The Useless Miracle Doctor Consort Is Spoiled Rotten by the Prince!

Chapter 1336: Chapter 1331: Chen Ruobai’s Extreme

Many men did nothing wrong yet it was as if they had, arbitrarily dying, becoming slaves, becoming puppets, becoming playthings by Chen Ruobai’s side.

Ye Qingru, upon hearing this, couldn’t help but clench his fists tightly, “Despicable! What virtues or abilities does Chen Ruobai possess to treat soldiers and citizens so cruelly, it’s simply beastly!”

Some men, agreeing with Ye Qingru, said, “She is indeed a beast! Even worse than a beast!”

But Chu Yihan furrowed his brow in deep thought, and only asked them one question, “How does Chen Ruobai treat the women in the city? Based on what you say, those female officials, female generals, even ordinary household women, how do they live in Qiongzhou City?”

“Women…”

When women were mentioned, the man who had lost both arms reacted most violently, involuntarily curling up into a ball, rolling on the ground, not daring to directly answer Chu Yihan’s question.

Chu Yihan slightly frowned, instructing Ye Qingru to pull him up, and it took Ye Qingru a good while to calm him before he could raise his head.

He didn’t know how to express to Chu Yihan the status of all the women in the city, he could only say, “I too have a wife, but these hands of mine were chopped off by her. We were once loving husband and wife, she was a gentle wife, but later… it was as if she was poisoned. I was injured and returned home, she struck me, I defended myself, and she called the female officials, who crippled me! And… turned me into what I am now.”

He feared women upon seeing them, and hated even more so Chen Ruobai who had changed the women.

The other three men also had varied stances regarding women.

There seemed to be resentment, regret, and mostly an indescribable complexity.

Su Yingxue and Lin Sisi were accompanying an old woman behind a screen. A screen, although separating them from the men outside, made the conversation perfectly clear to them.

Su Yingxue and Lin Sisi, after hearing the experience of the man who lost both arms, also felt a weight in their hearts.

But as Su Yingxue looked at the old woman, on her aged, wrinkled face was more numbness and a confusing mix of sadness and relief.

What did she really…

…feel?

She was a woman, Su Yingxue thought, only she knew best the current state of women in Qiongzhou City, right?

She asked, “Old lady, do you know what the women in Qiongzhou City are like now?”

“Women… Heh.” The old woman chuckled softly.

This deep, raspy chuckle seemed to come from a distant place, filled with the vicissitudes of life, as if an ancient bell was ringing in your ears.

“I only remember, before that princess entered Qiongzhou City, we women followed the three obediences and four virtues, seeing our husband as our guide, supporting our husband and educating our children, living this way our whole lives, whether in hardship or comfort, we only followed this way, but after that princess arrived…”

It seemed due to her age, her speech slowed when reminiscing.

“After the princess arrived, many women changed: official wives in the court began to wield weapons, entered the royal court, and took on the tasks that men used to do. Miss Xin Yi became a female general, and Princess Ruobai became the empress of Qiongzhou. Even ordinary women and young wives found themselves with opportunities they never had before, like teaching, conducting business, and practicing medicine as female doctors. Women previously staying home took over family businesses that their husbands had squandered on food, drink, and prostitutes. However, instead of visiting female prostitutes, they sought male ones. The entire world seemed to have turned upside down—all of this was unprecedented!”

Now, even recalling it made the old woman’s heart race.

She was no longer a young woman or a vigorous matron; she had aged, having lived for decades in the old Qiongzhou City. She could not adapt to such a life, nor dare to imagine the days after such upheaval.

It was during the escape that she was kidnapped along with others.

If she hadn’t been kidnapped, according to the princess’s orders, she would have been well taken care of—elderly women in Qiongzhou City also had men serving them, taking care of their food and clothing, requiring no labor from them.

If they found the service of these men unsatisfactory, they could beat them, deny them food, making them endure hunger and suffer pain.

Life for the old woman wasn’t bad.

“It’s just that, at night, I always dream of my old man and my son… They have turned into witchcraft zombies. They won’t harm me, but when I call them, they don’t answer!” Tears filled the old woman’s eyes as she asked Su Yingxue, “Miss, do you think my husband and son can come back? Can my son still call me ‘mother’?”

These last two questions revealed the depth of the old woman’s sorrow and weighed heavily on Su Yingxue and Lin Sisi’s hearts.

They couldn’t fully blame Chen Ruobai’s cruel madness, nor could they restore to the old woman her husband and son.

They were certainly dead.

And as witchcraft zombies, they only decayed and stank, their deaths undignified; their bodies drained dry for use.

This was an outcome the old woman utterly couldn’t accept.

They sent the old woman away from the military camp. By then, Chu Yihan had finished processing the accounts described by several men. When Su Yingxue and Lin Sisi returned, Lin Sisi wanted to lash out at Chen Ruobai but didn’t even know where to start. “How heartless could this woman be? Are only women valuable in her eyes, and men not human? How deep must her hatred be?”

Su Yingxue took the paperwork Chu Yihan had organized and reviewed it meticulously before concluding, “Chen Ruobai must have been severely hurt by men before, despising them and all men around the world, killing, fooling, and torturing them to vent her anger. As for women… she empathizes with them, thus treats them well; even ordinary old women are well provided for, which shows her compassionate heart toward women.”

“Are the men of Qiongzhou City not human then? Empress, have you heard? The witchcraft zombies made by Chen Ruobai were all men; she even killed men alive to turn them into zombies and then treated them as…”

As Ye Qingru spoke, he felt such identities were unbearable to declare.

This was a great insult to any honorable man!

If he were enslaved by Chen Ruobai, he would certainly leap from a cliff to commit suicide, never allowing a woman to humiliate him like that!

“She was hurt by men, learned modern knowledge, mastered the art of witchcraft, and adopted extremist views. Thus, she aimed to overturn the entire world, ensure women’s victory over men after the opposition, and dominate everything.”

Chu Yihan’s calm, indifferent voice sounded, offering a more thorough perspective than their one-sided observations.