Not following the expected path? Reborn and unexpectedly married to a demon.

"Feng Zhe, as the Regent of Dazheng, you hold absolute power and control the court. What more could you possibly want? Why did you slaughter hundreds of thousands of Dazheng people?"

"Give us back our lives!"

"Our wronged souls will become vengeful ghosts, following you for countless lifetimes."

Feng Zhe brandished his butcher's knife and laughed wildly, "But I won't die! What can you do to me even if you turn into vengeful ghosts?"

"A bunch of lowly people, worse than pigs and dogs, I can do whatever I want with your lives."

Why do evil people not receive their just deserts, but instead live forever?

"God, why?"

Countless screams and wails echoed throughout the Great Zheng Kingdom, a scene of utter desolation.

Broken walls and ruins, with piles of mutilated corpses.

The Great Zheng Jiangzhou was transformed from an imperial city into a bloodbath.

The moment the sluice gates of the moat were opened, a strange, blood-red torrent of water rushed out.

Just as Chu Luo was being swallowed up, a familiar voice urgently woke her up.

"Luo'er, wake up! The First Madam's men are here again."

Chu Luo was awakened from her countless nightmares by her mother, Lu Yifu.

Ignoring the pain and torment she was enduring, she slowly climbed up from the straw mat and sat up.

She forced herself to speak and asked in a hoarse voice, "What's wrong, Mother?"

Before her mother could answer, her stepmother, Madam Chu, led four or five burly, fierce-looking guards and burst through the door.

"Tie up that lowly concubine Lu Yifu and that little bastard Chu Luo, and send them to Jiegu by fast horse!"

When Chu Luo heard the name Jie Gu, she knew that many things had come ahead of schedule after this rebirth.

What is meant to be will be, and going to Mustard Valley may not be a bad thing.

Chu Luo's mother looked at her daughter, who was leaning against the straw mat, with heartache in her eyes.

With no other choice, she could only stand tall and shield her seriously injured daughter.

"Madam, my Luo'er has no good skin left on her body. What do you want from us to let us go?"

"The master's whereabouts are unknown, and instead of rushing to find him, you come here to eliminate two people who are no longer a threat to you."

Upon hearing this, Madam Chu felt a surge of malice as she looked at the mother and daughter before her.

Anger welled up from his gallbladder, his eyes widened in fury, and his face contorted in a ferocious grimace.

Having just woken from a dream and suffering from severe injuries, Chu Luo was in low spirits.

At this moment, she looks like a bloodthirsty female ghost.

"No threat?"

"What a joke! From the moment you, you wretched woman, entered the Chu family gates, no amount of tormenting you could quell the hatred in my heart. A place like Jiegu is the most suitable place for you."

Mustard Valley might be unfamiliar to others, but it is no stranger to the Chu family, who travel far and wide for business and are always well-informed.

Jiegu, located at the border of Dazhengnan and Langzhong, has been plagued by war for many years.

The people of Langzhong are bloodthirsty, fierce, warlike, and perverse; they are always plundering cities and territories.

Unfortunately, they didn't get any good results in the south, so they bought a large number of people to ravage and vent their anger, and Mustard Valley became their refuge.

Legend has it that if you want to know how many levels of hell there are, roll around in that mustard seed valley.

Mustard Valley is no exaggeration to call it a living hell.

Chu Luo's mother lifted her skirt and knelt down, begging only for her daughter Chu Luo's safety: "Please spare my daughter, I'll let you do whatever you want with me."

If it weren't for her daughter, Lu Yifu would have ended it all long ago; she wouldn't have endured these humiliations again and again.

Chu Luo struggled to her feet, and, trembling, leaned against the wall to try and persuade her mother:

"Mother, don't kneel before her, it's no use. No matter how much we beg her, she won't let us go."

Madam Chu said with a forced smile, "You are truly clever, while your mother is truly naive."

Chu Luo gestured for her mother to leave with her eyes; she already had a plan in mind.

“We don’t need you to tie us up. We’ll walk on our own. Wherever there are evil spirits, it’s hell. With you and Chu Yinmei in the Chu family, it’s no different from Jiegu.”

"Snapped"

Upon hearing Chu Luo say that she and her daughter Chu Yinmei were evil spirits...

Madam Chu, her blood boiling, strode forward and slapped Chu Luo hard across the face.

Chu Luo's face burned with pain, and her ears were ringing.

She is someone who has been reborn several times, even though she has forgotten many things.

With skills accumulated over several lifetimes, he shouldn't be in this situation.

Normally, even if Madam Chu and Chu Yinmei constantly cause them trouble.

They didn't get the better of her either.

This time, it was all because her heart pain suddenly flared up.

This illness was an accompaniment to her rebirth.

The illness was like a timer, telling her that time was running out and she needed to hurry up and take revenge to save people.

He also fainted due to illness and was severely injured in the attack.

Otherwise, she would slap him back with a few more blows.

Madam Chu had to consider the already limited dignity she possessed as the head of the household.

Otherwise, she really wanted to personally beat this sharp-tongued little bitch to death or maim her, to vent her years of shame and hatred.

Chu Luo slowly wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and leaned forward.

