Duke Jing's younger sister

Shen Li's lips were pale, and she looked up at Shen Beiqi.

She always remembered his pair of bright and beautiful peach blossom eyes when they first met, which were as bright as the vast stars and as deep as the ripples in a pool of spring water.

When he smiled, it was as if peach blossoms all over the mountain were in full bloom. At a glance, the sea of ​​flowers formed a gorgeous painting, which seemed to have some kind of magic that made people want to fall into it involuntarily.

Three years ago, Duke Shen died in battle in the Northern Territory. Shen Beiqi inherited his father's business and took over the security of the Northern Territory.

From then on, his sparkling eyes gradually became calm and restrained. I don't know if it was due to his age or he learned to restrain his emotions, but in short, he no longer showed his sadness or joy in front of others.

However, when he looked at her at this moment, his eyes were filled with uncontrollable anger.

Ziyuan and Xingping are now bound to be tortured. Who knows, those maids in the torture room who flatter the powerful and bully the weak might kill them.

As for herself, if she doesn't give an explanation to Yang, she's afraid that she won't be able to let it go easily. She won't even be able to get past Shen Beiqi.

Only he could save them all. This matter could no longer be hidden, at least, it could no longer be hidden from him.

"Brother, this child..." Shen Li spoke with difficulty under his gaze, "It's yours."

Shen Beiqi was stunned, as if his whole body was frozen, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time. Obviously, he didn't expect to get such an outrageous answer.

"……What did you say?"

Shen Li bit her lower lip lightly, "It was that day... you had just returned triumphantly, and I went to Cuibai Courtyard to look for you. I wanted to ask you if my father and brother had any letters for me, but you dragged me to the study..."

The place where the Jiang family was exiled was Liangzhou in the far north. Liangzhou was a must-pass place when returning to Jiangdu City from the northern border.

In the past, every time Shen Beiqi returned to Jiangdu, he would bring a letter back to Shen Li.

That's why she was so eager to find him that night.

But he got drunk at the celebration party...

She looked embarrassed and could not continue.

A scene flashed through his mind, and Shen Beiqi looked at her in disbelief, "...That night, it was you?"

Shen Beiqi finally resolved the predicament of the northern border being surrounded by the two countries for many years and returned triumphantly. In the afternoon of that day, he rode a fast horse back to Jiangdu City, which he had not been to for a year.

After returning to the city, he first went to the palace to report to Emperor Hongyang, the ruler of Southern Wu. His Majesty specially set up a celebration banquet to welcome him.

As the host of the celebration banquet, he was persuaded to drink a lot of wine, and he didn't know when he drank the wine mixed with aphrodisiac.

When he felt a slight fever all over and realized that something was wrong, he hurriedly said goodbye to His Majesty, rushed home and locked himself in the study.

When the drug took effect, he felt dizzy and as if he was thrown into a furnace, being roasted by flames. The bone-eating heat radiated from the inside out and almost swallowed him alive.

While his consciousness was blurred, he vaguely heard someone knocking on the door outside the house, and a woman's clear and gentle voice came from outside the door.

He didn't care about anything else. His only thought was to put out the fire on his body, so he pulled the woman outside the door into the house.

He didn't even see the appearance of the woman in his arms. He only remembered her soft body, which was as smooth as cream to the touch, and her low sobs when she couldn't bear his repeated demands.

When he woke up the next day, he saw Fanghua kneeling outside the house with tears on her face. He naturally thought that the woman that night was a maid who cleaned the yard in his yard.

But it turned out to be Shen Li?

No wonder...

No wonder she had been avoiding him every day for the past month. Whenever he came to see her, she would make excuses that she was not feeling well and was unwilling to see him.

When Shen Beiqi realized what absurd thing he had done, he slapped himself with all his strength.

"Brother," Shen Li hurriedly stopped him, "Brother had no choice. If it weren't for the accidental birth of this child, I would have treated this incident as if it had never happened."

"...I promised Brother Jiang that I would protect you, but I did such a despicable thing and ruined your innocence! And let you..."

Shen Beiqi couldn't say any more, endless self-blame overwhelmed him like a tide. He had always been calm and composed, but now he was in a state of panic.

If it was someone else, he could just take her as a maid, or at worst a concubine, but this person happened to be his stepsister, the sister of his best friend!

