Scumbag Chapter 155 The Reformed White-Eyed Wolf General (21)

Amidst the harmonious family scene, Jin Yuping stood there like an outsider, feeling like a pitiful clown. Especially with Mingting repeated

Amidst the harmonious family scene, Jin Yuping stood there like an outsider, feeling like a pitiful clown.

Especially with Mingting repeatedly calling her a ‘jinx’, Jin Yuping was on the verge of tears.

‘This wasn’t how things were supposed to go!’ Jin Yuping wanted to retreat.

But when she thought of Mingting's prayer beads, Jin Yuping suddenly came to her senses and her resolve hardened.

‘I couldn't just give up like this. I hadn't got the Spiritual Spring Space yet!’

"My Lord…" Jin Yuping humbly apologized for falsely claiming a connection with him.

"I was mistaken. With my parents and in-laws gone, and my husband exiled, I was desperate and thought this might work. I assumed that given our past acquaintance, a great man like you might lend a helping hand."

As Jin Yuping spoke, Mingting nodded along. And when she finished speaking, he said:

"Since you know you are wrong, why haven’t you slapped yourself yet?"

‘Slap myself?!’

Jin Yuping nearly cursed out loud.

‘Does this man have no sense of chivalry or tenderness at all?’

"Well? Are you doing it or not?" Mingting frowned, looking impatient, "You keep saying you’re wrong, but you are unwilling to slap yourself in the face. Clearly, your apology is fake. Guards…"

"I’ll do it, I’ll do it..." Jin Yuping slapped herself several times across the face.

‘Humiliation! This is utter disgrace!’

Rage burned in her heart. Jin Yuping would remember this shame and repay it tenfold in the future!

"My lord, considering I once gave you two steamed buns and saved your life, please be merciful and forgive me!"

‘She is indeed a Female Lead who ‘bear humiliation for a greater cause’!’ Mingting muttered to Fengtian.

‘With such a good judgement of the situation and the ability to bend and stretch, it is no wonder that the original owner was fooled. He was no match for her.’

"Forgive you? You falsely claimed ties to me, slandered me, and made Huiniang doubt me. You think a few slaps are enough to make up for that? Do you take me for some clay Buddha you can mold as you please?"

"Old Wu!"

Mingting called out.

"Throw this woman into the mining area, find her husband, break one of his legs, and tell him to discipline his woman properly. If he can’t control his wife, next time I’ll break the other leg!"

"Yes, sir!"

Old Wu is Mingting's close follower and loyal only to him.

Just as he seized Jin Yuping, Mingting tossed a string of prayer beads at her.

"Tell someone to keep an eye on her. She’s to kneel and chant sutras for forty-nine days to bless Huiniang and our child. If she ever looks at Huiniang the wrong way again, I’ll gouge her eyes out!"

‘The prayer beads!’

Jin Yuping was very surprised when she took the prayer beads tossed by Mingting.

These beads looked strikingly similar to the ones she had obtained in her past life, some were even identical.

‘Could it be that the prayer beads I got at that time are actually here?’

After getting what she wanted most, Jin Yuping didn’t care about anything else. She hurriedly thanked Mingting, even promising to chant the sutras diligently, her attitude suddenly submissive.

But despite her compliance, Old Wu still followed Mingting’s orders precisely. After reaching the mining area, he found Shi Jing, and broke his leg.

Old Wu even loyally relayed Mingting’s words verbatim to Shi Jing, calling Jin Yuping a jinx who brought misfortune.

"The Count said, if you can’t keep your family’s jinx under control and let her run around, dirtying Madam’s eyes, then don’t expect to keep your other leg either."

Afterward, Old Wu conveyed Mingting’s instructions to the overseer in charge of the prisoners.

The overseer nodded repeatedly, "Understood! I’ll make sure she kneels and chants for a full forty-nine days!"

Shi Jing lay on the ground, clutching his broken leg and howling in pain, his bloodshot eyes glaring at Old Wu with hatred.

But Old Wu was a hardened soldier, and only Mingting could keep him in line. Seeing such resentment in Shi Jing’s gaze, he gave him another beating.

"Don’t think I won’t kill you. If you piss off your Grandfather Wu, I’ll send you straight to the underworld today!"

"My Lord, My Lord, please spare him!" Jin Yuping hurriedly begged, "I’ll apologize on his behalf…"

After Old Wu left, Jin Yuping and Xiao Huan spent a lot of effort to get Shi Jing to the bed.

Seeing him drenched in cold sweat from the pain, Jin Yuping hurriedly took out the prayer beads.

‘One of these must contain the Spiritual Spring! As long as I find them, my husband's injury can be cured!’

But when Shi Jing saw this, he angrily snatched the prayer beads from her.

"I'm already in this state, and you still want to chant sutras and pray for someone else? You claim you did all this for me, but I think you just want to climb up the social ladder after seeing that horse slave become so successful!"

Shi Jing, who was extremely angry, yanked the string apart, sending the beads scattering across the floor.

"Shi Jing, have you lost your mind?" Jin Yuping hurriedly knelt on the ground to pick up the beads.

The room was dimly lit, and the damp, muddy ground clung to her knees and wrists, leaving them filthy and sticky.

But Jin Yuping paid no mind to the grime, picking up the beads one by one.

On the way here, she had counted them, and there were 108 beads in total.

However, after searching for a long time, five were still missing.

Seeing her like this, Shi Jing became even more angry. Meanwhile, Xiao Huan found a prisoner with some medical knowledge to tend to his broken leg with herbs and bandages.

Throughout this, Jin Yuping was only concerned with finding the beads. Shi Jing was heartbroken by his wife's indifference.

Thinking of what Old Wu said just now, that this woman was a jinx, and would only bring bad luck to her parents, her parents-in-law, and her husband, Shi Jing began to believe it.

‘Hadn’t the Shi Family’s decline started precisely after I married her?’

Jin Yuping ignored Shi Jing’s curses entirely, treating them as background noise.

After much effort, she found four more beads, but she couldn't find the last bead no matter what,

So Jin Yuping simply gave up.

‘Maybe the missing bead wasn’t the one with the Spiritual Spring!’ She comforted herself, deciding to test the others first.

Gritting her teeth, Jin Yuping bit her finger and let a drop of blood fall onto one of the beads.

‘Spiritual Spring Space! Please let it be the Spiritual Spring Space!

She prayed fervently.

But in the end, nothing happened.

With so many beads, Jin Yuping didn't expect to find the Spiritual Spring Space immediately, as the odds were too low.

She squeezed blood from her fingertip and tested each bead one by one.

Every time she squeezed a drop of blood, she couldn't help but wince in pain.

Once her left index finger could no longer bleed and became too painful, Jin Yuping would bite her left middle finger.

To avoid missing anything, she even made sure each drop was a full, round bead of blood.