I don't know if it was because of her youth and good health, but Li Mingyue got pregnant after only having affairs with Si Cheng twice.
By the time Qiu Zhuqing noticed something was amiss, Li Mingyue was already showing.
When Qiu Zhuqing stormed off to confront Si Cheng in a fit of rage, he claimed it wasn't his fault. He said that when Li Mingyue climbed into his bed, he thought it was Qiu Zhuqing who couldn't hold back her desires again.
Qiu Zhuqing threatened to expose this scandal, but Si Cheng didn't care at all.
He was a diamond bachelor in Jinling. There were countless women who wanted to climb into his bed and bear his children. It was nothing but a few gold bars to get rid of them. What was there to make a fuss about?
Since Qiu Zhuqing couldn't get the upper hand with Si Cheng and dared not offend him, she returned home. There, she tried to reason with her daughter, telling her about the lonely years she had endured as Li Jiuming's wife.
Finally, Li Mingyue was convinced. She knew the helplessness and disgust her mother felt towards her father.
Thinking that Si Cheng would probably be an old lecher and impotent man in his old age, even worse than Li Jiuming, Li Mingyue began to waver. Then she thought of Si Jiangchen.
So she made a condition to Qiu Zhuqing. She would agree to have an abortion, but only if she could marry Si Jiangchen. In the future, they didn't have to live in Si Cheng's mansion.
Li Mingyue had already made up her mind. She wanted to settle down in Shanghai, the most prosperous city in China. She had heard that the clothes and accessories there were all the latest styles, and there were all kinds of salons for ladies... She could already imagine herself chatting eloquently among a group of gorgeously dressed women.
Qiu Zhuqing readily agreed. This was exactly what she had in mind.
Even if Li Jiuming's relatives tried to seize the Li family's property in the future, they still had the Si family as their backing. She believed that Si Jiangchen wouldn't stand by idly!
Of course, this was on the condition that Si Jiangchen didn't know the real cause of his mother's death.
Qiu Zhuying died of chronic poisoning.
She had been in poor health and often took medicine. Under the pretext of taking care of her, Qiu Zhuqing served her sister medicine in the Si family every day, earning herself a good reputation.
In fact, no one knew that Qiu Zhuqing would add slices of aconite to the medicine bowls every time. Since Qiu Zhuying was already weak, she often suffered from heart palpitations and cold limbs. The symptoms of aconite poisoning were just like her usual illness...
After some time, Qiu Zhuqing still thought her sister was taking too long to die. So after Qiu Zhuying gave birth to her daughter Si Xirui, she increased the dosage. Her sister died a tragic death, but she pretended to be a kind person and took on the responsibility of taking care of her little niece.
Qiu Zhuqing gained a good reputation in front of others. She thought she had even deceived Si Jiangchen!
When Si Jiangchen returned from his studies abroad, he still treated her, his aunt, politely as before and never mentioned his deceased mother.
As time passed, Qiu Zhuqing felt at ease and began to plan how to marry into the Si family...
She originally wanted to marry Li Mingyue to Si Jiangchen, but unexpectedly, Si Cheng didn't quite agree. Si Jiangchen had been engaged since childhood. Although the girl's family had fallen into decline, she was the fated wife of Si Jiangchen, and no one could replace her.
Qiu Zhuqing didn't think so. She didn't believe in fated people!
Her sister Qiu Zhuying was said to be a perfect match for Si Cheng in terms of their birth dates, but they still didn't end up growing old together, did they?
Look at herself. Li Jiuming had consulted so many fortune - tellers back then, but none of them could have predicted that he would be scalded to death by her!
If Si Jiangchen's fiancée didn't come, she was lucky. If she did, Qiu Zhuqing was confident that with her means, she could repeat the same fate for her sister.
So Li Mingyue secretly found a midwife to have an abortion. The two formed fetuses were directly thrown to the stray dogs.
Li Mingyue stayed at home to recuperate for two or three months and then began to visit the Si family frequently again. She got closer and closer to Si Xirui.
Since Si Jiangchen had already left to pick up his fiancée, Qiu Zhuqing and Li Mingyue wanted to firmly control the inner courtyard of the Si family...
Unexpectedly, I was a different kind of person.
Before Qiu Zhuqing could use her various tricks, I counter - attacked.
Yes, until her death, Qiu Zhuqing thought I had used some evil magic to summon the vengeful spirit of Li Jiuming. She didn't know that Li Jiuming had been clinging to her since the moment he died!
Originally, her soul was being escorted by the ghost messengers to the underworld to confront the old and dead Li Jiuming.
Qiu Zhuqing was full of resentment. She didn't think there was anything wrong with killing that old man!
Li Jiuming had wasted twenty years of her youth. At the end, he even wanted to kick her out of the house?
She hadn't even proposed a divorce to Li Jiuming, but that old man had already drawn up the divorce papers?
She was almost forced out of the house with nothing... How could she bear it?
If possible, she would have liked to throw that old man into a boiling cauldron to vent her hatred!
Following behind Li Jiuming and the ghost messengers, she still thought angrily...
Unexpectedly, just as the dimly visible temple in the distance came into view, Qiu Zhuqing was suddenly captured by a talisman that appeared out of thin air behind her. She became a wisp of un - reincarnated soul in the Abyss of Obsession outside the underworld. Forever dominated by her venomous obsession, she would frantically devour all the souls trying to reach the Yellow Spring Road.
Now, when I asked her if she knew why she wasn't even allowed to be tried in the underworld, she naturally shook her head. She didn't know where that talisman came from.
"Do you think a woman who killed her husband after twenty years of marriage without any sense of guilt could have a man who truly wanted to be with her?"
As I grabbed the bugs crawling from her eye towards my face, I shouted, "A venomous person like you would probably scare Si Cheng too. He would be afraid that one day when you were in a bad mood, you might kill him too!"
"Ah...?"
After hearing my words, the pupil of Qiu Zhuqing's single eye suddenly shrank. Then a sharp ghostly wail pierced deep into my mind. "Impossible!! How could I kill my brother - in - law? I loved him! I fell in love with him at first sight..."
"You also loved your sister, didn't you!"
I sneered. I loved to see villains collapse. "You loved her so much that you poisoned her and let her die in great pain. Before she died, she even thanked you for taking care of her and her newborn daughter..."
How ironic!!
They were blood relatives, but one was schemed against until there was no soul left for sacrifice.
Qiu Zhuying's soul must have been tampered with by Si Cheng. He knew his son Si Jiangchen's abilities and would never let his mother's soul stay in the world.
And the talisman restriction on Qiu Zhuqing's back was probably also set by Si Cheng.
He would never marry a woman as venomous as a viper.
I think he was also afraid that one day when he woke up, he would be tied up, with an iron funnel inserted into his mouth and leading directly to his esophagus. Then boiling water would be poured into his stomach spoon by spoon, scalding his internal organs until they smelled of cooked meat...