Yue Ning turned her head, meeting Yixuan's tranquil gaze, and suddenly it was as if someone had doused her with a bucket of cold water, and she abruptly calmed down.
The savagery within her dissipated in an instant...
She had almost made a terrible mistake, nearly doing something foolish.
She truly lost control, and truly wanted to kill this woman. But Dayuan had a bizarre decree, once she killed her, her brothers would be implicated, and her entire family would suffer.
She might not care about herself, but she did not want to bring trouble upon her brothers. Therefore, even if suffering, tired, unwilling, and full of hate, she could only endure, soldier on, and suffer through it all.
Just because this woman was born noble and privileged, while men were considered lowly and insignificant.
The world was heartless; women reigned supreme over men, dictates men's fate, governs men's lives. Women could act recklessly, while men had to bow and scrape, swallow their pride, and still stick to their duties, follow the "Husband Rules", and even if the women were at fault, men had no recourse.
Yue Ning wiped her face, then took another deep look at Dong Huiying before she crouched back down to continue her work.
Dong Huiying was shocked.
How much could this family endure?
If it were her, after being treated that way by someone, she would bite back, even at the cost of her own life.
"I'm sorry…"
She apologized again. The situation was not her doing, but since she had taken over Dong Dabao's body, she had inherited these consequences. This apology, even if it came too late, would still be worthwhile if it could ease the brothers' hearts even a little…
Yue Ning disregarded her words as if he hadn't heard them, while Yixuan let out a light sigh.
"You don't need to apologize, let's take care of your wound first."
Yixuan untied her hairband, and her waterfall-like long hair cascaded down. She used the band to bind Dong Huiying's elbow, slowing the bleeding by a bit.
Dong Huiying pursed her lips, lowered her head and said nothing more.
The damage had been done, and under these circumstances, no amount of talking would help.
She glanced at Yixuan, then at Yue Ning, busy cleaning up the mess, feeling stabbing pains in her heart and a sudden sympathy for them both.
But then, noticing the color of the blood on her wound, she got distracted.
That color of the blood was peculiar.
Was it actually a purple-black?
......
Yue Ning stayed home to tidy up after the turmoil, while Yixuan, seeing the depth of Dong Huiying's wound and the amount of purple-black blood she had lost, asked Dong Huiying to wait at home while he went out to seek a "Doctor".
Dong Huiying, skilled in both Eastern and Western medical arts, knew her minor wound could be self-treated, but Yixuan left in such haste, and despite her shouting twice, she failed to call him back. Instead, she was subjected to a fierce glare from an utterly exasperated Liang Yuening.
She looked at the wound on her arm, realizing it needed stitches due to its depth; however, she did not know where the household kept its needles and thread and didn't dare ask the fierce Liang Yuening, whose glares made it seem like he wished he could flay her alive. She had no choice but to sit on the bench and wait.
But she could only sit briefly before growing restless, so she rolled up her sleeves and began to clean the wound with clean water.
At that moment, Yue Ning straightened his back, rubbed at his stiff aching spine, and suddenly noticed there were many old scars on her arm, which made him pause slightly.
That disgusting thing had wanted to force himself on Third Brother one night after coming to their home. Third Brother appeared lascivious but was in fact very unbending, so he had fiercely refused. After that, the man never attempted it again, but what followed was even more relentless torment of the brothers.
Yue Ning touched his own short hair, then sneered disdainfully.
Ha! This person must be mentally disturbed, unable to bear seeing scars on anyone else while he himself was covered in them, so he made them suffer with him, inflicting even more wounds on his brothers' bodies.
After waiting for quite a while, Yue Ning grew anxious, wondering why Yixuan still hadn't returned after so long.
He felt uneasy and so stepped outside…