Tang Moyu found herself in her bathroom, placing her sister in her massive bathtub. Her sister wasn't strong enough to clean herself on her own and the empress refused to let the maids see her under this delicate condition, no matter if she trusted them or not.

  The empress gritted her teeth as she scrubbed the dirt and sweat on her sister's body after shampooing Tang Wanyu's long hair. Tang Wanyu's body was filled with dark bruises and wounds. Some were healing, but the empress could still see how bad it had been.

  She'd never seen her sister like this. Although she and Tang Wanyu barely talked to each other, this wasn't the kind of reunion she was expecting to see upon meeting her sister again.

  She had left Tang Wanyu for a moment to get new towels and bathrobes and came back to see her sister scrubbing her skin too hard, hyperventilating, muttering 'sorry' over and over again.

  "Wan Jie! Stop! You are rubbing yourself raw!" Tang Moyu snatched the body sponge from her sister and wrapped her arms around her shoulder. Her face filled with utter panic as she saw what her sister was doing.

  "I'm sorry. I'm really sorry." Tang Wanyu kept on apologizing to something, someone. Tang Moyu deduced that this was reflective because she looked like she was losing her mind at the moment.

  Tang Wanyu gave her a shameful look and lowered her head, allowing her little sister to help her get out of the tub and wrapped her petite body with a bathrobe. Compared to the empress's height, Tang Wanyu was at least five inches shorter than her younger sister as they stood next to each other.

  "Don't apologize, Wan Jie. You've done nothing wrong to me." Tang Moyu led her sister back to her bedroom, helping Tang Wanyu get dressed before they went down to the sitting area where Feng Tianyi was waiting.

  Tang Moyu thanked him for the first aid kit he passed over to her and started treating her sister's cut and wounds.

  "Wan Jie, you have to tell me who did this to you. How am I supposed to help you if you don't tell me what happened to you?" She told Tang Wanyu who still refused to meet her gaze, her eyes on her fiddling hands.

  Just what kind of nightmare did her sister suffer to end up like this?

  "Moyu, I better go and see Baobao and Little Star. I'm sure your sister needs privacy to talk to you. I'll send Auntie Lu here just in case you need help." The devil said before wheeling out of the main house, heading back to his residence.

  "Now, Wan Jie. Please tell me what happened and who did this to you." Tang Moyu asked once more.

  Tang Wanyu lifted her head and looked at her with fearful eyes.

  "Moyu, please don't tell Mom and my husband that I'm here." She clung onto her younger sister's arm helplessly, "Please don't let him take me back."

  Tang Moyu furrowed her brows in confusion. Not understanding why she didn't want to be found by them.

  "What do you mean, Wan Jie?"

  Tang Wanyu lowered her head and started to sob once more.

  "My… my husband, Han Shaohui. He's the one who did this to me." She confessed in between her tears.

  The empress froze in her seat and looked at her sister incredulously. What the hell? She thought. It was Han Shaohui? Why would he abuse his own wife like this? However, before that, there's something else she wanted to confirm.

  "Wan Jie, do you mean to say that Mother is aware of what he was doing to you and turned a blind eye on it?" Her eyes narrowed at the thought that their mother had sold her older sister and refused to help her, knowing how Han Shaohui was treating her.

  Tang Wanyu's eyes that were already bloodshot from crying, stared at Tang Moyu helplessly.

  "Mother… Mother said that I should endure it as his wife. I shouldn't have angered him in the first place. That was what she told me and I called for help." She confessed.

  The empress couldn't stop her rage from going full-blown. Wasn't this exactly what their mother had done to her when she sought Zhang Wuying's help back when Feng Tianhua obliterated her from the business circle? Saying that it was her own fault that the Young Master Feng turned his back on her.

  But damn… for someone like her elder sister, who had remained as a kind and filial daughter to the Tang family, to be treated no better than an animal? What did their mother and Han Shaohui think her sister was?

  Tang Wanyu then narrated how foolish she was to believe that Han Shaohui was a decent husband. She agreed to their mother's request to marry one of the young masters of the Han family to close the deal that the Tangs had with them years ago.

  Then she continued telling Tang Moyu what kind of life she had suffered living with her husband. Tang Moyu was forced to tune out the rest of her sister's words the moment she heard how that bastard assaulted Tang Wanyu.

  The empress never thought that her own mother could go this low, to sell her sister to the Han family and leave her to fend for herself.

  "Moyu… Moyu, please help me. I don't wanna go back there. Please don't let him take me back." Tang Wanyu begged her.