“Sumei… she is crazy. I can’t persuade her or save her.”
Hongyu’s face was full of sadness. She had never expected the cute and pure younger sister in her memory to become a person like that.
Tears fell from her eyes silently.
These days, she had pondered it numerous times. “If I hadn’t admitted that she is my sister back then, would things be different from the present situation?”
But what was done could not be undone. Now, Sumei had become crazy. Even if she wanted to redeem her, she was afraid that she would not succeed.
Hongyu cried for a while, and Lin Mengya and didn’t know how to dissuade her.
Fortunately, she was a woman of strong will. No matter how much pain she had, she could bury it into her heart and would not expose it easily.
“In fact, Sumei has become so completely because of her daydream. You’ve seen that this residence is a hell that devours humans, and Sumei seems to have become an evil spirit here.”
Hongyu hated the residence so much when she mentioned it.
“Although Sumei went the wrong way, if it hadn’t been for the lure of the residence’s owner, how could Sumei have been willing to degenerate?”
Just now, Lin Mengya had heard Sumei say that someone had promised to send her to Prince Yu’s Mansion and that she would be able to enter or exit the imperial palaces of the Nation of Lintian and the Jin State.
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This promise was a bit exaggerated, but Lin Mengya thought that since the person had said so, he might be able to do it.
Hongyu composed herself and then talked about her and her sister’s experiences in the house slowly.
It turned out that dozens of young ladies were imprisoned in this house in total. Hongyu said that they were just people with whom she had come into contact, of course.
There were many experienced prostitutes here. All of them had once been the most popular prostitutes in different brothels.
After having been ransomed by some people, their whereabouts had remained a mystery. Unexpectedly, they turned out to be training those young girls without sexual experience in this place.
Cheated and kidnapped, those young girls had been brought here from different places.
Some of them were escapers from famine or orphans. In a word, they had all been pushed into the abyss of suffering at the age of ignorance.
These prostitutes had different skills. Some were responsible for developing the girls’ skills on the lute, chess, calligraphy, painting, and things of this kind, while some focused on teaching them the arts of pleasing men such as the art of lovemaking.
Hongyu was one of the teachers. Thanks to her good lute-playing skill, she stayed here to teach those girls the skill of playing the lute.
But the girls’ natural endowments varied from one another, after all.
Therefore, some people would come and test the girls’ achievements every three months.
Those in the first class that were kept were girls who were gentle and easy to control with fairies’ looks.
Such girls would be sent out secretly. As for where they would be sent, Hongyu had no right to know it.
Those in the second class were smart but were not stunning, but it was worth training them.
They would be nurtured by these prostitutes carefully. What were they used for? It was crystal clear.
As for the girls in the third class, they should have delicate and agreeable looks at least. Those with bad dispositions, who were quite stupid and weren’t worth being trained at all, would be called Decoction Dregs by others.
“As for what the decoction is, I only saw it once. Truly, it was like hell on earth.”
Hongyu had witnessed the fickleness of the world over the years.
But when the so-called decoction was mentioned, she couldn’t help shivering.
She said that it had been in a basement.
At that time, she had been responsible for sending the picked girls there.
Unexpectedly, the moment she had entered it, she had seen lots of haggard girls iron-chained tightly on the wall.
She had met some of them before that time, while some were completely strange to her.
At that time, all their tongues had been cut.
It had not possible for them to make any weak sounds.
“I’ve never seen any scene like that. Those girls sent there hugged one another, trembling. Not to mention them, even I felt afraid. As for those girls chained on the wall, some people kept opening their bodies with knives, and then their blood was withdrawn by them in the way done to a chicken or pig. After that, when a proper amount of their blood was out, some people would treat them with wound medicine. But since there were so many people, one or two would be neglected, right? Therefore, some of the girls’ blood was all withdrawn by them like that.”
Remembering the scene she had seen, Hongyu still felt that her body seemed to be turning cold.
All the girls were like the livestock to be slaughtered, crying, and screaming as their tongues were pulled out. Then, they became part of the chained girls.
“Later, I found someone was calling to me. Then I saw that Sumei, she… she even…”
Hongyu’s face turned quite pale.
After a few respites, she continued her talk with difficulty, “She turned out to be in a pool full of red blood. Many continued pouring blood into the pool, and there were many other things. They smelled so good that my head was about to burst because of the pain. I saw Sumei smiling, but I felt that she was no longer the one I knew. She became an evil spirit, one who was bathing in the blood.”
