Reborn As Divine Doctor to Rule the World

Chapter 178: Chapter 179: Wielding the Sword to Kill

Luo Jiner knelt on the ground, continuously kowtowing, and desperately pleaded, “Marquis, it’s not your fault, it’s mine. I shouldn’t have competed with the lady for your affection, causing so many misunderstandings between you and her. I beg you, for all the sincere service I’ve provided over the years, please spare me this once.”

“Spare you this once? For so long, I have bestowed upon you great honors, yet you have been incompetent, causing others to expel you and even implicating me. How do you expect me to spare you now?”

Chu Yu’s face was dark with anger, and he burned with rage, thinking about how he had spoiled Luo Jiner to the bone, and now, because of her, he had lost face. How could he easily forgive her?

When he thought of the rumors, when he thought of the promises he had once made to her, Chu Yu hated her so much that he clenched his teeth in rage!

“I know I was wrong, I won’t dare again, please have mercy…” Luo Jiner continued to kowtow, her forehead already bleeding, showing the force of her actions.

However, Chu Yu merely glanced at her with disgust, then turned away, refusing to pay her any further attention.

“Marquis, I know you care for me the most, I beg you to let me go, I promise from now on I’ll serve you well and never dare to go against you,” Luo Jiner cried out. She never thought things would turn out this way; she had believed the Marquis liked her, otherwise why would he have married her in the first place.

Now it seemed she had overestimated her position in the Marquis’s heart; he only liked her for being the one who had saved him before. Without that, she was nothing more than a plaything to amuse him.

“Ha…” Hearing Luo Jiner’s words, Chu Yu scoffed, turned back, and harshly slapped her across the face, making her fall to the ground, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.

“You should have known there would be consequences like today for the things you’ve done,” Chu Yu said as he walked over to Luo Jiner, crouched down, grabbed her chin, and mocked her.

“Ah… Marquis…” Luo Jiner cried out in pain, her jaw almost feeling shattered.

Filled with terror, she looked at Chu Yu, shaking her head desperately, hoping to elicit some pity from him. However, Chu Yu did not let go; instead, he applied even more pressure.

Luo Jiner’s hands clenched into fists, her nails digging deep into her flesh, trembling with pain.

She knew very well that everything she had come from the Marquis’s favor. Without him, she was nothing, not even as worthy as the lowest maid.

But now everything was ruined.

She was not willing to accept this, oh how unwilling she was!

“Hmph…” Chu Yu snorted coldly, let go of her, and stood up, looking down at the agonized Luo Jiner with a cruel smile of satisfaction on his face.

Just when Luo Jiner thought she had escaped the worst, a cold voice came from above her.

“Take her away and execute her.”

Luo Jiner collapsed on the ground, and as she was dragged away, she suddenly yelled out loud, “Marquis, you’ve been infertile for a long time, that child isn’t yours at all!”

Hearing this, Chu Yu said angrily, “You still dare to stir up trouble here; gag her and execute her.”

The guards brought a cloth to silence her, and in a rush, Luo Jiner blurted out, “My infertility isn’t because I saved the Marquis, but because I wanted to push the pregnant Shao He into the water and unexpectedly fell in myself, causing complications that likely made it hard to conceive again and there’s more… Mmmph.”

Before she could finish, her mouth was gagged, and she could only make muffled sounds.

“Wait.”

Just when Luo Jiner was about to lose hope, Chu Yu suddenly spoke up again to halt the guards.

He walked over to Luo Jiner, removed the gag from her mouth, and asked with a stern expression, “What else were you about to say?”

Seizing her chance, Luo Jiner shook off the two guards, knelt before Chu Yu, and said, “Has the Marquis never considered that after being with me for so long without conceiving, how could Shao He get pregnant at once? And I have never actually saved you, Marquis; how could I be infertile because of that?”

Chu Yu, considering her words, felt there might be some truth to them, especially since Imperial Physician Xu had mentioned that even if he had been weak before, it would be quite difficult for him to get a woman pregnant.

This left him somewhat hesitant, not entirely sure if he could believe everything Luo Jiner said.

“Marquis, every word I speak is true, if there’s a shred of falsehood, may I be struck by lightning and meet a terrible end!” Luo Jiner, fearing Chu Yu wouldn’t believe her, extended three fingers to swear an oath.

Chu Yu stared into her eyes for a long time, and finally said with a deep voice, “For now, lock her in a room, and no one may visit.”

Luo Jiner breathed a sigh of relief, grateful to have kept her life.

Chu Yu’s mind was beginning to doubt, but since he had been drugged at the time, he couldn’t recall whether he had indeed consummated the marriage with Shao He.

After some hesitation, he decided to perform a blood test for paternity and summoned a guard to sneakily take the child away.

That very night, the guard returned empty-handed and reported, “To report to the Marquis, the lady’s courtyard is guarded by a skilled protector, and it is difficult for me to get close.”

Chu Yu remembered the Hidden Guard from before, and he knew that the man had been sent by Pei Huaian.

For several days, he tried many ways but couldn’t take away the child; Pei Huaian and Shao He guarded the child too well, it seemed he had to find another way.

That day, as Shao He was about to nurse Xiao Linzhang, Qingxia suddenly came in and said, “Miss, Old Madam Chu is here again, and she has been coming twice a day these past days.”

“Do not let her in.”

Shao He didn’t want to waste her time with them; seeing them once would lead to another visit. For people as shameless as they were, the best strategy was to refuse them entry. Only in that way could she prevent their scheming and avert future trouble.