Seeing the frightening, bloodshot look in her husband's eyes, Li Zhenxin immediately realized that he must have suffered cultivation deviation.
Liu Changxu had always been gentle and considerate toward her, and unfailingly courteous toward Lian'er, treating her as an older brother would a younger sister.
Lian'er had been a little beggar her father encountered during his travels. On a whim, he tested her and discovered that she possessed spiritual roots, so he brought her back to the Li Household to serve as his daughter Li Zhenxin's personal maid.
Lian'er had been only seven when she was brought to the Li Household. Since she and Li Zhenxin were close in age, they had become as dear to each other as sisters over the years.
When Li Zhenxin first married into the Li Household, she could not bear to part with Lian'er and repeatedly suggested that Liu Changxu take her as a concubine. Liu Changxu refused.
During that time, Li Zhenxin also created several opportunities for Lian'er, but Liu Changxu turned her down every time. To put the idea out of his wife's mind, he had even begun making arrangements to find Lian'er a suitable husband within the Liu Lineage.
But after their daughter Liu Jiao was born, Liu Changxu and his wife were busy cultivating and had to entrust her care to Lian'er. Only then did Liu Changxu temporarily set aside the idea of marrying Lian'er off.
Watching her husband behave like a maddened beast, Li Zhenxin was utterly terrified. She knew all too well how frighteningly powerful he was: a Foundation Establishment body cultivator whose strength measured tens of thousands of jin, enough to tear tigers and leopards apart with his bare hands. Had Liu Changxu not retained a shred of lucidity, she and Lian'er would likely have met a