She said coldly, "Haven't you had enough after beating me for so many days? Why don't you just kill me right here and save Jiegu the trouble."

Seeing Chu Luo's chilling gaze, Madam Chu paused.

Madam Chu had no idea why this little wretch's eyes could be so frightening.

"Pah! I almost fell for your tricks again, you little slut!"

"I will not let you die here so easily. After I break your proudly held hands, I will send you to where you belong."

After saying that, Madam Chu beckoned to the guards to make their move.

Chu Luo knew she wouldn't take their lives easily, so she deliberately provoked her.

But this hand must not go wrong.

After leaving here, she will still need to rely on these hands to do many things.

All of her skills require her hands.

The guards drew closer and closer, and there was no other exit from the small woodshed piled high with firewood.

Lu Yifu pushed away the guards who were holding iron bars with all her might.

She stood in front of Chu Luo and shouted, "No, you can break my arms and legs, just spare my daughter!"

The First Madam couldn't stop laughing when she saw this; the more miserable Lu Yifu was, the happier she was.

Chu Luo, however, watched all of this with remarkable composure.

This displeased one of the people who had just entered from the corner of the courtyard.

"Chu Luo, things have come to this point, why are you still so calm? Do you know that once you get to Jiegu, you will become a tool for thousands to ride and thousands to crush?"

The visitor was Chu Yinmei, the daughter of Madam Chu.

Because she always liked to be surrounded by maids and servants, her already somewhat large body felt even more crowded and took up too much space.

Chu Luo sneered, "Chu Yinmei, you're still a young lady who's not yet ready to leave home, how can you say such shameless things?"

"I'd have thought you'd been to Akutagawa!"

Chu Yinmei couldn't stand the thought that no one wanted her.

Chu Luo always managed to provoke her at any time.

Chu Yinmei continued to scare her, saying, "There are all sorts of perverts in Jiegu who will play with you, humiliate you, and make you wish you were dead."

"Let alone humans, I've heard that even livestock and wild beasts would have to kneel down and beg for mercy there."

Chu Yinmei had heard people describe the cruelty of Jiegu, and the thought of it thrilled her.

But Chu Luo remained calm and unmoved.

It made her look like a complete fool.

Lu Yifu thought that Chu Yinmei was still a child, so she should be more lenient with him.

He pleaded, "Yinmei, Chu Luo is still your sister from the same father, please let her go."

Lu Yifu was about to kneel down and beg for mercy from Chu Yinmei again, but Chu Luo quickly pulled her back.

"Mother, why do you always beg them? Has begging ever worked?"

"It's just a pair of hands, right? Breaking them means they don't have to work anymore."

Chu Luo knew very well why Madam Chu and her daughter had broken her hands.

Chu Yinmei said, "I'll break your hands and see how you play the pipa, flaunt your charms, seduce others, and act like vixens."

Chu Luo laughed and said, "It seems you're not so bad after all. Having skills in a place like that isn't a good thing. It's good that you interrupted. Come on."

After saying that, Chu Chu stretched out her hands, as if she wanted to be interrupted.

"You..." Chu Yinmei wasn't bad enough, but she hadn't expected it.

Chu Yinmei immediately stopped the guards who were about to hit Chu Luo.

"So you had other plans all along. I'll make sure you don't get your way."

I was thinking of slashing your vixen-like, repulsive face with a knife, but now you've reminded me that if I go to a nice place like that, I'll have to keep both my face and hands."

She harbored deep resentment towards Chu Luo, and would be more than happy to let Chu Luo suffer more torment.

Chu Luo played along with their performance, pretending that her plan had failed.

Seeing her like this, Chu Yinmei felt a little smug and burst into laughter, which sounded like a demon howling and echoed throughout the courtyard.

"Your cunning, flirtatious, and manipulative hands, going to Akutagawa... just thinking about it is exciting! Hahahahahahaha!"

Madam Chu was also quite pleased, deeply agreeing with what Chu Yinmei said, and instructed:

"Take them both out, then leave a broken pipa in the carriage, and keep a close watch on them the whole way."

"We mustn't let them die before they reach Jiegu, and we mustn't let them slash their own faces," Chu Yinmei added.

In a pack of hungry wolves, the more alluring and talented they are, the more miserable they become.

Chu Luo and her mother, Lu Yifu, were soon thrown at the gate of the Chu family.

She is seriously injured now; a single shove can cause her to go blind from the pain.

Unable to offer any other form of resistance, she had no intention of doing so.

She had been waiting for this day to come.

A dilapidated horse-drawn carriage was already waiting at the entrance.

The cart was a broken-down vehicle, but the horse pulling it was a fine one.

Soon, two guards came forward and put handcuffs and anklets on Chu Luo and her mother's hands and feet, just like those on serious criminals.

Chu Luo had told her that as long as her father, Chu Songyuan, didn't come back, all resistance would be useless.

Having been reborn, she knew that her father would definitely not appear now.

Now, he should be dying in some small fishing village.

He can only bring back a new concubine at least three months later.

Their turbulent life began when her father disappeared and Madam Chu drove them out of the Chu family and sold them into Jiegu.

But for her, this was both a crisis and a turning point…