After Transmigrated As The Scummy Ex Of The White Lotus Female Supporting Character - Chapter 9

This night had been far too full of twists and turns. After Pei Wu finished washing up, her whole person showed an extreme weariness, laziness, sorrow, and heaviness. After Shang Yuqing waited until she fell asleep, she went to the kitchen to help Grandma Pei clean up.

“Xiao Qing, go sleep. Grandma can handle things here.” Grandma Pei pushed her, urging her to go to bed.

“Grandma, I’m not sleepy.”

“Nonsense.” Grandma Pei did not believe her.

Shang Yuqing helped her wash the bowls and said with a grin, “Really. I’m not very sleepy.”

Grandma Pei had no choice but to let her be. Shang Yuqing lingered for a while, then could not help asking, “Grandma, Pei Wu… does she go to the grave at this time every year?”

“Yes. In the past, no matter how busy Ah Wu was, she would always come back once and rush over at this time. Today, her mental state wasn’t good. I thought she would forget. Who knew…”

“Why does she have to go at this time?” Shang Yuqing did not understand. Even if it was a birthday, could it not be celebrated the next day?

The bowls were already washed. Grandma Pei placed them in the cabinet. “Her mother was born at two in the morning. She always had a wish to celebrate her birthday at exactly two o’clock. Unfortunately—”

Grandma Pei took a deep breath. Her voice was low and hoarse. “No one ever helped her celebrate it.”

“What do you mean… no one helped her celebrate it? What about her husband?” Shang Yuqing vaguely felt that the grudges and grievances behind this might be a little complicated.

Perhaps it had been too long since she had confided in anyone. Those dark, terrifying memories had been piled up in Grandma Pei’s heart for too long and had begun to rot. Grandma Pei could not help wanting to pick out that stretch of time and speak of it.

From Grandma Pei, Shang Yuqing also heard about the suffering behind Pei Wu’s past.

Pei Wu’s mother was called Song Ge. She was a very beautiful woman. Perhaps there was some truth to the saying that beauties had often been ill-fated since ancient times. Song Ge had been born in an extremely backward and remote place since childhood, where the people’s thinking was generally rotten and old-fashioned. The year she came of age, her mother forcibly married her off to Pei Mingguang, who was Pei Wu’s father.

Song Ge was a weak young woman with no ability to resist at all. She was completely no match for her unreasonable and greedy mother. Moreover, in that decaying village, women had a very low status, and no one thought there was anything wrong with it.

Their thoughts were rotten maggots, reeking from head to toe, shamelessly bringing disaster upon an innocent person.

With no other choice, Song Ge was forced to marry far away to Pei Mingguang. Her nightmare began from then on.

Pei Mingguang was a violent scumbag by nature. His moods were unpredictable, and he had a hereditary mental illness. One second, he could treat you gently. The next second, he would beat and kick you.

Song Ge lived under his unpredictability, and the scars on her body never had a chance to disappear. She had tried to run away. Back then, there had still been quite a lot of people in Yunshanju, and it had not been as desolate as it was now. Someone could not bear to watch and helped her once, but Pei Mingguang was extremely sharp-minded. He would catch her very quickly, and not only that, he would also beat that person viciously.

As time passed, some people no longer wanted to look for trouble. In any case, Pei Mingguang’s family lived in a remote spot, so some people simply pretended not to know.

The village was backward, and justice was scarce.

Every time Song Ge ran away, she would suffer an even more vicious punishment. At last, she no longer dared to run.

Later, she became pregnant. Pei Wu was born. Pei Mingguang favored sons over daughters, and when he saw that the child was a daughter, anger overwhelmed him. In the days that followed, he abused Song Ge even more harshly. Sometimes, he would not even spare Pei Wu. Song Ge loved her daughter dearly and knelt on the ground, begging him to let go of Pei Wu, whom he had lifted over his head.

Song Ge lived every day in fear. Ever since she had Pei Wu, she became less and less willing to go near Pei Mingguang, afraid that he would inflict his violence on Pei Wu.

She lived such a difficult life. Where would she have found time to celebrate her birthday? No one remembered either.

