Quick Transmigration: A Super-Effective Novel Within a Super-Effective Novel

"What are you doing, Madam Xu! The eldest mistress hasn't even spoken yet, why are you letting go?"

Liusu glanced into the courtyard, immediately raised her eyebrows, and began to scold him with obvious disdain.

Inside the courtyard, Xu Yanran had two huge rocks on her head, her face covered in tears, one hand still outstretched, holding a large bowl, while the other hand remained outstretched, trembling.

Beneath her, another large bowl was smashed to pieces, its water spilling all over the floor.

It was obvious that the sound just now was from the bowl falling from Xu Yanran's hands.

Lin Zhao sat on the rattan chair, lifted his eyelids and glanced at Xu Yanran. Xu Yanran had just heard Liu Su's reprimand and was already trembling with fear.

"What? Madam Xu can't stand it already?" Lin Zhao mocked. "If you can't even stand up to these basic rules, how can you be the proper wife of the Marquis's household? People really underestimate your determination."

"Waaah...waaah..." Xu Yanran sobbed softly.

These past two days, Lin Zhao has dragged her into the courtyard, ostensibly to teach her manners so she can marry into the Marquis's household as a lady, but those rules are unbearable for anyone!

Lin Zhao said that a young lady should be graceful in appearance and dignified in demeanor. He insisted that she was too plump and tall, so he only gave her half a leaf of vegetable for each meal, and he didn't even know which field it was freshly picked from. He only gave her water to drink.

She was so hungry that she felt dizzy and lightheaded within half a day and almost fainted.

But that wasn't all. Lin Zhao somehow got hold of two huge rocks, each weighing over ten kilograms, and insisted that she carry them on her head. Whether she was standing, walking, sitting, or lying down, she had to carry those two huge rocks on her head, saying that she was still young and needed to weigh down her body so that she would be more petite and thus please the Marquis.

She spit on it; it's clearly a way to humiliate and torment her, yet she makes it sound so noble.

But she couldn't resist at all. At first, she dared to struggle a few times, but this Lin Zhao was some kind of crazy woman. As long as she showed the slightest resentment in her eyes, and Lin Zhao nodded, the fierce maid beside her would whip her mercilessly.

It was one thing to whip her, but most women in their boudoirs had some skill. The maid named Liusu lashed her every time she struck a spot on her body that no one could see, and the force was just right, leaving only bruises and blood but no open wounds, leaving her with nowhere to cry.

Later, she dared not resist anymore, but she became increasingly confused.

She had hoped that by marrying into the Marquis Song Xi's household, she could enjoy a life of luxury and ease, but she never expected to encounter such a terrifying tigress.

She wanted to die.

But Lin Zhao kept a watchful eye on her for twelve hours a day, giving her no chance to commit suicide.

She added, "What are you doing, Madam Xu? You're about to enter the Marquis's mansion, and from now on we'll be sisters."

"Now that I'm teaching you some of the rules of the Marquis's mansion, you can't stand it and you're threatening to kill yourself. Do you want everyone outside to say that the eldest daughter-in-law of the Marquis's mansion is tormenting you or something?"

"The most taboo thing in the inner quarters is infighting; even a marquis must treat everyone equally."

"I see you still don't understand how to be a lady of the Marquis's household. Someone, bring me those two bowls!"

At Lin Zhao's command, Liu Su had two large bowls brought up. One bowl contained hot water that had been boiled and cooled down, while the other contained cold water that had been stored in the well all winter, with a large block of ice added.

Lin Zhao told her to hold it in each hand, one cold and one hot, each representing an extreme.

If she shivered even slightly and spilled the water or broke the bowl, Liusu's whip would immediately lash out.

The more she was whipped, the more pain she felt, and the more she trembled. The more water spilled from the bowl, the more frequently the whip was lashed.

This cycle repeated itself, tormenting her to the point where she wanted to die even more.

Unfortunately, he couldn't die even though he wanted to, so he could only endure the pain and continue to live.

