"Thwack—"
Blood splattered everywhere.
A young girl laid on the ground, her skin lacerated by the whip's lashes, a sight too gruesome to bear.
"Miss Luo please, don't hurt her anymore, I beg you," Chun Tao clung onto Luo Xueluan's leg while pleading, her cheeks red and swollen from crying, her face soaked with tears.
"Get out of my way, you dog servant!" Luo Xueluan used her energy, kicking Chun Tao and sending her flying.
Thump—
Chun Tao slammed into the wall and fell to the ground. She tried to struggle to her feet but her entire body felt as though it was made of broken bones. She then passed out.
Luo Xueluan, with her delicate chin held high, had a ruthless glint in her eyes. She hated Luo Qingwu to the core. Why was it that she, as the granddaughter of their grandfather, was the favourite?
Luo Qingwu was just a wastrel who couldn't cultivate, yet grandfather didn't give up on her, giving her all sorts of precious elixirs, even going to dangerous places personally to find for her a treasured item that could restore her energy core.
All because she was the eldest legitimate daughter of the Luo family?
However, it was her, Luo Xueluan, who was the real gem of the Luo family.
She was filled with hate!
She couldn't accept it!
Luo Xueluan's heart was flooding with hatred as she lifted the whip once again, lashing out at the helpless girl on the ground.
But ——
The girl made a move, her blurry, bloody hand gripping tightly onto the whip.
"You..." Luo Xue Luan’s eyes were wide with disbelief. "How could this waste possibly resist?"
She never dared to retaliate no matter how much she was bullied in the past.
Luo Qing Wu's eyes were sharp like a sword fresh from the sheath, shimmering coldly as she brutally yanked the whip.
Caught off guard, Luo Xue Luan screamed and tumbled forward.
In a flash —
Luo Qing Wu swiftly maneuvered herself atop Luo Xue Luan.
Slap, slap, slap —
One slap followed another.
In an instant, Luo Xue Luan's fair face swelled up like a pig head.
The surrounding servants stood, dumbfounded in disbelief, could this be the same young mistress who used to take abuse without fighting back?
"Luo Qing Wu, you worthless wretch, how dare you..." After realizing what was happening, Luo Xue Luan lost it, screaming like a madwoman.
Luo Qing Wu, pulled out the hairpin from her hair and pointed it at her neck. The immense, surging murderous intent filled her glossy black eyes.
"Do you believe I'll pierce your veins, and send you to meet the King of Hell?"
A powerful voice resonated.
Fear gripped Luo Xueluan. She stiffened, dread brimming in her pupils. Motionless, she dared not move, for fear that the hairpin in Luo Qianwu's hand would stab her.
She didn't want to die.
"What do you want?" Hate flashed through Luo Xueluan's eyes, teeth grinding with rage. That damned useless mule, she would make her life worse than death.
Before the grandfather's return, she would toss her to the chaotic burial ground to be dog feed, leaving no remains!
A sinister smile traced Luo Qianwu's scar-covered face. She then forcefully fed Luo Xueluan a medicinal pellet.
"For ten years, you've bullied me for a full ten years!"
Luo Qianwu rose, picking up the whip from the ground, and lashed it viciously on Luo Xueluan, whip after whip.
Within moments,
Luo Xueluan was left beaten up, her flesh raw and bloody, suffering a pain that cut to her very bone marrow, she wished for death. She couldn't tell what the damn woman had forced her to swallow, which somehow blocked her spiritual power.
"Luo Qianwu, stop!"
Suddenly, a commanding male voice rang out at the courtyard entrance, like thunder.
Immediately, a frantic woman ran towards Luo Xueluan, and upon seeing her pitiful state, felt her blood surging, almost vomiting blood in fainting onstage.
Liushi's fury flared, she raised her hand aiming at Luo Qianwu’s face.
Damn woman, hurting her daughter!
Murderous intent surged in Luo Qingwu's eyes, her hands swift as a whip.
With a pained scream, Mistress Liu was thrown to the ground, in a compromising and humiliating position.
"Madam!"
Several servants rushed over in panic and fear.
Mistress Liu grimaced in pain, trembling with anger. She would have given anything to tear Luo Qingwu apart, humiliated as she was in front of everyone.
"You useless thing, how dare you hit me!"
With a bloody, cruel smile, Luo Qingwu raised her whip once again, relentlessly striking both Mistress Liu and Luo Xue Luan.
In a split second, the courtyard was filled with screams and curses from both the mother and daughter.
"Go tie her up now!"
Luo Haixuan was fuming, his veins popping from his forehead. Had this useless woman lost her mind?
To dare to strike his wife and daughter in front of all the servants, did she even regard him as the head of the family?
As Luo Qingwu saw servants rushing towards her, she cracked her whip -- each lash packed with fierce power, stinging like a blade. The pain made them scream out loud.
She was not the meek woman they used to know, who would allow such bullies to walk all over her.
Since she had taken over this body, she would make sure all previous wrongs were righted!!!
Seeing her ruthless, poisonous, and swift actions, Luo Haixuan was taken aback. Was this the same defenseless woman they used to know?
How could this be...
After Luo Qingwu defeated all the servants, she lifted her head to look at Luo Haixuan, a sarcastic smile curling at the corner of her mouth. Her uncle viewed her as a disgrace.
All because she couldn't cultivate, people looked down on her as if she was a piece of trash.
"Father, you must punish her. Look at the state she has reduced my mother and me to," Luo Xueluan angrily said, covering her face, flames of anger burning in her heart.
Since her childhood, she had never been bullied like this.
"Luo Qingwu, kneel down," commanded Luo Haixuan in a threatening tone.
Luo Qingwu's eyes were icy and sharp, her attitude arrogant,"You're not worthy."
"You..."
"You have been bullying me for ten years. The former Luo Qingwu is dead. As for now, whoever dares to touch me, I will repay tenfold." Luo Qingwu, standing upright and ominously, threw down these words as a chilling aura radiated from her.
Despite her petite frame, the formidable aura she exuded at that moment rattled everyone in attendance.
"Your existence is a disgrace to the Luo family. We've provided for your food and clothing all these years. You should be grateful. If not, just die, don't waste resources." Madam Liu assumed a superior attitude.
How could such a useless creature have no self-awareness!
Too presumptuous, too insolent!
Luo Qingwu laughed. Step by step, she moved towards Madam Liu without uttering a word, but first lashed her with a whip.
Madam Liu shrieked, terrified she quickly ran towards Luo Haixuan. Her eyes held a malicious gleam, she was furious.
"Luo Qingwu, do I still exist in your eyes as the head of the household?" Luo Haixuan's eyes beamed with rage, his expression frigid, wishing he could slap her to death.
Yet, remembering his father's parting words, he could only hold back.
"Head of the household? Even though my father has been missing for ten years, he's not dead until the day we find his corpse. You're only a temporary substitute." Luo Qingwu sneered disdainfully.
"You..." Luo Haixuan's eyes engorged with anger, nearly spitting out blood, on the verge of an explosion.
Ten years, a full decade!
Ever since Luo Huaijin went missing, he, as the illegitimate child, had been temporarily acting as the head of the household, dedicating himself wholly to the Luo family, but his father would never hand over the order of household head to him.
"The Luo family has regulations, the head of the household can only be a direct heir. Even if Daddy doesn't return, you can never become the future head of the household." Luo Qingwu said sharply.
Today, she fought back. The second family will likely try to kill her by any means necessary. Hence, she decided to let go and fight them passionately.