The Ex and Her Riches novel (Gwendolyn and Maverick)

Evelyn had been beaten with tree branches fifty times, slapped by Nico, locked up in a basement for a whole 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 surviving extreme 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 the ground.

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 stuffing her face like a hungry beast.

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

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

Although Evelyn was an illegitimate daughter, Marcus and Asher had always treated her very well, so she had been living a comfortable life since she was a child. She had never even seen a pig, let alone enter 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, or you 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 the Heagurn Sutra, and I won’t be allowed to sleep until I finish it. As if that’s not bad enough, I have to wake 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 she rushed 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 did she know, the real torment was about to start at nightfall.

less than five minutes since she finished her dinner when William dragged her to the courtyard and forced her to kneel. Ezra then stood

hit tore at her flesh and caused her

teeth tightly clenched and even collapsed quite a few times, but William would

on a bench by the door and watch while

that Margaret, too,

told her that morning, however, Margaret was able to suppress her

in his seventies! He even has issues with

whip landed. She then

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

her torment was

knees while William placed a box of Heagurn Sutras in front of her. The two then took turns watching her recite them

Asher, Evelyn was nothing but a weak nineteen year-old

she could do was try to recover her strength as much as possible

at the first page, and began reciting

to help cultivate a person’s mind to stay calm, but

sky soon grew dark, and she had been reciting it on her knees for

imagined her punishment to

throat felt sore and dry. As if that wasn’t bad enough, they had yet to treat the

there for what seemed like forever, she

did nothing

would go easy on women. They simply woke Evelyn up by splashing cold water

for another half an hour before it began to rain all of a

around and flashed Ezra a gleeful grin

text will get all smudgy once

surprise, however, Ezra simply moved the paperback copies away and revealed the ones that were made out of wooden strips underneath

out, Gwendolyn had predicted that it would rain

was carried