I won't be a prince's concubine; I'll cook delicious food and raise two villainous cu

Shen Yu felt her heart stop and her breathing almost stopped!

Li Shuozhou rushed forward and covered his sister's mouth tightly. His voice trembled slightly, and his eyes were full of vigilance and defensiveness as he stared at Shen Yu, afraid that she would see through his disguise.

"Her name is Ya Ya! Here, you can bandage your wound yourself!"

Before he could finish speaking, Li Shuozhou threw a cloth bag at him, then grabbed his sister's wrist and rushed out of the house as if fleeing.

It took Shen Yu a long time to barely suppress the turmoil surging in her heart and force herself to calm down.

But the next second, an indescribable ecstasy swept over her entire body.

That's wonderful! There's always a way out!

If these two children are indeed the future powerful and infamous treacherous minister and the peerless enchantress, wouldn't she have found an invaluable backer? As long as she firmly clings to these two future "golden thighs," how could she not have a chance to take revenge on that scoundrel Li Xinyu?

Shen Yu clenched her fists, her knuckles turning slightly white from the force.

It turns out that in her previous life, Heaven had given her the opportunity to rewrite her destiny, but she herself misjudged people and pushed open the door to survival with her own hands.

As her thoughts raced, Shen Yu's memories involuntarily drifted back to her previous life.

Back then, after her leg injury healed, she couldn't wait to leave Li Xiaoyun's house, eager to explore the vast world and live a different life.

But fate played a cruel joke on her; she unexpectedly encountered the down-on-his-luck prince, Li Xinyu, on her journey.

At that time, she was naive and could not have seen that beneath Li Xinyu's gentle and refined exterior lay the heart of a beast in human clothing.

She happily followed him to the capital, unaware that the bustling city would become the battlefield that would destroy her life.

One wrong step and the whole game is lost; every step leads to a mistake.

Shen Yu, a newcomer to the country, was completely ignorant of the feudal ethics of this era, and even less understood the suffocatingly harsh constraints that this cannibalistic dynasty imposed on women.

She continued to do as she pleased, following Li Xinyu around without any regard for propriety, always by his side, even brazenly following him into the gates of Prince Yu's mansion.

It wasn't until later that she was shocked to discover that Li Xinyu already had a wife.

Filled with indignation, she was about to turn and leave, but Li Xinyu's grandmother, the Dowager Consort, used the excuse of "hospitality" to smile and persuade her to stay.

From then on, Shen Yu became a prisoner of that secluded courtyard and never stepped out of the palace gates again.

Ignoring her cries, struggles, and frantic resistance, Li Xinyu forcibly took her body and imprisoned her in a small space.

But he insisted on pretending to be deeply in love, claiming to the outside world that he loved her more than anything and couldn't live without her.

The gorgeous silks and precious jewels were delivered to her courtyard every day like a flowing stream; a dozen maids and servants stayed by her side every step of the way, keeping a close watch on her every move.

Shen Yu had never suffered such humiliation before. She refused to accept her fate!

She had only lost her virginity; how could an independent woman from modern times care about such trivial matters?

What she truly couldn't bear was that because she showed her face in public and got closer to men, she was pointed at and criticized by those moralists, who accused her of having an affair without a matchmaker, saying that she was only fit to be a concubine to be trampled on, and even forcibly labeled as a lowly person!

She, Shen Yu, absolutely cannot live such a pathetic and wretched life!

Thus, her cold resistance and her refusal to submit to death finally enraged Li Xinyu, this hypocrite.

He simply tore off that veneer of gentleness and elegance, revealing his despicable and shameless true nature.

"Yu'er, this is my last warning!" Li Xinyu gripped her chin, his eyes as sinister as a poisoned blade. "If you refuse to obediently become my concubine, I will turn you into a lowly woman whom everyone can bully, a whore whom a thousand men can ride!"

"Think it over carefully! Do you want to obediently serve only me, or be wantonly humiliated by men all over the world and end up disgraced!?"

Every word and phrase was like a sharp knife chilled to ice, piercing deeply into Shen Yu's heart.

She was devastated and finally saw Li Xinyu's ugly face.

Left with no other choice, she could only swallow her anger and temporarily suppress her indomitable pride, thinking that she would gradually work her way out in the future and one day break free from this cage and escape to safety.

But she was still too naive.

Li Xinyu's initial excitement lasted only a year or two.

He was a fickle and easily bored man, and as he watched Shen Yu become more and more docile and gradually lose her former vibrancy and sharp edges, his interest in her slowly waned.

Without Li Xinyu's protection, his legal wife could finally act with impunity against Shen Yu.

The torment, torture, and humiliation came like a tidal wave, making Shen Yu suffer unbearably.

Her days grew harder and more hopeless with each passing day.

In the dead of winter, when the weather was freezing cold, she couldn't even find a single piece of charcoal to keep warm in her house. She could only cover herself with all her clothes and blankets, curl up on the cold bed, and shiver through the long night.

As for the food, it was so miserable that it was unbearable to look at.

Later, Li Xinyu finally remembered her, this "old friend," and stepped into her courtyard again after many days.

Looking at her thin, sallow face, and noticing the two spoiled cornbread buns in the broken bowl in the room, he felt no pity whatsoever. Instead, he sneered with disgust, "You hate me so much that you won't even eat properly!"

Seeing this, the legal wife beside him smiled smugly, a hint of relief creeping onto her lips.

Looking at the hypocritical and beastly couple in front of her, Shen Yu felt a chill run from her feet to the top of her head. She tugged at the corners of her mouth and revealed a cold smile full of sarcasm.

