Chapter 60: She Hated Him to the Core (1/2)

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

The woman in black holding the the sharp scissors was staring at the man before her callously, repeating what she was doing again and again, the thick blood dripping to the ground along her hand slowly.

The tall and strong man slumped to the ground and stayed motionless, while the woman, seemingly not conscious of his death, kept stabbing his back, large amount of blood spurting to her hideous face.

An Rushuang sat beside the door, too weak to rise to her feet, in whose arms lying Zhao Xiaotao, her hot tears drenching An Rushuang’s dress.

“What... happened?”

Zhao Xiaotao asked in her dull voice, hoping all of these to be her illusion...

An Rushuang lowered her head before murmuring, “Don’t be afraid. Everything is Okay.” She held Xiaotao more fast, not wanting her to see the horrible scene.

“My lady!”

Hong Yu rushed to An Rushuang in panic before looking at her up and down, tears trailing down from her cheeks.

“My lady, are you all right? Have you been hurt somewhere?”

Looking up at her maid, An Rushuang shook her head in quietness. “I am all right. Please help me look after her for a while.”

After entrusting Zhao Xiaotao to Hong Yu, An Rushuang straightened herself up slowly by holding the door before approaching the woman clad in black step by step.

Seemingly in lunacy, she was still stabbing Zhao Laoda’s badly mutilated back mercilessly, one strike after another! Besides resoluteness and decisiveness which had never appeared on her ugly face, there was also a streak of smile.

An Rushuang, still in slight dizziness, walked very slowly before she stood next to the woman in black, her nostrils filled with pungent smell of blood. “He has already died.” An Rushuang said calmly.

The woman in black gasped before turning to An Rushuang in smile, revealing her teeth hidden behind the deformed lips.

“No, far from enough.”

The sun was sinking. Sitting in the blood, the woman murmured while staring at the lingering golden sun, “At such an evening, he killed all my families before kidnapping me. I had been newly married for only three months. At that time, I really wanted to commit suicide...”

Looking at the man’s corpse, An Rushuang finally realized that he was a bandit. No wonder she hated him that much.

“However, I was pregnant. Knowing it’s my late husband’s only heir, I decided to protect her with all my effort. It was beyond my expectation that the devil actually took advantage of my daughter to do evil things. I would rather kill us both then if I had known this earlier.”

The woman burst into laughter. Zhao Xiaotao got rid of Hong Yu before staggering to her mother and kneeling down. “Mum, what are you talking about... I can’t understand...” She said in confusion.

The guards rushed in all of a sudden and besieged the woman with the flashing long swords held in their hands.

Stroking Zhao Xiaotao’s hair gently, the woman in black said in tender smile, “Xiaotao, your dad was a good man. You must take good care of yourself, since I can not longer accompany you.” The woman looked up at An Rushuang before imploring, “Lady, I don’t ask you to look after her well, but hoping you to fulfill your promise, giving her a chance to live a normal life like other girls.”

She suddenly knelt down and kept kowtowing to An Rushuang, who held her up at once before whispering, “You are Xiaotao’s mother. You shouldn’t leave her to others. By the way, though you killed Zhao Laoda, since he was such an evil man, you may still have a chance to survive.”

The woman, seizing An Rushuang’s hand firmly, insisted while shaking her head, “No, you must promise me. Just as you said earlier, as long as I saved your life, you would not mind Xiaotao’s wrongdoing before. You mustn’t break your promise!”