Chapter 310: Chapter 310: Mu Lihua Slaps Xu iyan
"You are finally here to save your mother! Tell them! Tell them your mother is a good person! Tell them I never hard anyone!"
Xu iyan frowned, her face twisted in pain. "Mom! You’re hurting ! Let go!"
But Mu Lihua didn’t let go. She pulled Xu iyan into the middle of the circle, using her daughter like a shield. "Tell them! Tell them your mom is good! She could never do anything wrong!"
Xu iyan looked at the angry faces of the tribe, then at the cold, judging eyes of Su Qinglan and the blood-red eyes of the Tribe Leader.
She couldn’t do it. She couldn’t lie for her mother anymore. The evidence was too strong, and the fear for her own life was even stronger.
"Mom, you’re wrong!" Xu iyan scread, tears finally bursting from her eyes.
"Everyone has seen how you bullied Su Qinglan since she was a child! It is the truth! How can I say you didn’t do it? And I never knew anything about your disgusting sches! Why are you dragging
into this?"
Xu iyan tried to pull her hand away, desperate to draw a clear line between herself and her mother.
She was jealous and petty, yes, but she would never have been so cruel as to help kill soone or use black magic. She didn’t want to die for her mother’s sins.
Deep down, Xu iyan also felt a long-buried resentnt. She rembered her own childhood.
While her life had been better than Su Qinglan’s, it was only because she knew how to please Mu Lihua. She had to be the perfect daughter just to get enough food to survive.
She wasn’t like Su Qinglan, who had a father like the Tribe Leader to spoil her.
Xu iyan’s own father had been a simple, average three-stripe fox warrior.
He was Mu Lihua’s first mate, the man she used just to get an entry into the tribe.
Xu iyan rembered how her father would hunt and bring back the best at, only for Mu Lihua to eat almost all of it herself, leaving Xu iyan and her father to starve for days.
In the rainy seasons and the harsh winters, Xu iyan had nearly died of cold and hunger in her father’s arms, while Mu Lihua sat by the fire, eating the food the Tribe Leader gave to the poor family.
Mu Lihua didn’t care about her first mate or her own cub. She only cared about herself.
Xu iyan had always been jealous of Su Qinglan because when Su Qinglan turned her nose up at food, Xu iyan was literally dying for a single bite. She had always wanted a father like Su Mingxuan, who could hunt more prey for them.
"YOU UNGRATEFUL BRAT!" Mu Lihua shrieked. "I gave you everything! I fed you while she starved! I gave you the best furs! AND NOW YOU BETRAY ? AHHH!"
"You didn’t give
anything!" Xu iyan scread back, her voice cracking with years of hidden resentnt.
"You took everything from my father! He died for you! I had to beg for scraps while you ate like a queen! You are a monster! AHHH!"
SLAP!
Mu Lihua’s hand flew out, striking Xu iyan across the face with such force that the sound echoed across the entire clearing.
Xu iyan’s head snapped to the side, and the teeth in her mouth rattled. When she opened her mouth to cry out, a mouthful of bright red blood spilled onto the dirt.
"iyan!" Her own mate ca rushing forward from the crowd to catch her as she stumbled, her vision turning black.
Xu iyan felt a profound sense of despair. She had spent her whole life trying to gain the affection of this woman, trying to be the perfect daughter so she wouldn’t be beaten like Su Qinglan. But in the end, her mother was truly ruthless.
If Mu Lihua could slap and starve her own biological cub, then what hope did a child from another woman have?
Xu iyan finally understood that she was just another tool to Mu Lihua.
At that mont, she missed her father terribly, the man who had died several years ago in a dangerous hunt just to get the fine furs that Mu Lihua had demanded. He had died for a woman who didn’t even shed a tear for him.
"You dare talk to
like that?" Mu Lihua hissed, her eyes wild. "I am your mother! I own you! AHHH, I should have killed you too!"
The crowd gasped. "She hit her own cub!" a woman shouted. "In front of the Tribe Leader! How cruel can one female be? AHH, she’s truly a demon!"
Su Qinglan watched the scene with a cold, dry heart. She saw the cycle of abuse that Mu Lihua had created. This woman didn’t know the aning of love.
No wonder even her child had so much resentnt and grew up with such character, even if a person like the original owner grew up with such a twisted personality.
Then how could Xu iyan grow up fine? It was just that she knew too well how to hide her sches behind a fake smile. She had learned to survive, while the original owner perished in despair.
Su Mingxuan stepped forward, his shadow falling over both Mu Lihua and the bleeding Xu iyan.
"Are you finished?" he asked, his voice deathly quiet.
"Because now, it is my turn to ask the questions. And every ti you lie, you will wish you had died in that mud."
He didn’t even care if she had hurt anyone or not, nor did he spare any glance toward Xu iyan. It was already better for her that he was not punishing her for bullying his daughter.
But she must forget the good tis in his tribe as long as he was alive. And as for her mother, Mu Lihua, she would regret the day she was born.
"Warriors, drag her to the dungeon. I will personally deal with her."
He was not a weak minded person who would torture her in front of all these people. After all, she was still a female, even if she had committed a great cri. It was not good if she changed peoples mind with her tears.
It would be better if he dealt with her in private. He had only dragged her in front of everyone because he wanted the tribe to know that she was not his mate and that the place of his mate only belonged to his beloved Wang Mulan.
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