Thinking of this, Xu Yanran couldn't help but sob again, two lines of tears falling.

“Madam Xu, I advise you to stop crying like that. You’re always making such a mournful face. People who don’t know the situation might think the Marquis is dead.”

Liu Su lashed Xu Yanran's waist with the whip again.

"You intend to marry the Marquis and live a long and happy life together, do you really want to be buried alive with him?"

"Waaaaah! Waaaaah..."

Xu Yanran was so frightened by Liu Su that she cried, and when she thought of Song Xi, who was still paralyzed in the room, she became even more upset.

These past two days, she has had to stand in Lin Zhao's courtyard during the day to endure the torment of being forced to obey rules, and at night she has to return to Song Xi's room to serve her.

Lin Zhao said that she was about to become the wife of the Marquis, and having served Song Xi for seven years, she no longer needed to worry about those formalities and handed over Song Xi to her to serve.

But even though it's called serving, it's still torture.

Lin Zhao beat Song Xi unconscious in the main hall that day, causing him to lose control of his bowels and bladder and become paralyzed. The servants carried Song Xi back to his room and then left him alone, only feeding him rice porridge at each meal to keep him alive.

When Song Xi woke up, she was in unbearable pain and couldn't get out of bed. She couldn't call anyone, and when she couldn't hold her urine and feces, she had to defecate on the bed. Before long, the room, which had been scented with incense, became smelly and nauseating.

He was both ashamed and indignant. As a general of a noble family, he had originally planned to return to the capital to make meritorious contributions and rise to prominence, but he had ended up like this. He was speechless, and even if he did speak, no one would listen to him. He had experienced a life of destitution and wished he could cut Lin Zhao into a thousand pieces. He cursed and swore all day long.

Lin Zhao didn't take it seriously. He simply ordered someone to pour a basket of bedbugs and snakes onto his bed, letting those horrible creatures gnaw and bite at him, but not kill him.

However, the wound kept healing and then reopening, festering and oozing pus, and infested with maggots, causing Song Xi even more pain.

But Xu Yanran still had to serve Song Xi every night.

Lin Zhao instructed that she must serve him well and that she should get pregnant as soon as possible before the old lady and madam of the Marquis's mansion mourned, so as to continue the lineage of the Marquis's mansion. Therefore, Xu Yanran had to share a room with Song Xi every night.

Song Xi could no longer get an erection, which was torture for Xu Yanran. In addition, Song Xi's body was covered in sores, and there were disgusting insects on the bed. Xu Yanran's legs went weak just looking at him, so how could she possibly do that?

But that won't work either; Lin Zhao will have even more ways to torture her.

It's scary to think about it.

Xu Yanran had no choice but to bite the bullet and go ahead.

The servants who stayed by Song Xi's room could hear Xu Yanran crying her heart out every night, but since Lin Zhao was now in charge of the Marquis's mansion, and with his iron-fisted methods, they only listened to him.

Just as Xu Yanran thought, Lin Zhao had plenty of ways to torture and control them.

"Isn't she known for having affairs without a matchmaker and stealing other women's husbands? Then let them have affairs every night, until they're sick of it! Let them have affairs until they're sick of it! Hahahaha!"

Lin Zhao, who was in his room, heard the crying coming from Song Xi's room and burst into laughter.

Liusu and Yingsui massaged her legs and back, and Yingsui replied to Lin Zhao.

"Miss, in the past two days, those who were obedient and willing to stay in the Marquis's mansion have been registered, those who were obedient but unwilling to stay have been released, and then there are those who were disobedient..."

She made a throat-slitting gesture, and Lin Zhao nodded in satisfaction.

"The newly purchased servants will be arriving tomorrow. Liusu and I have carefully inspected them; they are guaranteed to be loyal. However, I discovered one among them. Miss, would you like to personally..."

"No need."

Lin Zhao waved his hand.

She smiled and looked in Song Xifang's direction, "Let them cause trouble, the bigger the better, I'll take them all down in one fell swoop."