She suddenly pleaded, "Please, spare my daughter. She knows nothing; she's just an ordinary girl!"
She and Rong Ye had been tortured for sixteen years and had never begged their tormentors, but for her daughter's sake, she was pleading with them for the first time.
"Hehe, you finally admit you have a daughter? An ordinary girl?" The man laughed sinisterly, like a chilling wind that was icy and piercing. "Do you think the inheritor of the Xiao Family could really be ordinary?"
Panic swept over the woman's face, and her heart was struck with fear. She herself was born into the Xiao Family, whose destined heir possessed extremely special abilities. Otherwise, how could they protect the Xiao Family?
In the darkness, the clanking of chains suddenly echoed, followed by the sound of the woman kneeling on the ground, "Even if she has certain abilities, she's still just a plain child, not yet eighteen years old. She knows nothing—I beg you, spare her!"
