Chapter 81: Chapter 81: The Sun Family is Wiped Out

Su Qing tapped the flat of the blade. "The truth."

Liang Fushan, his face a mask of misery, quickly said, "I’ll talk, I’ll talk! If I really got the job, I planned to fabricate evidence that you were cheating on me. Then I’d dump you and... and marry someone I actually like..."

Liang Fushan’s voice trailed off as he timidly watched Su Qing’s expressionless face.

Su Qing nodded. "Quite the beautiful plan you had there."

"I was wrong, I was wrong! Ma’am, I’ll never dare to do it again," Liang Fushan begged. "Please, just spare me this once, okay?"

"Spare you?" Su Qing raised an eyebrow, a gesture that made Liang Fushan’s heart tremble. He hurriedly said, "Yes, Ma’am! As long as you spare me, I’ll do anything you say. I mean it, I really do."

"Is that so..." Su Qing drew out her words, the corner of her mouth curling into a high smirk. She didn’t say anything else, just watched Liang Fushan with a smile.

In the dead of night, under the moonlight, a smile like that sent a chill down Liang Fushan’s spine. An idea flashed in his mind, and he quickly said, "Ma’am, Su Tao is trying to hurt you! She has ill intentions. She instigated me to harm you today, and she’ll definitely find a chance to instigate someone else tomorrow. I... I’ll help you deal with her. I’ll make sure she never has the guts to harm you again, how about that?"

"You’ll deal with her?"

"Yes."

Su Qing stared at Liang Fushan for a long moment before speaking. "And I can trust you?"

"Yes, absolutely!" Liang Fushan replied without a second’s hesitation. "Ma’am, I truly know I was wrong. I promise, from now on, I’ll take a detour whenever I see you, alright? I will never provoke you again."

"Fine." Su Qing raised an eyebrow. "I’ll see how you perform. If I’m not satisfied, then like I said before, it wouldn’t be hard for me to make you disappear without a trace."

"I... I understand." Liang Fushan swallowed nervously and swore, "I get it."

Satisfied, Su Qing nodded and asked, "Were you at my house today?"

"No, not at all." Liang Fushan waved his hands frantically. "I was sleeping at home all day. I didn’t go anywhere."

"Good." Su Qing smiled. "You’d better remember that. If anyone finds out you came to my house today, I guarantee every word I said will come true. If you don’t believe me, you can try me."

"I wouldn’t dare, I wouldn’t dare," Liang Fushan hastily promised.

’Try her? Was he supposed to test her with his life?’

"Alright, it’s getting late. Go back the way you came." Su Qing withdrew the knife, and Liang Fushan’s heart finally settled back into his chest. But when he saw the blade glint coldly in the moonlight, an involuntary shiver wracked his body. He scrambled to his feet, backed cautiously out of the house, and stealthily climbed back over the earthen wall. He didn’t break into a full sprint until he was out of Lihua Village. He swore he would never, ever see that psycho Su Qing again.

’She really is a psycho! What kind of girl sleeps with a knife under her pillow and talks about murder so casually? A psycho, an absolute psycho.’

And the source of his terror, the one who had led him to this psycho, was Su Tao.

Now, Liang Fushan hated Su Tao to the bone. All the fear and intimidation he had suffered today were because of her. He swore he would not let Su Tao get away with it!

「Two days later.」

A major incident occurred in Yuan Shan Village. The Sun family’s daughter-in-law, Su Tao, was discovered fooling around with a village delinquent. A group of villagers caught them in the act. When they were discovered, the two were still going at it shamelessly.

Just like that, the entire Yuan Shan Village was in an uproar.

"My, oh my, that daughter-in-law of the Sun family... Tsk, tsk, she’s really something else."

"I know, right? She’s probably unwilling to be stuck with that simpleton all day. Otherwise, why would she do something like this?"

"Hey, don’t you guys know? The reason that daughter-in-law married into the Sun family... I heard it’s because she and Shitou... you know."

"Whoa, no way! I thought it was because she couldn’t stand the Sun family. Turns out she’s an old hand at this."

"Exactly."

...

The whole of Yuan Shan Village was abuzz with gossip about Su Tao.

The Sun family was furious. Their reputation wasn’t great to begin with, but there was no excuse for a wife to cuckold her husband, especially not in front of everyone.

"You bitch! You’ve brought utter disgrace upon our Sun family!" Shi’s mother shrieked at Su Tao, swinging a broom head wildly and bringing it down on her body. "I’ll beat you to death, you shameless whore! What right do you have to live? Even dying wouldn’t be enough to atone for your sins!"

"Beat her! Hit her harder! How did our family end up with such a shameless wife?!" Shitou’s father yelled angrily from the side.

Meanwhile, Shitou clapped his hands. "Oh, hit her, hit her! Harder, Mother, harder! This is so fun!"

Giggling, Shitou went over, grabbed Su Tao by the hair, and slammed her head against the wall. He kept laughing as he did it. "Haha, what a nice sound. A really nice sound."

Su Tao was brutally beaten in turns by the Sun family members until she was on the verge of death. She truly felt like she was about to be killed.

’How did this happen? She herself had no idea. For the past two days, she had been waiting for news of Su Qing marrying into the Liang Family. She was waiting for Chen Danou to give her the rest of the money so she could finally leave. Oh, right, before she left, she was also going to spread the real reason Su Qing was marrying into the Liang Family all over Lihua Village and Fengshui Village, to make Su Qing taste the same suffering she had endured.’

’But instead of getting the money, she had been drugged into a stupor and was then found in bed with that village delinquent.’

’How had things come to this?’

Su Tao couldn’t understand.

At that moment, her heart was filled with nothing but hate. The Sun family didn’t treat her like a human being at all. In their eyes, she was just a wife they had bought, someone they could beat and curse as they pleased.

In a daze, Tian Aixiang’s words echoed in her ears: "I don’t believe they’d still be so arrogant if you pulled a knife on them."

’Right, a knife. A knife! She could use a knife. If she used a knife, no one would dare bully her anymore...’

Su Tao’s thoughts grew hazy as the pain in her body intensified and her consciousness began to fade. Finally, covered in her own blood, Su Tao was thrown into the woodshed.

In the middle of the night, Su Tao slowly regained consciousness. Staring at the moonlight outside the window, her eyes filled with hatred. Enduring the pain that wracked her body, Su Tao staggered to her feet and stumbled toward the kitchen. She still had a little of the drug she had stolen from the Sun family, besides what she had given to the Liang Family. It was the perfect time to use it.

A vicious glint flashed in Su Tao’s eyes. Gripping a kitchen knife, she staggered back toward the main house...

「The next day.」

Yuan Shan Village was in an uproar once again.

The three members of the Sun family had been found brutally murdered in their home. And their daughter-in-law, Su Tao, was nowhere to be found...