Only occasionally, she would mention it by Pei Wu’s ear.

Little Pei Wu, with a disfigured face that had been beaten by Pei Mingguang during one of his episodes, said firmly that she would celebrate her birthday for her in the future.

Unfortunately, before that future could come, Song Ge gradually fell into despair amid years and years of violence. Her mind finally could not hold on any longer.

When Pei Mingguang had another episode and tried to strangle Song Ge to death, Song Ge took out the knife she had prepared and stabbed it straight into the heart of that beast. Pei Mingguang’s face was full of disbelief. Before he died, he used the last of his strength to snatch her knife away and kill her.

Little Pei Wu heard the commotion and ran to their room. What entered her eyes were two corpses. Blood had already flowed out of the room.

Grandma Pei said that when she heard the news, she hurried over from another village. What she saw was little Pei Wu keeping watch beside her mother’s body, not saying a word, frighteningly quiet.

She seemed to have helped Song Ge tidy her appearance, while Pei Mingguang’s body lay in a sorry state in another place. Pei Wu did not even glance at him.

The events of that year had already passed long ago and should have been forgotten. But when they were brought up again, Grandma Pei still felt unbearably pained.

“It’s my fault too. That child Mingguang lost his mother when he was little. I came later, so he rejected me. Later, after his father died, we didn’t really see each other much. I liked that girl Song Ge very much. After Pei Wu was born, I went to see her a few times.”

“I lived too far from them. I didn’t know their family was like that.” Grandma Pei covered her face with her hand. “Even if I had known, I didn’t really have any reason to interfere. After all, I had no official standing. All of this was told to me by the villagers of Yunshanju.”

Shang Yuqing listened from beginning to end. She squeezed her slightly stiff hand and found that her palm was covered in cold sweat. Her mind was somewhat blank.

As for Pei Wu’s family affairs, the system had not told her anything. She had not known that the things behind it were this filthy.

Her heart was a little chaotic.

Grandma Pei was still feeling terrible. “Later, in order to raise Ah Wu, I sold my house and began taking care of her. Ah Wu’s life was hard. I was an old woman and couldn’t earn much money. Ah Wu’s family members didn’t want to bear this misfortune. Life was difficult, but Ah Wu never complained.”

At this point, Grandma Pei’s tone held some relief. “Luckily, Ah Wu worked hard and got into a university in a big city.”

When Shang Yuqing returned to the room, she did not turn on the light. She stopped beside Pei Wu. Pei Wu was sleeping very restlessly, her brows tightly furrowed. Because she had been drenched by the rain, her complexion under the night-light carried a heavy sickliness.

“Are you having a nightmare?” Shang Yuqing lifted her hand and gently stroked the space between Pei Wu’s brows. “It’s all right. Everything will pass. Nightmares will be torn apart, and sweet dreams will arrive.”

After being drenched in rain all night, Pei Wu unsurprisingly developed a fever the next day. Shang Yuqing was not as serious as her. She had only caught a cold.

Pei Wu’s face was flushed red, and she murmured something while half-conscious. Shang Yuqing listened for a long time but could not understand.

The moment she realized Pei Wu had a fever, Shang Yuqing drove nonstop to the nearest town. Originally, Grandma Pei wanted to go with her too, but Shang Yuqing knew she had worked herself to exhaustion the entire night and wanted her to rest properly.

Grandma Pei was indeed very tired today and terribly sleepy. Although she badly wanted to go, she thought about how, with her body in this state, even if she went, she would not be able to help. Helpless, she gave up. “Then Grandma will stay home and simmer chicken soup for you two. Drive carefully.”

“I know.” Shang Yuqing put a jacket on Pei Wu, had her wear a mask, then supported her as they walked toward the parking spot.

Pei Wu still had enough consciousness to maintain walking. Because she was sick, the thorns all over her seemed to have softened at once. Like a cat, she was somewhat clingy and obedient, and she did not care who she was clinging to.

Shang Yuqing was a little helpless from being rubbed against by her. “Stop moving around. It makes it hard for me to walk.”

Pei Wu turned a deaf ear.

After much difficulty, they finally reached the parking spot. Shang Yuqing placed her in the back seat and let her lie down.

