Chapter 24: Her ruthlessness
Li Rui stayed with Yi Huiqing for about an hour.
After getting out of the room, she told Yi Huiqing's personal maid about some herbs that Yi Huiqing was needed to be given in order to reduce the effect of the poison inside her body.
If not treated, then the poison could also make her unable to birth to a child in the future. But she didn't tell all this to Yi Huiqing.
She also checked the medicinal paste and liquid that the Imperial Physician had prescribed. Only after she felt that everything was right, she took a last glance at Yi Huiqing and left the room.
In her heart, she hoped that Yi Huiqing will soon be able to come out of this phase.
She knew that this pain would live with her all throughout her life but she wished that her Jiejie could learn to live with it. She really took Yi Huiqing as her elder sister.
The sister who had been with her since her childhood regardless of the circumstances she was in. When no one wanted to interact with her, play with her, it was Yi Huiqing who never let her lost in her loneliness. She wished for her the same.
Life can become easy if we don't expect anything from anyone. That's what she had learned after getting so many wounds and that's what she told Yi Huiqing. Never expect The Second Prince to choose her over everything because it will only bring her pain.
Li Rui didn't let the maid accompany her to the exit. She remembered the way through which she came here and hence told the maid she could go back by herself. Since she didn't bring any maid with her, so she was passing through the gardens alone.
Xi Ying who was following her looked around the gardens with wariness. It was strange that there were no maids or servants in the garden.
The garden was completely deserted. Soon, he felt a presence and looked behind a tree. Sure enough, he saw a man hiding behind the tree watching Li Rui.
Li Rui who didn't know all this was suddenly dragged behind a tree someone holding her waist forcefully. The person who was dragging her covered her mouth with his hand not allowing her to scream. The hand was large and it pressed her nose giving her a very suffocating feeling.
For a moment everything was blurry in front of her. After a few seconds, the hand was finally removed and she took long breaths to gulp as much as air she could.
The painful hold on her waist was still there. She struggled to get free but the grip got tighter resulting in more pain. The pain almost made her cry out and when she was about to scream she felt a cold touch on her neck. Lowering her eyes, she saw a shiny silver-colored knife that was pressed on her neck.
"One word out of your mouth and this knife will pass through your neck. "
Hearing the voice, she raised her head to look at him and surprisingly she found out that his face looked familiar. The next words confirmed her thought.
"What? Does my face ring any bell in that little head of yours hm? Remember, Four years ago, it was you who killed my brother right? With a mere hairpin that you use to bind these beautiful hairs hm?"
He touched her hair with his other hand.
Xi Ying who had a murderous aura around himself looked coldly at his disgusting hand. He wanted to kill this man and protect his wife but he was unable to do anything.
When the man finished his words, he saw that Li Rui's face went pale and she seemed to be in a trance. Somehow he could guess what the man was talking about.
The man from four years ago. It must be the man who was sent to defile Li Rui. He still remembered every detail of that night. When he had found her, her hair was open. It clenched his heart to think what kind of circumstance she must be in to kill someone.
On the other hand, Li Rui was reliving that night again. The night when she was drugged, when she was helpless, when she killed someone but still someone took her without her permission. Now a man whose face looks similar to that man was standing in front of her in the same clothes.
Xi Ying looked and walked around in hope that someone passes by from there and save Li Rui. If something happened to her while he was watching everything, he would never be able to forgive himself.
But there was no one around the gardens and he couldn't go outside the garden because of their binding souls. At this moment, he was filled with rage. He wished to find whoever took his body from him and made him like this. He wished to kill whoever was doing this.
A loud shriek sounded in the garden and Xi Ying hurriedly made his way to the spot where Li Rui was dragged to. Even after the loud shriek, there was no sign of any maids and servants.
Xi Ying's eyes flashed with ruthlessness.
It was all planned by someone. No one will come to save his wife.
Going back to Li Rui, the scene he saw made him proud that he had Li Rui as his wife.
The man who was pressing Li Rui a few minutes ago was now rolling on the ground with pain. His left hand with which he was holding the knife could be seen a few steps away. The knife was in Li Rui's hands and it was dripping with blood. She emotionlessly took out her handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped the blood from the knife.
She coldly looked at the man who was wailing with pain holding his left elbow.
Xi Ying who was happy before suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart looking at this scene. He saw the ruthlessness and coldness in her eyes he had seen nowhere in his life.
At this moment, she looked so distant and out of his reach. He felt like he would never be able to hold her.
Nothing in this world can move her. Not even his love.
Since the knife was small, Li Rui hid it inside her sleeve covering it with the handkerchief, and walked away from there, leaving the man who was now unconscious from the pain.
While looking at her back, Xi Ying wondered what kind of pain his wife had gone through to become like this.
Lastly, he looked at the unconscious man on the ground. He personally will cut his other hand if the man lived till he gets back his body.
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