Remarry 9,000 Years Old
Chapter 178 The truth back then was like this
Princess Cheng took a deep breath. She had lived in fear for most of her life. It was time to let her daughter know the whole truth.
"Shen Mingde married me because I had something on him."
Shen Nanqiao was surprised. Although he had guessed it a little bit, he still couldn't help being surprised when he found out that it was indeed the case.
What kind of evidence could be so huge that would make him willing to take the position of the principal wife and even tolerate his original wife cheating on him in front of him?
It turns out that when Princess Cheng was still a young girl, she was supposed to participate in a beauty contest as a concubine, but before entering the palace, she met Prince Cheng. The two got to know each other through fighting and gradually fell in love.
Princess Cheng didn't have a strong desire for revenge, so she simply claimed to be ill and withdrew from the talent show.
At that time, Prince Cheng was ordered to go to war, and it was originally agreed that the emperor would wait for his return. However, as soon as he left, Princess Cheng received news from Madam Xia, who was the princess's companion at the time, that the emperor had been inquiring about her background.
Princess Cheng already felt guilty about her background, so she became even more resentful. As luck would have it, bribery was discovered during the selection, and her claim of illness was also brought up.
Emperor Ming was quite angry at the time and ordered a thorough investigation.
The secret agent left by the third prince in the past secretly replaced the portrait and nameplate sent by Princess Cheng into the palace, but she had to find someone to marry immediately to conceal her identity.
It just so happened that at that time Shen Mingde, as the person in charge of this matter in the Ministry of Rites, was caught by Princess Cheng.
Princess Cheng lied that she had a falling out with her family in order to avoid the selection. As long as Shen Mingde had a fake marriage with her, the evidence of his accepting bribes would disappear from the world.
Shen Mingde was naturally overjoyed when he got this life-saving straw in his desperate situation. The two of them hit it off immediately, so they persuaded Old Lady Shen to come and propose marriage in the shortest possible time, and the marriage was settled.
After getting married, the two naturally slept in separate beds. Shen Mingde was a gentleman in this matter. Besides, Princess Cheng had a lot of dowry at that time, and the entire Ning family needed her financial support.
It is precisely because of this that Old Lady Ning has always loved her very much.
Shen Mingde had Aunt Xu before him, and Princess Cheng never excluded her. She even took special care of her daughter Shen Jingyi.
Later, she was ordered to enter the palace to attend a palace banquet. Although she had been cautious enough, she still fell into the trap and ended up drinking a glass of birthday wine that was drugged.
Just when she thought she had nowhere to go, Prince Cheng appeared. At that moment, she just felt that it was a good thing it was him.
The subsequent developments were somewhat out of control.
Prince Cheng discovered that she had her period, so he concluded that there was definitely something wrong between her and Shen Mingde. She made up an elaborate excuse, quickly escaped, and never saw anyone again.
But she never expected that she didn't have her period for the next two months. Her personal maid, who knew a little about medicine, found out that she was pregnant after a rough examination.
The news came like a bolt from the blue.
Originally, the marriage with Shen Mingde was uneventful and could maintain superficial peace, but who would have thought that such a thing would happen? No matter which man, it would be difficult to tolerate his wife being cuckolded, right?
Because of this incident, she was originally prepared for a divorce, but after Shen Mingde learned about it, he simply let her give birth to the baby.
"You have nowhere to go anyway, and the old lady likes you very much. This child is nothing more than an extra pair of chopsticks. What's more, he is using your dowry."
Seeing the other party was so calm in discussing the matter, Princess Cheng felt much more at ease. She waited for the birth of the baby calmly and gave birth to Shen Nanqiao smoothly.
Although it was a girl, the old lady was still happy, after all, this was the first legitimate child of the Shen family.
It was naturally impossible for Princess Cheng to give birth to a legitimate son for Shen Mingde, so she had planned to pick a girl from a scholarly family to be her concubine, but unexpectedly her personal maid volunteered.
"If you don't mind, I'd like to be your roommate."
She was shocked and asked again and again, and the other party insisted that he had a good impression of her brother-in-law, so the matter was hit upon and Shen Hong was soon born.
In order to legitimately record him as her legitimate son, Princess Cheng had been pretending to be pregnant, preparing to switch the boy for a new one.
The business was very successful, and she thought she could live the rest of her life in peace.
However, she never expected that the Queen summoned her without any warning, and she also met Emperor Ming in the harem and was asked many questions indirectly.
All the conversation was about her identity and why she gave up the selection of concubines. She guessed that the past events might have been exposed. Although Emperor Ming did not say it directly, it was almost certain that all that was missing was solid evidence.
In order to protect the Shen family and her two children, she had no choice but to disappear from this world.
In order to ensure that Shen Nanqiao would not have a bad life after losing her mother, she deliberately revealed to Shen Mingde that Emperor Ming had learned about the fraud, and Shen Mingde was shocked.
At this moment, she again expressed her willingness to die as an apology to settle the whole matter. Shen Mingde felt guilty but also promised that he would treat Shen Nanqiao well.
"So that's why he kept his mouth shut just now, because he was afraid that if the net was exposed, you would tell the truth in front of the emperor?"
Shen Nanqiao was now able to piece together the whole story. Seeing Princess Cheng nod, she pondered for a moment.
"Given Shen Mingde's current situation, I'm afraid he will have to come to see Princess Cheng privately again soon."
Prince Cheng became anxious when he heard this.
"He dares! I will make sure he never returns!"
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