Guide To Reign My Tycoon Husbands - Chapter 73

Chapter 73: Lock her up
Trigger warning : Dark thoughts

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“I can walk on my own,” Duan Jia Xu refused to be dragged like a slave to the attic, he might have lost all his footing in this family the day his mother died together with his daddy.

It did not mean that he was now a slave to this family and the people who held power inside this house.

Duan Jia Xu stubbornly stood up even though his back was stained with red. Drops of blood fell on the ground and he had to fight the urge to scream by gritting his teeth.

The sound of teeth churning and grinding echoed in the living hall as the servants turned to look at Old Master Duan who simply looked amused.

“Let him be,” Old Master Duan said to the servants who were watching Duan Jia Xu drag his feet with Duan Jingli in his arms. “It’s only right for a dog to walk down to his kennel. Isn’t that what you are, Jia Xu? A dog of this house. Hahahaha!”

“Why don’t you bark for me? Maybe I will think of giving you some water to drink, it will be of course the water with which I will wash my feet but it will be better than nothing.”

Old Master Duan was having a lot of fun. And why would he not? When Duan Jia Xu’s daddy was alive, how many nights and days had he waited for his wife to come and look for him and what happened in the end?

Till the day she died, that woman did not look for him.

Even when she was dying she hugged that bastard so tightly that they had to be cremated together.

Everyone spoke highly of how much that woman loved that bastard. But what about him?

He who was left behind became a joke in the society where he was teased and taunted by others for not being able to win the heart of his wife even though he gave birth to an heir.

So how could he not hate these two mers who looked like that bastard?

Duan Jia Xu gritted his teeth but did not answer, he climbed the stairs and entered the attic. The servant who was following behind him locked the door with a click.

“Brother, does it hurt?” Duan Jingli immediately asked Duan Jia Xu when he heard the door of the attic being closed.

“I am fine, your brother is way stronger than you think,” Duan Jia Xu raised his hand with difficulty and placed it on top of his little brother’s head. “It is your brother’s fault that little Lili has to suffer like this.”

‘If only I awakened as an A or B class hunter,’ thought Duan Jia Xu. If he awakened as a hunter even if his skill was useless, he would have been protected by a guild and the government.

That way neither Old Master Duan nor Duan Wen would have been able to cause trouble for him and his brother. It was he who was lacking and dragging his brother with him.

‘If only I knew coming to this house would ruin everything, I would have never returned to this place,’ Duan Jia Xu thought as he rubbed the coarse hair of his brother that had turned dull and weak because of the lack of care.

Duan Jia Xu stared at the thin and malnourished physique of his brother and pursed his lips. Was there even any point in continuing like this? Wasn’t it better to end their suffering in one go?

It was too tiring to continue living like this….

“No, it’s not Big Brother’s fault,” Duan Jingli shook his head. He smiled at his brother sweetly and said to him, “Brother is great, brother protects Lili and brings Lili food. Don’t worry brother, one day we will be happy—— Lili promised to bring you a roasted lamb leg didn’t I?”

When Duan Jia Xu heard his brother’s words, his eyes widened and the terrifying thoughts in his head vanished little by little.

What was he thinking? Duan Jia Xu bit his lip until he tasted blood. What wrong did his brother even do, for Duan Jia Xu to make such a drastic decision in place of his little brother?

His eyes turned red as he reached his arms forward and hugged his Duan Jingli, “I am sorry, I am so sorry, Lili.” He was so selfish, just because he was hurting and tired, he wanted to —— Duan Jia Xu closed his eyes and sobbed.

Duan Jingli was thinking of him every second and yet he was finding his brother a burden.

When Duan Jingli realised that his brother was crying, his eyes widened. He carefully hugged his brother and worriedly asked, “Does it hurt? Brother, tell me… if you are hurt then I will beg with that bad mer. Even if I have to bark Lili…Lili will do it.”

As long as that bad mer was happy, he would give medicine to his brother, as for his pride? What could they do with it?

“No,” Duan Jia Xu leaned back and pressed his forehead against Duan Jingli. “Your brother might not be a good brother but I still haven’t reached the point where I will need my little brother to kneel for me.”

He brought Duan Jingli’s hand to his lips and kissed the back of his palm.

“Trust your brother, we will be fine.”

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On the other side,

Luo Qingling was watching Luo Huian eat her breakfast. She pursed her lips and sighed again, this was her fifty-one sigh of the morning.

“I still don’t think it’s safe for you to leave,” she said to Luo Huian who stiffened and raised her head to carefully examine Luo Qingling’s expression.

She couldn’t be blamed for being wary of this woman because just this morning she watched Luo Qingling learn how to strap a person to a long table after tying them in some complicated rope technique.

It was a terrifying sight to watch but what was even more terrifying was ——

‘Will Huian stop resisting me if I tie her like this?’

These words!

Luo Huian was so scared that she immediately baked chocolate chip cookies for this woman as Xiao Bai told her that it was because of Luo Qingling’s emotions getting a rise out of her.

Her emotions were in a mess and needed some soothing.

For the first time in her life, Luo Huian felt such terror.