The Ex and Her Riches
Chapter 411

Chapter 411

Evelyn had been beaten with tree branches fifty times, slapped by Nico, locked up in a basement for awhole night, and forced to walk through the mountain for an hour on an empty stomach.

She genuinely thought she would have died long ago, but humans had huge potential for survivingextreme conditions if they had a strong will to live.

With Margaret keeping an eye on her, Evelyn spent the entire morning at the fields digging holes in theground.

Despite her body being pushed to its limits, she somehow managed to pull through without fainting.

When it came time for lunch, Evelyn was so hungry that she wolved down the food and kept stuffingher face like a hungry beast.

Because she had been starved for so long, the plain buns tasted better than any fancy dish she hadever had in the past.

However, Margaret did not allow her to eat too much. She took the dishes away from Evelyn after thethird bun and forced her to go feed the pigs.

Although Evelyn was an illegitimate daughter, Marcus and Asher had always treated her very well, soshe had been living a comfortable life since she was a child. She had never even seen a pig, let aloneenter a pigsty.

She had only just opened the door to the pigsty when the awful stench overwhelmed her.

Not only did she end up puking all the food she ate, but she also suffered from acid reflux as a result.

“What are you doing standing there? We haven’t got all day! You have ten minutes to get this done, oryou won’t be having dinner tonight!” Margaret scolded Evelyn when she saw her still standing outside

the pigsty.

This is only my first day here. If I don’t have dinner, I won’t have the energy to finish reciting theHeagurn Sutra, and I won’t be allowed to sleep until I finish it. As if that’s not bad enough, I have towake up at half past five the next morning! I need to get at least get two to three hours of sleep!

With that in mind, Evelyn held her breath and forcefully suppressed her feelings of disgust as sherushed into the pigsty with the bucket of feedstuff.

She then spent the rest of the afternoon working in the fields. While she was a little slow due to hunger,Evelyn was able to get the job done in time with Margaret yelling at her from the side.

Evelyn breathed a huge sigh of relief and felt glad that she had survived such a grueling day. Little didshe know, the real torment was about to start at nightfall.

It had been less than five minutes since she finished her dinner when William dragged her to thecourtyard and forced her to kneel. Ezra then stood behind her with a whip and a cold look in his eyes.

Each hit tore at her flesh and caused her to tremble all over.

Evelyn kept her teeth tightly clenched and even collapsed quite a few times, but William would yank herupright each time.

Margaret sat on a bench by the door and watch while snacking on some chips.

The sound of the whipping was so terrifying that Margaret, too, began trembling after watching for awhile.

After recalling what Ezra told her that morning, however, Margaret was able to suppress her feelings ofsympathy toward Evelyn.

She then spat at Evelyn and exclaimed with intense disgust, “You know what? You deserve to bepunished like this! Old Mr. Harris is an old man in his seventies! He even has issues with his legs! Howcould you push him down the stairs like that? I can’t believe a young woman like you would dosomething so heartless and cruel!”

Evelyn cried out in pain when the final stroke of the whip landed. She then collapsed to the ground andtrembled all over from the searing pain on her back.

She was fading in and out of consciousness and didn’t even have the strength to argue with Margaret.

However, her torment was far from over.

Ezra then yanked Evelyn back on her knees while William placed a box of Heagurn Sutras in front ofher. The two then took turns watching her recite them all.

Having lost the support of Marcus and Asher, Evelyn was nothing but a weak nineteen year-oldwoman.

All she could do was try to recover her strength as much as possible while harboring a grudge againstthem.

Evelyn picked up the scripture, glanced at the first page, and began reciting it slowly.

The Heagurn Sutra was meant to help cultivate a person’s mind to stay calm, but all Evelyn felt waspain and suffering when she recited it.

The sky soon grew dark, and she had been reciting it on her knees for two hours by then.

Never before had she imagined her punishment to be this torturous.

Her knees felt as though they were being pierced by thousands of needles, her throat felt sore and dry.As if that wasn’t bad enough, they had yet to treat the wounds on her back, so the stinging painintensified over time.

After hanging in there for what seemed like forever, she succumbed to the pain and passed out.

Unfortunately for Evelyn, however, fainting did nothing to help ease her suffering.

Ezra and William were not the kind of men who would go easy on women. They simply woke Evelyn upby splashing cold water on her face and forced her to continue reciting the Heagurn Sutra.

Just like that, she continued reciting it weakly for another half an hour before it began to rain all of asudden.

Evelyn turned around and flashed Ezra a gleeful grin in response.

These books are made of paper! If they get wet in the rain, the text will get all smudgy once the pagesdry up. I won’t be able to recite the Heagurn Sutra anymore if I can’t read the text!

To her surprise, however, Ezra simply moved the paperback copies away and revealed the ones thatwere made out of wooden strips underneath them.

As it turned out, Gwendolyn had predicted that it would rain and prepared those beforehand.

The words were carved onto the wooden strips before the inking process was carried out, so the rainwould not affect the words at all.

“Gwendolyn, you sly b*tch! I can’t believe you thought this far!” Evelyn mumbled with a wry smile asshe stared at the wooden strips laid out before her while kneeling in the cold rain.

Displeased that Evelyn was still insulting Gwendolyn in her current situation, Ezra reminded her with asarcastic chuckle, “You should just hurry up and get on with it. You won’t get any sleep tonight if youwaste any more time.”

As life in the countryside began very early each day, the people there would often go to bed early aswell. Margaret, too, went to sleep as soon as she was done taking care of her husband.

The occasional sound of dogs barking, the splatter of rain on the roof tiles, and Evelyn reciting theHeagurn Sutra in a hoarse voice blended surprisingly well together.

Ezra simply stood there with an umbrella and watched over Evelyn in silence.

As the rain grew heavier, the icy-cold winds sent shivers down Evelyn’s spine.

It was also raining in Salinsburgh.

Gwendolyn had just finished taking a shower and was sitting on the bed while applying a lotion thatwas specifically designed for pregnant women.

Cedrick sat down behind her and helped massage her neck and shoulders as he said, “Hey, Gwenny, Iheard your eldest brother—”

Gwendolyn froze the moment she heard him say that.

Realizing that he had said something he shouldn’t have, Cedrick quickly rephrased his sentence. “Iheard that Asher didn’t sign the inheritance documents. Jared went to see him at the Harris residencetoday, but he left the house really quickly.”

“So what? He has always wanted the inheritance, so it’s only a matter of time before he signs thedocuments. He’s probably just putting up an act to show me that he feels guilty or something,”Gwendolyn replied with an emotionless look on her face.

Cedrick said nothing further after hearing that and continued massaging her shoulders with the idealamount of force.

The atmosphere in the room went back to normal shortly after, forming a huge contrast with thefreezing rain outside.

The two of them were about to go to sleep when Elven knocked on the door.

“Ms. Harris, Mr. Asher is here! He’s standing outside the front door without an umbrella and refuses toleave no matter what! Would you like to go have a look?”