freenovelworld Chapter 372 The Cycle of Cause and Effect: No One Can Escape
Chapter 372 The Cycle of Cause and Effect: No One Can Escape
After the Second Prince left, Xuan Ying told Yuan Wanru that Lu Jiangnian had a manor not far from here, where there was a secret room.
Xuan Ying knew that today, the Crown Prince's wife was determined not to let Liang Yusong live.
So they arrived at the villa.
The candlelight flickered and bloomed like a flower on the blue brick wall, and Liang Yusong was tied to the torture chair with his hands behind his back.
Yuan Wanru was using silver tongs to pry open the branding iron in the charcoal brazier. Sparks flew onto Liang Yusong's gold-embroidered skirt, burning a black hole in it.
"Yuan Wanru, let me go!"
“My aunt is Consort Liang. If you kill me, she will definitely not forgive you.”
Yuan Wanru suddenly laughed, "At this point, you're still dreaming. No one will come to save you, Liang Yusong. You're so naive that it makes me laugh."
"Do you regret provoking me back then?"
Liang Yusong's face turned pale, but she forced herself to say, "When did I offend you? Don't make false accusations. I have no grudge against you..."
Yuan Wanru laughed loudly: "Do you really think I'm a fool?"
“From the very beginning, when you spread rumors in the Marquis of Zhongyong’s mansion, trying to frame me and ruin your reputation, I knew you were no good.”
"At the Crown Princess's birthday banquet, you colluded with the Second Prince's wife to try to ruin my reputation."
"Furthermore, you had Old Lady Lu use witchcraft to frame me for bringing misfortune to my family, hoping to get Lu Jiangnian to divorce me and make room for you. You are involved in every single one of these things, and I know all about it."
Liang Yusong was genuinely surprised. She felt she had kept these things very secret, so why would Yuan Wanru suspect her?
"You're talking nonsense. These things have nothing to do with me. I don't know what you're talking about."
"Trying to frame me with nothing but empty words?"
"Do you have evidence?"
Liang Yusong, of course, would not admit it.
Yuan Wanru didn't mind. "I don't need evidence. You're already meat on my chopping block. What I say goes."
She picked up a ladle of water and scooped up a ladleful of cold water, splashing it on Liang Yusong's face. As the water dripped down her hair, she grabbed Liang Yusong's chin: "The reason I told you this is simply to let the King of Hell know that someone like you deserves to be punished for your evil deeds. I didn't kill the wrong person."
Liang Yusong's pupils suddenly contracted—she was actually going to kill her!
"No...you have no right to kill me..."
"Then who gave you the right to harm others with impunity?" Yuan Wanru's fingertips traced her trembling neck. "If I hadn't been quick-witted, I would be the one ending up like this today."
"You're spouting nonsense!"
Liang Yusong suddenly sprang to her feet, the torture chair scraping against the floor with a piercing sound. "Lu Jiangnian must be blind to marry a poisonous woman like you!"
Yuan Wanru chuckled softly, "Bring in a mirror."
Xuan Ying immediately brought in a bronze mirror half a person's height. The mirror reflected Liang Yusong's distorted face. Yuan Wanru lightly ran her finger across the mirror's surface: "Look at your face, it's truly hideous."
On the way back, Liang Yusong did not wear a veil. Now, the poison had taken effect, and her face was covered with a terrifying red swelling.
What Liang Yusong least wanted to see was her current face.
“My husband once said that you are like a skinned toad, and that just looking at you would give him nightmares for three days. So even if you put the Lianzhi Gu on him, he still couldn’t fall in love with you.”
"Because you are just so disgusting."
Liang Yusong trembled all over: "You're talking nonsense! My face isn't like this. You ruined me, you ruined everything I had. If it weren't for you, Lu Jiangnian wouldn't be like this..."
Yuan Wanru suddenly chuckled, took out a dagger, and placed it on Liang Yusong's face: "I feel like your face is about to ooze pus. Do you want me to prick it for you? Tsk tsk, with this face, if you go out and say you're Liang Yusong, no one will dare to recognize you."
As she spoke, the tip of her knife slashed Liang Yusong's face, and yellow pus mixed with blood flowed down the face of the person in the mirror. Liang Yusong let out a shrill scream.
"Yuan...Wanru...I killed...you!"
She screamed, but there was nothing she could do.
Yuan Wanru frowned. Although she had seen many wounds and didn't find them disgusting, this was the first time she had ever physically abused someone.
I felt a little relieved, but not overly happy.
Sure enough, she was still kind and didn't like such bloody scenes.
If Xuan Ying, who was watching from the side, knew what she was thinking at that moment, she would probably be speechless.
The Crown Prince's wife is really not the kind of person one would expect.
She was torturing Liang Yusong both mentally and physically; it would have been better for Liang Yusong to just die.
Yuan Wanru grabbed Liang Yusong's chin, forcing her to open her mouth, "Don't you like drugging people? I'll let you taste what it's like to be drugged."
As she spoke, she poured a bowl of medicine down her throat.
Liang Yusong choked, her face turning bright red. "What did you give me to drink?!"
"You know medicine, can't you taste the difference?"
Liang Yusong was knowledgeable in medicine, but at this moment, her mind was in complete disarray, and she could not concentrate on identifying the ingredients of the medicine.
Yuan Wanru kindly offered her some advice: "Your scheme to bewitch Lu Wei and bring Lu Jiangnian and Liu Jun together is quite insidious."
"I will have to return all of this to you."
"Also, since you tried to ruin my reputation, I'll ruin yours."
"In short, we'll retaliate against everything, and then we'll be even."
What Yuan Wanru didn't say was that she suspected Liang Yusong was behind the original owner of the book being caught in bed with another man.
No matter how you calculate it, Liang Yusong has to die.
Liang Yusong's lips trembled: "This is... an aphrodisiac..."
Yuan Wanru nodded calmly: "Yes, you're right."
Liang Yusong finally broke down and screamed, "You can't do this to me! I didn't do any of those things myself! You can't do this to me!"
"Ridiculous! You, the mastermind behind this, are you more innocent than those who actually did it?"
Yuan Wanru looked straight at her with her cold, indifferent eyes: "Don't worry, your mother, your father, and your eldest brother Liang Zhong will all be joining you soon."
"However, just like you, they will die a horrible death, utterly disgraced. When people mention your Liang family, they will only despise and scorn you."
Are you happy with this ending?
Liang Yusong trembled all over. This woman was so vicious.
"No!" Liang Yusong struggled frantically, the torture chair crashing to the ground. Tears streaming down her face, she crawled towards Yuan Wanru, pleading, "It's all my fault, it's all my fault! Don't touch my mother, please don't touch her! She's innocent!"
Yuan Wanru stepped on her hand, which was trying to grab her skirt, her embroidered shoe grinding against her knuckles: "Now you're scared? When you sent people to Nanjiang County to kill the Yuan family, why didn't you ever consider that they were innocent too?"
"The Liang family's current situation is nothing more than karma and retribution. No one in your family is wronged."