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Now, it went without saying that Lin Mengya had proved her guess indirectly.
Unexpectedly, the real “Bloody Mary” scene had taken place in the house.
But it was even bloodier and more brutal than the original one.
Although she had finished it, Hongyu seemed to be still in that scene, her eyes full of fear.
After a long time, she shook her head and looked at Lin Mengya.
“Princess, I know Sumei gave you lots of trouble, but I hope you can promise me one thing.”
Lin Mengya nodded because she thought that Hongyu wanted her to promise to let Sumei off.
“If you do have the way to destroy this house, I hope you can help me kill Sumei. She is no longer my sister, and I hope she can get relief.”
Seeing the serious look of Hongyu, Lin Mengya had to agree.
But when she was about to open her mouth, the door was pushed open by someone forcefully.
Then, an ice-cold voice came to their ears.
“My dear sister, you are really so kind to me. Huh, I didn’t expect you to betray me, wanting an outsider to kill me! Lin Mengya, Princess Yu, and Princess Anle, I believe you have been well since we last met!”
Sumei looked at them with a cold smile. Although Hongyu was a little panicky, she shielded Lin Mengya while gritting her teeth.
“Sister, please repent. You’ve made too many mistakes. If you continue like this, you will never be able to repent!”
Hongyu was persuading her sister with a sincere heart, but now, Sumei’s mind had been thoroughly hoodwinked by her desire.
So, she couldn’t accept another one’s persuasion.
She waved her hand, and the horde of ferocious-looking thugs beside her began to stare at the three girls in the room fiercely.
Probably, they were about to take the prey at bay.
“Repent? Why do I have to repent? Hongyu, you are truly my good sister. I’ve been suffering with our parents these years, but what about you? You’ve been enjoying the rich and luxurious life outside. After overcoming much difficulty, I got everything I have now. The master appreciated me, and then I got the Bone of Beauty through practice with his permission. To my surprise, my good sister, you even asked an outsider to kill me! Fine, I want you to know who will be the last winner today.”
Sumei was probably like what Hongyu had described—she had become insane.
At this moment, she had utterly discarded their sisterhood. Instead, all she had in her mind was to weed Lin Mengya off.
“Lin Mengya, you are self-assured that you are beautiful, aren’t you? Let me cut your beautiful face and then let you taste all the pain of a woman. I’ll see what you can use to compete for Prince Yu with me in the future!”
Seeing the winner’s look of Sumei, Lin Mengya didn’t have to hide her identity anymore.
Then she wiped away the rouge and powder on her face, which was delicate and beautiful. Although she was in a very disadvantageous situation, her stunning looks couldn’t be concealed.
“Indeed, I’m confident that I am beautiful. Do you really think that you’ve become beautiful, Sumei? But I don’t think so at all. I can only see maggots all over your body, and you smell rotten. If you don’t believe me, you can cut open your skin and look at your internal organs. At this moment, they’ve become pieces of rotten meat and can’t be cured anymore.”
Lin Mengya’s tone was with great disdain, and Sumei fumed because of it.
“You—huh, this is the Bone of Beauty developed by my master. Now, I am not less beautiful than you anymore! Don’t gloat!”
Seeing Sumei’s crazy retort, Lin Mengya knew that she had stricken her vital point.
For Sumei, the impetus of having done all this was that she thought she was not beautiful enough, so Long Tianyu had driven her away.
But she didn’t know that no matter how beautiful a woman was, she was quite ugly if her heart was unkind.
“The Bone of Beauty? Sumei, why don’t you remove your makeup and take off your luxurious clothes and then see what you really are in the mirror?”
Lin Mengya always hit the nail on the head with her words. What was the so-called Bone of Beauty? It was just something that could make the skin fairer.
The reason why Sumei had become completely different was only due to the state of her mind.
Therefore, when she lost everything extrinsic, she would finally go back to her original self, the one whom she hated most and was most afraid of.
As a smart person, Lin Mengya had thoroughly seen through this small idea of hers, of course.
“No! I am already the Bone of Beauty, completely different from the past. What are you waiting for? Take her, and I’ll cut her mouth open myself, stopping her from spreading rumors!”
With her idea pointed out by Lin Mengya, Sumei roared her order now.
Although she was thin and frail, Hongyu was not afraid at all and stood in front of Lin Mengya.
“Sumei! The princess is our great benefactor. If you want to hurt her, kill me first!”
