Mrs. Shang felt a buzz in her brain.
“You shameless b*tch! I’ll teach you not to mess with me today!”
Mrs. Shang raised her hand and rushed to Ji Yan. Ji Yan could have avoided it, but she knew that if she didn’t take this slap, there would be more embarrassment waiting for her in the future.
Mrs. Shang’s palm fell hard on Ji Yan’s face.
“Sl*t, how dare you cheat!” With this, Mrs. Shang pushed Ji Yan to the ground. “Today, I’ll let you know our family rules!”
Mrs. Shang turned around angrily and looked at Madam Zhang. “Go! Get Master Shang’s whip for me!”
“Mrs. Shang, Madam Ji Yan…”
“Hurry up and go!”
Not waiting for Madam Zhang to finish her pleading, Mrs. Shang roared with fire in her eyes.
Ji Yan endured the pain in her abdomen and sat up from the ground. She touched her burning face and stared at Shang Jinshen.
“Shang Jinshen, why?”
Ji Yan thought she was brave, but she still failed to stop her tears. Ji Yan raised her hand and wiped them off. “Why did you do this?”
Shang Jinshen looked at Ji Yan’s pained expression and twitched the corner of his mouth in disdain.
“There’s no reason.”
“Okay!” Ji Yan sniffed and stood up. “Shang Jinshen, you said that the child is not yours. Do you have any evidence?”
Standing aside, Mrs. Shang heard Ji Yan’s question and immediately looked at her son.
“Evidence?” Shang Jinshen looked at Ji Yan and sneered. “Stupid woman, I didn’t touch you since the first day you married into our family. I don’t know how you have a child for no reason.”
“By the way!” Shang Jinshen said as he took out a piece of paper from his suit pocket. “What did you do tonight? Look at this hotel room record I found. As your husband, I have the right to ask.”
Shang Jinshen threw the paper in his hand at Ji Yan’s face.
Ji Yan’s eyes widened and she looked at Shang Jinshen’s calm face. Suddenly, she knew what was going on.
It was part of his plan when he allowed her to return late in the evening. The appearance of Dr. Smith was not an incident.
It was all Shang Jinshen’s arrangement.
“What is it?”
Mrs. Shang picked up the room record on the floor before Ji Yan could move.
When she saw Ji Yan’s ID number and the timing she booked a room, Mrs. Shang was so mad that she was on the verge of shaking.
“You shameless b*tch! You even cuckolded my son!”
Mrs. Shang rushed to Ji Yan and raised her hand again. When her palm was about to fall, Ji Yan’s agile hand grabbed Mrs. Shang’s wrist and snatched the room record with the other hand.
Ji Yan glared at Shang Jinshen, her face full of shame and resentment.
“Shang Jinshen, don’t you want to explain something?”
“Explain?” Shang Jinshen looked at Ji Yan with a funny face. “You didn’t get a room with me. Why should I explain?”
Ji Yan felt her heart being cut open bit by bit by a blunt instrument. She released Mrs. Shang’s hand in desperation.
“Mrs. Shang! You can ask someone to go to this hotel right now to get the surveillance video. I opened this room for a drunk girl. It’s not what you think.”
“Hmph! You’re still making things up at this point?”
Ji Yan was about to continue explaining when Madam Zhang came over.
“Mrs. Shang!”
Madam Zhang handed the whip in her hand to Mrs. Shang with great respect, then she looked at Ji Yan with a distressed look.
“Kneel down!” Mrs. Shang shouted with the whip in her hand.
“Today I’ll let you know how to be the daughter-in-law of the Shang family.”
Ji Yan looked at the whip in Mrs. Shang’s hand and couldn’t help shaking. She then looked at Shang Jinshen, who had been silent beside her. At this time, he was holding his chin and staring at Ji Yan as if he was waiting to watch a good show.
Ji Yan suddenly felt things were so ridiculous. She actually tried to explain herself to Mrs. Shang, pleading for her to believe her.
“I didn’t do anything wrong. I won’t kneel!”
Ji Yan took a deep breath and straightened her back to look at Mrs. Shang.
“You won’t kneel?”
Madam Shang looked at Ji Yan with an evil smile on the corner of her mouth.
“If you know what’s good for you, you’d better be obedient as soon as possible. Otherwise…”
“Madam Ji Yan, please kneel.”
Madam Zhang walked to Ji Yan and tugged at the hem of her clothes.
What would happen if she wouldn’t obey? Will they lock her up in the dark room for her to be humiliated by others?
Ji Yan clenched her fists and the disgust of the past appeared again in front of her. She knew that she could not avoid the disaster happening to her.
“It’s okay if you don’t kneel!”
