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Cui Ling brought Sun Bilian back to Lujing and placed her in a small courtyard that was part of Madam Cui's dowry. Madam Cui knew of Sun Bilian's pregnancy from the moment she arrived in Lujing, and she took over Cui Ling's affairs, even teaching him to lie to Princess Funing. He only wanted to coax Princess Funing into accepting Sun Bilian as a concubine, and the royal family would have nothing to say.

Originally, Cui Ling and Cui's mother had almost certainly succeeded, but they did not expect that Princess Funing would wake up one day, and they did not expect that Princess Funing would thoroughly investigate the matter between Cui Ling and Sun Bilian.

Princess Funing had not yet reacted, but Cui Ling knew that the royal family was investigating him. Knowing that he had committed a serious crime of deceiving the royal family, he took the initiative and voluntarily divorced Princess Funing on the grounds that the princess had failed to give birth to a son for the Cui family. This was an attempt to retreat in order to advance. In his judgment, Princess Funing loved him very much and would definitely not agree to the divorce. At that time, he would propose to make Sun Bilian his concubine.

However, the Cui family miscalculated. Princess Funing accepted the divorce letter and made it known to everyone that Sun Bilian gave birth to a son less than six months after arriving in Beijing.

Cui Ling, as the son-in-law of the emperor, was treacherous.

Princess Funing, deeply in love with someone, suffered deception and hurt. She immediately filed a divorce with the government, confirming the fact that she and Cui Ling had reconciled. Although Cui Ling had been the first to send the divorce letter, her filing with the government and her disclosure to the royal family prevented Cui Ling from exploiting her affections and reconciling.

Not long after, Princess Funing reported to the Empress Dowager and the Emperor that three hundred imperial guards had entered the Cui family to demand the dowry. Only then did the Cui family realize that since the princess got married, everything they ate, drank, and used in Lujing City was the princess's dowry and fortune.

The Cui family of Bozhou was originally a big family. This divorce caused great damage to the third branch of the Cui family, where Cui Ling was from. In order to avoid the stigma of misappropriating their daughter-in-law's dowry, the Cui family had to help Cui Ling fill this big hole. But at the same time, the family property of the third branch of the Cui family was divided up by half by the people of the other five branches of the direct lineage.

At first, the matter seemed to have come to an end, but unexpectedly, Cui Ling, accustomed to a life of luxury, refused to let Princess Funing go and threatened to compete with her for the Princess Huayang. Princess Funing was unwilling to accept this. Finally, the Queen Mother intervened. Under the pretext of evaluating officials, she revealed Cui Ling's every act during his time in office. Either his corruption would be exposed to the world, severing his official career, or he would give up his right to support Princess Huayang.

For the sake of his reputation, Cui Ling had no choice but to endure the bitter consequences and write a document severing his father-daughter relationship with Princess Huayang. Afterwards, the Queen Mother made the decision and allowed Princess Huayang to take her surname, Zhao, and be included in her mother's family tree, recording her under her own name in the genealogy, counting her as her granddaughter, in fact, her granddaughter-in-law.

Princess Funing divorced and her daughter took the Queen Mother's surname. After all this ordeal, she was sad and depressed all day long. She was wholeheartedly pursuing true love and regarded Cui Ling as a treasure, but it turned out that he was just using her.

After the divorce, her health deteriorated day by day, and she became like Lin Daiyu.

Looking back, she truly regretted it. She recalled the Queen Mother's teachings when she was young. She hoped she would be a proud daughter, because she was a princess, and as long as she didn't want to marry, the Queen Mother wouldn't force her. But she had failed to live up to the Queen Mother's earnest expectations, living as a woman in the harem, only concerned with love.

She hoped that her daughter could become a successful woman in her place, so that her mother, Queen Dowager Zhao, would have no regrets. When Wen Wan arrived, Princess Funing had already passed away and the mourning period had already ended.

Zhao Huayang returned to the Imperial Academy in the palace and found that for the same article, the princes and princesses could memorize it after reading it three times, or even memorize it by the next day. Only she could remember the first part but forget the latter part.

She felt that her life was hopeless and she could not fulfill her deceased mother's wish, so she made a wish to the statue, hoping to change the current situation.

Zhao Huayang is already eight years old, but she studies with children aged three to six. However, her academic performance is not as good as that of four or five-year-old children. How can she not collapse?

Wen Wan received Zhao Huayang's memories. It was not that Zhao Huayang was too stupid, but that the royal and noble children of Qi and Lu were too eager. In order not to discourage the children's enthusiasm for going to school, those with slightly less talent were sent to official schools attended by ordinary people. The reason was that: the child was suitable for the agricultural school or the Mohist school, and it would be more appropriate for him to grow up with the children of ordinary people.

The farmers were engaged in farming, while the Mohists were engaged in learning iron and woodworking techniques and improving looms, farm tools and other machines.

Zhao Huayang felt guilty and scared when he thought about the upgrade assessment in a month.

At this moment, Zhao Huayang was given a low-grade soul-nourishing bead. Wen Wan had many soul-nourishing beads, soul-fixing beads, and evil-repelling wood, all of which were graded according to their levels.

While in the Huayang Realm, Wen Wan cultivated a soul mansion. It spanned ten acres and was divided into four levels: Mortal Soul Manor, Cultivator Soul Manor, Immortal Soul Manor, and Super Soul Manor. Different soul mansion areas were unlocked based on the level of the soul. Each soul mansion contained a mirror, allowing one to see outside.

The Empress Dowager, first disheartened by her own daughter and then distraught over her daughter's untimely death, had recently been in poor health and had paid little attention to Zhao Huayang's affairs. However, all of Princess Funing's dowry, save for a portion reserved for the legitimate princess and returned to the royal family, was left to Zhao Huayang. Even so, Zhao Huayang had considerable assets, including farms, shops, and courtyards.

In the gentle Buddhist temple, incense was burned to the statue of the goddess, and it was not against the rules to worship oneself. There is also the saying "It is better to rely on oneself than to rely on others".

"Princess, the evening meal is ready, please have some."

Zhao Huayang had lost her relationship with her father and her mother, and she was at a loss. Coupled with her poor academic performance, she could not eat anymore. Now she had a good appetite and wanted to eat some worldly food that she had not eaten for nearly nine hundred years to satisfy her craving.

"Nurse, I have some food taboos now."

"Your body and hair were given to you by your parents. The eldest princess left a last will and testament, repeatedly instructing you not to observe mourning and abstain from meat and fish, as this would harm your health. She knows you are filial."

Did the princess say this?

Zhao Huayang had never heard of this, but her wet nurse was afraid that she would lose her health due to mourning. In the future, people would talk about it and say that the princess loved her young daughter, and that Zhao Huayang ate to obey her mother's orders and take care of her health.

The wet nurse was appointed by the then Queen Mother Zhao. She had previously been a maid in her palace. When she married, the Queen Mother Zhao gave her a dowry, and her husband was chosen by her parents. After the wedding, the man took advantage of her generous dowry and lived a life of luxury. When she couldn't pay him back, he beat her. The old man had fallen in love with a young widow in town and threatened to divorce her.

When she was divorced, she was pregnant and was kicked out without taking anything away.

Her parents didn't speak up for her and said she was incompetent and couldn't even hold on to a man.

Heartbroken by her unfortunate marriage, she followed the caravan back to Lujing, where she found an old friend who helped her find a job as a housekeeper in the princess's mansion. Later, when Princess Funing became pregnant, she applied to be a wet nurse.