Every now and then, Shang Yuqing observed Pei Wu through the rearview mirror inside the car. Because she felt awful, Pei Wu was whimpering and groaning softly on the seat, her long hair a complete mess.

The eyes she revealed were damp and flushed, like they carried hooks. Her face was also tinged with red. Her dazed and blurred gaze met Shang Yuqing’s eyes through the rearview mirror.

Shang Yuqing’s heart suddenly trembled. She quickly turned her head away, avoiding Pei Wu’s gaze.

Pei Wu looked completely different like this from her usual pale, cold beauty.

Like a seductress.

Pei Wu’s soft groans from discomfort circled beside Shang Yuqing’s ears. Shang Yuqing could not bear listening to them and turned on the Bluetooth to play music.

This was deadly.

Shang Yuqing drove quickly, and before long, they arrived at the largest hospital in town. Wearing a hat and mask, Pei Wu followed closely behind Shang Yuqing.

She had not been among crowds for a very long time. So when she came into contact with the noise and bustle again, a sense of rejection surged violently over her.

Every person coming and going around her seemed like a monster baring its teeth and brandishing its claws. They were laughing, their faces full of unconcealable smiles.

Pei Wu only felt that their laughter was glaring, as ridiculous and hypocritical as if they were wearing clown masks. Their bodies emitted a nauseating sense of liveliness, piercing densely into her skin like needles.

She wanted to flee. She was so disgusted she wanted to vomit. She wanted to hide underground, to hide somewhere with no people.

Shang Yuqing noticed that Pei Wu’s head was almost lowered to the ground and understood in her heart. She held Pei Wu’s hand. Pei Wu jolted and instinctively tried to break free.

“Don’t move,” Shang Yuqing said in a low voice. “There are too many people. I’ll hold onto you so you don’t get lost.”

Hearing this, the brows and eyes beneath Pei Wu’s hat flashed with a trace of faint surprise. As if possessed, she stopped moving.

The noisy people around her made Pei Wu unbearably irritated, but Shang Yuqing’s simple sentence seemed to carry magic, smoothing things over a little.

When it was time for Pei Wu to get an injection, another incident happened. The instant the doctor was about to touch Pei Wu, she suddenly seemed as though she had taken the wrong medicine. She forcefully shoved the doctor away, shrank into the corner, and kept shouting, “Stay away from me! Get lost! Don’t touch me!”

The doctor was a middle-aged man. He had not expected Pei Wu to be that strong. His lower back slammed hard into the corner of the table, and he let out a pained groan on the spot. “Aiyo, my poor old waist.”

There were other people in the ward too, and when they saw this scene, they all froze.

Shang Yuqing inwardly cried that things were bad. Why did Pei Wu have to have an episode at a time like this? She could not think about too much for now and hurriedly went to soothe Pei Wu.

“Don’t be afraid. He’s a doctor. He’s treating your illness. He doesn’t have any bad intentions, all right?”

Because Pei Wu had a fever today, her nerves were already weak. On top of that, the crowd had made her jumpy and unstable. When the unfamiliar male doctor touched her, it was practically the fuse that instantly ignited her frenzied emotions.

Pei Wu hated men. She felt disgust toward and loathed all men. She could not bear a man’s touch.

In her mentally unstable state, she mistook Shang Yuqing for a man. As though hating her to the extreme, she bit down hard on Shang Yuqing’s wrist. Shang Yuqing hissed from the pain but only endured it silently. Seeing the doctor about to come over, she signaled with her eyes for him not to.

Shang Yuqing took a deep breath and endured the pain as she soothed her. “Don’t be afraid. I’m here. I’ll always be here.”

There was a child in the ward who was frightened into crying.

With her free hand, Shang Yuqing comfortingly stroked Pei Wu’s head. Perhaps it had some effect, because Pei Wu’s teeth gradually loosened. She stared blankly at the teeth marks on Shang Yuqing’s wrist, stained with blood.

“Pei Wu, let’s treat your illness. We have to go home,” Shang Yuqing said gently.

Pei Wu did not know whether she understood or not. She only recognized the words go home, and slowly nodded.