Everyone had different thoughts in their minds when suddenly, a woman rushed over fiercely.
She looked panicked and disheveled with wild hair and bloodshot eyes. Someone recognized her and gasped aloud. It was none other than the renowned Jin Xiang, but right now, she lacked her usual gentle smile and looked like a crazed madwoman. She grabbed Li Ce's clothes, shook him violently, and shrieked piercingly:
"Snap out of it! You once said I was the gentlest one, you loved me, didn't you?" Jin Xiang had truly been driven to the brink. She had thought that once that woman died, everything would be over! She had even rejoiced for a long time. Having hidden in the dark to watch, she knew everything that had happened outside. She envied Xue Lihua's good fortune in having such a powerful father, yet at the same time, she felt an incomparable thrill—so what if she had a good life! She was still suppressed by her for life.
Yet, what had she seen next?!
Li Ce's remorse and love were so intense and overwhelming that she could no longer deceive herself.
While Xue Lihua was alive, she hadn't lost; but in death, she had utterly crushed her.
How could this be!
She loved Li Ce; he was her everything.
In the past, she had torn them apart despite how deeply in love they were.
Now that the woman was gone, Li Ce could only be hers, purely hers!
Jin Xiang's mind was filled entirely with possessiveness. Receiving no response from Li Ce, she seemed to have lost her soul. Looking completely deranged, her whole person and heart were twisted.
"Answer me! She is already dead, she can never come back, why are you still thinking of her? Where am I worse than her? Huh? Did she take you away when she was alive, and now that she's dead, she still wants to monopolize your heart? She shouldn't even have existed in this world!" she said through gritted teeth, full of resentment.
As her words fell, the surrounding area became as silent as a falling needle! No one dared to breathe heavily.
Hearing her curse his daughter like this, Xue Qitian wished he could strike her dead on the spot! Li Ce finally snapped out of the woman's voice, his expression freezing: "I have never liked you. From beginning to end, the only person I have loved is her. Don't you understand yet?"
Hearing this, Jin Xiang became utterly bewitched.
"Hahaha..."
This was the man she had loved for so many years—how heartless! Since she couldn't have him, she would destroy him.
No one else could have him either!
Completely forgetting the presence of the crowd, Jin Xiang was immersed in immense agony, her heart darkened and completely distorted: "Hahaha... You love her? Hahaha... Too bad she's dead... Ah... No... Even if she weren't dead, she would never accept you... That was all my doing..." How could she suffer alone? She wanted to drag this man down into the dark abyss with her, to suffer together.
Filled with rage to the extreme, he grabbed her by the throat. Jin Xiang didn't care in the least about being treated this way and laughed with a weird, eerie tone: "What did I do? Hahaha... What did I do? Serving tea, pouring water, washing feet, emptying nightsoil... Too many things... hahaha..." She laughed as she spoke, as if remembering something immensely gratifying.
Seeing the fiery rage in Li Ce's eyes, the vengeful pleasure made her voice even louder: "What did I do wrong? I just wanted her to remember her identity every single moment!!!"
Veins bulged on Li Ce's forehead. He had never known she had endured so much. How dare this woman! Torturing his Lihua like that.
Damn it!
"Heartbroken? This is enough to break your heart? Hahaha..."
"Wasn't she a concubine? That was just meant for her husband to vent on... So, I also made her learn the same things as those courtesans in brothels!!!"
"Bitch!" Li Ce finally lost control and swung a slap across her face.
The person he cherished so dearly had been treated this way, and he had never known. What a bastard he was.
Jin Xiang wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, her eyes bloodshot. "I'm a bitch? Isn't she? If she were really so noble, would she have become your concubine?" By the end, her face had become extraordinarily ferocious.
Hearing this, Li Ce regretted his initial decision for the first time. He shouldn't have forced her.
Though Jin Xiang was vicious, the culprit was him! No wonder she looked at him like a stranger.
When hatred reaches its peak, it is better to let go.
Jin Xiang seemed to feel the provocation wasn't enough. Seeing Li Ce immersed in deep agony, she derived pleasure in her heart, "My husband probably doesn't know, she not only learned from courtesans, but also let Yue'er ride her... The way she crawled on the ground... looked so good... When she was thirsty, she drank a bit..."
"Shut up! Shut up!" Coming to his senses, Li Ce gripped the woman's neck even tighter, determined to choke this venomous bint to death.
At this moment, family honor and the cooperation between the Jin and Li families were all thrown to the winds.
Everyone around was dumbfounded upon hearing Jin Xiang's words.
Meanwhile, Xue Qitian felt as though his heart was being pierced by ten thousand arrows. Driven to the ultimate extreme of rage, he suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood.