through.

She won’t be able to endure it for too long anyway. She just had to wait until Chu Yan came back. As long as she came back, the divorce would definitely be around the corner.

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After getting up, the housekeeper brought a pile of gold, silver, and pearl hairpins.

He smiled and talked about how each of these items was priceless and unique.

Jiang Wu sneered in her heart. This person was always like this. He just used her as a tool to vent his lust. She was so angry that she wanted to smash all these things that humiliated her, but she thought, anyway, it would be a waste if she didn’t want them. They would be a guarantee in the future when they divorced, so she asked the servants to put them away.

Most of the servants in the room belonged to Chu Ling and were changed so frequently that Jiang Wu couldn’t remember them all and treated them all as cabbages.

It was just that she couldn’t remember clearly, and she wasn’t a complete fool, so she soon discovered that the cabbage had been replaced again.

This was not normal. The last batch was just replaced, so it shouldn’t be so fast.

When she asked, the servants replied that they had upset the mistress last night and were punished by the master.

Jiang Wu’s hand holding the teacup was almost shaking. That beast, she cursed in her heart. What was he unhappy about?

But there was no way, she could do nothing. Jiang Wu didn’t know how those people were dealt with, and she was too weak to ask.

She even lived a life that was neither human nor a ghost.

In short, since then, the little cabbages had become even more stupid, so serious and stern that they didn’t seem like normal people at all.

This beast who had committed so many evil things, Jiang Wu thought, would eventually be punished.