As expected by everyone, she became the wife of the Marquis after being married off

It was the second year after Meng Yongchang passed away. Meng Changce, who was only ten years old, followed Tang Hai to the palace behind to change clothes because he accidentally got his clothes dirty at the banquet.

"Young Master, do you want me to hold you?" Tang Hai really liked the cute little Meng Changce who was holding his hand.

It was impossible for him to have children in his life, so he liked the little prince who often came to the palace very much. He was smart, well-behaved and cute.

Meng Changce was actually a little tired, but he remembered what his mother had told him, that one should not act willfully in the palace, so he shook his head obediently.

Tang Hai saw his expression clearly, and he felt even more pity for the child.

Meng Changce knew how to look at these people's expressions at that time, and naturally did not miss the emotions in Tang Hai's eyes. He suppressed the sarcasm in his heart, lowered his eyes, and did not show any of it.

After Meng Yongchang passed away, the Changning Marquisate now has no backbone, and everything depends on Meng Changce's mother, Xiang Qing.

After his father left, he knew how to use his appearance to disguise himself as a well-behaved child.

"No need, Eunuch Hai, Chang Ce can go on his own."

"Then tell me when you are tired, young master."

"it is good!"

The back garden has always been the favorite place for concubines and princes. Meng Changce and his companions met several princes before they even reached the changing palace.

"Second Prince, Third Prince, Fourth Prince." Tang Hai bowed and saluted.

Meng Changce also knew several of the princes, and he called out in a young voice, "Hello, Second Prince, Third Prince, Fourth Prince."

The second prince is the oldest among them, and is now ten years old, while the third and fourth princes are only seven or eight years old. When they were still the youngest and most naive, they still relied on the oldest second prince.

Li Xuli raised his head proudly and said, "Get up."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

Li Xuli asked curiously: "Where are you going?"

"Your Highness, I am going to take the young master to the Yihe Palace in the back to change his clothes."

"Why doesn't he go with his mother?" the youngest of the four princes suddenly said.

"The wife of Marquis Changning has something to discuss with the ladies at the banquet."

Li Jing frowned and said crisply: "But I clearly saw his mother go..." Before he finished speaking, Li Xuli grabbed his sleeve with a bad look.

Meng Changce suddenly felt uneasy, as if something big was about to happen.

"Father-in-law, I feel a little cold and want to change my clothes." He pulled Tang Hai's hand.

Tang Hai's face changed when he heard Li Jing's words, but he quickly concealed it.

"Take the prince there quickly."

Before Tang Hai could say anything, Li Xuli spoke first, and he followed his words and bowed and left.

After Tang Hai brought Meng Changce to the Yihe Hall, someone hurried to his side and whispered a few words in his ear.

Meng Changce noticed that his expression suddenly changed.

"Eunuch Hai, I'm a little sleepy. Can I sleep here for a while?" Meng Changce wanted to find his mother. He had a bad feeling in his heart and just wanted to get Tang Hai away.

Tang Hai was thinking about how to get out of this situation. He smiled and nodded when he heard this. He asked someone to take good care of Meng Changce and then left in a hurry.

Meng Changce pretended to be asleep first, and then after all the servants in the room had retreated to the outside, he opened his eyes, got out of bed quickly, and climbed out through the window at the back.

But Meng Changce didn't expect that the most disgusting thing he saw in the world would make him live in a nightmare from then on.

He carefully walked around the palace several times, and just when he was about to give up, he heard his mother's voice from a dark window. He ran over excitedly, wanting to find his mother.

What he saw from the window that was not properly covered was that Emperor Ying De was trying to hug his mother by force. He saw his mother struggling, and her face was full of tears.

She questioned him again and again, and her mother finally learned the truth about her father's death.

And that disgusting man ignored his mother's anger, hugged her and kept talking about how much he missed her and how many years he had endured.

I don’t know which sentence of Emperor Yingde’s words angered his mother.

Xiang Qing stared at Emperor Yingde with desperate eyes, and finally broke free from his arms with all his strength, and slapped him in the face.

The sound of a loud and crisp slap was particularly harsh in the empty room.

Xiang Qing sneered, "You are not worthy of liking me." She seemed to no longer be afraid of him. She walked closer to him and said, "If it weren't for Yongchang, you wouldn't know which eunuch would have killed you. The most unfortunate thing in his life is meeting a beast like you!"

Emperor Yingde's face was dark, his eyes were gloomy, and he stood there without moving.

"Hehehe." He laughed loudly, his face turned red and the veins on his forehead bulged.

Emperor Yingde's face seemed to become ferocious. He pressed Xiang Qing hard and threw her to the corner of the table behind him.

Xiang Qing was hit on the lower back by the corner of the table behind her, and her whole body was bent in pain. She supported herself on the table with one hand but was stunned. She saw Meng Changce there, and her pupils widened.

Xiang Qing shook his head slightly in that direction, warning him with his eyes not to come closer.

She quickly shifted her gaze. She couldn't let Emperor Yingde find out that Meng Changce was there. Then she deliberately said to Emperor Yingde sarcastically, "Dirty, you should die in that alley forever."

"Oh, then you can have a taste of my filthiness. I want to make you my woman, and after you die, I'll see if Meng Yongchang still cares about you."

Emperor Yingde pressed Xiang Qing to the ground as he spoke, trying to tear off her clothes.

Meng Changce wanted to rush in and kill him, but his vision seemed to be blurred by tears. He only saw his mother using her eyes to stop him at the end. He saw a lot of blood flowing from the emperor's chest.

There was a dagger stuck in his chest, which he recognized as a gift from his father to his mother.

The shocked Emperor Yingde strangled his mother by the neck, and finally she was strangled to death with her eyes wide open. Before her death, Xiang Qing's eyes met with Meng Changce's, and he saw tenderness in his mother's eyes.

At that moment, Meng Changce seemed to have a mutual understanding with his mother.

In the end, Meng Changce didn't know how he returned to Yihe Hall. There was a deep bite mark on his arm, but he didn't feel anything.

He pretended to go back to that bed without shedding a single tear.

What’s funny is that Emperor Yingde gave his mother an ending, saying that Xiang Qing hanged herself in the palace, and even had someone imitate her handwriting to leave a letter.

Meng Changce really shed tears after seeing his mother's body, and no one knew that his desperate cry was because the enemy who killed his father and mother was in this palace.

Xiang Qing maintained his innocence and stabbed Emperor Yingde in the chest at the critical moment, but did not actually kill him.

Why did Meng Changce save Shen Lanyue who was struggling in the water many years later? It was because her eyes at that time looked very much like Xiang Qing who was struggling to survive.

Despair yet with a reckless determination.