The story of a bullied daughter's rise to power

Looking at Gusu, he couldn't help but ask, "Is your father really that important?"

"Are you talking nonsense, Goddess?" Gusu frowned.

Upon hearing this, Qian Shui'er shook her head and chuckled, "No, I'm just curious about what kind of person could make the future Saint of Mingyue Nation, second only to the emperor, choose to abandon everything and become a sinner, just to stay here."

"He is a very ordinary person. My father is not as scheming as you, nor as powerful as you. However, my father is the only person in the world who treats me sincerely. For him, I am willing to give everything." Gusu said.

"You are really weird. You can obviously live a better life, but you always pursue some empty things. If it were me, I would not make such a choice." Qian Shuier said.

Upon hearing this, Gusu turned around and looked deeply at the woman standing before her, who looked aloof and noble. She said, "If the goddess ever meets you, she will understand what Gusu means. In this world, the most important things are those closest to you and those you love most. The goddess's relatives must also be very noble. If you meet your beloved one in the future, you will understand that what Gusu did today was just human nature."

"I just do what I want." Qian Shui'er said coldly.

"You're cute, but I won't let you do whatever you want. Goodbye, Gusu." The woman said and left.

Qian Shui'er sat on the tiger skin, stroking her forehead with her hand, and there was a glimmer in her eyes.

Outside, a man in red clothes and a silver mask slowly walked into the lobby.

"Liu Wuchen... Do you think the feelings of people in this world are really that good?" Qian Shuier asked.

Liu Wuchen, who had just entered, was surprised by Qian Shui'er's sudden question and said, "You like the prince. Don't you know this feeling?"

Qian Shui'er shook her head upon hearing this. "It's true that I love the Crown Prince, but it's not the kind of thing Gusu just described. Tan Tai Wu Yue could give me an infinitely bright future, and I'm only doing it for my own benefit. But... she's willing to give up her status as a Saint for her father, just to be able to look after the elderly. This is probably different."

Liu Wuchen listened to Qian Shuier's analysis and remained silent for a long time. He just said, "I don't know."

"Huh?" Qian Shui'er was stunned.

"I don't know what you're talking about. It's just that love, perhaps, is truly beautiful. I once saw someone madly in love, obsessed with it. But I don't agree with that either. While love is beautiful and can make people forget everything else, the most important thing for a person is reason. If you lose your reason, what's the point of living?"

"Haha! You hit the nail on the head." Qian Shuier laughed.

"I'm just reminding you." Liu Wuchen said.

"I won't fall in love with anyone. The most important thing to me is power. And only Tan Tai Wu Yue can satisfy me. So in order to win his heart, I will do anything at all costs." Qian Shui'er became excited when she said this.

Liu Wuchen simply looked at her calmly, his eyes filled with pity. People are always like this. Subjectively believing they've never loved anyone, but in the end, it's this very feeling that ruins a person. The woman before him was no different.

Thinking about this, Liu Wuchen turned around and walked out of the lobby.

The stream gurgled as the woman sat in the iron cage, inhaling the fragrance of green bamboo. Her beautiful eyes held a tranquility. Normally, when she was out and about, her mind would be filled with many complicated matters, but at this moment, Situ Yaorao felt a terrifying calmness. It was as if she no longer cared about anything.

I can figure out everything now.

"It's time to eat." Gusu took the food basket and walked to Situ Yaorao and squatted down.

Situ Yaorao glanced at Gusu and said, "I've always been curious about which of your words are true and which are false."

"In life, many false things can become true, and many true things can also be considered false. Sister Situ, if you ask me which is true and which is false, I don't know. I can only say that what you believe to be true is true."

As Gusu spoke, he took out the food and handed it to Situ Yaorao who was in the cage.

Situ Yaorao calmly took the food, glanced at the woman indifferently, and took a bite of the steamed bun: "You are good at talking. But in my opinion, every word you say is true."

Situ Yaorao's words made Gusu pause. Looking at the woman, his heart trembled slightly: "Sister Situ, do you always trust others like this?"

Situ Yaorao smiled and said, "I always trust others, but I am always betrayed. I don't even know where I went wrong."

"It's not that you are wrong, it's just that people's hearts are fickle. Everyone has their own helplessness, me too, and others may be the same." Gusu said.

"Maybe that's the case. When do you plan to let me out?" Situ Yaorao asked.

Upon hearing this, Gusu couldn't help but laugh, her clear eyes tinged with a smile: "Sister Situ, you are a prisoner now, don't you think there is still a chance for you to get out?"

"Of course I do. Otherwise, you wouldn't have brought me food and would have just left me to fend for myself." Situ Yaorao said, taking a bite of the food. She wasn't in a hurry at all.

If she had been a little anxious when she was locked up earlier in the day, she was now truly calm. The goddess had locked her up, probably because she wasn't prepared for how to deal with her.

She wanted to be alive, but she didn't want others to know. She simply hoped that Tan Tai Wu Yue would think she had truly betrayed him. But if that were the case, she would just lock herself up here and not give herself food. Now that Gu Su had come to deliver food, there must be other plans. This was definitely not the place where she would die.

"You are really smart." Gusu sighed.

"Tell me, what do you want to do to me?" Situ Yaorao asked.

After delivering all the food, Gusu stood up and said condescendingly, "The Goddess said that the Lord of Mingyue Country should be very interested in Sister Situ and would probably pay a great price to take her away. So, as long as you wait until that time, you can leave."

"What do you want?" Situ Yaorao asked a different question. Gusu fell silent upon hearing this.

"There's no need to hide it. If you didn't need something, you wouldn't make a deal with others, right?" Situ Yaorao said playfully.

"Medicine, life-saving medicine. There is a kind of medicine in Mingyue Country that can prolong a person's life, no matter how seriously ill or poisonous the person is. As long as there is a magic medicine, it can save lives." Gusu was a little fanatical when he said this.

This... sounds familiar? Situ Yaorao thought about it, her lips twitching. This was probably why Feng Ziqi wanted to take her away before, right? If Mingyue Country had that kind of medicine, then her poison could be delayed.

"Just stay here well during this time. If the Lord doesn't want to exchange, I will let you go." After saying this, Gusu turned around and left again.

Situ Yaorao looked at the pile of food in front of her with a mixture of laughter and tears. Gusu and her father weren't well off, but they had actually brought four meat dishes with them.

Is this their atonement?

A day in the mountains means a thousand years in the world.

Situ Yaorao was imprisoned in this underground palace and never saw the light of day.

Outside, however, things were even more chaotic.

At the foot of the snowy mountain, Tan Tai Yun Yi's carriage stopped at a landslide, his long sword hanging around the neck of a kneeling black-clad man. His face darkened, "Repeat what you just said to me!"

The man in black heard this and thought to himself, "Alas!" But he could only say respectfully, "In reply to Your Highness, the Crown Princess said...she went to the underground palace. She also asked Your Highness to go to the Snow Mountain to seek the divine healer, otherwise she would not forgive Your Highness."

"The previous sentence!" Tan Tai Yun Yi said angrily.

"Um... The Crown Princess said that if you go back and don't see her, then tell the Crown Prince that she's tired of him. Also, don't wait for her, just go and do what you need to do."

As the man in black finished speaking, Tan Tai Yun Yi's sword fell to the ground. "How ridiculous! I treated her sincerely, but she sank my heart into the lake! Let's go! Go back."

After saying this, Tantai Yunyi got on the carriage...