At 22, in her third year of university, Su Qiao was left alone after her parents died in separate car accidents a year apart.
Fortunately, before her parents passed, they had arranged an enviable marriage for her.
Unfortunately, it was this very marriage that set her on a path of misery.
Her fiancé, Qin Yu, was the only son of the second master of the Qin Family, a top family in B City. He was handsome, wealthy, and came from an excellent background.
What was even more remarkable was that Qin Yu was gentle, approachable, and unlike many rich second-generation heirs of his time, he didn't mess around.
Su Qiao was his only girlfriend, and his devotion made every woman want to throw themselves at him.
The marriage alliance between the Su Family and the Qin Family was the envy of countless people.
In everyone's eyes, the Su Family must have accumulated good karma from their ancestors, with smoke rising from their ancestral graves, to have secured such a prestigious marriage.
However, it wasn't long after the marriage that Su Qiao realized everything was a lie, and her life was a complete joke.
Her husband, who everyone saw as handsome, wealthy, capable, and devoted to her, had actually harbored feelings for his true love for a long time.
This woman was Guo Xiaoyu, the stepdaughter of the Guo Family, and Su Qiao was merely a shield.
Not only that, but her parents' deaths, her Su Family's company being taken over, and the car accident a month before her wedding that left her with a broken leg—all of it was connected to them.
Unfortunately, by then, Su Qiao was powerless.
With a broken leg, confined to a wheelchair daily, her life and death were already in someone else's hands.
What she found most unbearable was that Guo Xiaoyu, simply out of jealousy, wanted Lu Yong, the Guo Family's butler's son, to rape her.
Unwilling to be humiliated, Su Qiao took her own life to preserve her purity.
She left this dirty world filled with intense resentment and burning hatred.
No wonder that man's voice had sounded so familiar to her—it was this beast.
Host, host, please don't do anything rash. This is a society governed by law. You can't just kill people; murder leads to prison...
Sensing the powerful malevolence emanating from its host, 444 trembled slightly.
It had assumed that since its host had been refined into a medicinal person and confined deep in the mountains since childhood, her personality would be very simple. It never expected her to be so ferocious.
"Prison?"
Su Qiao scoffed inwardly.
Hah, if murder truly led to prison, then why did no one go to jail when the original owner's family died so tragically?
However, killing them now would indeed cause some trouble.
And killing Guo Min, this idiot, was useless; she was merely being used by her cunning stepsister.
Killing her might even play right into that woman Guo Xiaoyu's hands.
But while the death penalty might be avoided, living punishment is inescapable.
She didn't mind collecting a little interest first.
As she was thinking, Su Qiao felt the bed vibrate.
She knew it was Lu Yong getting onto the bed.
Now!
Su Qiao's eyes snapped open. With a swift movement, like a carp leaping, she sprang up like an agile panther.
In an instant, she had pinned Lu Yong, who was about to strip her clothes off, beneath her knee.
Without giving him any time to react, she snatched the syringe from his hand and plunged it down hard.
"Ah!"
A sharp pain shot through his neck. Lu Yong cried out, collapsing onto the bed, frantically struggling to pull the syringe out of his neck.
The liquid was already injected into his body, so Su Qiao ignored him.
Shaking her slightly dizzy head, she charged towards Guo Min, who was staring with wide eyes and screaming in terror.
"You... what do you want?"
Guo Min hadn't expected Su Qiao to still be able to get up at a time like this.
She had paid off Su Qiao's classmate earlier, and at the classmate's birthday party, she had made sure Su Qiao drank a lot.
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