Shen Mingzhu opened her eyes, and the familiar face of Zhong Qing came into view.

"Are you awake? Feeling better?"

Shen Mingzhu subconsciously sat up from the bed, but her head felt weightless and dizzy. Zhong Qing was able to hold her up and she didn't fall back onto the bed.

"Hey, what's wrong with me? I feel dizzy."

"You fainted."

Zhong Qing raised the pillow higher for her to lean on, and explained in a soft voice: "You drank alcohol and lacked oxygen, so you fainted in the box. My mother thought you were drunk, so she I sent you to your room to rest, and called me to come and take care of you."

Shen Mingzhu had no doubts.

There is a pot dish heated by charcoal fire on the table. Burning charcoal in a closed space does pose a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.

"Drink some water. It will boost your metabolism and you will feel better."

"Well, thank you."

Drinking a glass of honey in water really made me feel better.

……

After watching Shen Mingzhu return home and closing the door of Pei's house, Zhong Qing leaned her body on the back of the car seat with relief.

"Let's go back."

Hearing her feeble voice, the driver said with concern: "Miss, please take a rest. I'll call you when you get home."

"Ah."

Zhong Qing closed her eyes to rest her mind, but how could she calm down.

She was just a hair away from ruining her best friend's life.

……

It was already 9 o'clock when Zhong Qing came in.

In fact, the car arrived outside the house half an hour ago, but she knew what she would face when she returned home and didn't want to step through the door.

Chu Yuqing sat in front of the coffee table and pruned a wintersweet.

She is fifty years old but has a very good appearance. She is wearing an apricot gray cheongsam and a khaki plaid wool shawl on her shoulders. Her whole person is graceful, elegant and beautiful, and there is no hint that she is a vicious woman inside who will do anything. .

"came back?"

Mother Zhong turned a blind eye to Zhong Qing's cold and angry eyes, and continued to concentrate on trimming the vase in front of her.

"Go to the study. Your dad has been waiting for you for a long time. He is very angry tonight."

Without even a word of concern, my daughter came back so late and asked if she had eaten or whether she was hungry.

"Remember to ask Yinyin and Xiaomin to come down and eat fruit."

Zhong Qing turned a deaf ear and went straight upstairs.

It wasn't until her footsteps could no longer be heard that Mrs. Zhong put down the scissors in her hand, picked up the trimmed wintersweet vase with satisfaction, and placed it on the tall cabinet in the entrance.

……

Although he was prepared to face the bloody storm, Zhong Qing could not help but feel trembling and fear while standing in front of the mahogany door of the study.

It was as if what was in front of me was the door to hell.

"Dad, I'm back."

"Well, close the door."

Zhong Jiping's voice was calm and he had a gentle smile on his face, like a loving father.

And when Zhong Qing closed the door behind him, the man completely tore away his hypocrisy, revealing his beast-like ferocity and fangs.

Zhong Jiping grabbed her slender, snow-white neck with one hand, his eyes fierce, "You are getting more and more courageous, and you dare to ruin my good deeds."

"I do not have."

Zhong Qing gasped laboriously, her fair face turning purple due to lack of oxygen, "I am doing it for the Zhong family, you really can't touch her..."

Zhong Jiping sneered, "I will investigate this matter. If you dare to lie to me, I won't let you off the hook."

After saying that, he let go.

Zhong Qing slid weakly to the ground, hunched over and trying to calm down the pain caused by suffocation.

"Snapped!"

The strong leather whip hit her thin back, and her body trembled.

And this is just the beginning.

Zhong Qing stuffed the handkerchief prepared in advance into his mouth and bit it tightly to avoid making any noise accidentally.

As the whip fell on her body more and more often, her face gradually turned pale, and cold sweat mixed with tears fell to the ground.

Tick ​​tock, tick tock. …

Downstairs, Zhong Yin and his brother were watching TV and eating sweet mangoes.

One kilogram of fresh fruit specially flown from tropical areas can equal half a month's income for a low-income family.

"My sister likes mangoes the most. I'll give her some."

Zhong Yin picked up two pieces of golden mango meat and was about to get up and go upstairs, but was held back by Chu Yuqing.

"Your sister is talking to your father about business in the study. Don't go up and disturb them."

"Oh."

Chu Yuqing's voice was very gentle, and Zhong Yin had no doubts at all.

"Then I'll keep it for my sister."

After saying that, he saw his younger brother Zhong Min still eating, so he went to take the whole fruit plate away.

"Don't eat it, leave some for sister."

Although Zhong Min pouted his mouth in dissatisfaction, he did not insist on eating.

Seeing him like this, Zhong Yin tenderly took a piece of mango pulp from the fruit plate and handed it to him.

"One more for you."

Zhong Min happily took the mango and continued to eat it happily.

Zhong Yin cursed "Glutton".

Chu Yuqing looked at the siblings with soft eyebrows.

……

More than ten minutes later, Zhong Jiping walked downstairs feeling refreshed, wearing the coat he had worn when going out.

Zhong Yin was the first to greet him, "Dad, are you going out safely at this late hour?"

"Well, I have work. Your sister has a cold and is resting in her room. Don't disturb her."

Zhong Yin was confused, "Sister was fine when she came back."

"Listen to your dad."

Chu Yuqing softly scolded her youngest daughter, raised her hand to help her husband straighten his collar, and told Zhong Jiping to pay attention to safety when going out and go home early.

Anyone who sees it will praise it as gentle and virtuous.

……

After instructing the nanny to take Zhong Yin and Zhong Min back to their room to rest, Chu Yuqing went to her eldest daughter's room with medicine and water.

The door to the room was locked from the inside, and Chu Yuqing was not angry. He knocked on the door patiently, as if he would keep knocking if he didn't open the door.

Finally, the door opened.

Chu Yuqing put the tray on the bedside table and looked down at her eldest daughter curled up on the bed, "Take off your clothes and I'll give you medicine."

"No need, get out."

"If you don't apply medicine, the wound will leave a scar, and your father will be unhappy."

Seeing that Zhong Qing ignored her, Chu Yuqing continued: "Should you take it off yourself, or should I ask the nanny to come in and help you."

Zhong Qing closed her eyes and raised her hand to unbutton her buttons.

She couldn't let the nanny see the injuries on her body, otherwise, her younger brothers and sisters would know about it sooner or later.

As the clothes on her body were removed, bloody whip wounds were revealed, snaking ferociously, like blood-colored poisonous insects crawling over the woman's thin, snow-white body.

If it were any other mother, seeing someone hurt her own daughter to this extent, she would probably pick up a knife and cut the person alive.

She just handed the anti-inflammatory medicine and water to Zhong Qing's hand, her voice so calm that she didn't look like a mother, she didn't even look like a human being.

"Took the medicine."

After that, he sat by the bed and began to treat Zhong Qing's injuries.

Even though Zhong Qing was shivering in pain, she didn't pause or comfort her at all.

Instead, he asked Shen Mingzhu with great interest, "What kind of woman does Yan Yi want who would like Shen Mingzhu like that? Are you lying to me?"

Zhong Qing turned her head, her voice broken as she endured the pain, "Last year, Shen Mingzhu was framed by a competitor. It was Yan Yi who called the police dog team to help her. If you don't believe it, you can go and investigate it yourself."

Chu Yuqing had heard about this matter. Although Yan Yi was a son of a powerful man, he had always been disciplined and self-disciplined and was a role model among the younger generation.

The private use of police dogs is a bit out of line.

But I didn’t expect that it was for a married woman?
Chu Yuqing mocked her daughter: "You are really useless, you can't even look down on your own man." (End of Chapter)

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