I insist

Chapter 218: Whipping

He could tell from the beginning that Song Miqiu was incredibly annoying, constantly complaining about this and that.

Before Song Miqiu could say anything more, several constables led him out of the cell and into the interrogation room.

Upon arriving at the interrogation room, Song Miqiu was thrown heavily to the ground before she could even react. This had been happening all day, and she was clearly used to it.

She braced herself on the ground with both hands, took a deep breath, and tried to get up, but was kicked back to the ground.

Song Miqiu grunted. She turned to look at the person standing next to her, glaring at him coldly. She wanted to see what he was up to!

"Oh, looks like you're not convinced."

Xue Man appeared in the interrogation room. He strode up to Song Miqiu, quickly squatted down, lifted Song Miqiu's chin with one hand, looked at the area around her face, and then disdainfully turned Song Miqiu's face to the side.

Seeing Song Miqiu's defiant expression, Xue Man got angry. He stood up and, taking advantage of Song Miqiu's current status as a prisoner, kicked her hard in the stomach.

Song Miqiu bit her lip hard. She felt a faint pain in the part of her leg that Xue Man had kicked, but she didn't say anything.

After kicking him a few times, Xue Man lost interest in continuing. He thought for a moment, then his gaze fell on the instruments of torture to the side. Suddenly, he saw a whip, and his eyes lit up instantly.

Song Miqiu's delicate lips parted slightly. She took a breath and slowly raised her eyes to look in the direction Xue Man had walked. It turned out to be a place filled with torture instruments!

Thinking of the expression she might experience later, Song Miqiu immediately began to struggle.

She knew that Ming Taicheng, Yu Huailin, and the others would come to her rescue once they knew she was in trouble, but she didn't want to leave with all her injuries, so that she wouldn't be able to settle scores with Lin Yecheng!

Upon seeing this, several constables immediately pinned Song Miqiu to the ground, with two of them pressing down on his arms to prevent him from moving.

"Let go!" Song Miqiu struggled violently, completely ignoring the dust that covered her face on the ground.

She didn't want to experience the feeling of being whipped hard, as she imagined it would be extremely painful!

"You can't torture me at will! I haven't harmed the Empress Dowager, and you can't use torture on me before the matter is investigated!" Song Miqiu shouted at the top of his lungs.

But Xue Man completely ignored what she said.

Xue Man took the whip in his hand and lashed it hard, feeling the pleasure of the whip in his hand. He smiled and lowered his eyes to look at Song Miqiu, who was being held down on the ground in a sorry state. He pulled on the whip and said with amusement.

“The orders have already been given. You are deliberately trying to harm the Empress Dowager. No one will help you find out the truth!” Xue Man paused, then said with a laugh, “Even if someone wants to rescue you, that’s a matter for later.”

Song Miqiu finally understood what Xue Man meant. Regardless of whether anyone rescued her or not, she was destined to suffer Xue Man's whip.

What surprised her most was Xue Man's words. She never expected that someone would want to harm her. Song Miqiu was stunned. Apart from Lin Yecheng, who else could she have a grudge against in this palace?

Song Miqiu did not implicate Lin Yecheng in this order. In Song Miqiu's eyes, Lin Yecheng was already the head of the academy. Even if his sister was the favored Consort Lin, he did not have such great abilities. It must be someone else.

Before Song Miqiu could figure it out, she saw Xue Man raise his whip and lash her body hard. Song Miqiu cried out in pain, trying to dodge Xue Man's attack, but to no avail.

Left with no other choice, Song Miqiu had to turn her head to avoid the whip striking her face. Whether it would disfigure her was another matter, but if it knocked off the human skin mask on her face, that would be terrible.

She figured Xue Man would definitely spread the word, and they would definitely hold a grudge, especially Lin Yecheng, who would definitely use it to make a fuss.

She will definitely not be able to survive in this palace then.

When the whip struck her, it kicked up a layer of dust. Song Miqiu could feel a dense, tingling pain where Xue Man's whip had hit her.

She gritted her teeth, feeling the skin and flesh there tear open.

Song Miqiu bit her lower lip hard, a huge pain sweeping through her brain. Tears welled up in her eyes, and she almost cried out in pain.

She sniffed and instinctively curled up.

Xue Man wasn't going to stop there. He continued to whip Song Miqiu, and seeing her pained expression and disheveled hair, Xue Man's eyes were filled with excitement.

He laughed as he watched Song Miqiu's miserable state, and said with amusement, "Don't hold it in! You're in pain and you're not even making a sound?"

Xue Man paused what he was doing, walked up to Song Miqiu, and kicked Song Miqiu's body.

Whether Xue Man did it on purpose or not, the place he kicked was exactly where Xue Man had lashed out with his whip earlier, and the kick made Song Miqiu gasp.

She cried out in pain instinctively.

As soon as Xue Man attacked him, the two constables who were holding him down were afraid that they would be accidentally injured. They quickly released their hands that were restraining Song Miqiu, stood up and walked to the side, coldly watching Song Miqiu being beaten and rolling on the ground.

Song Miqiu wanted to reach out and touch the wound, her left hand trembling slightly, but just as she was about to touch it, Xue Man stepped on her hand forcefully.

She could no longer hold back and cried out in pain. Song Miqiu's face was extremely pale, and her lips were almost bloodless. Her forehead was covered in cold sweat, and her hair was sticky with the sweat.

When Xue Man kicked at her again, Song Miqiu instinctively pushed the foot away with her hand to prevent Xue Man from kicking her in the same painful spot again.

Xue Man was infuriated by Song Miqiu's attitude. "Damn it, you still dare to block me? Don't you know who you are now!"

Too lazy to slowly torture Song Miqiu, Xue Man picked up the whip next to him again, pointed it at Song Miqiu, and made as if to continue to swing it.

"Alright, stop fighting! If you keep going, someone will really die!"

"What's it to you! So what if someone dies? It's just a worthless life. Which of those big shots cares about Song Miqiu?" Xue Man said irritably, pushing the other person away.

Hearing the other person's words of dissuasion, Song Miqiu tried her best to open her eyes to see who had helped her, but her eyelids were too heavy and she couldn't see who it was at all. Song Miqiu lay there weakly, panting, and soon fainted.

When Song Miqiu woke up again, she looked around in confusion and found herself back in that dirty and chaotic prison cell.