The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

After a scream.

Ruan Xiang'e burst into tears, her legs softened and she collapsed to the ground. She choked and apologized quickly: "I'm sorry... My daughter didn't mean it... Mother... I..."

The wife of the Marquis of Anguo simply waved her hand to signal the maids to lower the bed curtains to cover her horrifying appearance. She waited indifferently for Ruan Xiang'e to finish crying before she spoke again: "I don't expect you to be anything useful, but you'd better be obedient and don't be willful. If you can't give birth to a son, our family's title... I'm afraid it will be stripped. But this is still good, it's better than those who killed your brother, but in the end they can inherit this title and their bloodline will continue!"

There was a hint of hatred in the voice of Lady Anguohou, but Ruan Xiang'e couldn't figure out what her mother hated.

She and her brother have never been close to their parents since childhood. Unlike the awe she had for Marquis Anguo that she had acquired through subtle inculcation, Ruan Xiang'e's fear of her mother was more like the nature of small animals avoiding danger.

Sometimes, Ruan Xiang'e felt that her mother was just hating her own devil-like burns; but sometimes, she felt that her mother hated her father, hated their children, and hated the entire Anguo Marquis Mansion.

Sitting behind the bed curtains, the wife of the Marquis of Anguo did not feel distressed when listening to her daughter's intermittent sobbing outside, but rather a little annoyed. If she had not fainted during childbirth, she would not have failed to notice the approach of danger. She had planned so many things in vain to seize the title of Marquis, but after the victory, she was negligent for a moment and was counterattacked by the remaining confidants of the second wife's wife, burning most of her body...

His experience was almost the same as that of Nguyen He, who survived the war safely but was killed after the war.

Hatred continued to surge in the heart of Lady Anguo Hou, but she couldn't help but feel fear.

then.

She failed to frame the second wife with a fake pregnancy, and in order to prove that she had indeed lost her child, she went to the Taoist temple to pray for blessings. However, she didn't expect to meet the substitute who had been forced to be a substitute for many years and was thrown into the Taoist temple to practice asceticism after being useless. They had the same purpose and hit it off immediately.

This is how the background of the second master of the second house was exposed, and the old lady of the second house was punished and confined to her house. However, because the wife of Marquis Anguo opened the door for her, the substitute woman found her and burned them both to death.

however.

Before Lady Anguo Marquis could feel proud of the title for long, she found out that she was pregnant again. Calculating the date, she was probably pregnant at the time when she tried to frame the second wife with a fake pregnancy but failed. Lady Anguo Marquis had harbored an ominous feeling towards her daughter from the very beginning.

When the imperial decree for her to inherit the title finally came down, and she finally became the wife of Marquis Anguo from Lady Xiao Ai, she felt that her fate was quite perfect. However, only a few months later, her father passed away, and her stepbrother and his family returned to their hometown to accompany the coffin, but they were all killed by a natural disaster.

The wife of Marquis Anguo gave birth prematurely and with difficulty. After struggling to give birth to a daughter, when she woke up she saw only flames all over the sky, just like the scene when the old lady from the second house was burned to death.

The flames licked her body, taking away her youthful and beautiful face and body. She also narrowly escaped death several times, and struggled to finally survive, but at this time she received the news that her only relative in the world was seriously ill and passed away.

Oh, right.

Can't say it's the only one.

The sister also left behind a daughter.

At that time, the wife of the Marquis of Anguo was desperate to keep her sister's only bloodline. Despite everyone's opposition, she drove to the Zeng Mansion and snatched Zeng Suqiu back. However, she was injured even more and had to stay in bed for nearly a year.

Time passes day by day.

Lady Anguohou gradually stopped going out. She began to hate the sunlight, the mirror, and... her children.

If it wasn't for giving birth to this child, I wouldn't have fallen into a coma during childbirth and been burned to death!

If it wasn't for giving birth to that child, how could my sister have contracted the disease and died? !

Their father was dead, and their maternal family was indeed left with no one, but if they were not weak, how could others harm them so easily?

Lady Anguo Hou felt both pity and hatred for Zeng Suqiu, but she no longer had the energy to sort out her emotions, and she was deeply trapped in another vortex.

Every ray of sunlight and every pair of eyes seemed to remind her - look, what a horrible monster you are.

But you deserve it. You harmed others first, and that's why you get this retribution!

The wife of the Marquis of Anguo had tried her best to dispel these illusions, but those ghosts still haunted her day and night. However, she did not reform herself. Instead, she became more and more convinced that she was just one step behind in the chess game, and now only her body was ruined. She was still the wife of the Marquis of Anguo, the only mistress of the entire mansion!

No matter what retribution or cause and effect it is, it will come. She will live on and continue to fight.

Nothing can take this away from you!

Lady Anguo Hou saw through the bed curtains that her daughter's blurry shadow was still shaking, but because she didn't like to hear children crying, they had learned early on that no matter how sad they were, they were not allowed to cry out loud in her presence.

To be honest, she was not satisfied with the qualifications of her two children, but she had no other choice. The most important thing now was to ensure that the title could remain in the hands of her own family. Although her son was gone, she still had a daughter. Even if her daughter was not very useful, as long as she could continue her bloodline, it would be fine.

As for Zeng Suqiu...after learning that Ruan He had assaulted her, Lady Anguohou deliberately wanted to avoid the presence of her niece.

She really wanted Zeng Suqiu to be her son's concubine, and she had also planned how to persuade Princess Cheng'an to keep her niece as a concubine and keep her company in the Marquis of Anguo's mansion after Ruan He became the princess. But the only thing she didn't expect was that Ruan He was so unbearable...

Zeng Suqiu now saw that she was separated from her family, but it was also good this way...

The wife of the Marquis of Anguo slowly exhaled the foul air in her chest: "Alright, you can go out now. I think the Marquis' Mansion in our capital should be very lively now. But until all of your second uncle's confidants are arrested, you have to stay here obediently. I will let Nanny Mu follow you."

At this moment, Ruan Xiang'e no longer cared whether her mother could see her through the bed curtain. She just nodded and climbed up from the ground using her hands and feet. She wished she could fly out of this dark and depressing room.

Her mind was in a mess and she couldn't digest what her mother had just said.

Ruan Xiang'e staggered and tried to escape, but her vision was blurred by tears and she tripped on the threshold and fell flat on her face.