He was entrusted with a task and should have been loyal to the person who entrusted him with the task, but he ended up making her pregnant. How important is a woman's chastity?

There was a twitch in the lower abdomen, and a dull pain came over her. Shen Li's face turned paler.

"Brother, you must promise me that you will keep this a secret. It's enough for you to know the truth, but you must not tell mother. Also, my two personal maids are being punished in the torture chamber. Please send someone to rescue them..."

"No, since this has already happened, I will be responsible for you. Don't worry, I will marry you."

She shook her head, "Brother, you and the Shen family have done me a favor. I don't want you to be in a dilemma, nor do I want the Shen family to be disgraced because of me!"

The pain gradually intensified, she held her abdomen in agony, and her thin body curled up into a ball.

"Ari, what's wrong with you?"

Shen Beiqi looked down and saw that the hem of her light apricot skirt was stained red with blood. Her face was pale and almost livid. Finally, she could no longer hold on and fainted in his arms.

His face showed panic, and he immediately picked up the unconscious Shen Li.

Shen Li's Qinghui Courtyard is the farthest from the ancestral hall, while Shen Beiqi's Cuibai Hall is just a moment away.

While Shen Beiqi ordered his personal bodyguard Yue Yang to call the palace doctor, he hurriedly carried her back to his room.

Yue Yang ran in quickly, pulling Doctor Jiang with him. Doctor Jiang straightened his clothes and was about to salute Shen Beiqi, but was interrupted by Shen Beiqi, who asked him to save the patient immediately.

When Doctor Jiang saw Shen Li was covered in blood, he guessed something in his mind. After checking her pulse, he confirmed his idea.

"Does the Duke know that the third young lady is pregnant?"

Shen Beiqi's face was gloomy, "I know."

"This child cannot be saved." Doctor Jiang said calmly, as if he was talking about a commonplace matter.

For Miss Yu San, it would be best if she could not keep the child.

Even if the baby is saved, it will still require a bowl of abortion pills to induce miscarriage. It is better not to save the baby at all so that you can drink less cold medicine and hurt your body less.

"Can't save it?"

Shen Beiqi repeated softly, and then continued, "Give her the best medicinal herbs. Make sure she gets well and doesn't have any root of disease left!"

"Yes, Lord Guo."

Doctor Jiang left Cuibai Hall, leaving only Shen Beiqi and Shen Li, who was still unconscious on the bed, in the room.

She had an injury on her back and could only lie on her side. Perhaps because the pain had not yet subsided, her brows were still tightly furrowed even in her sleep.

Shen Beiqi sat on the round stool in front of the bed, his back slightly bent, his palms spread out on his forehead, his chaotic emotions were like wind-swept waves, and it took a long time to calm down.

The mistake has been made, and no matter how sincere your apology is, it is just lip service.

He secretly made up his mind to compensate her double in the future, love her, protect her well for the rest of her life, and do his best to help her live a smooth life.

“Yueyang.”

Yue Yang came in from outside, "Yes, what can I do for you?"

Shen Beiqi sat up straight, a cold light flashed in his peach blossom eyes, "Go, drag Fanghua out and beat her to death with sticks."

Yue Yang was slightly surprised, and said with a cupped hand, "Yes, I will do it right away."

"Also, go to the torture chamber and bring out A-Li's two maids."

"Yes!"

As the night deepened, candlelight flickered on the arched lampstand.

Shen Beiqi stayed by Shen Li's side all the time. The flickering candlelight sprinkled on Shen Li's haggard face, slightly concealing her pale complexion.

Shen Beiqi still remembers that when he first met her, she was only eight years old.

Perhaps she had suffered a lot on the way from Changzhou to Jiangdu City, her hair was messy and her clothes were torn.

When they were in Yuanshan Academy, he and Jiang Cheng were best friends. When Jiang Cheng met with misfortune and asked him to take care of his orphaned sister, he naturally felt obliged to do so.

He squatted down and looked at her. She had thin cheeks and a pair of bright eyes, as clear and bright as a deer in the forest.

Shen Beiqi's sister, Shen Zhiyan, is the same age as her. At that time, he made up his mind to treat Shen Li as his own sister and take care of her as he did Shen Zhiyan.

But now, what on earth has he done!