Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 323 - 336: Get Back to the Old House

No matter how scared she was, tomorrow would still arrive as scheduled.

Early in the morning, someone delivered new equipment. He took the ominously dark box and opened it in front of her, revealing several strips of equally dark leather straps fixed together, with a red ball about the size of a ping-pong ball in the center. He walked to her bedside, his cold eyes looking down at her, "Open your mouth."

She didn’t know what it was, but she was instinctively afraid. Her body desperately shrank back, shaking her head.

He was impatient, leaned forward and pinched her mouth open with one hand. She let out a pained hum, but his hand was as unyielding as an iron clamp.

She struggled to shake her head, pleading with him with desperate, broken eyes to stop, but he mercilessly shoved the red ball connected to the leather straps into her mouth. It was just the right size to keep her from closing her mouth or speaking. She made muffled sounds, desperately trying to spit out the ball, but no matter what, she couldn’t.

"You better give up," his voice was emotionless. His long, strong hands picked up the leather straps attached to the ball, studying how to use it before saying, "The size of this ball has been studied specifically for gagging, no matter how hard you try, you won’t be able to spit it out unless I help you."

As he spoke, he wound the wide and long leather straps around her chin, over her head, and behind her head, tightly fastening the metal buckle, as if putting a bridle on a horse.

Her muffled cries grew louder; she shook her head desperately, but couldn’t shake off the harness, her expression increasingly panicked.

He lifted her chin and examined her, satisfied with his handiwork: "There, Su Xingyu, you just stay nicely in bed. This way, you can’t bite yourself. I advise you not to play any other tricks. I don’t have time to treat your wounds. If you really anger me, I have other means."

Tears welled up in her eyes, a mixture of fear, anger, and humiliation, making her wish she could just die immediately.

But he just carefully applied medicine to the bloody scars on her wrists, wrapping them with layers of gauze and refastening them to the steel shackles at the head of the bed.

After thinking for a moment, he also spread her slender, straight legs apart, cuffing them to the foot of the bed.

She twisted her body, struggling desperately, but the space she could move was small, only stirring a series of metallic clanking from the shackles on the bed.

"I advise you not to move," he looked at her, stripped bare by him last night, her fragile body like a shattered flower. He casually pulled the silk quilt over her chest, waist, and legs, coldly saying, "If you keep moving and the quilt falls, no one will cover you up again."

Her body trembled slightly and indeed stopped moving.

Only tears filled her eyes, looking at him mournfully and hopelessly, like looking at a terrifying monster.

For some reason, his heart was faintly pained by such a gaze.

Lu Shifeng could ignore that strange feeling in his heart, and left the bedroom heartlessly.

On the way downstairs, he met Mrs. Gui.

The loyal maid looked at him uneasily, "Young Master, should the Young Madam have breakfast...?"

In recent days, Lu Shifeng had tied Su Xingyu to the bed, personally attending to her meals and daily care, never leaving it to the maids.

This also directly led to Su Xingyu eating only two meals a day recently, one in the morning, one in the evening.

Normally, at this time, Lu Shifeng would go to the kitchen to get breakfast to feed Su Xingyu, but today he looked like he was in a hurry to go out. Mrs. Gui had to muster her courage to ask.

Lu Shifeng then remembered that he had been too angry about her self-harming behavior last night, forgetting to feed her breakfast. Checking his watch, he saw he had an important meeting that morning that he would be late for, so he said, "It’s fine to let her starve once. This woman is getting more and more out of hand." Missing one meal was no big deal; besides the ovulation-stimulating shots he gave her every night, she also had nutritional shots, she wouldn’t die.

Mrs. Gui wanted to say something, but feared that saying the wrong thing would make him even more cruel to the Young Madam, so she remained silently closed-mouthed.

Lu Shifeng hurried out the door.

After finishing the meeting at the company in the morning, he received a call from the old estate at noon; it was the old man, who had been in semi-retirement for years, calling, "Come back at once."

Go back to the old house?

He frowned slightly, remembering the girl tied to the bed at home, waiting for him to come back and feed her at night. "Is something wrong, Grandfather?" he said, planning to arrange to come back tomorrow.

The old house was a bit of a distance from S City, so going back and forth in a day was impossible.

But the old man was furious, "You brat, have you learned to ignore what I say? When I tell you to come back, you come back! Do you hear me!"

"What’s the matter?" Lu Shifeng was still thinking about Su Xingyu; it was the first time she had been gagged, and she probably wouldn’t be used to it, so he felt he should go home in the evening to check on her.

"Zhuang Heng came to find your mother last night, crying in the middle of a big storm, wanting us elders to stand up for her!" The old man raised his voice unconsciously, scolding loudly, "Why didn’t you tell me Zhuang Heng was pregnant?! You even want her to give the child to Su Xingyu to raise? Let me tell you, no woman would agree to this!"

Lu Shifeng’s brow furrowed tighter, not expecting Zhuang Heng had complained to Mr. Lu.

"That’s between me and her." He said stiffly.

But Mr. Lu said, "Her pregnancy is the entire Lu Family’s matter! Lu Shifeng, you heard the doctor say that Su Xingyu harmed her body with birth control pills and can never have children in this life. You should divorce her as soon as possible and marry a woman who can have children! I think Zhuang Heng is quite suitable; she’s a well-bred young lady, a match for our family. Most importantly, she’s pregnant!"

It turned out Zhuang Heng had rushed to the old house overnight to seek backing from the elders.

Lu Shifeng’s heart was inexplicably agitated, also growing impatient with Zhuang Heng. How old was she to still pester the elders when things didn’t go her way?

"Grandfather," he suppressed the anger in his heart, saying, "You haven’t been unkind to Xingyu in the past, haven’t you always thought she was suitable to be the Lu Family daughter-in-law?"

"That was before knowing she couldn’t have children!" Mr. Lu was furious, "Yes, she’s good at managing the household, knows how to advance and retreat, but for a woman, the most important thing is to have children. What’s the use of a woman who can’t even fulfill this basic duty?! She wasn’t even infertile to begin with, she deliberately damaged her body, wanting to leave our Lu Family without descendants!"

Mr. Lu was seething with rage, and Lu Shifeng wanted to say something, but the old man wouldn’t listen.

Then he heard Mr. Lu roar, "Zhuang Heng is pregnant! She came crying in the rain to the old house last night! Lu Shifeng, can you pay attention? She’s carrying your child!"

"Grandfather..."

"Don’t call me Grandfather! Get back here immediately! Now!"