Tang Dynasty: Starting at Xuanwu Gate, this prince is better off not being one.

"My lord, it's time for your meal!"

Princess Yang, the wife of King Qi, gracefully entered carrying the food. Seeing her husband's furrowed brow, she gently placed the food box on the table and dared not utter another word.

Lady Yang was a princess of the Sui Dynasty. Because of her beauty, she was betrothed by Emperor Yang Guang to the fourth son of Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang, who is now the Prince of Qi, Li Yuanji, before the fall of the Sui Dynasty.

In the first year after Yang Guang married into the Li family, the couple managed to maintain a respectful relationship. However, after Yuwen Huaji launched a coup in the fourteenth year of the Daye era and Yang Guang was strangled, the entire Yang family, as members of the imperial clan, suffered the same fate.

Because Yang was a member of the Li family, and because Li Yuan's army was already close to Chang'an at that time, she was not implicated.

But since then, Li Yuanji has been verbally abusing her because she lost the power of her maternal family and has not yet borne him any children. This has led to her being physically abused, making her live in misery for many years.

Fortunately, His Majesty does not agree to the Prince of Qi deposing his concubine, so she has always been the mistress of the Prince of Qi's mansion.

But in reality, she had virtually no status in the Prince Qi's mansion.

Because she had lost the influence of her maternal family, Li Yuanji's concubines, relying on the fact that she had given birth to children for the Prince of Qi's mansion, made things difficult for her in every way.

Li Yuanji remained indifferent to this, believing that if it weren't for her beauty, she would have been secretly disposed of by her husband long ago.

"Get lost! Don't bother me!"

Sure enough, she knew her husband would be like this.

After giving a slight bow, Madam Yang was about to take her leave when Li Yuanji's voice suddenly came from behind her.

"Wait a minute, come here!"

Upon hearing her husband's request, Yang was taken aback, but she didn't dare to ask any further questions and obediently lowered her head to stand in front of Li Yuanji.

"Raise your head!" Li Yuanji commanded fiercely.

Startled by these words, Yang immediately raised her head obediently.

Snapped! ! !

A crisp sound came from inside the room, and Li Yuanji slapped Yang Shi so hard that she fell to the ground.

"My husband..."

Yang covered her face with tears in her eyes, not understanding why Li Yuanji would hit her for no reason. Was it because she had disturbed his contemplation?

"I ask you, why didn't Yang Guang kill Li Shimin back then!" Li Yuanji stared at his wife and said fiercely.

Upon hearing this, Yang felt incredibly wronged.

This wasn't the first time this had been used for this reason. She was just a woman; what ability did she have to make the emperor listen to her?

Knowing that he was deliberately taking his anger out on her, Madam Yang could only force herself to hold back her tears and endure the pain.

"Get up! Stand up!" Seeing Yang lying on the ground with tears in her eyes, Li Yuanji ordered without any mercy.

Faced with Li Yuanji's rage, Yang dared not disobey him, but she tried to get up from the ground several times without success.

"Ah!" A scream rang out.

Suddenly, in a fit of rage, Li Yuanji grabbed Yang's hair and lifted her up from the ground.

Yang cried out in pain and raised her hand to try to free her hair from Li Yuanji's grasp, but he punched her in the abdomen.

Clutching her lower abdomen, squatting on the ground, Yang wished she could kill her so-called husband, this demon who kept tormenting her, on the spot.

However, her strength was far too weak for Li Yuanji, so she could only curl up to avoid being punched by him again.

"Get up! I'll fucking make you stand up!" Li Yuanji, not satisfied with just one punch, ordered again.

"No, no! My husband, I beg you..."

Before Yang could finish pleading for mercy, Li Yuanji kicked her to the ground again.

"Useless! You members of the Yang family are all a bunch of useless trash!"

Li Yuanji became more and more excited as he spoke, kicking Yang's slender body again and again, causing her to scream in pain.

After kicking for a while, Li Yuanji seemed a little tired, so he sat back down in his chair, panting.

"Tell me! You shameless woman, have you been secretly in love with Li Erfang for a long time?" After a long pause, Li Yuanji finally uttered these words.

Upon hearing this, Yang, who was huddled on the ground trembling, was stunned for a moment.

Indeed, it was true. Long before she got married, she had heard that the second son of the Li family was both a scholar and a warrior, and that he had saved the emperor at Yanmen Pass at the young age of sixteen.

So, at that time, she, just beginning to experience love, fell in love with this almost perfect young man. Later, she happened to see his true face at the emperor's banquet, which made her even more certain of her feelings.

However, she later heard that the young man already had a family, and that she herself had been betrothed by her imperial uncle that very day, so she gave up on the idea.

Thinking of this, she hurriedly shook her head. If she admitted to this, she would only face even more cruel humiliation.

However, she did not expect that Li Yuanji was staring intently at her at that moment, and her husband had seen her in that moment of stunned silence.

"Good! I guessed right!" Li Yuanji's eyes gradually turned cold.

Immediately afterwards, he rushed up to Yang and started punching and kicking her.

"You wretched servant! Today I will torture you to death!"

While cursing and kicking, Li Yuanji still felt that this was not enough.

So he walked to the door, kicked it open, and the room was instantly brightened.

He slowly walked to Yang's side, bent down and grabbed her messy hair, dragging her to the low couch.

"No! No!"

Sobbing uncontrollably, Yang ignored the pain emanating from the roots of her hair and begged for mercy in terror.

Because she knew that the torment that followed would be a hundred times worse than the humiliation she had suffered before.

But her pleas for mercy sounded more like an insult to Li Yuanji, and the next moment, he heard the sound of fabric being torn.

Looking at the large expanse of Yang's exposed skin, Li Yuanji laughed maniacally, "You wretched servant! Don't you like to scream? Today I'll let you scream nonstop."

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For two consecutive hours, the doors to Li Yuanji's bedchamber remained wide open, and from inside, the groans and wails of a woman could be heard from time to time.

The maids who originally served Li Yuanji never set foot here again after hearing these sounds.

The servants passing by the gate seemed to be used to this scene, so after stealing a few glances, they didn't dare to linger and hurriedly left.

As dusk fell, the faint wails were gradually drowned out by the chirping of insects and birds.

After a while, the door to the sleeping quarters was suddenly slammed shut.

The battered and bruised Yang was thrown out by Li Yuanji in a disheveled state, along with her tattered clothes that he had torn to shreds...

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