Chapter 317: Truth is the Sharp Knife

“Stinking woman! Stop spouting nonsense here! The lord clearly did it for my own good!”

Although Liyakade’s words temporarily calmed the two women kneeling before her, the woman lying next to Guan Qin was still stubbornly refusing to see the truth, obsessively believing that everything Guan Qin did was for her own good.

Seeing the woman’s obstinacy, Liyakade removed the fragrant pouch hanging at her waist.

This pouch contained the Purple Mist Vine Grass she had previously looted from Vidar’s Dark Guards.

Although direct consumption or inhalation was intolerable for humans, making it into a fragrant pouch had some miraculous effects.

Liyakade stepped forward and held the fragrant pouch close to the woman’s nose, hidden under her messy hair.

A soft breeze came, and the scent of the pouch slowly drifted into the woman’s nasal cavity.

“Calm down. Take a good look back at your life up to now.”

“Don’t make me smell this unknown stuff! Get away… away…”

The woman tried to swat the pouch away with her hand, but as soon as she raised her skinny, withered right arm halfway, she slowly lowered it again.

Her gaze became even more vacant, as if she were in a daze.

A pair of crimson eyes reflected in her own.

It turned out that Liyakade’s hypnotic gaze, combined with the effect of the herb, was influencing the woman’s mind.

The woman only felt her body become light and airy.

Everything before her seemed unreal, as if in a dream, or as if her soul had left her body.

She saw herself…

On the ceiling of the room, she saw another her, lying beside Guan Qin and crying heartbreakingly.

Then she actually continued to float upward, drifting out of the sealed chamber, all the way up into the sky, looking down at everything from above the clouds.

This unprecedented feeling made the woman feel exceptionally relaxed.

‘That’s right… how could I have forgotten?’

‘This is what the world looks like. The world is not just rusty iron bars and tight collars, not just cruel whips and torture, and not just a sealed chamber and Guan Qin.’

Gradually, everything disappeared again, and the woman saw her original life.

She had originally been a newly adult girl, with parents who deeply loved her.

Although she had no magic power, her family was fairly well-off.

Even if she couldn’t marry into nobility, she would have a stable life in the future.

However, during a trip with a caravan, an accident completely destroyed her life.

The caravan was attacked by a group of bandits, and the carriage they looted was precisely the one she was riding in.

All the goods on the carriage were swept away, and she was not spared either.

No, in the eyes of those bandits, she was probably just a precious piece of goods.

And so, the girl lost her dignity as a human, and her life became nothing but a dark sealed chamber and endless torture.

‘Yes, that’s not how it should have been! My life was completely destroyed by this bastard!’

‘There was no time, how could there be any talk of liking?’

Every time she felt that feeling of being stretched open, almost torn apart, the girl wanted to chop Guan Ke into pieces.

Every night when she couldn’t sleep due to abdominal pain and itching, she wanted to slice Guan Qin to ribbons.

Looking at the bumps that kept appearing on her body and the unbearable stench below, the girl only felt endless humiliation and despair, wishing she could eat his flesh alive and tear him limb from limb.

But a girl without magic power, how could she possibly resist Guan Qin?

Each bout of torture only brought deeper despair.

The gap between reality and imagination nearly drove the girl to collapse.

When she came to, the girl, who was in her twenties but not yet thirty, had withered beyond recognition, looking older than a woman of forty.

‘Then… what meaning is there in being trapped here waiting to die?’

‘There must be meaning, right? Lord Guan Qin, he must have had no choice but to treat me like this, right? He must like me to treat me like this, right? Otherwise, why wouldn’t he just kill me immediately, and why would he be so obsessed with my body?’

‘Besides, Lord Guan Qin is good to me. He gives me good food, lets me lie on a comfortable bed, and sometimes cares about my condition.’

‘So… I also love Lord Guan Qin… right?’

‘After all, my life is already over. All that’s left is to serve Lord Guan Qin. That’s the only meaningful thing… serving the one I love.’

‘No… that’s wrong… He is the root of all evil… My life is supposed to be more than this… I still have my loving father and mother… a little shop at home waiting for me to manage… a few boys my age who would blush when they saw me… Why? Why did I have to suffer all this?’

The scene before her changed again.

The woman blinked, and everything turned blurry.

Tears welled up in her eyes uncontrollably, streaming down her face.

Her body was still trembling.

The scene in front gradually became clear—a white figure, and the women who were imprisoned with her in the sealed chamber.

At this moment, the woman kneeling on the ground was already sobbing uncontrollably.

With Liyakade’s help, she finally remembered everything.

She recalled what life was like in normal human society.

She finally realized the difficulty of living.

For this woman, it was undoubtedly more painful.

All these years had been wasted on nothingness.

Not only that, but the rest of her life was completely ruined.

Even if she was saved now, what good was it?

With her body tortured like this, how many years of life did she have left?

Would her parents even accept her, now that she was diseased?

Would her future partner accept her, so defiled?

Down there, she couldn’t even control her excretion properly.

Someone like her would only end up on the streets, dying miserably.

Lies do not hurt; truth is the sharp knife.

In her despair, the woman had fabricated lies to protect herself, and Liyakade had completely torn them apart.

“Why… why did I have to go through something like this… Why, why didn’t you come sooner!!! If only you could have saved me earlier… waa… ah…”

The woman clawed at her arms in pain, her bare fingernails almost digging into the flesh.

She no longer knew who to blame.

The scars left on her body, even if they had healed, seemed to burn fiercely, reminding her of all the humiliation.

Seeing her on the verge of collapse, some women were moved by her emotions and couldn’t help but start sobbing.

Other women, however, found her annoying.

Mi La and Ni Li were among these.

However, facing the woman’s illogical accusations, Liyakade was not the least bit angry, nor did her expression even flicker.

“So, if you only have a few years left to live, you’re just going to give up living?”

“What’s there to live for!? I might as well go die right now!!”

“Then I’ll grant your wish right now.”

“Stop!”

“No! Sister Liyakade!!!”