611 The Secret About the Past 229 (1/2)
Pressing her lips together, An Xiaoning continued to ask her in a gentle voice, ”Can you see where the chains are?”
”In my dungeon. She'll never be able to escape for the rest of her life. How pathetic and sad is it that she's currently in a living hell?” said Shi Xiaoyu, grabbing onto the bedsheets tightly.
”Where's the dungeon?”
”Below me… who would've thought that there'd be a dungeon below me?” Shi Xiaoyu muttered.
An Xiaoning sat down and asked, ”Does your husband know about this?”
”No, I'm the only one who knows about this dungeon. He thinks she's dead. Hahahaha, everyone thinks she's already dead…”
An Xiaoning again gave her a scene to imagine, ”The person you've put in a living hell is standing right in front of you right now. She's lying on top of a float with your husband and roaming about leisurely on the surface of the ocean…”
”Rui is mine, Rui is mine! I want you to die, I'm going to kill you…” Shi Xiaoyu murmured, flailing her arms about in the air with a grimace on her face. She was seething with anger and resentment.
”Shi Qingzhou was washed away by the massive waves all of a sudden…”
Shi Xiaoyu let out a malicious laugh and sneered, ”You deserve it. I hope you drown to death. That way, Rui will never be able to see you again…”
”Shi Qingzhou has been rescued and you return to the Autumn Palace together. Tuoba Shuo requests to marry Shi Qingzhou, but your parents-in-law have decided to execute Shi Qingzhou. Who saved Shi Qingzhou…?” An Xiaoning asked, trying to sound Shi Xiaoyu out by telling her a story based on the events she had roughly heard about from Tuoba Shuo.
”Rui and Shi Qingzhou's Teacher who's a high priest were the ones who saved her together. She doesn't love Rui at all. Yet, Rui is so madly in love with her, to the extent that he raped her in order to get her pregnant. That's how much he loves that woman. Why, oh why, can't he just give me some of his love?”
”The child is born…” An Xiaoning continued.
”I can't allow Shi Qingzhou to snatch my position away, so I took a huge risk and locked her up forcefully. I finally got to vent all my pent-up anger and beat her into a pulp…”
”How did you answer your beloved Rui when he asked about why she had gone missing?”
”I told him that she had fled after abandoning the child and was executed in secret by his parents. I then showed him a photo I took of her while she was unconscious. Rui then thought she had died…”
Anger surged through An Xiaoning's veins, and she curbed her urge to kill Shi Xiaoyu before asking, ”What did you do to the child in the end?”
”Rui told me to send the child out of the Autumn Palace. I knew he wouldn't see the child again, and I thus instructed my people to abandon her and let her fend for herself. If I'd known earlier that the child would become who she is today, I would've definitely strangled her to death back then…”
At last, An Xiaoning said, ”The ocean is really vast and you're bursting with euphoria. You want to continue drifting on the surface…”
As soon as she finished speaking, An Xiaoning saved the recording and did not snap Shi Xiaoyu out of hypnosis immediately.
If Shi Xiaoyu was not broken out of her trance via verbal command, she would fall into a deep sleep one hour later.
By the time she woke up again, she would not remember anything at all.
An Xiaoning squinted and scrutinized Shi Xiaoyu's bed.
An Xiaoning was very certain that the basement of Shi Xiaoyu's room was a secret chamber, based on the latter's description.
The switch was just below the bed.
It was a piece of cake to find it.
The moment An Xiaoning pressed a button, which was deeply obscured beneath the bed, the mattress sprung up gently with a faint, ringing sound.
An Xiaoning did not jump in immediately and instead tried to see if the secret passageway would be sealed automatically.
As expected, the opening to the secret chamber was closed automatically after 30 seconds and the bedsheets were still intact, leaving no trace at all.
A fruit knife on the dressing table caught An Xiaoning's attention.