If You Could Hear My Heart-Chapter 944 - Take Off Her Clothes
Chapter 944: Chapter 944: Take Off Her Clothes
Chapter 944: Chapter 944: Take Off Her Clothes
She tiptoed through the garden, bending her body, almost crawling on the ground.
Her heart wouldn’t stop pounding, and any little rustle would scare her half to death.
She tightened her scarf and watched her surroundings warily with both eyes.
Fortunately, no one discovered her!
She moved slowly toward the swing; she couldn’t guarantee success in one go, but at least she had to try seriously.
If it really didn’t work out, and she couldn’t escape today, she definitely had to figure out a way tomorrow.
She moved bit by bit towards the swing, her ears almost standing on end!
It was so quiet around her that she could even hear her own breathing, which was rapid and intermittent.
Just as she was groping her way towards the swing, suddenly, a pair of men’s leather shoes came to a halt right in front of her!
“Ah!” The woman screamed in terror immediately!
Her face turned pale, her eyes wide open, hands covering her mouth!
The newcomer was none other than Xiaozheng.
Xiuxiu was so frightened that her whole body trembled, her mouth agape, unable to speak. Her first instinct was to flee, flee!
She immediately turned around, straightened up, and ran in the opposite direction!
Xiaozheng didn’t even bother chasing her because, now that she had been discovered, there was no way she could escape from the Waterside Pavilion.
As expected, Xiuxiu had not run many steps before she was surrounded by several servants of the Waterside Pavilion!
The butler had already called up the male servants of the Waterside Pavilion, and now they encircled her closely, moving in on her step by step.
Nobody said a word, just looked at Xiuxiu with cold indifference.
That’s when Xiuxiu truly panicked, trembling so much that she dropped her luggage on the ground!
“I… I didn’t… didn’t mean to do anything…” Xiuxiu stammered, her voice trembling.
No one spoke, just watching her like she was a clown.
In the night, the northern winds grew stronger, cutting at everyone’s faces like knives. Xiuxiu felt no chill, just an endless, boundless fear that was magnified infinitely, showing on her face, in her eyes, in her movements…
“I… I really didn’t do anything… I… I just stole… just stole something…” Xiuxiu’s mind raced.
Stealing something should result in lighter consequences, she naively thought.
Yet, she was the only one talking, while the others remained silent.
Xiuxiu became desperate, but she couldn’t overpower so many men, so she just stood there shivering.
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She was done for, surely doomed!
But later, she would insist that she only stole something to escape!
The men’s piercing gazes landed on her face, their fearsome eyes even more terrifying than knives. Xiuxiu, frightened, grabbed onto a nearby magnolia tree and clung to it tightly.
The garden was very dark, and this darkness added a certain cruelty.
Xiaozheng made a phone call, and not long after, the butler arrived.
It was now past two in the morning.
The butler, wrapped in a heavy woolen coat, made his way to the garden.
He immediately spotted Xiuxiu, whose complexion was deathly pale; standing in the dark night, she looked exceedingly frightful.
“Butler… Butler…” Xiuxiu called out, trembling.
The butler snorted coldly, not paying her any attention, and walked over calmly.
Xiaozhen also came over, standing beside the butler.
“Xiuxiu, what’s this about going somewhere?” the butler asked indifferently.
“Butler, I was wrong… I was wrong…” Xiuxiu suddenly fell to her knees with a “thump” in front of the butler, “I shouldn’t have taken valuable things from the Waterside Pavilion, I was wrong… so wrong… Please give me a chance to live…”
“Stealing valuable items?” the butler chewed over the words.
“I admit my mistake, I was momentarily possessed by greed, I was wrong, truly wrong…”
“Open her cloth bag and take a look,” the butler instructed.
“Yes.” Xiaozheng stepped forward and opened Xiuxiu’s cloth bag.
Items scattered across the floor; the butler glanced over them briefly, then looked at Xiuxiu and said, “Which of these is a valuable item? Point it out to me.”
Among the messy items, there were no valuables to be found, only Xiuxiu’s own everyday belongings, and not many at that.
Seeing her lie exposed, Xiuxiu suddenly found herself at a loss for words, unable to fabricate an excuse.
“I… I…” She stuttered, unable to produce a coherent sentence.
“The rest of you, leave us,” the butler pointed to several servants around him.
“Of course, Butler.”
“You, tie her to that tree; I will interrogate her myself,” the butler ordered.
“Sure.”
The others quickly fetched some rope and bound Xiuxiu to the Magnolia Tree.
“No… Butler… no… help… I really didn’t do anything…” Xiuxiu was terrified.
But no one listened to her, and soon, she was securely tied up.
The butler had everyone else withdraw, leaving only her and Xiuxiu.
The north wind blew against their faces; the butler felt cold, for it was deep into the night.
“Tell the truth, did you tamper with the milk?” the butler got straight to the point.
With no one else around, she no longer beat around the bush with Xiuxiu and directly posed the question.
A flash of guilt crossed Xiuxiu’s eyes, and she clamped her mouth shut, refusing to say a word.
“I know you don’t have the nerve,” the butler softened her tone, “someone’s been directing you, right? Tell me who it was, and as long as you do, I can certainly plead with the young master to spare your life.”
The butler was still trying not to infuriate her, attempting to have a reasonable conversation.
Xiuxiu was not foolish; she knew that the butler was simply using a carrot-and-stick approach.
After having done such a thing, and hearing that the young master’s wife had lost her child, could the young master spare her life? That was pure fantasy.
Initially, her employer had given her something, merely claiming it would cause diarrhea.
She naively believed it until the day the incident happened, only then realizing it wasn’t just about causing diarrhea at all!
But now, trapped with no way out, if she spoke up, both her family and she would die; if she remained silent, she would die.
She weighed her options and chose not to speak.
“Still unwilling to talk?” the butler persisted in her questioning, “You just have to tell me who directed you.”
The butler still demanded a single answer as she walked up to Xiuxiu, constantly observing her expression.
Xiuxiu remained silent, still weighing her options in her heart.
“Alright then, you’ve got a tough mouth, won’t speak, huh? Then let’s have you stand in this wind all night,” the butler said.
Not just standing all night, but to stand stripped of her clothes all night!
She wanted to see just how loyal Xiuxiu really was.
Indeed, the woman still did not speak.
The butler let out a cold laugh, and called out, “Someone come here!”
Instantly, a person approached the butler’s side, a man no less.
“Strip her clothes off, as much as you deem appropriate,” the butler said indifferently.
