In ancient times, she gave birth to seven daughters and was divorced by her husband's family.

At that moment, the door opened directly.

Shangguan Yi turned her head and was taken aback.

"General Zhou, you've arrived?"

Zhou Langya threw an old woman directly to the ground; it was Hehua, who had been following Zhao Bingyu earlier.

Zhao Bingyu saw the lotus flowers thrown on the ground and her eyes widened in fury.

Zhou Langya said slowly, "This woman attempted to break into the prison to rescue prisoners, but I have already caught her."

Shangguan Yi looked at Zhao Bingyu with a hint of schadenfreude, raised an eyebrow, and said, "My dear mother-in-law, now you two are completely speechless, aren't you?"

Zhao Bing was about to unleash a torrent of abuse when she saw another person approaching from behind.

“Wait,” she said in a cold voice.

Zhao Bingyu froze, and when she turned her head, she saw Bai Lu standing at the door.

Bai Lu is very beautiful, and she looks a lot like me when I was young. Just by standing there, you feel like all the beauty of the world is gathered around her.

Zhao Bingyu was stunned for a moment.

She had been secretly watching Bai Lu for a long time at the banquet, and now she was watching her openly.

Her eyes were fixed on Bai Lu, on that face that looked so much like hers, on that person... who shared the same blood flowing through her veins. She couldn't quite describe the feeling in her heart.

After a long silence, Zhao Bingyu spoke up: "You actually look more like me than your sister Rubao..."

After all, her younger sister Ru Bao was from the Western Regions and had golden hair, which was too eye-catching. When people saw her, they noticed her golden hair first, so no one noticed her face.

So when you first see her, you don't think Zhao Bingyu and Ru Bao look that similar; instead, you think she looks more like her father.

Bailu is different from Rubao; Bailu is clearly more like herself than Rubao.

Zhao Bingyu couldn't quite describe the feeling in her heart; a bittersweet sensation spread through her.

It must be said that family ties are indeed a very mysterious thing.

Before Zhao Bingyu met Bai Lu, she didn't like Bai Lu very much.

But after seeing Bailu, she felt a strange mix of emotions.

Zhao Bingyu just stared at Bai Lu.

Bai Lu said coldly, "I wish I weren't like you; this face is my disgrace."

These words pierced Zhao Bingyu's heart like a knife. Zhao Bingyu was stunned, then furious: "What do you mean by that?!"

"Don't you and your brothers want me, your mother, anymore?"

"You are flesh and blood of my body!"

"You are my sons and my daughters, yet you are disrespectful to me! You are disrespectful to me!"

Zhao Bingyu was clearly more vulnerable than before.

She really didn't expect that.

Before coming to Dawu, she always thought it was a territory she was proud of and very familiar with.

Everyone likes me very much, and even admires me.

Why did the attitude towards the same land change when I set foot on it again twenty years later?

Everything here felt completely unfamiliar to me.

Bai Lu snorted coldly and said, "Since we are your sons and your daughters, then we want everything you gave to Ru Bao and your three sons from the Western Regions."

"Give us half of those assets."

Zhao Bingyu was speechless; her face froze, and she couldn't utter a word.

"How could these assets possibly be divided among you?" Zhao Bingyu said coldly to Bai Lu with her head down. "Aren't you too greedy? We've already given them the assets from the Western Regions, and you've received the assets from the Great Wu, isn't that enough?"

Bai Lu nodded and smiled faintly: "That's possible. But the wealth in Da Wu... the Bai family is only the richest family in one country, while you are the richest family in the entire Western Regions, with businesses all over the country. You've made a lot of money there."

"The entire wealth of the Great Wu Kingdom might not even amount to a third of what you have in the Western Regions."

"If that's the case... then uneven distribution is definitely unacceptable."

Zhao Bingyu frowned and said, "Why are you so bothered by this?"

"Given that we haven't seen each other for years, why do you demand that I divide my assets with you the moment we meet?"

Bai Lu retorted, "Yes, we've never met before, so why should we treat you like our supreme mother and be so affectionate towards you the moment we meet?"

