Chapter 243: Two hundred and forty-two, strange power
Zhou Xiaoqi opened the porcelain bottle, and a fragrance of medicine immediately hit her nose. She looked inside the bottle and saw a small black pill.
Xiaoqi poured the pill from the bottle into her hand, examining it, "This must be medicine, otherwise it wouldn’t smell like this. Could this not be a prank, but someone trying to help me?"
"What are you doing?" A voice tinged with sleepiness but chilling to the bone echoed in the room.
"No...nothing..." Zhou Xiaoqi quickly popped the pill into her mouth, hurrying to stuff the letter in her hand into her pajama pocket. She absolutely couldn’t let Jason see this letter, or she would definitely be beaten again.
"What are you hiding? Show me!" Jason coldly stared at Zhou Xiaoqi, his eyes in the darkness like a wolf on the prowl, an eerie green that sent shivers down one’s spine.
Xiaoqi’s body started to tremble uncontrollably as she stammered, "I...I just found a wooden box at the doorway..."
Jason’s expression turned even colder, a mocking sneer in his icy eyes, "How come I didn’t find it? It must be from some other man who gave it to you, get over here!"
Where could Xiaoqi dare to resist? She stood up and slowly walked towards Jason. She knew she was inevitably going to be hit once more. She was frightened, but she was utterly incapable of fighting back. How could such days have an end? She truly wished to die, to be free from it all; however, Jason had threatened her if she dared to die, then right after her death, her family would follow her into death.
She regretted so much that she hadn’t listened to her family and had rashly married Jason. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have ended up in such a dire situation.
Seeing Zhou Xiaoqi moving slowly, Jason flipped out of bed and as he reached out to slap her,