Chapter 24: Luo Family Extra
Eighteen years ago, Luo Kangying, the head of the Luo family, was an extremely mediocre person. She had two daughters with her legal husband, Liu Shi. The elder daughter, Luo Sheng, was eight years old, and the younger daughter, Luo Yi, was five years old.
At that time, the wealthiest family in the capital was the Mo family. The Mo family had an only son named Mo Yin. Mo Yin was exceptionally handsome and well-educated, making him the ideal choice for many women’s legal husband.
Upon seeing Mo Yin for the first time, Luo Kangying plotted everything. She bribed a few ruffians to harass Mo Yin, creating a scene of a hero saving a beauty.
From that moment on, Mo Yin held a sense of gratitude towards her. Perhaps it was because of love or perhaps it was simply due to gratitude, Mo Yin married Luo Kangying. No, to be precise, Luo Kangying married into the Mo family.
Even though his parents strongly opposed, Mo Yin resolutely disregarded their dissuasion.
Before marrying into the Mo family, Luo Kangying had been concealing the fact that she was already married. It wasn’t until half a year after marrying into the Mo family that she brought Liu Shi and her two children to the Mo family. The head of the Mo family was furious and wanted to chase them all away.
However, the heartbroken Mo Yin stopped them, saying, “When you marry a rooster, you follow the rooster; when you marry a dog, you follow the dog. Since they are all her husbands, let’s live together.”
And so, they moved into the Mo family as if it was a matter of course, marking the beginning of a nightmare.
Just two months after Liu Shi moved into the Mo family, he conspired with Luo Kangying to murder the Mo family couple and imprison Mo Yin, seizing the Mo family as their own. At that time, Mo Yin was already pregnant.
After giving birth to a son, the father and son were locked up in a remote courtyard, completely isolated for eight whole years.
Only occasionally would someone send them leftover food, and they survived on these scraps.
Luo Sheng and Luo Yi would often come to abuse them, treating them like tools to pass the time after meals.
People at that time knew that the Luo family had replaced the Mo family as the wealthiest in the capital. Outside, the two young mistresses of the Luo family, especially the elder daughter Luo Sheng, were notorious for their promiscuity and misdeeds.
On this day, as Mo Yin and his son were eating leftovers, they heard footsteps outside the door. Fearing that his son would be beaten again, he hastily shoved his son under the bed, telling him not to make a sound.
Eight-year-old Luo Shaoxuan witnessed with his own eyes how his father was abused and raped by Luo Sheng. He heard his father’s heart-wrenching cries and wept in fear under the bed.
From then on, his father’s face lost all vitality. He would always hold him, his eyes hollow and shedding tears. At that time, he didn’t know what had happened to his father.
Until later… his father became pregnant. When his mother found out, she believed that his father had cheated on her and beat his father to death right in front of him.
Luo Shaoxuan would never forget the look in his father’s eyes before he died – filled with despair, desolation, and emptiness.
He hated them so much that he wished he could dismember them all and make them suffer a fate worse than death, but he didn’t have the ability to do so at the time.
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After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
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After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”