"You should know that it was your own choice to fake your death and travel to the Western Regions, not us who forced you to go there."

Zhao Bingyu was stunned; she stood there for a long time, unable to recover.

At this moment, Shangguan Yi said to Bai Lu in a particularly awkward whisper, "I'll leave this place to you. I'll be going now."

“Okay, go keep my second brother company.” Bai Lu nodded with a smile and said to Shangguan Yi, “Second sister-in-law, don’t worry, I will always support you.”

This one sentence means that no matter what Shangguan Yi does, when she turns around and faces Bai Liezhao, she will always stand up for Shangguan Yi.

Shangguan Yi smiled and said happily to Bai Lu, "Good, I'm relieved to hear you say that."

After Shangguan Yi left, Bai Lu closed the door and turned to untie the ropes binding Zhao Bingyu.

Bai Lu glanced at the lotus flowers on the ground again and said, "Let's take this person out and kill him!"

Zhao Bingyu was stunned, and immediately stepped forward to grab the lotus flower on the ground.

Mu Guiying and the others had already carried Hehua away like a chick, and the door was completely closed, leaving only the two of them in the room.

Zhao Bing said in an exasperated tone, "Hehua has been by my side for so many years, not like a servant, but even like a sister! How could you just kill her like that? What right did you have to kill her?"

“What a coincidence,” Bai Lu raised an eyebrow. “We’ve already killed your spy at the Bai residence, so one more lotus flower won’t make a difference.”

"Besides, if you really considered her family, you wouldn't have let her do such a dangerous thing."

"You, you, you!" Zhao Bing exclaimed in a fit of rage, her eyes bloodshot.

Then Bai Lu provocatively said to her, "To be honest, I don't think this lotus flower looks that impressive. It's not as powerful as Shen Lanhua from Da Wu."

"Bai Qi, Mu Guiying, and Qin Liangyu have been besieging Shen Lanhua in Dawu for a long time, but they haven't even managed to capture her."

"If we hadn't been lucky enough to catch her just in time to make her move, we probably would never have been able to find her again in our lifetime."

Zhao Bing stared intently at Bai Lu for a long time before sneering, "Orchid is the most skilled in martial arts among my four servants. Lotus isn't skilled in martial arts, but rather in disguise. I must say, you are indeed very capable, Bai Lu, managing to capture and kill two of my maids so easily."

"You know, it would be easy for my four maids to play tricks on Ru Bao and her three brothers in the Western Regions."

Previously, Zhao Bingyu often used several maids to tease Ru Bao and her three brothers.

Now, a sudden pang of sadness rises in my heart.

Those four are really useless; combined, they're not even as good as Bailu alone.

Bai Lu said with a smile, "It's really a misfortune, I don't know why the name I gave my maid always happens to be the same as yours."

Most of Bailu's dozens of maids had names that included flowers, including one named Lotus.

Bai Lu sighed deeply, feeling utterly bored.

Then Zhao Bingyu suddenly asked her, "Alright, what exactly do you want to say? You're not standing here to catch up with me, are you?"

Bai Lu raised an eyebrow and then picked up her teacup and sat down.

She drank slowly and elegantly, and said softly to Zhao Bingyu, "Shouldn't this question be asked of me, or of you? What do you want to ask? After all, Ru Bao is in my hands."

Zhao Bingyu's expression slowly changed. Then, instead of asking about her own Ru Bao, she turned to Bai Lu and asked, "What exactly is your identity?"

“You are from the modern era; you are not my daughter.”

“Names like Mu Guiying are not something that people in ancient times could come up with.”

She stared intently at Bai Lu, and for a fleeting moment, Bai Lu's expression turned slightly cold.

Zhao Bingyu's expression gradually changed, and then she sneered, "So you really are from the modern world! Tell me! What was your identity in the modern world?"

Tell me, when did you come into this world?

"Were you born as a baby?"

"...I don't think so."

