With no courage to look into Quan Shaoze’s eyes, I apologized in a hurry and was about to flee.
However, before I could leave the hall, he had stridden up to me and pressed me against the freezing floor.
“It seems you won’t follow my words if I don’t teach you a good lesson!” he said with a vicious look. In the blink of an eye, my clothes had been torn to ribbons which scattered on both sides.
Before I could beg for mercy, he had forced himself into me.
My mind immediately went blank because of the fierce pain.
He pushed himself hard over me again and again, but I didn’t struggle this time.
I could only look away in despair with my last glimmer of hope fading away.
Maybe I was just a tool for him to vent his anger and he thought he could torture me at will at any time.
I thought sadly as I happened to look along the floor embedded with black elegant marbles and saw the servants leaving in a hurry.
For the moment, I felt as if I had fallen into the water and could only wait to drown.
Quan Shaoze vented his anger wildly. Unable to bear his torment, I fainted shortly afterwards.
When I regained my consciousness, it was already noon.
The weather was overcast and the thick clouds spreading in the sky made me feel even more depressed.
After taking a quick look around, I didn’t see Quan Shaoze. Then I walked to the top floor in a daze, aching all over.
My original intention was to get some fresh air and relax here, but when I looked down, I suddenly came up with an idea.
A jump from here would probably extricate myself from all this mess!
I felt greatly relieved at the thought of this.
However, the relief was replaced by guilt and depression that came along.
Nobody would take care of my brother if I died.
Shaking my head with a bitter smile, I looked up and moved even closer to the edge before closing my eyes.
At this point, Quan Shaoze appeared on the top floor with a malicious look.
It seemed he thought that I was going to commit suicide, so he suddenly pulled me into his arms.
“Can’t wait to commit suicide? Do you think you can get rid of me in this way?” He pinched my chin hard with eyes burning with anger.
Before I could answer, he continued with a grim look, “Stop dreaming! This is not negotiable! A dead bride will only strike me as convenient!”
His merciless words pierced my heart and filled me with despair.
I was stiff and had lost the instinct to fight, but only looked at him blankly without saying anything.
He threw me onto the bed after pulling me back to the room violently.
Seeing the icy look on his face, I thought he was going to compel me to go on with the wedding ceremony, so I protested in a hoarse voice, “Under no circumstance will I marry a dead man.”
I gazed at him decisively to show my determination.
Maybe because he had seen the bruises on my neck, he ripped my clothes open and sized me up before speaking in a sarcastic tone, “Even if you want to marry my brother now, I won’t let him marry a woman as bedraggled as you. Let’s talk about it after you recover!”
With that, Quan Shaoze left the room and locked the door.
Seeing him leaving, I looked down at my bruises, old and new, all over my body.
As he described, I was extremely bedraggled.
Some of my bruises were from the last fight with Zhang Yue, while others were because of Quan Shaoze.