Mrs. Shang drew close to Ji Yan, her eyes fixed on her.
“In any case, the Ji family has given us a fake bride. At the worst, we can ask our lawyer to pursue this matter! In addition to marriage fraud, you have also gotten us to invest in your family’s company. We could probably sue you with commercial fraud as well.”
After saying that with a chuckle, Mrs. Shang walked to the sofa with a relaxed face.
“Wait!” Ji Yan grabbed Mrs. Shang, her red eyes trying to hold back her tears. “I’ll kneel!”
As Ji Yan’s voice fell, she kneeled on the marble floor tiles with a plop.
“That’s more like it!”
As Mrs. Shang spoke, she walked to Ji Yan again. Without saying a word, she raised her hand and whipped her.
“Tell me, are you in the wrong? You shameless woman!”
Ji Yan broke out in a cold sweat because of the whip, but she gritted her teeth and stared at Shang Jinshen with a cold glare, swallowing her sobs.
When Mrs. Shang saw Ji Yan keep silent for a long time, she became angrier and angrier, so she swung her hand and whipped her again.
“Don’t want to admit your mistake? I’ll see how long you can hold on!”
Then came the sound of countless lashes of the whip hitting Ji Yan’s body, lacerating her flesh.
Shang Jinshen looked at Ji Yan curling up painfully on the ground. She bit her lips so hard that there was blood.
For some reason, Shang Jinshen had wanted to turn around and walk away several times, but Ji Yan’s gaze seemed to be constantly pulling him, making him unable to move.
“You’re such a b*tch. You’re so stubborn.”
Panting, Mrs. Shang put down her hand. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and glanced at the butler. Then she handed over the whip in her hand and said, “Take over!”
The butler was shocked. He looked at the whip and didn’t know what to do.
“Shang… Shang Jinshen, are you satisfied?”
Ji Yan struggled to look up at Shang Jinshen.
Shang Jinshen felt a slight sting in his heart. Just as he was about to walk away, Mrs. Shang’s voice rang again.
“What, don’t you take my word seriously now?”
Mrs. Shang glared at the butler. The butler was helpless and had to walk over to take the whip.
“Don’t go soft on her. I’m going to see how long this profligate woman can last.”
The butler looked at Ji Yan, already weak with trembling hands, and then looked at Shang Jinshen awkwardly.
“Wait!” Shang Jinshen suddenly said, “After all, she is the Young Madam of our family. That’s all for today!”
Shang Jinshen was about to leave with his wheelchair, but Mrs. Shang got up from the sofa unsatisfied and ran over to him.
“Son, you can’t let this go easily. If you don’t teach her a lesson, there might be the next time.”
Mrs. Shang grabbed Shang Jinshen’s arm and turned back to glare at Ji Yan fiercely.
“I said it’s enough!” Shang Jinshen shook off Mrs. Shang’s hand. “She’s my wife. I don’t want to pursue this matter any further, so no other person should have other thoughts.”
Shang Jinshen patted Mrs. Shang’s hand and said, “Mother, you’ve been busy for such a long time, you must be tired. Have some rest.”
“Son!”
“Stop talking!” Shang Jinshen looked at Madam Zhang and said, “Help Madam Ji Yan back to rest.”
“Okay,” Madam Zhang responded while running to Ji Yan with tears on her face. “Madam Ji Yan, are you all right?”
Ji Yan endured the excruciating pain all over her body and finally stood up from the ground with the help of Madam Zhang. Through her misty tears, all she saw was the wealth and elegance of the Shang manor. She looked at Shang Jinshen’s back as he left. As soon as she opened her mouth, everything in front of her went dark, and she collapsed.
“Madam Ji Yan!”
Madam Zhang and the butler shouted in unison and rushed to hold her up. Mrs. Shang looked back with a trace of panic, glaring at them while growling.
“What are you waiting for? Send her back to her room!”
Mrs. Shang sighed heavily and sat back on the sofa again. “What did I do? I accepted such a useless daughter-in-law. In two days, Master Shang will come back. How can I explain it to him?”
The butler carried Ji Yan on his back while Madam Zhang supported him from behind. As soon as they entered the bedroom, Shang Jinshen slipped out of the study in his wheelchair.
“Send her to the guest room!” Shang Jinshen ordered with a blank face, his files in hand.
After Madam Zhang and the butler responded, they turned around and went to the guest room on the second floor with Ji Yan.
Listening to the footsteps gradually fading away, Shang Jinshen remembered the scene of Ji Yan’s grievances and stubbornness, as well as her jumping down from the bridge. He looked down at his legs and then clenched his fists.
What on earth did that woman want to do?