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She was wearing a maternity dress, and had on light makeup. She looked like a frail and sickly beauty, and although she always acted coquettishly in front of Cheng Ruojun, I knew that she was not as beautiful as me, and that I was much more beautiful than her. This was also what I had the ability to marry Cheng Ruojun.

She wanted to find a woman for my husband, but I had to show that I was not happy at all. We were both women, yet she was so cold to me.

I barely managed to raise my eyes to look at Du Lirong and said, "How are you going to punish me?" I could feel that my voice was weak, but clear. It didn't sound like mine.

I was afraid of her expression. I felt like a piece of meat on a chopping board.

She reached out her hand as if to grab my face. I tilted my head to avoid it, but the next second, I received a solid slap. My face instantly swelled up and felt as if someone poured boiling water on my face.

"Who do you think you are, you dare to hide from me?" "You haven't even graduated from high school, and you're still grateful to have married into our Cheng Family. Your whole family are all poor, and only relying on our Cheng Family's support, you still dare to put on airs with me. Let me tell you, if I can get Ye Hanqiu to your house today, tomorrow, what Li Hanqiu or Zhao Hanqiu would I be able to do?"

I stared at Du Lirong without speaking, but my heart had already scolded her a hundred times, I never thought that just because I didn't return at night, she would dare to treat me like this.

"Auntie, don't be angry, maybe Cheng Ruojun likes a restless woman like her." Ye Hanqiu took a step forward and said maliciously. She would only add oil to the fire, but her eyes hid a dense amount of ambition.

"Hmph." Du Lirong looked at her and said, "You should listen to me."

Du Lirong turned her head to look at me again, then fiercely slapped me again, she said, "Do your job, Cheng Ruojun is the CEO of a company, look at your dressing, he can't even bring you out, you have no eyes at all."

My head was lowered and there was not a spot on my body that was not in pain. Right now, I was in a bit of a trance, I could not even see Du Lirong's face clearly anymore. All I could see was a bright red lips that continuously opened and closed.

I'm so tired. A voice inside me said, It doesn't sound like me, but it sounds like me.

He really didn't want to take it lying down. the voice said again. But what are my parents and brother going to do? I don't have any money.

"Why aren't you saying anything!? "What about playing dead here?" Du Lirong's voice once again rang out, as if it came from a very far away place.

I opened my mouth, but no words came out. My brain was wooden and my ears were ringing.

"Don't pretend to be pitiful, I'm not interested in your tricks." Another slap, and my head tilted to the side, and I couldn't even bring myself to turn it right.

"Will you still be staying at night?" Du Lirong grabbed my chin and said fiercely, the saliva coming out from her mouth landing on my face.

I looked at Du Lirong through the gaps in my hair. I felt like I had aphasia and couldn't utter a single word.

"Speak!" Du Lirong's sinister face distorted due to anger, her small eyes looked like they were about to spew fire, "You're deaf, your stomach isn't good, your brain isn't good either, you're just trash from inside out!" As if her slap wasn't enough to vent her anger, she ruthlessly kicked me in the stomach.

Sister Zheng let go of me at this moment. I collapsed onto the ground, and my back hit the wall. The pain came again, and my head felt like it had been stabbed.

I lied in the darkness, as if someone had walked over. I knew that this person was not Cheng Ruojun, so I smelled the fragrance of chocolate and reached out to hug him. I struggled to speak clearly, "Save me."

But then I woke up, and a bucket of ice water poured down on my head, and I bounced up from the ground. It was summer, and I was shivering with cold, and my lips were trembling uncontrollably, and my heart was beating fast, and I felt like it was going to pop out of my throat.

"Look, isn't she awake now?" Ye Hanqiu's voice came from above her head, "Auntie, don't worry."

I raised my head and looked at them, Ye Hanqiu's lips were still smiling, her eyes were still filled with hatred, Du Lirong was also looking at me, her face was pale white, her confidence seemed to not be as strong as before when she mistreated me.

"If you don't come back tonight, I'll kick you out of the Cheng family." Du Lirong's words were said with a bit of a bluff. Perhaps she was really afraid of my death, I was Cheng Ruojun's wife after all, Cheng Ruojun had indeed loved me for three years.

I nodded stiffly.

"Let's go." Du Lirong said, "Sister Zheng, send her out."

Sister Zheng and another robust nanny seemed to want to pull me up from the ground.

I gave them a shove and said weakly, "I can do it myself." Before I finished my sentence, Sister Zheng released me.

I almost fell again, but I held on to the wall.

Water dripped from my hair to the ground, and my legs trembled. I stood there recovering some of my strength before I slowly walked out. I used all my strength with every step, so I didn't want to collapse here.

When I finally got out and sat in the car, I took the chocolates out of the drawer and quickly peeled them off and popped them in my mouth.

"He's saved." I muttered, "It hurts. I might as well die."

I rested for a while, then drove to the bakery room. Luckily, Cheng Ya was not there, so I sat on the window ledge alone, knowing that I should treat my wounds, but I did not want to move my finger at all. I only wanted to rest for a while, and maybe the wounds on my body and heart would heal by themselves.

"Dong, dong, dong." At that moment, I suddenly heard the door open, followed by the sound of the door opening.

I looked up. He was standing in the doorway, smiling warmly.