My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

The main hall of the Prince's Mansion was filled with experts, and Ji Yunshuang dared not get too close, for fear of being discovered by the experts around her.

She found a suitable spot, silently hid inside the space, and then used her mental power to investigate the situation in the main hall.

Inside the magnificent house stood a man dressed in a splendid brocade robe.

The man, holding a long sword, glared menacingly at the woman on the ground and said, "How dare you do such a shameful thing like that bitch Xu! You're asking for death!"

Clearly, that angry roar just now came from this man.

Judging from his attire, Ji Yunshuang guessed that this must be Prince Duan.

But what could have made the dignified prince so angry? She became increasingly curious.

"Hahaha..." The woman on the ground suddenly looked up and burst into laughter.

As she moved, Ji Yunshuang got a clear look at the woman's face. It was a beautiful face, though marked by the passage of time, that still managed to catch the eye.

The woman's loud laughter made Prince Duan's expression even uglier, and his hand holding the sword trembled slightly. "Han, you're courting death!"

The woman laughed until tears streamed down her face.

Upon hearing Prince Duan's words, she suddenly stopped laughing, revealing her fair neck, and said, "Fine! Your Highness, you may kill me then."

Seeing her like this, Prince Duan became even more furious and heartbroken.

He said, "Han, I believe I have treated you and the Han family well, so why did you do such a thing? You... one by one, you have all betrayed me!"

Han Mengqi looked at him and said, "Your Highness, do you really not know, or are you pretending not to know?"

Seeing that Prince Duan did not answer, Han Mengqi smiled with a hint of sarcasm: "You really don't know? You don't actually think that little beast born in Yuexin Courtyard today is really your child, do you?"

The sword in Prince Duan's hand fell to Han Mengqi's neck in an instant, and blood seeped out from her fair neck. His cold voice came out from between his teeth: "Han, don't think that I really can't bear to kill you."

Han Mengqi suddenly raised her voice and said, "Then kill me! Even if you kill me, it won't change the fact that you're not a man and you're incompetent."

"You!" Prince Duan's pupils widened, his face filled with rage, and the sword in his hand moved even closer to Han Mengqi's neck. "You bitch! You're asking for death."

Han Mengqi was in pain.

She neither dodged nor begged for mercy.

Thinking about how she had fought tooth and nail with Xu Ruoyao all these years for this man, she suddenly felt that it was all meaningless.

Seeing her fearless attitude, Prince Duan became even angrier, but in the end he did not kill her outright.

Although he couldn't accept what Han Mengqi said, he wasn't blinded by anger.

He sneered and ordered the assassin behind him, "Bring Madam Xu over."

He paused for a moment, then added, "Have An Er guard the main hall properly. Not even a mosquito is allowed to get close to the main hall. Make sure that nothing that happens in the manor tonight is leaked!"

"Yes!" An Yi bowed to Prince Duan and then left to carry out the order.

After Xu Ruoyao was stripped of her title as a concubine, she was not expelled from the Prince's Mansion, but was instead moved to an abandoned residence within the mansion and placed under house arrest.

Soon, An Yi brought the disheveled Xu Ruoyao to the main hall.

Upon seeing Prince Duan, Xu Ruoyao knelt down before him and pleaded, "Your Highness, please spare Wan'er and Yan'er! You watched them grow up! They are innocent!"

"How dare you say that! You bitch!" Prince Duan's forehead veins bulged as he kicked her.

Xu Ruoyao was kicked several meters away by him, crashing into a pillar, and blood spilled from her mouth.

Prince Duan showed no pity for this woman he had once cherished. He said coldly, "Confess everything you did before."

Xu Ruoyao clutched her stomach and remained silent.

Prince Duan thought of his first child, a daughter, but she was still his first child, and he was genuinely happy. He rewarded Xu with many good things and even promoted her brother's official rank.

but……

That was actually her illegitimate child, born from an affair.

The more Prince Duan thought about it, the angrier he became. He roared, "You were the first person in the household to get pregnant. Tell me, how could you have thought of doing something like this to deceive me back then?"

Xu Ruoyao clutched her stomach, her face filled with grief, and said, "Your Highness, I did not intentionally do such a thing to deceive you. It was all an accident."

When talking about what happened back then, Xu Ruoyao also fell into memories.

She had been in love with Prince Duan since she was a young girl at home.

Her heart was set on marrying him and being his one and only for life. But he had promised to marry her and love only her.

But in the end, he broke his promise; he did not marry her as his concubine. Instead, he married Han Mengqi, the legitimate daughter of the Han family.

She and Han Mengqi didn't get along even when they were young. She also knew that Han Mengqi, like herself, admired the extraordinary Prince Duan.

When she learned that he was going to marry Han Mengqi as his concubine, she absolutely hated the two of them.

He actually showed affection to me while simultaneously flirting with Han Mengqi.

But later, he explained to himself that it was all his mother's idea, and he had no choice but to do so. He said that he had secured the position of concubine for her and promised her that although he had married Han Mengqi as his principal wife, he would still love her as before.

She believed him, but after the marriage, Han Mengqi used her status as the principal wife to bully her and always tried to seduce Prince Duan, preventing him from coming to her room.

The thought of those nights when his dormitory was in Han Mengqi's courtyard was like a knife to her heart.

She feared that, slowly, Prince Duan would be bewitched by her and would no longer love her, leaving her heartbroken and terrified.

Her mother said that if she wanted to secure her position in the Prince's mansion, she had to have a child.

Her mother secretly gave her a lot of medicine to promote fertility, urging her to take advantage of her youth and quickly give the prince a child.

She took a lot of medicine, but still couldn't conceive after more than half a year.

Meanwhile, good news was faintly emerging from Han Mengqi's side. She was extremely anxious and took people to the temple to pray for blessings, hoping that the Bodhisattva would bless her and allow her to conceive Prince Duan's child as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, she encountered a rainstorm on her way back from praying for blessings, and to make matters worse, the carriage she was riding in broke down.

She had to send the coachman back to find a new carriage, while she and her servants went to a nearby cave to take shelter from the rain.

Her clothes were soaked through, and the coachman wouldn't be back for a while. The nanny was worried that she was getting sick, so she took two maids to the mountain to gather firewood to start a fire. She waited for the nanny to return in the cave with one of the maids.

Unexpectedly, a burly man burst into the cave.

Upon seeing her appearance, the burly man was overcome with lust, knocked the girl unconscious, and defiled her.

That big man was too fierce, far more powerful than the prince. She was so bullied by him that she fainted. When she woke up again, the big man was already gone.

Only the little maid was left crying on the side.