That evening, Li Xinyu sent someone to take her out of the palace and settle her in a manor in the suburbs.

They were treated to a life of luxury, with fine clothes and delicious food every day, and their treatment was even better than when they were in the Prince's mansion.

Shen Yu thought this was the perfect opportunity for her to escape the den of demons, and she was secretly delighted.

But she never imagined that Li Xinyu's actions would only push her into an even deeper and darker hell...

He ordered his men to fatten her up, and then he began to openly bring powerful and influential men who could be of use to him into her room one by one.

Only then did Shen Yu realize that even if she became his concubine, she would still be unable to escape the tragic fate of being humiliated by thousands and trampled by tens of thousands.

Devastated, she had contemplated suicide more than once, wanting to find a complete escape.

But Li Xinyu had her firmly under his control. He held the lives of the entire family of the only maid in the palace who had helped Shen Yu in his hands, and then he pretended to coax her, saying that as long as she behaved, he would set her free in a few years.

free?

That was something Shen Yu had dreamed of her whole life!

Countless times she had leaned against the window, gazing at the blue sky and white clouds outside, shedding her tears until they ran dry, her heart screaming again and again for the shackles to be broken and to regain her freedom.

She hated Li Xinyu so much that she gritted her teeth and wished she could devour his flesh and drink his blood alive!

In the end, for that vague promise of freedom, and to save the life of that innocent maid, she chose to live a humiliating existence.

In those dark and hopeless years, Shen Yu had long since lost count of how many strange men had mocked and trampled on her in the darkness.

"Your Highness is truly generous! Such a beautiful woman with fair skin and delicate features, I heard she was once your most favored concubine?"

The most favored concubine?

This is an absolute joke!

She was hardly a favored concubine; she was merely a plaything that Li Xinyu could discard and squander at will!

Just when Shen Yu was being tormented to the point of almost forgetting who she was and how many years she had endured, fate finally gave her a glimmer of hope—Li Xinyu's legal wife suddenly fell ill and died!

What a fitting end! When Shen Yu heard the news, she wanted nothing more than to burst into laughter and celebrate for three days and three nights!

But before she could be happy for long, Li Xinyu sent someone to fetch her back to the mansion, saying that the Dowager Consort wanted to see her.

See her? Shen Yu sneered inwardly.

That old woman has probably come up with some new way to torture her to death!

She never wanted to go back to that cannibalistic den of monsters, never wanted to repeat the same mistakes.

So, when the carriage reached the bustling street, she took advantage of the guards' inattention, suddenly lifted the curtain and jumped down, running desperately towards the surging crowd.

But how could a weak woman like her, who had no strength to even kill a chicken, possibly escape from those well-trained guards of the royal palace?

In the end, she was surrounded by guards and beaten to death with sticks in that narrow, cramped alley.

The cold rain mixed with her warm blood, pooling beneath her to form a filthy pool of blood, just like her short and humiliating life, so dirty that it was unbearable to look at.

She gasped sharply, jolted awake from that hellish memory, her forehead covered in cold sweat.

She slapped her cheeks hard, constantly reminding herself: She was reborn, she was really reborn!

In this life, she will stay far away from that scoundrel Li Xinyu and never see him again!

The most important thing right now is to heal my leg injury.

Then, she completely gave up the idea of ​​roaming the martial world in her previous life. As long as she stayed quietly in Li Xiaoyun's family and didn't step out of this deep mountain, she would never encounter that beast Li Xinyu!

Moreover, she wanted to stay on her own initiative!

Shen Yu looked around the bare, dilapidated thatched hut, but her eyes shone with an unprecedented light.

Staying in Li Xiaoyun's house and cultivating a relationship with the future wicked concubine and treacherous minister shouldn't be too difficult, right?

She carefully picked up the cloth bag that Li Shuozhou had thrown to her, opened it, and found several herbs and a few scraps of cloth inside, presumably for treating wounds.

But Shen Yu knew in her heart that her injuries were far more than just skin and flesh; her leg bone was probably already cracked.

She couldn't help but recall that in her previous life, Li Shuozhou had simply given her some herbs and perfunctorily bandaged her up.

After her superficial wounds healed, she hurriedly left Li Xiaoyun's house. However, her leg injury became a chronic problem. Whenever it was cloudy or rainy, the injured area would ache terribly and feel extremely numb.

For the first two years, Li Xinyu still held onto some old feelings and specially invited the imperial physician to treat her, but in the end, it had been delayed for too long and it was too late to save her.

For the next ten years or so, this leg injury tormented her like a leech.

Thinking of this, Shen Yu no longer dared to be careless.

She struggled to sit up and called out towards the door, "Excuse me... is Mr. Li here?"

Since both children share the surname Li, then this elder brother, Li Xiaoyun, will naturally also share the surname Li.

But just then, a question suddenly popped into Shen Yu's mind.

The Li siblings of later generations were notorious and powerful, but she searched through her memories and never heard of them having an older brother named Li Xiaoyun.

So, where did this unknown young man, Li Dalang, go afterward? And why did he disappear from the annals of history?

Not long after, a rough, deep voice came from outside the door, carrying a hint of detachment and indifference: "What is it?"

Shen Yu pouted angrily, thinking to herself: It must be because this person, Li Xiaoyun, is too lowly and not worthy of respect. In addition, he is dull and rude. So when the brother and sister became successful, they couldn't be bothered to pay attention to him and even deliberately erased his existence!