Su Ding pushed the door open. The room was pitch black, making it impossible to discern directions.
A stuffy, foul odor met her nostrils. The entire room was suffocating and oppressive.
"Is she here?" Su Ding asked.
"Yes," the maid replied cautiously, hoping that seeing Shao Lin's miserable state would lead Su Ding to spare her.
"Turn on the lights," Su Ding said directly.
The maid asked with a hint of worry, "Miss Su, turning on the lights might agitate her, and she might become violent."
Ever since Shao Lin's mental state deteriorated, she had insisted on keeping the lights off.
She was afraid of everything.
It was as if everything was arranged by Su Ding, monitoring her and plotting to kill her.
"Turn them on."
Su Ding's tone was cold and hard, her unfeeling expression strikingly similar to how Jin Ye gave orders.
The maid nodded submissively, reached out her rough, aged hand, and flipped the switch.
With a click!
The bright, glaring light illuminated the dark room, leaving nowhere for anything to hide.
Shao Lin, hiding in the corner of the wardrobe, let out a scream!
"Ahhh!"
She trembled in the corner.
Hearing Su Ding's voice, she was truly terrified. Her child... Su Ding would surely kill her child.
Just like what Su Ding had done to her when she was pregnant.
No!
She absolutely refused to have a miscarriage like Su Ding!
Shao Lin, seemingly driven mad, lunged from the corner, her bloodshot eyes bulging slightly. Her withered, emaciated fingers splayed open, like a vengeful spirit, lunging towards Su Ding.
Su Ding heard the sound and looked over.
The moment Shao Lin lunged, Su Ding turned, causing Shao Lin to miss and slam heavily onto the floor.
Shao Lin cried out in pain, tears streaming down her face.
Her knees ached terribly, and her heart was filled with panic. Looking up at Su Ding's still radiant and captivating face, jealousy and unwillingness burned fiercely within her.
"Su Ding, I warn you, if you dare to harm my child, I will fight you to the death!"
She panted violently, so emaciated she was little more than skin and bones, truly resembling a ghost from a horror movie.
Facing Shao Lin, Su Ding could no longer suppress her rage. She straightened up and yelled sternly, "Come on then! Let's see who can fight whom!"
"Now you know to protect your child? Back then, when you harmed Xiao Rui and the child in my womb, why didn't you ever think that they were living beings too!"
Memories of the past flooded her mind. Whenever her life was about to be filled with happiness, Shao Lin would appear.
Years ago, Wang Mei Lan had brought Shao Lin and stolen her home!
They had driven her and her mother out. Her mother succumbed to depression and died, and she was framed and forced into a transaction with a stranger!
Five years!
She had returned to the country with her baby to live again!
She intended to return all the pain and hatred tenfold. And Shao Lin, by resorting to kidnapping, had attempted to harm her child!
She had even kidnapped and imprisoned her during her wedding with Jin Ye, resulting in a miscarriage!
Each of these transgressions, each of these acts, made killing Shao Lin seem like insufficient retribution!
Su Ding advanced on Shao Lin step by step, her face contorted with ferocity. She grabbed Shao Lin's wrist, "Shao Lin, I will not let you go! Neither you nor your child will be allowed to live well!"
"I will make you taste all the torment I have endured!"
Su Ding's eyes seemed to have frozen over, ready to flay Shao Lin alive. "This is only the beginning. I will not let go of anything owed to me from the past!"
At this moment, Su Ding's heart felt as though an abyss of wickedness had opened, drawing in all her darkness.
Even if others called her vicious or cruel,
It didn't matter!
Unless the knife pierces one's own flesh, anyone can afford to be magnanimous!
Her child was her absolute bottom line. Her child should not have been lost like this. She would absolutely not let this go!
After the separation in the Southern Territory, she had believed her state of mind had become peaceful.
But now, she realized that her sharp edge and belligerence had merely been contained, not disappeared, and were perhaps even more potent than before!
"Su Ding... you... you are a devil!"
Seeing the bloodthirsty look in Su Ding's eyes, as if she were about to devour her whole, Shao Lin trembled with fear.
The constant fear she had endured in these past days had finally come true.
Shao Lin struggled frantically, her heart pounding wildly. "No... don't hurt me... someone, save me!"
"I'm pregnant with Jin Ye's child, save me... sob..."
Su Ding's grip on her wrist was like a searing brand. She raised her hand and slapped Shao Lin across the face.
"If you dare mention Jin Ye again, I'll kill you!"
Her cold, sharp words silenced Shao Lin, who began to tremble violently, as if spasming.