Bai Lu remained silent, but Zhao Bingyu, unable to wait any longer, answered her own question, saying, "No, no, if you came into this world from the fetal stage, I would have already given birth to you then. You shouldn't be like this; you should have had a very good life from a young age... Yes, let me think, when did you suddenly become so extraordinary..."

Bai Lu remained silent.

For some reason, Zhao Bingyu became increasingly terrified. She suddenly shuddered and said, "Sixteen years old!"

What major event happened when you were sixteen that caused you to travel from the modern world to this place?

Suddenly, something occurred to her: "You...you died in childbirth!"

She stared at Bai Lu silently, speechless with astonishment.

At that moment, I felt a mix of emotions.

Bai Lu stared intently at Zhao Bingyu, and at that moment, she clearly felt the separation between her soul and body.

Even though she had lived in this world for several years, she was still not the original owner of this body; the original owner of this body was another soul.

“The original owner of this body has long since perished in this world,” Bai Lu said in a deep voice. “It wasn’t me who died in childbirth, but that body.”

“She went through that pain, I didn’t,”

“That’s your daughter, I’m not your daughter.”

Zhao Bingyu felt a pang of pain, and tears inexplicably streamed down her face.

His own daughter had died long ago, at the age of sixteen.

She was so young when she gave birth to seven children, and died in childbirth.

Bai Lu stared at Zhao Bingyu and said slowly, "Do you know why I was so rude to you? It's because of you that she died! Because of you, she suffered so much in this world..."

“If you hadn’t gone to the Western Regions, she wouldn’t have been wandering here for more than ten years.”

"If I'm not mistaken, Zhao Bingyu, you've always known that your daughter is living on the streets, but you just won't tell the Bai family where she is, right?"

Zhao Bingyu's tears fell to the ground, almost forming a line.

She sobbed uncontrollably, and the skin on her face gradually began to break.

Bai Lu didn't bother to look at her, but turned her back to her and said, "Tell me, why have you been unwilling to tell the Bai family about your daughter?"

Zhao Bingyu cried for a long time before she finally said, "Actually, it's not my fault, it's all Bai Yansong's fault!"

Bai Lu turned around and heard Zhao Bingyu's voice filled with hatred: "If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have been able to travel all the way to the Western Regions!"

"If it weren't for him, you wouldn't have had to go through so much suffering!"

"The reason I didn't pass on your information to the Bai family was because I wanted them to live in misery for the rest of their lives!"

"I want Bai Yansong to know only that his daughter died because of his heartlessness and ingratitude!"

"His wife died because of his heartlessness!"

"I want him to live with regret for the rest of his life!"

Bai Lu was speechless. She said, "That's a living, breathing person! How can you abandon your own flesh and blood just to get angry with another man?"

"Especially since she's a girl, do you even know what might happen in this kind of world, in an ancient society with no order?! A girl here... everyone would tear her apart and devour her!"

"Do you even know what you're thinking?!"

Zhao Bingyu stopped talking and just cried.

Bai Lu was really annoyed and rolled her eyes at her.

Then Zhao Bingyu choked up and said, "My whole life... I've always lived in the limelight. The only mistake I made was being love-struck... and getting involved with Bai Yansong..."

"Later, I stopped being love-struck. I knew I was wrong, so I went to the Western Regions. I was determined to live a good life, but I never expected that..."

"It's gotten to this state..."

She never imagined that her decision would harm her daughter...

“You’ve harmed not only your own daughter,” Bai Lu said to Zhao Bingyu, “you’ve also harmed your own son.”

"You've had spies here all along, so you must know how much your sons have suffered, right?"

Zhao Bingyu remained silent and began to cry again.

She doesn't usually cry, but after hearing what Bai Lu said, she just kept crying.

She felt that she shouldn't have done that.

She had harbored some resentment towards her daughter in the Western Regions.

She disliked Bai Yansong, who was her enemy. However, Bai Lu happened to be the daughter of her enemy, and Bai Lu's three older brothers were the three sons of her enemy.

But this trace of resentment vanished when he saw Bailu and her three grown-up sons.