You cause trouble and I collect your body, the little emperor’s aunt abuses the scumbag again

The night wind made the paper windows rustle loudly.

Meng Siya lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

Lin Daxiong's words, "He broke his leg," kept replaying in her mind. She didn't believe it, not a single word. How could a man like Xingzhi just break his leg like that? Something was wrong; Lin Daxiong was definitely hiding something.

My stomach was tightening in waves, a downward, painful sensation. The baby inside was also moving around, kicking and punching.

She felt terrible, so she put on her clothes and went to the kitchen to get some hot water to drink.

As she pushed the door open again, a blast of cold air rushed in, making her shiver. She wrapped her coat tighter and was about to head to the kitchen when she caught a glimpse of a light still on in the west wing.

Under the dim light, two figures were projected onto the window paper: one was Lin Daxiong, and the other... was his mother.

"They haven't rested yet?" Meng Siya wondered.

The wind carried her mother's suppressed sobs, intermittent and unclear, yet each sound pierced Meng Siya's heart.

She stopped in her tracks, unable to explain what was happening. Instead of going to the kitchen, she leaned against the wall, enduring the pain in her stomach, and slowly made her way to the window of the west wing.

A sharp cracking sound came from inside the room, as if a cup had broken.

"Auntie, do you think I wanted to hide it? I didn't want to either!" Lin Daxiong's voice was urgent and agitated, filled with barely suppressed anger and helplessness. "I tried to persuade him! I grabbed him by the collar and asked him if he still wanted his wife and children!"

Meng Siya's heart jumped into her throat.

"But he's not Xingzhi anymore! His name is Ji Yongyan, and he's the Crown Prince who just returned to the palace!"

Ji Yongyan...Crown Prince...

The words hit her ears, and Meng Siya's mind went blank. Her hand, which was supporting her against the wall, went limp, and she had to lean against the cold earthen wall to keep from collapsing to the ground.

Inside, it was deathly quiet.

After a long while, Lady Meng's desperate wails finally broke the silence: "The Crown Prince? To become the Crown Prince, I have to sell myself?"

"What will happen to my Ya'er? What will happen to my Ya'er?!"

"She's a young woman, without any status or recognition, hiding with him in this poor place, eating meager rations, and being gossiped about! She's pregnant, with... with his eldest son in her belly! How could he bear it? How could he dare!"

Every word her mother spoke felt like a knife, stabbing her heart repeatedly.

She covered her mouth tightly to stop herself from crying out loud, but tears had already soaked her face.

“Those old ministers are pressuring him, the Emperor is watching too, and they’re even threatening us with the lives of our former brothers!” Lin Daxiong’s voice lowered and trembled. “If he doesn’t marry the Shangguan family’s daughter and doesn’t establish connections with those powerful officials, he won’t be able to hold onto his position as Crown Prince! In that case, forget about revenge, we, and everyone here, will all die!”

"So what? So my Ya'er should be sacrificed?"

“The Crown Prince said…” Lin Daxiong’s voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth, “After the wedding, once things are settled, he will… he will bring Ya Ya into the palace.”

Meng Siya held her breath, her nails digging into her flesh.

As she listened to Lin Daxiong utter those words, each one felt like a red-hot iron branding itself into her heart.

"Although...although she can't become the Crown Princess, she will be granted the title of 'Liangdi' and guaranteed a life of wealth and honor. She will never be mistreated..."

Liangdi.

concubine.

Meng Siya, standing outside the window, froze instantly.

Her mind immediately returned to that rainy night when the man held her and swore an oath to the heavens.

He said, "Ya Ya, if one day I get everything back, I will use this empire to marry you, and it will just be the two of us for the rest of our lives."

It's just the two of us for the rest of our lives...

It turns out that offering the empire in marriage only resulted in a "concubine" who had to kneel and kowtow before the principal wife.

It turns out that all his sweet words and vows meant nothing in the face of the throne and the empire.

She suddenly laughed, laughing so hard her whole body trembled.

She thought he was dead, and that she could spend the rest of her life holding his memorial tablet.

She thought he was truly disabled and that she could be his legs and take care of him for the rest of her life.

She thought of everything, but she never considered that he was alive and well, that he had taken that position, and then he didn't want her anymore.

Xingzhi, the one who held her in Qingshui Village and called her Ya Ya, is dead.

The one who is alive is the crown prince, Ji Yongyan, who is calculating gains and losses and wants to marry someone else to consolidate his power.

How ridiculous.

She waited here foolishly, hoping foolishly, turning her life into a joke.

"Clap."

The lantern slipped from his hand, rolled twice on the ground, and the flame inside flickered before going out.

Suddenly, everything went black.

At that very moment, a sharp pain shot through my stomach.

The pain came fiercely and suddenly, as if the child in her womb also sensed the father's abandonment and was desperately trying to come out of her body.

"Uh……"

A groan of pain escaped her throat, which she couldn't hold back.

The arguing inside the house stopped.

"Who's out there?"

Lin Daxiong and Madam Meng rushed out, their faces pale.

Using the light leaking from inside the room, they saw Meng Siya supporting herself against the wall, slowly sliding down to the ground.

Her eyes were closed, and her face was completely bloodless.

The skirt beneath her was quickly stained red by a stream of blood.

That patch of red looked especially frightening at night.

"Yaya!"

"Sister!"

The two pounced on it like madmen.

Lin Daxiong scooped up the unconscious man and yelled at the guards in the courtyard who had been alerted, "Boil water! Quickly boil hot water! The more the better!"

Amidst the excruciating pain, Meng Siya regained consciousness for a fleeting moment.

She struggled to open her eyes, gripping Lin Daxiong's shirt tightly, her nails almost digging into his flesh.

With her last ounce of strength, she forced out each word:

"Tell him..."

"I... will not... be... a... concubine..."

"I'd rather die...than..."

After saying this, her head lolled to the side and she fainted.

Inside the main house, chaos reigned.

Basins of hot water were brought in, and soon they came out as basins of bloody water.

Meng Siya's cries went from sharp to weak, and finally, they disappeared.

Madam Meng knelt on the ground outside the door, her hands clasped together, kowtowing repeatedly to the sky until her forehead was bleeding, blood mixed with tears streaming down her face.

The door was pushed open.

Lin Daxiong rushed out covered in sweat, his hands and arms covered in blood.

He looked at Madam Meng kneeling on the ground, his voice trembling.

"Auntie, the baby is in the wrong position, and she's also suffering from a heart attack; the bleeding won't stop!"

His throat tightened, and he almost couldn't say the rest of his words.

"Save the mother, or save the child? You have to make a decision!"